In all candor I cannot. They were a great rock band that a strong R&B character (throughout the 1970's). That album was basically bubble gum pop. Listen to Blow Your Face Out (preferably in a party setting) and then try to visualize that band performing Centerfold, etc. It would be like Eric Burdon and the Animals performing Andy Gibb.
I strongly disagree. I love J. Geils and that album--and especially "Centerfold"--was what hooked me. The
Freeze Frame tour was my first official concert and they were incredible live. Lots of non-pop tracks on that album and I still know every one by heart, like "Piss on the Wall" and "Rage in the Cage." But I also love "Angel in Blue" and the title track, too. Great, varied album imo.
And of course, that lead me to explore their entire back catalogue and love all that even more.
Full House and
Blow Your Face Out remain in regular rotation for me; one or the other, sometimes both, were guaranteed to be played at every party we had.
I still love "Centerfold," too, and now my middle daughter (the one who has inherited my taste in music, and an increasing amount of my vinyl collection) is cruising through their back catalogue after getting hooked by that tune as well. We're going to see Peter Wolf live later this month. His latest release was one of my favorite albums of 2016 and he still gets it done live. Great front man.
If you want to pick an annoying, overexposed pop tune from them, I'd say "Love Stinks" is far, far more tiring and much less interesting musically and lyrically. Although the live Americana/bluegrass remake of it Wolf
put on his latest album is an improvement.
But neither of them approaches the legacy-changing abomination of something like Jefferson Airplane becoming Jefferson Starship and putting out dreck like "We Built This City," which should have been banned for the aural harm it caused.