Get the Message may refer to:
"Get the Message" is a song by Electronic, the English band formed by Bernard Sumner of New Order and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
It was the second single from their 1991 debut album Electronic and was a commercial success around the world. It is a good example of Marr and Sumner's original concept of mixing the fluid synthesizers of New Order with The Smiths' rich guitar sound.
Marr composed the music then Sumner wrote the lyric as engineer Owen Morris played him the song every four bars. Marr was reluctant to layer multiple guitar parts as he was wary of treading ground, but Sumner convinced him otherwise.
During recording, Primal Scream vocalist Denise Johnson added a vocal at the end of the song. She went on to provide additional vocals on a number of songs on Electronic's second album Raise the Pressure five years later.
The single was issued in the UK on 7-inch, 12-inch, CD and cassette by Factory Records on 15 April 1991 (and two weeks later as a second 12-inch comprising two additional remixes by DNA), and as a three-format maxi single and standard cassette by Warner Bros. Records in the USA.
Get the Message was a television game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. It aired on ABC's daytime schedule for nine months in 1964, with its last airing on Christmas Day.
The show was first hosted by Frank Buxton, who was replaced by Robert Q. Lewis on September 28. The announcers were Chet Gould and Johnny Olson.
There are two teams of three people, including one contestant and two celebrity guests. One team is all female and one all male. On each turn, the celebrities are shown a message (persons, places, things, common phrases, etc.) on the screens before them. All four celebrities write down a one-word clue on index cards without any discussion, raising their hand when they have completed their clue. Both celebrities on the team playing first show and read their clues to their team-mate, who must then guess the message. If incorrect, play then passes to the opposing team who do the same. If the opposing contestant fails to guess the message, one more round of clue-writing and -reading is performed, and then the message is discarded if not guessed. A correct answer is worth one point. The first team to reach three points wins the game, and a $100 prize.
Hey, Mr Politician, what's going on in your mind
The people are crying out for help and you're just wasting our time
Oh -- a mouthful of rhetoric
All that lip just makes us sick
Unbutton your collar, loosen your tie
Get it together, stop feeding us lies
Get the message, a message from the human race
Get the message, our planet is a sacred place
Get the message, it's simple and it's oh so true
Guide us through these troubled times cos we're depending on you
Chlorofluorocarbons -- you know them as CFCs
Fifteen years ago you ignored the warning pleas
"There'll never be a hole in the atmosphere"
That's what you said, now the hole has spread
And the people are starting to fear
Get the message...
Elected by the people -- what do you desire
Are you an elected official or just for hire
Elected by the people -- the people are aware
Our quality of life needs repair
Too many people sleeping in the streets
Too many children with not enough to eat
All that money wasted building a war machine
Has made the global economy the worst it's ever been, so...
Get the message...
Elected by the people -- what do you desire
Are you an elected official or just for hire
Elected by the people -- the people are aware
Our quality of life needs repair
Hey, Mr Politician, what's going on in your mind
The people are crying out for help and you're just wasting our time
Oh -- a mouthful of rhetoric
All that lip just makes us sick
Unbutton your collar, loosen your tie
Get it together or we're all gonna die
Get the message...