One year of "#wedraaiendoor"

It's been a year since Anne and I were chatting. She was posting associations from music and I really wanted to join in.  She was so kind to join in on my idea to pingpong our musical associations from one to another in order to challenge us to a wider range of music. 

The ping-pong triggers chats on a weekly basis and the searches of music on Apple Music and Youtube and many lyrics websites are energizing and fun. Sometimes we find the link immediately, sometimes we chew on our options for weeks.  Yes, I say weeks even though there is only a few days between our music posts because in reality our enthusiasm often takes us ahead of our planning by multiple weeks.  And then it's ok to chew on a new choice for a week...and then jump ahead a few more posts in the next 15 minutes. Hahaha, anything is possible. 

I figured it would be fun to list all our choices of the past year subsequently. Can you spot our links and associations. Do you remember why we jumped from one song to another? 



2020

28 july - Foo Fighters - Learn to fly

30 juli - The Offspring - Pretty fly for a white guy

4 aug - Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

8 aug - Sting - Fields of gold

11 aug - The Police - Alright for you

13 Aug - Doe Maar - Doe maar net alsof

18 Aug - Men without hats - Safety dance

20 Aug - David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing on the streets

25 Aug - Radiohead - Street spirit (fade out)

27 Aug - Kansas - Dust in the wind

1 Sept - Frank Zappa - Montana

3 Sept - Miley Cyrus - Midnight

8 Sept - Miley Cyrus and Ariane Grande - Hey Now

10 Sept - Eurithmics - Sweet Dreams

15 Sept - Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas

17 Sept- Jacques Brel - Le Plat Pays 

22 Sept - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - By the time I get to Phoenix

24 Sept - Frank Boeijen - Zeg me dat het niet zo is

29 Sept - Nick Drake - River Man

1 Oct - Jo Lemaire - C’est mon bateau 

6 Oct - Téléphone - Cendrillon

8 Oct - Alexander Rybak - Fairy Tale

13 Oct - Motorpsycho - Go to California

15 Oct - Otis Redding - Sitting on the dock of the Bay

20 Oct - Elbow - Lippy kids

22 Oct - Scala and Kolacny Brothers - I touch myself 

27 Oct - INXS - Never tear us apart

29 Oct - Candy Dulfer & David A stewart - Lilly was here

3 Nov - The smashing pumpkins - Lily

5 Nov - Rockwell - I’ve got a feeling somebody’s watching me

10 Nov - The flying lizards - Money

12 Nov - Taylor Swift - We are never ever gonna get back together

17 Nov - Dolly Parton

19 Nov - Laïs - La Plus Belle de Céans 

24 Nov - Kate & Anna Mc Garrigle - La complainte de St Cathérine

26 Nov - Delirium ft Sarah Mc Lachlan - Silence

8 Dec - Tori Amos - Winter

10 Dec - Sting - Soul's Cake

15 Dec - Eels - Soul Jacker Part I 

17 Dec - Absynthe Minded - My Heroics part I 

22 Dec - The Van Jets - The Future 

24 Dec - The Beatles - Here comes the Sun

29 Dec - Paul Weller - Sunflower

31 Dec - Goose -  British Mode

2021

5 jan - Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

7 Jan - Tones and I - Monkey Dance

12 Jan -  Sia ft Different Gear - Drinking

14 Jan - Anne Clark - Our Darkness

19 Jan - The Neon Judgement 

21 Jan - David Bowie - Fashion

26 Jan - The Ramones

28 Jan - The Blue Diamonds - Ramona

2 Feb - The Romans - Sometime Cindy 

4 Feb - Magnus - The rhythm is deified 

9 Feb - The Sugarcubes - Deus

11 Feb -  Zucchero - Il Volo

16 Feb - Prince - Starfish & Coffee

18 Feb - Ricky Gervais , Constantine - I'm number one

23 Feb - Joe Jackson - Be My Number Two

25 Feb - Janet Jackson - That's the Way Love Goes

2 March-  Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now

4 March -  Fatboy Slim- Right here, Right Now

9 March - Beats International - Dub Be Good to Me

11 March - Pointer Sisters - Friends’ Advice (Don’t Take It)

16 March-  Neneh Cherry - Buddy X

18 Marh - UB40: Cherry oh baby

23 March - The Kinks - Stop Your Sobbing

25 March: Murray Head - One night in Bangkok

30 March: Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA

1 Apr : Manu Chao - La primavera + Me gustas tu

6 Apr: Mano Negra - King Kong Five

8 Apr: SEEED - Ding

13 Apr: Fred vom Jupiter van Andreas Dorau und die Marinas

15 Apr: Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars - Uptown funk

20 Apr: David Bowie - Starman

22 Apr: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven

27 Apr: The Motors - Airport

29 Apr: Desireless - Voyage voyage

4 May : The Simple Minds - I Travel

6 May: Praga Khan - Breakfast in Vegas 

11 May: Queens of the Stone Age: Feel Good Hit of the Summer

13 May: Doe Maar - Nederwiet

18 May: Skunk Anansie - Weak 

20 May: London Grammar - Strong

25 May: The Sundays: Here’s Where the Story Ends

27 May: dEUS - Nothing really ends 

1 June: Dead Man Ray - Chemical 

3 June: Daan - La crise 

8 June: The Coral - Migraine

10 June: Steak Number Eight - The Sea is Dying 

15 June: Badly Drawn Boy - River, Sea Ocean

17 June: Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world

22 June: Tears for Fears - Mad World

24 June: Zjef Vanuytsel - De Zotte morgen 

29 June: Placebo - Pure Morning

1 July: U2 - Where the streets have no name

6 July: The Go-Betweens - The Streets of Your Town

8 July: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

13 July: The Triffids - Wide Open Road 


15 July: Noir Désir - Le vent nous portera

20 July: Poésie Noire - The Gioconda Smile

22 July: Will i am: Mona Lisa Smile ft. Nicole Scherzinger

27 July: The The: Uncertain smile




I also like to look up some statistics: 
We posted 
  • 20% female performers, 80% male performers or mixed bands
  • Most performers were American or British but 16% were Belgian bands, 4% French, 3% Canadian, 3% Dutch and 2% German.
  • Most songs were in English but 3 in Dutch, 4 in French, 2 in German, 1 in Italian, 1 in Spanish
  • Sting was featured 3 times and David Bowie twice

And we'll continue for the next year. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. 

Comments

Anne said…
Op naar de twee jaar! :-)
Brandon Bell said…
Love this !!
Goofball said…
@Anne: hebben we dat 2e jaar nog niet helemaal al volgepland ;). Ah nee, we zullen nog beetje moeten verder brainstormen
Goofball said…
@Brandon: hey cool that you are stopping by. Glad you enjoy our music pingpong