Youth Group - ForeverYoung

Sat 4th Mar, 2006 in Music Reviews

Run in a skipping type fashion to your nearest CD store with your piggy bank in hand and smash it, count your pennies and ask politely for Youth Group’s new single, Forever Young.

The indie hit of summer, Forever Young is getting high rotation across the universe for its appearance on the O.C., in the scene where the two wealthy, good-looking and thin sweethearts decide they need a heavenly song to represent their perfect lives. If you haven’t heard it (seriously, where the fuck have you been?), here’s the jist. Beautiful guitar with pretty rhythms and angelic vocals that fit so well and beautifully together, you decide the group of youths are, infact, angels.

Forever Young makes you want to run and twirl in circles in a field of dandelions. It makes you want to cry and smile, and blow bubbles and watch them pop. It makes you want to love, not in a come hither way, but to love and be loved in the old fashioned way. It makes you want to eat ice cream and hug people on a sunny day. It makes you want to announce you want, nay NEED, to be loved, even though you promised you’d never tell.

All Youth Group songs have a certain ability to touch you right at the heart, when you promised you’d never let anyone in. Forever Young is no different. This Alphaville original suites Youth Group so well that it’s hard to believe it’s not one of their own, the only time a cover has been far superior than the original.

Go out and purchase the single for some of the most beautiful music your ears have heard. Buy it also for Someone Else’s Dream, another beautiful, beautiful song. Buy it and support home-grown talent. Buy it because without this glorious song, you feel you have no reason to live. Buy it and sing and dance in the streets and mount your unicorn and LOVE! Then immediately walk back in and purchase the album, Skeleton Jar.

It’ll change your life, forever and ever and ever.