Song · Basement Jaxx
“Get Me Off” by Basement Jaxx
From the album Rooty (2001)
“Get Me Off” by Basement Jaxx appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2002. It was first released in 2001 on the album Rooty. Its best result is #53 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #454 alternative song of 2002.
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"Get Me Off" comes from Rooty, the 2001 second album by British electronic duo Basement Jaxx, and in June 2002 XL sent it out as the record's fourth single. It very nearly went to someone else. Janet Jackson, smitten with the duo's debut Remedy, got in touch about working together on her seventh album, All for You, and was offered this very song, but she passed. Felix Buxton later cracked that she'd taken them for Zero 7.
Her loss. Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe wrote it with Merrill Nisker, produced and mixed it themselves, and threw the mic open to Derrick Carter, Cherokee, Crystal and Mandy Senior. It stalled at 22 in the UK and remains the odd one out in their catalog: the only single they released between 1996 and 2005 that was left off The Singles, their 2005 hits set.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 53 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002 | 100 |
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