Joan Jett & The Blackhearts "Up Your Alley (USA, CBS-Blackheart, ZK 44146)"

Up Your Alley is the sixth studio album by American rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released on May 2, 1988 by Blackheart Records and CBS Records in the United States, and by Polydor Records in Europe and Japan, a year and a half after their previous album Good Music (1986). This album contains the single "I Hate Myself for Loving You", which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and had been used as the theme song for Sunday Night Football NFL games in America (with altered lyrics, by two singers) during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. The follow-up single "Little Liar" continued Jett's chart success, peaking at No. 19 on the Hot 100 in late 1988/early 1989.

Up Your Alley peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has since been certified Platinum.

Former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor played the guitar solo on "I Hate Myself for Loving You".

"I Hate Myself for Loving You" was released as the first single, backed with a live version of the Jett composition "Love Is Pain" (the original version of which appears on 1981's I Love Rock 'n Roll). "Little Liar" was the second single, backed with an obscure Jett–Laguna composition "What Can I Do for You", which had been recorded for a movie Jett was set to make in 1979 that was never completed. The song eventually turned up again on the Jett fan-club only CD 1979. For Record Store Day in 2015, the track was included on the limited edition (4000 split color vinyl) LP The First Sessions documenting the first several songs Jett wrote with Kenny Laguna, her newly acquired producer.

Two music videos were shot for "Little Liar", the first, a concept video, feature a slightly confusing storyline with two Jetts (one in white, one in black) interacting. After seeing the result of the first "Little Liar" video, Jett was unhappy with the silliness and visual translation so immediately shot a new live video (synced with the studio version of the song) for this track. The new video captured a more authentic feel with raw live shots combined with cutaways and studio shot closeups of Jett. It was a more stylized live video with Ziggy Stardust-like artistic flourishes.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were nominated for a Grammy Award in 1988 for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "I Hate Myself for Loving You".

Track listing

1. "I Hate Myself for Loving You" Joan Jett/Desmond Child   4:07
2. "Ridin' with James Dean"   Jett/Ricky Byrd/Ric Browde   3:17
3. "Little Liar"  Jett/Child   4:01
4. "Tulane" (Chuck Berry cover) Chuck Berry 2:54
5. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (the Stooges cover)   James Osterberg Jr./Dave Alexander/Ron Asheton/Scott Asheton    5:12
6. "I Still Dream About You" JettByrd/Gary Rottger   3:23
7. "You Want In, I Want Out"    Jett/Child   4:15
8. "Just Like in the Movies"   Jett/Browde/Byrd/Kenny Laguna   3:05
9. "Desire" Jett/Diane Warren/Laguna   3:53
10. "Back It Up"  Jett/Byrd/Browde   3:31
11. "Play That Song Again"    Jett/Byrd/Frank Carillo   3:42

Total length: 41:20

Recording information:

Kenny Laguna – production on all tracks

Ric Browde – production on tracks 2, 4–6, 8–11

Desmond Child – production on tracks 1 and 3

Thom Panunzio – associate producer; engineering; mixing

Jay Healy – engineer; mixer on track 5

Arthur Payson – engineer

James A. Ball – engineer

John Aiosa – engineer

Andrew Spigleman – assistant engineer

David Cook – assistant engineer

Rich Travali – assistant engineer

Roger Talkov – assistant engineer

Scott Forman – assistant engineer

Teddy Trewhella – assistant engineer

Thom Cadley – assistant engineer

Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk, New York

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "Greatest Hits"

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the rock group Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, released March 9, 2010 through Jett's label Blackheart Records. It includes two discs of 21 songs in total and features Joan's three songs that charted in the US top ten: "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "Crimson and Clover", and "I Hate Myself for Loving You". In 2013, the album was released in Australia featuring two new songs ("TMI" and "Reality Mentality") added to the end of the second disc, which were later included on Unvarnished. A New Version of "I Love Playin With Fire" was the Japanese bonus track.

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "Sinner"

Sinner is the eleventh studio album by the American hard rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released June 13, 2006, by Blackheart Records Group. While most of the contents previously appeared on the Japan-only release Naked (2004), some in different mixes, it is her first record of new material released in the United States since Pure and Simple in 1994. Singles released include "A.C.D.C." (originally by Sweet) and "Riddles" (Jett's first-ever political song), which is a new version of "Right in the Middle" from Naked with different lyrics.

An edited "clean" version was also released. The CD also includes enhanced content, consisting of a lyrics sheet (in PDF format) and a video of the recording of "A.C.D.C.".

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "Fit To Be Tied"

Fit to Be Tied is a compilation CD released by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. The collection was released in the United States in 1997. It was remastered and reissued in 2001 with slightly different artwork. Rather than secure the rights to the original versions of "I Hate Myself for Loving You" and "Little Liar" from CBS, Jett's label included a demo version and live recording of those songs, respectively.

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "Pure And Simple"

Pure and Simple is the ninth studio album by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released in 1994.

Pure and Simple was the first album to feature a new line up of Blackheart band members since the departure of longtime guitarist Ricky Byrd and bassist Kasim Sulton after the release of Jett's last album, Notorious. This new line up consisted of legendary bassist Kenny Aaronson and lead guitarist Tony "Bruno" Rey. Pure and Simple would be the last Joan Jett & the Blackhearts release until 2006's Sinner. In 1995, both Aaronson and Rey went on to other projects. Aaronson would eventually become a member of the reunited New York Dolls – coincidentally taking over for bassist Sami Yaffa, his replacement in the Blackhearts and Rey became the musical director for Enrique Iglesias and pop sensation Rihanna.

"Hostility" and "World of Denial" are added on the Japanese pressings. The Japanese cover differs from regular cover. "Get Off the Cross" was also recorded during these sessions. Concurrently released in the US on vinyl LP, CD, and cassette, all versions varying slightly. The record album came with a hype sticker that read "All Rock. No Ballads" and features the track "Here to Stay" co-written by Jett and Kat Bjelland. A few seconds of the song are also heard on the cassette at the very end of Side One before fading out. Jett independently put out "Spinster" as a 7-inch blue vinyl single in the US with a picture sleeve. The B-sides were "Go Home" and "Hostility". The track "World of Denial" was eventually released in the US on Jett's greatest hits album Fit to Be Tied.

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "Notorious"

Notorious is the eighth studio album by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. The album was released in 1991.

"Backlash" was the label's first choice for a single, but the resulting one-track CD was only available as a promotional item sent to DJs. "Don't Surrender" was released in the US as a CD single accompanied by a remix ("The Most Excellent Mix") and the non-LP track "Misunderstood". "Wait for Me", a song Jett wrote when she was just 16, was a cover of The Runaways' version from their 1977 album Waitin' for the Night. "I Want You" was a revised version of a song from 1979 that Jett and Kenny Laguna had written for a movie she was set to star in. The original lyrics (which can be heard on the fan-club only CD 1979) were nihilistic and raw, whereas the version heard on Notorious is politically correct.

Several editions of the album feature "Machismo" before "Goodbye", but this is the only difference.

"I Want You", as well as other songs by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, was featured in Floria Sigismondi's 2010 biopic film The Runaways, but they were not included on the soundtrack album of the film.

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "The Hit List"

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 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, backed with "Up from the Skies". "Love Hurts" was re-issued in the UK by Chrysalis Records with "Pretty Vacant" as B-side.

Joan Jett And The Blackhearts "Good Music"

Good Music is the fifth studio album by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released in 1986. The album's working title was Contact, after the final song off the album (hence the contact sheet of photographs on the cover), but it was changed to Good Music in its final stages.

"Fantasy" was also recorded for this album but was instead featured as the non-LP B-side to the "Good Music" single. It also appeared on Jett's odds-and-sods album, Flashback.

The song "This Means War" also appeared on the concurrently released soundtrack to Joan Jett's debut movie Light of Day.

A video was shot for the shortened single mix of "Good Music", following Joan Jett around New York City. Jett is seen in her limo throwing 'bad music' tapes out the window, as well as playing guitar in her loft and even washing her hair in the shower. It climaxed with an in-concert appearance with her band at CBGB, however the video was rarely played on MTV.