Get Ready (New Order album)
Get Ready is the seventh studio album by English rock band New Order. It was released on 27 August 2001 in the United Kingdom by London Records and on 16 October 2001 in the United States by Reprise Records. It was the band's first studio album in eight years, following 1993's Republic, and was their last to feature the original lineup.
Get Ready
27 August 2001 (UK)
16 October 2001 (USA)
2000–2001
- Real World, Box, England
- Sarm Hook End, London
- Rockfield, Rockfield, Wales
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- Steve Osborne
- New Order
- Flood
- Bernard Sumner
Background[edit]
Peter Hook stated that the album's title "could mean anything or nothing. I thought it was just nice; New Order, Get Ready; 'cause we are, we're getting ready for the next phase of our musical lives both physically and mentally, so it's quite a simple thing but it's very pertinent."[5]
The album was dedicated to Rob Gretton, the manager of Joy Division and New Order, who died in 1999.[6][7]
Artwork[edit]
The album features cover art directed by Peter Saville and designed by Howard Wakefield, who have also designed covers for other New Order and Joy Division albums. The cover model is German actress Nicolette Krebitz. On the front cover, she is holding Sony DCR-PC1 MiniDV camcorder.
A music video for Crystal did not feature actual members of the band but instead much younger models. This visual group was billed as "The Killers" as written on the kick drum in the video. Reportedly this inspired the band name for successful band The Killers who took that name for their own.
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