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Emergency on Planet Earth

by Jamiroquai

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Album review

In the liner notes to Jamiroquai's debut album, lead singer and mastermind Jason Kay delivers a sincere, if oversimplified, screed about distributing the wealth and saving the rainforests. The lyrics follow suit: except for a single love tune ("Blow Your Mind"), Kay bemoans war, greed, racism, and conformity, or extols the power of music as a drug ("Hooked Up") or as a catalyst for social revolution. This is not Jamiroquai's most eloquent album, nor their strongest musically, what with most songs structured as long-form, open-ENDed jams weighing in at six minutes or more. Though interesting as a chronicle of Kay's musical vision taking shape, overall it's a document that will appeal most to Deadheads and jam-band fans. --Suzanne McElfresh


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About the artist

After Jason "Jay" Kay (born Jason Cheetham) auditioned unsuccessfully to be the singer of the Brand New Heavies, he decided to put together his own band. Jamiroquai's first single, When You Gonna Learn?, was released in 1992 on the Acid Jazz label. Following its success, Kay signed a £1,000,000 eight-album record deal with Sony BMG Music Enterta...

Track list

  1. When You Gonna Learn (Digeridoo)
  2. Too Young to Die
  3. Hooked Up
  4. If I Like It, I Do It
  5. Music of the Mind
  6. Emergency on Planet Earth
  7. Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop
  8. Blow Your Mind
  9. Revolution 1993
  10. Didgin' Out - Jamiroquai, Buchanan, Wallis