History Music / GetReady

* NotWhatItLooksLike: The video for "Someone Like You" ends with a hunter spotting the guy in the bear suit leaning into the window of his pickup truck, mistaking him for an actual bear and hitting him with a tranquilizer dart.

''Get Ready'', released in 2001, is the seventh studio album by English AlternativeDance band Music/NewOrder. Following the TroubledProduction of 1993's ''Music/{{Republic}}'' and an exhausting North American tour, the band spent the better chunk of the '90s on hiatus, with the members focusing on their various side-projects (with Bernard Sumner seeing a particularly good amount of attention in the UK leading Music/{{Electronic}}). In 1998, the band regrouped at the suggestion of manager Rob Gretton, who had them iron out their past grudges; they would do their first show in four years at the Reading Festival, where they finally incorporated Music/JoyDivision material into their setlist for the first time since Ian Curtis' suicide in 1980. Gretton would pass away from a heart attack the following year.

* NotChristianRock: "Run Wild" makes explicit reference to Jehova and UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} in a positive light, but is not intended as a religious song.

* RegionalBonus: The Japanese release tacks on the "Crystal" BSide "Behind Closed Doors" at the end as a bonus track.

* SplashOfColor: The photos on the cover and in the liner notes all feature a red stripe to contrast the DeliberatelyMonochrome imagery. The disc label also contains a colored stripe on the bottom, which depending on the release is either red or neon green.

* ContemptibleCover: Not the album itself, but the single release of "Crystal" sports a cover photo of Nicolette Krebitz removing her jeans.

Unlike the tense recording of ''Republic'', the making of ''Get Ready'' went by fairly smoothly, allowing the album to be completed within just a year. Notably, the album sees the debut of Dawn Zee, who would act as a backing vocalist for the band on their following albums. Conversely, it would also end up being the last album made with New Order's original lineup: Gillian Gilbert would temporarily retire to look after her and drummer/husband Stephen Morris' children, and though she ultimately rejoined the band in 2011, Hook would depart four years ahead of that.

After taking the time to recover from Gretton's death, the members of New Order decided to return to the studio in 2000 to put together a new studio album. With their last new material having come out nearly a decade prior, they chose to shake up their sound to account for how radically the cultural landscape had changed since ''Republic'', and leaned into a more straightforward AlternativeRock sound with heavy ElectronicDanceMusic components, both as a middle ground between Sumner and bassist Peter Hook's contrasting preferences and as a way of adapting to the post-''Music/OKComputer'' era.

** Notably, the cover for "Crystal" was planned to be even more minimalist, simply being the red stripe plastered onto a clear slimline jewel case. The idea was rejected in favor of a shot of Krebitz removing her jeans, but Music/KanyeWest would eventually use Peter Saville's original concept for his own album ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' in 2015.

* NewSoundAlbum: AlternativeRock mixed with ElectronicDanceMusic.

* TextlessAlbumCover: The main cover plays this straight, though the band name and album cover are included on the inlay below the CD tray's spine.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Rock the Shack".

''Get Ready'', released in 2001, is the seventh studio album by English AlternativeDance band Music/NewOrder. Following the TroubledProduction of 1993's ''Music/{{Republic}}'' and an exhausting North American tour, the band spent the better chunk of the 90's on hiatus, with the members focusing on their various side-projects (with Bernard Sumner seeing a particularly good amount of attention in the UK leading Music/{{Electronic}}). In 1998, the band regrouped at the suggestion of manager Rob Gretton, who had them iron out their past grudges; they would do their first show in four years at the Reading Festival, where they finally incorporated Music/JoyDivision material into their setlist for the first time since Ian Curtis' suicide in 1980. Gretton would pass away from a heart attack the following year.

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Crystal" (and by extent, the album) starts with a lengthy synthesizer crescendo, punctuated only by a OneWomanWail, before the main song comes in. The single release simply lops the intro off.

* HesBack: ''Get Ready'' was made as New Order's grand return to popular music after an 8-year break since [[Music/{{Republic}} their last album]], and accordingly marked the start of a major mainstream comeback throughout much of the 2000's.

** Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes of Music/PrimalScream respectively provide backing vocals and guitar on "Rock the Shack" itself co-produced by Music/NineInchNails and Music/DepecheMode collaborator Mark "Flood" Ellis.

After taking the time to recover from Gretton's death, the members of New Order decided to return to the studio in 2000 to put together a new studio album. With their last new material having come out nearly a decade prior, they chose to shake up their sound to account for how radically the cultural landscape had changed since ''Republic'', and leaned into a more straightforward AlternativeRock sound with heavy ElectronicDanceMusic components, both as a middle ground between Sumner and bassist Peter Hook's contrasting preferences and as a way of adapting to the post-''Music/OKComputer'' era. Unlike the tense recording of ''Republic'', the making of ''Get Ready'' went by fairly smoothly, allowing the album to be completed within just a year. Notably, the album sees the debut of Dawn Zee, who would act as a backing vocalist for the band on their following albums. Conversely, it would also end up being the last album made with New Order's original lineup: Gillian Gilbert would temporarily retire to look after her and drummer/husband Stephen Morris' children, and though she ultimately rejoined the band in 2011, Hook would depart four years ahead of that.

Despite New Order's advancing age by this point and their absence from the limelight in the intervening years since ''Republic'', ''Get Ready'' was a considerable commercial success for the band, peaking at No. 6 in the UK, No. 41 on the Billboard 200, and No. 2 on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. It would go on to become the eighth best-selling dance/electronic album of the year in the US, as well as the 25th best-selling in the same category in 2002, ultimately going gold in both the UK and France. The album was also positively received by fans and critics, both of whom considered it an adept modernization of New Order's style; David Browning of ''Entertainment Weekly'' dubbed it "a stunning and confident return to form," while both Robert Christgau and ''[=AllMusic=]'' would declare it the band's best album since ''Music/{{Brotherhood}}''. Andrew Harrison of ''Q'' magazine would further state that, although he didn't consider it their best album, it was still "the sound of a great band breaking free of their past before your ears."

The critical and commercial success of ''Get Ready'' would furthermore mark a huge mainstream comeback for New Order in their native UK during the 2000's, one that would last until Hook's departure (which led to another hiatus). In retrospect, fan opinions on the album remain mostly positive, though many would also credit it with starting a creative decline that wouldn't be broken until ''Music Complete'' in 2015, largely as a result of the more guitar-driven sound that became further and further removed from the more synth-heavy output of their 80's material. Still, it's generally regarded as the best kind of album the band could've entered the new millennium with.

The critical and commercial success of ''Get Ready'' would furthermore mark a huge mainstream comeback for New Order in the 2000's, one that would last until Hook's departure (which led to another hiatus). In retrospect, fan opinions on the album remain mostly positive, though many would also credit it with starting a creative decline that wouldn't be broken until ''Music Complete'' in 2015, largely as a result of the more guitar-driven sound that became further and further removed from the more synth-heavy output of their 80's material. Still, it's generally regarded as the best kind of album the band could've entered the new millennium with.

* MythologyGag: Peter Hook's bass solo at the end of "Close Range" recalls the opening bassline for "Let's Go" from the band's soundtrack to ''Salvation!''

In the U.S., this was their first album since ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'' not to be released by Qwest, the imprint having folded during New Order's hiatus. ''Get Ready'' was issued by Warner's other major imprint, Creator/RepriseRecords, stateside.

In the U.S., this was their first album since ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'' not to be released by Qwest, the imprint having folded since their previous album. ''Get Ready'' was issued by Warner's other major imprint, Creator/RepriseRecords, stateside.

* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: The singles released in association of the album carry the same stripe motif as the album's own cover; "Crystal" and "60 Miles an Hour" both also include black and white photos of Nicolette Krebitz in the background, while "Someone Like You" is a single-color block with a white stripe. The single release of "Here to Stay" (from the ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople" soundtrack) also continues the visual motif, though with a photo of the film's recreation of the Haçienda as the background.