Get Yourself High
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| "Get Yourself High" | ||||
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| Single by The Chemical Brothers featuring k-os | ||||
| from the album Singles 93–03 | ||||
| B-side | "Electronic Battle Weapon 6" | |||
| Released | 17 November 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2003 | |||
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| Length | 5:48 | |||
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| Producer(s) | The Chemical Brothers | |||
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| "Get Yourself High" on YouTube | ||||
"Get Yourself High" is a 2003 single by The Chemical Brothers. It features Canadian rapper k-os and appeared as a bonus track on their collection Singles 93–03. A music video featuring footage from a martial arts film accompanied the song.[1][2] The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, but lost to "Toxic" by Britney Spears.
Writing for Stylus Magazine, Andrew Unterberger said the song is "resoundingly meh" with "a thoroughly OK production with some grating vocals" from k-os, and then favors another new track from Singles 93–03, "The Golden Path."[3] In complete contrast, David Medsker from PopMatters prefer the song over "The Golden Path", called it their "first real hip-hop track" that "demands its listeners to drop and do the worm." He also stated: "[...] There’s something about the key, a combination of a major note and its sharp, that sticks in the craw. This will sound very cool in the clubs."[4] musicOMH's Jamie Harper said the song "goes into new territory, as [the duo] invite Canadian rapper K-OS to MC over their creation."[5]
A new version of the song appeared on their live album Don't Think received a positive feedback from Nate Patrin of Pitchfork Media, he stated: "It all flows so smoothly so immediately that tracks which felt like late-career missteps on album-- like overstuffed pigeon-toed funk oddities like "Do It Again" and "Get Yourself High", which show up in succession in the set's first 10 minutes—come across as all-hook monsters, fused in a way that splits the difference and shaves off all the fat."[6]
