Men's Needs

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“Men's Needs”
“Men's Needs” cover
Single by The Cribs
from the album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
B-side "The Fairer Sex"

"Men's Needs (CSS Remix)"
"Tonight"
"I've Tried Everything (Acoustic)"
Released May 14, 2007
Format CD, 7" Vinyl
Recorded 2007
Genre Post-punk revival
Length 3:15
Label Wichita Recordings
Writer(s) Gary Jarman, Ryan Jarman, Ross Jarman
Producer Alex Kapranos
The Cribs singles chronology
"You're Gonna Lose Us"
(2005)		 "Men's Needs"
(May 2007)		 "Moving Pictures"
(2007)
Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever track listing
  1. "Our Bovine Public"
  2. "Girls Like Mystery"
  3. "Men's Needs"
  4. "Moving Pictures"
  5. "I'm a Realist"
  6. "Major's Titling Victory"
  7. "Women's Needs"
  8. "My Life Flashed Before My Eyes"
  9. "I've Tried Everything"
  10. "Be Safe"
  11. "Ancient History"
  12. "Shoot the Poets"

"Men's Needs" is the first single from The Cribs' third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, which was released on 14th May 2007. It is currently available to listen to on the band's MySpace page[1]. It was recorded in Vancouver BC during 2006 and was produced by Franz Ferdinand lead singer and guitarist Alex Kapranos. The song reached #17 in the singles charts, the band's highest chart position. The song was also #3 on the NME songs of the year 2007, named Single of the Year by the Metro paper and finished in the Top 100 Songs in the Rolling Stone in the USA.

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[edit] Music video

The music video[2] depicts the band playing the song is a yellow room while a naked woman (censored before the watershed) licks and kisses Ryan, dances and trashes amplifiers, performs household tasks, and punches the band members, and generally wreaks havoc, especially near the middle of the video when she throws a knife at Ross, severing his arm, and then cuts off Ryan's head, which remains in her arms for his guitar solo. Both have their limbs back on their bodies for the third verse.

The graphic nature of the video led to it being banned from MTV2 before the watershed due to an OFCOM complaint about the violence in the video being "too shocking for a daytime audience", despite the fact the so-called violent severing of Ryan's head and Ross's arm is obviously fake. Three versions of the videos do exist, one is the one listed above, with the black bars, the second shows the girl wearing a leotard, replacing the black bars, and the actual uncensored music video.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD

  1. "Men's Needs"
  2. "Fairer Sex"

[edit] 7" Vinyl #1

  1. "Men's Needs"
  2. "Tonight"

[edit] 7" Vinyl #2

  1. "Men's Needs"
  2. "I've Tried Everything" (Acoustic)

[edit] Download

  1. "Men's Needs" - Principal Participant Remix

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ The Cribs' MySpace page.
  2. ^ Men's Needs video- Black bar censored version.

[edit] External links

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