Waiting For Bonaparte - Men They Couldn't Hang

Description: Genre: Rock - Pop Rock / Artist: Men They Couldn't Hang / Audio CD released 1988-07-04 at Magnet / Disc #1 ... more

Waiting For Bonaparte - Men They Couldn't Hang ... Tracklisting
1 Crest
2 Smugglers
3 Dover Lights
4 Bounty Hunter
5 Island In The Rain
6 Colours
7 Midnight Train
8 Father's Wrong
9 Life Of A Small Fry
10 Mary's Present
11 Silver Dagger
12 Restless Highway
13 Country Song
14 Crest (2)

Newest Review: ... but showed that the band were still a bit unfocused. Here though, everything just came together in those rare moments of ... more

... clarity. The album opens with a drone and drum beat which builds until the trade mark mandolin cuts right through your spine and drags you headlong into The Crest, a song of breaking that tradition of going off to war to be sacrificed, just because that's what the men of the family always have done. From its country influenced opening licks to the fade out as the band echo away into nothing, The Crest really sets out the store and prepares you for the roller coaster ride that this album offers. The more acoustic j...more

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	Waiting for Bonaparte Release Date: 1988 - 07 - 04, Audio CD, Magnet Last Update 22.11.2009 05:45	£ 54.64

Waiting for Bonaparte
Release Date: 1988 - 07 - 04, Audio CD, Magnet

Last Update 22.11.2009 05:45

£ 54.64

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Waiting For Bonaparte - Men They Couldn't Hang: A smugglers life for me (1465 words)
by - written on 06/07/06 (Very useful, 363 readings)
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The Men They Couldn't Hang have always been a band that are difficult to define in the scheme of things. More a rock band employing folk style than the other way round, too straight for the traveller crowd, too progressive for the folk purists and too obscure to reach the main stream they have hung about in the musical ether for twenty odd years, and I bet most of you reading this have never heard of them. Rising from a collection of small time bands and buskers from London’s squat scene, TMTCH have been knocking out original and unequalled albums for years and in many peoples opinion, mine included, their defining moment came with 1988’s Waiting for Bonaparte. The ... Read the complete review