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Jett Rock
from: allmusic.com
Review by Tim Sendra
Jett Rock: Greatest Hits of JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS is the strongest collection of Jett's work to date. The fact that it was released only in Japan is a real shame. Jett recorded some of the best hard rock of the '80s, and people should be able to get a hold of it easily. If you want to pay the money, there is (almost) nothing but excellent rock & roll on Jett Rock.
(Click here to order Jett Rock)
The collection draws on her entire career starting with two tracks from the rare fan club-only release 1979 ("You Can't Get Me [Acoustic Version]") and ending with 1999's Fetish. In between it takes the best tracks from each of her albums (oddly only picking two from her best record, I Love Rock n' Roll, while picking three from the still good Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth) and throws in a couple of rarities like her rollicking cover of the Mary Tyler Moore theme "Love Is All Around," the previously unreleased "Watersign" (from an album she recorded in 1999 and is still on the shelf), a duet with Greg Graffin of Bad Religion on Cole Porter's "Let's Do It" from the Tank Girl soundtrack, and 2001's tribute to science fiction movies called "Science Fiction," which is easily the worst song on the record and should have been replaced by Jett Rock's most glaring omission: "Victim of Circumstance" from I Love Rock n' Roll. The rest of the disc rounds up all the hits ("I Love Rock n' Roll,"
"Bad Reputation," "Light of Day," "This Means War," "I Hate Myself for Loving You") as well as solid album cuts like her collaboration with Paul Westerberg ("Backlash"), her cover of CCR's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" from her otherwise ill-advised covers album, the stomping "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" from Bad Reputation, and the tough "Spinster," which was co-written by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna. Unlike most of the other Jett collections, all the songs are taken from the original albums. In other words, no live versions. The main problem with the disc is the track sequence, which seems to be entirely random and causes some unfortunate moments of whiplash like when the modern hostile sounding tracks "Fetish" and "Spinster" segue into her innocent cover of "Crimson and Clover." A simple chronological progression would have been much more logical and enjoyable. Despite this flaw, Jett Rock is a good document of a true rock & roller and is chock-full of classic rock & roll.
Tracks
01. Cherry Bomb (Fowley, Jett) 2:35
Composed by: Fowley, Jett
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
02. Backlash (Jett, Laguna, Westerberg) 3:28
Composed by: Jett, Laguna, Westerberg
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
03. I Hate Myself for Loving You (Child, Jett) 4:07
Composed by: Child, Jett
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
04. Love Is All Around (Curtis) 2:24
Composed by: Curtis
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
05. Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (Fogerty) 3:34
Composed by: Fogerty
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
06. I Love Rock N' Roll (Hooker, Merrill) 2:55
Composed by: Hooker, Merrill
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
07. You Can't Get Me [Acoustic Version] (Jett, Laguna) 2:28
Composed by: Jett, Laguna
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
08. Bad Reputation (Cordell, Jett, Kupersmith, Laguna) 2:50
Composed by: Cordell, Jett, Kupersmith, Laguna
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
09. Everyday People (Stewart) 2:39
Composed by: Stewart
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
10. I Want You (Cordell, Jett, Laguna) 2:41
Composed by: Cordell, Jett, Laguna
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
11. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (Glitter, Leander) 3:47
Composed by: Glitter, Leander
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
12. Let's Do It Porter 2:22
Composed by: Porter
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
13. Light of Day (Springsteen) 3:32
Composed by: Springsteen
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
14. Watersign (Hanna, Jett) 3:12
Composed by: Hanna, Jett
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
15. Talkin' Bout My Baby (Byrd, Jett, Laguna) 3:34
Composed by: Byrd, Jett, Laguna
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
16. Good Music (Jett, Laguna) 5:46
Composed by: Jett, Laguna
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
17. I Need Someone (Falciglia, Mastrangelo) 3:16
Composed by: Falciglia, Mastrangelo
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
18. Fetish (Jett) 3:23
Composed by: Jett
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
19. Spinster (Hanna, Jett) 2:45
Composed by: Hanna, Jett
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
20. Crimson and Clover (James, Lucia) 3:18
Composed by: James, Lucia
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
21. This Means War (Halligan, Jett, Laguna) 3:31
Composed by: Halligan, Jett, Laguna
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
22 Science Fiction (O'Brien) 3:35
Composed by: O'Brien
Performed by: Jett, BLACKHEARTS
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