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Certain Songs #791: Joan Jett – “Bad Reputation”

February 15, 2017 by Jim Connelly

Album: Bad Reputation
Year: 1980

When Tim & I saw Joan Jett & The Blackhearts at the Warnors Theatre in May of 1982, “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” had just finished its seven-week run as the number 1 song on the Billboard chart (where it had replaced “Centerfold,” so as you can imagine, there was a shitton of heat around her at that time.

What I remember mostly about it was that the crowd was incredibly young and female: this was clearly tons of teenage girls first concert, and I hope a lot of them were inspired to pick up guitars (or whatever) and start bashing out their own versions of the straighforward rock ‘n’ roll that was Jett’s forte.

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Certain Songs #472: Freedy Johnston – “Bad Reputation”

March 6, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Freedy johnston this perfect world Album: This Perfect World
Year: 1994

Because of the buzz created by the stellar Can You Fly, Freedy Johnston got signed to WEA and went into the studio with Butch Vig to record the follow-up, 1994’s only slightly less stellar This Perfect World.

The muscle that Vig added to his sound was instantly recognizable from the lead track, the minor minor hit “Bad Reputation,” which is probably the only Freedy Johnston song that non-fans might have heard.

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