Sounds From The Junkshop #44 - The Young Offenders
"I know what I know, I know what I know, I'm sick of singing songs about the video..." - The Young Offenders - That's Why We Lose Control A classic case of a band who had they timed their entrance on to the scene just a little bit better would have been megastars, make no bones about it. As it turned, the Young Offenders must be one of the unluckiest bands we've featured in Sounds From The Junkshop so far (and if you've been a regular reader of this then you'll know that there's some serious competition for that particular accolade!) Released on the world in a glorious flash of riffs and publicity in the summer of '98, they were a glorious technicolour roar against the tedium of Radiohead, the dullness of the Verve and the soporificness of Spiritualized. They should have been selling out arenas by the time 1999 rolled around. Instead they found themselves back on the dole with their album remaining unreleased. Talk about a miscarriage of justic...