1990s Towers Street Soundtrack

[Rowe]

Hi all, whilst listening to the aforementioned track during a long car journey, @Cheese and I got talking about the different sections and which attractions they were from. Whilst there are some I can identify (i.e. Peter Rabbit & Friends on Ice, Haunted House's Final Chase), I'm uncertain about others.

Also, whilst I'm here I guess I may as well mention that, whenever I do have a theme park playlist on shuffle (whether it's all tracks or exclusively anything 10+ minutes), that I never skip it. I love it dearly.

So, my two Qs are:

1. Is there indeed a list on what attraction music is in the '90s Towers Street soundtrack?

2. Does anyone else still dearly love the track and listen to it every time it crops up in their own playlists? Or just likes it from a respectable distance?

 

[Ash]

Absolutely, I’ve drawn the comparison a few times but compared to the proper orchestral scores used at Efteling, Alton has really gone backwards. Although a HQ version only exists of the main theme from Graham smart, I’d give anything to hear the rest in better quality.

As mentioned I think it uses:
0:00-1:46 Towers st theme
1:46-4:40 Old McDonalds Farm
4:40-5:30 fill
5:10-6:40 Peter Rabbit theme
6:40-9:10 ITHOMK
9:10-10:09 fill
10:09-12:44 HH
12:44-13:23 towers street theme
Repeat

It’s probably one of my most listened to pieces of music. The it’s like a memory time machine for me, of the plaza in the morning at the start of the day, or the end of a long day plodding up towers street.

Into the mid 00s it was butchered and replaced with some complete tat. Although i did enjoy the “resort soundtrack” from around 07 I think it was.

Combined with the destruction of the ticket booths, a lot of the charm of the entrance plaza was taken away, and now like a lot of things, with its dodgy planters, awful plastic security tents, absurdly long single queue and lack of festoon lighting. It’s a downgrade.

Returning some of the “Victorian charm” to Towers Street the plaza and returning TWODW/Cred St/CCL/The Land of Make Believe back to Talbot St would be a big positive step.

 

[RoyalFool]

^ pretty much nailed the track list, it has a couple of different McDonald farm area tracks, the haunted house exit queue music, copious amounts of HOTMK and it's own little "The adventure begins" towers street segments.

I still listen to it a lot, I got to go once a year if I was lucky (on my birthday is the weather held up!) and would listen to this tune on the way out, then hum it in the car on the way home in the hopes of learning how to play the main bit on the keyboard at home, but my memory wasn't good enough for a 3 hour car ride so could only ever recall a few notes, then kicked myself for the rest of the year until I got to go again.

First thing I did once I got the internet (yes I'm old) was email the composers etc who were often kind enough to send me a copy. The full track is 25 minutes long, the 2nd half is mostly reprise versions of the first half.