New Radicals: C/D?

Anyway, I'm not saying the album is great or anything. I haven't listened to it in ages! But, it's pretty good. I kind of wish he'd do something else, but I doubt he will.

All completely cool (well, `cept for maybe Mantas). All had facial hair.

No worries. I am often -- if not usually -- guilty of same.

"Eh? Not cool? ME?"

Damn this thing.

Hey guys! Can I play, too?

"Know who said that? someone on telextext that's who said that. "
That would have been John Peel, on Top Of The Pops.

well maybe but I read it on teletext, perhaps Peel did too.

http://www.billmon.org/archives/strangelove.jpg

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Gregg Alexander once said about war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said music was too important to be left to fahion shows with Beck and Hanson. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, music is too important to be left to Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow New Radical infiltration, New Radical indoctrination, New Radical subversion and the international New Radicalconspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

I don't think Jimmy Fallon's really in a position to be mocking anyone these days,

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), September 10th, 2005.

To be fair I don't think he was mocking NR, just doing his goofy lyrics to popular songs thing--something about showing up drunk at his ex-girlfriend's house "3am, I drank a fifth of Jim Beam."

"And when the night is cloudy,
You cannot find the light (light)
You feel your tree is breakin'[...]
Come around, we'll kick your ass in"

I've been obsessing over this for almost a week now, having dug it out. Aside from the title track, which is like some weird Mick Jagger slur impression gone horribly wrong, almost every track on this cuts through. "I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away The Ending" has a great conceit, hilarious lyrics and a brilliant melody. "I Don't Wanna Die Anymore" with its climactic coda sounds like one of the better cuts Gregg Alexander produced for Danielle Brisbois. And "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" manages the awesome feet of fusing the Stones and Depeche Mode.

And, of course, "You Get What You Give" is clearly now among the great masterpieces of the late-90's.

not to mention "Technicolor Lover", which recalls "Sign O' The Times"-era Prince...

o, wherefore art though, Gregg Alexander?

This is my 567th favorite miffed-Alex-in-NYC thread.
I read that as "This is my 567th favorite miffed-Alex-in-NYC band"

Awesome "feat," that is, tho I may have been thinking of this:
http://cache.umusic.com/images/local/500/20626372B0F6447AB84FBCEA964196BE.jpg

not to mention "Technicolor Lover", which recalls "Sign O' The Times"-era Prince...

Indeed -- for space purposes, I omitted it, but that's definitely one of the highlights as well.

too bad my awkward drunken 'draw a line in the sand' new radicals thread from early in my ilx posting career wasn't revived instead of this

xpost: Someone needs to adopt "awesome feet" as their screen name.

Hall and Oates covered "Someday We'll Know"!

It's funny: as soon as I learned H&O covered a song of theirs, I knew it was "Someday We'll Know." Somehow, Daryl probably wasn't going to be singing about being in porn and how got "big in Japan."

are there really H&O overtones in their (er, his) music? I keep reading this. If so, I'm gonna fork the $2 for the album.

Alfred, you should fork over the $2 even if there weren't any.

you get what you give is awesome song! Q

More Rundgren, Alfred...

I occasionally make up new lyrics to "You Get What You Give" (because really, who couldn't improve on them).

But you're like Exhibit A of someone with the dreamer's disease.

in many circles you get laughed at for liking this album, but....

....I played the hell out of it after I bought it! I still really like it...

especially "I Don't Wanna Die Anymore", Mama We Just Can't Get Enough, and that gave away the ending song....

I love it when this thread gets revived because, c'mon, this album is way classic.

i had no idea anybody else liked it....I got it real cheap on cassette when I was po'

Haha at strangelove gag.

you get what you give is awesome song! Q

And a lost influence on Flight Of The Conchords!

I'll bet this dude and Greg Dulli hate each other.

Don't understand why everyone reps for You Get What You Give - I find it boring as shit.

Boring people find things boring. ;)

I still have this shit on tape. Play it on rainy cold days.

Crap then. Crap now.

still completely radical. someday we'll know is my jam

someday we'll know why Gregg Alexander packed it in as a performer so quickly...

http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/1/23/out-with-carly-hennesy-in-with-carly-smithson/

someday we'll know why Gregg Alexander packed it in as a performer so quickly...

A sudden jolt of self-awareness maybe?

This morning I woke up to an email from my best friend from high school, which contained only a youtube link to the video for You Get What You Give. Best top 40 hit of the late 90s, no question.