Steel Wheels wrote on May 20
th, 2008 at 10:44am:
Has Anybody Seen My Baby? shocked the shit out of me the first time I heard it in the parking lot of my favorite pizzaria. I didn't like the rap part, but quickly fell in love with the song soon after. I read a review once and the writer proclaimed that if the single had been released at the right time, it would have been the song of the summer 1997. I tend to agree.
I do not like Might As Well Get Juiced, but everything else on the album is tops. Why no Keith on Saint of Me?
All the raging guitars on Lowdown and Flip the Switch were up my alley in 97, and the album never left my side for two or three years. When I get a new Stones album it stays in my current rotation for a very long time.
If I remember correctly, Keith refused to be on Saint of Me because he wouldn't play w/the Charlie drum loop. In retrospect, Mick should have realized that this was NOT a dance floor track but a classic rock radio/AAA/baby boomer winner, and he should have compromised, as the dance remix 12" of Saint of Me is one of their worse releases EVER (containing as it does Any Way You Look at It and several REALLY grim Saint of Me's). It has long been my theory that a non-looped Saint of Me, released as a first single, would have solidly and smartly launched this record and paved the way for Anybody Seen My Baby as the second single.