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[weaversweek]

#Uncool500 and #Top2000

Every year, many thousands of listeners to NPO Radio 2 vote for their favourite songs. The station puts together a big list, 2000 songs long, and plays them out in that quiet period between kerstmas and nieuwjaarsdag. There are a lot of listeners, and the number one is usually "Bohemian rhapsody" or "Stairway to heaven" or something like that.

I think it would be interesting to take the Uncool 500 (as voted by about ninety people on Music Twitter on the Isles Trans-Manche: the full chart is in parts 1 2 3). Take the Uncool 500 and compare it with the NPO 2000 (as voted by everyone in the Netherlands). Voting for both surveys took place during October and November.

So I've taken the 2022 top 2000, and stripped out everything dated 1976 or earlier (as those songs weren't eligible for the Uncool 500). There's still over 1500 songs left.

The number 1 amongst post-1977 songs is "Roller coaster" by Danny Vera, from 2019. It's a soaring ballad, a very strong song, and it hit right to the heart for the Dutch public. A song you've almost certainly never heard.

It’s a song they've never tried to make a hit this side of the channel. The next songs were "Hotel California" by The Eagles, "Fix you" by Coldplay, "Black" by Metallica, "Avond" by Boudewijn de Groot, and "Nothing else matters" by Metallica.

(What's with the Boudewijn de Groot song? Good question, it was a spectacular flop when released in ‘97 but now hits a chord with the Dutch. I don't understand why.)

The NPO list gets a lot of love from the rock and metal fans - Guns 'n' Roses, Queen, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, all have big fanbases, all get into the top 40.

"Go your own way" is the first song to appear in both lists - 18 on NPO, 81 on Uncool. Then comes "Smells like teen spirit" (NPO 23, Uncool 9) and The Cure’s "A forest" (NPO 70, Uncool 27). Don’t think BBC Radio 2 viewers would vote “A forest” to number 70...

There's a crossover run from NPO 35-38: "In the air tonight", "Hurt" by Johnny Cash, "Killing in the name", and "Shallow" by Lady Gaga (Uncools 255, 219, 139, 254). "Running up that hill" is NPO's 40, our 214. "Creep" and "Lose yourself" both made the NPO top 50.

Turns out that 134 songs appear in both lists, which is somewhat more than I'd expected. Here's the complete list, ordered by the Uncool 500 position.

Song Performer Uncool 500 NPO 2000 I feel love Donna Summer 1 417 Common people Pulp 2 1260 Blue Monday New Order 4 349 Love will tear us apart Joy Division 6 425 Unfinished sympathy Massive Attack 7 440 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 8 80 Smells like teen spirit Nirvana 9 23 When doves cry Prince 10 365 Once in a lifetime Talking Heads 14 743 Tainted love Soft Cell 17 876 Ashes to ashes David Bowie 22 763 Sign 'o' the times Prince 23 639 Born slippy (nuxx) Underworld 24 286 West end girls Pet Shop Boys 28 1301 Life's what you make it Talk Talk 29 943 Firestarter The Prodigy 32 682 Ace of spades Motörhead 34 207 Teardrop Massive Attack 37 500 Like a prayer Madonna 38 738 Motorcycle emptiness Manic Street Preachers 40 855 Glory box Portishead 41 914 Enjoy the silence Depeche Mode 42 87 Always on my mind Pet Shop Boys 43 1314 Two tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood 45 1360 London Calling The Clash 47 922 Come on Eileen Sexist Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express 58 765 Take on me A-ha 59 266 Heart of glass Blondie 63 1041 Sound and vision David Bowie 65 747 Sabotage The Beastie Boys 67 643 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 68 1377 A forest The Cure 70 27 Hey ya! Outkast 75 1304 Blackstar David Bowie 76 1368 Go your own way Fleetwood Mac 81 18 Smalltown boy Bronski Beat 84 513 G'd save the queen Sex Pistols 87 1274 Cloudbusting Kate Bush 95 330 Bittersweet symphony The Verve 97 84 Video games Lana del Rey 105 342 Golden Brown The Stranglers 111 376 The whole of the moon The Waterboys 113 311 Billie Jean Michael Jackson 114 101 Nothing compares 2 u Sinéad O'Connor 117 282 I bet you look good on the dancefloor Arctic Monkeys 124 423 One more time Daft Punk 125 1017 Knowing me knowing you ABBA 128 581 Crazy in love Beyoncé 134 1512 Everybody wants to rule the world Tears For Fears 135 206 Love like blood Killing Joke 138 745 Killing in the name Rage Against the Machine 139 37 Fast car Tracy Chapman 140 218 Tinseltown in the rain The Blue Nile 141 686 Out of space The Prodigy 143 1351 The man with the child in his eyes Kate Bush 144 167 Close to me The Cure 146 800 Uncertain smile The The 155 1081 Back to black Amy Winehouse 157 58 Save a prayer Duran Duran 165 1084 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 166 1222 Take me out Franz Ferdinand 170 587 Wonderful life Black 178 1393 Losing my religion REM 179 83 Live forever Oasis 182 1284 September Earth, Wind and Fire 184 153 Kiss Prince and the Revolution 190 1095 It's a sin Pet Shop Boys 192 1102 Stan Eminem 194 184 Uptown funk Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars 203 608 Everlong Foo Fighters 204 127 Shout Tears For Fears 207 811 Life's what you make it Talk Talk 209 853 Living in another world Talk Talk 212 1232 Running up that hill Kate Bush 214 40 Under pressure Queen 215 51 Sowing the seeds of love Tears For Fears 216 1044 Hurt Johnny Cash 219 36 Baker Street Gerry Rafferty 225 543 Vogue Madonna 233 1456 The winner takes it all ABBA 241 97 Paranoid android Radiohead 245 329 Blank space Taylor Swift 250 1168 Bad romance Lady Gaga 252 905 Shallow Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 254 38 In the air tonight Phil Collins 255 35 Zombie The Cranberries 257 91 The logical song Supertramp 272 243 The reflex Duran Duran 275 1059 Our house Madness 277 759 Fake plastic trees Radiohead 278 907 Walk this way Run-DMC & Aerosmith 284 1378 Sweet dreams (are made of this) Eurythmics 289 355 Take a chance on me ABBA 303 501 One U2 309 71 Praise you Fatboy Slim 310 1403 New year's day U2 313 475 All I want is you U2 315 786 Solsbury Hill Peter Gabriel 318 263 Somebody told me The Killers 320 991 Blinding lights The Weeknd 326 129 Because the night Patti Smith Group 334 1288 No-one knows Queens of the Stone Age 341 221 Crazy Gnarls Barkley 344 1189 99 Luftballons Nena 345 276 Basket case Green Day 349 290 Street spirit (fade out) Radiohead 354 150 Lose yourself Eminem 362 47 Man on the moon REM 364 739 Mad world Tears For Fears 374 1434 9 to 5 Dolly Parton 383 673 Lovely day Bill Withers 384 1020 Food for thought UB40 389 1273 The way it is Bruce Hornsby and the Range 395 1126 Poison Bell Biv Devoe 398 275 Ordinary world Duran Duran 401 634 The final countdown Europe 403 451 Every little thing she does is magic The Police 420 671 Back in black AC/DC 421 236 Luka Suzanne Vega 422 1253 Mr blue sky Electric Light Orchestra 426 54 Creep Radiohead 431 43 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 435 1072 Nightswimming REM 436 457 Absolute beginners David Bowie 438 884 Dog days are over Florence + the Machine 441 1001 You oughta know Alanis Morissette 443 911 What a fool believes Doobie Brothers 446 1305 No diggity Blackstreet 463 1469 California love 2Pac 464 843 Toxic Britney Spears 474 1522 Get lucky Daft Punk 479 844 You want it darker Leonard Cohen 483 756 Texas sun Khruangbin & Leon Bridges 493 1024 Chandelier Sia 497 537

NPO Radio 2's Top 2000 continues until 31 december. The station is broadly similar to BBC Radio 2, though there's no equivalent of the Jeremy Vine show.

Music Twitter might also be interested in NPO 3fm, it combines the contemporary bits of BBC 6 Music and the pop sensibilities of Radio 1.

Readers after higher culture might like to know about NPO Radio 4, almost entirely classical. My strong preference is VRT's Klara, a sprightly mixture of classical, modern, jazz, world and Other Stuff.

[podcastgemist]

#273.2- JACK&JOZEF - Heeft alles een reden?

Of is het gewoon toeval?

[eltjedoddema]

Gooise goorhaid

Eltje Doddema

[toosvanholstein]

‘Und ein letztes Glas im Stehen‘ bij Vermeers ‘Het glas wijn‘, dankzij Vereniging Rembrandt

Heerlijk VIPperig 'Vermeer' in het Rijksmuseum tot je kunnen nemen dankzij de Vereniging Rembrandt. Zie mijn blog TOOS&ART daarover. Met 'Het melkmeisje' dat even voor mij alleen inschenkt en 'ein letztes Glas im Stehen' bij 'Het glas wijn'. #kunst #art

Wie ‘Met het Oog op Morgen’ kent, al decennia lang elke avond 11 uur op NPO Radio 1, kent natuurlijk ook de begintune: “Es wird Zeit für mich zu gehenWas ich noch zu sagen hätteDauert eine ZigaretteUnd ein letztes Glas im Stehen“……. Een prachtig lied van en gezongen door Reinhard Mey. bij ‘Het glas wijn’ van Vermeer De laatste regel ging gelijk door me heen bij deze door levensgezel gemaakte…

[atevegter]

2759 Een bizondere avond

2759 Een bizondere avond

We hebben afgesproken dat we met JenS gaan eten bij MenI, inclusief alle kinderen, maar op het moment dat we de afspraak maken weten we nog niet dat ik op die avond zal optreden in de Bierderij voor een opname van Dijkstra en Evenblij ter plekke op NPO Radio 1. Maar het gaat allemaal vanzelf. We kijken eerst samen de WK-finale. Argentinië verschalkt Frankrijk op identieke wijze als Nederland. Het…

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier on NPO Radio 2

📸 Chantal Koolhoven

[jokeroutsubs]

[ENG SUB] Joker Out for Volgspot by NPO Radio 5 (14.04.2023).

On April 14th 2023, Joker Out was interviewed by Dutch radio Volgspot.

📺 Check the full interview + the performance on our YouTube channel here 👇

Transcript and translation by Thomas, proofread by ​⁠@flowerlotus8 and subtitles by​⁠ pastellibianchi (Twitter).

[inthelittlewood]

Hey Martyn, any recommendations for music to listen to for the next few days? NPO Radio 2 is kicking off their Top 2000 on Monday, so I need something to carry me through the last four days until that.

I listen to Jack Saunders Future Artists on Radio 1 all the time when I have a moment free or driving somewhere.

It has tons of artists I've never heard of AND Jack has such an intimate and eloquent relationship with music that he gushes about songs and dissects them in such a compelling way

[polldermodel]

Ga je op Oya Lélé van K3 stemmen voor de NPO radio 2 top 2000?*

- Ja natuurlijk, dat lied moet er gewoon in

- Nee, maar ik ga wel wat anders stemmen voor de top 2000

- Nee ik ga niet stemmen voor de top 2000

- Misschien/anders/weet ik nog niet

*sorry voor het schaamteloos proberen propaganda te maken via dit kanaal

[homoerotisch]

podcast aanrader! over de nederlandse geschiedenis van hiv/aids, vanuit mensen die het hebben meegemaakt ipv de focus te leggen op "het nederlandse beleid"

[k3fanblog]

The results of the best K3 song bracket are known!

And the winner is... Oya lélé!!!

Tele-Romeo finished second and Alle Kleuren ended up in the third place. Hart verloren just fell out of the top 3 and ended up in fourth place.

And with this the competition is over, I posted the bracket first on March 22nd and the first polls the day after. That means it took over 3 months to determine the very best K3 song of all 4 generations. I had great fun seeing people campaigning for their favourite songs in the notes, why they think a certain song is better and occasionally sharing stories of times they performed one of these songs as a kid, so thanks to everyone who voted and/or reblogged some polls, some comments really made my day and I hope this tournament reminded you of some old songs or introduced you to some new ones.

Speaking of which, my next plans are to run 3 more tournaments to determine the best song of each non-og generation, because the og was (kinda understandably) overrepresented in this tournament and I thought it might be fun to give the other 3 formations a chance and some other people also liked this idea when I polled people a few weeks ago. So, ehm, keep posted for that I guess. It won't start immediately, because I am kinda busy atm and I need to figure out some logistics for the kkj generation (does de revolutie count as an og song or a kkj song??), so you might see me outsourcing some decisions through polls in the coming weeks.

Finally, now that I have your attention, I've been running a 2-year campaign to get K3 in the NPO radio 2 top 2000, and specifically Oya lélé and since Oya lélé did actually win this, I think I might be able to convince you to vote for Oya lélé as the K3 song representation of the top 2000, so if you would please consider voting for Oya lélé in 5 months and if possible try to convince other people to do so too, you would make me very happy. (Also because I do not have other social media so I can only campaign for it here)

[gupaooooon]

🍉1日1回のクリックで、パレスチナへの支援ができます（国連パレスチナ難民救済事業機関（UNRWA）への寄付）

🍉UNRWAへの寄付、国境なき医師団への寄付

🍉FOVERÓ | MADE IN PALESTINE

D4Pの安田さんが紹介していた、パレスチナの人々によるストリートファッションブランド。日本からも注文可能。

🍉パレスチナ・オリーブ

D4Pの安田さんが紹介していた、パレスチナのオリーブ/オリーブ石鹸などが注文できるお店。

🍉「ガザで一体何が起きているのか-民族浄化とはなにか-」

🍉 「ガザとは何か」パレスチナを知るための緊急講義 - 株式会社大和書房

（緊急出版、ガザで何が、なぜ起きているのか。歴史的文脈とポイントを平易に解説する「まずここから」の一冊）

🍉 Radio Dialogue 147 ゲスト:板橋拓己さん「ドイツとイスラエル」（2024/2/14）

ドイツはイスラエルに軍事支援を行い、昨年それを大幅に強化。「ホロコーストの加害の歴史と向き合う」中で、なぜイスラエル批判がタブー視されるようになったのか。なぜ停戦を求めるデモまで「反ユダヤ主義」扱いされるのか。歴史を踏まえた板橋さんの解説（D4P 安田さんのツイ��トから引用）

🍉ユダヤ団体「平和を求めるユダヤの声」が当時/10月に出した緊急声明　　

（イスラエルに対する抗議/停戦を求める抗議が、人種差別と見做され政府から弾圧されたり。実際に差別主義者が抗議に擦り寄ってきたりする動き（人種差別だけでなく、ピンクウォッシュに便乗した性的マイノリティ差別もとても多い）本当に、憤りしかない。）

🍉日本の各地のパレスチナ連帯アクションや展覧会情報をまとめてくださっているリンクツリー

[podcastgemist]

#273.1- JACK&JOZEF - Waarom niet "Plan Z"?

Dat is een lang verhaal...

[herrlindemann]

Groningen, 06.07.2023 / Photos by NPO Radio 2 [HQ]

[atearinspaceairlock]

Joe & Dom's interview at Pinkpop Festival for NPO Radio 2

[atevegter]

2758 Ode aan Monnickendam

2758 Ode aan Monnickendam

Ik kom net van het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (tijdgenoot van Vermeer en Rembrandt, maar veel ouder geworden, leer ik van Jan). Ik heb mijn bloed laten prikken. Het moet eigenlijk maandagmorgen voorafgaand aan de derde chemokuur, maar dan moet ik heel vroeg weg en daarna lang wachten op de uitslag, dus ik ga altijd liever de (werk-)dag van te voren. Ik heb om beide armen een verbandje, want ze prikte…