Dutch people are rather cool. On Radio 3Fm they have chosen a 80's top 100 and guess who made the top 10?

I think it's a rather funky list....

1 The Cure - A Forest - 1980
2 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday - 1985
3 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary - 1986
4 Falco - Jeanny - 1986
5 Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right - 1987
6 A-Ha - Take On Me - 1985
7 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine - 1988
8 U2 - With Or Without You - 1987
9 Golden Earring - When The Lady Smiles - 1984
10 New Order - Blue Monday - 1983

It's a weird top 10, but at least The Cure made nr 1 and New Order is there too!

Weirdest to me are first Falco, who did some English/German language singles with Dutch producers The Bollands (you might heard of Rock Me Amadeus), but at least it's rather cutting edge 80's.
Then A-Ha? Okay, it was a HUGE hit. But in this list they stand out.

Golden Earring's When The Lady Smile is still vintage 80's. It was a big hit all over the world, but if you haven't heard it; download it. It's 80's rock and I have it also... it's pure nostalgia to me.

I love GnR there, btw. Their first album was niiiiice.

I like the ecclectic taste of Dutchies. Can't wait to find out what the other 90 are like... they announce them soon.

And it seems they also did a top 50 of mostremarkable 80's hits last weekend...

Look!

1 Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes (i've Had) The Time Of My Life
2 Sniff 'n The Tears Driver's Seat
3 Elton John Nikita
4 Champaign How 'bout Us
5 Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You
6 Usa For Africa We Are The World
7 Bangles Eternal Flame
8 Bruce Springsteen Dancing In The Dark
9 Kaoma Lambada
10 Electronica's De Vogeltjesdans
11 June Lodge & Prince Mohammed Someone Loves You Honey
12 Commodores Nightshift
13 Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain
14 Communards Don't Leave Me This Way
15 Billy Ocean When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going
16 Madonna Into The Groove
17 Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora When The Rain Begins To Fall
18 Paul Hardcastle 19
19 Benny Neyman Waarom Fluister Ik Je Naam Nog
20 Ub 40 & Chrissie Hynde I Got You Babe
21 Pat Benatar Love Is A Battlefield
22 Anita Meyer Why Tell Me Why
23 Europe The Final Countdown
24 Simple Minds Don't You (forget About Me)
25 Piet Veerman Sailing Home
26 Abba The Winner Takes It All
27 Glenn Medeiros Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
28 Sam Brown Stop
29 Milli Vanilli Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
30 Bangles Walk Like An Egyptian
31 Barbra Streisand Woman In Love
32 Olivia Newton-john & Electric Light Orchestra Xanadu
33 George Michael Careless Whisper
34 George Michael A Different Corner
35 Lipps Inc. Funkytown
36 Danny De Munk Ik Voel Me Zo Verdomd Alleen...
37 Jan Hammer Crockett's Theme
38 Womack & Womack Teardrops
39 Duran Duran A View To A Kill
40 Feargal Sharkey A Good Heart
41 Candy Dulfer & David A. Stewart Lily Was Here
42 Ub 40 Sing Our Own Song
43 Police Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
44 Stars On 45 Stars On 45
45 Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody (who Loves Me)
46 George Michael Faith
47 Tears For Fears Shout
48 Don Mclean Crying
49 Diana Ross Upside Down
50 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins Easy Lover

No one likes the 80's?

HamsterHuey said:

I'm fed up with this 80's week on dutch radio.....it seems like they do it every other month.....thank god it's over tomorrow. With only a few exceptions, most of it is shit and didn't stand the test of time!
How come I have not heard any Joy Division? Or Devo? Or Talking Heads? Only loads of English crap like Kajagoogoo, Howard Jones, Feargal Sharkey.....

A Forest

Moonbeam said:

Yeah!

From one of my favest Cure albums too!