"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 one of the Vines' highest-charting single, peaking at number seven on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 24 on the UK Singles Chart.
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
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.
Later use Get Free was used in many different medias such as:
The opening video of the tennis game Top Spin
It was inserted in one of American musician Weird Al polka medleys, "Angry White Boy Polka".
In 2025, the song was used as the closing song for the credits of an episode of Daredevil: Born Again.
Track listings
Personnel Personnel taken from Highly Evolved CD booklet.
The Vines Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitar, percussion Patrick Matthews – bass
Additional musicians Joey Waronker – drums Ethan Johns – additional percussion Steven Rhodes – additional percussion
Charts Chart (2002)Peakposition
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