Ìt is that time again, the top 2000 has started in the Netherlands (on the radio)

605 is the home of another pearl of rock and roll, dark, impressive and with a great video as well, from 1994 it is Soundgarden with Black Hole Sun (impressively tweaked by Weird Al, look it up if you have the inclination LOL)

The last song of this day is going to be a brilliantly weird song (I know, I just like that kinda stuff), from 1967, a year before my birth we can find on number 527, the doors with people are strange

From 1982, number 434 on the list, the Stranglers with Golden Brown



well over thirty years old but still a crisp and awesome record, a true classic if ever I heard one.

The combination of a great voice and a great vacuum in the noggin. That sums up, at least IMHO, the late and not so great Amy Winehouse.

She had a great great voice and her songs were good, even to me as a rocker but she let herself and her loved ones down with her live choices and as a former gambling addict, you cannot excuse bad choices (you can sympathize up to a point but not to the point of accepting self destructive behavior and sticking around acting like nothing is wrong).

This song is called rehab and she might have been singing "no, no, no" but she should have been singing "yes, yes, yes". But sadly she did not do that and now is another member of the 27 club (musicians who died aged 27, like Jimmy Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, etc.)

Listen and still enjoy, from 2007, placed at number 426, Rehab by Amy Winehouse

1982 and this song was released by a band with one of the best band names IMHO that exists, usually they are abbreviated into OMD but their real name is Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and the name of their song (their best and really only true big hit) is Maid of Orleans. It might be a bit too much electronic music but I still love the song

number 405, OMD with maid of Orleans

For some weird reason I seem to play songs and songs from a certain era (a lot at least) and this song is no different, another band with a lot of electronic music (synthesizers) but again, used to great effect. From 1981, number 366, Ultravox and Vienna

When you mix a Dutch band and an American band good things can be created and this song is a very good one. It is from the Dutch band Bløf who joined forces with the Counting Crows to make the very nice song Holiday in Spain.

Number 334, from 2004, Holiday in Spain by Bløf and the Counting Crows

This is a much newer song that most of my choices but a great one, it is a Dutch singer called Anouk, she has a really superb voices for the kind of music she makes and this is an excellent example of that. From 2005, number 329, Anouk with Lost

This song nor the band have ever been that much of a success in the top 40/billboard hot 100 or whatever. But still, unlike a lot of other songs this song has made it into the top 300 of the Top 2000 of 2015. A band I have seen live (not bad but not that great either) but who have had a few good albums, from one of this is this song, number 281 coming to you from 1990, Queensryche with silent lucidity

This song is every emotional for me, the singer is not a singer I particularly like normally but he did this song to remember a singer I did really like called Andre Hazes. Hazes was a funny guy and a great singer, but he died way too soon when he died aged 53 from a cardiac arrest. He had released numerous songs, but no song ever made it to number one.

But after he died a song was re-released and immediately made it to number one (his first ever one but it came posthumously). A memorial concert was scheduled the day before his cremation in the Amsterdam Arena (with his coffin on the pitch of the stadium) and 48,000 people showed up to commemorate and celebrate Andre Hazes and his music. The memorial was televised live on Dutch and Belgian television and was seen by 8 million people (a lot when one thinks that the Dutch population at that moment was about 16 million).

Here is from 2004, with 48,000 people in attendance and singing the song with Guus Meeuwis, here is Geef mij je angst (give me your fear).

Number 260 in the list:

The last 2 songs of this installment of the songs played today on the top 2000 are 2 songs from 2 ends of the musical spectrum, the first song can be found on number 221 and comes from 1974 is called Jolene by Dolly Parton (a great song)

The last song today comes from number 224 and was released in 1991. It is one of the best songs of this band and comes from the immortal and awesome record Nevermind made by grunge gods Nirvana.

While I may love "smells like teen spirit" and "come as you are", this song is one of my 2 favorite songs from Nirvana. The one that is not on the list is "in bloom" but my other favorite song is in the list and it is called Lithium and is as said by Nirvana