Fit To Be Tied: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (Bonus Enhanced Footage)

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 1997)
• Original Release Date: November 18, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EY5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,346 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bad Reputation

2. Light of Day

3. Do You Want to Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!)

4. Roadrunner [#]

5. I Love Rock N Roll

6. Victim of Circumstance

7. Everyday People

8. I Hate Myself For Loving You [#]

9. Crimson and Clover

10. Fake Friends

11. Make Believe

12. Cherry Bomb

13. Little Liar [Live][#]

14. World of Denial [#]

15. Love Is All Around (Theme)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jett Blasts Off On Outstanding Hits Collection, June 8, 2000

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Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fit To Be Tied: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (Bonus Enhanced Footage) (Audio CD)

As "Fit To Be Tied" proves clearly, Joan Jett isamong the most quietly influential rockers, male or female, of thelast 20 years. What surprises is how, despite looking and dressing the punk part, how traditional her rock and roll was. She grabbed equally from Darlene Love, the Beach Boys, The Who, and Iggy Pop (all are thanked in the liner notes, along with Charles Bronson and the Baltimore Orioles) and created, with collaborator Kenny Laguna, a sound identitified only with her. Jett had song sense to spare. Her vocal on "Crimson and Clover" (she doesn't change the gender protagonist) is true to Tommy James' original but adds excitement and anticipation, paying off in the grinding rock that follows. Her versions of Sly Stone's "Everyday People" and Wind's obscure 1969 hit "Make Believe" add some guitar sting to what were pure pop hits. Her version of "Cherry Bomb," originally done with her band the Runaways, actually outslaps the original. The only trouble with her redoing the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" theme is that it's too short. Speaking of originals, her chart anthems are here too: "Do You Wanna Touch Me," 1982's #1 "I Love Rock n' Roll," the acidic, excellent "Fake Friends," even Bruce Springsteen's "Light Of Day" (Scott Litt's production makes that one of the less effective tracks.) "Fit To Be Tied" is essential listening from a rock and roll survivor who loves,lives and breathes the music. (It can also be interesting viewing; its an enhanced CD that shows a Jett picture collage and links to her Web site.)

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ear Bleeding Fun, April 9, 2001

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suzy murray - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fit To Be Tied: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (Bonus Enhanced Footage) (Audio CD)

The liner notes proclaim Joan Jett to be "the female Chuck Berry." True in one sense, but overall, I reject the comparison because Joan Jett stands on her own. Joan Jett's songs are percussion driven; the hard driving drums set the beat and the guitars fall fast into line, so in one sense, most of her songs are alike. "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock & Roll," "Roadrunner," and "I Hate Myself For Loving You" all showcase the intense drums and the hard edge in Joan Jett's vocals. Critics might argue Joan Jett is in this respect a one trick pony, but if she is, what a trick it is, and a trick she does so well. The selection on this CD does, however, give some variety. Joan Jett's version of "Crimson & Clover" is a livlier version of the original, and her staying true to the gender pronouns gives the song a naughty edge.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She Loves Rock and Roll -- really!, September 28, 2000

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B. Lynch "the_onewhoknows" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fit To Be Tied: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (Bonus Enhanced Footage) (Audio CD)

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts have to be one of the best kept secrets in rock music. This selection has their best known songs, including their only real "hit", I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL, from way back in 1982. If you've never heard the songs here, consider yourself deprived.

A marvelously insouciant set, starting with "Bad Reputation". At the time it was written, Joan Jett was fresh out of The Runaways -- no contest here, they were [and remain] the all time best 'chick band' in rock history. And it gets better from there; with killer versions of "RoadRunner" (the song by The Modern Lovers, not the old Junior Walker tune of the same name), and "Cherry Bomb" [a Runaways tune], along with some movie songs; "Light of Day" and "Love Is all Around". In between, there are some really great (but rarely-heard-on-radio) songs by The Blackhearts, including "I hate Myself For Loving You", and of course "I Love Rock and Roll".

After listening to this CD, it ooccured to me that it really belongs on a 100-best-of-all-time list (where it could displace one of the obvious-filler CD's that's usually put on such lists).

Dave Marsh's liner notes got it right: Joan Jett is the female Chuck Berry.