Album 12
Scroll to below the player for short descriptions of each song and style.
These songs I wrote in the 80’s, now (2026) covered by Suno, based on crappy recordings I had taped on a 4-track Amstrad-deck.
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Soldiers pay the price Protest song against war. I wrote it in 1982 after watching a documentary about the Vietnam war. Pop.
Let’s get the night Love song about making up after a temporarily break. Pop / folk
Master of mediocrity When you do a lot of different things - like I have always done - you will not rise above mediocrity. I wrote this song around 1985 - in retrospect I can say that I made the right choice, focussing on everything. Pop / folk
Try to Bea Bea just had her first baby and I visited her early 1990. Months later I wrote this song, trying to catch the underlying feeling of that visit. That same week her young husband died of skin cancer. Related to Forgotten flamengo on Album RFQ. Pop.
Spiderweb’s touch Strange things can dig up memories from the depths in your head. Doow-wop
Posters Dividing stuff after a break-up. What has emotional worth? Pop
What’s in a song? Writing a song can drift from a real life idea into fantasy, adding words and thoughts to fit rhyme or rhythm, or enhancing emotional depth... That can get you in trouble sometimes. Pop
Your story Michael Jackson had just released his album History. Around the same time, the first stories and law suits about child abuse arose. The lyrics are an acrostichon: the first letters of each line form a second title: Michael Jackson’s History - that can be read two ways. Popsong