SSQ - Jet Town

From 'Playback', 1983.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• SSQ
• Jet
• Town
• Playback
• Stacey

[AliasUndercover]

I love this song...

God, I'm old...

[romarius2005]

This is awesome the synths are the best!

[pontello3]

is bllody difficult fond this album around!! :(

but i din't chek yet discohogs or ebay ..i will

[Jengirl92]

@GoblinsFriend Ah, got ya. I know what you mean. I like groups like Men at Work, but they were basically more radio friendly, pop versions of new wave.

[GoblinsFriend]

@Jengirl92 Not really, but it was an alternative music darling. I remember feeling so cool that I knew who these guys were when all the cornballs were listening to bands like Men at Work

[Jengirl92]

This is amazing. Was this band ever big?

[GoblinsFriend]

@romarius2005 Agree, but the vocal teaming is perfection also. I have listened to this twenty times today. When I first found the song, I thought it would be a disappointment because I had built it up in my mind all those years, but it did not disappoint.

[GoblinsFriend]

Oh no! I always thought the song was called "It Jets Out"! Hilarious.

What a fantastic song.

[Jarren202]

When will this album be issued on CD? Wishful thinking I suppose, like Berlin's Information album... :(

[magyarwho]

Stacey Q and John St James have always been a great songwriting team. I love this song.

[calvintoronto]

@AliasUndercover

lol....not to worry, many of us right there with ya!

Such a defining 80s song. I can still remember that all this new music was playing, part of the "new wave," and stations like Toronto's 102.1 were at the forefront of it all. Radio was no longer all about Top 10.

[Jauly]

polysynths were the best thing that ever happened to pop music! those creative, sparkling machines pushed songwriting straight into the future.... and then, at the end of the 80s, all the wonderful arrangements turned to dust and 2tone dance & 3 tone indie rock made it big.