"Take You For A Ride" is a jazzy 8 second loop composed by Tetsuya Shibata and/or Mitsuhiko Takano for the game Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes[1] and used for the character selection screen. It prominently features an voice sample of a woman singing "I wanna take you for a ride!".
It has been reused in the sequel, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds[2] (and its updated rerelease Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3) in three remixes: "Traditional Mix", "Rock Mix" and "Dance Mix", all arranged by Hideyuki Fukasawa (composer for the Street Fighter series since Street Fighter IV).
The track quickly became an iconic piece of the MvC series due to its catchy but rapidly annoying nature and nonsensical lyrics - presumably an audio sample misinterpreted by the Japanese developers.
The first "Take You For A Ride" rip uploaded on the SiIvaGunner channel was "Character Select - Marvel vs. Capcom 2", a mashup with "Gentleman" by PSY. There are currently 12 high quality rips of "Take You For A Ride" on the channel, 11 of them being the original "Character Select" from Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes and the last one being the "Dance Mix" from Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Most rips of "Take You For A Ride" are also of very long length, usually being over 5 minutes in length, to reflect the original repetitive nature of the song, with the rips "Character Select (CD Version) - Marvel vs. Capcom 2" and "Character Select (Extended Mix) - Marvel vs. Capcom 2" being the longest at 30 minutes and 1 hour respectively in length. As well as this, starting with the rip "Character Select (Beta Mix) - Marvel vs. Capcom 2", rips from Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes would also include edited thumbnails usually to reference the joke of the rip, although some would feature other jokes as well.
.png "Character Select (Beta Mix).png (1.1 MB)")
.png "Character Select (Alpha Mix).png (1.16 MB)")
.png "Character Select (Extended Mix).png (1.28 MB)")
.png "Character Select (NAOMI Mix).png (552 KB)")
.png "Character Select (OST Version).png (982 KB)")
.png "Character Select (CD Version).png (918 KB)")
.png "Character Select (Vinyl Mix).png (507 KB)")
.png "Character Select (JP Version).png (964 KB)")
.png "Character Select (Remastered).png (1.04 MB)")
