Reading
Reading: music and your five
Short pieces on choosing, saving and talking about it, from the record of your life to the Top 2000. No lists of what everyone else plays.
Memories
The record of your life: how do you find it?Almost everyone has one: the record of their life. Not sure which one yours is? Start with a year that mattered to you and look up what was playing then.
Looking back
Which song was number 1 when you were born?A record was at number 1 on the day you were born. Here's how to find out which one, even if you were born before 1965, and why your teenage years say more about your taste.
For December
Top 2000 voting: how to choose your songsFor the Dutch Top 2000 you vote for 5 to 35 songs. Walk through your own life and you'll have them in no time. And which five would you keep if you had to choose?
After your Wrapped
Spotify Wrapped all time: your five of all timeSpotify doesn't make an all-time Wrapped. Here's how to see what you played over the years anyway, and how to pick the five records that have been yours all along.
For later
Planning for later? Start with your musicGetting things in order for later is easy to put off. Start with the fun part: the five records that belong to you. It's free, and you can change them whenever you like.
Songs
Als ik er niet meer ben: about the song by Marcel HubertsWhere to hear Marcel Huberts's song and find the lyrics, which songs have almost the same title, and how to save the music that belongs to you.
Choosing
Choosing music for a funeral: where do you begin?What music should play at your funeral? Four questions to get you started, and how to go from forty options to five.
Practical
How many songs at a funeral, and in what order?A service fits three to five songs: one coming in, one or two in the middle, one going out. Where the music falls and how to choose the order.
Light
Upbeat funeral music: it's allowed to be lightWant an upbeat song at your funeral, but not sure it's allowed? It is. Why light music belongs, where to put it and how to let people know you mean it.
Conversations
Talking to your parents about their funeral musicHow to bring up funeral music with your parents without it getting heavy: a few opening lines, and how to record the answer together.
Writing it down
Recording your funeral music wishes, free and without a lawyerRecord which music you want at your funeral, for free and without a will. How it works, what it isn't, and how to do it in fifteen minutes.