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Cast of Thousands (The Adverts album)

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and I found the Adverts' great "Safety in Numbers"/"We Who Wait" single in a record store many years ago and played it over and over, amazed at what a great band we had found. I still listen to the Adverts and follow TV Smith's ongoing musical journey with great interest and as long as he keeps
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noted that the album was still not "an easy listen", but praised the "wild, free and comparatively sophisticated" version of the band, and called the title track a "thrilling, rolling, tumbling, swirling mess of adventure and hope".
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is a fan of the band, and of this album in particular. “The record shows the band’s ability to mesh pop hooks and still hold an edge. Besides The Clash, none of their peers at the time had the chops or the guts to do such work.
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Contemporary critics were generally dismissive of the album and the band's change of direction, but it has since been reevaluated.
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mainstream, but it would also alienate all but the most adaptable of the band's following".
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said, "A flagrant departure from even the most extreme expectations,
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Cast of Thousands (Adverts album)

Studio album
the Adverts
The Manor
Regent's Canal
Genre
New wave
punk rock
post punk
Label
RCA
Producer
Tom Newman
The Adverts
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts
the Adverts
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts
Tom Newman
Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells
Doctors of Madness
Richard Strange
AllMusic
Spin Alternative Record Guide
AllMusic
Dave Thompson
new wave
The Quietus
Henry Rollins

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