Zo is het

Dat Adolescent Sex het zo goed doet onder 40+ en 50+ geeft toch wel te denken - is dat nou puur nostalgie, way back to those days (before 80s verantwoord) of is 't wishful thinking?

Zou eerder denken - qua frame of mind David Sylvian I Surrender - YouTube

Ik denk dat voor velen van ons adolescent sex het beste nummer ooit was. Maar we moeten verder.

Adolescent Sex was en is ook gewoon een super lekker nummer om op te dansen

Precies tien nummers vallen af, namelijk deze

14 I Should Not Dare (David Sylvian)
14 Rhodesia
13 Cantonese Boy*
13 Sow the Salt (Steve Jansen)
12 Her Distance (Steve Jansen)
10 Blackwater (Rain Tree Crow)*
10 Buoy (Mick Karn & David Sylvian)
9 Every Colour You Are (Rain Tree Crow)
9 Life in Tokyo
9 Still Life in Mobile Homes*

De boeiende solocarrières van de overige leden ten spijt: alleen Japan en David Sylvian mogen naar ronde 3. We gaan dus de finale in met de volgende 20 krakers:

Adolescent Sex
Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Ghosts
I Surrender (David Sylvian)
In Vogue*
Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
Methods of Dance
Nightporter
Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
Orpheus (David Sylvian)
Quiet Life
Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
Sons of Pioneers*
Swing*
Taking Islands in Africa*
The Other Side of Life
Visions of China

Maak uit dit 20-tal een top 10 voor vrijdagavond 21.00 uur, dan start ik met de finale-presentatie. Veel plezier iedereen!

Adolescent Sex is overigens door het oog van de naald gekropen, die had 8 tegenstemmen en komt er dus met de schrik vanaf

Orpheus en Quiet Life kregen de minste tegenstemmen, elk slechts 1. Maar zijn dit ook de favorieten voor de eindzege?

Dit is alvast mijn top 10:

1. Taking Islands in Africa*
2. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
3. Quiet Life
4. Visions of China
5. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
6. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
7. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
8. Sons of Pioneers*
9. Ghosts
10. Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)

Mijn nummer 1 van Japan wisselt altijd tussen Taking Islands In Africa, Gentlemen Take Polaroids en Canton. In afwezigheid van die laatste is het Taking Islands die het deze keer wint.

11. Nightporter
12. Methods of Dance
13. Swing*
14. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
15. I Surrender (David Sylvian)
16. Adolescent Sex
17. In Vogue*
18. The Other Side of Life
19. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
20. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)

Het komt dan toch tot een radiofriendly finale. Maar ook radiofriendly is Japan/Sylvian fijn.

1. Before The Bullfight
2. Sons Of Pioneers
3. Quiet Life
4. Ghosts
5. Brilliant Trees
6. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
7. In Vogue
8. Nightporter
9. The Other Side Of Life
10. Methods of Dance

1. Quiet Life
2. Adolescent Sex
3. Before The Bullfight (David Sylvian)
4. In Vogue
5. The Other Side of Life
6. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
7. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
8. Nightporter
9. Taking Islands in Africa*
10. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*

1 Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
2 Ghosts
3 Methods of Dance
4 Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
5 Visions of China
6 Taking Islands in Africa*
7 Quiet Life
8 Sons of Pioneers*
9 Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
10 Swing*

1. Visions of China
2. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
3. Taking Islands in Africa*
4. Sons of Pioneers*
5. Methods of Dance
6. Ghosts
7. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
8. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
9. Quiet Life
10. Orpheus (David Sylvian)

1 Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
2 Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
3 Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
4 Nightporter
5 Ghosts
6 Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
7 The Other Side of Life
8 I Surrender (David Sylvian)
9 Sons of Pioneers*
10 Orpheus (David Sylvian)

Ik dacht ik zal wel de enige zijn die Before the Bullfight op 1 zet, maar zaaf was mij voor. Voor mij vormt het een eenheid met het eraan voorafgaande nummer Laughter and forgetting, en samen staan ze eigenlijk op 1. Verder mis ik Silver moon, dat lichtvoetige pareltje ondanks de (uiteraard weer) weemoedige tekst.

1. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
2. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
3. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
4. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
5. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
6. Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
7. I Surrender (David Sylvian)
8. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
9. Visions of China
10. Ghosts

1. The other side of life
2. Ghosts
3. Forbidden Colours
4. Swing
5. Nostalgia
6. Before the Bullfight
7. Methods of Dance
8. Taking Islands in Africa
9. Sons of Pioneers
10. I Surrender

1. Ghosts
2. Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
3. Methods of Dance
4. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
5. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
6. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
7. Quiet Life
8. Sons of Pioneers
9. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
10. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)

1. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
2. Nightporter
3. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
4. Ghosts
5. Taking Islands in Africa*
6. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
7. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)
8. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)
9. Quiet Life
10. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*

1. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
2. Adolescent Sex
3. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
4. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
5. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
6. Nightporter
7. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
8. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
9. Quiet Life
10. The Other Side of Life

1. Nightporter
2. Quiet Life
3. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
4. Taking Islands in Africa*
5. The Other Side of Life
6. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
7. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
8. In Vogue*
9. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
10. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*

1. Nightporter
2. Adolescent Sex
3. Quiet Life
4. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
5. Methods of Dance
6. Taking Islands in Africa*
7. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
8. Ghosts
9. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
10. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)

1. Ghosts
2. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
3. Nightporter
4. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
5. Quiet Life
6. I Surrender (David Sylvian)
7. Visions of China
8. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
9. Adolescent Sex
10. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*

1. Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
2. Ghosts
3. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
4. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
5. Nightporter
6. Quiet Life
7. The Other Side of Life
8. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
9. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
10. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)

01. I Surrender (David Sylvian)
02. Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
03. The Other Side of Life
04. Nightporter
05. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
06. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
07. Ghosts
08. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
09. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
10. Sons of Pioneers*

1. Orpheus
2. Methods of Dance
3. Quiet Life
4. Ghosts
5. Swing
6. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
7. Nightporter
8 Taking Islands in Africa
9. The Other Side of Life
10 Visions of China

1. Adolescent Sex
2. Visions of China
3. Methods of Dance
4. Nightporter
5. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
6. Ghosts
7. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
8. Quiet Life
9. Swing
10. I Surrender (David Sylvian)

1. Adolescent Sex
2. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
3. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*
4. Nightporter  
5. Ghosts
6. Swing*
7. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
8. In Vogue*
9. Methods of Dance
10. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)

1. Adolescent Sex
2. Nightporter
3. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
4. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
5. Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
6. Ghosts
7. Quiet Life
8. Methods of Dance
9. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
10. Visions of China

1. Nightporter
2. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
3. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
4. Taking Islands in Africa*
5. The Other Side of Life
6. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
7. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
8 Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
9. I surrender
10. Ghosts

1. Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
2. Nightporter
3. Quiet Life
4. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
5. Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)*
6. Ghosts
7. The Other Side of Life
8. Visions of China
9. Methods of Dance
10. Taking Islands in Africa*

1 Gentlemen Take Polaroids
2 Adolescent Sex
3 Quiet Life
4 Ghosts
5 Visions of China
6 Taking Islands in Africa
7 Swing
8 Forbidden Colours (David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
9 Red Guitar (David Sylvian)
10 The Other Side of Life

1. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
2. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
3. Nightporter
4. In Vogue*
5. Quiet Life
6. Methods of Dance
7. Ghosts
8. Taking Islands in Africa*
9. Sons of Pioneers*
10. Red Guitar (David Sylvian)*

1. Nightporter
2. Quiet Life
3. Let The Happiness In (David Sylvian)*
4. Ghosts
5. Adolescent Sex
6. Orpheus (David Sylvian)
7. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
8. Nostalgia (David Sylvian)
9. In Vogue*
10. Methods of Dance