I Just Wanted to See You So Bad

"I Just Wanted to See You So Bad"
Single by Lucinda Williams
from the album Lucinda Williams
B-side"Something About What Happens When We Talk"
Released1989
GenreBlues, Folk, World, Country
Length2:25
LabelRough Trade
Songwriter(s)Lucinda Williams
Producer(s)
Lucinda Williams singles chronology
"The Night's Too Long"
(1989) 		"I Just Wanted to See You So Bad"
(1989) 		"Passionate Kisses"
(1989)

"I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1989 as the third single from her third album, Lucinda Williams (1988).

The song appeared in the fourth episode of the Amazon series One Mississippi, which aired on September 9, 2016.[1] Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell covered the song on their duet album The Traveling Kind (2015).[2]

Critical reception

Country music website The Boot ranked the song No. 5 on their list of the best Lucinda Williams songs, describing it as a "upbeat, organ-swirled song", writing "After starting off rather innocuously (I drove my car in the middle of the night/I just wanted to see you so bad), the brisk, twangy song evolves into something more like obsession: 'We'd always talked on the telephone/But I'd never been with you all alone,' Williams casually sings, before letting it slip that the visit is perhaps a surprise. 'I got off on the seventh floor, I just wanted to see you so bad'."[3]

A retrospective review of Lucinda Williams by The Austin Chronicle stated the song "still jumps from the speakers as if we're hearing it for the first time", calling it a "glittering example of what exemplary roots rock can be."[4]

Track listing

7" single[5]
  • "I Just Wanted To See You So Bad" – 2:25
  • "Something About What Happens When We Talk" – 3:17
CD single[6]
  • "I Just Wanted To See You So Bad" – 2:25
  • "Something About What Happens When We Talk" – 3:17
  • "Sundays" – 3:29
  • "Changed The Locks" – 3:47
  • "Like A Rose" – 2:37

Chart performance

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[7] 122

References

  1. ^ "One Mississippi - Let the Good Times Roll - Soundtracks". IMDb. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. "The Traveling Kind - Emmylou Harris/Rodney Crowell". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 26, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  3. ^ Zaleski, Annie (January 26, 2022). "Top 10 Lucinda Williams Songs". The Boot. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  4. ^ Caligiuri, Jim (January 24, 2014). "Review: Lucinda Williams". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  5. ^ Discogs (1989). "Lucinda Williams – I Just Wanted to See You So Bad - 7" single". Discogs. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  6. ^ Discogs (1989). "Lucinda Williams – I Just Wanted to See You So Bad - CD single". Discogs. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Lucinda Williams chart history". imgur.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.