Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Sinner
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Free Music Review: You gotta sin to be saved
Hit: 3 Stars
Some 25 years after "I Love Rock and Roll" made her a star, who'd have thought that Joan Jett would still be making vital sounding records? "Sinner" is a solid veteran rocker of a disc, with all the hallmarks of Joan's best past work. You want a solid social call out? Joan slaps it to the current regime on the CD's opener "Riddles." Barking out "wake up, people" just before dropping sound bites from Donald Rumsfeld and George W; it's a punky call to arms.
Then comes one of the obligatory covers (and the album's highlight), a ripping cover of Sweet's "Ac/Dc." (The other cover, of The Replacements' "Androgynous," does not fair as well.) "Ac/Dc" crunches the guitar chords, plays with ambiguous sexuality - LOVE that video - and glams like her Gary Glitter covers from the early days.
What holds the CD back is a couple of strange choices in back tracking. The decision to rerecord "Fetish" and "100 Feet Away" wiffs of filler, even if it might be some fans' first chance to hear them. But still, songs like "Everyone Knows" (her gay coming out song?), "Change The World" and a great ballad "Watersign" make up for the shortfalls. The Blackhearts are still kicking up a righteous racket, and "Sinner" is far better then anything we should be expecting at this late a date.
Free Music Review: A tight set, but long-time Jett fans might feel cheated
Hit: 3 Stars
New admirers of Ms. Jett will get just what they've been promised on her new disc "Sinner", with crunchy, raunchy rock selections mixed judiciously with more somber or thoughtful songs about love-gone-wrong (a Jett staple for years). However, die-hard fans of the woman Life Magazine once called "the female Elvis" will have most of these songs on other discs (to be specific, "Fetish" and the import "Naked") and the most of the rest seems passe too. "Riddles" is a retouch of "Right In The Middle" (amusingly, Joan seems to have moved over to one side on this politically-minded tune co-penned by Linda Perry); "A.C.D.C." is a Sweet cover (from 1973!), while "A 100 Feet Away" is Joan Jett covering herself (a just-as-good version appeared on a Jett album from 1983). Other songs are retreads too, with the swear words clumsily blotted out to protect the mini-mall crowds, yet the energy of Jett and her band is always present. Her enthusiasm for three-chord rock 'n roll is invigorous and amazing, but true Jettheads will finish this disc defiantly wanting more.Free Music Review: A"sinner 'of a CD
Hit: 3 Stars
As i listen to this CD one thought came to mind.I waited 10 years for this!!The best song here is A.C.D.C.I'm used to Joan rerecording old Runaways songs but here she redoes an old Blackhearts song(100 Feet Away}which was better with the original lineup.Not terrible but I'd rather hear Pure & Simple for the 1000th timeFree Music Review: A Disappointment
Hit: 2 Stars
I've been a Joan Jett fan for years. This CD was a disappointment, though. It begins with a venomous Bush-bashing song, then slides into a song about bisexuality, and takes a few more turns around that subject before the end of the CD. There are a couple catchy tunes--A.C.D.C. & Androgynous--but it hardly measures up to her fine earlier work.
You can see this bargain-basement activist-consciousness manifesting on her superior prior release, Pure and Simple, which included more than a couple songs co-authored with Karen Hannah, a predicably knee-jerk radical leftist who seems to interpret everything in terms of *yawn* gender-oppression, but with the acumen of a junior high school student; and while the melodies that Jett wrote with her were catchy and enjoyable, I can't help wondering if that whole Riot Grrrl movement influenced her a bit more than was good for her, because there is a lot more of that sort of nonsense on this album. A.C.D.C. works because in it Joan Jett is being Joan Jett--saucy/vulgar, gutteral and loud. There is no faux revolutionary silliness. She simply doesn't do that well.
See product discussion at the bottom of the main page for my more comments that Amazon wouldn't let me include here.
Free Music Review: Remade, re-recorded, re-released
Hit: 2 Stars
Most of this album was released as NAKED in 2004 in Japan. A couple songs were released in 1999 on a Jett compilation cd FETISH. A few of these tracks are re-recorded songs from previous albums. There are 2 covers. Those are the best tracks...but then again, the covers usually are the best tracks on any Joan Jett album.