The mid eighties: the years of synthpop. And I tend to say I don’t like typical eighties music, like that. But looking at the list below, there seems to be more typical eighties music I like than I thought (before making this site)…
* = dance music, about 120 bpm and upwards
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1987 listed:
- Bomb The Bass – Beat dis *
- Chris Isaak – Blue hotel
- Desireless – Voyage voyage
- Eric B & Rakim – Paid in full
- France Gall – Ella, elle l’a
- George Michael – I want your sex
- Gipsy Kings – Bamboleo
- INXS – Need you tonight
- Jennifer Warnes & Bill Medley – (I’ve had) the time of my life
- Maceo & The Macks – Cross the track
- Mel & Kim – Respectable ***
- Mel & Kim – Showing out ***
- Mory Kante – Yeke yeke
- Paolo Conte – Max
- R.e.m. – The one I love
- Robbie Robertson – Somewhere down the crazy river
- Stevie Wonder – Free (Note: 2 years later a Dutch hit)
- Terence Trend D’Arby – Sign your name
- Vaya Con Dios – Just a friend of mine
* = dance music, about 120 bpm and upwards
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My favorite songs of the year 1986 listed:
- Duran Duran – Notorious
- Duran Duran – Skin trade
- Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk – Love can’t turn around *
- Madonna – La isla bonita
- Michael McDonald – Sweet freedom
- Nu Shooz – Point of no return
- Oran ‘Juice’ Jones – The rain
- The Residents – Kaw-liga
- Red Box – For America
- Richenel – Dance around the world
- Run DMC & Aerosmith – Walk this way
- Stan Ridgway – Camouflage
- UB40 – Sing our own song
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1985 listed:
- Alison Moyet – The ol devil called love
- Colonel Abrams – Trapped
- Duran Duran – A view to a kill
- Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny come home
- Frank Boeijen Groep – Kronenburg Park
- Full Force – Alice, I want you just for me
- Katrina & The Waves – Walking on sunshine
- Loose Ends – Hangin’ on a string
- Magazine 60 – Don quichotte
- Nu Shooz – I can’t wait
- Paul Hardcastle – 19
- Propaganda – Duel (eye to eye)
- Splitsing – Wind en zeilen
- Steve Arrington – Feel so real
- The Stranglers – No mercy
- UB40 – Don’t break my heart
- Whistle – Just buggin’ ***
** = ambient or IDM – not many people will like it…
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My favorite songs of the year 1984 listed:
- The Art Of Noise – Beat box
- Astaire – The power of love
- Chaka Khan – I feel for you
- Dead Or Alive – You spin me round (like a record)
- Evelyn Thomas – High energy
- The Everly Brothers – On the wings of a nightingale
- King – Love & pride
- Kleer – Intimate connection
- Luc Van Acker & Anna Domino – Zanna
- Matt Bianco – Get out of your lazy bed
- Matt Bianco – Half a minute
- Matt Bianco – More than I can bear
- Mink Deville – Demasiado corazon
- Nick Lowe – Half a boy and half a man
- Paolo Conte – Gli impermeabili (Note: 3 years later a Dutch hit)
- Scritti Politti – Absolute
- Shannon – Let the music play
- Special A.K.A. – (What I like most about you is your) girlfriend
- Steve Roach – Structures from silence **
- Thomas Dolby – I scare myself
- Tullio De Piscope – Stop bajon
*** = guilty pleasures
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My favorite songs of the year 1983 listed:
- Bow Wow Wow – Do you wanna hold me
- Chic – You are beautiful
- David Bowie – Let’s dance
- Doe Maar – De bom
- Dolly Dots – She’s a liar ***
- Duran Duran – The reflex
- First Choice – Let no man put asunder
- Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel – White lines
- Herbie Hancock – Rockit
- The Human League – (Keep feeling) fascination
- Mary Jane Girls – All night long
- Michael Jackson ft. Paul McCartney – Say say say
- Ministry – Work for love
- New Order – Blue Monday
- R.e.m. – Perfect circle
- R.e.m. – Radio free Europe
- R.e.m. – Talk about the passion
- Robert Plant – Big log
- The Rock Steady Crew – (Hey you) The Rock Steady Crew
- Tracy Ullman – Breakaway
- U2 – New year’s day
- U2 – Sunday bloody sunday
- Wham! – Club tropicana ***
- Yello – I love you
Comments
- *grinnikt* :P
- Van het ene in het andere uiterste...
- Better late than never. :)
- ja, die is schitterend inderdaad. :)
- Ik was eigenlijk totaal vergeten dat het bestond, ...
ABOUT THIS SITE
Besides links to my webradios, this site is filled with lots of songs to try. They are in the narrow bar on the left.
As long as I like it: everything (no purist talk here, when it comes to specific genres...), but in practice there's an emphasis on sound instead of lyrics. Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.
And in general, I like a natural feel (also when it's in fact 100 % electronic) and a dynamic sound, lacking obvious loudness wars. And forced hipness is simply not my cup of tea. But there will always be exceptions, with an undefinable 'x-factor'.
Simple: If a song is even more to me than 'very nice', really outstanding, it will be added to the site. Besides these tracks, there's a huge amount of other tracks I really like, just not enough to mention here.
About the year of release/on which page you can find the tracks I add: I see the - first - year of release mentioned at Discogs as right, or (if I can't find the track at Discogs, and have to search other sources) the 'oldest' year mentioned. Also if it became a hit one/two/more years later. I'm very consequent when it comes to that, very clear.
ABOUT MYSELF
I'm born in 1981, Dutch and female. My personal music history, because it's relevant on a site like this:
I'm listening to pop music since 1990, starting with my fathers cds/lps, with pop/rock oldies, some classical music, some 70s compilations with music like Boney M and Luv, and some typical Dutch stuff like BZN; some people would call it corny. No modern pop/dance yet (the Dutch children act Kinderen Voor Kinderen not counted; officially, KVK part 11 was my first cd).
That phase started halfway 1991. I especially started to like dance music, and for the next one and a half decade to follow, I wouldn't listen much to golden oldies anymore.
Till 2000 most dance I listened to was extremely commercial; a huge 2 Unlimited obsession, during from 1992 till 1996, included.
The period after that, it was still commercial but in a more grown-up way. That era started about December 2000/January 2001, after discovering an internet station (Dancenet.fm) playing groovy tunes, like Daft Punk - One more time.
In the next couple of years to follow, my devotion to dance music (especially the 'serious' side of it) would reach it's peak. Discussing all the stuff on discussion boards, buying Hed Kandi cds, buying dance magazines and obsessive downloading included. I was standing right in front of the current trends.
I remember myself getting quite tired of everything, late 2004/early 2005.
After a long break from enjoying music in an intense way (a period of breathing space) and making the decision to take it more easy in the future, 2005-early 2008 turned out to be the transition period to now.
Besides dance music (in 2005 heavily influenced by the French station Underground FG, playing quite subtle kinds of dance), I started to like more and more other kinds of music, and the way of producing records got more important. I didn't complain much about things like 'overproduction' and 'loudness wars' before, but I started to notice it.
When it came to music released before my time, something not really getting my attention the years before, I started save, with exploring the 1988-1990 era: De La Soul, Soul II Soul and all the others. Because there seemed to be a certain click. And in 2006, I started to like music released before that, often many years before my birth. Yeah, the oldies were back...
In general my taste was becoming more laidback, and the amount of funky elements also increased. Early 2008, Studio Brussel's De Hop (presented by the founder of internet station Laid Back Radio, and the same kind of music) was a huge influence. Discovering that, in combination with Miles Davis' track Pharao's dance (in the same period), was the reason the penny dropped finally.
Since Spring 2008, nothing has changed anymore (while the entire 2003-early 2008 era was VERY experimental; I can assure you I've not mentioned everything above). I'm still listening to dance music nowadays, just less intensively when compared to 1991-2005.
OLD WEBSITES
- Click this link to view old websites, from 2000 till halfway 2008, warning: huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
- And click this link to view more old websites, from halfway 2008 till June 2011, also huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
(In case you are interested in the history of my sites.)
Besides links to my webradios, this site is filled with lots of songs to try. They are in the narrow bar on the left.
As long as I like it: everything (no purist talk here, when it comes to specific genres...), but in practice there's an emphasis on sound instead of lyrics. Expect lots of funky drums, grooves, riffs, horns, bleeps, chords and exotic instruments.
And in general, I like a natural feel (also when it's in fact 100 % electronic) and a dynamic sound, lacking obvious loudness wars. And forced hipness is simply not my cup of tea. But there will always be exceptions, with an undefinable 'x-factor'.
Simple: If a song is even more to me than 'very nice', really outstanding, it will be added to the site. Besides these tracks, there's a huge amount of other tracks I really like, just not enough to mention here.
About the year of release/on which page you can find the tracks I add: I see the - first - year of release mentioned at Discogs as right, or (if I can't find the track at Discogs, and have to search other sources) the 'oldest' year mentioned. Also if it became a hit one/two/more years later. I'm very consequent when it comes to that, very clear.
ABOUT MYSELF
I'm born in 1981, Dutch and female. My personal music history, because it's relevant on a site like this:
I'm listening to pop music since 1990, starting with my fathers cds/lps, with pop/rock oldies, some classical music, some 70s compilations with music like Boney M and Luv, and some typical Dutch stuff like BZN; some people would call it corny. No modern pop/dance yet (the Dutch children act Kinderen Voor Kinderen not counted; officially, KVK part 11 was my first cd).
That phase started halfway 1991. I especially started to like dance music, and for the next one and a half decade to follow, I wouldn't listen much to golden oldies anymore.
Till 2000 most dance I listened to was extremely commercial; a huge 2 Unlimited obsession, during from 1992 till 1996, included.
The period after that, it was still commercial but in a more grown-up way. That era started about December 2000/January 2001, after discovering an internet station (Dancenet.fm) playing groovy tunes, like Daft Punk - One more time.
In the next couple of years to follow, my devotion to dance music (especially the 'serious' side of it) would reach it's peak. Discussing all the stuff on discussion boards, buying Hed Kandi cds, buying dance magazines and obsessive downloading included. I was standing right in front of the current trends.
I remember myself getting quite tired of everything, late 2004/early 2005.
After a long break from enjoying music in an intense way (a period of breathing space) and making the decision to take it more easy in the future, 2005-early 2008 turned out to be the transition period to now.
Besides dance music (in 2005 heavily influenced by the French station Underground FG, playing quite subtle kinds of dance), I started to like more and more other kinds of music, and the way of producing records got more important. I didn't complain much about things like 'overproduction' and 'loudness wars' before, but I started to notice it.
When it came to music released before my time, something not really getting my attention the years before, I started save, with exploring the 1988-1990 era: De La Soul, Soul II Soul and all the others. Because there seemed to be a certain click. And in 2006, I started to like music released before that, often many years before my birth. Yeah, the oldies were back...
In general my taste was becoming more laidback, and the amount of funky elements also increased. Early 2008, Studio Brussel's De Hop (presented by the founder of internet station Laid Back Radio, and the same kind of music) was a huge influence. Discovering that, in combination with Miles Davis' track Pharao's dance (in the same period), was the reason the penny dropped finally.
Since Spring 2008, nothing has changed anymore (while the entire 2003-early 2008 era was VERY experimental; I can assure you I've not mentioned everything above). I'm still listening to dance music nowadays, just less intensively when compared to 1991-2005.
OLD WEBSITES
- Click this link to view old websites, from 2000 till halfway 2008, warning: huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
- And click this link to view more old websites, from halfway 2008 till June 2011, also huge load and much horizontal scrolling.
(In case you are interested in the history of my sites.)
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