JETS: Good or Bad song

[Guest]

I really like it. I didn't think i would when i heard about the sax solo, but i really like the sax solo.

The bass is very sexy and Damon plays a great little riff.

[AndyNR]

Although if Damon continues to turn into Peter Gabriel I'll have to kill him for his own good.

Hey I'm a Peter Gabriel fan - don't talk about Peter like that!

Although he took 10 years since 1992's US to release last years UP it is a really well crafted album.

Also he did the Sledgehammer and Digging in the Dirt videos which are the best videos made bar none.

[MatteotheLion]

jets sucks

[zlot]

the sax solo nearly made me sick the first time i heard it, but im growing used to it and if u kinda drown out the background music and focus on the sax its pretty interesting to listen to

[Christian]

Jets is a good song, it s repetitive structure reminds me of some 13-tracks. and I'm getting used to the sax-solo, but it doesn't add anything worthy. so why the fuzz?

[simon3862]

I think Jets is great - and I told Mike Smith that last night when I saw him on my way out of the Astoria. He seemed genuinely chuffed that a) someone recognised him and b) said they really like his sax solo on Jets. He obviously doesn't hear it much!

[ultranol]

well, I didn't like the solo. see, the sax is confusing like the horns in "The National Anthem", by Radiohead. The thing is, their ones are confusing but in some moments the horns "meet" the song, and then they go in different directions again, and then meet again, and it is marvellous. in Jets it seems that Blur is playing one song and Mike is playing another song, tottaly different, in tempo, melody, etc.

[bert]

I think Jets is a really good song. I really like the way that it is the same chords over and over throughout, but it continually builds all the time.

BUT....

The sax solo ruins it. Not completely, but the song would be so much better if the sax was removed, or maybe if it actually played a scale of notes that fit in with the rest of the instruments. It seems like someone has just dropped it on top of the rest of the song regardless of whether or not it fits. A bit like the theme to "Blackadder" where the dirty electric guitar starts riffing over the nice Elizabethan period instruments.

[plucker]

The sax is horrible. I think it's just there for the sake of being there. It doesn't help the song nor album at all. I have no idea what possessed them to include it in there. Have blur gone schizophrenic?

[a_lost_cause]

sadffds

[Dave Tracy]

just lie back, close your eyes, press play if you know hwere the play button is, or quickly open your eyes to press it, and then just relax and listen.

it's a lovely song if you let it just take you and don't try to pick it apart too much - to me the solo is what makes it so interesting. i think it's one of the best of the album

[barraboom]

The song jets is brilliant....but the sax solo is too virtuosistic for my taste...

[defrag]

The song jets is brilliant....but the sax solo is too virtuosistic for my taste...

i agree... the sax solo just drags on for a bit too long.. but the rest of the song is brilliant

[mattquarterstein]

The song jets is brilliant....but the sax solo is too virtuosistic for my taste...

i agree... the sax solo just drags on for a bit too long.. but the rest of the song is brilliant

I like the sax. I wish the rest of the song was as detailed and varied.

In a way, Jets is like Trailerpark, with the repetitions and stuff, but with Trailerpark, there is variation with all of Grahams guitar squeakings. A lot of jets is just that loop.

I still think it's an all right song though.

[Miki]

There has been a lot of debate on this subject (see also the "I can't get into TT" thread).
I personally can't listen to Jets for more than 2 minutes and as for the sax...it's really terrible!!
I personally think TT would have been a perfect album, without it.