Tag: She Was Hot

A drummer I played with before was a huge Rolling Stones fan. He and I would cruise around together as teenagers and listen to The Beatles and Stones endlessly. He pointed out this song for me and I fell in love with it. He met me in school when he saw me wearing a John Lennon shirt and we started to talk. He didn’t know I played and I didn’t know he was a drummer…and we needed one.  and we needed a drummer…so it fit rather well.

The song was the B side of the single She Was Hot released in 1984. I Think I’m Going Mad was an outtake from the Emotional Rescue album from a few years before. It was recorded in January-February 1979, November-December 1982 & June-August 1983 at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris, France; and The Hit Factory, New York City.

I liked this ballad better than the A-side She Was Hot off of the album Undercover. The single She Was Hot/I Think I’m Going Mad peaked at #44 on the Billboard 100, #42 in the UK, and #46 in New Zealand in 1984.

I Think I’m Going Mad is like a cross between Fool To Cry and Beast of Burden. It was written by Jagger/Richards. 

The A side…She Was Hot… I will admit…I DO like the video! The song is a run-of-the-mill Stones song in my opinion.

I Think I’m Going Mad

Think I’m going mad and I think I’m going mad
Life goes by so fast, time whirls by so fast
And I drink my wine and so all the women come and go
Think I’m going mad, think I’m going mad, think I’m going crazy
All the highs and lows don’t mean a thing to me, don’t give a damn

Every season that’ll pass, think gonna be my last
I know my mind’s afloat, sometimes I feel so young and sometimes I feel so old
Think I’m going mad and I think I’m going mad, think I’m going crazy
All the highs and lows don’t mean a thing to me, don’t give a damn, think I’m going

Yeah, you want to see, you want to see all the kids all laugh
And I’m thinking, I think I’m going crazy
I think and I think I’m going crazy
All the highs and lows don’t mean a thing to me, don’t give a damn

And I think I’m going crazy, think I’m going crazy
I think I been drinking lots of cups of coffee
I think I lost my head
And I think I should be sacrificed
Think I should be put away
Save yourself pretty baby
And I think and I think I’m going
And I think I’m going mad
And I think I’m going mad
Think I’m going nuts
Think, think I’m going crazy