Audio CD review:
Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand Men

Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand Men

Band: Tenpole Tudor Title: Swords of a Thousand Men Rating: Release Date: 13 January, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Swords of a Thousand Men 2: Go Wilder 3: I Wish 4: Header Now 5: There Are Boys 6: Wunderbar 7: Three Bells in a Row 8: Tell Me More 9: Judy Annual 10: I Can't Sleep 11: Anticipation 12: What Else Can I Do 13: Confessions 14: Love and Food 15: There Are Boys [Son of Stiff Version] 16: Wunderbar [Hit Single Version] 17: Let the Four Winds Blow 18: Throwing My Baby Out With the Bathwater 19: Trumpeters 20: It's Easy to See 21: What You Doing in Bombay? 22: Local Animal 23: Her Fruit Is Forbidden 24: Tonight Is the Night 25: Unpaid Debt 26: King of Siam 27: Sea of Thunder 28: Conga Tribe 29: Tenpole 45 30: Fashion 31: Rock & Roll Music

Customer Reviews The most cheerful Rock Album ever If you like good, driving British Rock, you must own this! Alan. Good Rock, great band, great lyrics, these guys are just having fun and you can hear it. Sheer Brilliance The sheer quality of Ed Tudor Poles' voice mixed with some banging beats, guitar reps and other sounds makes Ten Pole Tudor stand out. Ten Pole Tudor, probably the most underrated group of all time. After hearing the album i could not think of a better album that anyone has done. With the incredibly catchy 'Swords Of A Thousand Men' and the great track 'Wonderbar'. Who knows why they didn't make it big all over the world. I want to make it my goal to bring Ten Pole Tudor back, so they can entertain us with more legendary music of theirs. Bravo!. Underrated genius Their sound can best be described as Fred Schneider of The B-52s ("What You Doing In Bombay") meets Adam & The Ants ("Let The Four Winds Blow") with a dash of Big Audio Dynamite ("Conga Tribe" & "Tenpole 45") and George Thoroughgood & the Destroyers ("It's Easy To See") thrown in for good measure. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't provide song samples for the this double-CD set so, unless you're familiar with Tenpole Tudor, you're buying blind. Which is one reason TT never hit it big - from the anthemic rock of "Swords Of A Thousand Men" and "It's Easy To See" to the incredibly infectious "What You Doing In Bombay" (which would be right at home on any B-52s album) to the country-tinged "Love And Food" to the total inanity of "Wunderbar," this band is all over the musical map. Although TT is usually regarded as a punk band, there's none of the disaffected rage of the Sex Pistols or The Clash. As the upbeat TT didn't take their band's image at all seriously, this is a group that would have found its true calling as England's punk-rock version of The Monkees (complete with TV show). Their musicianship is another matter entirely - it's virtually flawless. If your music collection contains any Adam and the Ants, Wreckless Eric, Bow Wow Wow, Plastic Bertrand, or Big Audio Dynamite, then this double-CD set (containing almost their entire catalogue) deserves a place of honor in your CD carousel. . You can see a complete list of all Tenpole Tudor discography, or go back to the Tenpole Tudor tabs