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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Pure and Simple Audio CD

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Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Band: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Title: Pure and Simple
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Release Date: 2008-10-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Go Home 2: Eye to Eye 3: Spinster 4: Torture 5: Rubber & Glue 6: As I Am 7: Activity GRRRL 8: Insecure 9: Wonderin' 10: Consumed 11: You Got a Problem 12: Brighter Day

Too Simple?


Overall a very nice CD from Joan, this one is one of my favs with so many great songs on it. All you have to do is look at the release date to know why this (a very fine hard Rock And Roll record) would go unnoticed, and you add in that she is indeed a female making rock and we all know radio steers clear of women for the most part, or limits it's number that's been proven before. Favs include "Wonderin'", "Insecure", "As I Am", "Consumed", and the closer "Brighter Day". . . which sounds great driving very late at night btw blasting in the summer. The majority of the songs on here are guitar heavy catchy anthems that are not too much different that here early work, this is. . . pure and simple, and perhaps people in '94 were too hip, or too cool to appreciate basic hard rock, she wasn't the only one who got lost in the media frenzy to cover a certain sound out of Seattle. If you were listening to hard rock about having a good time with a positive message, you were considered some type of freak I think is how it seemed. You were supposed to be wallowing in self pity and pushing away helpful things, not trusting anyone along the way. In a way it's funny with a song like "Insecure" one would think it would fit with the times, but it comes in a upbeat tone, catchy as heck, and makes you feel. . . happy to be insecure, not sad and gloomy.

I think alot of people don't even know this record exists, and it's been 15 years since it's release. . . . not surprising, but a classic now that it's been that long to people who believe in Rock and women who rock like Joan Jett. .


Her best
I have always loved Joan Jett, who is one of the few singers who have the perfect combo of hard rock and punk. This was my soundtrack in junior high. This one hits it perfect, Desmond Child, Kat Bjelland, and Kathleen Hanna collaborating on the same album?! That's what I'm talking about.


One of Her Best
There isn't a single song on this album that sticks out as a radio-song type of hit the way I Love Rock n Roll did. . Brighter Day could have been had the album been released 5 or 6 years earlier, maybe, or Insecure. Spinster is another great song, but it would have to be bleeped. In any case, this is a fine album, full of the catchy, punky bubble-gum that JJ has done so well from the very beginning. She starting her social-conscience songwriting here (Wonderin') and, frankly, she doesn't do the deep-thinking lyrics well. She's a howler, screamer, jumper--not a deep thinker. Compare her socio-political tunes to songs like "Star Star," "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock and Roll," and you see where her strengths lie, and where they don't.

No covers on this album, which is unusual for her. A much better album than her recent release, Sinner. I like it a lot.


Pure and simply Joan Jett
It's some the hardest stuff Joan Jett's EVER written. This album DID NOT get the recognition it SO deserved. "Go Home" is kinda confusing at first, "Eye To Eye" is kewl, "Spinster" ROCKS!, "Torture" is fun, "Wonderin'", should've been a video, "You Got A Problem". . . . . AWESOME! But my favorite from this album, is "Consumed". True Jett form. This is one of Joan Jett's BEST CDs. I HIGHLY recommend this CD if you LOVE rock 'n' roll. And if you LOVE Joan Jett.


Joan Jett - 'Pure And Simple' (Warner Brothers)
Playing basic three chord rock&roll with sultry vocals apparently still have a call for it. I'm sort of amazed at how LONG former Runaway Joan Jett's career has actually lasted,and it's still running. I'm not complaining,I mean 'Pure. . . ' is a decent CD,I thought. Tunes here I liked best were "Eye To Eye","Go Home","Insecure","You Got A Problem" and the a couple of tracks she penned along side with producer Desmond Child "As I Am" and "Brighter Day". If you're a major Joan Jett fan,you should enjoy this release. If you happen to be a new fan,start with 'Bad Reputation' then work your way forward.


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