Covering the Dave Clark Five and "Little Drummer Boy" on the same side is a great schlock yea-saying move, but a move is all it is--makes me want to hear the originals rather than play the side again. Maybe if I knew the real "Nag" I'd feel the same about that. As it is, "Nag" has a spark that's lacking in all of Jett's originals except the complementary "You're Too Possessive." And I love rock 'n roll for its spark. B+
>>129277080Joan always kind of overdid it with covers tbqh.
>>129277080Todd Rundgren did covers of hits from 1966 and '67 on the A-side of Faithful. They weren't very good even though they were note-for-note covers. He was just showing off by playing all the instruments "faithfully", but the vocals were awful. You haven't lived until you hear the whitest boy ever trying to sing Hendrix.
"Nag" doesn't work because nobody believes Jett is an oppressed housewife beaten by her alcoholic mullet husband. Unless it's really a metaphor about singers being the record label's abused slaves. Possible.
>>129277409>You haven't lived until you hear the whitest boy ever trying to sing Hendrixonly SRV ever pulled it off and made it kind of work
>>129277425>nobody believes Jett is an oppressed housewife beaten by her alcoholic mullet husbandbut that is her real origin story.
