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perhaps spurred by freaks and geeks, i'm having a craving for joan jett. what's the best cd to get? i was thinking of the album "Bad Reputation", but then this japanese-released compilation "Jett Rock" looks pretty good as well. Or should I just buy some Runaways? Any Joan Jett fans out there with some advice for a novice?

― E--- S------- and don't i know it, Friday, 22 October 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah get 'Bad Reputation' or the first Runaways Lp

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d133/d133886g416.jpg

Album: best cover, best album.

― briania (briania), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The second Runaways LP too! Inc. "I Love Playin' With Fire" and "Born to Be Bad" ("bodies without brains...I called my mother and said 'I'm in a rock'n'roll band and I ain't comin' home no more!...so she started cryin' like mothers always do"). What happened to Joan's vibrato after that?

― dave q, Friday, 22 October 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The third album's good too tho! It has "Little Sister" and "Don't Go Away", you'll be sweet

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody in london might want to check out the runaways documentary screening as part of the london film festival. joan jett refused to participate, but it's a very good catelogue of sad and shady deeds.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad Reputation is my fave, and I got it on vinyl off Ebay for about £1.50!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Fit to Be Tied is a great comp, as is the Best of the Runaways. To be very honest, you really can't go wrong with Joan Jett. She does one thing and she does it very very very well. Oh, and she's the hottest thing on two feet. K thx bye.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I Love Rock n' Roll was the very first album I ever owned....it's great.

Go see her live too...I've seen her a couple times in the last five years and she's a lot of fun.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen her live several times, and the Blackhearts have always kicked ass, no matter what the venue or situation.
-- Little punk club in Columbus in the early 80s, crowd of about a hundred hardcore kids who just wanna slamdance.
-- Blowing the Police off the stage at the height of their popularity at whatever that big arena in downtown Indianapolis is called.
-- Ruling with an iron fist in front of a mob of drunken jarheads (99% male) outside of Camp Lejeuene.
-- Winning everbody over with local references during "Roadrunner" in a shit-smelling rodeo barn at a county fair in Iowa. A big fight broke out, they played right through.

― briania (briania), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Joan.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/R.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/JoanJett.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know her. But I think I could love her.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to regret asking this, but has anyone seen vicki tischler-blue's runaways documentary, edgeplay? it's been playing on showtime. joan isn't in it, but the other runaways are.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

has there been a runaways vs. tatu taking sides?

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

i've seen it! it's about as good as it could be considering the absence of a) joan jett and b) any original runaways songs. which is to say it's watchable if you REALLY like the runaways and are willing to watch two hours of interviews with embittered former rock stars.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

highlight: cherie currie's revelation that she slept with at least two other members of the band (i can't remember which ones, tho!).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

works for me, and i don't even think the runaways were that great. but if they were great, they probably wouldn't have been so archetypal.

(xpost: joan and sandy)

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

Edgeplay was the roundabout reason for this thread revival. I watched it last week and I've been in full-blown Joan mode ever since (maybe making up for her absence in the movie). Loaded all my JJ onto my iPod, learned to play "Crimson and Clover" on my shitty acoustic guitar. The movie's amateurish and leaves all these gaping holes and unanswered questions and of course has like almost no actual Runaways music in it, but I still found it pretty compelling in a Behind the Music way. I didn't really know the ins and outs of the story beyond a vague sense that Kim Fowley was kind of a creep (and he sure comes off creepy).

But what it mostly made me want was to hear some Joan Jett.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

eerie - I have NOT seen edgeplay, but I've been listening to "Crimson and Clover" all week. That, and "Victim of Circumstance." But "Crimson and Clover" is the OPO.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

i didn't care that there weren't any original runaways songs in it, but if there was any downside to it, it was that we had to hear them do "wild thing" live in japan.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

i liked the movie and soundtrack she did with michael j fox.

― agnetha's stockings, Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

i only have the first runaways album, were any of the others worth tracking down?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

I have the second one, it's pretty fucking great

― gear (gear), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to "Crimson and Clover" all week. That, and "Victim of Circumstance."

I love "Victim of Circumstance" -- "I'm bad at bein' subtle but I ain't that tough"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Blackhearts >>>>>>>> Runaways

― brianiac (briania), Sunday, 21 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

A few years back, I sat next to her on a plane from LA to NYC. Didn't realize who this masculine-looking woman was until the flight was over. She was nice, i.e. tolerant of our noisy toddler. Had I known who she was, I would've thanked her for producing the Germs.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Gypsy, that's one of my favorite lines ever. I'd like to see this docu, even if J's not in it. Is Lita Ford?

― Joan Jett owns Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

There's lots of Lita in it. She's a little disheveled, but more or less coherent.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

i've always worried that "crimson and clover" or "i love rock n' roll" might be the apex of her career. so i never bought anything. but if i were sitting on a plane with her i'd probably invite her into the bathroom. she is indeed one of, if not the (maybe i'm exaggerating) hottest women in rock IMO. it just doesnt' get any simultaneously prettier and butcher anywhere else.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 21 August 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

She was nice

she seems like a cool person, and most of the runaways had good things to say about her in the doc (cherie was snippy because the song "queens of noise" was supposed to be her song, but since she was out getting an abortion while the runaways were recording, joan sang lead that day). anyone know why joan didn't want to be in the doc or want the music used?

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 21 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

she had nothing to lose, you don't lose when you lose fake friends

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 21 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

foxy
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006IIOYK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― gear (gear), Sunday, 21 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

re: "Victim of Circumstance"

I have finally worked out where C Love copped her vocal style.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Didn't see a thread about Ms. Jett's inclusion into this year's Warped festivities... I do wonder how she will go over. Predictions?

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

loving her cover of "Androgynous" w/ John Doe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8YMqhuR5qw

― milo z, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

And loving her cover of Roadrunner live on Letterman.

― that's not my post, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I know I already said it elsewhere on this board, but I'm gonna say it again. Her live version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" is to DIE FOR. And I'm really not much of a fan of her work outside of the Runaways.

― It's hrd bein a man, livn' in a garbage pai (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 27 October 2008 06:01 (seventeen years ago)

I mean Suicide would be jealous of that song, I think.

― It's hrd bein a man, livn' in a garbage pai (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 27 October 2008 06:02 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

And look who will play her in a biopic.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

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