Joan Jett & The BlackheartsBest Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Albums Ranked
6.3
Avg Score
6
Opinions
10
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Joan Jett & The Blackhearts's catalog across 10 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 6.3/10. The top-rated Joan Jett & The Blackhearts album is Changeup (2022) with a 8.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Album (Expanded Edition) and Notorious. The discography on Wavelength spans 1983 to 2022.
Changeup
“The last decade or so has done wonders for Joan Jett‘s (not so) Bad Reputation. First Kristen Stewart played her in 2010’s The Runaways, a rollicking biopic about the pioneering all-female band she co-founded as a teenager. Then in 2015, a year after she sang ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with the surviving members of Nirvana at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame reunion, she too was inducted by Miley Cyr”
Album (Expanded Edition)
“It’s no surprise that Album leads off with the biting "Fake Friends," a rant against the hangers-on who invariably accompany fame, nor that the most insistent line in "The French Song" is the repeated phrase "I am what I am." After all, you don’t get hurtled from cult status to the top of the charts […]”
Notorious
“Joan Jett knows the wisdom of the old adage "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it." Don’t let the soft-focus Joan-as-mysterioso-fashion-model album cover fool you — Notorious is in no way a dilution of the Blackhearts’ down-and-dirty formula. Okay, there are a couple of ballads, but for the most part Notorious is what we’ve come […]”
Pure and Simple
“What’s great about Joan Jett is her refusal to accept things that just plain suck. You can hear it in past songs like "Fake Friends," about having to dump the phonies who glom onto you after you’ve made it big, and "MCA," a retooled version of the Sex Pistols’ "EMI" that flips the bird to […]”
Up Your Alley
“Though coarse stomps like "Bad Reputation" and "Cherry Bomb" have established Joan Jett as an eternal teen rebel who loves rock & roll for its simple beat and insolent stance, she has grown into a multidimensional songwriter. Like the masters she honors in her music, Jett has lasted long enough to contribute to rock history, […]”
The Hit List
“The Hit List, Joan Jett’s new album of covers, doesn’t quite connect. As Jett’s equivalent of Bowie’s Pin Ups or UB40’s Labour of Love, it plays like a classic-rock radio station that has been programmed by chance — where the bad-boy bluster of AC/DC’s "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" leads incongruously into the heartache and […]”
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