The Screaming Jets by Screaming Jets

The Screaming Jets was the third album from the Newcastle, New South Wales, hard rock crew, a self-titled record on rooArt that landed in the mid-'90s between Tear of Thought and World Gone Crazy. Putting your own name on album number three is a flag-planting move, and the band had reason to make it: the lineup had been rebuilt since the 1989 start, with Brad Heaney and Richard Lara gone and Jimi Hocking and Craig Rosevear in beside the three who stayed, Dave Gleeson, Grant Walmsley and bassist Paul Woseen.

The reshuffle didn't cost them their audience at home. The album went straight onto the ARIA chart at number 5, climbed no higher, and still went gold, making it the third Screaming Jets record in a row to reach the Australian top five. "Sad Song" was the track that carried it onto the rock countdowns.

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