Hi,
lots of you like this song.
i did not like it from the very first hearing....
it just didn`t turn me on.

Then I began to like the song somehow...the groove,the writing,the guitars.
Micks singing...evrything seems to be fine...
but I realized that the chorus is what i hate about this song.
It just doesnt fit to the rest of the song IMO.
Leave out that silly primitive shouting of " She saw me coming"
and we would have another great song.IMO.

by the way...after hearing ABB for 10 weeks now, I think this is a great Stones album....which just should have earned more focus from the band during live gigs.

the chorus is perfect for the song. next?

One of the best song!!! And I hope they'll play it live.

IMO its the weakest track on the album, it starts with a cool guitar sound but this is the only song on this great album that I don't really dig.

that's what i like most of that song salar!

Its the only song on the album that I skip, I keep hoping it will grow on me but it hasn't yet.

That must be because you keep skipping it.

The whole song is bad.

just amazing the diffs of opinion on this song! For me it's a 10 out of 10, whereas nothing else on the album would rate more than a 7. The song is everything I love about the Stones - great guitars (best in two decades), great vocal (Jagger's best in eons), a killer riff, killer chorus - it just leaves me stunned. Nothing else on the album even comes close.

10/10

one of my faves too, but replacing the chorus a couple of times with a guitar solo or some weaving would have definitely made a very good to great song absolutely perfect.

I agree, the opening riff is promising, and the verses are witty, but the chorus is annoying. It's too frat-boy/upbeat and sounds less like the stones than the J. Geils Band -- remember them? "My angel is a centerfold..." which was an ok stones-lite song for the early 80s, but come on.

cc

The chorus is a lot of fun. What I like about it is you can hear Mick AND Keith singing it. Doesn't seem to happen nearly often enough these days.

well i can't hear keith too much! it seems jagger on the backvocals!

liked it from day 1.....great opening guitar hook/tone...if it was sped up, i could hear it fitting on Some Girls

Like it very much also but I would have liked Jagger to keep his "rapish" way of singing the verses for the whole song .
However I can understand why some people get irritated with the repetitive chorus"she saw me coming".

cc,

I suggest that you listen to the first 3 J Geils albums - you will find them anything but "rock-lite". This band was second only to the Stones in the early 70's - tremendous live performances. "Centerfold" actually came at the end of their career together.

What Chorus?

IMO - there is no chorus and that kills this song for me. A great groove and idea with nothing in the tank.

PECMAN

Yeah, I know about J. Geils, that's why I brought them up, and the early stuff is pretty good party rock. Akin to Southside Johnny. But not what I want to hear from the stones. So many people here like this song so much, they might want to check out those bands instead!

I rate it 6/10. Kind of a more high energy Black n Blue groove thing. I like the chord change thing later in the song. I like it but I agree it could use a better chorus. I like Look What The Cat Dragged In better. Overall though I like this album much more than their last 4 or 5 studio albums--I can't put this thing down after 2 months or whatever it's been.

Chorus that really ruins a decent song for me is She Was Hot. The song starts off w/ a total Some girls era vibe and then goes into that 80s "jokey" style chorus. Towards the end I really can't take it when Mick's dragging it out--"she was hot, hot, hot...". The 80s really took the wind out of The Stones. A Bigger Bang should have followed Tatto You then we'd really be somewhere!

That is a song I didn´t relly dig at first..but now it´s really good!
Stones songs that grow on me...like in the old days;-) Isn´t it great?

Great groove. Combines humor and sex, two of my favorite things.

cc Wrote:
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> Yeah, I know about J. Geils, that's why I brought
> them up, and the early stuff is pretty good party
> rock. Akin to Southside Johnny. But not what I
> want to hear from the stones. So many people here
> like this song so much, they might want to check
> out those bands instead!


You might wanna consider the fact that Geils & Co. got their ideas from the Stones in the first place!

That's exactly what I'm saying! Faces, J Geils, Black Crowes, etc. are all lightweight Stones, IMO. Party band stuff that misses the greater creativity and gravity the Stones are capable of. Sad to hear them imitating their imitators, even if it's unconscious.

The chorus is a bit repetitive, but I like the upbeat, tongue in cheek vibe to it. The rest of the song is great, one of my favorites on the album. Can't wait to hear a live version. I've said this before, but the song and particularly the chorus reminds me of the Offspring and some of their songs such as Self Esteem.

That's a poor song. Uncreativity there. They should have dropped it.

I think some folks are getting a little too hung up on the so-called chorus (it's not really a chorus, per se, it's more of a chant). The chant, though, (and I definitely understand the Geils reference there) isn't really the heart of the song - the heart of the song is the guitar interplay and the sassy, swaggering Jagger vocals. For those that don't like this stuff, I can only imagine what other Stones classics you must not like....

Well, first there's "I Go Wild"...

I Go Wild is another great song...best song on VL.

aha... now we're getting somewhere. I can't stand that song! Which if any songs earlier in the stones' catalogue do you think are similar to these 2?