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The Ten Tenors

If you want to get the same feeling you will get by going out and paying $29.95 for this CD you should simply get a street-thug to bail you up on the street, rob you and take $29.95 from your wallet. That way you’ll still feel like you’ve been robbed but at least you won’t have to suffer the insult of having to listen to the album. The Ten Tenors have now been around for ten years, they are simply the cockroaches of the music world… the fad that simply don’t want die. One listen to their new album ‘Nostalgica’ and you’ll see that there is nothing special about their voices and this time a lot of the music on the album doesn’t even fit the ‘tenor’ vocal range… they are little more than a glorified pop group with deep voices. Their versions of ‘Night And Day’, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ and ‘Swinging On A Star’ don’t use their tenor voices at all and the last is so bad (and so cheesy) you have to stop yourself from thinking that you are listening to a comedy band. The versions of classics such as ‘What A Wonderful World’, ‘Danny Boy’ and ‘Moon River’ are patchy at best but it is ‘Over The Rainbow’ that they absolutely murder. This classic literally becomes unrecognisable until they reach the chorus. The fad that was The Ten Tenors has run its course, it is time to let them go and let them fade away into the distance (or the $2 bin at your local music store) and never hear of them again.