(explanation provided where selection is not a Dutch artist or is not otherwise immediately obvious)
Glenn
Group 1850 - Paradise Now
The Outsiders - Strange Things are Happening
The Fall - Kurious Oranj (from album based on appointment of William of Orange to the English crown)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea (from album inspired by The Diary of Ann Frank)
Q'65 - The Life I Live
Michael
Coldplay - Amsterdam
Shocking Blue - Venus
Squeeze - Up the Junction (Jools Holland)
The Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper (song first released, as a bootleg, in Netherlands)
Tee Set - My Belle Amie
Andreas
Nirvana - Love Buzz (cover of song written by a member of Shocking Blue)
David Bowie - Amsterdam
Half Man Half Biscuit - Ordinary to Enschede (a town in the Netherlands)
Steeleye Span - the Lowlands of Holland
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
John
The Beatles - The Ballad of John & Yoko (reference to Amsterdam Hilton)
Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
Don McLean - Vincent
Golden Earring - Intro / Plus Minus Absurdio
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Craig
K D Lang - Helpless (dykes)
REM - Orange Crush (orange)
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary (wind - windmills)
The Who - My Generation (had 23 hits in The Netherlands but no number 1s)
Bob Marley - Redemption Song (fondness for the herb)
Playout track: The Sound Magics - Don't You Remember
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