The Who, T Rex, Thin Lizzy, Journey, Night Ranger, Quite Riot, Nirvana - the rock anthem is a genre unto itself, but in the world of indie rock there are precious few songs vying for consideration into this elite club. Japandroids threw down out of the starting gate with "The Boys Are Leaving Town" from their self-titled debut and created a new rock anthem on an album chock full of 'em. In a year of coldwave, retro, synthgasm lo-fi shitgaze, these boys countered with the battle cry of 'Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll!,' and it was glorious. Frankly it was hard to find a clip of this one, not because there were a lack of them, but because there were so many great ones. So I am going to put up the studio version here, and two of my personal fave live clips here and here. There is a sea of awesome live clips of this and many of their other songs on the 'ol youtube. I recommend you check as many of them out as possible, because this band is that fucking good.
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