Emergency On Planet Earth


Emergency On Planet Earth
Release Year: 1993 | Label: Sony Music -- Columbia Records/Orenda Merchandising


Song Titles Album Info
  • When You Gonna Learn (Digeridoo)

  • Too Young To Die

  • Hooked Up

  • If I Like It, I Do It

  • Music of the Mind

  • Emergency On Planet Earth

  • Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop

  • Blow Your Mind

  • Revolution 1993

  • Didgin' Out

"Emergency On Planet Earth," Jamiroquai's first major-label effort, was released in 1993. The tracks on this album reflect the disgust that Jamiroquai's frontman Jason Kay felt concerning issues of the environment, social climate, and the shape of things to come. Tracks such as "Revolution 1993," "Emergency On Planet Earth," "When You Gonna Learn," and "Too Young To Die" all deal very directly with the aforementioned issues in the way only JK can deal with them. The underlying message of the songs is delivered clearly and concisely: "We're not going to be much here longer if we continue to let the environment go to waste, and not repair our societal state."

Conversely, tracks like "Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop," "Blow Your Mind," and "Hooked Up" present a more idealistic and happy side of Jay. These songs can't get funkier, and are cut from a very unique mold of songwriting. How ever Jay and the band did it, they created an album that redefined music for the 1990's and, for the unexposed ear, illustrates what Jamiroquai truly is all about.



Musicians NOTICE!
  • JK: Vocals and Good Vibes
  • Toby Smith: Keyboards
  • Nick Van Gelder: Drums
  • Stuart Zender: Bass
  • Wallis Buchanan: Didjeridoo
  • Kofi Kari Kari: Percussion
  • Maurizio: Percussion
  • Glenn Nightengale: Guitars
  • Simon Bartholomew: Guitars
  • DJ Zire: "Turntable Wizardry"

  • Andrew Levy: Bass on
    "When You Gonna Learn"

  • Mike Smith: Sax and Flute on
    "When You Gonna Learn"

  • Gary Barnacie: Sax and Flute
  • John Thirkell: Trumpet
  • Richard Edwards: Trombone
  • Gavin Dodds: Guitar
  • Vanessa Simon: Backing Vocals
  • The Reggae Philharmonic Strings

The lyrics page (and all subsequent lyric pages in progress) have been removed indefinitely due to a warning from EMI publishing, who owns the rights to the lyrics on all Jamiroquai albums. I am looking into obtaining a license to print these lyrics, but until that time, I will have no lyrics for any Jamiroquai albums posted on this site.