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Get Free
"Get Free" CD Single track list
1. "Get Free" (02:06)
2. "Down at the Club (Zen Demo)" (02:54)
3. "Hot Leather (Zen Demo)" (01:57)
7" Vinyl track list
1. "Get Free" (02:06)
2. "Blues Riff (Zen Demo)" (03:43)
Song
Whereas previous Vines songs were driven by chord
structure riffs, this one has Nicholls strumming the 5th
and 3rd frets for the main riff. The song opens with the
Single by The Vines
resounding riff, a drum-build up and then the song
from the album Highly Evolved breaks in. However, the song does not follow a verse-
Released June 17, 2002 (2002-06-17) chorus-verse structure, going from verse-chorus-solo-
verse-bridge-middle-verse-chorus. Get Free was playing
Format single at the 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Recorded 2001
Genre Alternative rock, garage punk, post-grunge Music videos
Length 2:06 We got these dirt bombs in our hair. It was like, whoa. I
mean, I thought I didn’t want to be a rock star before, but
Label EMI/Capitol Records
when I did that video and the explosions were going off,
Producer Rob Schnapf something inside me just [changed].
- Craig Nicholls on the making of Get Free Music Video[2]
The Vines singles chronology
“
"Highly Evolved" "Get Free
Get Free" "Outtathaway!" ”
(2002) (2002) (2002) There were two promotional videos shot for "Get Free".
The more commonly known music video, directed by Ro-
"Get Free is a song by the garage rock band The Vines
Get Free" man Coppola, shows the band standing, surrounded by
from their debut album Highly Evolved. The song was re- huge spotlights, on a hill with a lightning storm brewing
leased in late 2002, and remains the Vines’ highest chart- above. As the video develops, lightning bolts begin to
ing single (#7 Billboard Modern Rock, #24 UK Singles strike the ground with increasing intensity. Eventually,
Chart).[1] The song was written by Vines’ frontman Craig during the final chorus, lightning strikes the drummer
Nicholls. It was covered by "Weird Al" Yankovic in his Hamish Rosser’s cymbal, bassist Patrick Matthews and
polka medley "Angry White Boy Polka" from his 2003 al- then Nicholls sending Matthews and Nicholls flying in
bum Poodle Hat.. It was featured in the pilot episode of different directions while the drummer sits behind his
Fastlane and in the introduction video for Topspin, a ten- set.
nis video game by XSN Sports. The song is featured in
the Nintendo DS version of "Band Hero" and in the "Rock Live performances
Band 3" and "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock" soundtrack.
There have been vast numbers of ’Get Free’ live perfor-
The song also appears in the pilot episode to the Show-
mances, though the most infamous was on a 2002 Late
time series Shameless.
Show with David Letterman on which Nicholls came on
stage and performed under the influence of marijuana.
During the solo, Nicholls rolled around on the floor with
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feedback squealing out from his guitar, causing the in-
strument to detune. At the climax of the show, Nicholls
Awards and accolades
jumped on to drummer Hamish Rosser’s kit, dismantled "Get Free" was nominated several times for awards in
it (much to Rosser’s dismay) before tumbling over an 2002 and 2003. It walked away with Best Song at the NME
amp, grabbing the mic and doing a long, loud Awards 2003. It was ranked at No 10 on the NME’s best
’Whoooooooo!’ as Rosser and bassist Patrick Matthews songs of 2002 as well as No 49 on Kerrang’s chart of Mosh-
left the stage. He then tumbled offstage. A similar in- pit Kings.
cident occurred early the following year on Australian
show Rove, as well as, during a performance in the Seat-
tle Paramount Theater.
References
[1] Billboard
[2] http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1455102/
20020611/index.jhtml
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