You Got Nothing I Want

One of the band's heaviest and most aggressive songs, which was written by singer Jimmy Barnes in response to the treatment they received at the hands of a record company executive during a U.S. tour earlier in the year.

"[1] "You Got Nothing I Want" was also the first song on the album, and representative of the different sound Cold Chisel was attempting on Circus Animals in a conscious effort to move away from the slick commercial pop rock of East.

Allmusic described Barnes' vocals as sounding like, "a buzz saw blade that's flown loose and ripped through a bunch of parked cars.

The boys come crashing in through the window like a bunch of rowdies with hell-raising on their minds, cranking out the guitar rock rottweiler.

[7] Andrew McMillan wrote in RAM, the song was, "complete with single camera clip and appropriately brutal delivery.