Notable Songs
Songs well known in the Netherlands or otherwise notable include:
- Ik heb zo waanzinnig gedroomd (1980)
- Op een onbewoond eiland (1981)
- Meidengroep (1983)
- Als de lichtjes doven (1984)
- Meidengroep (1984)
- Als ik de baas zou zijn van het journaal (1984)
- Ochtendhumeur (1985)
- Ik ben toch zeker Sinterklaas niet (1986)
- Moeders wil is wet (1987)
- Ik wil een krokodil als huisdier (1988)
- Miepie (1988) (sung by Daniël Samkalden)
- Stuntelkampioen (1989)
- De Kerstezel (sung by Jannes Drop) (1990)
- Wakker met een wijsje (1991)
- Vuur en vlam (1992)
- Rauw en primitief (1993)
- Het tietenlied (1996)
- Het leven duurt een leven lang (1997)
- Sandwichkind (1998)
- Wij zijn vriendinnen (2000)
- Morgen is een droom (2001)
- Ik wil een huisdier (2003)
- Een gouden koets (2003)
- Doodgewone jongen (met ADHD) (2004)
- Mijn mobiel (2004)
- Twee vaders (2005)
- Buiten Spelen (2008)
Most of the songs named as examples above are from the ensemble's early years. There are many who say they like the songs from the early years better than the songs from the more recent past. However, as the group's website declares:
- "… children today are different from their counterparts 25 years ago and the times they live in are completely different. For example, in those days there was no Internet and there were very few children's programs on TV and no music channels at all specifically for young people.
- "The themes the songs used in those days are in any case timeless. For example, today too it happens that at school children may be victims of mobbing, and a theme like disappointment in love will always be relevant. Yet there are also some new themes involving situations that earlier did not happen very often or were subject to taboos so that people preferred not to talk about them. One example of this is the song Twee Vaders ('two fathers') on the 2005 CD.
- "Kinderen voor Kinderen will be staying in step with the times." Source (DOC file) (Dutch)
Read more about this topic: Kinderen Voor Kinderen
Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or songs:
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—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“How learned he bitter songs of lost Iambe,
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—Allen Tate (1899–1979)