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Tower of Love

~ Jim Noir

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Audio CD (5 Dec 2005)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: My Dad Recordings
ASIN: B000BYY1PK
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 61,752 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. My Patch [Album Version] 4:05 �0.69

2. I Me You I'm Your (Album Version) 2:40 �0.69

3. Computer Song (Album Version) 2:56 �0.69

4. How To Be So Real (Album Version) 4:53 �0.69

5. Eanie Meany [Album Version] 2:40 �0.69

6. Tower Of Love (Album Version) 3:48 �0.69

7. Key Of C (Album Version) 3:25 �0.69

8. Turbulent Weather (Album Version) 3:07 �0.69

9. Turn Your Frown Into A Smile (Album Version) 5:12 �0.69

10. A Quiet Man (Album Version) 3:10 �0.69

11. Eanie Meany 2 (Album Version) 2:53 �0.69

12. The Only Way (Album Version includes ''I Can't See" secret track) 6:45 �0.69

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Debut Album from Mr Nwaar, 24 Feb 2006

By	Mr. B. Robbins "bsrobbins" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This album is an absoloute joy! I heard a track played on late night Radio 2 and thought 'WOW' - what IS this!? I bought the album on the strength of that single track and was not disappointed with any of the remaining tracks. Yes, it's slightly quirky, but the tunes are so infectiously catchy that I can't stop playing it! Jim's style? Difficult to pinpoint but a definite retro feel with nods to the Mamas and the Papas and an obvious comparison to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys - the latter on account of Jim's glorious harmonies. There's even an instrumental track that could have been lifted from 'Pet Sounds'. The most amazing thing is that Jim has recorded this material as a one man band (although he's touring with some friends to help out with the harmonies and other instruments!). I urge you to give it a listen as I don't know anyone who hasn't heard it and said 'Wow, who is this guy?' and 'can I have a copy?'. Buy your own!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jim Noir - superstar!, 15 Feb 2006

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This is amazing! I bought it last week and haven't stopped listening to it since; every track is a gem. What does it sound like? Try to imagine the Beach Boys of the Pet Sounds era being covered by the French duo Air playing in their front room and you might begin to get close. The lyrics are very British though, with playful lines like "If you don't give my football back I'm gonna get my dad on you." You'll be hard pushed to find a better record to soundtrack the summer this year - charming from beginning to end.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A tower of love in more ways than one, 26 Dec 2005

By	russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Tower of Love [Digipak] (Audio CD)

Re-calling such delights as early Laptop, Robyn Hitchcock, XTC off shot The Dukes Of Stratosphear and most commonly signposted, The Beach Boys Jim Noir is quite literally a one man band as he plays every instrument on this, his debut album. A singular vision Tower Of Love is with out doubt the warmest wittiest most consistently enjoyable pop album of 2005.This album would cheer up a lamp post whose bulb had gone out.
In terms of musical influences and the overall ambience of the album you would probably guess that Jim Noir hailed from the leafy suburbs of of some affluent Southern town but his Manc accent and distinctly Northern humour, obsessions and phraseology give away his Manchester roots. Listening to "Eanie Meany" where his protagonist won't "Give his football back" and is threatened with "I'm gonna get my dad on yer" it's the sort of childhood experience I would write about if I had any musical talent, That and dog on the park , playing kiss cuddle or torture and apple nicking. "Eanie Meany 2" sound like Air rather perversely
Playful self decapitating humour is prevalent throughout this album. Set to breezy sunny harmonies, skittering keyboard melodies and plangent plucked acoustic guitar he sings an ode to his computer and the many frustrations it puts him through. "Every time I try to make a silly little song/ My efforts are all wasted because machinery goes wrong." "My Patch", a former single , is the most aggressive song on the album with it's skipping beat but it's threat to "Bring you down" is loaded with about as much menace as "C.I.T.V" at three thirty on a Tuesday. "Key of C" has a brilliant perambulating keyboard written presumably in the key of C "Because it's easier to play it". Last track "The Only Way" is a nutmegging ballad which seems to finish at around three minutes but after sixty seconds of silence instaurate, s itself back again with it, s temporal layers of instrumentation and low key vocal harmony.
This is a very charming record, not something I'd ever thought I'd say about music as a recommendation with it's middle class connotations but it's true and it most definitely is a recommendation as this quietly luscious album is the most understated purely pleasurable musical experience of the year....by light years. It towers above everything else really.

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