What You Got (Grinspoon song)

"What You Got"
Single by Grinspoon
from the album Alibis & Other Lies
Released 15 September 2007
Format Digital single
Recorded 2006
Genre Post-grunge
Length 2:53
Label Universal Music Australia
Producer(s) Ramesh Sathiah, Grinspoon
Grinspoon singles chronology
Black Tattoo
(2007)		 What You Got
(2007)		 Minute By Minute
(2007)

"What You Got" is the second single by Grinspoon from their fifth studio album Alibis & Other Lies. The song was co-written by Phil Jamieson and Matthew Strong (Custard),[1] who is the bass player in Jamieson’s side project, Lost Gospel.[2] The single was only released in a digital format on iTunes.

Reception

Australian music website, The Dwarf, describes "What You Got" as being musically closer to "Hard Act to Follow" stating "It's short, sharp and 100% killer. Just how it should be."[3]

Michael Olivotto of FasterLouder believes that the song "instantly wreaks of The Lost Gospel" and that whilst the song is good in it's own right, it "stick(s) out from the rest of the album and would have been better left as B-side(s)s or for some other project."[4]

SameSame's Nate C felt that ""What You Got" also sound(s) like the ‘debauched rock and roll’ of vintage Grinners and is sure to appeal to the band’s devoted and faithful.."[5]

Video

The video was filmed in the school gymnasium of Viewbank College. It features the band playing in a gymnasium while the screen flashes to people in still life.

Tracklisting

All songs written and composed by Phil Jamieson, Matt Strong[6]. 

Digital single
No. Title Length
1. "What You Got?"   3:27
2. "What You Got?" (Live) 4:18

References

  1. ↑ "What You Got - Grinspoon". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Grinspoon's Phil Jamieson uncovers The Lost Gospel". FasterLouder.com.au. 27 August 2006. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Alibis & Other Lies - Grinspoon". The Dwarf. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Olivotto, Michael (16 August 2007). "Grinspoon - Alibis & Other Lies". FasterLouder.com. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  5. ↑ C, Nate (9 October 2007). "CD – Grinspoon – Alibis and Other Lies". Samesame.com.au. Sound Alliance. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "'What You Got' at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 22 March 2012. Note: User may have to click on 'Search again' and provide details at 'Enter a title:', e.g. What You Got; or at 'Performer:' Grinspoon.