Tear of Thought by Screaming Jets

Tear of Thought, the Screaming Jets' second album, came out on rooArt in October 1992, made by the same five Newcastle, New South Wales, rockers who started the band in 1989: Dave Gleeson, Grant Walmsley, bassist Paul Woseen, Brad Heaney and Richard Lara. It picks up the hard rock thread of their debut and yanks it in a few new directions.

The big surprise is "Helping Hand", which slips a jazzy swing into the band's pub-rock swagger, and there's a faithful run through the Boys Next Door's "Shivers" too. Otherwise it's fat riffs and hollered choruses built for sweaty rooms. It was a slow climber, finally peaking at number 3 in Australia in June 1994. AllMusic's Jonathan Lewis reckoned it turned them from just another pub band into stars, even if he found it disposable in the end.

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