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===1997–1998: ''Unit''===
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The band recorded their second studio album in a warehouse in Brisbane which they affectionately named "The Dirty Room". In contrast with their rock-oriented works of the past, the band moved on with a more electronic and pop based sound. The band openly acknowledged their stylistic change with the album's opening track, ironically titled "I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff". The band released "[[Everyday Formula]]" as the first single, with Yeomans and Magoo later admitting it was a conscious decision to ease their fans into the new sound with a heavier track.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s2409418.htm |title=The Album Series – Regurgitator: Unit &#124; media &#124; triple j |date=4 November 2008 |publisher=Abc.net.au |access-date=8 July 2011}}</ref> The single release in October 1997 peaked at number 41 on the ARIA Charts. ''[[Unit (album)|Unit]]'' was released in November and peaked at number 4 on the ARIA Charts. "[[Black Bugs]]", "[[Polyester Girl]]" and "[[! (The Song Formerly Known As)]]" (an homage to 1980s era [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]) were all released as singles and gained significant amounts of airplay. ''Unit'' is Regurgitator's most commercially successful album, going platinum three times in Australia. Whilst it no doubt increased the popularity of the band, fans of their first generation of work are still divided in their responses to it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/music/1567/Regurgitator--Unit.htm |title=Regurgitator – Unit on |publisher=Fasterlouder.com.au |date=5 January 2005 |access-date=8 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.asn.au/~tommo/unit.html |title=Album Review: Regurgitator – Unit |publisher=Ucc.asn.au |access-date=8 July 2011}}</ref>

During the Unit tour in late 1997 drummer Martin Lee had failed to appear at a show at the [[University of Western Australia]]. After disappearing from a [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] nightclub, he was found the next day, unconscious, and was taken to hospital where he remained comatose for a week. No-one, including Lee once he had recovered, had any recollection of the circumstances that had landed him there. [[Jon Coghill]] of Brisbane rock band [[Powderfinger]] was his fill-in for the rest of the tour, though the arrangement purportedly caused a rift between the two bands as Coghill and Lee were high school friends and, as Yeomans explained in a 2011 interview, "...those guys (Powderfinger) are kind of from a different scene I guess, if you like. Almost a different social strata in a weird way; they're all private school boys so we never had that much in common".<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview: Quan Yeomans (Regurgitator)|url=http://reviewedmusic.com/2011/interview-quan-yeomans-regurgitator/|work=ReviewedMusic|access-date=2 September 2012|author=Nils Hay|date=25 August 2011}}</ref>

At the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1998]], ''Unit'' won 5 [[ARIA Music Awards|Awards]], including [[ARIA Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] and [[ARIA Award for Producer of the Year|Producer of the Year]].<ref name="Producer">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/Producer-Of-The-Year?view=list|title=Winners by Award – Producer of the Year|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA)|access-date=5 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="ARIA Awards Pandora">{{cite web | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040222130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/40484/20040223-0000/aria_awards/main.htm | url = http://www.aria_awards.com.au/main.htm | title = 17th Annual ARIA Awards | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association | archive-date = 22 February 2004 | access-date = 5 November 2016 | url-status = dead }} {{cbignore|bot=medic}}Note: User may be required to access archived information by selecting 'The History', then 'By Award', 'Producer of the Year' and 'Option Show Nominations'.</ref>