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What You Need (4:48)

Cover of This Nation's Saving Grace

From This Nation's Saving Grace and 5 other releases

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How can I? How can I? How can I?
Get up, make a buck
Get up, make a buck
My race was bred on hash

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  • gmpwca

    "a bit of Iggy Stooge"

    13 Jun 8:16pm Reply

  • hexHipPriest

    ingeniously creative, so brilliant, so typical of The Fall; so many different noises, so much aural stimulation--it's quite nice

    26 Nov 2012 Reply

  • shamatha-x

    MAKE A BUCK

    31 Aug 2011 Reply

  • shamatha-x

    GET UP

    31 Aug 2011 Reply

  • spacefaceinfurs

    fucking brilliant

    15 Jul 2011 Reply

  • mrshankly_

    "Two: meet your horrible new dad with a grudge against me" means exactly what it says. my parents keep a grudge. It's just what happens as I transgress from their expectations. The idea "new dad" is an attack that's wide in scope. A hyperbole of an [emotionally]absent and critical father with the idea that the old suppress the young irrationally. I gave it a go because those lyrics do seem substantial. People say similar things about Pavement's lyrics. But I think their poetry is unexpected and subliminal, like a shadow of a symbol.

    13 Jun 2011 Reply

  • SnotNosedPunk

    The first song on TNSG that truly clicked for me

    16 Apr 2011 Reply

  • za81

    Having been on boths sides of this situation before I feel this song must be partly about how keen people seem to be to bombard you with pointless and trivial advice in response to a real problem. Hence the avalanche of randomness (I know its a Fall song...)

    3 Nov 2010 Reply

  • mattmacneil

    The moment that snare hits is the moment my brain fucks up like a mongoloid

    19 Feb 2010 Reply

  • chrisrazor

    ... and has anyone noticed that the riff is stolen from http://www.last.fm/music/Prince/_/Paisley+Park ?

    26 Apr 2009 Reply

  • chrisrazor

    @vanitycentralm I'm pretty sure it's a pop at consumerism; he is suggesting you don't actually need those things, that people don't actually know *what* they need. And ain't that the truth?

    26 Apr 2009 Reply

  • CaptureTheCat

    i love all songs on their album, they are fantastic

    7 Mar 2009 Reply

  • grinngo

    "Face mag for arse"

    6 Dec 2008 Reply

  • vanitycentral

    The lyrics are so fucking stupid, it's so perfect. They make no sense whatsoever and that's the beauty of The Fall. They probably made sense to Mark E. Smith at the time but in practice, it's uncohesive and brilliant. I mean, what do "slippery shoes for your horrible feet" and "Two: meet your horrible new dad with a grudge against me" actually mean? :]

    2 Nov 2008 Reply

  • palimpsestos

    I love this song, the guitar and the drums mark e smith's vocals - it's just goddamn perfect!

    20 Oct 2008 Reply

  • Degarmo

    AMAZING

    6 Sep 2007 Reply

  • jrisgod

    WHAT YOU NEED

    7 Aug 2007 Reply
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