Born To Be Bad (1991)

"This Runaways "first ever recording after five days of being a band' is actually Joan Jett, Micki Steele, and Sandy West as a power trio, produced and directed by Kim Fowley. It truly is an historical document, despite Fowley's penchant for extreme hype -- his name is splashed everywhere. The gals are mentioned once on the inside back cover. Perhaps that means we can blame Fowley for the dreadful sound on these tapes - Phil Spector he ain't, although he seems to want his name posted more than the creator of "Be My Baby." The former producer of Helen Reddy (credit the man with getting Reddy her last Top 20 hit, "You're My World," in 1977, two years after this) is in his element here, and though these tapes are not as appealing as when Dinky Dawson engineered Fowley's work with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, he does get these young gals to give a go at Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing," as well as an almost carbon copy of Mitch Ryder's version of Lou Reed's chestnut "Rock 'n' Roll."" (Joe Viglione, Allmusic)

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