Tenpole Tudor - Let the Four Winds Blow
#595
November 1981
Tenpole Tudor
Let the Four Winds Blow
Genre: Punk-ish.
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Let the Four Winds Blow
What You Doing in Bombay
A touch of Oi, a bit of rockabilly and a lot of celiac swagger, Four Winds isn’t as surprising or electric as Eddie but, for what it is it’ll do in a pinch. It’s weird that I listened to this just after The Skids, but that’s how the list was crafted. I wonder if this record had arrived first or a few records later if it would rate lower.
Or higher.
I can’t tell anymore.
While the single, “Throwing My Baby Out with the Bathwater” made a wee splash (he he) I prefer the softer, more melodic offering of “Trumpeters” and there the anonymous sounding barnburners Like, “What You Doing in Bombay” and “Her Fruit is Forbidden”.
The Tudors will never win a songwriting competition but no song is repugnant. How’s that for a middling review?
Tenpole Tudor come across like a bar band who have a staunch set of 85 fans who try to make it to every gig. But they can’t expand it so they break up and their leader goes off to work in television and they don’t put out any more material for 30 years.
Hey, waitaminnit.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/let-the-four-winds-blow/1368014792
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