Get What You Need by The Undertones

Get What You Need, the Undertones' 2003 album on Sanctuary, is the Derry band's first batch of new studio songs since they regrouped in November 1999 with Paul McLoone stepping in for Feargal Sharkey at the mic. John and Damian O'Neill are still slinging guitars, Michael Bradley is still on bass and Billy Doherty is still behind the kit, and the old power-pop and punk rush is intact: short, sharp, sugar-rushed songs like "Thrill Me" and "Oh Please" that sound like they were cut between pints.

Critics mostly cheered. AllMusic recommended it as a good-time escape, and Uncut filed its songs alongside the early classics. Blender was the holdout, giving it two stars and grumbling that they now sounded like "a road-toughened bar band". Tracks from it and the follow-up Dig Yourself Deep were later remastered for the 2022 compilation Dig What You Need.

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