Pure & Simple

After all the pop success that the '80s brought, this long-ago Runaway returned to her tough-as-nails rock 'n' roll roots on this 1994 LP. Admirers from Bikini Kill and L7 join in as she does Spinster; Activity GRRRL; You Got a Problem; Go Home; Eye to Eye , and more great stuff. Out of print for over a decade!

Dependably enough, she still loves rock & roll. But what makes this Jett's ripest outing in years is her timely and well-deserved status as Original Riot Grrrl. Rather than adopting the noisecore assault of Babes In Toyland et al., she sticks to a rockin' pop-punk classicism that still echoes with her earliest influences, Suzi Quatro and T Rex. The spotlight will rightly fall on the four tunes written with Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna (check "Go Home" and the withering "Spinster"), but the Jim Vallance-cowritten "Eye to Eye" and "Insecure" are also worthy. --Jeff Bateman