Get Ready Revisited

We've all had Get Ready for a while now and its had its chance to work its way into our brains or drive us mad. So, what does everyone think of it these days?

Great album, still listening to it. Especially to Crystal, Turn My Way, Primitive Notion, Close Range, Run Wild and even Someone Like You, now...

Very good album, only let down by a couple of below par NO songs that given our obviously high quality control standards, taints the overall impression.

Crystal is bona fide New Order classic and Turn My Way, Vicious Streak and Primitive Notion ain't far behind.

Personally I think the tracklisting should have been:

Crystal
Primitive Notion Turn My Way Vicious Streak Player in the League 60 mph Brutal Slow Jam Sabotage Someone Like You Run Wild

OK, Brutal is a wee bit of an oldie but I think it would have fitted in perfectly to the album and helped the overall reviews. The first 4 tracks above should have been singles as well.

just finished listening to Get Ready for the 1000 time in 6months. the promo copy is much better than the official release so my main problem is the tracklisting. Slow Jam should not have made the album. The rest of the tracks are very good (even turn my way gets a full listen after all my attacks on Billy C(still hate the f@#ker)) I play it at work and everyone who hears it, loves it. they all have stories about BLT or Blue Monday and can't believe NewOrder still make music. Get Ready is album of the Year, hands down. Vicious Streak and Primitive Notion have the best lyrics and i still haven't sorted out the intent of Close Range. Anyone have any theories as to who the subject/speaker would be? lying on the floor/30years or more...interesting lyrics and good music but what's it about?

On Close Range, I thought that the specific location was a dance club, with floor being dance floor, list being entry list, but obviously with broader potential metaphoric meanings.

zico, ditch Slow Jam, add Behind Closed Doors and wait for my $15 to arrive in the mail. why do neworder feel like 45-50 mins is enough for an album? it's total bullshit. we know they had more material and to continue releasing half a disc of music is indefensible. the fucking crystal single was longer than the album (US single).

Primitive Notion was on in Urban Outfitters yesterday. someone who works there must like neworder cuz it's playing or in the play stack nearly everytime i pass through there.

it's a shame NewOrder are so LAZY these days. Primitive Notion would sound great in the live set as would Sabotage. But no, they have to go through the motions and play the Hits like the audience are a bunch of teenagers who only want the Hits. That's fine for festivals but they should be ashamed at their UK tour setlists. oh well, if they die fat, rich and addicted to cocaine who cares, right?

Yes, patrick, i think you're right with the dance club/floor bit. The twist in the song is the line "you've got to pull yourself together man, get back on your feet again/how can i ever make you understand...." it's as if the speaker and the subject are friends (or maybe the same person)...in tone, it's similar to Run Wild. Close Range sounds like it's coming from a man who desperately needs to grow up and straighten out.

couldn't agree more. The boys (and girl) now seem to just be the same as the other band struggling under the corporate music makers who are only in it for the bottom line !! I know this is a bit radical but before you rise up in anger just think about. It now seem as if the record companies now call the tune (set lists, single releases, etc) oh for the days when NO were a faceless band producing cutting edger music

BS. and that's not short for Barney Sumner. NewOrder have made great music for more than 20years. if they cannot have complete control over their product, it's their own fault. they should have signed with an independant (but i bet they wanted the money) money rules neworder, not art or music. they said themselves "thanks for supporting the pension" or something like that. their music is still good but their ethics Suck now. bring back Factory and maybe the tension that created the glorious backcatalogue will spawn new classics. not one new track is over 7minutes. lazy, fat, money hungry bastards (except steve).

I still think its great and will 20yrs down the track..

I've actually been listening to all their albums again to physc myself up for their upcoming concert.

Can't believe movement was released over 20yrs ago.

I still love it and it gets constant rotation through my CD player. I enjoy all the songs anfd don't beleive there is any low points on the album. I even like rock the shack, which has got a bashing from some people. A friend of mine has just bought it, and their only requirement was to hear jangly guitar in NO songs, i told him it was there an he bought it the next day. I think that there has been a long wait, but it is worth it? Well it was in my top 5 albums for 2001, it could not have gone that wrong

Originally posted by Grigory Rasputin, the mad mystic of Petrograd I think that it is a very refreshing sound from our heroes, and I still think that the Brothers Warners are complete idiots for not releasing Turn My Way over here.....

Yes, I definitely have to agree with our mad monk.

Turn My way should've been the single after Crystal...

I can tolerate that bald control freak, Billy Pumpkin...and I, too am a closet Numanoid like him.

Get Ready is a bit inconsistent, and is their only album that contains songs that I don't like. Republic goes off a bit 2/3 of the way through (but Special and Avalanche always pop up to save the day).

I guess, for my taste, there just isn't enough electronica. That was the sound that got me hooked in the first place, although I'm well aware of the reasons for Gillian's non-involvement.

oh dear, i suppose ill be the kiljoy then. i dont mind "get ready" now, i disliked it intensely at first, even though i didnt think it was particularly awful or anything; but generally i dont tend to listen to it very often. my main problems with it are barneys vocals (he sounds so mannered these days) and the inconsistency of the song quality. id say that 4 of the tracks(primitive notion, crystal, turn my way and maybe vicious streak) are up to scratch...oh and another thing; the choruses. i find most of them really fucking annoying.

Originally posted by Old Blue Get Ready is a bit inconsistent, and is their only album that contains songs that I don't like. Republic goes off a bit 2/3 of the way through (but Special and Avalanche always pop up to save the day).

have to completely agree with this! I can listen to all their other albums (bar movement which can prove a bit of a burden) straight thru without even caring where the remote is! and although Republic wanes a little mid side2 it still manages to keep its head above water for me.

Right, well I'll go back the other way. I purposefully didnt listen to GR for about a month or so. I picked it upagain on Monday morning and its stayed in or around the stereo since. Admitedly there are a couple of songs I dont like (Shit Jam & SLY) - but this has been true of every NO album (except maybe PCL) for me.

Crystal just gets better and better for me. Primitive Notion as well. I have no doubt in 10 years time I'll look backat my NO collection and rate these 2 in my top 10.

After Republic I feared the worst, but GR is still a fucking great album in my opinion, even after the dust has settled

I think Get Ready is the only CD I bought last year that does not bore me after a while. I just keep on listening to it again and again and again. Fave tracks? crystal, tmw, primitive notion, close range and run wild.

After the initial surprise of the fact that after 8 years NO came up with such a strong album I still put it on all the time. If SJ and RTS would have been replaced by Sabotage and Player In The League it would have been right up there with Brotherhood an LL for me.

Coen, i couldn't agree more. In fact, i'm thinking of changing my name to Brian Van Der Hagen just to emphasize how right you are. "Could have been" will be the tag that sticks to neworder circa 2000. Still, when faced with selecting music for my morning walk, NewOrder always get the call. Seb, why don't you like Someone Like You?

Originally posted by Shugzv Sounds even better now than it did after it's first few plays, I have it on at work every night;)Rock the shack, Slow Jam and Run Wild are now rated very highly in Shugsters World

Rock the shack - I knew I wasn`t the only one who liked it. Sabotage should have been put on the album as well though... (maybe without those cheesy backing singers)

Originally posted by Fac21 > Originally posted by Shugzv> Sounds even better now than it did after it's first few plays, I have it on at work every night;)> Rock the shack, Slow Jam and Run Wild are now rated very highly in Shugsters World

Rock the shack - I knew I wasn`t the only one who liked it. Sabotage should have been put on the album as well though... (maybe without those cheesy backing singers)

Slow Jam, Shugzy?

I dunno, my opinion hasn't changed of it over the last few months. There are two what I would call classic New Order songs, Crystal and Primitive Notion, two good typical New Order songs in Vicious Streak and 60mph, and a few others to take it past the 40 min mark. Rock The Shack is so tongue in cheek it's actually funny, and the touching gentle poignancy of Run Wild is completely shattered by Barney's fucking inane last line. Slow Jam is just bollocks still, always will be, it's a crap song. Close Range has yet to spark any fires in my muse or psyche, and I can't even remember what else is on there ! :)

Originally posted by Sloppy Giuseppe I dunno, my opinion hasn't changed of it over the last few months. There are two what I would call classic New Order songs, Crystal and Primitive Notion, two good typical New Order songs in Vicious Streak and 60mph, and a few others to take it past the 40 min mark. Rock The Shack is so tongue in cheek it's actually funny, and the touching gentle poignancy of Run Wild is completely shattered by Barney's fucking inane last line. Slow Jam is just bollocks still, always will be, it's a crap song. Close Range has yet to spark any fires in my muse or psyche, and I can't even remember what else is on there ! :)

Close Range for me is the third best thing on it after Crystal and TMW.

Sloppy Seconds, you hit the nail on the head with that bit about the end of Run Wild. I eventually got over the Jesus/Jeh..bits and now it's the end that totally fucks with the meaning and intention of the song. I've said it before and i'll say it again/i don't like the rhyme he stuck at the end/

Not only is it totally out of character for the speaker of the song, but it's ripped from the Stone Roses i believe.

Run Wild is garbage when compared to Dream Attack.

Originally posted by Nicolas LeBlanc .. and I still ask myself why the fools at the head of the labels didn't release Turn My Way yet.....Gosh, it's almost a shame, it will get 3rd or 4th single, then there will be no song to "take over" and help them with the sales, at least in North America.They must be waiting for something, they can't all be idiots.. They must be waiting for a tour...

my thinking exactly (i hope)