Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads Present: Honkbal Hoofdklasse (On My Radio Tonight)
Here it is: the song you have all requested. The sound of the summer. The perfect musical accompaniment for standing on the honk.
[breaking out of irony mode for a second] I can't express in words how much I appreciate the positive reception that this has gotten. Milo and I put in some absurdly long hours working on this, mostly because--like anyone else on planet earth who isn't a piece of garbage--we haven't exactly had a great time these past few months and it's been nice to find some sort of an outlet for it. Thank you all so much. -Nate
Comments (59)
Who鈥檚 listening in 2026 馃槑
christ i wish JV&tCH would put out another album
I'm wearing my tour shirt today.
What lovely singing! This is the best song I've ever heard.
I鈥檝e listened to this song 100 times and my family is worried about me. I can鈥檛 stop
Brilliant. I am from Canada and am sure some of the jokes are escaping me but still this is amazing.
"breaking out the polish but it's not for their cleats" ????
I'm sorry, but I've become obsessed with this now and made some fanart. Enjoy, haha: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3768517093176592&set=p.3768517093176592&type=3
As a musician, I do appreciate the shitty Midi instruments courtesy of what I'm guessing is Garageband 馃槀
*throws Sertraline away* this is all I need now.
This and this alone is getting me through my divorce.
Wow the world sucks but this made me happy
I can鈥檛 get this out of my head.
STAND ON THE HOME HONK IT'S TIME TO FALL IN LOOOOOOVE
Staaaand on the hooonk
My south African Dutch friend loves this more than gold and it's insane lmao
I keep playing this and love you geezers so much
Can we get a Honkball shirt as the next podcast t-shirt? I need Dirk Van Beers name across my back.
The Rotterdam Neptunus are really missing a trick by not selling some fake replica jerseys.
truly a masterpiece
Ahahahaha I assumed those were made up Dutch words actually just the name for the Dutch baseball league fml
Honkbal really screams fake
A true English Tune for True English men!
I love this too much tbh, really cheered me up
Loving this new joint from the Weakerthans
Can you release on spotify so I can play on repeat?
Reminded me of my childhood. Beautiful
NBA Stupid A$s collab when
This is so stuck in my head now. You really should consider putting this on Amazon or Spotify or whatever. Time to storm the charts.
This is why I'm a patron!
Two words have haunted my mind since that episode. Honkball. Hoofdklasse. Best song ever!
Along with the found tapes of Ukrainian ultra capitalists, some of the best audio work done on TF
Now this is why I'm a Patron! 馃榿 I love you bloody idiots! Even though it's meant to be a classic 80's sounds, it actually makes me think of bands like The Postal Service.
Sound of the summer
Christmas #1 for sure.
That's my jam!
When can we expect the music video?
I will up my sub if everyone else does to make this happen! 馃ぃ
It鈥檚 like the Magnetic Fields but also kinda Pulp. Fuck me that鈥檚 glorious <3
This is exactly the kind of insanity I鈥檓 paying for. Honkjewel.
This bit was fucking hilarious!
Milo, Nate, please start a band that does popular '80 songs covers but only sings about honkball hoofdklasse.
I love the intro bits and this was the best one so far, thanks!
I spent several minutes searching for the rest of this bands album. Legit thought this was an obscure tune from an eccentric sinterklaus band
I'm going to play this over the pa at the mid sized retail establishment I work at consistently - thank you
Woohoo! Looks like we can call off the strike!
I'm not sure what the bar for having a wikipedia page is, but I kind of want this song to have one so that people have to go through a disambiguation page and find this when searching for Honkbal Hoofdklasse.
Yes, yes, yes!!! This brought me so much joy at the end of the episode. I really had no idea what what happening. So gland we have an mp3 of it!
It's simply beautiful.
Absolutely top-tier stuff
Brilliant
when the song kicked in on the podcast i was overjoyed by how much effort you'd put into something so wonderfully stupid. this is a gift.
thank you kings
Yeeeeees
Honkball4ever
there is an undeniable sensibility on display with this track, hopefully an LP will follow.
I cannot explain how warm and happy this makes me feel
Can we get a karaoke version? I want to make this a thing in baseball fandom
YES!