Jet get owned

Warning: This article is posted with even more self praise than usual. Beware!

Soul Rock is a genre I’ve come to define for my own listening pleasure. Artists I’ve listed in this grouping include Powderfinger, Springbok Nude Girls, Just Jinjer, The Doors, Ezio, Radiohead, The Killers, Counting Crows, Gomez…

By placing songs, artists & albums in this genre I’m assured that my iPod will never again mistakenly cue music born solely out of a commercially motivated derivative of previous creative milestones set by legendary artists whose wonderful music is today recycled into digestible portions of jingle priced rock.

Artists in my Soul Rock genre make music from the pit of their stomach because of a natural compulsion to do so and I’d listen to the sound of that digestion any day over bands like Jet. Soul Rockers attempt to make unique experiences of their music and even when uniqueness is not ultimately achieved it certainly doesn’t parade itself so. They reference their inspirations by means of an om-age in the album notes, not by blatantly ripping off riffs and beats from the source and dressing up like legends gone by. Dianna Ross, Iggy Pop, The Beatles, Oasis, AC DC have all fallen prey to the mockery that is Jet and everyday Australians couldn’t care loss so long as they get to clap their hands and say yeah!

I have flaunted my disregard for their brand of rejuvenated rock for many years now and it pains me more to say that I’m often caught humming their tunes but that’s what I hate about them so much! I made a bold prediction to a friend a few years ago that following their first album ‘Get Born’ they would never again succeed and turns out I was right. Has anyone even heard so much as passing wind about their latest offering ‘Shine On’ didn’t think so.

So it was with rip roaring laughter and a hefty pat on my own back that I enjoyed the following review from Pitchfork media Review – Shine On. I then went on to read pitchforks take on Jets first album and laughed even harder!

Hope you enjoy and Jim, told you so!