June 5, 200817 yr Author 9. Jessica Garlick - Come Back Country: United Kingdom Year: 2002 Total points: 111 Final placing: 3rd out of 24 9oLB5a4BBZg Continuing with the British theme, this one's our finest hour of the century so far. :heart: Perhaps the fact that Jessica had to perform from second position actually prevented her from doing better, I guess we'll never know though! It was a great finish though for Jessica, and she was second favourite after Sahlene of Estonia before the voting began. Why can't we send anything as good as this again though? :( We really need to pull it out of the bag next year and scrap the whole 'Making Your Mind Up' idea... Go back to 'Song for Europe' on a Sunday afternoon when about two million people tune in and get the voice of the REAL Eurovision fan, not the Saturday night couch potatoes...
June 5, 200817 yr Author 8. Jalisse - Fiumi Di Parole Country: Italy Year: 1997 Total points: 114 Final placing: 4th out of 25 i8K-dreq9_U This will probably come as a bit of a surprise to many of you, but I think this song is just sublime. If Italy can produce songs as good as this, they really need to get their arses back in the Eurovision! 1997 was the last time Italy competed in the competition, and 'Fiumi Di Parole' was actually third favourite to win, after the United Kingdom and Ireland, but Italy had already stated their intention to withdraw before the contest. So had this won, I don't know what they would've done! Jalisse actually tried to come back this year for San Marino, but they chose that hideous "rock" outfit instead...
June 5, 200817 yr Author 7. Shiri Maymon - Time to Say Goodbye Country: Israel Year: 2005 Total points: 154 Final placing: 4th out of 24 02jsf1c-tTo A bit more proof that political voting doesn't harm countries who are widely hated... take note Wogan. -_- Israel's best finish this century comes courtesy of the fantastic 'Time to Say Goodbye' by Shiri Maymon. I think the translation of the Israeli version is actually 'The Silence That Remains', but the English version is 'Time to Say Goodbye'. ^_^ Infectuous song, and it's Israel's highest entry on my chart. ^_^
June 5, 200817 yr Author 6. Natasha St-Pier - All I Have Is My Soul Country: France Year: 2001 Total points: 142 Final placing: 4th out of 23 aJ735VM79FI This song is just amazing. This really did deserve to do better than 50 points behind the leader tbh, and it was the first time that English had been heard in a French entry... now they're entering almost entirely English songs! Kudos to France though for actually getting their act together and sending such a decent song; they'd had a dismal run from 1998-2000, and they'd not finished higher than fourth since Carola pipped them to the post in 1991. Best French entry ever in my opinion, well, from what I've heard of theirs!
June 5, 200817 yr 10. Daz Sampson - Teenage Life Country: United Kingdom Year: 2006 Total points: 25 Final placing: 19th out of 24 IaUoKQmgbl8 Oh God, looking back this is so cringeworthy. :( What's all this "rat-a-tat-tat" $h!t all about?! But I love it. Had Daz been a bit better presented and not some old looking p****, I think this song would've done quite a bit better. It's a good song when you listen to it though imo, perhaps discounting the performance, and I often play it throughout the year. ^_^ All my mates love it as well, which is a bonus! ^_^ Daz was actually one of the pre-contest favourites as well, bizarrely. :o Teenage Life is just amazing...ten times better than Scooch :heart: always loved Daz's cheesy music with Bus Stop, Uniting Nations and Rikki and Daz...where the hell has he gone now though??? the curse of Eurovision strikes again :o
June 5, 200817 yr 6. Natasha St-Pier - All I Have Is My Soul Country: France Year: 2001 Total points: 142 Final placing: 4th out of 23 aJ735VM79FI This song is just amazing. This really did deserve to do better than 50 points behind the leader tbh, and it was the first time that English had been heard in a French entry... now they're entering almost entirely English songs! Kudos to France though for actually getting their act together and sending such a decent song; they'd had a dismal run from 1998-2000, and they'd not finished higher than fourth since Carola pipped them to the post in 1991. Best French entry ever in my opinion, well, from what I've heard of theirs! Amazing track...oddly, this is my family's favourite ESC track ever, I converted them all to love it in 2001 :w00t: most of the songs from 2001 were just sublime though :wub:
June 5, 200817 yr Cringetastic :( We should've sent Kym Marsh :heart: Kym's track was boring...City Chix was where it was really at :wub: All About You even made top ten in my chart :o had it been selected it could have gone top 15, but then again, I can't remember how well they sang live: och-aAMN__Y
June 5, 200817 yr Good choice and placing for Maria and Zeljko! It's all very well until he starts to sing :smoke: And is that the dude that co-hosted this years contest? :huh: Oh... :drama:
June 5, 200817 yr Author 5. Eurobandið - This Is My Life Country: Iceland Year: 2008 Total points: 64 Final placing: 14th out of 25 EAaNtxh8K34 Oh what a song this is. :heart: It would've actually been a disaster had this not gone through to the final, following the fantastic semi-final performance. :D It has everything that a good Eurovision song needs - good voices, great performance and a bizarrely amazing tune. :wub: I'll be loving this song for some years to come I think! :D
June 5, 200817 yr Author 4. Gina G - Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit Country: United Kingdom Year: 1996 Total points: 77 Final placing: 8th out of 23 yOqtDtUEpVM Had televoting been introduced for every country this year, this song would've won by an absolute landslide, I'm sure of it! And it would've been very well deserved too. ^_^ This song pissed all over that rubbish from Eimear Quinn, it really did - it totally deserved to win. :arrr: Going #1 globally and #12 on the Hot 100 just about proves it deserved to win the Eurovision, but alas, it wasn't to be. :(
June 5, 200817 yr Author 3. Antique - Die for You Country: Greece Year: 2001 Total points: 147 Final placing: 3rd out of 23 P4QD2ek9Kaw This song should have won the 2001 contest hands down, maybe with a bit of competition from France, but no way did this deserve to get trounced by that Estonian rubbish as well. :arrr: This was an amazing performance of an absolutely fantastic song, and I often listen to this song at other non-ESC related times. ^_^ That fat bloke to the right of Helena needs to disappear though, I'm presuming he's the other half of Antique? Well, all the same, this is a fantastic song, and is my third favourite song of all time in the Eurovision! :o Top two coming up later.
June 5, 200817 yr 5. Eurobandið - This Is My Life Country: Iceland Year: 2008 Total points: 64 Final placing: 14th out of 25 EAaNtxh8K34 Oh what a song this is. :heart: It would've actually been a disaster had this not gone through to the final, following the fantastic semi-final performance. :D It has everything that a good Eurovision song needs - good voices, great performance and a bizarrely amazing tune. :wub: I'll be loving this song for some years to come I think! :D Firstly, I though it's nothing special. But, when I think a bit more, yes, it's what Eurovision need. And the man have good voice.
June 6, 200817 yr Firstly, I though it's nothing special. But, when I think a bit more, yes, it's what Eurovision need. And the man have good voice. he did have a really good voicee i thought his was better than the lassiess i whished it could have done better as this was my second favourite :)
June 6, 200817 yr I have no idea what the top 2 are seeing as you said Antique was your fave of all time last year :lol: Can we have a summary of the top 50 so far plz? ;o
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