Shaka Rock

Jet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Five Seven Music
• ASIN: B0029LHW4A
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,506 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. K.I.A. (Killed In Action)

2. Beat On Repeat

3. She's A Genius

4. Black Hearts (On Fire)

5. Seventeen

6. La Di Da

7. Goodbye Hollywood

8. Walk

9. Times Like This

10. Let Me Out

11. Start the Show

12. She Holds a Grudge

Editorial Reviews

At the heart of every great rock and roll band lie four essential elements: bass, drums, guitars and vocals. That, in its purest essence, is JET. And JET, in their purest essence, have again captured those elements with their third album, Shaka Rock. With their previous releases- 2003's Get Born and 2006's Shine On- JET broke out of their native Australia and established themselves as a multi-platinum, international success story, merging the charisma and energy of classic rock and roll with just enough punk swagger and contemporary flair to create something uniquely theirs. Here at last is a band that's returning the cool to rock and roll.

2009's Shaka Rock reveals new dimensions of JET while never losing the raw roots of Get Born or the grace and melody of Shine On, which together went on to make JET an international band of style and substance.

Review:

CBS Radio
"...Rock explodes out of the gate with big guitars and even bigger ambitions..."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not amazing but good., September 21, 2009

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Shane Hughes (Edmonds, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Like most Jet fans, I thought Get Born was awesome. Then Shine On came out and I was kind of like whatever. It was a good CD but there just wasn't enough riffing going on in my opinion. Then came this album, Shaka Rock. This is the music that Jet fans like hearing them make. With basically only one "ballad" type song, She Holds a Grudge, this generally pretty straight up rock and roll. Some of the stand outs are obviously She's A Genius, Black Hearts (one of my new favorite Jet songs), Let Me Out, and Start The Show. Then you get to the obvious flaw of the album, the lyrics. Some of them are pretty horrendous but it shouldn't be surprising to fans that they aren't writing anything groundbreaking. If you can get past that, I think this is a fun album overall. Nothing special, but good.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This album is great!, April 19, 2011

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K. Christians (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shaka Rock (Audio CD)

I don't know why this album didn't get more press than it did. It's one of the best albums that's been released in the past few years. Great songs, great sound, great lyrics and great playing. Jet has always seemed to get a knocked because "their sound is a derivative"...whatever that means. As if anything today isn't. All of the songs on this album are well-written, catchy and fun to listen to. They aren't solving the world's problems or re-inventing music....they are, however, putting out some of the best rock and roll music coming out right now, and growing organically as opposed to seeing the latest trends and doing an about-face to try to cash in. And for that, they deserve a lot of credit. In the context of the state of music today, this album deserves 5 stars. In the context of all of the brilliant musicians and song-writers in music history - it holds up pretty well too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good album, October 19, 2009

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A. Tieck (Whitewater, WI) - See all my reviews
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Long time JET fan. Overall Great album! and much more up-beat than their last album; shine on. I would say however; a number of the songs and guitar riffs are reminiscent of other bands (one in particular comes to mind: The beatles).

If you like garage rock, and you don't mind some recycled sounds, its still a really good album.