| "I Hate Myself for Loving You" | ||||
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| Single by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts | ||||
| from the album Up Your Alley | ||||
| B-side | "Love Is a Pain" (live) "I Can't Control Myself" (non-album track) | |||
| Released | June 1988 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Blackheart | |||
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"I Hate Myself for Loving You" is a song by American rock band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Up Your Alley (1988). The song reached number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100, Jett's third and last single to reach the top 10, and was her first since "Crimson and Clover" in 1982. The song spent six weeks longer on the charts than did the group's biggest hit, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" (which was on the chart for 20 weeks). On September 10, 2011, the single reached number 39 on the US Rock Digital Songs chart.[2]
Former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor played the guitar solo in the song.[3] One of the backing vocalists featured on the Up Your Alley album was Louie Merlino, later the founder of the band Beggars & Thieves.
A cover of The Troggs' song "I Can't Control Myself" was featured as a B-side on the CD single, a non-album track.[4]
- ^ Deusner, Stephen (February 18, 2017). "We're all livin' on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool '80s rockers became a classic". Salon. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ "Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Chart History (Rock Digital Song Sales)". Billboard. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ Wissmuller, Christian (Oct/Nov 2007) "Mick Taylor: Soul Survivor". Jazzed Magazine.
- ^ "Joan Jett And The Blackhearts* - I Hate Myself For Loving You". Discogs. Retrieved May 28, 2020.