Young Lions - Demography

The second show I ever went to was a grindcore house show with Apathetic Ronald McDonald, Mutilated Pig Guts, Snaggletooth, and then one band that felt out of place, called Young Lions. They pretty much played rock, and I remember hating it at the time, but my friend loved it and bought their "Demography." The next day we were listening to it, and I slowly started to realize how awesome they are over the next few weeks or months or whatever it was. This band was based out of Reno, NV by three kids who love Nirvana (ref: American Love) and who ran Spacement Records (ref: Operation Spacement). At one point the "Demography" my friend bought was lost, and we could no long listen to Young Lions, so I did some serious digging to try to find out how to get into contact with these guys, which was made hard by the fact that they're no long a band, and Spacement is defunct, but eventually I got in contact with Ty, and he was nice enough to send me three copies of the Young Lions "Demography" and a few copies of his new band, My Flag Is On Fire's demo. So I gave two of those to my friends who had liked Young Lions, too. Then we listened to it all the time... And there was much rejoicing.

I really love this band, but I'll admit that not every song on the collection is all that great. My favorites on the album are Stitch The Fabric, a softer song, and The First Day Of Summer Time, which I love listening to at the beginning of a road trip, haha... In my opinion, this album's full of gems, but maybe it's just me because it has some past with me. I say give it a shot!



1. Again & Again
2. American Love
3. Hideout
4. The Loneliest Night In The History Of Time
5. Broken Halos
6. Young Mothers
7. Die With Jacque Cousteau
8. New Gold
9. Swim Like Rats
10. Operation Spacement
11. Stitch The Fabric
12. The First Day Of Summer Time
13. Mellow Loud
14. Little Fists
15. Basement Lungs
16. Future Now