The Hit List (Joan Jett album)
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The Hit List is a cover album
by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (but marked as Joan Jett alone). The album was released in 1990. All of the tracks are covers of famous songs.
The album was performed by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and friends: Joan Jett, Ricky Byrd, Kasim Sulton
, Thommy Price
, Sandy Gennaro, Ray Davies
(The Kinks), Ronnie Lawson, Bashiri Johnson, Chuck Kentis, Darlene Love
, Peppy Castro, Patricia Curry, The Uptown Horns: Arno Hecht, Crispin Cioe, Robert Funk & Paul Litteral and Lagunatic
"Dirty Deeds" was released as a 7-inch vinyl single and also cassette-single, backed with the non-LP track "Let It Bleed", a cover of the Rolling Stones song.
"Love Hurts" was released as the second single (cassette only), featuring "Handyman" on the reverse side (the song is a Jett/Laguna composition and originally appeared on 1983's "Album").
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" was released as a single in South America and Europe, where it saw great success. It was backed with "Up From the Skies".
Cover Album
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by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (but marked as Joan Jett alone). The album was released in 1990. All of the tracks are covers of famous songs.
Track listing
- "Dirty Deeds" (shortened title of "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt CheapDirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (song)"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the title track and first track of their album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, released in September 1976, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott....
") (AC/DCAC/DCAC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
, 1976) – 3:18 - "Love HurtsLove Hurts"Love Hurts" is the name of a song, written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top 5 hit in 1975 by Jim Capaldi.The song was introduced...
" (The Everly BrothersThe Everly BrothersThe Everly Brothers are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing...
, 1960) – 3:47 - "Pretty VacantPretty Vacant"Pretty Vacant" is a song by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols. It was released on 1 July 1977 as the third single from their only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. The song marked the band's only appearance on the British music show Top of the Pops...
" (Sex PistolsSex PistolsThe Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
, 1977) – 3:24 - "Celluloid HeroesCelluloid Heroes"Celluloid Heroes" is a song performed by The Kinks and written by their lead vocalist and principal songwriter, Ray Davies. It debuted on their 1972 album Everybody's in Show-Biz.-Lyrical themes:...
" (The KinksThe KinksThe Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...
, 1972) – 5:28 - "TushTush (song)"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album Fandango!. It reached number 20 on the pop chart.The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning...
" (ZZ TopZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
, 1975) – 2:23 - "Time Has Come TodayTime Has Come Today"Time Has Come Today" is a song recorded by The Chambers Brothers in 1966. It was then released on album in November 1967, and it spent five weeks at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968....
" (The Chambers BrothersThe Chambers BrothersThe Chambers Brothers is a soul-music group, best known for its 1968 hit record, the 11-minute long song "Time Has Come Today". The group was part of the wave of new music that integrated American blues and gospel traditions with modern psychedelic and rock elements, spawning a heady mix...
, 1968) – 4:13 - "Up From the SkiesUp from the Skies"Up from the Skies" is a song by English/American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1967 second album Axis: Bold as Love. Written by lead vocalist and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the song details the experience of a specimen of extraterrestrial life returning to Earth...
" (The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceThe Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...
, 1967) – 3:01 - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" is a song written by John Fogerty and released in 1970 on the album Pendulum by American roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number one on the RPM 100 national album chart in March 1971. In the U.S., it peaked at...
" (Creedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
, 1970) – 3:33 - "Love Me Two TimesLove Me Two Times"Love Me Two Times" is a song by The Doors. It was written by the band and first appeared on the 1967 album Strange Days. It was released as the second single from that album, and reached #25 on the charts in the US....
" (The DoorsThe DoorsThe Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
, 1967) – 3:07 - "Roadrunner USARoadrunner (Jonathan Richman song)"Roadrunner" is a song written by Jonathan Richman and recorded in various versions by Richman and his band, in most cases credited as The Modern Lovers.Critic Greil Marcus described it as "the most obvious song in the world, and the strangest"...
" (1990 Version) (The Modern LoversThe Modern LoversThe Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s. The original band existed from 1970–74 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later. It featured Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson and keyboardist Jerry Harrison...
, 1972) – 3:34
The album was performed by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and friends: Joan Jett, Ricky Byrd, Kasim Sulton
Kasim Sulton
Kasim Sulton is an American bass guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Best known for his work with Utopia, Sulton sang lead on 1980's "Set Me Free," Utopia's only top 40 hit in the United States...
, Thommy Price
Thommy Price
Thommy Price is a rock musician from Brooklyn, New York. He's played drums in numerous bands, including Billy Idol, Blue Öyster Cult, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and is an in-demand session drummer.-History:...
, Sandy Gennaro, Ray Davies
Ray Davies
Ray Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave...
(The Kinks), Ronnie Lawson, Bashiri Johnson, Chuck Kentis, Darlene Love
Darlene Love
Darlene Love is an American popular music singer and actress. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He's a Rebel," a #1 American single in 1962, and was part of the Phil Spector stable that produced a celebrated Christmas album in 1963....
, Peppy Castro, Patricia Curry, The Uptown Horns: Arno Hecht, Crispin Cioe, Robert Funk & Paul Litteral and Lagunatic
"Dirty Deeds" was released as a 7-inch vinyl single and also cassette-single, backed with the non-LP track "Let It Bleed", a cover of the Rolling Stones song.
"Love Hurts" was released as the second single (cassette only), featuring "Handyman" on the reverse side (the song is a Jett/Laguna composition and originally appeared on 1983's "Album").
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" was released as a single in South America and Europe, where it saw great success. It was backed with "Up From the Skies".