Give It All

This article is about the song by Rise Against. For other uses, see Give It All (disambiguation).
"Give It All"
Single by Rise Against
from the album Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Released November 2004
Format CD
Recorded 2004 at The Warehouse Studio (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Genre Hardcore punk
Length 2:50
Label Geffen
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Garth Richardson
Rise Against singles chronology
"Heaven Knows"
(2003)		 "Give It All"
(2004)		 "Swing Life Away"
(2005)

"Give It All" is a song by American punk rock band Rise Against, the first version was released on the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 compilation and then re-mastered and released as the first single from their third album, Siren Song of the Counter Culture. It is a fast paced song with a slower, chant-along bridge, with all running at two minutes and fifty seconds. It reached a peak position of number thirty-seven on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song is playable in the video game Rock Band 2 and appears on the soundtracks for the games Need For Speed: Underground 2, FlatOut 2, MX vs. ATV Unleashed, and WWE WrestleMania 21.

Music video

The video, directed by James Cox and produced by Justin Cronkite, features the band playing in a Chicago Transit Authority 'L' train with a small mosh pit, and shots of a group of office workers sneaking out at night doing various activities. They include swapping a video of soldiers in peacetime to soldiers in wartime, replacing a bumper sticker that reads "Four More Years" to "One More Month," drawing plastic surgery marks on a poster for a model, putting a sticker on a tiger cage at a zoo that reads, "I've spent my entire life trapped in a cage," and writing "42 grams of heart attack" on a McDonalds billboard advertising the Big Mac. In the end they dress into office clothes and go to work. Just before it ends, one of the office workers slaps the same sticker put on the tiger cage on the CEO's door.

The night before the shooting of the video, the band had played at a local venue, and told everyone in attendance to meet them the next night to be a part of the video. Half of the video was filmed in a operating train car, which would make its regular stops picking up passengers.[1] During one part of the video, the office workers sneak into the local zoo. Since the zoo did not give permission to the crew to film the tiger, out of fear it would damage the reputation of the zoo, the filming crew actually had to sneak into the zoo, to film the scene.[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Give It All"   2:50

Charts

Chart (2005) Peak
position
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[3] 37

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalogue no.
 United States November 2004 Geffen CD GEFR-26139-2

References

  1. ↑ "The Ultimate Rise Against Videography". Kerrang!. February 15, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Interviews: Tim McIlrath (Rise Against)". Punknews.org. December 8, 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Rise Against – Chart history" Billboard Alternative Songs for Rise Against. Retrieved September 6, 2015.

External links

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