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 Apr 12 2017, 10:10 PM
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CatCat were absolutely brilliant. First eurovision song I fell in love with. If it wasn't to winning realky should have been Poland
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Apr 13 2017, 10:36 AM
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QUOTE(LexC♀ @ Apr 10 2017, 07:15 PM)  And on the subject of Dutch ballads, this was nearly the Dutch entry in 1998 over Edsilia. They made the right call in the end but in an alternate universe this would have totally worked as their 1997 entry, for instance. Mrs Einstein were exceptional and you can shut your WHORE MOUTH |
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Apr 13 2017, 10:37 AM
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QUOTE(LexC♀ @ Apr 12 2017, 08:26 PM) 27. Greece 1995: Elina Konstantopoulou - Pia Prosefhi (12th, 68 points) *PEAK GREECE* Staying with something suitably evocative, this is the Greek entry from 95. During the mid 90s "new age" folksy numbers were big business and nowhere can you see that more than in the 1995 contest which, for what its worth, does have a lot of that but it's mostly varying shades of good by my reckoning. The one drawback of some of them however is that they tended to coalesce into a sort of "generic celtic" vibe. This, I am glad to say, manages to stay within that genre whilst still making itself sound like a quintessentially Greek song. The bit at the start is all in Ancient Greek which sets off the vibe of mysticism and exoticism, enhanced by that melody which is the absolute tits. If ethno music is your thing then I thoroughly recommend this one as a gateway drug to mid 90s Eurovision. FAR TOO LOW! |
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May 24 2017, 08:32 PM
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Hello, this will be getting finished over the summer once I have a bit more free time after the month of May is over. So, in lieu of being able to write up anything proper and since our attention over the next ESC season is going to be turned towards Portugal I figured I'd do a mini section on 90s Portugal Eurovish realness since, spoiler alert, there's no Portugal in the top 60.
Because, believe it or not, Portugal actually had a fairly decent run in the 90s. Their recently beaten best result ever happened in 1996 and they also managed top 10s in 1991, 1993 and 1994. The thing is (and the reason why Portugal are the perennial underdogs in Euroland) is that their best is generally being done better by somebody else in all of these contexts, especially in 1994 when everyone except Germany (and we'll certainly be getting to them) is going for the same kind of earnest and serious vibe. For what its worth though, their ten songs of the 1990s are a decent bunch. Also, for those looking for foreboding signs, their previous best result was promptly followed by a last place finish with 0 points. Let's see if they "do an Austria" and end up last in their own back yard. |
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Jun 19 2017, 04:08 PM
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26. Germany 1999: Sürpriz - Reise nach Jerusalem/Kudüs'e seyahat (3rd, 140 points)
Been a while since I've done one of these, hey? The conception of this entry is so well conceptualized that it borders on ingenious. A band composed of members of the Turkish diasporic community in Germany singing a song in a mixture of German/Turkish/English/Hebrew about the "Journey to Jerusalem" (where Eurovision was that year, gettit!) and with all the spiritual and religious connotations of returning to the place of the "holy land" for all of the Abrahamic religions. And over a pretty sic ethno beat to boot. In the video above Wogan's his usual xenophobic self and writes this off as "a blatant attempt to curry local favour" which...idk, isn't exactly an unfair allegation since this is a pretty strong "pssst, Turkish diaspora, vote for this one in stead of the actual Turkish one" signal that I might get salty about if it wasn't as good of a song as it is. |
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Jun 19 2017, 04:14 PM
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What you probably don't know, however, is that Surpriz only finished second in their National Final and only got the ticket after Corinna May, who would later go on to gift Europe with that delightful hot mess that you want to hate but can't bring yourself to since she's blind and that would be cruel "I Can't Live Without Music", was DISQUALIFIED after winning with a song that had already been released two years ago by a different artist (Truly the Anna Book of 1999). If you're a fan of that classic schlager ballad sound then you'll likely be very keen on this one too!
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Jun 19 2017, 08:26 PM
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Reise nach Jerusalem *.* One of the many outstanding songs from 1999, cementing it as my all time fave Eurovish year.
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