| ROARING TWENTIES (1) |
| 1920 Mamie Smith Crazy Blues | The ultimate startpoint |
THIRTIES (2) |
| 1930 George Olsen & His Music Beyond The Blue Horizon | Use the train rhythm |
| 1939 Billie Holiday Strange Fruit | Best protest song ever
Live performance in 1959 |
FORTIES (1) |
| 1940 Jimmie Davis You Are My Sunshine | Sunshine |
FIFTIES (13) |
| 1954 Jo Stafford Make Love To Me | Perfect voice recording in my year of birth |
| 1955 Little Richard Tutti Frutti | The inventor of rock and roll had a girl named Sue and probably Buddy Holly liked it too |
| 1955 Bill Haley & His Comets Rock Around The Clock | Live in the Ed sullivan show |
| 1956 Doris Day Que Sera Sera | . |
| 1956 Harry Belafonte Jamaica Farewell | . |
| 1957 Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock | . |
| 1957 Buddy Holly Peggy Sue | Died too young (semi live) |
| 1958 The Teddy Bears To Know Him Is To Love Him | Sponsored by the Melkbrigade, watch Phil Spector sing and play guitar (semi live) |
| 1958 Peggy Lee Fever | Live |
| 1958 The Champs Tequila | Live |
| 1958 Everly Brothers All I Have To Do Is Dream | Live |
| 1959 The Everly Brothers Bird Dog / Till I kissed you | Live |
| 1959 Chuck Berry Johnny B Goode | John B. tries to be goode and good |
SIXTIES (57) |
| 1960 The Brothers Four Greenfields | Searching the ideal voice recording within the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs |
| 1960 Billy Fury Wondrous Place | Searching the ideal but the voice is too wet |
| 1961 The Shirelles Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow | From the Brill building hit factory |
| 1961 The Allisons Are You Sure | Live |
| 1961 Del Shannon Runaway | Listen to a predecessor of the analog synthesizer, the Musitron at 1:10 |
| 1962 Little Eva Loco-motion | Live |
| 1963 The Crystals Da Doo Ron Ron | Live |
| 1964 Freddie and The Dreamers You Were Made For Me | A crazy dance and a dog that is made for us |
| 1964 The Honeycombs Have I The Right | Where Joe Meek instructed the group to stamp their feet on the wooden stairs of the studio |
| 1964 The Nashville Teens Tobacco Road | Live |
| 1965 The Yardbirds Still I'm Sad | . |
| 1965 Dave Berry This Strange Effect | . |
| 1965 The Motions Wasted Words | NL Den Haag, written by Robbie van Leeuwen who was a fan of Martin Luther King |
| 1965 The Mamas & The Papas California Dreamin | . |
| 1965 Sonny & Cher I Got You Babe | Sonny was 27 and worked for Phil Spector when he met Cher (16), what a small world |
| 1965 France Gall Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son | The singing doll of Serge Gainsbourg, French Eurovision Song Contest winner (even the orchestra is live) |
| 1965 The Sorrows Take A Heart |
| 1965 Barry McGuire Eve Of Destruction | If the button is pushed, there's is no runnin' away |
| 1966 Herman's Hermits No Milk Today | Live at the Beatclub, from the time that milk was delivered by the milkman, written by the hit wonder of 10cc Graham Gouldman |
| 1966 Nancy Sinatra These Boots Are Made For Walkin | Step down low pitch |
| 1966 The Kinks Dead End Street | What are we living for? |
| 1966 The Marmalade I See The Rain |
| 1966 The Beach Boys Good Vibrations | First? use of a Theremin like (Tanner/Whitsell variant) synthesizer sound in a top hit |
| 1966 Small Faces All Or Nothing |
| 1966 The Lovin' Spoonful Summer In The City | Listen to the city sound scape including jackhammer |
| 1966 Cat Stevens Matthew & Son |
| 1966 Ike & Tina Turner River Deep Mountain High | Not a hit in the USA because Tina was too black, Phil too white and Ike did not like it anyway |
| 1966 The Monkees I'm A Beliver |
| 1966 Rob Hoeke R & B Group When People Talk | NL Haarlem i.e. not USA Harlem |
| 1966 Golden Earring Daddy Buy Me A Girl | NL Den Haag |
| 1966 The Outsiders with Wally Tax Lying all the time | NL Amsterdam |
| 1966 Q65 The Life I Live | NL Den Haag |
| 1966 Boudewijn de Groot Welterusten meneer de president | NL Ultieme protest song van de Nederlandse Bob Dylan (being the Cooper pair partner of Lennaert Nijgh) |
| 1967 Tee - Set Don't You Leave | NL Delft |
| 1967 RO-D-YS Take Her Home | NL Oude Pekela |
| 1967 Rudy Bennett How We Can Hang On To A Dream | NL Den Haag |
| 1967 Cuby and the Blizzards Somebody will know someday | NL Grolloo |
| 1967 Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit |
| 1967 David McWilliams Days Of Pearly Spencer | Functional use of telephone bandwidth limitation, e.g. 0:36 |
| 1967 The Turtles Happy Together | Some members later joined Frank Zappa |
| 1967 The Small Faces Itchycoo Park | First? use of a tape flanger |
| 1967 The Moody Blues Nights in White Satin | Just what the TRUTH is, I can't say anymore |
| 1967 Andy Williams Music To Watch Girls By | Guilty pleasure and part of the cancel culture |
| 1967 Four Tops Reach Out (I'll Be There) | A Motown topper |
| 1967 The First Edition Just Dropped In | A self reference hit towards my condition |
| 1968 Elvis Presley A Little Less Conversation | Will probably be cancelled by the Woke community (women talk too much) |
| 1968 Status Quo Pictures Of Matchstick Men | . |
| 1968 The Move Flowers in the Rain | A thunder start |
| 1968 The Small Faces Lazy Sunday Afternoon | Listen to the sea side sound scape including seagulls, church bells and more birds |
| 1968 Georgie Fame The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde | Listen to the sound scape of sirenes and flying bullets |
| 1969 Zager And Evans In The Year 2525 |
| 1969 Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter | The best intro ever |
| 1969 Shocking Blue Venus | NL Den Haag, written by Robbie van Leeuwen |
| 1969 Earth & Fire Seasons | NL Den Haag |
| 1969 George Baker Selection Little Green Bag | NL Wormerveer, especially for the first 50 seconds |
| 1969 Ekseption - The 5th | NL Haarlem |
| 1969 The Archies - Sugar, Sugar | From the Brill building hit factory |
SEVENTIES (42) |
| 1970 Van Morrison Moondance | Idealism in love ecstasy |
| 1970 The Guess Who No time | No time because some day I will DIE |
| 1970 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Tears Of A Clown |
| 1970 Steve Rowland & The Family Dogg Sympathy |
| 1970 Pacific Gas and Electric Are You Ready | Live in the Beat-Club in 1972 |
| 1970 Supersister She was naked | NL Den Haag |
| 1970 Earth & Fire Wild and excitng | NL Den Haag |
| 1970 Earth & Fire Ruby Is The One | NL Den Haag |
| 1971 Sandy Coast True Love That's A Wonder | NL Den Haag (Voorburg) |
| 1971 April Shower Railroad Song | NL Amsterdam |
| 1971 Focus / Hocus Pocus | NL Amsterdam, Original / Live at NBC in 1973 |
| 1971 Doors Riders on the storm |
| 1971 John Kongos He's gonna step on you again |
| 1971 Slade Coz I Luv You | The violin makes this hit less guilty
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| 1971 Lighthouse One Fine Morning | Live
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| 1971 Derek & The Dominos Layla | How being in love can create one of the best intros
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| 1972 Redbone We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee | In the name of manifest destiny or evolution, where the winner can take it all |
| 1972 Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come | Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky, Waiting for me when I die |
| 1972 Roxy Music Re-Make / Re-Model | Perfect sync between musicians |
| 1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival I Put A Spell On You | . |
| 1972 Middle of the Road The Talk Of All The USA | Guilty pleasure |
| 1972 Sweet Little Willy | Top Of The Pops, guilty pleasure |
| 1972 Frans Halsema en Jenny Arean Vluchten kan niet meer | NL Amsterdam, Dutch dystopic hit written by Annie M.G. Schmidt (lyrics) and Harry Bannink |
| 1973 Golden Earring Radar Love | NL Den Haag |
| 1973 Dizzy Man's Band The Show | NL Zaandam, Guilty pleasure hitsingle about Guilty pleasure hitsingles |
| 1973 Pink Floyd Money | Their engineer, Alan Parsons, played an important role (see 1980) |
| 1974 10 CC The Wall Street Shuffle |
| 1975 Teach-In Ding-a-Dong | NL Enschede, Dutch Eurovision Song Contest winner guilty pleasure |
| 1975 Kraftwerk Autobahn | Electronic simplicity |
| 1976 Boney M Daddy cool |
| 1977 Johnny Guitar Watson A Real Mother For Ya |
| 1977 KC and the Sunshine Band I'm Your Boogie Man | I Like to say hello to all our fans in Holland |
| 1977 Mistral Starship 109 | NL Den Haag, Guilty pleasure written by Robbie van Leeuwen |
| 1978 Bee Gees Stayin Alive | Falset survival by the first tape loop hit because the drummer was off to the funeral of his mother, the result was a disco hit that killed positivity |
| 1978 10 CC Dreadlock Holiday | I love the truth inversion, I hope it survives the cancel culture |
| 1978 Santana She's Not There |
| 1978 Massada Latin Dance | 100 % live |
| 1978 Chic Le Freak | Live in the Netherlands |
| 1978 Sniff 'n' The Tears Driver's Seat | . |
| 1979 Sister Sledge Lost In Music | Play back in Musikladen |
| 1979 Fischer Z The Worker | Play back in Top Pop, socialist statement by a statistical quality band |
| 1979 Sheila Spacer | Guilty please of a USA/France mix up from Nile Rodgers |
| 1979 Earth, Wind & Fire Boogie Wonderland | Guilty please boogie |
EIGHTIES (26) |
| 1980 Fruitcake My Feet Won't Move (no lyrics available) | NL Amsterdam, Guilty pleasure |
| 1980 The Romantics What I Like About You | Guilty pleasure |
| 1980 Stevie Wonder Master Blaster |
| 1980 Alan Parsons Project The Turn Of A Friendly Card | He learned the tricks from Pink Floyd and he was their inspiring engineer (see 1973), watch the Dutch banknotes |
| 1981 Rick James Super Freak |
| 1981 The Pretenders I Go To Sleep |
| 1981 Men At Work Down Under |
| 1982 The Stranglers Golden Brown | Use of the harpsichord, you may want to listen to the original
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| 1982 Steve Miller Band Abracadabra | Me too ligt altijd op de loer
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| 1982 Imagination Just An Illusion | We love illusions |
| 1982 Michael Jackson Beat It | We have to seperate the artist from the art |
| 1983 Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax | Most people have a hard time getting relaxation |
| 1983 Herbie Hancock - Rockit | The use of repeats and phase shifts in audio and video |
| 1983 Elton John I'm Still Standing | . |
| 1984 Golden Earring When the Lady Smiles | NL Den Haag, video clip was banned in the USA |
| 1984 Gloria Estefan Dr. Beat | Guilty pleasure beat |
| 1985 Talking Heads Road to Nowhere |
| 1986 Genesis Land Of Confusion | There's too many men, too many people, decimating the world population is the ultimate solution |
| 1986 Paul Simon You Can Call Me Al | Pokes fun at the concept of video and is a link between high and low culture, Pierre Boulez misunderstood Paul/Peggy as Al/Betty
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| 1986 Matia Bazar Ti Sento | For the use of a staircase pitch rise sequence
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| 1986 Het Goede Doel Ik dans, dus ik besta | NL Utrecht, guilty pleasure in Dutch
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| 1987 Nits In the Dutch mountains | NL Amsterdam |
| 1987 France Gall Ella, elle l'a |
| 1987 Elli Medeiros A Bailar Calypso |
| 1988 Mory Kante Yeke Yeke |
| 1989 Paula Abdul Straight Up | Guilty pleasure |
| 1989 Soul II Soul Back To Life | Example of a black and white collective hit integrating many styles, listen to the classic strings, inspired by a dark experience of the singer |
NINETIES (17) |
| 1990 Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silence | . |
| 1991 R.E.M. Losing My Religion | . |
| 1992 Red Hot Chili Peppers Under The Bridge | Love for the city and I love the child choir |
| 1993 Culture Beat Mr. Vain | Guilty pleasure beat |
| 1994 Youssou N'Dour 7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry | Battle's not over, Even when it's won |
| 1994 Edwyn Collins A Girl Like You | . |
| 1995 Coolio Gangsta's Paradise | Paradise and Hell lie closer than Stevie Wonder and you might think |
| 1995 Pulp Common People | For me the reverse is more true |
| 1996 Spice Girls Wannabe | What you really want can be a very guilty pleasure |
| 1996 No Doubt Don't Speak | I know what you are thinking |
| 1997 Buena Vista Social Club Chan Chan | Wat in het vat zit verzuurt niet, en Ry haalt het op |
| 1997 White Town Your Woman | The power of a woman is underestimated |
| 1998 MC Hammer U Can't Touch This | EN DE WINNAAR IS: Je kunt dit niet aanraken |
| 1998 Cher Believe | Only for the audio-video coupling of the vocoder like harmonic vowel structure introduced by autotune at 0:47 |
| 1999 Fatboy Slim Praise You | Listen to the frame repeats e.g. 0:36-0:56 |
| 1999 Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | Guilty pleasure |
| 1999 Santana ft. Rob Thomas Smooth | . |
ZERO'S (20) |
| 2000 Alcazar Crying At The Discoteque | The ultimate disco guilty please with low pass filtering and a video that steps out of the system |
| 2000 Tom Jones & Mousse T - Sexbomb | Guilty pleasure bomb |
| 2001 Destiny's Child - Survivor | Will we survive? |
| 2001 Mary J. Blige - Family Affair | . |
| 2001 Alizée - Moi... Lolita | Guilty Nabokov pleasure that will probably be cancelled |
| 2002 Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way | . |
| 2003 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army | . |
| 2003 Outkast - Hey Ya! | Guilty pleasure |
| 2003 Coldplay - Clocks | . |
| 2004 The Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started | Try to get started, but its difficult |
| 2004 Anastacia - Sick and Tired | Functional use of a me too silence at 3:05 |
| 2004 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams | . |
| 2004 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out | Listen to the best slow down in tempo |
| 2005 Madonna - Hung Up | best use of bandfiltering for getting timbre changes that express distance |
| 2006 Editors - All Sparks | About answering questions that have not yet been asked |
| 2006 Muse - Supermassive Black Hole | A link between the attraction in physics and the attraction in psychology |
| 2007 New Young Pony Club - The Bomb | Guilty pleasure bomb |
| 2008 Coldplay - Violet Hill | . |
| 2009 Lady Gaga - Paparazzi | . |
| 2009 JAY-Z ft. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind | New York has this , Amsterdam this and Den Haag this |
TENS (13) |
| 2010 Lady Gaga - Telephone ft. Beyoncé | Functional frame repeats that increase quality |
| 2011 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know | . |
| 2012 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks | . |
| 2013 Stromae - Papaoutai | . |
| 2013 Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky | . |
| 2014 Stromae - tous les memes | . |
| 2015 Alvaro Soler - El Mismo Sol | . |
| 2016 Willy William - Ego | . |
| 2016 Rag'n'Bone Man - Human | . |
| 2017 Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito | Are they using PSOLA slow down? |
| 2018 Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug - Havana | After New York , Amsterdam and Den Haag , we have Havana with a step out of the system |
| 2019 Niall Horan - Nice To Meet Ya | . |
| 2019 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy | . |
TWENTIES (but not roaring) (8) |
| 2020 Ava Max - Kings & Queens | Bon Jovi rip-off and partial cause of a split up in the political party Forum voor Democratie |
| 2020 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar | Inspired by a post apocalyptic iDEATH roman?, definitely a guilty pleasure likely to be cancelled in the future |
| 2021 Ava Max - Who's Laughing Now | . |
| 2022 Stromae - L'enfer | Pain reflected in a glitch |
| 2022 Maan ft. Goldband - Stiekem | NL Den Haag |
| 2022 Son Mieux - Multicolor | NL Den Haag |
| 2023 Iguana Death Cult - Pushermen | NL Rotterdam |
| 2023 Racoon - Nickel For Goodbye | NL Goes |