Product Description

One of the greatest British albums of recent years Young For Eternity is the massively anticipated debut from the hotly tipped Subways. Produced by Ian Broudie (The Zutons and The Coral), Young For Eternity finds The Subways writing material of the quality you’d expect from seasoned songwriters but performing it with the heart and soul that only youth can truly provide. Features the hits "Oh Yeah" and "Rock & Roll Queen".

Track Listing

1. I Want to Hear What you Have Got to Say
2. Holiday
3. Rock & Roll Queen
4. Mary
5. Young For Eternity
6. Lines of Light
7. Oh Yeah
8. City Pavement
9. No Goodbyes
10. With You
11. She Sun
12. Somewhere
13. At 1AM

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8671 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-04
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The debut album from The Subways proves that for a man approaching his seventies, Glastonbury’s Michael Eavis has excellent taste. Eavis plucked The Subways’ demo from a pile of demos and pushed this young trio – frontman Billy Lunn, his girlfriend, bassist Mary-Charlotte Cooper, and his brother, drummer Josh Morgan – onto the Other Stage at Glasto 2004.

A long, hot summer on, Young For Eternity fulfils all their early potential: "I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say" and "Oh Yeah" barrel along with the raw, adrenalised energy of Nirvana or The White Stripes - full-bodied, powerful anthems that lose none of their live passion in the studio setting. Lunn’s oft-stated admiration for Oasis surfaces on "Mary", a sort of amped-up "She’s Electric" that’s actually, rather sweetly, a love song from singer to bassist. Ms Cooper, too, however, has a pretty great voice: more grit-edged rock bitch than cooing indie-waif, it invests the likes of "Oh Yeah" and "City Pavement" with a smouldering – nay, flat-out roaring – chemistry that’s all the more engaging because it’s actually 100% genuine. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
'Young For Eternity' is the debut album from UK based three-piece indie rock outfit The Subways. Picked from obscurity to play The Other Stage at Glastonbury 2004 by Michael Eavishimself, the trio have earned praise from the music weeklies for their mix of grunge, garage-blues, and indie rock. Produced by Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie, the album features the singles 'Rock 'n' Roll Queen' and 'Oh Yeah'.

Customer Reviews

Great Debut
Unlike some of the reviewers, I bought the album before seeing them live and it was because I enjoyed this album so much that I went to see them at the Lemon Grove in Exeter. There are elements of the White Stripes and Nirvana as mentioned elsewhere but they have a British feel and a sense of pop history that makes them different.

Lost the "live" edge
Judging by the reviews here, I'm in the minority regarding my opinion of this album. It's far from being terrible, but somewhere along the line The Subways went from being a fantastic live act to delivering a rather average album.

My first encounter with the band was around 18 months ago at a gig in Cardiff, which I attended purely on a whim. They were astonishing, with Lunn thrashing about the stage like an electrified whirling-dervish (quite literally bouncing off the walls at some points), and Cooper oozing the sort of rock-chick cool that prompted several enthusiastic propositions from the crowd.

Meanwhile, Morgan, stripped to the waist, went at the drums like Animal from the Muppets made flesh.

I left there convinced I'd witnessed the Next Big Thing(TM), and enthusiastically extolled their virtues to anyone who'd listen. Finally, at long last, the album came out. And it's become rather (gasp) poppy.

There's still a bit of the original swagger in the likes of "Rock & Roll Queen", "1 AM", and "Oh Yeah", all of which have been knocking around for quite a while, but even these older tracks sound like they've been smoothed down when compared with the "taster" CDs that used to be on sale at the gigs.

This isn't necessarily that surprising, but with the sharp edges taken away, it all sounds rather sterile.

Maybe it's a problem of expectation, but I'd assumed The Subways would get the sort of stick-hitting-a-tin-can production of The White Stripes, and instead they got... Ian Broudie? The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie?! No wonder it sounds like it's been hit with the pop-tastic stick.

All-in-all then, a bit of a let-down, but still a few glimmers of hope in there. And I just can't help singing along to "Mary"...

Fantastic Debut, Easily THE Best of 2005!
Well, what can I say? This has to be one of the best debut albums that I have ever heard! The album oozes with talent, passion and energy.

After seeing The Subways perform as the support act to Charlotte Hatherly I was hooked, I could not get enough of them, the 2 track demo I had could not meet my needs and I could not wait for the album, a couple of gigs, a few downloads, 2 singles and 10 months later my prayers were answered and out came the album! And I was not disappointed! The songs were still short, the lyrics catchy and the vocals dripping with pure passion and a love of what they do.

The songs have remained mainly the same as the live versions, although the fantastic opening track 'I want to hear what you have got to say ' has had a bit of a lyric change. The album boasts 2 top 25 tracks, ('Oh Yeah' and Rock N Roll Queen') which isn't bad going for a band that 2 years ago were barely out of school! (Actually I think Mary-Charlotte may still have been there, that isn't important though.) Then they were thrown into fame after winning the unsigned bands competition at Glasto, where they then played there again this year.

The stand out track for me has to be 'Mary' which I had heard live and could not wait to own! The song is of course for Billy's wonderful beau (and bassist) Mary-Charlotte. The track is all about young love and the catchy chorus sums up every teenager in the country in one easy sentence 'I'm so lazy, I ain't done much lately.' Purely and simply, genius. Don't get me wrong the other songs are just as fantastic, coming a close second has to be 'I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say' followed by the melodic and frankly spine tingling 'With You.'

There are only two things that I would change about this album, 'At 1am' would have its own track and the album would be longer! Although I could still listen to it all day, at under 45 minutes, it is a tad on the short side.

It's amazing how a debut by a relatively unknown band can contain only good songs, many bands that have been around for years cannot boast such an achievement. So if you like rock and good music then this is definitely the album for you.