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#peachtober20 Day 5 and today's prompt is sword. Well, for me there was only one song. Back in the early 1980s I was not really the target audience for the punk bands of the time. Ska and New Wave together with the burgeoning synth pop scene were my musical heartlands.
I had enjoyed some records that were clearly in the punk genre, but I kept it at arms length. Then in 1981 along came Tenpole Tudor with Swords of a Thousand Men. A rousing singalong with a simple but hugely effective guitar riff at the start and the bravaura drumming.
As well as the great music, @EdwardTudorPole created an iconography and lyrical content that harked back cleverly to medieval battles. I don't think he gets enough credit for this, because Adam Ant was doing something very similar and was rightly lauded for his creativity.
The knockabout nature of Swords of a Thousand Men and the follow up Wunderbar, meant they were not taken seriously and the curation of their music and image were not properly acknowledged. Tenpole Tudor were a genuinely good band in all aspects and Swords is a brilliant song.
It absolutely captured my imagination and led me into the highways and byways of punk via @EdwardTudorPole 's previous incarnation as a possible replacement for Johnny Rotten in the @pistolsofficial In the film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. I watched the film and loved it!
Thanks to @EdwardTudorPole the whole punk scene opened out and over the years I have grown to love the rawness of the music and spent a lot of time looking back to discover or rediscover the great punk bands. Here is the track that started it all for me.
