 For 1999 's Yesterday Went Too Soon , the band decided to self @-@ produce the album , brought in Matt Sime for engineering duties and had the album mixed in New York by Andy Wallace . " Dry " was re @-@ recorded as a full band version after the original acoustic version appeared on " <unk> " as a b @-@ side . That single 's b @-@ sides featured tracks from the sessions for that album , therefore revealing what sort of direction it would take on . The working title for the album was originally A Life Through Headphones , and was originally set to be a double album . The name change was due to former Take That singer Robbie Williams releasing his solo debut album Life Thru a Lens , with the band not wanting to be compared to him . 
