Add It Up
| "Add It Up" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Violent Femmes from the album Violent Femmes | |
| Released | April 1983 |
| Genre | Alternative rock, folk punk, post-punk |
| Length | 4:44 |
| Label | Slash Records |
| Writer | Gordon Gano[1] |
"Add It Up" is a song by American rock band Violent Femmes, released on their 1983 debut album Violent Femmes.
It contains the lyrics:
- Why can't I get just one screw
- Believe me I'd know what to do
- But something won't let me make love to you
- Why can't I get just one fuck
- Why can't I get just one fuck
- I guess it's got something to do with luck
Band member Gordon Gano commented:
| “ | I was in my bedroom -- that's where I wrote it -- feeling frustrated. I had nowhere to go and nothing to do. It just happened to feel good lyrically . . . and it still does.[1] | ” |
The song title was used as the name for the compilation album by the group, Add It Up (1981-1993).
Some radio stations substitute a guitar note for the swear word for airplay.
Used in other media
- Ethan Hawke's character in the 1994 film Reality Bites, plays a cover of "Add It Up" with his band Hey That's My Bike.
- The song appeared on the soundtrack to the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2
- The TV show Suburgatory played the song during the last scene of the show's final episode "Stiiiiiiill Horny".
- It is also featured in multiple scenes in the film, Surveillance and Lost and Delirious.
- The song was covered on a cello and piano, as are several other Violent Femmes songs, in the 2007 film Rocket Science.
- It also serves as the theme song to the TV series Hollywood Residential.
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Behind the lines", Rolling Stone, 14 November 2005. Retrieved 10 April 2007.
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