In 1982 half of Europe was arguing about cruise missiles, and a Dutch band answered with a song you could skank to. De Bom became the sound of a generation that had quietly accepted the world might end before the weekend.

What makes it last is the gap between the music and the words. The bass bounces, the horns are cheerful, and over the top Henny Vrienten shrugs that there is no point saving up. That contrast still lands harder than any protest ballad from the same year.

Doe Maar were briefly the biggest band in the country, and then walked away from it. De Bom is the track that explains both halves of that story.