Got Myself Together

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"Got Myself Together"
Single by The Bucketheads
from the album All in the Mind
Released
  • 05 December 1995 (US)
  • 08 January 1996 (UK & Europe)
Genre House
Length
  • 5:35(LP version)
  • 3:35 (Hustlers Convention radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s) Gonzalez, Miller, Williamston
Producer(s) Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez
The Bucketheads singles chronology
"Come and Be Gone"
(1995)		"Got Myself Together"
(1995)		"Time and Space"
(1996)

"Got Myself Together" is a house music track by The Bucketheads, released in late 1995. It was the commercial follow-up to global hit The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind), and was the third single taken from the project's sole album All in the Mind .

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While unable to reach the worldwide chart highs of its predecessor, the single was a club hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in January 1996, and a moderate commercial hit, reaching the top 10 in Finland and Sweden, and the top 20 in the UK. The track is considered a 1990s house classic. [1]

Background

"Got Myself Together" is a disco-inspired house track based around a prominent sample of Brass Construction's 1976 hit, Movin'. [2] In Europe, the lead single version was a remix by British house group Hustlers Convention, an early alias of DJs Michael Gray & Jon Pearn, now known as Full Intention.

In April 2019, Positiva released a new remix by EJECA as part of its 25th anniversary series. [3] The remix gained heavy rotation from the likes of The Black Madonna, and Annie Mac & Danny Howard on BBC Radio 1. [4]

Critical reception

Charles Aaron from Spin said that, in comparison to "The Bomb!," the single "gets knee-deeper in jazzy acid-funk." [5]

Music video

Like its predecessor, the music video for "Got Myself Together" was directed by Guy Ritchie and Alex de Rakoff. [6] The video features a Londoner en route to Heathrow Airport, stopping at sights including Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus, before arriving in New York in search of a disco club.

Track listings

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) [13] 6
Germany (Official German Charts) [14] 82
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40) [15] 14
Ireland (IRMA) [16] 28
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [17] 49
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [18] 5
UK Singles (Official Charts Company) [19] 12
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play [20] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1996)Position
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play [21] 19

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