| 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 | If You Want It:
"Incorporating their influences of pop rock groups from the sixties to the present, Seattle’s powerpop darlings Young Sportsmen have universally culled together the characteristics of their heroes from The Who to XTC to Cheap Trick on their second full-length release, If You Want It"
-Three Imaginary Girls
" . . . under the guidance of producer Johnny Sangster, they’ve taken their trademark power and added more depth, more shading and more texture. The results are completely effective at both the highest highs and the slowest burns."
- KEXP Audioasis blog
"An excellent record from Young Sportsmen, brimming with sharp songwriting, well-crafted arrangements and inspired performances, all superbly captured by producer Johnny Sangster. Like its predecessor, this is immediately appealing power pop with all the requisite energy, volume, hooks, harmonies and melodies . . ."
- Seattle Powerpop Blog
""As if I wasn't already impressed enough with this band (it took one EP to determine that they were easily one of the best bands to come out of Seattle this decade), the level of depth this record shows knocked me back even further!"
- Indiepages.com
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
"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
"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
| | Record Label | UNSMASHABLE! | | Type of Label | Indie |
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