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··· PERSONAL TOP PICKS OF THE 1980S
If it was originally released in the late ’70s but became a (Dutch) hit in the early ’80s, the hit year counts.
- 10 Minute Warning - Echoes
- A.R. Kane - Baby milk snatcher
- A.R. Kane - Suicide kiss
- AC/DC - Back in black
- Adeva - Respect
- Aerosmith - Love in an elevator
- Afrika Bambaataa, The Soulsonic Force - Planet rock
- Afrika Bambaataa, UB40 - Reckless
- Afrika Bambaataa, Zulu Nation, The Soulsonic Force - Zulu nation throw down pt. 2
- Afrosound - Tiro al blanco
- Akbaba İkilisi, Arif Sağ - Darıldım darıldım
- Alison Moyet - That ole devil called love
- The Art Of Noise - Beat box
- The Art Of Noise, Tom Jones - Kiss
- Astaire - The power of love
- Aswad - Mosman skank
- Azwon - Fair weather friend ***
- The B-52's - Love shack
- Band Of Outsiders - Another cowboy
- The Bangles, Susanna Hoffs - Eternal flame
- Bauhaus - Silent hedges
- Beastie Boys - (You gotta) fight for your right (To party!)
- The Beat - Can't get used to losing you
- The Beatmasters - Ska train
- The Beatnigs - Television
- Bérurier Noir - Salut à toi
- Bérurier Noir - Vive le feu
- Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' tears
- Black Slate - Amigo
- Blondie - Rapture
- The Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the rain
- Bomb The Bass - Beat dis
- Boogie Down Productions - The bridge is over
- Bow Wow Wow - Do you wanna hold me?
- Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar
- Cappella - House energy revenge ····· 7" Mix
- Chaka Khan - I feel for you
- Change - A lover's holiday
- CHIC - You are beautiful
- Chris Isaak - Blue hotel
- The Clash - Rock the casbah
- The Clash - The magnificent seven
- The Cure - A forest
- The Cure - Boys don't cry
- The Cure - Close to me
- The Cure - Inbetween days
- The Cure - Lullaby
- The Cure - Other voices
- The Cure - The figurehead
- The Cure - The lovecats
- The Cure - Why can't I be you?
- Current 93 - Oh coal black smith
- Cy1, Bikaye, Zazou - Lamuka
- Daryl Hall & John Oates - I can't go for that (No can do)
- Dave Stewart, Candy Dulfer - Lily was here
- David Bowie - Let's dance
- David Sylvian - Brilliant trees
- David Sylvian - Taking the veil
- Dead Or Alive - You spin me round (Like a record)
- De La Soul - Eye know
- De La Soul - Ghetto thang
- De La Soul - Me myself and I
- De La Soul - Say no go
- Depeche Mode, The Beatmasters - Route 66 ····· Beatmasters Mix
- Desireless - Voyage voyage
- Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
- Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
- Dianne Reeves, Lou Rawls - Fine brown frame
- Dire Straits - Private investigations
- De Dijk - Dansen op de vulkaan
- Doe Maar - 1 nacht alleen
- Doe Maar - Bella donna
- Doe Maar - Belle Hélène
- Doe Maar - De bom
- Doe Maar - Doris Day
- Doe Maar - Is dit alles
- Doe Maar - Nachtzuster
- Doe Maar - Sinds 1 dag of 2 (32 jaar)
- Doe Maar - Smoorverliefd
- Don Henley - New York minute
- Donald Fagen - New frontier
- Dr. Mary Sullivan Bain - Do you know black history ***
- Duran Duran - A view to a kill
- Duran Duran - Notorious
- Duran Duran - Save a prayer
- Duran Duran - Skin trade
- Duran Duran - The reflex
- Dusty Springfield - Nothing has been proved
- Ebo Taylor, Uhuru - Yenzu (Love and death)
- Echo & the Bunnymen - People are strange
- Echo & the Bunnymen - The killing moon
- Einstürzende Neubauten, Adrian Sherwood - Yü-Gung ····· Adrian Sherwood Remix
- Elder Jeffrey Roberson And The New Life Singers - We need love
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions - I want you
- Enya - Orinoco flow
- Erik Satie, Alexandre Tharaud - Gnossienne: no. 1
- Erik Satie, Philippe Entremont - Gymnopédie no. 1
- Evelyn Thomas - High energy
- Fairground Attraction - Perfect
- Faith No More - We care a lot
- Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Darryl Pandy - Love can't turn around ····· Original Mix
- The Fall - City hobgoblins ***
- The Fall - Hit the north part 1
- The Fall - Wings
- The Fatal Flowers - For Christ's sake
- Fehlfarben - Ein Jahr (Es geht voran)
- Fine Young Cannibals - Good thing
- Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny come home
- Fitz Gore - Musication (The talisman)
- Flash and the Pan - Waiting for a train
- Flipside - Havin' a party
- France Gall - Ella, elle l'a
- Franco Battiato, Alice - I treni di Tozeur
- Frank Boeijen Groep - Kronenburg park
- Frank Boeijen Groep - Zwart wit
- Freddie McGregor - Africa here I come
- Full Force - Alice, I want you just for me!
- George Michael - I want your sex
- Gil Scott-Heron - 'B' movie (Intro, poem, song)
- Gipsy Kings - Bamboléo
- The Glove - Relax
- Het Goede Doel - Belgie ... (Is er leven op Pluto...)
- Het Goede Doel - Hou van mij
- Het Goede Doel - Vriendschap
- Grace Jones - La vie en rose
- Grace Jones - Libertango
- Grace Jones - My Jamaican guy
- Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
- Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm ····· 7" Edit
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The message
- Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Melle Mel - White lines (Don't do it)
- Grauzone - Eisbär
- The Great Leap Forward - Honours in spades ***
- Hans De Booij - Annabel
- Happy Mondays - 24 hour party people
- Henny Vrienten, Herman Brood - Als je wint
- Herbie Hancock - Rockit
- The Human League - Don't you want me
- The Human League - The Lebanon
- Hypnosonics - Early man
- Hypnosonics - Rub it in
- Imani - Somebody's love
- Inner City - Big fun
- Inner City - Good life
- INXS - Need you tonight
- Jackie Mittoo - Wall Street
- The Jacksons - Can you feel it ····· 7" Version
- The Jacksons - Lovely one
- The Jacksons - Walk right now
- Janet Jackson - When I think of you
- Jocelyn Brown - Somebody else's guy
- Joe Jackson - Is she really going out with him? ····· Live
- Joe Jackson - You can't get what you want (Till you know what you want)
- Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
- Kate Bush - Babooshka
- Kate Bush - Running up that hill (A deal with God)
- Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Annie, I'm not your daddy
- Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Stool pigeon
- Killing Joke - Love like blood
- Kim Wilde - Cambodia
- King - Love & pride
- Kleeer - Intimate connection
- Klein Orkest - Laat mij maar alleen
- Klein Orkest - Over de muur
- Kraze - The party ····· Club Mix ***
- Kurtis Blow - The breaks
- Lime - Your love ····· Radio Edit
- Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
- Living Colour - Glamour boys
- LL COOL J - I need love
- Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
- Lô Borges - Todo prazer
- Loleatta Holloway - Crash goes love ····· Blaster mix
- Loose Ends - A little spice
- Loose Ends - Hangin' on a string
- Luc Van Acker, Anna Domino - Zanna
- Lucho Bermudez Y Su Orquesta - Tolu ····· Instrumental
- Lyn Collins - Think (About it)
- Madness - Baggy trousers
- Madness - Night boat to Cairo
- Madness - Our house
- Madonna - Holiday
- Madonna - La isla bonita
- Madonna - Like a prayer
- Magalhães e sua Guitarra - Xangô
- Man Parrish - Hip hop be bop ····· Original version
- Mano Negra - Mala vida
- Marc Almond - Tears run rings
- Marcos Valle - Estrelar
- Martha and the Muffins - Echo beach
- Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing
- Mary Jane Girls - All night long
- Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
- Matt Bianco - Half a minute
- Matt Bianco - More than I can bear
- Matt Bianco - Whose side are you on?
- Mel & Kim - Respectable
- Mel & Kim - Showing out (Get fresh at the weekend) ····· 7 Inch Version
- Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
- Michael Jackson - Wanna be startin' somethin'
- Michael McDonald - Sweet freedom
- Michel Sardou - Être une femme
- Mickeranno - Dai vetri
- Minimal Compact - Statik dancin'
- Ministry - Work for love
- Mink DeVille - Demasiado corazon (Too much heart)
- Mo - Fred Astaire (Just a summer love affair)
- Mory Kanté - Yeke yeke
- Musical Youth - Pass the dutchie
- Neneh Cherry - Buffalo stance
- Neneh Cherry - Manchild
- Neon - Voices
- The Neon Judgement - Tv treated
- New Musik - This world of water
- New Order - Blue Monday
- New World Generation - Do what you do
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The mercy seat
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo
- Nick Lowe - Half a boy and half a man
- Noir Désir - Le fleuve
- Noir Désir - Les écorchés
- Nu Shooz - Point of no return
- O.R.E.A. - Biguine inferno
- Olivia Newton-John - Xanada
- Oran Juice Jones - The rain
- Paolo Conte - Gli impermeabili
- Paolo Conte - Max
- Paolo Conte - Via con me
- The Pasadenas - Tribute (Right on
- Paul Hardcastle - 19
- Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
- Pet Shop Boys - West end girls
- Peter Gabriel - Don't give up
- Peter Jahn - Abenteuer überm Schrank ····· Peter's Original 1987 version
- Pixies - Caribou
- Pixies - Gigantic
- Pixies - Here comes your man
- Pixies - Hey
- Pixies - Monkey gone to heaven
- Pixies - Nimrod's son
- The Pogues - Fiesta
- The Police - Walking on the moon
- The Police - When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around
- Pretenders - I go to sleep
- Pretenders - Message of love
- Prince - Sign 'O' the times
- Prince Far I, Singers And Players - Bedward the flying preacher
- Propaganda - Duel
- The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
- Queen - Another one bites the dust
- R.E.M. - Can't get there from here
- R.E.M. - Feeling gravitys pull
- R.E.M. - I remember California
- R.E.M. - Oddfellows local 151
- R.E.M. - Orange crush
- R.E.M. - Perfect circle
- R.E.M. - Pop song 89
- R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
- R.E.M. - So. Central rain
- R.E.M. - Stand
- R.E.M. - Talk about the passion
- R.E.M. - The one I love
- Rim Kwaku Obeng, KASA - I'm a song writer
- Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - Get on the dance floor
- Robbie Robertson - Somewhere down the crazy river
- Robert Cray - Right next door (Because of me)
- Robert Plant - Big log
- The Rock Steady Crew - (Hey you) The Rock Steady Crew ***
- Ronald Langestraat - You need to cry
- Rose Royce - R. R. express
- Run–D.M.C., Aerosmith - Walk this way
- Salt-N-Pepa - Push it
- Sam Brown, Pete Brown - Stop
- Sananda Maitreya (aka Terence Trent D'Arby) - Sign your name
- Scritti Politti - Absolute
- The Selecter - On my radio
- Shannon - Let the music play
- Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle
- Simply Red - A new flame
- Sinéad O'Connor - Troy
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
- The Smiths - Bigmouth strikes again
- The Smiths - How soon is now?
- The Smiths - Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me
- The Smiths - Panic
- Sniff 'n' The Tears - Driver's seat
- Soft Cell - Tainted love
- Soft Cell - Torch ····· Original 7" Single Version
- Sonic Youth - I dreamed I dream
- Soul II Soul, Caron Wheeler - Back to life
- Soul II Soul, Caron Wheeler - Keep on movin'
- The Specials - Ghost town ····· Extended
- The Specials - International jet set
- The Specials - Nelson Mandela
- The Specials - Stereotype
- The Specials - Too much too young
- The Specials - What I like most about you is your girlfriend
- Split Enz - Message to my girl
- Splitsing - Wind en zeilen
- Squeeze - Tempted
- Start - Where I want to be
- Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack your body ····· 1986 Club Mix
- Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack your body ····· Radio version ***
- Steve Arrington - Feel so real
- Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron - Johnny come lately
- Stevie Wonder - Master blaster (Jammin')
- Sting - Moon over Bourbon street
- The Stranglers - Golden brown
- The Stranglers - No mercy
- The Sugarcubes - Birthday
- The Sugarhill Gang - Rappers delight
- Suicide - Mr. Ray
- Suzanne Vega - Luka
- Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the wall
- Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
- Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime
- Talking Heads - Slippery people ····· Live
- Tall Dwarfs - The slide
- Tanita Tikaram - Twist in my sobriety
- TC Matic - O la la la
- TC Matic - Putain putain
- TC Matic - Ugh ugh
- TC Matic - Willie Willie
- Tears For Fears - Sowing the seeds of love
- Technotronic - Pump up the jam
- Third World - Try Jah love
- Thomas Dolby - I scare myself
- Thompson Twins - In the name of love
- The Timelords - Doctorin’ the Tardis
- Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica
- Tom Robinson, Steve Laurie, Marsha Hunt, Martin Ditcham, Pat Davey, Paul Harvey, Ian Ballamy, Guy Barker - Atmospherics: listen to the radio
- Tom Tom Club - Wordy rappinghood
- Tone-Loc - Wild thing
- Tony Scott - The chief ····· Original version ***
- TOY - Suspicion
- Tracy Chapman - Fast car
- Trans-X - Living on video
- Traveling Wilburys - Handle with care
- TRUST - Fatalité ····· Live
- T.S. Monk - Bon bon vie (Gimme the good life)
- Tullio De Piscopo - Stop bajon ····· Club mix
- U2 - Desire
- U2 - Sunday bloody Sunday
- UB40 - Rat in mi kitchen
- UB40 - Sing our own song
- Ultramagnetic MC's - Ease back
- Ultravox - Dancing with tears in my eyes
- Ultravox - Vienna
- Urban Dance Squad - Deeper shade of soul
- Van Halen - Runnin' with the devil
- Vanity 6 - Nasty girl ***
- Vaya Con Dios - Just a friend of mine
- Video - Somebody (Hey girl) ····· Vocal version
- Vox Populi - Trois gouttes de sang
- Wendy & Lisa - Are you my baby
- Wham! - Club Tropicana
- Wham! - Everything she wants
- Womack & Womack - Teardrops
- Yazoo - Don't go
- Yello - I love you
- Yello - Vicious games
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··· 1980S BUBBLING UNDER/SUBTOP
- ABBA - The day before you came
- Alisha - Baby talk ····· Extended Dance Mix
- Anna Domino - Target
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Thème de Yoyo
- The Art Of Noise - Moments in love
- The B-52's - Roam
- Band Apart - Marseille
- The Bangles - Walk like an Egyptian
- Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
- Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes - (I've had) the time of my life
- The Birthday Party - She's hit
- Bobby Brown - My prerogative
- Brian Auger - Flesh failures (Let the sunshine in)
- Bronski Beat - Smalltown boy
- Carly Simon - It's hard to be tender ***
- Carly Simon - Why
- Chaz Jankel - Glad to know you ***
- Cheb Hindi - A moi la liberté
- Cheb Zahouani - Zinek bekani
- Cocteau Twins - Ribbed and veined
- Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
- The Cult - She sells sanctuary
- Culture Shock - Civilisation street
- The Cure - Hot hot hot!!!
- The Cure - The caterpillar
- David Sylvian - The ink in the well
- Depeche Mode - Just can't get enough
- Dexys Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, please, thank you)
- Donna Summer - State of independence ····· Album version
- Double Trouble - Street tuff
- Duran Duran - Girls on film
- Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's groove
- Ellis, Beggs & Howard - Big bubbles, no troubles
- Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in full ····· Coldcut Remix
- Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight
- Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet dreams (are made of this)
- Faith No More - Epic
- Felt - I worship the sun
- Fine Young Cannibals - She drives me crazy
- Forecast - Happy days
- Freeez - I.O.U. ····· 7" Version
- Godley & Creme - An Englishman in New York
- The Good Samaritans - Onughara
- Grover Washington Jr., Bill Withers - Just the two of us
- Heaven 17 - Temptation
- Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
- Henk & Henk - Sinterklaas wie kent hem niet
- Herb Alpert - Keep your eye on me
- Herb Alpert, Janet Jackson - Diamonds
- Herbie Hancock - Stars in your eyes
- Hithouse - Jack to the sound of the underground
- Holger Hiller - Jonny (Du lump)
- The Housemartins - Happy hour
- The Human League - Being boiled
- The Human League - Love action (I believe in love)
- Inner City, Steve "Silk" Hurley - Good life ····· Steve Silk Hurley Remix
- INXS - Never tear us apart
- Jah Wobble - Sea side special
- Janet Jackson - Nasty
- Janet Jackson - What have you done for me lately
- Jimmy Blanche - Misik a moun a kaz
- Joe Jackson - Steppin' out
- Joel Graham - Geomancy
- José Casimiro - Morti sta bidjâcu
- Julian Lennon - Too late for goodbyes
- Julian Lennon - Too late for goodbyes ····· 12 Inch ***
- K. Yoshimatsu - Pastel nostalgia
- Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
- Kate Bush - December will be magic again ***
- Kid Creole And The Coconuts - Endicott
- Kon Kan - I beg your pardon (I never promised you a rose garden)
- Kool & The Gang - Let's go dancin' (Ooh la, la, la)
- Kraftwerk - Numbers
- Krush - House arrest (The beat is the law)
- Langa Langa - Freedom is the thing ***
- De La Soul - Potholes in my lawn
- Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
- Leon Haywood - Don't push it, don't force it
- Lime - On the grid ····· Extended
- Luc Van Acker - The fear in my heart
- Madonna - Into the groove
- Madonna - Live to tell
- Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte (No Estan Aqui)
- Malaria! - Geh duschen
- Marquis De Sade - Silent world
- Metropakt - Neue strassen
- Michael Jackson - Beat it
- Michael Jackson - Human nature
- Michael Jackson - Smooth criminal
- Michael Jackson - Thriller
- My Bloody Valentine - Lose my breath
- New Model Army - Green and grey
- New Order - Everythings gone green
- Nirvana - Love buzz
- Nits - In the Dutch mountains
- Nu Shooz - I can't wait
- Phil Collins - Sussudio
- Pino D'Angiò - Ma quale idea
- Pixies - Where is my mind?
- Prince - 1999
- Prince - Controversy ····· Single version
- Prince - Hot thing
- Prince - Kiss
- Prince - When doves cry
- Propaganda - p:Machinery
- PSO - Nxt 2u ····· Club
- Pylon - Yo-yo
- Queen - Under pressure
- Queen - We will rock you
- R.E.M. - You are the everything
- The Rah Band - Clouds across the moon
- Randy Crawford - One day I'll fly away
- The Residents - Kaw-Liga
- Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia baïla
- Rotary Connection - I am the black gold of the sun
- Sade - Smooth operator
- Sananda Maitreya (aka Terence Trent D'Arby) - Wishing well
- Scritti Politti - Wood beez
- The Selecter - Three minute hero
- Serge Gainsbourg - Mon légionnaire
- S'Express - Theme from S-Express
- Simply Red - Holding back the years
- Simply Red - It's only love
- Simply Red - The right thing
- Sinéad O'Connor - Mandinka
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in dust
- Slick Rick - Children's story
- The Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
- S.O.S. Band - Just be good to me ····· Short/Radio/7" version (?) *** ➔ The name isn't very clear, but it's a 3:57 minutes version instead of the original +9 minutes
- The Sound - I can't escape myself
- Steve Roach - Structures from silence
- Stevie Wonder - Free
- The Style Council - Walls come tumbling down
- Swamp Children - You've got me beat
- Sydney Youngblood - If only I could
- Tabu Ley Rochereau - Hafi Deo
- Tears For Fears - Shout
- Ten City - That's the way love is ····· Deep House Mix, Extended Version
- The The - Uncertain smile
- Tone-Loc - Funky cold Medina
- Tracy Ullman - Breakaway
- UB40 - Don't break my heart
- Vex - Sanctuary
- Vitor Hublot, Jeff Bodart, Talbot Sisters - La mauvaise réputation
- The Waterboys - The whole of the moon
- Whistle - Just buggin'
- Wild Fire - Check it out
- Wipers - When it's over
- Word Of Mouth, D.J. Cheese - King Kut ····· 12" Single Version
- Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't stop the music
- Yazoo - Situation
- Yazz - The only way is up
- Zangeres Zonder Naam - Mexico ····· Live in Paradiso, Amsterdam, 23 May 1986
- Zèklè - Move nouvel
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