May 20, 201015 yr Author If you have an obsession with accordion sounds, why did it take you so long to realise you loved it? :/ Because I've not heard the song through my newly repaired headphones! Somehow the sound was changed to a much better quality than before! :o Plus the old version was not that good, and frankly skipping the song everytime it comes playing. Are these reasons good enough?
May 20, 201015 yr :lol: . It's an interesting song, plus I adore the 8 second folky parts at 25 secs and 1:09! Also, I love Slovenia as a country anyway so that helps. I'm quite notorious for liking the supposed terrible entries. Slovakia was in my top 10 at this point last year :lol: I still love Let' Tmou :wub: I like the folky parts. I don't mind it - probably in my average category. But anything above "average" is just too much :P "Let' Tmou" wasn't too bad, it certainly grew on me, and my scoresheet on the night probably claimed that it should've qualified. What's really bad is that at one point last year, I really like "Mamo" :wacko: I've just written up my new personal chart to be posted tomorrow and it features one Eurovision song in the top ten - 9 days before the contest, this is a dire state of affairs (at the same stage in 2004 I had seven in the top ten!) but I can't work out if it's just because music outside of Eurovision is unusually strong for May at the moment, whether the songs are just not to my taste this year as much as usual, or a combination of both? :o And it's not even hard to guess which song that is :kink:
May 20, 201015 yr I like the folky parts. I don't mind it - probably in my average category. But anything above "average" is just too much :P "Let' Tmou" wasn't too bad, it certainly grew on me, and my scoresheet on the night probably claimed that it should've qualified. What's really bad is that at one point last year, I really like "Mamo" :wacko: And it's not even hard to guess which song that is :kink: Well quite :lol: I can assure you that Satellite hasn't dived from #1 to outside the top ten. These drastic movements only happen in your chart :kink: Satellite is amazing for me, and would have been my joint favourite with Fairytale had it been sent last year. But my 2nd favourite song this year would be about 6th or 7th in line with my 2009 rankings at this point in time...
May 20, 201015 yr Well quite :lol: I can assure you that Satellite hasn't dived from #1 to outside the top ten. These drastic movements only happen in your chart :kink: Satellite is amazing for me, and would have been my joint favourite with Fairytale had it been sent last year. But my 2nd favourite song this year would be about 6th or 7th in line with my 2009 rankings at this point in time... I probably prefer "Satellite" to anything sent to Eurovision last year. Right now, my favourite from last year is probably "Et Cetera". Don't worry, Lena will safely be in my top 10 (probably top 5) on Sunday. But I will have four new entries in my top 10 at least (Muse, Kylie & two from the Glee Cast).
May 20, 201015 yr I probably prefer "Satellite" to anything sent to Eurovision last year. Right now, my favourite from last year is probably "Et Cetera". Don't worry, Lena will safely be in my top 10 (probably top 5) on Sunday. But I will have four new entries in my top 10 at least (Muse, Kylie & two from the Glee Cast). Last year was incredible for me. I still regularly play La Voix, Fairytale, It's My Time, Is It True, Lose Control (it's my ringtone still :lol:) and The Highest Heights, and to a lesser extent Believe Again, Jan Jan and Always. Compared to 2008 for example, I really only still play Era Stupendo, Hero and Hold On Be Strong. 2009 was definitely my favourite contest of the 00's, songs and results wise :wub:
May 20, 201015 yr From last year, I still regularly play The Highest Heights, Jan Jan, La Voix, Is It True, Be My Valentine, Bistra Voda, Fairytale, and Et S'il Fallait Le Faire. 2009 was the perfect final in almost every way :wub: 2008: Hero, Hold On Be Strong, Shady Lady, The Fire In Your Eyes, This Is My Life, Qele Qele 2007: Molitva, Song #1, Ven A Bailar Conmigo, Comme Ci Comme Ca 2006: Invincible, Never Let You Go, Alvedansen, Je T'Adore, Twist of Love, No No Never, Show Me Your Love 2005: Cool Vibes, In My Dreams, My Number One 2007's not quite as good as I remember it being :lol:
May 20, 201015 yr From last year, I still regularly play The Highest Heights, Jan Jan, La Voix, Is It True, Be My Valentine, Bistra Voda, Fairytale, and Et S'il Fallait Le Faire. 2009 was the perfect final in almost every way :wub: 2008: Hero, Hold On Be Strong, Shady Lady, The Fire In Your Eyes, This Is My Life, Qele Qele 2007: Molitva, Song #1, Ven A Bailar Conmigo, Comme Ci Comme Ca 2006: Invincible, Never Let You Go, Alvedansen, Je T'Adore, Twist of Love, No No Never, Show Me Your Love 2005: Cool Vibes, In My Dreams, My Number One 2007's not quite as good as I remember it being :lol: Mine would be (and I'm only counting ones that I still listen to all year round, regularly); 2009: La Voix, Fairytale, It's My Time, Is It True, Lose Control, The Highest Heights 2008: Hero, Hold On Be Strong, Era Stupendo 2007: Song #1, The Worrying Kind, Flying The Flag (For You) (:drama:), Water, Work Your Magic 2006: Invincible, Alvedansen, Teenage Life, No No Never, Je T'Adore 2005: Cool Vibes, My Number One 2004: It Hurts, On Again...Off Again, Jugarem-A-Estimar-Nos, Wild Dances 2003: Give Me Your Love, Open Your Heart, Let's Get Happy, I'm Not Afraid To Move On, Keine Grenzen, Hello From Mars, Don't Break My Heart 2002: 7th Wonder, I Can't Live Without Music, Runaway, Come Back 2001: Everybody, Je N'ai Que Mon Ame, Listen To Your Heartbeat, Die For You 2000: My Heart Goes Boom 2003 was rather amazing looking back, a lot of the songs all still sound so fresh and contemporary now, more so than a lot of the contests that followed it :o
May 20, 201015 yr I think my equivalent of that list would be pretty huge :heehee: :lol: I rarely put any Eurovision songs on between late June and early January...so the ones that make this list are the cream of the crop, and have made a lasting impression on me! Even so, I probably only play them a couple of times a month at most. I just seem not to listen to any Eurovision songs in the latter half of the year :o
May 20, 201015 yr I just realised my Last FM would have a fairly good representation of what ESC tracks I listen to regularly... My top 500 tracks of the last 12 months feature: 01. Inga & Anush - Jan-Jan 02. Yohanna - Is It True? 03. Nelly Ciobanu - Hora Din Moldova 04. Nela & Kamil - Let' Tmou 05. Urban Symphony - Randajad 06. Regina - Bistra Voda 07. Waldo's People - Lose Control 08. Quartissimo - Love Symphony 09. Flor-De-Lis - Todas As Ruas Do Amor 10. Malena Ernman - La Voix 11. Svetlana Loboda - Be My Valentine! 12. Carola - Invincible 13. Hadise - Dum Tek Tek 14. Igor Cukrov - Lijea Tena 15. Alexander Rybak - Fairytale 16. Sinead Mulvey & Black Daisy - Et Cetera 17. Patricia Kaas - Et S'il Fallait Le Faire 18. Alenka Gotar - Cvet Z Juga 19. Euroband - This Is My Life 20. Sakis Rouvas - This Is Our Night 21. Charlotte Perrelli - Hero 22. Jessica Garlick - Come Back 23. Ishtar - O Julissi 24. Nusa Derenda - Energy 25. Pall Oskar - Minn Hinsti Dans 26. Kalomira - Secret Combination 27. Jade Ewen - It's My Time 28. Olta Boka - Zemren E Lame Peng 29. Jelena Tomasevic - Oro 30. Christina Metaxa - Firefly Probably more biased towards the 2009 entries due to it going back to May last year... I'd also add in the following based on CD/MP3 listens: ABBA - Waterloo Alexandra & Konstantin - My Galileo Anjeza Shahini - The Image Of You Baccara - Parlez-Vous Francais? Bardo - One Step Further Birgitta - Open Your Heart Catherine Ferry - Un Deux Trois Charlotte Nilsson - Take Me To Your Heaven Christine Guldbrandsen - Alvedansen Deep Zone & Balthazar - DJ Please Take Me Away Dervish - They Can't Stop The Spring DQ - Drama Queen Elitsa & Stoyan - Water Global Kryner - Y Asi Ich Troje - Follow My Heart Lou - Let's Get Happy Marlain - In The Name Of Love Natasha St-Pier - Je N'ai Que Mon Ame Neiokoso - Tii Nox - Forogj Vilag Paolo Meneguzzi - Era Stupendo Ruslana - Wild Dances Selma - If I Had Your Love Sestre - Samo Ljubezen Severina - Moja Stikla Sopho - Visionary Dream Zeljko Joksimovic - Lane Moje
May 20, 201015 yr Some real classics there, but also some terrible crap :lol: Nice to see another fan of Y Asi, but since you like Slovenia this year, no surprise :wub: :kink:
May 20, 201015 yr Anything with either an accordion, huge drums, a double bass, women shouting or yodelling will be a favourite of mine :kink:
May 20, 201015 yr :lol: I tend to be more of a schlagerboy. But I do seem to have a thing about Central European folk music :lol:
May 20, 201015 yr Oh yeah schlager too :wub: I love Central and Eastern European folk and turbofolk, particularly Slovenia/Croatia/Serbia etc and Moldova/Ukraine. Edited May 20, 201015 yr by Ghosty233
May 20, 201015 yr There's a the whole culture whose music is this combination of violin, accordion, etc. They're called Gypsy people (and not those who walk on the streets asking for money nowadays, even though they dress like gypsies). My mom knew many gypsy people in her time, but it was completely different time back then. However the culture still exists in the country. You are sounding pretty disrespectful if you ask my opinion though, like this music has to be banned from sending onto Eurovision as it's some kind of fancy VIP thing. If you want some really average gypsy motives in a song then listen to last year's 'Aven Romale'. :kink: I know, I wasn't strictly thinking of gypsies, but that's basically the image it creates. I'm not saying it all sounds awful, I'm saying it's the sort of entry the UK laughs at and nine times out of ten it's my least favourite type of Eurovision entry. I'm just not a fan of accordions. I'm not dismissing it all though, did you miss Latvia being in my top 5?! I'd say it's in the same vein as the Finnish entry, only about 50 times better. (because it's about as R&B as you can make an accordion sound :lol:) And yes, that was my least favourite entry last year I believe. I think I've listened to them all for the last three years? (though I seem to have deleted the ones from 2008 that I didn't like.) For the record I'd say the contests have got weaker since I started. :( I'd say there are about 10 from the past two years that I still enjoy on occasion. 01. Kalomoira - Secret Combination (Greece 2008) 02. Aysel & Arash - Always (Azerbaijan 2009) 03. Maria Haukaas Storeng - Hold On Be Strong (Norway 2008) 04. Jade Ewen - It's My Time (United Kindgom 2009) 05. Johanna Gudrun Jonsdottir - Is It True? (Iceland 2009) 06. Sirusho - Qele, Qele (Armenia 2008) 07. Tereza Kerndlova - Have Some Fun (Czech Republic 2008) 08. Hadise - Dum Tek Tek (Turkey 2009) 09. No Angels - Disappear (Germany 2008) 10. Ani Lorak - Shady Lady (Ukraine 2008) Six 2008 songs to four in 2009. Two songs for 2010?
May 21, 201015 yr i guess i'll do mine... i'm not patient enough to rank them all so i'll just split them in few groups but they will be in no particular order within the group with opinions on some Songs i LOVE Iceland: Hera Björk - Je Ne Sais Quoi Finland: Kuunkuiskaajat - Työlki Ellää it's grown on me, not gonna lie. didn't like it at all on first listen, but i have a soft spot for Finland (they are my fav European hockey nation and my all time fav player - Teemu Selanne- comes form there so i guess i was biased enough to not give up on one try. Spain: Daniel Diges - Algo Pegueñito OMG i LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. and can't understand the heat it gets all over the internet. it's so sweet, sad but magical. the lyrics are pretty too... it's so often we don't do the smallest things that would matter a lot more than some big gestures... Romania: Paula Seling & Ovi - Playing With Fire Germany: Lena Meyer-Landrut - Satellite quirky, weird, cute, memorable... waht else do you need :D Switzerland: Michael von der Heide - Il Pleut De L'or can't take him seriously when looking at him, but i'm such a sucker for that style of music... i don't care who would sing that, just sing it. Armenia: Eva Rivas - Apricot Stone like it a lot. though something about "my cherished fruit" makes me uncomfortable Israel: Harel Skaat - Milim Bulgaria: Miro - Angel Si Ti Slovakia: Kristina - Horehronie Latvia: Aisha - What For? Belarus: Three Plus Two - Butterflies i rarely like my home country's entry ( i did like Koldun a bit :) )but i'm very proud of them this year. pretty high quality product they brought to the contest... but please lose the cheesy, cliche wings... urgh! the dresses, smoke, confetti and light show would have been enough and very tasteful Norway: Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours dude can sing! Turkey: maNga - We Could Be The Same songs that i like... Croatia: Feminnem - Lako Je Sve when i look at them i can't help but think "Sex and the City gone [i'm still not sure how to end it]" and that's a bad thing, just so you know... but the song itself is pretty good... Netherlands: Sieneke - Ik Ben Verliefd (Sha-La-Lie) it's nice... but WAY too retro without any twist whatsoever... did they get the memo that it's 2010, not 1970? United Kingdom: Josh Dubovie - That Sounds Good To Me i'm probably among very few that gives this entry the light of day... it's nothing special, but 7 out of 10 times it comes up on my mp3 player i don't skip it lol Belgium: Tom Dice - Me And My Guitar John Mayer's little brother... it's nice to listen to, but definitely not for a contest like that Albania: Juliana Pasha - It's All About You Ireland: Niamh Kavanagh - It's For You "well, ok... i guess i can listen to them once or twice" songs Serbia: Milan Stankovic - Ovo Je Balkan Cyprus: Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders - Life Looks Better In Spring Lithuania: InCulto - Eastern European Funk and the rest of the songs that do absolutely nothing for me Sweden: Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life i can't get past her voice that i don't like... i might like the song if someone else sang it, but i wasn't able to listen through it once... not that the voice is bad... just not my thing... Denmark: Chanée & N´evergreen - A Moment Like This did some crazy fan-scientist clone Police and ABBA in one act? can't even call it a love-child... it's so cold, generic and calculated... Azerbaijan: Safura - Drip Drop don't get the hype around that one at all... i've heard this song 100s time before... well not THIS song, but it has nothing new to offer. and that "drip drop drip drop" is so annoying... can someone pass me the wrench to fix that faucet? Moldova: SunStroke Project & Olia Tira - Run Away France: Jessy Matador - Allez Olla Olé Poland: Marcin Mroziński - Legenda Georgia: Sopho Nizharadze - Shine Ukraine: Alyosha - Sweet People Malta: Thea Garrett - My Dream Greece: Giorgos Alkaios & Friends - Opa Estonia: Malcom Lincoln - Siren Bosnia-Herzegovina: Vukašin Brajić - Thunder And Lightning FYR Macedonia: Gjoko Taneski - Jas Ja Imam Silata Portugal: Filipa Azevedo - Há Dias Assim "WTF" songs Russia: Peter Nalitch & Friends - Lost And Forgotten Slovenia: Anzambel Žlindere & Kalamari - Narodnozabavni Rock Edited May 21, 201015 yr by ih3artduck5
May 21, 201015 yr Interesting views! Welcome to the forum, and hope you post in here more :D Controversial comments about Denmark, I think the fact that it's devoid of any emotion or personality is the major thing going against it as musically and technically it's a strong pop song.
May 21, 201015 yr Interesting views! Welcome to the forum, and hope you post in here more :D thank you :)
May 21, 201015 yr Author Very similar to my tastes this year as well! Glad to see some more love to Daniel Diges! I thought i was the only one :lol: (Who'd have thought that it'd grow on me that much, after my overreaction about Spain choosing him over incredible Coral! lolz)
May 21, 201015 yr Iceland: Hera Björk - Je Ne Sais Quoi Finland: Kuunkuiskaajat - Työlki Ellää Same top 2! :cheer:
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