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Ìt is that time again, the top 2000 has started in the Netherlands (on the radio)

This day's lot start with an all time favorite of mine, number 1356 from the year 1987, I had the album this song came from and I just love the entire album even though the new singer was a real departure from the old vocals from David Lee Roth, it is of course VAN HALEN and why can't this be love.

 
With my little hormones starting to kick in a bit at the beginning of the 80s (I am from 1968), the innocent little me was of the opinion that Agnetha Fältskog was an awfully pretty lady but now, a good 30 plus years later I still enjoy their music so it must have been more than just the hormones LOL

From 1979 Abba with Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)

 
One of the best combined bands (from other bands that is) for me is the traveling wilburys. They had some of the best musicians in that band, a combination of one of my favorite singers of all times Tom Petty, one of the all time greats in Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and George Harrison and you have the makings of a super band.

This is from 1988, at number 1317, The Traveling Wilburys with Handle with Care

 
Now a song that is a bit newer (2009) but sounds like it is much older, a Dutch singer called Caro Emerald with back it up at number 1290

 
This one takes me back to the time I was more than just a metal head, at the time I was still collecting 45 singles and playing them until they were grey and almost unusable. The year is 1984, the song is on number 1265 and is from the Alan Parsons Project, the name of the song is "don't answer me".

Enjoy

 
This is a song that comes in 2 versions again, the first one is from the list, at number 1236 from 1981 we can find Soft Cell and Tainted love. I really like this song but on the other hand I like the new version of this song from Marilyn Manson also a lot so I just have post both (and yes, I did not use the dirty version).



 
As said, there was a time I was not the rock fan I am now, but was really into British songs and bands. Songs like Johnny come home from the Fine Young Cannibals, Spandau Ballet, Dire Straits, etc. etc. This one too is a song that came from my single collection, don't know if everybody knows it but here it is, on number 1156 from the year 1984, Bronski Beat with Small town boy.



This is tonight's last video as I am up to where the list is now, still over 1100 songs to go until we reach number one (which in a response to the terror attacks and all the violence is a hippie love song from the gold old days, Imagine by John Lennon).
 
Peter King said:
With my little hormones starting to kick in a bit at the beginning of the 80s (I am from 1968), the innocent little me was of the opinion that Agnetha Fältskog was an awfully pretty lady but now, a good 30 plus years later I still enjoy their music so it must have been more than just the hormones LOL

From 1979 Abba with Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)

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The Chordettes from back in the 1950's are my favorite female group:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX45pYvxDiA
 
Another day gone by, another slew of songs have passed on the radio show that will go for another 3 days and the song I have selected for you is on the 1104th place in the list and I do not have an idea at all what is being sung here but I love the beat of this song, Manu Chao with Me Gustas Tu

 
number 1075 and another rock classic (IMHO), the boys are back in town from 1976 performed by the late great Phil Lynott strumming his stuff with his band Thin Lizzy. Look at all the weird stuff people had on back then, especially the hairdo's. LOL

 
Weird Wonderful kinda metal (industrial metal) and weirdly on Jimmy Kimmel's show, originally from 1997 but this version is from 2011 (I think), number 1006 Rammstein with Du Hast



This is what I call music.
 
All I can say is number 969, from 1972, Elvis "the King" Aaron Presley with American Trilogy, I love this song so much

 
With all the crappy tv-shows from the past they keep repeating (in the Netherlands), why will they not repeat one of the greatest and also dramatic TV comedy shows ever shown (IMHO again), but from 1970 and number 945 in the list, the theme from *MASH* suicide is painless

 
The very very very very very first concert I ever went to was in the Hanenhof in Geleen (my home town of some 40 years), I only really knew one song from them but it has instilled in me a love of all good music (and not the bad stuff I get to hear too often on the radio, hence me just listening to the radio a few days a year LOL).

From 1982, with me just being a young 14 years old and going to a concert all on my own, number 916 in the list, Dexy's Midnight Runners with Come on Eileen



With the numbers dwindling still to be played it is going to be much more difficult to choose songs because the good songs are coming in thick and heavy and I cannot post them all. LOL.
 
One of my weirdest bands I have a great affinity with is this one, or at least the songs I like from them and this song is one of them. Again from the early 80s, 1981 to be precise, the Talking Heads with Once in a lifetime on number 874

 
The hour now half way through on Dutch Radio is a difficult one for me, it just has so many great songs:

857 Denis - Blondie

856 Zwart Wit - Frank Boeyen Groep (a song recorded when a black 15 year old kid was stabbed by a racist skinhead and no taxi driver wanted to transport the kid to hospital because they did not want blood on their backseat and did not want to break the law that they were not allowed to transport seriously injured people, the ambulance took 20 minutes and he died)

854 Around the world - Daft Punk

853 Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen

851 Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie

850 Jesus he knows me - Genesis

849 We all stand together - Paul McCartney

846 Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly


But I am going to go British once again (I promise, not intentionally) because this song, number 858 is one of the nicest songs I know and I have it on a lot of my mix CD's for in the car, from 1985 (while I hear some idiot letting off fireworks at 1.41am, something that is illegal until the 31st of December) we have Duran Duran with save a prayer

 
In the light of his demise, I have no choice but to add to my list of songs played in the last 24 hours. A song I did not originally choose but here it goes:

Number 896 from 1980, Ace of Spades by Motörhead



May he rest in metal heaven.
 
At 781 we find the man with the 2 differently colored eyes, a space man if there ever was one. David Bowie released this song in 1972 when I was just a wee boy, please enjoy Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie

 
I think this will be the first Dutch language song of the list I am posting, but it is a beauty, from one of the most popular Dutch singers, a song that in Dutch is called "de waarheid" which in English means "the truth" and it is about a song of a man singing that his wife is loosing him and that it is the truth that soon she will be without him and he is thinking about how on earth he is going to tell her.

On number 723 Marco Borsato and "de waarheid/the truth"

 
One of the only somewhat classical music (or at least what sounds classical to me) that I have ever owned, a wonderful voice, that is what this blind Italian singer has in spades. There is an English version with Sarah Brightman but I like the Italian version one:

Number 697, from 1996, Andrea Bocelli with Con te partiro

 
At 646 we find one of my all time favorite songs, the singer has sadly died in an airplane accident but his voice will live on forever, as will this song.

From 1976, John Denver and Annie's song

 
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