“Cold Hard Bitch” by Jet

Jet pulled "Cold Hard Bitch" off Get Born, their 2003 debut, and sent it to America first: it came out there on 9 February 2004 as the band's second US single, and only reached their Australian home on 26 July, as the fourth. Chris Cester, Nic Cester and Cameron Muncey wrote it, and you can hear exactly where it came from. It ranks among the heaviest things in Jet's catalogue, a slab of tough, no-frills hard rock built on a few simple chords, with AC/DC's fingerprints all over it. Subtle it isn't, and it never pretends to be.

American rock radio lapped it up. The song topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts alike and crossed over far enough to reach 55 on the Hot 100, and in Canada the Radio & Records Rock Top 30 had it at number two. It did more modestly elsewhere, stopping at 33 in Australia and 34 in Britain that September.

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