All for One by Screaming Jets

All for One, the debut album from Newcastle's Screaming Jets, hit Australian shops in April 1991 and went all the way to number 2 on the ARIA chart. The five who had formed the band in 1989, Dave Gleeson, Grant Walmsley, Paul Woseen, Brad Heaney and Richard Lara, play like they're still trying to be heard over a Saturday-night pub crowd: ragged, hard-charging and in a hurry to get to the chorus.

"Better" is the one that broke out, a number 4 single with a sneer and a singalong hook, and rock radio's countdowns are still hanging on to it decades later. Thirty years on, the band re-recorded the whole album, and the anniversary edition, out in October 2021, debuted at number 4 on the ARIA chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.