Get Ready for This

Infobox Single
Name = Get Ready for This


Artist = 2 Unlimited
from Album = Get Ready!
Released = 1991
Format = CD single
CD maxi
7" single
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = Dance, Electronic
Length = 3:43
Label =
Writer = Phil Wilde
Jean-Paul De Coster
Raymond Lothar Slijngaard
Producer = Phil Wilde
Jean-Paul De Coster
[ Reviews = ] *
Last single =
This single = "Get Ready for This" (1991)
Next single = "Twilight Zone" (1992)

"Get Ready for This" is a 1991 eurodance single by Dutch duo 2 Unlimited. It is perhaps the most played opening song for arena-based sporting events. It is arguably the most famous of the band's singles in the United States; having reached #38 on the Billboard Top 40, making it the band's only Top 40 hit. However, its success was eclipsed elsewhere in the world by their fifth single No Limit. [http://www.remixes.net/nolimit.html] The famous repeated line "Y'all ready for this?" is sampled from The D.O.C.'s hit single "It's Funky Enough".

Get Ready for This! 2001

Single infobox
Name = Get Ready For This (2001)

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Artist = 2 Unlimited
from Album = Greatest Hits Remixes
Released = May, 2001
Format = 12" White Label
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Trance
Length = 8:50 (Yves De Ruyter Remix)
Label = White Label
Producer = Phil Wilde
Jean-Paul De Coster
Remixer = Yves Deruyter
Robbie Rivera
Reviews =
Last single = "Twilight Zone (Millennium Remixes)
(2000)
This single = "Get Ready For This (2001)"
(2001)
Next single = "No Limit 2.3"
(2003) |

Yves De Ruyter Remix

After the moderate success of Greatest Hits Remixes in 2001, two white labels were released with remixes of Get Ready For This. The first 12" was released in May 2001 in Belgium with a Trance remix by heavy weight DJ/Producer Yves De Ruyter. Although just a single sided pressing featuring the full 12" remix, the radio edit was officially released later in the 2002 release Trance Remixes (Special Edition).

Originally, the remix De Ruyter made was to be released in the 2001 release of Greatest Hits Remixes but was one of the stolen master tapes taken to Russia for a bootleg release in 2000.

Robbie Rivera Remixes

Following the May release, August 2001 saw the release of the another Get Ready For This remix editon by Puerto Rican DJ/Producer Robbie Rivera. Also released on white label, these remixes focussed more on the Latino House genre with some slight of hand cross-overs into other House genres.

Roughly mixed, and clouded in samples from other sources, this release also had very little success, but is now regarded as a collectable item and is sort after by fans of Robbie Rivera and 2 unlimited.

These remixes were never released officially anywhere else.

Remixes

*Yves De Ruyter Radio Edit (3:18)
*Yves De Ruyter Remix (8:50)
*Rivera Latin Groove Remix (6:35)
*Big Groove Remix (7:52)
*Dark Remix (7:00)

Track listings

; 12" White LabelA "Get Ready For This" (Yves De Ruyter Remix)

; 12" White LabelA "Get Ready For This" (Rivera Latin Groove Remix)
B1 "Get Ready For This" (Big Groove Remix)
B2 "Get Ready For This" (Dark Remix)

Released and Reception

Originally, the single was released as an instrumental (entitled the "Orchestral Mix") in the spring of 1991. "Get Ready For This" was an immediate success reaching #2 in the UK and #14 on the U.S. Dance charts, and #38 on the Billboard Hot 100. Conscious of their popularity, Wilde & De Coster wanted a more accessible, formatted formula for their project to grow. Raymond Lothar Slijngaard was then contacted to write lyrics and add a rap to the track. On his suggestion, Anita Dels joined in as the female vocalist.

Some months later the rap version was released, this time with raps by Ray and Vocals by Anita. But for the second UK release of the single, an edit of the original 'Orchestral Mix' was used, without vocals from the song except for the sampled "Y'all ready for this?" line. This was done by record producer Pete Waterman, who owned the record label 2 Unlimited were licenced to for UK releases. Subsequent 2 Unlimited releases would restore singer Anita Doth's vocals, but Raymond Slijngaard's raps would be cut out for several releases to come, including their 1993 number 1 "No Limit".

In other media

*The main riff/hook of the song was used as a replayed sample for Kylie Minogue's "I Guess I Like It like That" from her 1991 album "Let's Get To It" released in October, "Get Ready for This" was originally released in May 1991.
*It was featured in the 1992 TV series "Catwalk"
*Used in the "Friends" episode "The One With the Football" to make a parody of above named sporting events.
*Played in the "South Park" episode "Douche and Turd".
*It was a centerpiece of the popular 2000 teen cheerleading film "Bring It On".
*Played in the movie "Space Jam".
*Played in a 2006 ad for Special K cereal
*Used in "The Office" episode "Dwight's Speech" at the start of a paper company convention.
*In the video game "BioMetal" during the title screen.
*In the UK advertisement for Strongbow cider.
*In "The Simpsons" episodes "Fat Man and Little Boy", "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can", and "Jaws Wired Shut".
*Covered by the Crazy Frog for the US version of the album "Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits".
*Used for the opening credits and as theme song for the 1995 EA Sports videogame "NHL 96".
*During the 1990s many NBA teams used this song for their team introductions notably, the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers.
*A parody of it played in the "SpongeBob SquarePants" episode "Jellyfish Jam", where SpongeBob's jellyfish friend plays it on his stereo.
*It is played when the New York Yankees take the field.
*For a long time, it was played when the San Jose Sharks took the ice through a giant shark head with flashing red eyes.
*It was played when the San Antonio Spurs take the court.
*The music video was shown on Beavis and Butt-head, and Beavis thinks it is Telemundo. They also claim that it's not really music, but merely a keyboard demo.
*The song is featured in the movie How To Eat Fried Worms (film).
*The first thirty seconds of the song are featured in the movie .
*A parody of this song was played in a sports based episode of Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
*This song is played at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum when the New York Islanders begin their first faceoff.
*A parody of it was heard on a few episodes of "The Fairly Oddparents", starting with "Totally Spaced Out" before a big alien death combat.
*In the game Zuppapa, there's a toys level where in the boss stage, a parody of this song can be heared.

Track listings

Charts

External links

*YouTube|8P0cXvI--AE|Music video for "Get Ready for This"

References