Battle of the glamstomp queens: Joan Jett vs Suzi Quatro

hello michael b!

i... don't know

watched the JJ/Bad Reputation docu last night that was recently aired on the Sky Arts channel in the UK.
the usual stuff for first 45 mins re the Runaways of course, the struggle re solo career, then The Big Hit,
after which they hardly touched on anything re her own music,
just her involvement with the riot grrrrrl scene (which to be fair i had no idea about).
way too many vox pops from people who i have absolutely no interest in.
such a shame.
the only thing that did come across well is the insanely close relationship between JJ and her manager, Kenny Laguna.
such a shame as even the late era live footage of her middle of the afternoon slots on the Warped Tours looked amazing.
as someone pointed out on IMDB : i still know absolutely nothing about JJ.
but i suspect that's probably how she wanted it.

i only got suzi qs debut which is the one that has the classic early stuff on - loving what i have heard.

very rarely see any joan jett albums on cds in the racks these days.

― mark e, Thursday, February 25, 2016 2:21 PM (seven years ago)

to answer my previous : years of patience has paid off.
a charity shop that is normally full of the usual gubbins today had 2006 cd reissues of : bad reputation, i love rock-n-roll, album, glorious results of a misspent youth,
along with her 2013 album, unvarnished.
now i get all the posts re her cover versions etc.
not that i am complaining.

now i refuse to choose as i love both as much as each other.