Nothing really changes in the world of the Jarman brothers. New producer, new shiny sound maybe, but they’re still pretty pissed off and disgusted with you. Yes, you, with your shiny hair and white belts. “Have you noticed I've never been impressed by your friends from New York and London?” sneers Ryan.
Which is fine, but it seems like a fairly disengaged rage; postured piss-ant-ry rather than a hand-delivered letter to the indie world. The exact meaning is unclear: is this a self-slamming diatribe against male selfishness? Or merely a frustrated attempt to communicate one’s shortcomings to a loved one? Or anything at all? Perhaps it’s an expression of a new-found metrosexuality from the Wakefield trio?
But why concern yourself too much? ‘Men’s Needs’ is a tune. It sears along on a bullying, angular riff compulsive listening, collapses in a juddering heap and demands repeat plays and involuntary in-chair movement. What it does on an indie dance-floor doesn’t bear thinking about.
But where do men and women come into it? Well, apparently men are bastards, and women… well, it just doesn’t work, does it?
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top top tune
will it be a 'hit' though? Alas...
Top 20
in the midweek charts...
alas no more!
it is the very top 20 chart-straddling beast that I had hoped for...
I really, really
cannot understand the fascination with this lot. This is shit, like the rest of their stuff.
oh you love it
MANNN'S NEEEEEEDS
one of the worst bands I have ever seen
just horrible
it should help them cross over into the mainstream
as it is very accessible.. but it needs to be FASTER dammit!
love this song
!!!!
I'm with you Parsefone
I've tried to like them. Alas, they just seem a bit boring...
^ I have to
agree.
well
this is an alright song for a boring band, but it becomes contender for song of the year if you choose to mishear the lyrics as 'man sneeze, a pile of green.'
classic
i think...
...they're just a great pop band band. some bands should experiment, some bands should just write great pop tunes and thats what the cribs do. i dont think this is one of their very best songs, but its still a cracking song. The first two albums a both brilliant and i cant wait to hear the new one.
Come on people
Its average, maybe pretty good at a push
a man needs!
man needs
APOLLO CREED! APOLLO CREED.
its about rocky i tells ya.
x
dancefloor?
funny you should say
'What it does on an indie dance-floor doesn’t bear thinking about.'
first time i ever heard this song was last night, on an indie disco dancefloor. it sounded amazing. i heard it today. it sounded average.
every night i pray
for some glorious superband to come along and make all this boring, conformist, gutless spiky-guitars danceable-indie shite obsolete. its very lazy and its very boring. TRY HARDER, BANDS
spookyelectric
I am with you my friend. Short life span music for a quick thrill. I am bored of indie dancefloor fillers their generic structure and spiky-guitars.
I don't believe 8/10 can be given to a song that will be forgotten in a couple of months. When the DJs stop spinning this bad boy all the indie kids up and down the country will just move on to another cheap thrill.
Boring boring pop indie. Boring
oh come on
if every band went around only penning tunes like 'atlas' the dj's wouldn't have any 'cheap thrills' to play. everyone would be forced to get pissed and dance to serious self obsessed guff that's better suited for the ipod or bedroom. varieties good. if you don't like it, nobody forces you to listen to it.
well said
horses for courses. I think.
things is
cheap thrills come better than this? They're just playing what should be tight slick tuneful pop in a sloppy, hazy manner. Rather need a producer to kick them up the arse and make their sound blossom. Trevor Horn comes to mind, no really.
i have an in-built need
to avoid anything endorsed by Tim Lovejoy.... I have a similar need to avoid anything that is interminably shit.
This qualifies on both counts.
why is it
that when a great band release an average song... they get a shitload of credit... when their great releases in the past recieved very little?
because
more people take notice
what do you mean by that?
unless you're meaning is that the average joe has a good ear for bad tunes rather than for good ones, in which case i sort-of agree with you
and sometimes when a band released the good material, some cash whores from a big-name big-budget label come along and sign said band for a fair sum. musical creativity and tunes decrease sharply after the signing in most cases, but publicity and advertising from the new label for 'average song' helps push the tune into the public realm, and fool people into thinking it's good, thus creating success
one of my many theories regarding the success of bad songs.. not heard this one yet though so for now it's all just conjecture
yep