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JOAN JETT Puts Another Dime in the Jukebox, Baby
from: washingtonpost.com
by Tricia Olszewski
JOAN JETT may be 46, but she still looks and sounds like she could kick your butt. Her frozen-in-time vocal growls and svelte figure -- including ridiculously cut arms shown off by a latex tank top -- were two of the biggest wow factors at Jett's performance at the 9:30 club Tuesday. Another was the sound of her new album with the BLACKHEARTS, "SINNER," the first she's released in 12 years.
The fresh material melded so smoothly with the old that the 70-minute show felt like a time warp back to the '80s.
Jett's hooky, melodic rock blasted nearly nonstop. "SINNER's" best tracks include the current single, "ACDC" -- though disappointingly, like much of Jett's repertoire, it's a cover -- and the very dirty "Fetish," which is original. The weaker "Riddles," which Jett explained is about "our government and how they don't speak clearly to us," gets points for good intentions despite facile lyrics ("there's bad stuff happening, and no one does a thing"). Tacking on President Bush's mangling of the "Fool me once" adage at least provided a laugh at the end (for most of the audience, anyway).
But, expectedly, Jett's hits were the highlights. A blazing "Bad Reputation," "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and "I Love Rock N' Roll" brought on the most raucous reactions, proving that no one minded the latter's idea of "singin' that same old song."
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