SHINE ON (Shine On - Jet)

Member Name: jonnykay

Product:	Shine On - Jet
Date:	02/05/07 (75 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: old school rock n roll, no weak tracks

Disadvantages: highly influenced by older bands, little originality

JET'S NEW ALBUM SHINE ON - If you have not heard of them yet, dont you think its about time you did?

The Australian Rockers JET return with thier second album "Shine On" as the follow up title to thier outstanding debut album "Get Born".

The band themselves had a very subdued debut on the UK music scene with thier songs getting little radio play. In fact two years ago very few people even knew the band existed at all, but that all changed with one vodaphone advert. Jet's reworking of the base line from Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" led to the creation of "Are you going to be my girl?" one of the best guitar songs ever written. Since then Jet have gone from strength to strength and have certainly taken a giant leap in song writting / musical maturaty with thier latest offering.

In every scene of the word jet are simply an old school rock band. Thier musical influences are plain to see from the beatles, stones and the Who to more recent superbands including oasis. They do recieve some critisism based on the fact that thier sound is unoriginal but you cant fail to like a band that has simply taken the good bits from other classic artists and fused them together. Overall Jet know how to rock so just enjoy the show.

The "shine on" album is a much more mature collection of songs that reflects the added maturity of the band. The songs fit together seemlessly. One critisism I did have on thier first album was that thier influences were much more black and white. You could spot "the beatles track", "the T-rex track" etc but here the band manage to merge thier musical influences with more ease and greater style.

The heavy guitar rifts and high energy vocals are present throughout the album and are at thier absolute best on the tracks "We're going on holiday" and "rip it up". But we also begin to hear a more tendor and bare side of Jet on the beautifully simple "Elanor" and the title track. This album shows that Jet are more than just a one trick pony and that they can convay true emotion onto the listener without having to blow out thier speakers at the same time

Shine on is pure class from a band that still believes sex, drugs and rock n roll is a more of a religion than a way of life; plus at 14 tracks its a REAL album rather than the 9-10 track half offerings some bands churn out.

If you believe the 60s and 70s were the golden age of music, when bands were real and the music was too, then yo will love jet and you will love this album, I can not recomend it highly enough.

Summary: A fantastic modern twist on all that used to be good about rock and roll