Amazon.com Until its shallow posturing gets to be just too much, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too is fodder for a decent game of Spot the Influence. Singer/songwriter Gregg Alexander's admittedly well-crafted project is indebted to the vaguely funky pop-rock of World Party. But despite airplay for the single "You Get What You Give," he isn't tuneful enough to make his empty social pronouncements stick as more than fleeting entertainment, and when he starts dissing his hooky betters Courtney Love and Beck as "fakes," there's little to do but laugh. At him, not with him. --Rickey Wright Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE Review With New Radicals, [Gregg] Alexander takes a potentially messier Anglophile tack, flinging words like the Boo Radleys or Pulp, and aiming for harmonic epiphanies that approximate Prefab Sprout's intelligent sparkle.... But more often, New Radicals seem like enthusiastically unbuttoned Americans schooled in style councils and turtlenecks. -- Spin [Gregg Alexander's] abundant optimism ... is matched only by his gift for crafting ... upbeat, soulful pop-rock.... -- Entertainment Weekly, ISBN13: B00000DF6J ISBN10: B00000DF6J Material Type: audioCDAmazon.com Until its shallow posturing gets to be just too much, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too is fodder for a decent game of Spot the Influence. Singer/songwriter Gregg Alexander's admittedly well-crafted project is indebted to the vaguely funky pop-rock of World Party. But despite airplay for the single "You Get What You Give," he isn't tuneful enough to make his empty social pronouncements stick as more than fleeting entertainment, and when he starts dissing his hooky betters Courtney Love and Beck as "fakes," there's little to do but laugh. At him, not with him. --Rickey Wright Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE Review With New Radicals, [Gregg] Alexander takes a potentially messier Anglophile tack, flinging words like the Boo Radleys or Pulp, and aiming for harmonic epiphanies that approximate Prefab Sprout's intelligent sparkle.... But more often, New Radicals seem like enthusiastically unbuttoned Americans schooled in style councils and turtlenecks. -- Spin [Gregg Alexander's] abundant optimism ... is matched only by his gift for crafting ... upbeat, soulful pop-rock.... -- Entertainment Weekly, ISBN13: B00000DF6J ISBN10: B00000DF6J Material Type: audioCD , ISBN13: B00000DF6J ISBN10: B00000DF6J Material Type: audioCD