You Got Nothing I Want
"You Got Nothing I Want" | ||||
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Single by Cold Chisel | ||||
from the album Circus Animals | ||||
B-side | "Numbers Fall" | |||
Released | November 1981 | |||
Recorded | 1981 | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Label | WEA | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jimmy Barnes | |||
Producer(s) | Mark Opitz | |||
Cold Chisel singles chronology | ||||
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"You Got Nothing I Want" is a 1981 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, the first released from the album Circus Animals. One of the band's heaviest and most aggressive songs, which was written by singer Jimmy Barnes in response to the treatment they received at the hands of a record company executive during a U.S. tour earlier in the year. Don Walker said, "After we came back, Jim wrote 'You Got Nothing I Want' more or less as a personal tribute to Marty Schwartz."[1] "You Got Nothing I Want" was also the first song on the album, and representative of the different sound Cold Chisel was attempting on Circus Animals in a conscious effort to move away from the slick commercial pop rock of East. It spent 19 weeks in the national charts, peaking at number 12.[2]
Producer Opitz said, "Musically, 'You Got Nothing I Want' was inspired by the
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A video clip was made for the song. Directed by Peter Cox,[4] who had previously directed the "Cheap Wine" video, it featured the band miming in the wooden-floored Paddington Town Hall.[5]
On the 2007
Reception
New Zealand music magazine Rip It up described the song as, "a crunching rocker, and one wonders why he's contributed so few songs to their repertoire".[7]
Andrew McMillan wrote in RAM, the song was, "complete with single camera clip and appropriately brutal delivery. Without compromising their own concept of a rock'n'roll band, they spat at the acknowledged life-support system with defiance."[8]
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1981/82) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[9])[10] | 12 |
Year-end charts
Chart (1982) | Position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] | 94 |
References
- ISBN 1-86503-118-6.
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ISBN 9781742757933.
- ^ "Peter Cox". mvdbase.com. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ Cold Chisel - Vision, DVD liner notes
- Allmusic. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ^ David Perkins (1 April 1982). "Records". Rip It Up. No. 57.
- ^ Andrew McMillan (5 January 1984). "The Final Salute". RAM. No. 226. p. 33.
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b "National Top 100 Singles for 1982". Kent Music Report. 3 January 1983. Retrieved 22 January 2023 – via Imgur.