The New Radicals' Gregg Alexander says he's got "7 to 10" completed albums he'll probably never release
The name Gregg Alexander may not ring a bell, but the sight of him in a floppy fisherman’s hat probably would. Alexander was the one-man band behind The New Radicals, who created one of pop-rock’s most enduring songs when they dropped hit single “You Only Get What You Give” 20 years ago. Alexander disbanded the group just before sharing the second single from the band’s only album, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too, and, unlike most bands of the era, a reunion was never once considered.
That’s a bummer, too, because, as Alexander revealed in a new, rare profile in Billboard, he’s recorded and mastered between seven to 10 full-length LPs. Speaking of the what-ifs that accompany his decision to retire the band so abruptly, he said, “Nobody will ever know if five or six singles [would have come] out, whether it would have sold one more copy or 20 more million copies. Nobody knows, and I don’t fucking care at this point. But I was grateful when I left the business of being an artist. When I extracted myself from that situation, I had the same thing I have now: hundreds and hundreds of pop songs.”
