![]() This band are untainted by the excesses of any of that eras downsides but elevated by the perennial ease of being a bit punk, a bit pop, a lot cool… and no one ever criticizes Joan Jett And the Blackhearts. 1988 made them contemporary’s of The Cult, Guns N’ Roses and The Sisters Of Mercy. The song is one of the hidden gems of it’s era. It’s as precision tooled as the layers of synth and the smoothed out low end riff. The ‘Ow’ before the solo so casually tossed out there it makes the whole thing look incidental. Those ‘Uhs’ that punctuate the riffs from the verses are pure rock and roll theater. She hangs with Alice, she fills in for Kurt, she toasts Lemmy and she still slays live. Joan Jett is still the coolest of the cool. This is a teen anthem for the not to be messed with. That slide guitar riff and that down beat delivery. She was the coolest rock star I’d ever seen. Joan’s 1988 album Up Your Alley found it’s way into my record collection pretty close to it’s release. 8 and spent 26 weeks on the chart six weeks longer than Jett’s 1982 classic and highest-charting. This was the era ex-Runaways band mate Lita Ford was making 80’s heavy metal ballads with Ozzy Osbourne and getting her Deadly Kissed*. Released as the first single from Up Your Alley, 'I Hate Myself for Loving You' reached No. “Hey Jack, it’s a fact they’re talkin’ in town I turn my back and you’re messin’ around I’m not really jealous, don’t like lookin’ like a clown”Īfter The Runaways, after Bad Reputation, Joan had already had some hits in her own right (including the megahit I Love Rock And Roll). ![]() She’s beaming this down from Planet Cool for the rest of us to help us get through our own messy stuff. The idea that anyone would stand Joan Jett up is a scientific impossibility. “Midnight getting uptight but where are you? You said you’d meet me but it’s quarter to two” It’s slow and low and sliding around like unsecured ballast in a small fishing boat’s galley during a storm. And yet the real killer bit is the guita… is that a guitar? Is that just a guitar? Is that a synth set to Bassoon brass FX played through a guitar? Why does that axe sound so horney? The effects of Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco echoing up through the decades and into 1988. Jett soon released her self-titled debut. Those slowed down 70’s glam rock drums and hand claps are pure glitter scene. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are an American rock band led by artist Joan Jett.After The Runaways split in 1979, Jett pursued a solo career to explore the same aggressive punk style and met Kenny Laguna. ![]() How can something so 80’s, so smoothed off and over produced sound so gutteral? I Hate Myself for Loving You est une chanson de Joan Jett extraite de lalbum Up Your Alley.Released: June 1988Genre: Hard RockLabel: BlackheartSongwriter(s).
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