"Get Real" reached number 47 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 100 for four weeks.

[3] A music video was filmed to promote the single, which featured Rutherford in the Sonoran Desert.

[4] Speaking to Simon Witter in 1988, Rutherford said about "Get Real", "It's got quite a strong melody, it's quite vague and quite ethereal.

"[6] Upon its release, Jerry Smith of Music Week described "Get Real" as a "burbling House style dance track", but felt that "even its breathy atmospherics fail to make it less than pedestrian".

"[8] In 1989, Melody Maker described the song as a "slab of Acid for the radical dance faction, all squiggly synths and slithery bass.