It be been 13 years, Harmonix, set up ‘You Derive What You Give’ in Rock Band
We got the dreamers disease
To suppose Rock Band revolutionized the admittedly fast-lived plastic instrument phenomenon will doubtless be a proper understatement. It’s far a sequence that spawned no longer only a knockoff sequence from its largest competitor but three declare sequels, more than one band-explicit spinoffs (at the side of the elusive Beatles license), and even a friggin’ LEGO collab — this thing had a fat-blown zeitgeist. Admire many niche interests, the fashion crashed and burned, but a stalwart few peaceful spoil out the cheap guitars and flimsy drum kits for some false rock ‘n roll on a drunken Tuesday night.
I am amongst those ranks.
Whether or no longer or no longer you ever got into the sequence, it is confirmed to in actuality possess some legs. In some unspecified time in the future of its 13-year bustle, the sequence has featured some 2,800 songs, spanning every fashion from the titular rock to rap, to nation, and even parody tracks from South Park and Steven Colbert. Even to for the time being, the devs are peaceful releasing DLC every Thursday to retain the sequence contemporary.
It be hard to whinge about what the devs possess done…but complaining is my enterprise, and enterprise is staunch. And gosh darn it, it is far time to put “You Derive What You Give” in Rock Band.
First hitting the scene in late 1998, Current Radicals’ “You Derive What You Give” is believed of by many to be one of many good singles of the late-’90s alt-rock scene. Band frontman Gregg Alexander disbanded the neighborhood rapidly after the one’s open, rather powerful damning Current Radicals to the dreaded one-hit-surprise put.
What would possibly possibly perhaps also were a cultural relic has continued through the years, most lately resurfacing in political appearances by Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband. Its total obvious message about labor and perseverance would possibly possibly perhaps also be a fave of the Biden family, ensuing in the band temporarily reuniting to develop the hit for the presidential inauguration.
Despite its longevity and renewed relevance, the song is peaceful no longer in Rock Band, neither on any of the video games’ more than one on-disc setlists nor as half of the sequence’ phenomenal DLC. For comparison’s sake, through the years, Rock Band has featured:
- Completely different one-hit wonders from the technology, comparable to “Closing Time,” “Tubthumping,” “Select My Sunshine,” and “Flagpole Sitta”
- 11 Nickelback songs (WHY?)
- 15 Avenged Sevenfold tracks
I would possibly possibly perhaps also poke on, but the indisputable truth that there are 11 songs from one of basically the most universally-mocked (yet seemingly contradictorily also one of many good-promoting) bands in pop tradition is each and every demanding and disappointing. “This Technique War,” Harmonix. If right here is “How You Remind Me” of how one of many good songs from the ’90s is absent out of your library, it is far time to “Burn It to the Floor.” If no longer “This Afternoon,” then “Sometime.” “By no formulation Again.” “Picture.”
I have been patiently ready for over 13 years now, Harmonix. It be time to open “You Derive What You Give” for Rock Band. And if Gregg says no — which is the make of thing he’d attain — order him Joe Biden’s on my side.
