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Posted: 29-08-2005, 01:45
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Jet: Nic Chester (vocals, guitar); Cameron Muncey (guitar, background vocals); Mark Wilson (harmonica, piano, bass, background vocals); Chris Chester (drums, background vocals). Additional personnel: Billy Preston (keyboards). Debut album from Melbourne Australian quartet, produced by Dave Sardy. Elektra. 2003. Whenever the proverbial Next Big Thing rolls around, it usually takes a few different bands to push the style into the mainstream. With grunge, Nirvana lit the spark, but it was Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots who convinced everyone the Seattle sound was no fluke. In the case of the New Rock phenomenon, the Strokes brought style and the White Stripes added artiness, but with GET BORN, Jet put all the pieces together. Perhaps the first band of the genre to completely absorb and effectively reconfigure classic rock & roll influences without a trace of winking irony, Jet not only swaggers like the Stones and pouts like Iggy Pop, but injects sorely needed doses of romanticism and variety into a style that otherwise often seems perilously close to oldies revivalism. The most immediate difference between the Australian foursome and their shaggy-haired brethren is the band's talent for soaring sad songs. On the gorgeous "Look What You've Done" and "Radio Song," Jet proves that trashy guitars and neo-garage sneering are not the only way to rock, in the process satisfying both fans of piano-driven ballads and the much edgier NYC sound. notes, cduniverse. 1. Last Chance 2. Are You Gonna Be My Girl 3. Rollover D.J. 4. Look What You've Done 5. Get What You Need 6. Move On 7. Radio Song 8. Get Me Outta Here 9. Cold Hard Bitch 10. Come Around Again 11. Take It or Leave It 12. Lazy Gun 13. Timothy 14. Sgt. Major |
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Posted: 29-08-2005, 01:48
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Jet's Get Born is a seriously rocking album. It comes off as a mix between the White Stripes' bluesy insouciance and AC/DC's cockeyed swagger. Toss in some New York Dolls strut, maybe some of Sweet's jailbait philosophizing, definitely some of Oasis' look-at-me attitude, some of the Verve's sense of grandeur, and you've got something to impress your friends as you blast it out of your car speakers on a Friday night. There are a lot of other bands traveling a similar path these days and it is hard to explain why this record works so well when so many others sound weak and studied. Maybe it is because they hail from the no-nonsense Australian rock tradition. Maybe it is the tough, but clean, production by Dave Sardy. Most likely it is the songs. They are catchy with singalong choruses, with lots of "hey"s and hand claps and glam stomp beats. "Rollover D.J.," "Get What You Need," and "Get Me Outta Here" are tight, raw, and flashy rockers. Nic Cester has a perfect rock voice: tough and gritty, but not screechy. He croons pretty well, too, as he shows on the wonderfully epic "Champagne Supernova"-styled ballad "Radio Song." It is a sure sign that you are dealing with a band that has it all together when the ballads are as good as the rockers. "Look What You've Done" is a piano-based weeper that only needs some swelling strings to launch it into Guns N' Roses territory, "Move On" is an early-'70s Stones country ballad with some fine slide work. The only track that flat out stinks is the silly and mean-spirited "Cold Hard Bitch," which takes an ill-advised (and near fatal) trip down Nazareth lane and leaves the listener with a foul taste in their mouth. The placement of Jet's sweetest ballad right after it is the only thing that saves the album. And it is an album worth saving. Get Born is a very promising debut by a band that steals from all the right places, rocks non-ironically -- even epically at times -- and sounds great blasting out of a car or on headphones. Tim Sendra, allmusic.
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