James, Colin - Just Came Back Lyrics

I always liked this song until I realized that its chorus is a complete rip-off of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You". The bass line of the song also rips off Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". The concept of the old blues tune, at the beginning, breaking into heavy rock guitar is straight out of Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top. Very, very derivative. That's probably why it didn't get much airplay. Colin James isn't so much underrated as just, simply, understood.

Yes !!! Blues !!!

Sounds like he ripped it off... Bon Jovi...bad medicine...

He seems pretty comical, great video and amazing talent

Colin James looks so much more handsome today than when I recall back in the days 😏

💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🎶🎵

Had the pleasure of seeing this amazing man at a small venue and he had the audience dancing

robert johnson

Anyone else think this was Bon Jovi when they first heard it?

Bad medicine

NO!!!! HIS OWN !!!

I bought the album back in the dayS. Unmatched groove. Blistering (melodic) big band rock. His best album for me. Still on the playlist today :). Great voice. Should have catapulted him to "stardom" outside Canada.

I just came back.. To hear this song.

Taylor swift totally ripped off Colin James.

Saw Colin live in Toronto on April 6th. Wow, he hasn't changed a bit. Actually ripened. I've been following him since he is 19.. Wish my life would have brought me to him. I am 71 years young and my son is 50...He has a collection of guitars, fixes them, plays them and he can play like any thing he desires. He introduced me to Colin way back when. I still love Colin and maybe in my next life, we can meet and be good friends. His wife is lucky to be his wife. I hope he is good to her. xoxox

rocking the blues

and the reds

@Jonx flensborgoh yes

Saw him at the kick off party for bluesfest in Kitchener a few years ago was awesome.

Just saw Colin last night at the Jube Awesome concert!! Sounded terrific!! Best birthday present I got for a loooonnggg time!!!! :)

Why was this song removed from Spotify? :( very saddening as it was my favourite song ever and played it all the time :(

Some obvious Robert Palmer inspiration here.

For the longest time i thought this song was by Bonjovi

This never gets old! Decades later and it's still flaming hot and fresh off the grill!

I had completely forgotten this song,despite it being a party favourite way back when..
Awesome song

This man just gets you rockin. Heart going a mile a minute and a wicked grin on my face. Fuck i love music like that.

Lulu's in Kitchener .

Love this song. But when he played it live he never had the gain up on the intro.. kinda don’t like it live .

2nd best artist ever right behind bryan adams.

What Talent.

My little black book is my iPhone 😁

Great music...shit video.

This song was also big in the United States, or at least in the Detroit area back in 1990. This song was on Detroit rock radio station WRIF's play list in the summer and fall of '90. That was back when WRIF legendary afternoon DJ Arthur Penhallow was tearing up the airwaves. Great memories!!!!

I’m Scottish and love Colin J XXX

Where can I find more music that sounds like the intro? I dig that a lot.

4 u Judie

When you walk into a room to get something but you forget what it was.

USA buried Canadian Artists 4 their own.

Strip your heart.

Sounds like a 45 rpm----------------It is.

such a great guitarist but his vocals are off the chain

why is colin james not more famous?

I thought Colin James did a video of this song with a plymouth Cuda in it...i cant find it? I fixed his hotub once.. Very down to earth guy and friendly. Dont ask where he lives i'm not saying. Great song Colin!

Bluesman!!!

Amazing song!!

2018 anyone? Lol

THANK YOU I LOVE THIS SONG

@ 2:04 .... when Facebook was analog

I just want to walk in with this into a good ol' WWF Royal Rumble.

He was great at the CNE this year

Super 🌟

I wana get my hair cut like him, hes a pretty good looking dude

Colin is my 4 cousin

Underrated musician!

great artist great person met him in brampton

hhhhhhmmmmmmm....................

This song played when my grandmother passed away 12 years ago today

#ThrowBackThursday ...this was my first professional credit, i played "the best man" (my best friend, chuck stone, was the director and cast me in the role) ...fun fact: the girl playing the bride is also the girl who played the "cosmo model" in sir-mix-a-lot's "baby got back" (her name was caroline, she was from norhteast philly) #memories #GoodTimes

erkme,its all bout Jaded

WHO DARES DISLIKE THIS MASTERPIECE

totally radical song!

Burton Cummings theatre, Winnipeg, Canada

i love this guy,, he played at a local community hall,,just him and another feller,, He rocked! He's some sweetheart..He took his first selfie with ME..I cant say enough about how great it was listening to him and of course meeting him.. He said on my shirt that I ROCKED,, but he was the one who Rocked!

pizza gal you’re a Newfie aren’t ya?

After 25 years I finally got a copy of this cd. Total brilliance.

I always thought for some reason hearing this years ago on the radio mostly in the car/at an old job I recall dancing with mop (not the best quality sound mind you) and always thought the beginning was an old blues guy like Robert Johnson, Hopkins, I knew it wasn't but someone! Props to this dude this song fuckin rocks lol

its a Johnson tune actually buddy, I allways loved how james used the intro to remind people who know how the original blues is the backbone of the modern music of the time how all the guitar in that tune as hard rock as it sounded was all played in the blues scale

good music if you know what to listen to it rocks my life

real music!

I had this song played at a party. I was leaving back for the City next morning. I essentially just went back to say Goodbye. Then people were asking my family where I was and what my phone number is. My parents passed away & extended family just HAD to choke off any good that was left while my own daughters joined them so there was no one there for me anymore. Why the F erHell would I stay?

I honestly found out rest of family were getting only 2 daughters to rain down on me harder. I have my Great Uncle there & that's it. He is supposed to come live here. The rest can go to Hell now for all they've said & done to try their best to cause more pain. So F them all! Wouldn't talk to them now if they did call.

I mean, seriously? Who does such miserable stuff and says such things to an only child who just lost her parents who were not the smartest when it came to my eldest daughter. They divided everything 3 ways, yet she stole most of what was to be mine and even what was mine in storage at my Parents. Then on her b.s ing Father's say, tries to sue me for what I did get? Because extended family who'd always been jealous with malicious intent agreed with him who they'd always hated and talked about? Last time I went back, no one knew. I wish I do no need to go back a 3rd time. Even an even tempered loves everyone and always forgives fast, has a breaking point. That goes for ex friends of any kind or age too. Some areas are really bad with evil people.

Your best bet is to expel all who dont make you feel good from your life.
There is nothing like continuous negativity to kill ones spirit

]True. & usually do without ever looking back. Just, nothing ever hurt so badly before so though no contact, on the toughest days, I make these dumb comment.

Chin up girl, never look back unless its to something that made you happy and  smile....., wish you all the best for 2017, may it be a good year for you xxx

My father and I are going to see Colin live on February 17th- such a beautiful voice ♡

Jess Marr where???

I'm down with this....

I think Colin James is the bomb but just realized the main beat is a rip off from Robert Palmers simply Irresistable.

I absolutely love this.

Is it odd that I'm 14 and love classic rock

Classic Rock is a style. In my opinion the best.
Any favorites Ysabel?

I’m 3

You just found great music. That’s all

I love this video!! He's showing her exactly what she lost. I bet she regrets it now.

I should of preformed this song for a certain special girl. Cheating bitch.

is he a canadian?

+Adrian Bjerlemo yes born in Regina, Saskatchewan

He was so underrated. should of had more airtime for great songs

+Kevin Wrin SSG, RET absolutely!! just seen him here in Alberta, a personal, live acoustic with a great guest from Toronto!! it WAS awesome!! so talented

+paulene klaudt so happy for u wish was there. maybe he'll make it south sometime

I love this song.

I could have sworn this video had the black back up singer giving the bride a shove at some point. Maybe that was from a different music video, or they edited it out.

+Tyler Stevens ....or in your naughty imagination :-)

Song starts in 1940 & branches off into 1990!.

It's the beginning of "Stones in my Passway" by Robert Johnson, recorded 1937.

@N. W. Flitcraft Robert Johnson himself originally did the Song/Segment at the beginning?. Geez, I didn't know that.

Thanks for the info. I always loved that segue in the beginning of this tune!

Facts matter - that's awesome - and thanks for it. :)

Never realised this was a cover to my shame. What a great version of this song saw him supporting Alannah Miles of Black Velvet fame.

I LIVE FOR THR "BLUES"

hehehe....greatest ever bud

i dont say gd bye
i always thought collin as hot short n sexxxyyy

awesome

I'm not sure if this is the same fellow, but I think he sang George Shrinks Theme Song

I saw CJ c1989 at Hammersmith Apollo as it was, supporting Los Lobos. They (because it is a band effort) went down a storm. The drummer invited me to the rest of their London gigs. Great couple of weeks and some superb up-close music. CJ turned up one night with a hand like a football, looked like he'd had a punch up but carried on regardless. Stevie Ray was right to back him - a great performer.

@busker1000 Must have been July 4, 1988.

I saw Colin James play in CASTELGAR BC at the high arrow I believe it was called. This place was a dive to him Im sure but he put on a great show and was a real gentlemen to all us ladies.😃

Colin James

Ah, the good ol' Arrow. Saw lots of bands there during my short stay

19 pinheads

i could just see Stu walk up to his ex and sing this song as he walks away with a way hotter and nicer gf in the hangover

This right here is REAL MUSIC

Summer playlist

@Tim Gavin not that autotune crap - and many song with one lyric or no real instruments - =that's just noise

@Tim Gavin no one is impressed by your post

This is BITCHING!
thanks

what a guitarist ! saw a couple of years ago in concert , blew me away ! this guy is amazing !

why did you rip off "Addicted to love" by Robert Palmer?

Music is music....Palmer ripped it off from ???? somebody. There's only so many hooks and riffs to avoid duplication.

SO CLASSIC !!! Bitches !!!

What ever happened to him anyway?

He got him self a ship and sailed into the sunset .

He's still putting out good New albums and touring

Why never ,song like this in our time?

Wow, this pop fluff that I hear on the radio is a actually a bunch of patriarchal bullshit? Cool, someone made a living of of being an asshole. Cool!

You'd think this video would be more popular

all his songs arnt popular! dont know why :( hes amazing

- I just came back, to say "goodbye!" !
XD

from 0:00 - 0:45 what song does that sound like?

it isn't that one, but thanks anyway
ps. it "MIGHT" be a dubstep song 

I found it, it was down the road by c2c

LOl are you talking about an ad? Cause the intro is %100 Robert Johnsons Stones in my passway

You know down the road is glitch-hop, not dubstep

@1acidwash I think he was being sarcastic. lol

I just heard SRV talk about him in an interview so I guess Stevie Ray Vaughan brought me here lol

I love this song. What a talent, Canadian to boot! Check out his duet with the late great Jeff Healy, a fellow Cdn and awesome blind guitarist who died in 2008.

Yes. I am Canadian. Met Bryan Adams and Colin James. Their Mom's used to curl and bring them to every town. I met them through curling. Not Jeff Heally unfortunately. But, we do not say Aye, Eh or aboot and we JUST got our 1st snow last week. So no igloos either! Man some people irk me!

Nothin wrong wi getting oot and aboot :)