A few years ago it seemed as though rock and roll was returning to save us from the wishy washy wastelands of Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Embrace and their legions of emotional rock followers. When I say emotional, I mean despairingly dull. But then, the battered purveyors of gut clenchingly powerful rock began to emerge, shaking off the icy shackles of corporate rock.
We had Jet, who managed a couple of hits before turning into a turgid Oasis tribute band on their most recent album. Then there was The Glitterati who promised much, but have vanished into the netherworld of second album "preparation," and my favourites The Mooney Suzuki, who combined the power of rock with the look of The Banana Splits.
However, the ones who seemed likely to succeed were Young Heart Attack. They seemed to have it all. The look, the songs, the trendy record label. Even the hairier denizens of rock and roll, me included, were suitably impressed when they took on the thankless task of opening for Motorhead on a UK tour. They were so rock and roll, they even got Lemmy from Motorhead to sing on their cover of the AC/DC gem, "Get It Hot."
It doesn't get more rock and roll than that. Mind you, with an attractive young girl in the band, the chances of him not agreeing were slim.
Having seen them first on the Motorhead tour, I was hammering on the doors of the record shop the next day to grab a hold of their Mouthful Of Love debut, and a mighty fine beast it was. But then it all started to go horribly wrong. The album didn't set the charts alight, and then bass player Steven T Hall announced that the band had split.
Just another band who never made it. But then two years passed by, and all of a sudden Young Heart Attack were back. With a new rhythm section, but back nonetheless.
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Article comments
1 - Taggs
YHA are nothing like Oasis. Where on Earth did you bring up that comparison? This album is awesome. Admittedly not as good as the first but damn close. This is the best album released this year so far - at least it is possible to listen to the whole album and not just one or two tracks, which happens with most new albums these days. Anyway, people, forget the Oasis comparison and think more Buckcherry with a female co-singer. I promise some songs on this album such as Vacant Love and Jackboot Goons are the best metal songs you have heard in a long time.
2 - Stuart A Hamilton
Actually, Sir or Madam, I actually compared the last Jet album to Oasis.
Only the tracks "Jump Into The Picture" and "Good Love," sound like latter day Oasis on the YHA album.
3 - bolivraga
I agree with the first commenter - it's a real stretch to find Oasis in there. Good Love is a hell of a lot more AC/DC than Oasis - since when did an Oasis song give anyone other than a Chav a sonic hard-on and a shit eating grin? Personally think it's a hell of a song. Welcome to My World and Hell On Earth have to be pretty close to the killer tunes you lamented the absence of too.
It's not as hard as the first album, granted, but I don't think it tries to be - it just was it does really well - it's damn good. Not an entirely bad review, it's just this sort of music isn't so much meant to be analysed - it's kinda like asking your groin what it thinks of Tolstoy - you gotta use the right organs to analyse music like this...
...and yeah Jennifer is hot ;)