Album: Bloodshot (1973)

Charted: 30

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• (Now don't touch the knobs now, we're going to have some fun around here)
  
  [Chorus]
  You've got to give it to me
  You've got to give it to me
  You've got to give it to me
  You've got to give it to me
  
  You're so slick now, know every trick now
  You know I want it, I want it so bad
  You know I need it, I can't believe it
  So come on baby, please relieve it
  
  [Chorus]
  
  Now you've been bugging me, every night now
  You say you want it, you want it right now
  I can't get to it, I can't get through it
  So come on baby, please
  
  You've got to get it up (give it up)
  You've got to get it up (give it up)
  You've got to get it up (give it up)
  You've got to get it up (give it up)
  
  [Chorus]
  
  Why keep me cold
  When it's so warm inside
  Come on baby
  Your love is too good to hide Writer/s: ALICIA KNOTT, ALICIA RENEE KNOTT, JAMES HARRIS III, JAMES SAMUEL III HARRIS, TERRY LEWIS
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Wixen Music Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• John from Comstock Park, Mi, UsaWith the recent passing of J. Geils, it has been good the last week or so to take in the whole tune, and his searing guitar solo. To pay tribute to the man, and play the song, the short version, was the sacrilege of the NPR Oldies station in my area. Thank God for YouTube and your site.
• Jack from Brookline, MaSteven from Oxnard CA - Peter Wolf is saying in the beginning: "Now don't touch the knobs 'cause I think we're gonna have some fun with this one here. Oh yeah!" I love it! What a great opening to a song! I love doing this song for karaoke, but even the karaoke versions are the STUPID "edited" versions without the amazing breakdown at the end. That edited version has to be the WORST edited version of a song ever!
• Steven from Oxnard, CaI love this song but what is Peter Wolf saying during the intro? It sounds like "Don't touch the knobs cause I feel grass is coming this way." Is this right? Someone anyone, your assistance please.
• Vince from Salisbury, MdThis song has a heavy reggae/ska influence, which is noteworthy because borrowing those styles was not a common practice in 1973, especially from American acts. The skins in England who popularized reggae in the late sixties had all moved to heavier music by then, and the Two-Tone revival was still a few years away. It would be interesting to find out why the band chose to take the song in that direction...
• Scott from Boston, MaCenterfold is now. My favorite J. Geils song, though, is "Musta Got Lost" w/ the intro.
• Dave from Cardiff, WalesThis was an early US hit for the J. Geils Band in 1973. The band originally formed in 1967, and went on to have a string of bigger US hits over the years until they split up in 1985, including "Love Stinks", "Freeze Frame" (a surpise hit over most of Europe), "Flame Thrower", "Land Of 1,000 Dances", "Rage In The Cage", and of course US chart-topper "Centerfold", which also went on to become the band's only major hit in Britain. The band's brash, lively songs and humourous videos portrayed everything that was exciting about the US rock scene in the 70s and 80s, and they gained a long-standing reputation as a fun and passionate live act
• Ross from Brainard, NeJ. Geils were a great band. Too bad more songs weren't posted on this site, particularly Centerfold.

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