Sounds From The Junkshop #109 - Less Than Jake
"Tomorrow's gone up in smoke/And I wonder when I'm alone/Where'd my convictions go?" - Less Than Jake - Screws Fall Out Quite honestly, I should've put Less Than Jake in the Sounds From The Junkshop column a bit sooner because it was some way before 2003 that I first got into 'em. Although this was the year when LTJ put out their most commercially successful album Anthem in this country (which ironically enough was the start of the wheels kind of falling off for them but more of that later), they'd been on my radar for a good three or four years already by this point. As I think with a lot of UK rock fans, it was 1999's All My Best Friends Are Metalheads , a regular staple at rock club discos throughout my Uni days which was my first exposure to Less Than Jake - a supremely headbangable ditty which ironically enough was a rant against how conformity inducing the then-popular nu-metal scene was at the time ( "They keep us from saying anyth...