| Member Since | 5/5/2005 | | Band Website | youngsportsmen.com | | Band Members | Wesley - Vocals + Guitar + Keys
Ryan - Guitar + Keys + Vocals
Jeff - Tubs + Cymbals + Percussion + "Woo!"
Richard - Bass + Handclaps + Vocals! | | Influences | the Who, New Pornographers, the Kinks, the Jam, You Am I, Paul Collins Beat, XTC, the Futureheads, Elliot Smith, GBV, Simon and Garfunkel, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Pretenders, Superdrag, Teenage Fanclub, Cheap Trick, Oasis, the Knack, the Figgs, Jean-Pierrre Melville, Jacques Becker, Wong Kar-Wai, Jacques Tati, Yasujiro Ozu, Samuel Fuller, Sergio Leone, Preston Sturges, Sidney Lumet, Jules Dassin, Vittorio de Sica, Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Rogers, Brian Greene | | Sounds Like |
Death To Palaces:
"...nearly flawless in its execution of truly powerful pop. If you don't have it yet you're really missing out."
-Gary Miller, Seattle Powerpop Blog
"...three minutes listening to the power pop of The Young Sportsmen may be the best three minutes of your day. If there's a better power pop band in 2007 (not named Sloan, of course), I haven't heard them."
-I Rock Cleveland
"It has taken about 18 months for this Seattle-based power-pop band to release a proper LP; Death to Palaces is that album and in several ways, it's stunning. To put it bluntly, this is a great record by a great band and I can only see them getting better and better. It's easily one of my favorites of 2007."
- Chris B., Three Imaginary Girls
The Familiar Glow of Colliding Particles :
". . . The quartet's keen power pop summons the spirit of classics acts like Cheap Trick and Elvis Costello, but their modern attitude and harmonies also recall more current artists like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists."
- Megan Seling, The Stranger
"Young Sportsmen have released five shattering, pumping, bass-run, drum-pounding, air-guitar shredding power-post-punk-pop songs.....There's something truly exceptional about the energy on this mini-album..."
- Three Imaginary Girls
". . . bringing to mind the very best of The Figgs at their poppiest perfection, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Brendan Benson and Sloan. All five songs are excellent!"
- Not Lame Records
"Easily one of the best local bands I've heard in ages . . . I can hear hints of Superdrag, Sloan and the New Pornographers in each of these five extremely catchy songs, which range from excellent to stunning."
- indiepages.com
"Familiar Glow is a rollicking, energetic pop-rock fiesta rife with bouncy rhythms, tight harmonies and singalong choruses. I'd mention a standout track if that were possible."
- Randomville Magazine
| | Record Label | UNSMASHABLE! | | Type of Label | Indie |
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