Random Dutch bands
 

Good Morning ;).

The Dutch aren't very well known for their music.
And I have to admit, most of the music that comes from this country is utter crap.
I tried to make a little list of some dutch bands that have some popularity here that aren't completely crap.
Feel free to disagree :D.


The Golden Earring - All Day Watcher (from the sixties)


Cuby and the Blizzards - Somebody will know someday (From the sixties)


The Nits - Nescio (eighties)


The Upsessions - Dorothee Blackswan (Frrresh last year harvest)


Brainbox - Between alpha and Omega (seventies)


Brainbox - Dark Rose (sixties)


Rowwen Hèze - Limburg (nineties, this band actually sings in a Dutch dialect bot somehow they manage be very popular)


Claw Boys Claw - Rosie (nineties)


Focus - Hocus Pocus (very much seventies and absolutely brilliant)


Focus - House of the King (Seventies)


Alquin - Soft Eyed Woman (Seventies)


De Heideroosjes - Iedereen is gek (nineties, the Netherlands most famous punk band)


Flairck - Variaties op een Dame (Seventies, song gets going at 2:44. Strange stuff, even for the Dutch)


Ekseption - Peace Planet (Seventies)


Sound of Zzz - OFG (2005)


Sungrazer - If (2009, this band has it's origin in the nearby city of Sittard)
They've only made a demo so far but I must say it sounds pretty promising

You should write a journal.

Hey, there's a lot of good stuff that comes from the Netherlands! Bong-Ra, The Ex, Solex, and Mühr come to mind. :)

I will start a blog here sometime.
But most of the music shown above definately isn't worth a blog ;).

I've heard of bong ra. And that's it.
I'll have to listen to that soon.
We do have a Solex moped though :)

Solex (the musician, not the moped) is fantastic. I'd actually say she's been somewhat influential on my own music. She totally strikes me as your kind of person since she owns a vintage record shop and makes music by sampling obscure old vinyl. Here's a little sample of what she sounds like:

It's really not my kind of thing I must say. But I'm glad there's more good music coming from this country than I knew of :)

The Outsiders?...i have so many tracks of theirs on compilations...i just assumed they were the kings of Dutch psychedelic garage rock

Holland isn't that obscure music-wise. Of course, I tend to Focus on the Ekseption here.

What about Urban Dance Squad? I always thought these guys were kind of ahead of their time.

Lärm is one of the most influential hardcore punk bands.
YouTube - LÄRM - Live AAC Newcastle 17-7-1987

Haha, I'm surprised about how many bands you actually know.
The Netherlands have always been pretty big in electronic music, especially house and dance and crossovers with house and dance. I tend to avoid that music, though. So that's not much use.

Yeah, you guys do also have the Venga Boys. I'll try not to hold that against you though. :p:

wow....you and i should get together and recreate an old episode of 120 Minutes

Yes! What I came in here to say.

:laughing:

A couple more

Finch, who even beat Focus as the best prog band from Holland IMO (close call though):


Earth&Fire, sort of a dutch Curved Air:


And Shocking Blue even became internationally popular:

I almost forgot Kayak, the dutch Supertramp:

A by product of Ayreon and the vocalist was 14 at the time of this album:

Please, please don't.
If I could have stopped them from growing so big, I would. Believe me.


I actually think that's a pretty bad band myself :D.

Hmmm, I have a lot of kayak albums. Reason I didn't post them here is their english is so afwul that I'm actually ashamed to mention them here :D.

At least it's not worse than the accent of Frank Bornemann in Eloy. :shycouch:

I listened to a lot of Within Temptation in high school, not so much any more, but my opinion is that, if you are talking about dutch bands in general, you should mention a bit of everything and try to be objective, the same way as I post a lot of music that I don't like in my "music from ex-Yugoslavia thread. In my opinion, bad or not, Within Temptation are a big part of Dutch mainstream metal scene, and therefore deserve to be mentioned.

I never said I was being objective :D.
I just posted some dutch bands I don't completely hate.

If I wanted to be complete I probably should have added Tiësto and Armin van Buuren.
I won't. I really won't.

Nobody has mentioned the Netherlands involvement in the space rock scene. I know of 35007 (the band... I pronounce it LOOSE as I believe they intended [calculator speak]) and really enjoy their sounds. I know they're not the only one, because Prog Archive has 5 or so more Dutch space rocker bands listed.

But dig on LOOSE err 35007...