Songoftheday 10/01/24 -So one two three take my hand and come with me, because you look so fine that I really wanna make you mine...

 

 

"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" - Jet

from the album Get Born (2003)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 6

 

Today's song comes from the rock group Jet, who came together in Melbourne, Australia in the beginning of the new millenium, with siblings Nic on lead vocals and guitar and Chris Cesler on drums bringing in Doug Armstrong on bass and Cameron Muncey as lead guitarist. Armstrong was replaced by Mark Wilson, and the band released an EP (extended play single) Dirty Sweet in 2002. With buzz from that sold-out mini-set Jet was signed to Elektra Records, and all four of its tracks would be on the band's debut album Get Born. The lead single from the record, originally released in their home country in the summer of 2003, was "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". Written by Nic and Cameron, the record captures the raw energy of the garage rock of the late 60's early 70's. The lyrics are simplistic with blues-like phrasing that puts angst over substance but the latter isn't missed. It's all about the come-on to the girl they're trying to snag but she's banging another dude. The production has the stop-start power that was working for the White Stripes at the time. With and ultra-cool black-and-white music video that MTV adored, and by the following year Jet found themselves with an international smash...

"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" became a top-40 hit for the band on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in April of 2004. On the radio, the song peaked at #16 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, #16 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 station list, and reached the top ten on all three of the rock radio charts - Mainstream (#7), Alternative (three weeks at #3), and Adult Album Alternative (or "Triple-A") (#5). Internationally, the single made the top-40 in the United Kingdom (#16), New Zealand (#17), Ireland (#18), Australia (#20), and the Netherlands (#22). The Get Born album, released in September of 2003, spent 85 weeks on the Billboard 200, getting as high as #26 and selling over a million copies. 

Both the band and the album will be back to the series.

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Here's Jet on Conan O'Brien...

Next up, the band performing at the Live 8 charity mega-concert in 2005...

and lastly, in concert in 2009...

Up tomorrow: Country beachcomber and Kid Rock's sidekick wait for nightfall.