It's a funny thing about the Subways, the first time I heard them I was driving around Vegas, just sort of listening to them out of the corner of my ear, and I remember thinking they were a fun but pretty uninspired garage act - maybe a poor man's Hives or White Stripes. All the same it made for good background music as we cruised along the strip. There was a cheeky confidence about their mostly straight ahead, 2 minute rockers and something immediate and singular about singer Billy Lunn's vocals.

The next time I listened to them it was on a much better stereo and I didn't realize I was listening to the same band. Literally, the first time, I wasn't even told what the name of the band was and so the second time I thought it was some other new band and from the first track on I had a much higher opinion of their music. "What You've Got To Say" the catchy opener with it's acoustic to various electrical voiced guitar attack along with Charlotte's solo verse is just good enough to see yourself falling for this British trio. There was a great deal more to this band than I had originally heard - in fact they reminded me of The Vines back before they started to suck, a little bit of Ash and from about the midpoint out there was a lot of resemblance to Oasis. (In a good way).

Their debut Young For Eternity is the perfect mission statement for a band who wear their raw mostly unrefined talent like a badge of honor - their music pretty much an embodiment of "get out of my way you stupid old wanker" irreverence that you have to like(no matter how old you are).

With bassist and back up singer Charlotte Cooper chiming in mostly in unison and Lunn's younger brother on drums, they alternate between spare acousic ditties and noisy garage rockers. I'm not crazy about first single "Rock and Roll Queen," but the song that follows it "Mary" is a toe-tapper of an acoustic number that reminds of early Kinks. I'd say I like about eight of these twelve bouncy and compact songs - particularly the slower acoustic tunes that suggest that The Subways won't be underground for long.