Doe Maar
Dutch pop band Doe Maar (1978-1984; reunions in 1999-2000 and 2008-2022) is… Read Full Bio ↴Dutch pop band Doe Maar (1978-1984; reunions in 1999-2000 and 2008-2022) is the most popular and succesful Dutch-language pop act ever. Their musical cocktail of pop, ska, punk and reggae was uniquely (sometimes frighteningly) popular in the first half of the 1980s in The Netherlands.
Doe Maar (the band name can be loosely translated as 'go ahead' or 'do as you say') recorded five studio albums, with the latter four hitting number one in the Dutch album charts.
Having emerged from a hippie community in the south of The Netherlands in the late 1970s, Doe Maar's self-titled 1979 début album was not much of a success. Founding member and original bass player Piet Dekker left the group. Ernst Jansz (vocals, keyboards), Jan Hendriks (guitar) and Carel Copier (drums) were briefly joined by stand-in bass player Joost Belinfante (of hippie/folk outfit CCC Inc.) before Henny Vrienten was recruited as the permanent new bass player in 1980.
The second album, Skunk, was released in the summer of 1981, preceded by the lead single Sinds 1 Dag Of 2, which didn't enter the charts until radio DJ Frits Spits had pretty much singlehandedly changed the song title into the more catchy 32 Jaar ('32 Years'). Single and album were reasonably succesful, but not more than that. At the end of the year drummer Carel Copier was replaced by René van Collem, who was 20 years of age at the time, more than a decade younger than the rest of the band.
March 1982 saw the release of the album Doris Day en andere stukken and the lead single, Doris Day, which - almost overnight - sparked off 'Doe Maar-mania', a craze unequaled for a Dutch band in their home country, including hysterical and fainting teenage girls during live performances and a brief domination of teen fashion in The Netherlands, with the fluorescent 'phosphor green' and 'lollipop pink' trade mark colours of the Skunk album and a huge market of Doe Maar memorabilia: pins, badges, sweatbands and what not.
Doe Maar were now referred to as 'the Dutch Beatles': very different music, but similar (if not worse) madness.
The Doris Day album had only just disappeared from the top of the Dutch album charts when the two-year old Skunk album hit number. The stand-alone single De Bom ('The Bomb') topped the singles charts in November 1982. Typically, the band's young fans hardly seemed to understand what an apocalyptic song it was: "Work on your future... before the bomb drops."
The band members were shocked and not seldomly frightened or depressed by their sudden popularity. They were in their mid-thirties; the hordes of teenage girls that suddenly invaded their private lives were everything but their peers. Doe Maar wrote particularly gloomy songs about topics that you would expect to appeal to 'thirty-somethings' rather than teenagers. Jansz and Vrienten, in particular, received tons of love letters from teenage girls, but also death threats from Dutch Neo-Nazis. They needed bodyguards. Meanwhile, the Dutch music press dismissed Doe Maar as a teenybopper phenomenon: the band was first sneered at and later mostly ignored by Holland's music critics.
In May 1982 the band fired its youthful drummer, René van Collem. His successor, Jan Pijnenburg, was involved in car accident shortly after he was hired. Somewhat bizarrely, the band then hired René van Collem as a stand-in for another six months of live concerts. The definitive Doe Maar line-up was now complete: Ernst Jansz (vocals, keyboards), Henny Vrienten (vocals, bass), Jan Hendriks (guitar) and Jan Pijnenburg (drums). Years later, René van Collem would express his bitterness over the fact that Pijnenburg can be seen on almost all of the band's famous group pictures and is generally regarded as the Doe Maar drummer (especially after the 1999-2000 and 2008 reunions), in spite of the fact that the drum parts on the studio albums are almost exclusively Van Collem's work. He also played the lion's share of the band's live shows.
The particularly dark 4us ('Virus') album was released in March 1983 and immediately rocketed to number one, just like its lead single Pa ('Dad'), a rather bitter song about generation gaps. 'Doe Maar-mania' was now at its peak and (during live shows) frequently out of control. The band decided to stop doing interviews, announced complete radio silence and attempted to focus on their next album, but had to conclude that there was no more inspiration. Doe Maar had burned out.
The announcement that Doe Maar was going to call it quits caused grief beyond belief amongst a generation of Dutch teenage girls. The Dutch Kindertelefoon ('Kids Phone') had to deal with countless brokenhearted young girls who phoned in, not seldomly to announce their imminent suicides.
The band did two emotional 'farewell' shows in Den Bosch's Maaspoort hall on 14 April 1984. Since then, Henny Vrienten and Ernst Jansz have pursued successful solo careers, mostly in the context of music composition for television and cinema. The band members remained friends and continued to play together on private occasions.
After more than fifteen years of absence - in which their work was rehabilitated by a new generation of music critics - Doe Maar decided to re-unite for one final album: Klaar (which means as much as 'finished' or 'done') was released in 2000. A string of sixteen reunion concerts at Rotterdam's Ahoy sports palace was announced. 175,000 tickets were sold in an eyewink, in many cases to the teenage girls of the early eighties, now thirty-somethings.
In 2007 a theatre musical about the band's music toured the Netherlands and won several important theater awards. The success of 'Doe Maar - The Musical' was followed by another reunion show, at De Kuip football stadium in Rotterdam. 50,000 tickets sold out within the hour, three more concerts were added... and also sold out in no-time. In an interview on 20 June 2008, Henny Vrienten said: "This is no longer a 'reunion'. Doe Maar is back, for real." Doe Maar still performs regularly in The Netherlands, mostly at festivals.
Doe Maar (the band name can be loosely translated as 'go ahead' or 'do as you say') recorded five studio albums, with the latter four hitting number one in the Dutch album charts.
Having emerged from a hippie community in the south of The Netherlands in the late 1970s, Doe Maar's self-titled 1979 début album was not much of a success. Founding member and original bass player Piet Dekker left the group. Ernst Jansz (vocals, keyboards), Jan Hendriks (guitar) and Carel Copier (drums) were briefly joined by stand-in bass player Joost Belinfante (of hippie/folk outfit CCC Inc.) before Henny Vrienten was recruited as the permanent new bass player in 1980.
The second album, Skunk, was released in the summer of 1981, preceded by the lead single Sinds 1 Dag Of 2, which didn't enter the charts until radio DJ Frits Spits had pretty much singlehandedly changed the song title into the more catchy 32 Jaar ('32 Years'). Single and album were reasonably succesful, but not more than that. At the end of the year drummer Carel Copier was replaced by René van Collem, who was 20 years of age at the time, more than a decade younger than the rest of the band.
March 1982 saw the release of the album Doris Day en andere stukken and the lead single, Doris Day, which - almost overnight - sparked off 'Doe Maar-mania', a craze unequaled for a Dutch band in their home country, including hysterical and fainting teenage girls during live performances and a brief domination of teen fashion in The Netherlands, with the fluorescent 'phosphor green' and 'lollipop pink' trade mark colours of the Skunk album and a huge market of Doe Maar memorabilia: pins, badges, sweatbands and what not.
Doe Maar were now referred to as 'the Dutch Beatles': very different music, but similar (if not worse) madness.
The Doris Day album had only just disappeared from the top of the Dutch album charts when the two-year old Skunk album hit number. The stand-alone single De Bom ('The Bomb') topped the singles charts in November 1982. Typically, the band's young fans hardly seemed to understand what an apocalyptic song it was: "Work on your future... before the bomb drops."
The band members were shocked and not seldomly frightened or depressed by their sudden popularity. They were in their mid-thirties; the hordes of teenage girls that suddenly invaded their private lives were everything but their peers. Doe Maar wrote particularly gloomy songs about topics that you would expect to appeal to 'thirty-somethings' rather than teenagers. Jansz and Vrienten, in particular, received tons of love letters from teenage girls, but also death threats from Dutch Neo-Nazis. They needed bodyguards. Meanwhile, the Dutch music press dismissed Doe Maar as a teenybopper phenomenon: the band was first sneered at and later mostly ignored by Holland's music critics.
In May 1982 the band fired its youthful drummer, René van Collem. His successor, Jan Pijnenburg, was involved in car accident shortly after he was hired. Somewhat bizarrely, the band then hired René van Collem as a stand-in for another six months of live concerts. The definitive Doe Maar line-up was now complete: Ernst Jansz (vocals, keyboards), Henny Vrienten (vocals, bass), Jan Hendriks (guitar) and Jan Pijnenburg (drums). Years later, René van Collem would express his bitterness over the fact that Pijnenburg can be seen on almost all of the band's famous group pictures and is generally regarded as the Doe Maar drummer (especially after the 1999-2000 and 2008 reunions), in spite of the fact that the drum parts on the studio albums are almost exclusively Van Collem's work. He also played the lion's share of the band's live shows.
The particularly dark 4us ('Virus') album was released in March 1983 and immediately rocketed to number one, just like its lead single Pa ('Dad'), a rather bitter song about generation gaps. 'Doe Maar-mania' was now at its peak and (during live shows) frequently out of control. The band decided to stop doing interviews, announced complete radio silence and attempted to focus on their next album, but had to conclude that there was no more inspiration. Doe Maar had burned out.
The announcement that Doe Maar was going to call it quits caused grief beyond belief amongst a generation of Dutch teenage girls. The Dutch Kindertelefoon ('Kids Phone') had to deal with countless brokenhearted young girls who phoned in, not seldomly to announce their imminent suicides.
The band did two emotional 'farewell' shows in Den Bosch's Maaspoort hall on 14 April 1984. Since then, Henny Vrienten and Ernst Jansz have pursued successful solo careers, mostly in the context of music composition for television and cinema. The band members remained friends and continued to play together on private occasions.
After more than fifteen years of absence - in which their work was rehabilitated by a new generation of music critics - Doe Maar decided to re-unite for one final album: Klaar (which means as much as 'finished' or 'done') was released in 2000. A string of sixteen reunion concerts at Rotterdam's Ahoy sports palace was announced. 175,000 tickets were sold in an eyewink, in many cases to the teenage girls of the early eighties, now thirty-somethings.
In 2007 a theatre musical about the band's music toured the Netherlands and won several important theater awards. The success of 'Doe Maar - The Musical' was followed by another reunion show, at De Kuip football stadium in Rotterdam. 50,000 tickets sold out within the hour, three more concerts were added... and also sold out in no-time. In an interview on 20 June 2008, Henny Vrienten said: "This is no longer a 'reunion'. Doe Maar is back, for real." Doe Maar still performs regularly in The Netherlands, mostly at festivals.
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Doe Maar Lyrics
1 nacht alleen Laat me pitten en hou de gordijnen dicht Tranen in mun…
1 Nacht alleen ) Laat me pitten en hou de gordijnen dicht Tranen in m'n…
32 jaar Sinds 1 dag of 2, vlinders in mijn hoofd Sinds 1…
32 jaar (Sinds een dag of 2) Doe Maar Miscellaneous 32 Jaar Sinds 1 dag of 2, vlinders in…
Aan de bewoners van dit pand Aan de bewoners van dit pand U moet 't huis verlaten Hier…
All E.S. (Is dit alles) Ga zitten want ik wil eens met je praten Ik ben…
Alles doet 't nog Oh Wat is de wereld veranderd Brutaliteit is een deugd Vo…
Alles doet het nog Wat is de wereld veranderd Brutaliteit is een deugd Vol van …
Alles gaat voorbij Al doe je nog zo je best Je kunt niet op…
Alles gaat voorbij ) Al doe je nog zo je best Je kunt niet op…
Als de morgen komt Mmm Vraag me niet waarom De wind waait Vraag me niet wa…
Als Niet Als Negentienzesenveertig Vader mist z'n trein Laat nou de vol…
Anita Anita! refr.: Woh anita Ik kan zo van jou genita Woh a…
Bang Waar is m'n gezond verstand Wat is er met mij aan…
Belle Helene Het is dus toch zover gekomen Dat jij hier naast me…
Belle Hélène ) Het is dus toch zover gekomen Dat jij hier naast me…
Bij elkaar Ik zal jou nooit Vertellen hoe mijn Hart breekt Breekt bi…
Blozen Je, je, je hoeft niet zo te blozen Als ik je…
Dans met mij Doewap doewap Doewap doewap Dans met mij Maak me dronke…
Dansen met Alice Ze danst de halve nacht met mij En ik ben ontzettend…
Dansmuziek Mag ik wat dansmuziek meneer Wellicht een wijsje van weleer…
De bom Carriere maken voordat de bom valt Werken aan mijn toekomst …
De eerste X Ze lachte, en toen bleef ze voor me staan Ik wachtte,…
De kater Kunnen we niet even over vroeger praten Kunnen we niet even…
De laatste X Even los van jou Het kwam precies op tijd Alles wat ik…
De laatste x ) Even los van jou Het kwam precies op tijd Alles wat ik…
Doe maar net alsof Je ziet in je krantje dat het allemaal uit de…
Doris Day Ik ken 'n heel leuk tentje Daar speelt een prima bandje En…
Een droom Ik droomde de waarheid en hij kwam hard aan Viel binnen…
Er Verandert Niets Ik heb het nooit geweten Waar het eigenlijk om gaat Ik blijf…
Geld Is Alles Ga zitten want ik wil eens met je praten Ik ben…
Grote broer Ik kan niet slapen maar de dokter zegt (Dat is normaal) Ik…
He he Je lief is met een ander Je voelt je rot Je wilt…
Heroïne Mijn god, wat ben je veranderd, je bent dezelfde niet Je…
Het beste Hier is een dwaas die uitkijkt over zee Hij ziet de…
Het Leven Gaat Door Ik heb het nooit geweten Waar het eigenlijk om gaat Ik blijf…
Het verschikkelijke jaar Het verschrikkelijke jaar Kwam en ging Dat je mij zo om je…
Het verschrikkelijke jaar Het verschrikkelijke jaar Kwam en ging Dat je mij zo om je…
Hetzelfde meisje Jij bent allang niet meer hetzelfde meisje Dat altijd meezon…
Ik zou het willen doen 'k Zou 't willen doen 'k Zou 't willen doen 'k Zou…
Is dit alles Ga zitten want ik wil eens met je praten Ik ben…
Je liet me staan refr.: Je liet me staan Loop nu maar naar de maan Het is…
Je loopt je lul achterna Auw, ik heb de bons gekregen en ze keek me…
Karneval Het leven is een karneval Ooo karneval Oh het leven is een…
Klaar Hee ho Hee ho Hee ho Hee ho Twee minuten Twee minut…
Lajeninaja Lajeninaja Koblijnistama Doemaja Aha Oe oe Kijk om je…
Leven met een zeven Soms ineens De regen op het raam En denk ik dan een…
Liever dan lief K' kom niet bij me klagen Kom niks aan me vragen,…
Macho Omdat ik nooit een broertje had maar zussen om me…
Man O Man Een man een man doet wat ie kan Met zijn borst…
Mis refr.: Liefje liefje liefje Wat is er mis met ons De nach…
Nachtmerrie ze zitten allemaal naar mij te kijken ik heb kennelijk de…
Nachtzuster Ze legt haar koele handen of mijn voorhoofd En kijkt me…
Nederwiet Dit is een lied over een plant een groene plant, een…
Niet nodig Kind, als je mij vraagt Wat zou ik later doen Wat zijn…
Nix voor jou 's Morgens vroeg en ik zoek naar mijn sokken Poets mijn…
Nooit meer slapen Jij Bent Weg Weg Weggelopen Open wonden zeggen ze Ge…
O.K Ik stopte dus met roken en voelde me verbroken Dat hield…
OK Ik stopte dus met roken en voelde me verbroken Dat hield…
Okee Ik stopte dus met roken En voelde me gebroken Dat hield ik…
Oorlog Wanneer begint de oorlog Is er oorlog tussen ons Als wij e…
Overspel Van eenzaamheid gered Jouw ogen zijn mij welkom En liever …
Pa Zoals je daar nu zit je haren bijna wit De rimpels…
Politiekman Woh politiekman fanatieke politiek Woh statistiekman Oh ziek…
Radeloos Ik loop op straat Het is al laat Maar 'K wil niet naar…
Regen (roepoep) (roepoep) Jij man met jouw woorden (roepoep) …
Ruma Saja Geen berg aan de horizon In dit land waar ik ben…
Rumah Saya Geen berg aan de horizon In dit land waar ik ben…
Silhouet Nu wij elkaar al zo lang kennen Dat ik met mijn…
Sinds 1 dag of 2 sinds 1 dag of 2 vlinders in mijn hoofd sinds 1 dag…
Sinds 1 dag of 2 (32 jaar) Sinds een dag of twee vlinders in m'n hoofd Sinds een dag…
Situatie Het is een akelige situatie Ik ben mun hoofd volkomen kwijt…
Skunk Oei oei Ah ah ah ah ah Oei oei Ah ah ah Oei oei Ah…
Smoorverliefd Mijn oh mijn Oeh ik heb pijn O zo'n pijn Tot over mijn…
Te laat Als ik arriveer Gebeurt het telkens weer Ik heb mun tanden…
Tijd Als ik m'n bril niet op zet En jij komt de…
Tijd genoeg Ze zeggen: er is haast geen tijd En hebben daarom altijd…
Verdomme ik doe het wel alleen (Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier...) Ze hebben me laten zitten En ze…
Vergeet me {Oe'oehoehoehoehoehoehoe} {Oe'oehoehoehoehoehoehoe} {Oe'oe…
Walska Mm-mm- Ahaha hahaha Hahaha Haha Hahaha haha Hahahaha …
Wat ze doet De wekker die wekt me en 'k Weet even niet waar…
Watje Ik hoop niet dat je (dat je) Denkt 'wat een watje'…
Wees niet bang voor mijn lul refr.: Wees niet bang voor mijn lul Dat is toch flauwekul …
Wegwerpaansteker Je bent te gek, ik kan je niet geloven (hoe) Ik…
Whisky Coke Ik wil het niet, maar doe het wel Nee... ik ken…
Winnetoe Héhé héhé héhé Héjajaja Héjajaja Héjajaja Héhé héhé hé…
Zoek Het Zelf Maar Uit Weet je wat het is ik maak me zorgen Jij zegt:…
Zoek het zelf maar uit ) Weet je wat het is ik maak me zorgen Jij zegt…
Zolang Zolang het water naar de zee stroomt Zolang de zon nog…