Older Than You

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"Older Than You"
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Single by Eskimo Joe
from the album A Song Is a City
Released4 October 2004 (2004-10-04)
Recordedat Milkbar Studios and Big Jesus Burger Studios, Aug/Sep 2003
GenreRock
Length2:32
LabelFestival Mushroom, Warner
Songwriter(s)Stuart MacLeod
Joel Quartermain
Kavyen Temperley
Producer(s)Paul McKercher & Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe singles chronology
"Smoke"
(2004) 		"Older Than You"
(2004) 		"Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
(2006)

"Older Than You" is a song by Australian rock band, Eskimo Joe, released in October 2004 as the third and final single from their second studio album A Song Is a City. The song peaked at number 46 on the ARIA charts.

It was poled at #32 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.

Kav Temperley said "This song was written in autumn last year when I'd just split up with my girlfriend of four years and had gone over to Melbourne to meet up with a girl who I guess was one of the catalysts for the break up. Nothing had happened, but that window was there. We met up and the thing that I really appreciated about her is that she was a couple of years younger than me but her eyes were like the eyes of an old soul. So it's the story of us meeting up over there, but I held back 'cause it didn't seem right to simply jump from one relationship to the next. I have to trust in existence. It's a continuing story."[citation needed]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2005, the song won the ARIA Award for Best Group, while being nominated for ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year and ARIA Award for Producer of the Year with Paul McKercher.[1]

Music video[]

The film clip for "Older Than You" was shot over 14 hours at Sydney's Hyde Park by director, Nash Edgerton, who had previously directed Eskimo Joe's "Liar" film clip.

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Eskimo Joe.

CD single / iTunes EP
No.TitleLength
1."Older Than You"2:31
2."From the Sea" (Live at the Wireless)3:25
3."Older Than You" (Live at the Wireless)2:30
4."Car Crash" (Live at the Wireless)3:45

Charts[]

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[2] 46

Release history[]

Region Date Label Format Catalogue
Australia 4 October 2004 Festival Mushroom, Warner CD, Digital download 021932

References[]

  1. ^ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2005: 19th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Eskimo Joe – Older Than You". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
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