From the 1991 album We Can't Dance by Genesis. I am returning to posting again but will not write that much accompinying stuff.

Original clip.

Hello you visitors, even if you are not dutch… please take a listen to this excellent song by Marco Borsato. In my humble (or not so humble) opinion one of the best songs ever. Which is strange cause normally I don’t like mainstream music that much; and you don’t get much more mainstream in the Netherlands than this.

Original clip.

Got to give it up for Talk Talk, one of the best bands of the eighties. Sadly enough singer Mark Hollis completely quit the music business after he released one solo album, following the demise of Talk Talk.

Studio version with sleeve.
Live in 1986.

Screaming Trees… not very well known, still one of my all time favorite bands. This one had to grow on me quite a bit, but I play it on repeat constantly these days.

Official artsy clip. Sony, so won’t be viewable in, for instance, Germany. Bastards.
Live in 1997, everything was a bit less polished… I believe that Josh Homme plays 2nd guitar here.

As a reaction to the previous song… here is Lynyrd Skynyrd. One of my favorite bands, this was one of the first songs I recorded myself using sound on sound.

Studio version.
Live in 1975 at the Old Grey Whistle Test.
Live @ Knebworth, 1976

Because local soccer club FC Twente became dutch champion yesterday, this song by Hot Chocolate is very fitting today. Did you know that singer Errol Brown was knighted MBE for his ‘services to popular music’?

Original clip, with their address in Cologne.

Living Colour’s timeless song Love Rears It's Ugly Head that didn’t lose any of its power. As in most Living Colour songs, I don’t care much about the soloing. At home we refer to that kind of guitar use as ‘vriepselen’ (phonetically pronounced like vreep-suh-luhn).

Original clip.

Paranoimia has to be one of the whackiest songs that became a hit… I remember watching this with open mouth thinking WTF?
Art Of Noise was one of the projects of the multi-talented Trevor Horn, of The Buggles and Yes fame.

Original clip featuring Max Headroom.
Original clip NOT featuring Max Headroom.
Art Of Noise live, met een citaat uit Monopoly…

Talk Talk to me was the best band in the otherwise musically very sad 1980s. It’s time to do them more justice on the 10k songs. It's My Life is one of the first songs I can remember being played on CD on a special radio show in the Netherlands called The CD Show.

Clip with nature shots and non-lipsyncing Mark Hollis.
Extended version with lipsyncing band.

Of courses when this first came out I thought it was bad, because disco obviously was.
But just listen to how well this is composed and played as compared to the current crap you hear on the radio… in fact this is an excellent song. I don’t hate it anymore.

Clip from 1977