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Notorious (Joan Jett album)

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Released
  
August 20, 1991

Release date
  
20 August 1991

Length
  
45:03

Label
  
Liberator Music

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Recorded
  
The Hit Factory, New York City

Notorious (1991)
  
I Love Rock 'n' Roll 92 (1992)

Artist
  
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Producers
  
Kenny Laguna, Thom Panunzio, Joan Jett, Phil Ramone

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock, Power pop

Similar
  
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts albums, Rock music albums

Joan jett and the blackhearts the only good thing you ever said was goodbye


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

Contents

"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.

The Blackhearts

  • Joan Jett - guitars, lead vocals, co-producer
  • Ricky Byrd - lead guitars, backing vocals
  • Thommy Price - drums
  • Additional musicians

  • Paul Westerberg - guitar, vocals on "Backlash"
  • Phil Feit - bass on "Backlash", "Ashes In The Wind", "Lie To Me", "Don't Surrender", "Goodbye", "Treadin' Water", "I Want You", "Wait For Me"
  • Manny Caiati - bass on "The Only Good Thing (You Ever Said Was Goodbye)", "Machismo"
  • The Uptown Horns:
  • Crispin Choe - baritone sax
  • Robert Funk - trombone
  • Arno Hecht - tenor sax
  • Paul Litteral – trumpet
  • The Federal Strings
  • Production

  • Kenny Laguna - producer on all tracks
  • Phil Ramone - producer on track 3
  • Thom Panunzio - co-producer, engineer, mixing
  • Thom Cadley, Carl Glanville, Guy Gray, John Aiosa - engineers
  • Andy Grassi, Bob Smith - assistant engineers
  • Bob Ludwig - mastering at Masterdisk, New York
  • Songs

    1Backlash3:28
    2Ashes in the Wind4:22
    3The Only Good Thing (You Ever Said Was Goodbye)4:27

    References

    Notorious (Joan Jett album) Wikipedia