Bad album, only dig Get Born from Jet, and in small doses. Bad review as well, I'm sorry to say. Let me tell you why, maybe my criticism will help you in future reviews.
I hate that pitchfork review of this album with the monkey pissing on itself or whatever it is. Live performances have never been a strength of the band. This is what ultimately sealed their fate. Where does this album stack up alongside Get Born?
What you've got is 4 sentences that make absolutely no sense together. You mention Pitchfork's review, then you move on to live performances, and lastly you compare Shine On to Get Born, but there isn't anything that links all that information. To me it seems as if you stacked 'em up together carelessly. Also, capitalize "Pitchfork".
"Bring it on Back" is a touching song that builds nicely. Channel 7 used the song it in an AFL promo. I loved this. The song peaks as the the players leap for a pack mark. A uniquely Australian moment.
Again, there isn't a connection between that first sentence and that one when you compare Put Your Money to Are You Gonna Be My Girl. Also, that whole Channel 7 information is absolutely irrevelant, not to mention it's got a grammar error. In my advice, just take it out.
Rarely spoken about in "Get Born" the drumming was tremendous. Here it feels generic. How does that happen with the same drummer? There were no band member changes between albums. There is quite a bit of filler on this album.
Yet one more time, you go on and on about Jet's fallback on drumming, and out of nowhere you just move on to talk about filler songs. That doesn't make any sense, take out that filler part and put it somewhere else, where it sounds more logical.
Your review needs some serious rewriting, man. You're basing it around comparisons to Get Born far too much, and you've got a whole bunch of scrambled ideas that aren't logical, they don't make any sense together. I'm sorry man, neg'd from me. I'm not a fan of Shine On so much, besides Holiday, Rip It Up and Hey Kids. Besides Get Born, which is great in my opinion, Jet kind of sucks.
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