Joan Jett: Cherry Bomb (Fan Club)

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Here's a run-down of the rarities on this Fan Club only release from 1995. More Jett on MRML can be found here.

Cherry Bomb [Dance Mix]
Originally released as a special promotional only red vinyl 12 inch. This marks its first official release. The original version can be found on the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts album, GLORIOUS RESULTS OF A MISSPENT YOUTH.

A Little Bit Of Heaven
Recorded during the sessions for the GLORIOUS RESULTS OF A MISSPENT YOUTH album. This previously unreleased Jett/Byrd composition was produced by Kris Kimsey of Rolling Stones fame.

Who Can You Trust?
Previously unreleased 1985 composition, recorded for the movie "Gotcha" but not used.

Let It Bleed
Classic Rolling Stones song, recorded during THE HIT LIST sessions. Appeared as the B-side of "Dirty Deeds" single and as a bonus track on the Japanese version of THE HIT LIST. This is its first US release on compact disc.

Long Live The Night
Appeared on the soundtrack for the 1990 Tom Cruise movie "Days Of Thunder."

Right Til The End
Written with Jules Shear of Jules and the Polarbears fame, this 1987 track appeared only on the cassette version of the 1993 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts rarities release FLASHBACK and on the Japanese CD version of FLASHBACK. This is its first US release on compact disc.

- Danny Solazzi (via Bad Reputation Nation)

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Joan Jett: Light of Day

("Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him...")

Joan Jett's career took another left turn in 1987, when she snagged a lead role in Paul Schrader's heartland-rock film, Light of Day. While the movie itself didn't amount to much, other than being the film debut of Trent Reznor, it did get Jett back into the Top 4o, with the song "Light of Day". The song came from the pen of Bruce Springsteen, who donated it to Schrader because he had borrowed the movie's working title, Born in the USA for a monster of his own. The song itself has a roaring chorus (and there's nothing Jett loves quite as much as one of those) and verses that rely a little too heavily on standard-issue Springsteen-isms.

The long out-of-print soundtrack, despite the inclusion of a particularly egregious Bon Jovi song, evinces a strong eighties roots rock feel with appearances by Dave Edmunds, Ian Hunter, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and of course, five Joan Jett tracks (four with The Barbusters and one with The Hunz).

1. Light of day by The Barbusters
2. This means war by The Barbusters
3. Twist it off by The Fabulous Thunderbirds
4. Cleveland rocks by Ian Hunter
5. Stay with me tonight by Dave Edmunds
6. It's all coming down tonight by The Barbusters
7. Rude Mood by The Barbusters
8. Only lonely by Bon Jovi
9. Rabbit's got the gun by Joan Jett and The Hunzz
10. You got no place to go by Michael J.Fox
11. Elegy by Rick Cox,Chas Smith,Jon C.Clark,Michael Boddicker

Light of Day OST link is in the comments

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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: Live 1981!

Of course my first exposure to Joan Jett wasn't The Runaways or even "Bad Reputation", instead it was the song that will be stuck to her name long after her obituary's been penned, "I Love Rock N' Roll". Did we make sneering remarks as teenagers do about how insecure she must be to proclaim her love so loudly? Maybe. Did our bodies start to twitch, instinctively, when then that riff came on the radio? Hell, yeah.

This live boot, which sometimes trades under the title Jett Lagg, comes from a show at the Malibu Club in Long Island on 1981-05-01. It's a believed to be an FM broadcast due to the clear sound and was likely the first Joan Jett bootleg when it showed up in the racks as a double LP back in the early 80's.


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Joan Jett: 1979

Y'know I always half-suspected that people like The Runaways more for the idea of "Tough All-Girl Rock N' Roll Band" then the actual material that band recorded. The current Hollywood fascination with all things Runaway has not lessened this suspicion. If Joan Jett hadn't become a die-hard solo act of fierce power, would the band's memory be as strong? This "Runaways Paradox" seems to dictate that women who are willing to play along with macho ideals of rock n' roll get noticed quickly but respected rarely. Jett, however, earned her Bad Reputation not just for re-defining gender roles in The Runaways or by producing the Germs debut album or adopting a couple of the Sex Pistols but because of her fanatical devotion to gut-level rock n' roll.

This out-of-print Fan Club-only release compiles the the demos Jett recorded with Kenny Laguna after leaving the Runaways but before launching her solo career. Amongst the items herein is "I Want You", one of the earliest Laguna-Jett song which was written for a Runaways movie that never got finished but of which some footage survives:

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So does Jett's solo career blow away The Runaways or what?


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