Brotherhood of Man - Save All Your Kisses for Me (1976)
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up (1981)
All the Irish winners with the exception of Dana (1970)
The pile of sh*te which won in 2013 for Denmark
The French entry in 1977
ABBA - Waterloo (1974) - (I preferred the UK and Dutch entries that year)
Estonia 2001 and Latvia 2002, because they're awful and SBS Eurovision refuses to let me forget them, especially I Wanna! I'm not one for believing in conspiracy theories, but I'm fairly convinced that Marie N is blackmailing SBS! :D
Russia 2008 was dire as well, Ani and Sirusho were robbed! >:(
Brotherhood of Man - Save All Your Kisses for Me (1976)
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up (1981)
All the Irish winners with the exception of Dana (1970)
The pile of sh*te which won in 2013 for Denmark
The French entry in 1977
ABBA - Waterloo (1974) - (I preferred the UK and Dutch entries that year)
You can't mean Johnny Logan's two triumphs surely?
Estonia 2001 and Latvia 2002, because they're awful and SBS Eurovision refuses to let me forget them, especially I Wanna! I'm not one for believing in conspiracy theories, but I'm fairly convinced that Marie N is blackmailing SBS! :D
Russia 2008 was dire as well, Ani and Sirusho were robbed! >:(
Serbia 2007 :yawn:
Russia 2008 (overrated)
Denmark 2013 (totally overrated)
However none of the winners have really stood out, they are good but all of the amazing entries are ignored because they are represented by minor countries, it should really be the Eurovision Country Contest (vote for your favourite country)
The last winner that stood out was Finland 2006 (that did deserve to win)
I never really got Wild Dances but I like Ruslana so I'll forgive the noises that she made (oh no, not the whips?). I didn't like Molitva. I didn't like Believe. I didn't like Fairytale (I could punch Alexander Rybak quite a lot)... I will never like Fairytale. Didn't like Running Scared (my least favourite Azerbaijan song). I think we can all say that we don't really like Only Teardross anymore.
Am out in Norway this weekend and last night they rerun on their main tv station Ng1 the whole of the 1986 Contest that was held in Bergen Norway after their first win in 1985.
The UK entry was truly appalling. Some nomarks called Ryder fronted by Bill Maynard's son would you believe.
Anyway the winner was also very poor. It was won by Belgium by a young girl who looked 13 - actually some say she was 13- and a song called I love the life. Just awful.
The show was very staid. The compere was a school mistress type a la Katie Boyle.
Norway have a massive TV build up to the Contest. They love it very much.
We seem to agree on some things, I thought that was a decent effort that year as well.
Not sure about some of the responses, it seems some people just have it in for songs that beat their own favourite rather than mentioning songs they really dislike. There's no way Molitva or Si la vie est cadeau are without melody.
90s pop can be so formulaic and lacking in character, possibly the worst British winner, even if some like it for nostalgia or rate others worse just because they are in earlier styles they don't get.
In this century, Estonia 2001 and Latvia 2002; though I'm happy for those countries to have won, especially Estonia, but those songs were just dire. And of course, Russia 2008. >:(
Also never liked the Irish winners of 1992 & 1993.
(The best Irish winner is of course 1996, it's timeless )
The 96 entry starts nicely undoubtedly, but then it gets offtrack and really the chorus is too simple and I don't find it memorable. Like a lot of music in modern times it's nicely performed, very smooth and I guess that's what people want. But I just wouldn't mind a memorable melody too.
The 96 entry starts nicely undoubtedly, but then it gets offtrack and really the chorus is too simple and I don't find it memorable. Like a lot of music in modern times it's nicely performed, very smooth and I guess that's what people want. But I just wouldn't mind a memorable melody too.
Well, can't help you if you don't find a melody in it, I do (and considering it won, many others do too)
To me it's like a medieval ballad, and yet timeless, like an eternal voice of humankind echoing through mists of history...
I can't believe how many people hate I Wanna...I actually think its quite a quirky little song. For Estonia 01, although I don't like it, I can see why it won.
Although the worst winner has to be Russia 08 surely? What a load of crap!
Well, can't help you if you don't find a melody in it, I do (and considering it won, many others do too)
To me it's like a medieval ballad, and yet timeless, like an eternal voice of humankind echoing through mists of history...
The starting melody is very nice, but then it becomes pretty middle of the road, even the break really too not just the chorus. And I think your second sentence refers to the atmosphere of it which is what I think most people like it for.
I dislike all of the Irish winners in the 90's bar Rock & Roll Kids, and it goes almost without saying at this point that I think Latvia, Estonia and Russia were all dire!
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Agreed.
I also hated:
Brotherhood of Man - Save All Your Kisses for Me (1976)
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up (1981)
All the Irish winners with the exception of Dana (1970)
The pile of sh*te which won in 2013 for Denmark
The French entry in 1977
ABBA - Waterloo (1974) - (I preferred the UK and Dutch entries that year)
Russia 2008 was dire as well, Ani and Sirusho were robbed! >:(
You can't mean Johnny Logan's two triumphs surely?
I assume you mean Kalomira, yes? ;-):p:D
Russia 2008 (overrated)
Denmark 2013 (totally overrated)
However none of the winners have really stood out, they are good but all of the amazing entries are ignored because they are represented by minor countries, it should really be the Eurovision Country Contest (vote for your favourite country)
The last winner that stood out was Finland 2006 (that did deserve to win)
Totally agree. Serbia 2007 is such an awful, boring song- there's no melody, it doesn't go anywhere! Worst Eurovision Winner Ever
Wow I can't believe I'm reading this, its a great song and has stood the test of time and would probably win even if it was entered now.
The UK entry was truly appalling. Some nomarks called Ryder fronted by Bill Maynard's son would you believe.
Anyway the winner was also very poor. It was won by Belgium by a young girl who looked 13 - actually some say she was 13- and a song called I love the life. Just awful.
The show was very staid. The compere was a school mistress type a la Katie Boyle.
Norway have a massive TV build up to the Contest. They love it very much.
then
Yugoslavia 1989 & Russia 2008
We seem to agree on some things, I thought that was a decent effort that year as well.
Not sure about some of the responses, it seems some people just have it in for songs that beat their own favourite rather than mentioning songs they really dislike. There's no way Molitva or Si la vie est cadeau are without melody.
90s pop can be so formulaic and lacking in character, possibly the worst British winner, even if some like it for nostalgia or rate others worse just because they are in earlier styles they don't get.
In Your Eyes is arguably the best Irish entry there's been, it's certainly not bad.
Also never liked the Irish winners of 1992 & 1993.
(The best Irish winner is of course 1996, it's timeless )
To me it's like a medieval ballad, and yet timeless, like an eternal voice of humankind echoing through mists of history...
Although the worst winner has to be Russia 08 surely? What a load of crap!
The starting melody is very nice, but then it becomes pretty middle of the road, even the break really too not just the chorus. And I think your second sentence refers to the atmosphere of it which is what I think most people like it for.
I'm sure Lena is lovely but I don't get the hype for her at all.