Classic Rock Bottom

NOTE: Well, now. Seems like you can only post five tracks per player thru free Podsnack. So, the picture above has the player for the first five songs, the one at the bottom left has the next five and the one at the bottom right has the last two. Gonna have to rethink this. Oh, and each song has to be five minutes or less.......

For the eighteenth, seventh (and final) album in the series I thought up all by myself, we're featuring an album that is NOT an anniversary album. I'm such a rebel.

This week's selection is the 1984 release from Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth.  It reached #67 on the US charts and, at that time,  was the lowest charting album of her career.

GROAMY (I think I discovered a new word!) was the followup to the gold certified Album which followed the platinum certified I Love Rock 'N' Roll and has not received any certification. I believe there was a single or two released but none of them caught on which could explain why this album didn't sell as well as the previous two. 

I didn't like this album when it came out and still didn't like it a few years ago. This was the last JJ album I bought until 1994's Pure And Simple, but listening to it now, I like it. Don't know why that is.

Anyway, here's the allmusic.com review:

From her days with the all-girl band the Runaways through her work with her own band, Joan Jett has been a pioneer, if not an innovator. She has always paid loving tribute to the riffy rock music that she loves. On album number six, Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth, Jett, backed by her Blackhearts, churned out more of the same, but with some of the most satisfying and strongest material of her career. The album is an engaging collection that ranges from a glam-inflected update of the Runaways' classic "Cherry Bomb" to the swagger of the Gary Glitter hit "I Love You Love Me Love." Other songs include Jett's versions of "I Need Someone" and "New Orleans" and standout originals like the rocking "Frustrated," the full-tilt boogie of "Long Time," and a ballad, "Hold Me," that would sound mawkish coming from anyone else. Infectious choruses, crunchy melodies, and Jett's growling vocals make this album an excuse to turn the stereo up just a bit more.

Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth

1. Cherry Bomb
2. I Love You Love Me Love
3. Frustrated
4. Hold Me
5. Long Time
6. Talkin' Bout My Baby
7. I Need Someone
8. Love Like Mine
9. New Orleans
10. Someday
11. Push And Stomp
12. I Got No Answers

Availability: The version features only this album is OOP and can be had for around $20. Smart move would to pick up the Album/GWOAMY set which is remastered and included bonus tracks and can be yours for around $14 (cheaper if you have Amazon prime).

 

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Guess not.  Now, thanks to you, I remember picking this up, I think at the used CD store.  From the looks of it, it was a lot better than this one you just posted.

I like Joan Jett I think girls with guitars make for good posters...  mostly.

Her music on the otherhand is hit and miss for me.  I like and I don't like it.  A lot of it feels like it has a sameness to it, the clap tracks, the beat, the guitar riffs, the vocal styling, all seem to be familiar song to song.  Not sure if Cherry Bomb is a cover but that second tune is, and I cant place it so I have to wiki it to know.  And I'm sorry I checked since its a Gary Glitter tune, who she has covered more than once.

These are all feel really very short, because they are.  But it also feels like she's went to this well before so maybe its the label trying to ride out a string of hit songs formulas, but theres that same ol' sameness about this that's not working.  Probably not going to revisit this again nor purchase, but I'd still like to have the poster of her... 

Cherry Bomb was a Runaways song.

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