#95: The Mission / "Tower of Strength"

- Writer(s): Craig Adams, Mick Brown, Simon Hinkler, & Wayne Hussey
- Year: 1988
- Album: Children

I almost have enough money for a good guitar, but I’m not going to bother with the lessons.  I found the tabs for some songs that should be easy to learn.  Actually, some of the best songs are quite simple.  It’s not what you play, but how you play it.

Like “Tower of Strength,” I will strum out E, C#, D, F, D over and over, for 8 minutes (I’m told, this is the longest song in our countdown), but the results will be anything but redundant.  My mantra will entrance audiences, as the intensity builds and builds, until they are shaken with a fierce eruption!

Imagine thousands of dwarves.  Like worker ants, they repeatedly heave stones and pound with hammers – all the while becoming progressively mesmerized with their work.  Brick by brick, the monolith grows, until the climactic placing of the capstone upon the summit in the heavens – a Tower of Power which no army nor earthquake can strike down!

Wayne Hussey is like a male version of Geddy Lee.  His voice may quiver at first, as he’s unsure of his footing, but as the verses progress, his confidence grows, and his masculine croon grows in strength and intensity!

And check out this badass video (albeit of the edited single version).  As valiant missionary of the Wild West, he rides into the city’s corporate district upon a mighty white steed, leading his team of ghostbusters to vanquish the evil samurai birdmen with lethal proton beams!