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TOWER BLOCK AERIAL

Learned to mix on a pirate radio station that broadcast from a tower block for eleven years

vex on it

the floor

Honest use case: People who enjoy storytelling over musical genre adherence.

Exhibit:And half of London heard it and the other half was free

style

  • drum and bass
  • rolling breakbeat
  • deep sub bass
  • liquid rolling groove
  • MC vocal chops
  • jungle heritage
  • british accent
  • fast and euphoric
  • british accent
  • fast

the numbers

bpm
117
key
C# major
energy
0.74
dance
0.94
valence
0.59
vocal at
5.3s
length
3:00
words
165
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “tower” ×9 · “block” ×9 · “aerial” ×9

lyrics

(tower block)

Aerial gaffered to a railing on the seventeenth floor
Transmitter in a cupboard where the meters used to be
Eleven years of Saturdays and nobody kept score
And half of London heard it and the other half was free

And the police came twice and took the box
And we had another box, we always had another box

Tower block aerial, tower block aerial, seventeen floors up
Everything I know I learned from somebody's older brother
Tower block aerial, tower block aerial, nobody said stop
And that scene raised about a thousand of us like a mother

It's a coffee place now, downstairs, where the crew used to wait
And I've been in there twice and I don't think I'll go again

Tower block aerial, tower block aerial, seventeen floors up
Everything I know I learned from somebody's older brother
Tower block aerial, tower block aerial, nobody said stop
And that scene raised about a thousand of us like a mother

(seventeen floors)