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the subways 'young for eternity' the subways
young for eternity
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Incendiary teenage punkers rebel by numbers.

With singer Billy Lunn's tonsil-lacerating Kurt Cobain howl and his bass-playing girlfriend Charlotte Cooper's line in miniskirts, Welwyn Garden City's Subways are a sweaty-palmed marketing department's idea of two-fingers-to-the-universe rock’n’roll. While not bereft of the odd good tune, the teenage trio’s debut is a trip to the 90s indie-rock wreckers yard – an untidy cut-and-shut of the front end of Nirvana and the back of the Manic Street Preachers. Smells like teen spirit, sounds like old hat.


Jim Wirth 01 July 05 rating of 2
The Subways - Young For Eternity, released 04 July 05 on City Pavement/Warner Brothers.
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