Also Studio Brussel played an Album Top 100. Let’s compare this list to the dutch Hemelse 100.

= not in the Dutch Hemelse 100.

1. Pearl Jam – Ten
2. Nirvana – Nevermind
3. Queens of the Stoneage – Songs for the Deaf
4. Radiohead – OK Computer (Collector’s Edition)
5. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
6. Metallica (Black Album)
7. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
8. Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
10. U2 – Achtung Baby
11. Editors – An End Has A Start
12. Muse – Origin Of Symmetry
13. dEUS – Worst Case Scenario
14. Eels – Beautiful Freak
15. The Doors – The Doors
16. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
17. Nirvana – Unplugged In New York
18. Absynthe Minded – Absynthe Minded
19. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
21. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
22. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
23. Arcade Fire – The Funeral
24. Michael Jackson – Thriller
25. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
26. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
27. Muse – Black Holes And Revelations
28. Beatles – The White Album
29. The Doors – L.A. Woman [40th Anniversary]
30. Tool – Lateralus
31. The Cure – Disintegration
32. Neil Young – Harvest
33. Radiohead – In Rainbows
34. Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction / G N’R Lies / The Spaghetti Incident
35. The National – High Violet
36. Pink Floyd -The Wall
37. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
38. Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape
39. R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
40. Metallica – Master of the Puppets
41. Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
42. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
43. Pixies – Doolittle
44. Green Day – American Idiot
45. The Black Box Revelation – Set Your Head On Fire
46. The White Stripes – Elephant
47. Prince – Purple Rain
48. Oasis – What’s the Story Morning Glory
49. Jeff Buckley – Grace
50. Jimi Hendrikx
51. Air – Moon Safari
52. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
53. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
54. Radiohead – The Bends
55. Beatles – Abbey Road
56. Tool – Aenima
57. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
58. Pixies – Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
59. U2 – The Joshua Tree
60. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
61. Florence + The Machine – Lungs
62. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
63. Tom Waits – Closing Time
64. Moby – Play
65. AC/DC – Back in Black
66. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
67. Led Zeppelin IV
68. The xx – xx
69. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
70. Adele – 21
71. Muse – Absolution
72. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Legend
73. Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights
74. dEUS – The Ideal Crash
75. Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
76. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
77. Queen – A Night At The Opera
78. Radiohead – Kid A
79. Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
80. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
81. Paul Simon – Graceland (2011 Remaster)
82. The Strokes – Is This It
83. Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast
84. The Cure – Seventeen Seconds
85. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
86. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
87. Daft Punk – Homework
88. The Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen
89. Joy Division – Closer [Collector's Edition]
90. Beatles – Revolver
91. The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (2011 – Remaster)
92. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
93. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
94. Foo Fighters – In Your Honour
95. School Is Cool – Entropology
96. Prince – Sign “O” The Times
97. Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks
98. Therapy? – Troublegum
99. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
100. The Clash – London Calling

Not in this list, but in the Dutch “Hemelse 100″:

• Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
• Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
• John Mayer – Continuum
• Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
• Live – Throwing Copper
• Racoon – Liverpool Rain
• Eddie Vedder – Music For The Motion Picture Into The Wild
• Keane – Hopes And Fears
• Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
• The Black Keys – El Camino
• Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I / Use Your Illusion II
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
• Rammstein – Mutter
• Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
• Go Back To The Zoo – Benny Blisto
• The Killers – Hot Fuss
• Adele – 19
• Muse – The Resistance
• Foster The People – Torches
• Eagles – Hotel California
• Jason Mraz – We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
• Daft Punk – Discovery
• Coldplay – Parachutes
• Ed Sheeran – +
• White Lies – To Lose My Life …
• Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams
• Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (Remastered Edition)
• Anouk – For Bitter Or Worse
• Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
• Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
• Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
• Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
• De Staat – Wait For Evolution
• Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
• Young the Giant – Young the Giant
• Prodigy – Fat Of The Land
• BLØF – UMOJA
• Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
• Birdy – Birdy
• The Kooks – Konk
• Coldplay – X & Y
• Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule: 20th Anniversary Edition
• Selah Sue – Selah Sue
• Counting Crows – August & Everything After
• Faithless – Reverence
• The Verve – Urban Hymns
• De Dijk – Niemand In De Stad
• De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig – De Lachende Derde
• 3 Doors Down – Away From The Sun
• David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
• Alicia Keys – Songs In A Minor (10th Anniversary Edition) (Deluxe Edition)
• Acda & De Munnik – Acda & De Munnik
• The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
• Pearl Jam – Backspacer
• Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• Bon Jovi – Keep The Faith
• Queen – Innuendo
• Ilse DeLange – World Of Hurt

Now on Dutch Radio 3FM: Hemelse Honderd 2012.
Best albums ever …

1. Pearl Jam – Ten
2. Nirvana – Nevermind
3. Adele – 21
4. Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
5. Radiohead – OK Computer (Collector’s Edition)
6. Michael Jackson – Thriller
7. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
9. U2 – The Joshua Tree
10. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
11. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
12. Editors – An End Has A Start
13. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
14. John Mayer – Continuum
15. Muse – Origin Of Symmetry
16. Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
17. Metallica (Black Album)
18. Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
19. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
20. Live – Throwing Copper
21. Racoon – Liverpool Rain
22. Oasis – What’s the Story Morning Glory
23. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
24. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
25. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
26. Eddie Vedder – Music For The Motion Picture Into The Wild
27. Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
28. Green Day – American Idiot
29. R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
30. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
31. Keane – Hopes And Fears
32. The Doors – The Doors
33. Queens of the Stoneage – Songs for the Deaf
34. Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
35. The Black Keys – El Camino
36. Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I / Use Your Illusion II
37. U2 – Achtung Baby
38. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
39. Queen – A Night At The Opera
40. Rammstein – Mutter
41. Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
42. Nirvana – Unplugged In New York
43. Go Back To The Zoo – Benny Blisto
44. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
45. The Killers – Hot Fuss
46. Adele – 19
47. Prince – Purple Rain
48. Muse – The Resistance
49. Foster The People – Torches
50. Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
51. Eagles – Hotel California
52. Jason Mraz – We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
53. Daft Punk – Discovery
54. Coldplay – Parachutes
55. Led Zeppelin IV
56. Ed Sheeran – +
57. Jeff Buckley – Grace
58. The White Stripes – Elephant
59. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Legend
60. White Lies – To Lose My Life …
61. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
62. Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams
63. Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (Remastered Edition)
64. Anouk – For Bitter Or Worse
65. Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
66. Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
67. Muse – Black Holes And Revelations
68. Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
69. Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
70. De Staat – Wait For Evolution
71. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
72. Young the Giant – Young the Giant
73. Prodigy – Fat Of The Land
74. BLØF – UMOJA
75. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
76. Beatles – Abbey Road
77. Birdy – Birdy
78. AC/DC – Back in Black
79. The Kooks – Konk
80. Coldplay – X & Y
81. Paul Simon – Graceland (2011 Remaster)
82. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
83. Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule: 20th Anniversary Edition
84. Selah Sue – Selah Sue
85. Counting Crows – August & Everything After
86. Faithless – Reverence
87. The Verve – Urban Hymns
88. De Dijk – Niemand In De Stad
89. De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig – De Lachende Derde
90. 3 Doors Down – Away From The Sun
91. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
92. Alicia Keys – Songs In A Minor (10th Anniversary Edition) (Deluxe Edition)
93. Moby – Play
94. Acda & De Munnik – Acda & De Munnik
95. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
96. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
97. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
98. Bon Jovi – Keep The Faith
99. Queen – Innuendo
100. Ilse DeLange – World Of Hurt

Keane – Strangeland (Pop)
Absynthe Minded – As it ever was (Pop / Rock)
Fresku – Maskerade (Hip Hop)
Beach House – Bloom (Pop)
Tenacious D – Rize Of The Fenix (Pop / Rock)
Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion (Rock / Folk)
Kensington – Vultures (Pop)
Zorita – Amor Y Muerte (Pop)
Gusttavo Lima – Inventor dos Amores (Pop)

To express our thanks, we created this playlist that tells the story through the track-titles

Thx Spotify for the iPad app

• O Happy Day
• Today we celebrate
• Spotify Intro
• Intro-Ducing
• Apple
• Tablet
• Application
• Now we can
• Enjoy the music
• Even better

So there it is: the official Spotify iPad App. Spotify has landed on the iPad, and not surprisingly, the new app is a no-brainer of a download for anyone currently in possession of a premium account and an iPad.

Our first impression? Spotify did a great job: the app looks fantastic and really utilizes the possibilities of the Ipad. We love it!

Read a more extensive review on take a visual tour on Engadget.

Via Billboard

Jack White’s first solo album “Blunderbuss” replaced his XL Recordings labelmate Adele’s “21″ at the top of the U.K. album chart. ”Blunderbuss” soundly beat its fellow XL release, with sales to midnight Saturday of 40,000 compared to 15,000 for “21.” White previously topped the U.K. chart with the White Stripes’ “Elephant” in 2003 and “Icky Thump” in 2007.

Jack White – Blunderbuss

Review via EdmontonJournal

From the first verse of “Missing Pieces,” the instant classic that opens Jack White’s first solo album, Blunderbuss, a feeling immediately sets in that this might be his mission statement. the song connects in a way that’s both fresh and ancient — much like the first time you heard The White Stripes.

Except for one thing: The White Stripes never made an album with as much scope and consistency as this. Blunderbuss leaves White’s other projects and collaborations — impressive as they might have been — in the dust: it’s deeper than the Stripes, farther-reaching than The Raconteurs and more melodically satisfying than The Dead Weather. On this disc, White draws the line from Lead Belly to late-60s garage bands to Nirvana and never sounds like anyone but himself.

It’s easy to get sidetracked from what White has set out to do, given such distractions as the self-mythologizing, alternative personal histories, secret passages to his recording studio, obsession with vinyl and mandatory colour schemes for the clothes worn by his employees. (If you’re curious, though, his obsessions were recently chronicled at length in a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine.) But consign that to the “mildly amusing” file and focus on the music. Once that leap is made, you realize that none of White’s contemporaries have the untutored scholarity, anarchic instincts and respect for tradition that fills his work.

And never has that been so evident as it is on this astonishing disc.

White has said in recent interviews that he had two reasons for choosing Columbia to distribute the album instead of handling the release entirely through his own Third Man label. Apart from Columbia’s ability as a major player to publicize the music and get it to the right places, he said, he saw the label as a blue-chip institution with a proud history that includes some of his heroes, like Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan.

This recording brings with it the hope that White himself might, one day, be included in that Hall of Fame.

The dynamics on Blunderbuss reveal a scope White has only hinted at so far in his career. Piano and acoustic guitar are at least as prominent as his trademark distorted-guitar stuttering, which is best represented here in the majestic “Weep Themselves to Sleep” and the twin-axe solo in “Freedom at 21.” Country and blues, White’s stylistic vehicles in the “Goodnight Irene” rewrite “I Guess I Should Go to Sleep,” live right next door to the blasting Kinks chords of “Sixteen Salteens.” The main riff in “Love Interruption” is carried by Emily Bowland’s clarinet work, while Fats Kaplin’s haunting pedal steel guitar elevates the title track, a kissing cousin of Bob Dylan’s “Isis.”

As one would expect, White’s primitivist instincts are front and centre. Look elsewhere for Auto-Tune, Pro Tools and drum programming: White and his studio collaborators are flesh-and-blood musicians playing real instruments. And if they make real mistakes, all the better.

Isn’t that what ultimately gets you into the Hall of Fame?

Kent – Jag är inte rädd för mörkret (Rock)
Europe – Bag of Bones (Rock)
B.o.B – Strange Clouds (Hip Hop / Pop)
Santigold – Master of My Make-Believe (Electronic/Pop)
Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts (Pop / Jazz)
VanVelzen – The Rush Of Life (Pop)
Rufus Wainwright – Out Of The Game (Pop)

Via TheSaltLakeTribune

They gathered by the tens of thousands in the drenching rain to face down terrorism with song.

Drawn by a Facebook-organized protest, Norwegians flocked to public squares across the country Thursday and rallied against far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik, now on trial for a bomb-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people.

They sang a Norwegian version of a Pete Seeger tune that the confessed mass killer claims has been used to brainwash the country’s youth into supporting immigration.

Defiant singalongs of “Children of the Rainbow” were staged in Oslo and other major Norwegian cities, even as the ninth day of the trial went on with survivors of Breivik’s attacks giving tearful testimony.

In downtown Oslo alone, about 40,000 people raised their voices as Norwegian artist Lillebjoern Nilsen played the song, a Norwegian version of Seeger’s “My Rainbow Race.”

They sang the Norwegian lyrics:

“A sky full of stars, blue sea as far as you can see

“An earth where flowers grow, can you wish for more?

“Together shall we live, every sister, brother

“Young children of the rainbow, a fertile land.”

Seeger’s lyrics in the original version have a similar message of living together in harmony.

In testimony last week, Breivik mentioned the tune as an example of how he believes “cultural Marxists” have infiltrated Norwegian schools and weakened its society.

The crowd later marched to the Oslo courthouse, where they laid a carpet of red and white roses on the steps and the fence.

Reached at home in Beacon, N.Y., the 92-year-old Seeger told The Associated Press he had heard about the mass gathering in a phone call from Nilsen.

“I said, ‘Oh that’s wonderful,’” Seeger said. “It’s a tremendous honor, really. One of the greatest honors a songwriter could have is to have a song of theirs sung in another country.”

The folk singer and his music have been central in many social justice issues from civil rights to the environment. He sang out against the Vietnam War and more recently joined the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan.

Breivik has admitted to setting off a bomb July 22 outside the government headquarters that killed eight people, and then going on a shooting rampage at the Labor Party’s annual youth camp on Utoya island, killing 69 others, mostly teenagers.

Waiting for the summer … enjoy this great playlists!

Gerard Ekdom’s BBQ Box (by Michel van Kats)
Gerard Ekdom’s BBQ Box, Vol. 2 (by Rick van Erp)
Gerard Ekdom BBQ box Vol. 3 (by Yoeri van Meurs)

Luisterpaal selects the best new albums.

All in one playlist:

Luisterpaal 3VOOR12 – week 16

Or listen the album you want:

Rufus Wainwright – Out Of The Game
High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Seeka – Seeka
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Great Lake Swimmers – New Wild Everywhere
Marbert Rocel – Small Hours
Miss Montreal – I Am Hunter
The Black Seeds – Dust and Dirt
Hummingville – With An Elephant In A Room
Sendai – Geotope
Zico Chain – The Devil in Your Heart
Ebo Taylor – Appia Kwa Bridge
Bertrand Burgalat – Toutes Directions (Bonus Track Version)
AM & Shawn Lee – Celestial Electric
Moonface – With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
Battles – Dross Glop
Hannah Cohen – Child Bride
Maps & Atlases – Beware and Be Grateful
Mason – Mason presents Animal Language Refurbished
O Emperor – Hither Thither
Only Seven Left – Anywhere From Here
The Sugarettes – Destroyers of Worlds
Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Jungle By Night – Hidden
Crybaby – Crybaby
M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion

Graham Coxon – A+E
MTV Presents Unplugged: Florence + The Machine
Hospitality – Hospitality
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday … Roman Reloaded
The Dirty Denims – Wanna Be Famous
Kris Berry – Marbles
Quantic – Look Around the Corner (feat. The Combo Bárbaro)
Gemma Hayes – Let It Break
Lightships – Electric Cables
Clark – Iradelphic
Krzysztof Penderecki and Jonny Greenwood
Stefan Pop – Radio Zonder Handen
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls