Jet has come alive.

That is the case of Jet’s “Get Born,” a clean-cut, tour-de-force. At best, it screams off the fret boards and, at worst, it suffers under the weight of unoriginality and mushy power ballads.

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The faster stuff, like the infectious “Rollover D.J.,” is like a mainline into AC/DC’s “Back in Black” era; it’s music that rocks and rolls in the clean-cut face of conservatism.

Jet seems to have the whole garage rock deal down and well-done. Most contemporaries seem homogenized and downright boring, as if they were trying to fit a role rather than cut an album.

Unfortunately, parts of the album sound suspiciously stolen. “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” is the most obvious theft since Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby.” It’s literally two notes away from Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life.”

Jet’s sin is forgivable, since most music, especially modern music, is highly derivative in creation. Everyone from Page to Hendrix has at one point borrowed a blues or jazz riff and worked it into an original piece.

But, the near-spotless execution more than makes up for its lack of originality. The production is taut. The guitar distortion is heavy, but clean. And it works.

Even the power ballads, albeit one too many, seem to swim on their own (especially “Look What You’ve Done”), all the while conjuring up Guns N’ Roses and other dirty, long-haired freaks of rock ‘n’ roll’s living past.