Music Review

''I'll Be Comin' Around'' (1996)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: The Bottle Rockets; Genre: Pop

The Bottle Rockets' ''I'll Be Comin' Around'''s upbeat, unrepentant invitation to adultery combines the Rockets' neo-Skynyrd twang with a hook so perky it might have been a jingle in a previous life. So what if the song hinges on a rock-cliché rhyme (''around'' with ''knockin' your back door down'')? Five bucks says she RSVPs. A-

Originally posted Mar 08, 1996 Published in issue #317 Mar 08, 1996 Order article reprints

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