Whatever You Want (song)
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Whatever You Want is a rock song by the British rock band Status Quo. It was released on the album of the same name in 1979 and has become one of the band's better-known works.
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[edit] Composition
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The song commences with a quiet introduction, containing a guitar solo. This lasts for approximately 1 minute, 11 seconds, and fades out towards the end. After this, the guitar picks up once more, and 1 minute, 25 seconds into the piece, the familiar bass riff of the song begins, accompanied by drums from the 1 minute, 40 second mark.
At 1 minute, 45 seconds, all audio pauses for approximately half a second; at this point, the lyrical portion commences. The music returns as soon as the first lyrics are heard. This pause creates a short-lived dramatic start to the song, which lasts for a total of 4 minutes.
[edit] Impact
Within the United Kingdom, the song reached 4th position in the music charts in 1979. The song has been used in advertising campaigns by popular UK retailer Argos.
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[edit] Instruments
The song is guitar oriented, like most Status Quo songs. During recording up to three guitar 'layers' were used, though it can be played with two: rhythm guitar and solo guitar. The other instruments are a bass guitar and drums. The lyrics are multi-vocal; for instance the 'Whatever you want' part is sung entirely with two voices.
The guitar low 'E' string is tuned to a D (the song is also in the D chord). This is required to play the intro and also the low strumming after the intro. In this later part a flanger effect is used together with the ever-present overdrive/distortion effect.
[edit] Lyrics & structure
<This could use some feedback>
Intro: (0:00)
Strumming: (0:25, distortion & flanger) <break>
Verse1: (1:12)
Whatever you want.. whatever you like
whatever you say.. you pay your money you take your choice
whatever you need.. whatever you use
whatever you win.. whatever you loose <break>
Verse2 (1:28):
You're showing up.. you're showing out
you look for trouble.. turn around.. give me a shout
I'll take it all.. you squeeze me dry
and now today you couldn't even say goodbye
Chorus (1:44):
I could take you home on the midnight train again
I can make an offer you can't refuse <break>
Repeat verse1 (2:00)
Guitar solo (2:15)
Repeat verse2 (2:32)
Chorus (2:48)
Repeat verse1 (3:02)
..whatever you want.. whatever you loose (modulation).. whatever you want <break>
Outro: (3:25) Whatever you want! (repeat instrumental (fade out)
