Get Free (The Vines song)
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"Get Free" | ||||
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Single by The Vines | ||||
from the album Highly Evolved | ||||
Released | 17 June 2002 | |||
Recorded | 2001 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 2:06 | |||
Label | EMI/Capitol Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Craig Nicholls | |||
Producer(s) | Rob Schnapf | |||
The Vines singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Free" is a song by the Australian garage rock band The Vines from their debut album Highly Evolved. The song was released in mid 2002, and remains the Vines' highest charting single (#7 Billboard Modern Rock, #24 UK Singles Chart).[1]
Track listing
CD single
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Get Free" | Craig Nicholls | Rob Schnapf | 2:06 |
2. | "Down at the Club" (Zen Demo) | 2:54 | ||
3. | "Hot Leather" (Zen Demo) | 1:57 |
7" vinyl
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Get Free" | Craig Nicholls | Rob Schnapf | 2:06 |
2. | "Blues Riff" (Zen Demo) | 3:43 |
Composition
"Get Free" features Nicholls strumming the 5th and 3rd frets for the main riff. The song opens with the resounding riff, a drum-build up and then the song breaks in. However, the song does not follow a verse-chorus-verse structure, going from verse-chorus-solo-verse-bridge-middle-verse-chorus.
Music videos
"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 when I did that video and the explosions were going off, something inside me just [changed]."
—Craig Nicholls on the making of Get Free Music Video[2]
There were two promotional videos shot for "Get Free". The more commonly known music video, directed by Roman Coppola, shows the band standing, surrounded by huge spotlights, on a hill with a lightning storm brewing above. As the video develops, lightning bolts begin to strike the ground with increasing intensity. Eventually, during the final chorus, lightning strikes the drummer Hamish Rosser's cymbal, bassist Patrick Matthews and then Nicholls sending Matthews and Nicholls flying in different directions while the drummer sits behind his set.
In popular culture
- The song was covered by "Weird Al" Yankovic in his polka medley "Angry White Boy Polka" from his 2003 album Poodle Hat.
- The song was featured in the pilot episodes of Fastlane and Shameless, as well as the 2006 film School for Scoundrels.
- The song can be heard in the introduction video for the 2003 video game Top Spin.
- The song is a playable track in the rhythm games Rock Band 3 and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, as well as the Nintendo DS version of Band Hero.
- The song was featured on the title screen and main menu of the 2003 video game Charlie's Angels.
- The song is featured in the Far Cry 5 mission of the same name.