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Get Born [Jet (Hard Rock)] [CD] [1 disc] [075596295628]

Jet (Hard Rock)
1 disc

1. Last Chance
2. Are You Gonna Be My Girl
3. Rollover DJ
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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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 59629562
Credits

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This is a Hyper CD which cotains regular audio tracks and also provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser.
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).
Argentine import version, includes a bonus track.
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.
Critic Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (10/17/03, p.82) - "...The overall aesthetic is young, loud, and snotty....Aw, yeah--they're dirty, sweet, and they're our boys." - Rating: B+
Q (10/03, p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Drum-spattered romps like 'Roll Over DJ' and 'Take It Or Leave It' have genuine flames in their guts....There's a raw urgency to the album..."