More Songs About Buildings and Architects (Playlist help)

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Pulp - "Mile End"

fits, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link

Saint Etienne - "When I Was Seventeen"

Lubetkin, Corbusier, Van Der Rohe, Mendelsohn.
Modern. Modern. Brutalist architecture.
Future, future.
The future is clean and modern.

epigone, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link

Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes
Piano Magic - Dutch Housing
John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
XTC - Let's Make a Den
Martin Newell - We'll Build a House
Geraldine Fibbers - A Song About Walls

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 May 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link

van der graaf generator's "house with no door" is a heartwrenching song about a total architectural failure

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 May 2017 01:33 (six years ago) link

In Every Dream Home, a Heartache

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 4 May 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link

Different kind of building:
Genesis - Driving The Last Spike
(It's about 19th century British railway construction workers.)

Valentijn, Thursday, 4 May 2017 06:30 (six years ago) link

Chairmen Of The Board, "Working On A Building of Love" (this is a good one)

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 May 2017 07:46 (six years ago) link

Totally useless for playlist purposes but "Waiting for the Moving Van" by David Ackles is relevant (lyric from the POV of someone having to leave his house due to redevelopment, IIRC).

Tim, Thursday, 4 May 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link

Raiden ‎– Beton Armé
Label: Offkey ‎– OKCD002
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 08 Jun 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum n Bass

Tracklist

1 Barbican 6:07
2 Trinity 5:19
3 Tricorn 6:21
4 Brutalist 6:01
5 Trellick 6:28
6 Genie Civil 6:27
7 Habitat 67 4:57
8 Genex 6:08
9 Triangle 5:46
10 Ryugyong 5:24
11 Balfron 6:08

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 4 May 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link

XTC (kinda custom built for this subject) - Ball & Chain

MaresNest, Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link

XTC, "Bungalow"

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link

Nits - The Bauhaus Chair
Nits - Office At Night
Nits - The Eiffel Tower

MaresNest, Thursday, 4 May 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link

gorillaz - rock the house.

mark e, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link

Geraldine Fibbers - A Song About Walls

Stupid me, I forgot that the very next track on the album is "House Is Falling"

Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 May 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link

Architettura - A series exploring the synergy between the man-made worlds of architecture and electronic music.

Volume 1 - Savvas Ysatis And Taylor Deupree - Tower Of Winds (1998)
Volume 2 - Tetsu Inoue - Waterloo Terminal (1998)
Volume 3 - David Toop - Museum Of Fruit (1999)
Volume 4 - Panacea - Brasília (2000)

Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 May 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link

REM - Life and How to Live it IIRC

gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Friday, 5 May 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link

Sybarite - "Renzo Piano"

henry s, Friday, 5 May 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link

Papas Fritas - "Vertical Lives" is all about architecture ("only geodesic domes can save us now")

enochroot, Saturday, 6 May 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link

Papas Fritas - "Vertical Lives" is all about architecture ("only geodesic domes can save us now")

That explains the picture of the Seagrams Building on the inside of the booklet.

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link

Wax - Building A Bridge To Your Heart

Siegbran, Monday, 8 May 2017 06:42 (six years ago) link

Kraftwerk - Metropolis

Siegbran, Monday, 8 May 2017 07:46 (six years ago) link


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