4umi Doe Maar

 Doe Maar 
 boegbeeld van de Nederpop

Doe Maar, het beste uit de Nederpop, niet meer als zodanig, maar nog levend en wel op velerlei webplekken, zie daartoe bijvoorbeeld ook www.won.nl/dsp/usr/svketel en users.telenet.be/doemaar. Tevens linken wij graag naar www.doemaar.nl want waarom niet?

Discografie

Jan, Henny, Jan en Ernst.
  1.  1979  Doe Maar
  2.  1981  Skunk
  3.  1982  Doris Day en Andere Stukken
  4.  1982  Doe de Dub
    psychedelische dubmixen
  5.  1983  4us (Virus)
  6.  1983  Lijf aan Lijf
    dubbel-lp met een spetterende compilatie van live concerten
  7.  1984  5 jaar Doe Maar
    ‘Het Complete Overzicht’
  8.  2000  Klaar
  9.  2000  Hees van Ahoy'
    registratie van de zestien uitverkochte reünieconcerten
  10.  2007  Echt Alles
    set van drie cd's met echt bijna alles, ter viering van 25 jaar De Bom en promotie van de musical Doe Maar!

English Summary

Doe Maar is without doubt the most popular music band that Holland has ever known, a unique phenomenom which has overshadowed Dutch music for a generation and inspired all who followed. They made five albums in the late seventies and early eighties, a refreshing blend of ska, reggae and contemporary styles, resulting in a very individual and recognizable sound, and lightgreen and pink were their brand colours ever since the album Skunk, a marriage of ska and punk in name, colour and music. The band split up when they thought they couldn't improve on themselves any longer, according to one reading, or, following more popular interpretations, because the pressure imposed on them by masses of fainting schoolgirls had run way out of control.

The name of Doe Maar is not easily translated. The literal, which would be something like “Come on do it” or “Go ahead”, doesn't capture the triviality of the matter, the open end. The phrase is very common in the Dutch language, so much in fact that is has withstood the impact of a pop group naming itself after it without losing the original meaning, the positive answer to the question “shall I or...”


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