Up Your Alley (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Up Your Alley
Type = Album
Artist = Joan Jett and the Blackhearts


Released = 1988
Recorded =
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 41:20
Label = Blackheart
Producer = Kenny Laguna, Ric Browde, Desmond Child, Thom Panunzio
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g9fpxq95ld0e link]
*Rolling Stone Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/129789/review/5940973?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link] |
Last album = "Good Music"
(1986)
This album = "Up Your Alley"
(1988)
Next album = "The Hit List"
(1990)

"Up Your Alley" was a 1988 studio album by the American hard rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. This album contains the single "I Hate Myself for Loving You", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100,citation
url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3007392&cdi=6364653&cid=06%2F25%2F1988
title="I Hate Myself for Loving You" at the "Billboard Hot 100"] and had been used as the theme song for Sunday Night Football NFL games in America (with altered lyrics, by two singers) during the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

"Up Your Alley" peaked at #19 on the "Billboard" 200 album charts. [citation
url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=305&cfgn=Albums&cfn=The+Billboard+200&ci=3007949&cdi=6395079&cid=12%2F03%2F1988
title="Up Your Alley" at the "The Billboard 200"]

Track listing

#"I Hate Myself for Loving You" (Jett, Desmond Child) – 4:07
#"Ridin' with James Dean" (Jett, Ric Browde, Ricky Byrd) – 3:17
#"Little Liar" (Jett, Desmond Child) – 4:01
#"Tulane" (Chuck Berry) – 2:54
#"I Wanna Be Your Dog" (Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Iggy Pop) – 5:12
#"I Still Dream About You" (Jett, Ricky Byrd, Gary Rottger) – 3:23
#"You Want In, I Want Out" (Jett, Desmond Child) – 4:15
#"Just Like in the Movies" (Jett, Ric Browde, Ricky Byrd, Kenny Laguna) - 3:05
#"Desire" (Jett, Kenny Laguna, Diane Warren) – 3:53
#"Back It Up" (Jett, Ric Browde, Ricky Byrd) – 3:31
#"Play That Song Again" (Jett, Ricky Byrd, Frank Carillo) - 3:42

References