Line #14 Music/MysteryJets


1	Mystery Jets are an [[AlternativeIndie indie]] band from Eel Pie Island, London. Yes. Starting off as a generic-if-skilled indie band, they eventually wholeheartedly embraced a sound reviving TheEighties.
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3	Members:
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5	* Blaine Harrison – vocals, keyboards, guitar
6	* William Rees - guitar, vocals
7	* Kapil Trivedi - drums
8	* Henry Harrison – keyboards, guitar
9	* Peter Cochrane - bass
10	* Matt Park - pedal steel
11	* Jack Flanagan - bass
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13	Former members:
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15	* Tamara Pearce-Higgins – keyboards, vocals
16	* Kai Fish – vocals, bass
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18	Albums:
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20	* ''Making Dens'' (EP) (2006)
21	* ''Zootime'' (US only, includes tracks from ''Making Dens'' and ''Twenty One'') (2007)
22	* ''Twenty One'' (2008). Lead track is "Young Love" featuring Music/LauraMarling.
23	* ''Serotonin'' (2010)
24	* ''Radlands'' (2012)
25	* ''Curve of the Earth'' (2016)
26	* ''A Billion Heartbeats'' (2020)
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28	!! Tropes
29	* AutoErotica: Implied in "Hideaway".
30	* BandOfRelatives: Keyboardist/guitarist Harry Harrison? Father of Blaine Harrison.
31	* BreakupSong: "Flakes". It's a melancholy one--almost a "we-tried-but-we-were-never-meant-to-be" one.
32	* BrotherSisterIncest: A common interpretation of "MJ". WordOfGod says it's so.
33	* [[ClingyJealousGirl Clingy Jealous Guy]]: Subverted in "First to Know." He's very protective, but he ''doesn't'' want to hold her back.
34	* EroticAsphyxiation: Some say the lyrics in "Behind the Bunhouse" suggest this, what with the imagery of choking, etc.
35	* EverythingIsBigInTexas: ''Radlands'' was recorded in Austin and features a map of the Lone Star State on the cover.
36	* GrowingUpSucks: "Umbrellahead." "Please don't turn me into a man", indeed...
37	* HotForTeacher: The alternate reading of "MJ", word of God or no.
38	* IntercourseWithYou:
39	** "Melt" is probably one of the most obvious examples in music anywhere.
40	** "Flash a Hungry Smile" is ''possibly'' about oral sex. Or, well...um...allow us to rephrase. It is ''definitely'' about sex. The sex is ''possibly'' oral. %% Please do not edit this out because it somehow sounds like conversation in the page. (1) It doesn't. Read it again. (2) This wording was a conscious editorial decision by one individual editor, because it is funny.
41	* LittlestCancerPatient: Deconstructed in "Little Bag of Hair." Blaine Harrison has spina bifida (which isn't terminal[[note]]Not ''anymore'' that is. Until the late 1950s, spina bifida patients were not expected to live past 16.[[/note]] but requires a lot of excruciating treatment all the same), and his childhood in and out of the hospital was ''not'' adorable and it did not give him precocious wisdom.
42	* LoveTriangle: "He's '[[TitleDrop Half In Love With Elizabeth']] and he's half in love with you".
43	* OdeToIntoxication: "Serotonin"...maybe? On the one hand, MDMA (that's ecstasy/molly) is thought to work through messing with serotonin levels. On the other hand, it could simply be about anything related to serotonin, including just being, as they say, "high on life".
44	%% * PinkElephants: Mentioned in "Veiled in Grey."
45	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Serotonin'' embraced the synth-driven '80s influences tried out almost as a joke in ''Twenty One''[='=]s "Two Doors Down" and turned it into a whole album. Also, the recording of ''Radlands'' in the US shows in interesting ways.
46	* NotStayingForBreakfast: "The Girl Is Gone" is nearly ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: guy wakes up, his one-night stand is gone. He meditates on the subtle ridiculousness of the whole exchange.
47	* {{Retraux}}: Everything about "Two Doors Down," from the song itself to the over-the-top 80s-ness of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Dl3VQ2K2U video]].
48	** The video for "Dreaming of Another World" has a '50s-early '60s vibe.
49	* SillyLoveSongs: Can you get much sillier than "I think I'm in love with the girl who lives two doors down" followed by an '80s-style rock sax breakdown?
50	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Zig-zagged. Originally the "the" was there, but in a later logo it wasn't, but they kept using it from time to time, etc. It appears that the "the" is either there or not depending on whether you want it to be.
51	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Blaine Harrison took most of the singing duties on ''Making Dens'', but William Rees sings lead on some tracks on ''Twenty One''. This leads to VocalTagTeam, below.

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