Although I can see what people here mean with the manufactured nature of the song I still like it. Especially live, with the three telecasters having this fantastic, well, telecaster sound, more so than the somewhat cliche distortion of the studio recording (that goes for more of the VL guitars by the way).

A modern classic, much better than YGMR. LIS and IGW should have been keepers played regularly after 95.

I Go Wild's lyrics are spot on! How anyone can't like them must be a eunuck thing.

A very cliché of a song, the Stones second-guessing themselves. Either they wrote it in their sleep or they picked up an average guy from the street and told him: "write a typical Stones song". Yes, Keith has done some great things with the I-IV progression, but it always a required a bit more than this.
The lyrics seemed to be written by ChatGPT before it even existed, by just giving it the command: "Write some lyrics about sex". The fact that the "alcoholic c***" line is the best part of it, is all one needs to know.
It's exactly this sort of song that made the Stones a laughing stock for everyone outside their most devote fan-base.
You Got Me Rocking is similarly lacking any originality, but at least it got a beat going for it, and the break is kind of cool. And it works live. "I was a butcher, cutting up meat", is just as idiotic for a lyric, but so much so, that it becomes ironic (I vaguely hope it was meant ironically) and hence bearable.

Bridges of Babylon might not overall be a great album but it certainly was a relief after Voodoo Lounge.

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A very cliché of a song, the Stones second-guessing themselves. Either they wrote it in their sleep or they picked up an average guy from the street and told him: "write a typical Stones song". Yes, Keith has done some great things with the I-IV progression, but it always a required a bit more than this.
The lyrics seemed to be written by ChatGPT before it even existed, by just giving it the command: "Write some lyrics about sex". The fact that the "alcoholic c***" line is the best part of it, is all one needs to know.
It's exactly this sort of song that made the Stones a laughing stock for everyone outside their most devote fan-base.
You Got Me Rocking is similarly lacking any originality, but at least it got a beat going for it, and the break is kind of cool. And it works live. "I was a butcher, cutting up meat", is just as idiotic for a lyric, but so much so, that it becomes ironic (I vaguely hope it was meant ironically) and hence bearable.

Bridges of Babylon might not overall be a great album but it certainly was a relief after Voodoo Lounge.

The difference between the two albums is astounding, really. They sound like different bands.

VOODOO is the sound of The Rolling Stones imitating themselves.

BRIDGES is the sound of The Rolling Stones immersed in creating and being interested for the first time since UNDERCOVER.

The first/fourth chording Keith does doesn't always equate to a song being great. But... this is a Mick song. No matter what Keith does on songs like this, there's no really improving it.

It's no Brown Sugar.

Perhaps I Go Wild is along the line of what Don Was expressed:

(Don Was is) definitely anti-groove. Charlie and I worked on a lot of groove tunes that never made it on to the record. That was the one thing I was slightly disappointed by.

- Mick Jagger, May 1994

I'm certainly not anti-groove, just anti-groove without substance, in the context of this album. They had a number of great grooves. But it was like, OK, what goes on top of it? Where does it go? I just felt that it's not what people were looking for from the Stones. I was looking for a sign that they can great real serious about this, still play better than anybody and write better than anybody.

- Don Was, May 1994

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Somehow one got on the album.

I used to dig this tune. The Scott Litt remix is better than the album version. But no matter what I Go Wild is Stones by numbers.

I don't understand what's wrong with YGMR, I liked it straight away and I would have bet that it was the classic song to play at the stadium and so it was.
It's not my favorite song to listen to at home, but it has a great impact live.

Someone will wonder what it has to do with I Go Wild, nothing... but I read in many comments that it is brought up and I don't understand why, because they are two completely different songs.

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I don't understand what's wrong with YGMR, I liked it straight away and I would have bet that it was the classic song to play at the stadium and so it was.
It's not my favorite song to listen to at home, but it has a great impact live.

Someone will wonder what it has to do with I Go Wild, nothing... but I read in many comments that it is brought up and I don't understand why, because they are two completely different songs.

It's the lyrics, really - both songs have mundane lyrics. YGMR moves, though, it's up, it's one of those stadium songs, where as I Go Wild is a bit more laidback and, as heavy as it is, it doesn't have that oomph that YGMR has. And of course, they're on the same album and both were released as singles.

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I don't understand what's wrong with YGMR, I liked it straight away and I would have bet that it was the classic song to play at the stadium and so it was.
It's not my favorite song to listen to at home, but it has a great impact live.

Someone will wonder what it has to do with I Go Wild, nothing... but I read in many comments that it is brought up and I don't understand why, because they are two completely different songs.

- They are on the same album
- They are both lacking originality
- Any rock band trying to sound like the Stones could have come up with it
- The lyrics are incredibly idiotic
- Nobody outside the inner circle of Stones fans would think twice about throwing them in the dustbin
(I am guessing but:
- They were both created in 5 minutes, recorded in 5 minutes and forgotten about in 20 seconds).

The difference is that YGMR actually works live, which for a latter day song is an exception. I kind of like it too, but I do understand that any none-Stones-fan would laugh in my face. As a matter of fact, when it came out some Canadian friends of mine were continuously reminding me of the "butcher cutting up meat" line and indeed laughing in my face.

not exile level but great album, great song (to me)

but i like all there albums

yes the lyric are dumb and cliche but that's part of the appeal to me as well

plus there catchy

any half assed song released by the rolling stones is better then an ok song released by a 1000 other lesser bands (in my opinion)

as for ygmr

I was a hooker losing her looks
I was a writer, can't write another book
I was all dried up, dying to get wet
I was a tycoon drowning in debt

these are far from mick's worst lyrics for instance she's so cold is another great song with slightly less dumb but catchy lyrics

and whole wide world, out of control, sad sad sad, don't stop, ghost town, you don't have to mean it, like a thief in the night, can't be seen, slipping away and several others all work well live



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matxil
A very cliché of a song, the Stones second-guessing themselves. Either they wrote it in their sleep or they picked up an average guy from the street and told him: "write a typical Stones song". Yes, Keith has done some great things with the I-IV progression, but it always a required a bit more than this.
The lyrics seemed to be written by ChatGPT before it even existed, by just giving it the command: "Write some lyrics about sex". The fact that the "alcoholic c***" line is the best part of it, is all one needs to know.
It's exactly this sort of song that made the Stones a laughing stock for everyone outside their most devote fan-base.
You Got Me Rocking is similarly lacking any originality, but at least it got a beat going for it, and the break is kind of cool. And it works live. "I was a butcher, cutting up meat", is just as idiotic for a lyric, but so much so, that it becomes ironic (I vaguely hope it was meant ironically) and hence bearable.

Bridges of Babylon might not overall be a great album but it certainly was a relief after Voodoo Lounge.

Good post. To me VL is the one album I realy don't like. B2B is fantastic.