The Hit List Songs Ranked
The Hit List is the seventh studio album and the first cover album by Joan Jett. The album was released in 1990. All of the tracks are covers of famous songs. “Dirty Deeds” was released as the first single, backed with the non-LP track “Let It Bleed”, a cover of The Rolling Stones song. It peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Love Hurts” was released as the second single, backed with “Handyman” from Jett’s 1983 album Album, but it failed to chart in the US. In foreign markets, the song was paired with “Up From the Skies”; in the UK, it was issued by Chrysalis Records with “Pretty Vacant” as its B-side. Here are all of The Hit List songs ranked.
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10. Tush
“The songs are muscular, energetic, and heavy on the rhythm section (bass and drums), giving a raw, propulsive feeling to most of the songs (e.g., “Tush” in which–unlike ZZ Top–she doesn’t distort the pronunciation of the title”
9. Love Me Two Times
” And it takes guts to cover a Doors song, but she handles “Love Me Two Times” with ease, and the low-pitched vocal is seductive! I have always liked great artists doing covers of songs not their own hits.”
8. Roadrunner USA
“On “Roadrunner USA”, a pre-punk song which the Sex Pistols covered in 1979. Joan has no problem with power ballads either. I love Joan Jett,The Hit list is a great CD to add to your Joan Jett collection. The cover songs she performs you’ll be singing in your head all day,she does a great job on all the songs.”
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7. Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
“Her cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen The Rain?” is more straight ahead and not as bombastic as Bonnie Tyler’s rendition from Faster Than The Speed Of Night.”
6. Time Has Come Today
“I must admit that I’ve never heard a good cover of the latter song. At least Joan’s take is far superior to the awful Steve Earle version. Apparently, only the Chambers Brothers can do this song right.”
5. Celluloid Heroes
“Her take on the Kinks’ ode and warning to movie stars, “Celluloid Heroes” puts in her emotional oomph in the ballad on how by virtue of being dreamers, everyone’s in show biz, or dreams of being one just by watching the silver screen, and she sings of a few stars out of the “some who succeeded, some who suffered in vain.”
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4. Pretty Vacant
“This 1990 release is all covers, and is mostly outstanding. Highlights include her ironic, aggressive rendition of “Pretty Vacant,” her voice appropriately drone-y, yet soaring over the backgrounds”
3. Love Hurts
“I had never heard joan jetts cover of love hurts before but after hearing recently in one of her old videos on tv I bought this album, great cover a soft sweet version kind of diffrent then what she usally sounds like but I love it and can lsiten again and again!”
2. Dirty Deeds
“On to The Hit List. I heard her version of AC-DC’s “Dirty Deeds” before the original so my bias is here. This is as hard-rocking as the original, with crunching guitars, and even a sax (!) in the middle.”
1. Up from the Skies
“I haven’t heard the original of Jimi Hendrix’s “Up From The Skies”, but given what I heard of Hendrix’s material, Joan seems to do a decent version. Guess I better buy Axis:Bold As Love and find out.”