The Jets: Classic or Dud?

give me one more chance to make it real.

Here's a helpful way to tell them apart: Hewy Lewis songs are sung by a man; Jets songs (at least the singles) are sung by women.

"Gonna ROCKET 2 you!"

Hey, didn't they perform the "Rescue Rangers" theme song?

http://ffbookmarks.com/images/NFL%20Player%20Photos/The%20New%20York%20Sack%20Exhange-Poster.jpg

MAKE IT REAL
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
MAKE IT REAL
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
MAKE IT REAL

IS SHE JUST A PLAYTHING?

I gotta crush! on! you!

You gotta be smart/Don't start/Drin-king hurts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_QilrHkh8&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Jets, fool.

Back when I worked in a downtown record store, and was really up to date with pop music, I used to love "You Got It All."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5rg05ZQNs&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Both of the above are all time classics.

Tongan Latter Day Saints

We used to sell them tons of gear back in the day (they were MPLS locals) and they were super super nice - esp considering they were basically this massive family all living on a single kinda crappy tour bus

Wow, I haven't heard those songs in 20 years...great stuff

http://open.spotify.com/track/5CWxo7RaRluyUF7MlcuYPT

http://open.spotify.com/album/72xhyE2bccVI7LbPl3bBhz

^_^

I'm skeptical their new album will do anything other than suck, but they sure look good:

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/798246_544893558911118_2108054725_o.jpg

wait, that is so not the original lineup, not unless one of the guys transitioned

Love this band.

Yeah, I think the oldest brother retired and one of the younger sisters came onboard.

wait, that is so not the original lineup, not unless one of the guys transitioned

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:34 PM Bookmark

ha, I had this exact same thought

jesus christ do I love "You Got It All"

one of those songs I heard a lot in my childhood and liked and forgot about and re-discovered it here last year and man....that chorus, those key changes in the verse....

Jets, fool.

omfg this live version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Vu5j4eVho

wait what the fuck she was TWELVE when the original was recorded?

the voice sounds young, but very mature for a 12 year old. that is blowing my mind!

(on the original, smartasses - I know she's a grown woman in the video I posted)

the best song ever written, and by rupert holmes at that

dude could write hooks. I loved his musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

my other favorite of theirs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5UV-D7eFDM

so good

JETS

Little known fact: Originally Britney's debut LP was supposed to feature a cover of "You've Got It All Over Him", but it was dropped. My generation's "Cocksucker Blues".
― J Blount, Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good thing - it was fucking terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9jTzZAFc8A

yeah i searched for that a couple a months ago. not as bad as aaron carter's "crush on you" but still p bad

ok waht

It is taking everything in me right now not to hate-listen to that Britney cover.

it has chintzy instrumentation compared to the original, but mostly it's just her pipes weren't up to it so she drowned it in really ridiculous-sounding melisma.

at least if it'd been mid-career she'd have made it into a dance tune or somefin

actually the instrumentation isn't horrible, it just sounds like the bands that play on Kids Disney cds

it has chintzy instrumentation compared to the original

the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AettOduIHjk

Cheesy '80s instrumentation was built into the song. Rupert Holmes:

I thought it would be a challenge to see if I can write a love song that sounds appropriate sung by a 14-year-old girl. This was before we had all the Britneys, Mandy Moores, and all these teen stars. I purposely tried to write a very clear, simple, unaffected lyric that would have a little lilt to it, that would be a positive song for a young girl getting over her first heartbreak. Letting her know that this boy she just lost, or who didn't treat her appreciatively, was not going to be the only boy she'd ever have as a boyfriend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfDQKqVGCsE

uhhhhh going back upthread, the Holmes version posted isn't the original, it's a demo track with a scratch vocal that wasn't released to the public until 2007.

the 'chintzy instrumentation' was because it was a demo

Have you guys heard the CHRISTMAS WITH THE JETS album?

Hearing “Crush on you” in the wild is great

“No more charades, my hearts been displayed “
Damn

Surprised that Christmas with the Jets was still in print, at least digitally (I'm listening to it on Apple Music). Alas, it's terrible--all originals, despite some deceptively titled songs ("This Christmas," "I'll Be Home For Christmas"), and all schmaltzy, bloodless ballads. The most impressive thing about the album might be how quickly they managed to turn around a cover of "Somewhere Out There" (the An American Tail song): the Linda Ronstadt/James Ingram version debuted on the Billboard charts the week of November 15, 1986 (a week ahead of the film's theatrical release), while the Jets album was released on November 30 of the same year!

ts not great but all alone on christmas eve is pretty nice imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLsPr-nRxms

I wonder how the Jets family is doing now, just as a family.

Half the siblings sued the other half and now there are two separate Jets bands, each with 4 original members

dang, like a Gene Loves Jezebel thing.

You must have heard it from my best friend
Can’t keep a secret to save her life

jets are the playing at the bar I can probably die happy now

what bars are you hanging out at

all the right ones

I caught a fun interview with… i think it was moana? on a local polynesian community podcast which played what i seem to recall was a great demo version of ‘make it real’, the first song i was ever obsessed with as a kid. i guess I don’t remember details but it ruled.

One of my fav 80s ballads

Re: You Got It All

Moana Wolfgramm and Elizabeth Wolfgramm were only aged 10 and 12 respectively when they recorded their vocals for the song, and Elizabeth had difficulty connecting with the lyrics because she was too young to grasp the romantic feelings. The manager told her to imagine she was singing it to a puppy.

Wow, there were 17 kids in that family, and only the youngest eight were in The Jets.

I'm partial to Haini Wolfgramm, one because that's an awesome name and two because he sang lead on "Rocket 2 U," my favorite Jets song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islanders_and_Mormonism

that particular article doesn't really go into it, but in mormon areas of the u.s. you'll find polynesian communities that are often ghettoized. the conversion and emigration became a weird facsimile of colonialism and quasi slavery, see for a particularly disturbing example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosepa,_Utah

i don't know the backstory of how the wolfgramms ended up in robbinsdale, mn.

i remember the cassette tape of "magic" and playing it in my little dual deck boombox, rewinding "make it real" over and over again. my parents made sure to buy us pop music made by mormons. the nylons were another family fav (mormon men's a capella group). i must have been 5 yo.

neway i played 'crush on you' at my dj gig last friday before anyone was on the floor, sounded better than ever.

I LOOOOOOVED YOUUUUU

otm