If you read this sidebar regularly, you'll know i'm big at pointing out derivations in the music i hear - and in that light, i am gonna have a field day with jet get born. don't get me wrong - this is a fun disc, but if ever a time machine were to be invented via music - this is it. right back to 1970. this is awesome. granted, it's been done before by the black crowes, but i think jet does it all a little better. and just to clarify - these are all original songs, but you can go through them one by one and pick out particular songs they were all derived from. let's take a look at the first few:
Last Chance - AC/DC (Highway to Hell, Long Way To The Top, hell, every ac/dc song is the same) - well it's only fitting. jet are aussies so why not try to crack the top 10 strip club playlist.
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Iggy Pop - Lust for Life, A little Zeppelin - is this on a VW commercial or something? you might actually mistake this song for "Lust For Life" in parts
Rollover D.J. - definitely some riffs stolen right from BTO's Takin' Care of Business - probably others. this song is a lotta fun.
Look What You've Done - the Beatles via Oasis. i wish i remembered calculus so i could get the significance but this is a second derivative! sounds more like oasis than the beatles, but at times really sounds like the beatles. did i just calculate the area under john lennon's acid expanded mind or something?
Get What You Need - the Kinks All the Day And All The Night. is that the name of that song? it seems too long.
Move On - Rolling Stones. Wild Horses, steel guitar and all.
Get Me Outta Here - Alice Cooper, like Love It To Death-era Alice Cooper, not School's Out-era Alice Cooper.
anyway - it goes on from there in much the same way. good straight forward rock-'n-roll. guitar, bass, drums, vocals, and an occasional moog. what else do you need? an original sound? nah....
Posted by Steve at March 29, 2004 10:05 PM | TrackBack
this reviewer and his commenting flock are sort of in your camp, sort of not: http://www.gloriousnoise.com/reviews/001170_jet_get_born.php.
I'm totally with you on the "Lust for Life" knockoff-quality of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl." As for the rest of the album, I need a few servings of deep cuts to know for myself. Listening all the way through appears to be a fairly polarizing event.
Posted by: matt at March 31, 2004 04:11 PM
I think Jet rocks! They have great ballads and so what if they sound like other bands. Jet has been inspired by different bands and has taken there inspiration and changed it into reality. They have given each inspiration their own twist. I would highly recommend Jet. They rock and seeing them in concert is a million times better. They have a lot of energy and are ready to show the world who they are!
Posted by: Michelle at June 21, 2004 08:44 PM
Oh, you missed another one. Radio Song, maybe it should have been called "Radiohead song". RH don't hold the trademark for accoustic-electric rock, but the riff's and chorus seem to be pulled off the bends. The lead guitar over the outro seems to be george harrison inspired.
Posted by: Proctor at August 5, 2004 10:40 PM
good one, Proctor!
also, the beginning of "Cold Hard Bitch" is exactly rainbow's "My Woman From Tokyo"
Posted by: steve at August 6, 2004 09:50 AM