Give Me Something (Yoko Ono song)

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"Give Me Something"
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Song by Yoko Ono
from the album Double Fantasy
Released17 November 1980
Recorded1980
Genre
Length1:35
Label Geffen
Songwriter(s) Yoko Ono
Producer(s) Yoko Ono, Jack Douglas
Double Fantasy track listing

"Give Me Something" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1980 on John Lennon and Ono's duet album Double Fantasy . The song appeared in Ono's off-Broadway musical New York Rock and her compilation albums Walking on Thin Ice and Onobox . In 2010, the Junior Boys remix of the song was released as a free download on MySpace Music and RCRD LBL. [2]

Contents

Background

"Give Me Something" was written by Yoko Ono and produced by Ono and Jack Douglas. Ono stated in an interview that "Give Me Something" was written as a "feeling that I had about society. [...] We’re all getting very cold now as a society." [2] Ono further explained the song's theme of coldness to Spinner: "I remember I was envisioning a gray, cold city with people walking with hands in their pockets and putting the collars of their coats up." [3]

Critical reception

Larry Fitzmaurice from Pitchfork Media described the original version as a "spiky new-wave tune featuring a particularly angry vocal performance," but commented that the Junior Boys "smooth out some of the tune's rougher edges, morphing Ono's cries into elastic bursts and turning the track into a Danceteria-worthy disco jam." [4]

Chart performance

The song became Yoko Ono's fourth consecutive number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club chart. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Give Me Something" (Morel's I Gave You My Heart Mix) – 6:55
  2. "Give Me Something" (Dave Audé Club Mix) – 8:14
  3. "Give Me Something" (TWISTED Sound+Vision Club Mix) – 7:13
  4. "Give Me Something" (StoneBridge Club Mix) – 5:53
  5. "Give Me Something" (Ralphi's BIG Vocal) – 8:19
  6. "Give Me Something" (Roberto Rodriguez Extended Vocal Mix) – 10:06
  7. "Give Me Something" (Junior Boys Club Mix) – 4:52
  8. "Give Me Something" (Alex Trax Club Mix) – 7:02
  9. "Give Me Something" (Floppy Kid Original Re-edit) – 2:43
  10. "Give Me Something" (BONUS TRACK: Sparks Reinvention) – 4:19
  1. "Give Me Something" (Morel's I Gave You My Heart Dub) – 7:04
  2. "Give Me Something" (Dave Audé Dub Mix) – 6:45
  3. "Give Me Something" (Stonebridge Dub Mix) – 5:53
  4. "Give Me Something" (TWISTED Sound+Vision Dub) – 6:57
  5. "Give Me Something" (Ralphi's BIG Club Dub) – 8:14
  6. "Give Me Something" (Alex Trax Dub) – 6:34
  7. "Give Me Something" (Roberto Rodriguez Let's You Have It Mix) – 7:49
  8. "Give Me Something" (Roberto Rodriguez Instrumental Dub) – 7:53

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 1
Global Dance Tracks ( Billboard ) [8] 27

Year-end charts

Chart (2010)Position
US Hot Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [9] 23

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