Trivia / Get Ready

• Better Export for You: The Japanese release tacks on the "Crystal" B-Side "Behind Closed Doors" at the end as a bonus track.
• Career Resurrection: The album's critical and commercial success marked the start of a major mainstream comeback for New Order in Britain, further boosted by 24-Hour Party People the following year, that would last until Peter Hook's departure in 2007 and the band's subsequent four-year hiatus.
• Channel Hop: In the U.S., this was New Order's first album since Power, Corruption & Lies not to be released by Qwest Records, the imprint having folded during the band's hiatus. Get Ready was issued by Warner Music Group's other major imprint, Reprise Records, stateside. Qwest would eventually restart operations as a legacy imprint in 2006 under the ownership of Interscope Records, themselves owned by a different parent company than Reprise.
• In Memoriam: The album was dedicated to band manager Rob Gretton, who died of a heart attack in 1999.
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  • The Killers took their band name from the Fake Band in the "Crystal" music video, and later paid homage to it in their own music video for "Somebody Told Me", which features the band performing against a similar giant LED backdrop.
  • The original idea for the "Crystal" single cover was eventually used by Kanye West as the basis for Yeezus' album art.
• Sequel Gap: Thanks to the hiatus the band took after the tour for Republic, Get Ready came out eight years after its immediate predecessor.
• Technology Marches On: The cover shows German actress Nicolette Krebitz using a Sony DV camcorder, which was a pretty new technology in 2001. Camcorders would eventually be replaced by smartphones.
• What Could Have Been: Peter Saville's original design proposal for the CD single release of "Crystal" would've taken Minimalistic Cover Art to a whole new extreme by giving it no cover art at all apart from a red stripe sticker on the case, with the disc label being completely transparent to match. The idea was rejected in favor of a more conventional cover photo in the vein of the album art.
• Working Title: Early promotional CD-Rs of "Turn My Way" without Billy Corgan's vocals listed it as "Shipwreck of a Broken Man".

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