1998 New Radicals – You Get What You Give (US:#36 UK:#5)
“You Get What You Give” is a song by American alternative rock band New Radicals. It was the first and most successful single from their only studio album, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too (1998). Released on November 3, 1998, it reached number 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Outside the US, it reached number five in the United Kingdom, number four in Ireland, and number one in Canada and New Zealand.
In the liner notes to her 2004 compilation Artist’s Choice, the Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell praised “You Get What You Give” for “rising from the swamp of ‘McMusic’ like a flower of hope”. In 2006, Ice-T was asked on Late Night with Conan O’Brien about what he has heard, besides rap music, in the last few years that really grabbed him and his only reply was “You Get What You Give”. In a Time interview, U2 lead guitarist the Edge is quoted saying “You Get What You Give” is the song he is “most jealous of. I really would love to have written that.”
Album
Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too is the only studio album by American alternative rock band the New Radicals. Released October 20, 1998, it is their only album release before disbanding in 1999. The album charted in several North American and European countries, and was frontman Gregg Alexander’s third album, following two unsuccessful albums released in […]
Muscians
Bass | John Pierce |
Drums | Gary Ferguson |
Guitar | Gregg Alexander |
Guitar | Rusty Anderson |
Piano | Rick Nowels |
Percussion | Juliet Prater |
Vocals | Gregg Alexander |
Produced By
Gregg Alexander
Songwriters
Gregg Alexander
Rick Nowels
Charts
US:#36
UK:# 5