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Tower Records

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 There's plans to reopen the Post Office Tower in London in time for the Olympics.
Which is a good opportunity to post this clip which is not only fascinating for the social history it contains but it's astonishing barking electronic "music" and retro animation.

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So what are the great songs about towers and or going round and round.

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XTC "Towers Of London"

is probably as close as you're going to get.

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Retro Man | 2 November 2009 - 5:20pm

Damn you Chris!

I had hopes Tower Records were reopening in the UK again, especially that Glasgow branch. :(

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James Blast | 2 November 2009 - 5:30pm

Now there's a Idea

forget some snail porridge peddling restaurant how about a record shop that slowly revolves over central London perhaps with a bar.

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Chris G | 2 November 2009 - 6:29pm

Laughing Len

Tower of Song

Sugababes - Round Round

Can't get more precise than that.

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Black Type | 2 November 2009 - 5:34pm

Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song

"I said to Hank Williams, 'How lonely does it get?'
Hank Williams hasn't answered me yet
But I hear him coughing, all night long"

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Douglas | 2 November 2009 - 5:36pm

A rousing oldie...

Tower of Strength by Frankie Vaughan

If it doean't make you smile a bit, you might as well give up now.

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milkybarnick | 2 November 2009 - 5:48pm

another "... of Strength"

by The Mission

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James Blast | 2 November 2009 - 6:00pm

The Tower

by Mordant Music sounds like an unholy mix of Sunn 0)))-style drone, dubstep and Italian horror film soundtracks and and is highly recommended if you've a taste for dark, leftfield electronica.

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Albert Edward | 2 November 2009 - 6:06pm

Elton John

Tower Of Babel.


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Dave Amitri | 2 November 2009 - 6:52pm

another Tower...

of love' by Jim Noir

And don't forget Dead Or Alive's You Spin Me Right Round...

Plus Kylie's Spinning Around

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robram | 2 November 2009 - 7:12pm

I'm glad

you called it the Post Office Tower. BT Tower just sounds wrong.

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Johan | 2 November 2009 - 8:46pm

Human League


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slinky | 2 November 2009 - 10:02pm

Seventies footballer questionnaire

The Telecom Tower was always their favourite restaurant, as Steak & kidney pie and chips was their favourite meal, and lager their top drink... ah those were the days.

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sleepytigercub | 3 November 2009 - 2:24pm

I want to eat there!!

...providing it doesn't cost about a grand a head.

By the way, the soundtrack is by John Baker from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (largely released under a pseudonym on a library music album). Lots of tape manipulation and cut-ups of of found sounds going on there.

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PhilC | 3 November 2009 - 2:39pm

thanks Philc

I assumed it was something like that it was a bit more extreme than usual promo music

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Chris G | 3 November 2009 - 2:45pm
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