Jos van Hout

​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.

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Let’s get the night Love song about making up after a temporarily break. Pop / folk

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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

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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​​​​

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​​​Posters Dividing stuff after a break-up. What has emotional worth? Pop

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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

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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

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