' I Love Rock'n'Roll' (1981) originally by the Arrows (1974) This is not a well-known cover, but the title track of the album it comes from – Good Music – was one of her most under-rated singles. And Jett manages to capture that fun, even while making the music rock harder. From ' Surfin' Safari' to ' Kokomo' and beyond, they just have a sense of fun and joy about them that is infectious. ' Fun, Fun, Fun' (1986), originally by The Beach Boys (1964) So, I will say I actually prefer the Jett version to the Glitter version, and that's mainly because the Glitter version sounds like too many of his other songs, while, as usual, Jett just nails it, especially with the guitar opening. I think the trend of cancellation culture is ignoring a lot of things and is being used very arbitrarily and not uniformly across the board. But after Green Day sampled the track, I thought I would.
Okay, I was a little bit in two minds about including this song. ' Do You Wanna Touch (Oh Yeah)' (1980), originally by Gary Glitter (1973)
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Sure, the guitar work might not be in the same league, but the way Jett sings it is full of menace and she does an awesome job. And this is my favourite track from that album (hence the reason it was in the 1990 list). I mean, I'd forgotten all about it and the album it comes from ( The Hit List), but when I listened to it after so many years, it struck me just how good it really was.
When I was going through my songs to compile my list of cover songs of 1990 and found Jett's version of this song, I was a little surprised. This is the track that started this list, to be honest. ' Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)' (1990), originally by AC/DC (1976) A great song, no matter what.Īnd, as a bonus, here's Tommy James and Joan Jett singing it together!
At the time, I preferred this to the more famous ' I Love Rock'n'Roll'. And then, a few years later, when I heard Jett's version (I was in high school, so after 1983), I was stunned and fell in love with the song all over again. I thought it was superb it was like nothing I had heard before (I must have been 9 or 10 years old at the time). That was when I discovered they also didn't like anything by the Beatles after 1966 apparently the psychedelic age just passed them by. They hated it! I loved it and was surprised. When I was young, I found a copy of the original, and played it, thinking my parents would like it as it was their era of music. ' Crimson And Clover' (1981), originally by Tommy James and the Shondells (1968) Oh, and the two years? The album it came from ( Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth) was released in 1984, but the song did not appear on it until the 1998 CD re-release (which is the version I have). This is one of the stranger songs to cover, but she succeeds. It is no longer a song of whingeing, but a menacing threat of a track. One of the songs my parents had on 45 (and which I have inherited), and so one of the songs I grew up with, Jett keeps the tempo pretty similar, but, man!, does she ever rock it up. ' Bird Dog' (1984/1998), originally by The Everly Brothers (1958) So, these are cover songs as performed by Joan Jett. How could I? There are so many awesome songs! There are a few tracks here from that album in this list, yes, but I have not focused exclusively on it. Reasonably common for artists, dating back years. I should point out that in 1990 Jett released The Hit List, an album of cover versions. For the record, I'm not going to include ' Cherry Bomb' (and a few others, but that's my favourite), because Jett was involved in the original version with the Runaways. I am going to look at my favourite ten of them. But she has recorded many versions of other people's songs that she has done a credit to. This is NOT to insinuate that Jett is only a cover artist. I am going to focus on those cover versions Joan Jett has recorded and done a wonderful version of. Now, this list is going to seem very unfair.
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