Another one for the whole “psychic connection” thing. Back when I was making monthly 400-mile road trips at 5 in the morning to go see Gunslinger, that was the theme song.
I’m truly impressed that a band that didn’t even have cars wrote possibly the best highway song ever.
As for the Dutch vs. Danish issue I am only half informed as I was only able to visit Amsterdam during my work trip to Germany in August. I’ll leave it to more informed dopers to tell me which proud nation has the best hardcore pornography 
Seriously Amsgterdam is a beautiful and colorful city and I really enjoyed the draaigorgelfestifal that was being held that day.
Get your minds out of the gutter, it wasn’t something dirty!
Wow. How often do acronyms translate like that? 
Liked both songs when they came out, and then bought this greatest hits album. Now, there’s 12 songs from Golden Earring that I like.
Thank goodness for RADAR!
But can RADAR save our failing marriage?
Geez…I guess my mind has been in the gutter, I had always thought it was some weird slang for some sort of unusual sex. It never even occured to me that it could had been referring to anything else. The whole mental connection interpretation does make more sense. Who would had thought of writing a song about ESP?
Leslie Bricusse did and the world hates her for it.
I used to think “red eye” too. I imagined someone driving to catch a late “red eye” flight.
Well, Copenhagen was named after the chewing tobacco, which would explain why so many people spit on their Danish pastry. “Amsterdam” is short for “Hamstergotterdammerung”, which is Deutch (not Dutch, or Nederlesion) for “Goddamn hamsters ate my post”.
Clear now?
There were also dancing girls in the torture chamber, if memory serves.
Yep, one of the best highway driving songs ever. Even if I wasn’t old enough to drive when I first heard it.
As for the Dutch vs. Danish issue. Maybe if they didn’t identify themselves by so many different names the rest of the world wouldn’t get so confused! The Netherlands, Nederlanders, Dutch, and Danish/Danes are from Denmark - why aren’t they Denmarkans?! And why are the Dutch from Holland? Why aren’t they from Dutchland? Or why aren’t they called Hollandaise?
And don’t even get me started on Sweden and Switzerland.
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Leslie Bricusse is a man.
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A friend of mine was going to be travelling in Europe with her boyfriend. He wanted to visit Sweden.
“Oh, that sounds good,” she said. “That’s the country that’s known for chocolate, right?”
“No,” he said, “That’s Switzerland.”
“Oh, okay. Well, at least they speak German there.” (This friend is fairly fluent in German.)
“No, that’s also Switzerland.”
“Oh. Which one is Sweden, then? What are they famous for?”
“The Swedish bikini team.”
I can’t remember if she agreed to include Sweden in their itenerary after that or not. 
I always thought that the object of love was the singer’s car, and the radar love he refers to is beating speed traps while tearing it up on the highways. I have no idea if radar speed control is or was used in the part of Europe at the time, but if so, it makes sense to me.
A friend of mine once listened to a radio call-in show which posed the question, “What were you listening to on the radio when you got your last speeding ticket?”
Radar Love came out on top…no idea what the other contenders were.
It’s sort of like “The Ohio State University,” but with less drugs.
Well, it was if you went to a “draaigorgelfestival”. That’s a “spin gargle festival” and can only mean something dirty. I think you meant a “draaiorgelfestival”, which has to do with “barrel organs” (now that sounds dirty too :D). Are you sure this “festival” wasn’t held in the Banana Bar or only along the Oudezijds Voorburgwal?
Netherlands … isn’t that wehere Peter took Wendy to meet the Lost Boys, and to fight Captain Hook?
I actually think that the Golden Earring just picked some English words and made some text with it, as most Dutch bands did. (George Baker’s Little Green Bag comes to mind).
And Padeye, draaiorgels are mostly hated in the Netherlands.
They go from shop to shop making that noise, until the shopowners pays up.
Then they move a few shops over and the noise starts again.
It is sort of a Protection-money scheme.
If you don’t pay you will have this racket all day long.
Sammy Hagar - I Can’t Drive 55?