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Expired Lyrics: Joan Jett

"Put another dime in the jukebox, baby"

--Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll' (1982)

You might be able to love rock 'n' roll for a dime, but hearing it on a jukebox will likely cost you a dollar.

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FormerFOPA

I think it a quaint revelation that the author of this article must not be old enough to know of the irrelevance to Joan Jett's dime-in-a-jukebox lyric: Jukes costs more than that by then anyway,
(2 selections/quarter in 1982)!

I'm sure she knew but I don't think she cared....she needed a one-syllable word and the line still worked anyway (it STILL works!). . .Not that I give a rats posterior about the song OR Joan Jett.

January 27 2010 at 12:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Isabella

LUV JOAN JET!!!! SHE ROCKS THE HOUSE!!!!! BEST ROCKER OF ALL TIME! THIS GIRL CAN SING, BABY!!!!!!!!!!

December 11 2009 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jay

You could also include The Turtles' "Happy Together." The line "Call me up, invest a dime" is doubly outdated. Pay phones are a dying species, and if you find one, you have to pay a quarter or fifty cents to make a call. It's still a fun song, though.

November 30 2009 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ginsberg

Favorite Joan Jett quote of ALL time: "Fuck you Buffalo, I'm never comin' back here again!"

October 26 2009 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ju42anna

lmfao whats that from???

October 29 2009 at 10:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Novakengood

Maybe I'm getting old, but I seem to remember that the sound from jukeboxes was much better than the music I hear from my Ipod.

October 19 2009 at 9:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Carly

Wait, not only does music now cost $1.29, but jukeboxes have become obsolete. So maybe Joan Jett should say

"I Love Rock n Roll, so give another dollar to the DJ baby!"

September 20 2009 at 3:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cassie

Go to Johnny Rockets in Syracuse, NY. Jukebox still costs 5 cents.

August 18 2009 at 10:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

I thought it was a syllable thing...I mean "put another quarter in the jukebox, baby" would have sounded kinda wrong.

August 18 2009 at 7:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Margali

If you want "expired lyrics", I don't think it gets any more expired than The Who's "Talkin' 'bout My Generation" with that wonderful line "Hope I die before I get old." Um, lads, it's too late for that . . .

August 14 2009 at 10:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Rocolil

Well apart from Keith Moon who was only 32 when he crashed and burned.

November 28 2009 at 6:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
allenschroeder3

Lets go way back. How about Eartha Kitt wanting "Santa Baby" to bring her a "'54 convertable too, light blue"!

August 14 2009 at 9:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply