Taken from DM's third and singularly most politically aware album 'Construction Time Again' (1983), 'Everything Counts' was a naive but heartfelt treatise on the budding financial gluttony that was to so characterise the decadent 80's. "The grabbing hands, grab all they can, all for themselves, after all it's a competitive world. Everything counts in large amounts" sang Dave to the masses. Though not deliberate, by this point in their career the song was an almost sardonic take on DM's own personal and financial status and it must not have been difficult for the band and fans alike to realise the irony of the grabbing hands on both sides of the microphone.