Cool 80s Song of the Day

[jon_chaisson]

The Mission UK, "Tower of Strength" from their Children album.

I love the album version, which is twice as long and has a really gorgeous slow build up to the ending. Yeah, there's the spaghetti western/undertaker look going, but considering this band was once one half of Sisters of Mercy, the goth look kind of makes sense. They tended to be a bit more bombastic and less doom-and-gloom than SoM, but they had some great songs back in the day.

[EDIT: The original version of the video is out there, but the sound quality isn't all that great. This version of the video was done six years later in '94 for a greatest hits compilation, and the editing is horrendous--that is, a handful of new and old scenes looped in their entirety twice. You can find the original here.]