“Get Set” by Taxi Ride

"Get Set" was Taxiride's opening shot: the Australian band's debut single, released in May 1999 and a track from their album Imaginate. Founding member Tim Wild, one of the group's co-lead singers, wrote it, and the band tracked it at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles with Jack Joseph Puig producing.

It paid off right away. The song went top 10 at home, reached 41 in New Zealand and won Breakthrough Artist – Single at the 1999 ARIA Music Awards, where it was also up for Best Pop Release. Hollywood came calling, too: it plays while the character Tammy listens in her room in the 1999 film Election, and the video cuts scenes from the movie together with the band at work in a studio. Advertisers kept finding it, from a Village Cinemas spot in 2002 to a 2022 campaign selling Melbourne to visitors.

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