Joan Jett II

"Also gone was the traditional black lace catsuit. It was replaced by a Latex tank top which she graciously lifted to expose her body jewelry. In the nine years I've been going to her concerts, this was the first one I've seen without the catsuit. The tank top did allow us to see her several tattoos, including one on the small of her back and one on the back of her neck."

"It's only recently that Joan Jett has received her due as a seminal figure, an uncompromising female rocker whose first allegiance is to rock & roll rather than feminist dogma. First as the spiritual center of ahead-of-their-time teen femme-rockers The Runaways' and subsequently on her own, Jett has stayed true to her no-nonsense muse, and in the process has become an essential role model for a new generation of female musicians. This 15-song best-of contains such essential slabs of Jett-powered rock as "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," "Bad Reputation," "I Hate Myself for Loving You," "Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!)," and her reworking of her old Runaways anthem "Cherry Bomb.""