Track Listing

1. Baby Don't Hurt Yourself
2. Song For The Lonely
3. I Wanna Love You Like A Man
4. Navegando
5. The Party Is Over
6. Hate
7. Little Girl
8. Wayward Daughter
9. Thin Air
10. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
11. Flying Down To Rio

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90081 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Three albums in, and Drugstore remains as impossible to pigeonhole as ever. Though they came to prominence at the height of the Britpop movement, their exotic and off-kilter music never really fit in with the new-trad ways of Blur and Oasis. However, this quirky otherworldliness has enabled them to outlast many of their contemporaries (where are Sleeper and Northern Uproar in 2001?). Songs for the Jet Set is their strongest album yet. In keeping with their Velvet Underground fixation, the twin ghosts of Lou Reed and Nico are still flitting around, capable of sending icy shudders down the spine on songs like the delicately pretty "The Party Is Over" or the music box lullaby of "Allegro Ma Non Troppo". Isabel Monteiro remains an intoxicating swirl of haughty cool and sex-kitten purr that, no more obvious than on the bug-eyed tango of "I Wanna Love You like a Man". Blissfully unaware of any trends or fads that might discolour their own perfect vision, Drugstore are content to produce classic guitar pop music that is as timeless and effortlessly-chic as a little black dress. --Billie Swift

Customer Reviews

Woozy heaven
More measured and contemplative than their previous 2 albums, 'Jet Set' is nonetheless a woozy delight. Heavily influenced by the quieter moments of The Velvet Underground ('Pale Blue Eyes' 'Sunday Morning') singer Isabel Monteiro's voice floats above these songs, so husky and sensual she makes Brigitte Bardot sound like Janet Street-Porter.

The opening track 'Baby Don't Hurt Yourself' enchants straight away, with its country-tinged steel guitar picking. After that, 'Song For The Lonely' glides elegantly into view, sidling down the bannisters in a plush, velvet frock. 'I Wanna Love You Like A Man' is the album's most obvious 'pop' moment - a brisk, jaunty song enlivened by staccato strokes on the cello, like a cat creeping up the stairs.

On 'The Party', a classic 'morning after' song, Isabel duets with the guitarist, sounding for all the world like Lou & Nico sprawled out on the carpet surrounded by countless fag ends and empty bottles after the mother of all Saturday-nighters.

Every song is sumptuously arranged and performed. And if they've sacrificed a little of the abrasiveness and guitar dynamics of the first two albums, just remember that their heroes, The Velvet Underground, slipped effortlessly between cacophony and calm too.

Great Ablum
This album will not disapoint, i purchased this after white magic for lovers, this album still retains the Drugstore sound and is perhaps a little bit more mellow, the songs that hit me straight away was - i want to love you like a man & Hate, the rest of the album just instantly grew on me and is now constantly on the cd player(so is their other albums)This band and their material are definately quality and a joy to listen to.

Great, but not as great as da last one!!!
Okay, so here's the deal. I was introduced to this wonderfully talented and horrifically under-appreciated band by a friend, and found Drugstore to be absolutely, well, terrific! There really isn't any other word I can find to describe them. Their 2000 effort, White Magic for Lovers, is a range of emotional, well-written and beautifully simple pieces spanning from heart-wrenching to jump-around-and-be-joyful. The band shows another brilliant work here, but I just don't think that they are quite as pure as they were just a year ago. Drugstore continue to be fantastic, but if they continue down this path, my fear is that they may, quite simply, get a little boring.