Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

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Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too

New Radicals

Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too is the only album by the New Radicals, released in late 1998 by MCA Records. Two singles were released off it in 1999, "You Get What You Give" and "Someday We'll Know". The album reached #41 on the Billboard 200 and achieved Platinum status (1,000,000 copies sold) on October 14, 1999 in the United States. On the UK Albums Chart, the album reached as high as #10. The New Radicals' lead singer, Gregg Alexander, released two albums, Michigan Rain (1989) and Intoxifornication (1992), before signing with MCA Records in 1997 and allegedly receiving an $600,000 Read more on Last.fm.

  1. gives it a: 5/5

    The New Radicals were a rare breed, purveyors of intricate, layered pop rock that clung to your ear canal like AIDS to the immune system….in a good way. Armed with a cachet of Phil Spector wall sized sing alongs, Gregg Alexander and company crafted Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too as a smart pop response to the samey music they’d been hearing. The result spawned “You Get What You Give”, 1998’s biggest single…and subsequently a one hit wonder. The sad part of this is that the record from whence it came contains some of the best pop rock music ever crafted. The band broke up soon after, leaving us with only this statement to go by. Lucky for us it was such a grand one.