Taxiride - Get Set

What this video is

Released in May 1999, 'Get Set' served as the debut single from Taxiride's album Imaginate, a Melbourne-originated four-piece signed internationally to Sire Records and domestically to WEA/Warner Music Australia. The track peaked at #8 on the ARIA Singles Chart and won the ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist – Single in 1999. Its placement on the soundtrack of the Alexander Payne film Election — and the subsequent…

Why it matters

Taxiride occupied a precise transitional moment in pop-rock, sitting between the harmony-vocal traditions of acts like Crosby Stills Nash & Young and the post-grunge melodic alternative of late-90s American radio. Produced by Jack Joseph Puig at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles — whose prior…