Malcolm Young is my idol. Still, the original doesn’t have the empowerment vibe Joan’s does. When it came out, not many women would sing such a forward song for being judged. Same song, two meanings, I like both for different reasons
It’s kinda like Priests cover of Baez’s Diamonds and Rust. Baez is the better song, but Priest was cutting ground for a metal band expressing vulnerability
I can’t believe I have never seen this until I stumbled on it last night.
I love Echoes and 2001 (the books at least)
Long but it blew me away
Good to see that punk still lives
Covering The Blue Hearts, another Japanese punk band.
i wonder if anyone realizes in the 60’s and 70’s all you had to do was turn on the radio and you would hear great song after great song. no playlists.
Your town had better radio stations than mine did 
Also, now if you want to find a relatively obscure track, you just search it and boom, it’s usually there. Back then, it could take months (if you were lucky) to find it, in some cases.
Not even that long ago, mid-2000s, I spent two years looking for something that was pretty hard to find, at least in the format I wanted. Today it takes seconds to turn up the same thing in various formats.
There is no possible better choice of a band to cover this song.
That whole cover album is utterly great, if you don’t own it. Worth it for Sonic Youth’s cover of Superstar alone.
Love it all!
But Shoen Knife is worth the price of admission alone.
Their covers are always always good.
too bad she was such a one hit wonder, but what a hit. when john lennon heard i can’t stand the rain, he famously said it was the best song ever.
Here is one that I just didn’t want to enjoy but couldn’t turn it off
Cheers
Good Lord, these guys are great. The bass lines are awesome!