BAD COVER VERSION 056: SAW HIM/HER STANDING THERE BY THE RECORD MACHINE

This is a series about artists doing cover songs that may or may not be better than the originals to the point of being definitive. 

This episode concerns Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock N Roll”.

So you may be thinking I’ll be posting about some of the awful cover versions that have emerged in recent years by the likes of (say) Britney Spears or Hannah Montana or that horrible horrible dance version. 

You’d be wrong.

Because, as it turns out, Joan Jett’s version is the cover version.

THIS is the original version, from a band called The Arrows, who were a TV rock band in the UK in the late 70s.

FUN FACT: 24 hours ago, I had no idea this even existed. I knew Jett didn’t write the song, but I thought it was a song that maybe some people she knew wrote and gave to her to use or something.

My word. The things you learn on Facebook.

Meanwhile, here’s Jett’s version for reference/entertainment purposes.

Put another dime in the jukebox,

This is dF

T.REX INVENTED REAL PUNK

Because Marc Bolan said so.



[Via Suicide Watch]

Like a heart attack,

This is dF

LADIES LOVE A MAN WITH A PIPE AND A SHOTGUN

There’s also a sniper joke here somewhere.



[Via Hollyhocks And Tulips]

Light my fire,

This is dF