![]() Or the rockabilly-glam jam “Fake Friends”, which should be a primer for anyone considering a career in the relentlessly ugly business that is rock ’n’ roll.Īs great as all the above might be, nothing will ever touch “Victim of Circumstance”, off Jett’s 10-million-selling (and completely essential) breakthrough album, I Love Rock ’n’ Roll. Hands up for the synth-soaked antiballad “Love Like Mine” and its great line “I get talked about/I been carried out a thousand times.” Or how about the late-period “Any Weather”, a bubblegum grinder cowritten with some guy named Dave Grohl. “I Hate Myself for Loving You” not only made you wonder what the fuck anyone saw in Ratt, Poison, and Twisted Sister, it confirmed her as the coolest rocker ever to come from the Sunset Strip.Īs for those in it for more than the Billboard hits, you could argue for hours as to which non-single should have gone quadruple platinum. And no, we’re not talking about the women. “I Hate Myself for Loving You” hit the airwaves at a time when MTV hard-rockers wore pink spandex, had an endless appetite for candy-apple-coloured lipstick, and went through Aqua Net Extra Super Hold hairspray by the crate. Over the course of four massive-sounding minutes, rock’s original tuff girl showed the boys of the hair-metal ’90s how it was done. And why wouldn’t it be? To truly understand Jett’s brilliance, compare her 1981 cover with the Arrows’ 1975 original, and then marvel at the way she turned a toothless garage-blues throwaway into a glitter-bombed anthem for the ages.įor those who love stadium-sized drumming and metallic–KO riffage, “I Hate Myself for Loving You” tops the list of the former Joan Marie Larkin’s crowning achievements. Joan Jett’s finest moment-the one that sums up everything about how insanely great she is-doesn’t tend to get a lot of play once you go beyond the hard-core faithful.įor those who get their music from commercial radio, major-league hockey games, and the kind of pilsner-swilling trash that pulls up at public campgrounds with the boom box cranked, it’s all about “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll”.
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