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“Getting Ready to Get Down” by Josh Ritter
From the album Sermon on the Rocks (2015)
“Getting Ready to Get Down” by Josh Ritter appears on 20 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2015 and 2026. It was first released in 2015 on the album Sermon on the Rocks. Its best result is #5 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #45 indie & aaa song of 2015 and #386 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Getting Ready to Get Down" is Josh Ritter's own work, words and music, from Sermon on the Rocks, his eighth full-length studio album, released on Pytheas Recordings on October 16, 2015. Ritter summed the record up himself as "messianic oracular honky-tonk", a description that's hard to improve on.
It followed The Beast in Its Tracks, the album shaped by his 2011 divorce, which he had made a point of closing on a hopeful note. NPR praised some of Ritter's slipperiest, nimblest wordplay on the new one, and Jonathan Bernstein in Rolling Stone pointed to Eighties textures and vivid character sketches that took it somewhere very different from its predecessor.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2015 | 100 |
| 2015 | 5 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015 | 90 |
| 2015 | 70 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2015 | 104 |
| 2015 | 20 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
Also listed as: Getting Ready To Get Down; Gettin Ready To Get Down.
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