Rate Get Ready

I am a fan since 83(Blue Monday)and I do not understand why people hates so much "Slow Jam" and "Rock the shack". Slow Jam is my favourite and the onlyone I sometimes listen to, not very original but powerfull. Rock the Shack is the kind of punk/rock I love and the Gillepsie's voice does it well. I Don't like too much the LP's extended mix of Crystal, it sounds very old (reminds me Cure's 17 seconds LP), but it's a good song (also the dance mixes), maybe the better since True faith. Turn my way is also good, whith an unusual style. The rest is crap, the beginning of the songs are good (the intros of "Primitive Notion" or "Someone Like You" are often used on french TV programms), but these songs turn bad. It makes 4 good songs on 8 so I will put a "5/10" for the LP. Really better than Republic,I only like "Regret" and "Everyone,Everywhere", just 2 on 11 (It makes 1.8/10).

I gave it a 9, since almost all the tracks but slow jam and run wild are not only good but they are great, plus considering republic, the album could have been 100 times worse.

anyone who gave this album 6 or lower seriously needs their ears checked out.

Sorry, there's 10 traxes on Get Ready, so I put 4/10. I'm old and there was a time, each NO LP had only 8 tracks, but they were all goods or at least interristing experimentals (before Brotherhood), no fillers.

That's true. Even a ten track (which is obviously a small one these days) album has a risk to become a bit too long and most of all not as good as a whole as it could be.

There are great long albums too, like the upcoming Radiohead will be, but the extra 20 minutes will not make it any better than for example P,C&L which has almoust half amount of songs than the mentioned Radiohed album. Then there are so much crappy 10 songs and ~30 minutes kind of albums.

In Get Ready case, it must have been a "follow the "an album should have 10 songs on it" rule". Although it would have been a great promotional and so on... effort to put a 8 track album on a market these days.

Right, times change, I mean this Lp could have be better whith the B sides "behind closed doors" or "Player in the league" (never listen to them but according to the forum) or why not one of the dance mix of Crystal to fill up the CD. In fact after Republic and the stupids remixes period (rest of or BM95),get ready is a good surprise.

8. A fine effort, if not up to Low Life or Technique, but then, not a lot is....

8. It isn't my favourite album, but the one that made me realise on Christmas Eve 2001 how much I like New Order (the best band in the world after... Joy Division!!!).

Originally posted by Bentley Has anyone else noticed a little too much distortion(production related) on this album? It almost ruins "Crystal" for me. There's also distortion is several of the other vocal tracks that seem to bother me too. I think there are some FANTASTIC tunes on Get Ready, but some of the production just ruins it for me. Anyone else hearing this on the CD or bothered by it?

A little over-produced, but it doesn't come close to ruining Crystal, IMO.

i think it's a cracking album (i rated it an 8)

considering they had been out of the recording studio for around 8 years, and come back together and make a record which is somewhat absent of electronica and full or 100% rock was a breath of fresh air for the music industry and NO fans (i think so anyway. it signified that they were back!

I gave it an 8. It's a hell of an album. Swap in some of the b-sides for RTS and maybe one or two other tracks, and add Here to Stay to provide a slamming dance number to balance all that rocking and you'd get a nine easy.

And I'll defend the lyrics, which some people are taking WAY too literally. Crystal isn't about having to go to a different grocer, it's about the sweetest thing in the world, priceless and oh-so-fragile. Get it?

7-why? there are better albums in this universe. get ready is good but not solid enough to get a ten. good albums have a flow and a feel that is consistant. they never have songs that you skip and they never end on as limp an ending as 'get ready' does.

I give it an 8 since I could do without slow jam, rock the shack, and run wild. Though, I admit I hate rock the shack for the chorus only, they verses are excellent. Run Wild has those terrible album closing lyrics, and slow jam is definately a bside. I'd much rather have sabotage, brutal, and behind closed doors on there. Other than that, I rank Get Ready higher than Republic, and especially like the lyrics for crystal and the video--such a great stab at crap like the strokes. Cmon people admit it-ANYONE can do the strokes, and Americans need to learn to have more variety on their plate. You can like St. Etienne and Metallica, I'm proof.

It's the album that got me back into NO. I really think Crystal is worth the price of admission, and there's lots of other tracks on it, like, eh - Christ did I really give it 7? I'm very old - there have never been any perfect albums: for me possibly the first Velvet Underground, or Astral Weeks (Van Morrison - unfortunatetyl he didn't really sound like that - or want to); Happy Sad (Tim Buckley), Clear Spot (Captain Beefheart), Pet Sounds, or Sergeant Peppers, Workingman's Dead (or American Beauty) Grateful Dead, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, (Small Faces), first Oasis Album (before they got the Beatles), Springsteen's 'Tom Joad', What's going on, (Marvin Gaye) - Never mind the Bollocks, the First Cure album, and of course there was that band, what were they called? Oh yes, Joy Division - NO have been heartily inconsistent, and I love them, but their albums are a bit of a mess. NIce Covers though!

9 i only really dont like rock the shack.

I'd give Get Ready a solid 8/10. Close Range is one of the finest tracks they've ever recorded whilst the singles Crystal and 60MPH are superb.

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i love it i gave it a nine and it grows on me more and more so next week id probably give it a ten