May 6, 200916 yr I don't care what people say, Spain will be such an epic closer :wub: I sure as hell hope that Turkey don't go top 3, Dum Tek Tek is alright but not great tbh...Spain and Azerbaijan are far superior :wub: I also thought you'd like Switzerland a LOT more tbh Rich! :o Let's see that one rocket up his list/chart after the semi :kink:
May 6, 200916 yr the Swiss entry is currently topping my rankings, and I'm hardly usually a rock fan...it's a very radio friendly commercial rock song, really excellent, although it took me about 100 listens to come to this conclusion judging by its ridiculously slow climb up my personal chart :lol: I certainly didn't love it as much on first listen... I still think that with a bit less European bias from UK record companies, The Highest Heights and Swedish act Mando Diao's Dance With Somebody could be the two 'big' radio rock hits of the summer here :o
May 6, 200916 yr TRASH HAS JUDGED (AGAIN). Fantastic 01 (01) Sweden 02 (03) Switzerland 03 (02) Iceland 04 (09) Armenia 05 (05) United Kingdom 06 (07) Norway 07 (06) Spain 08 (24) Bosnia & Herzegovina 09 (08) France 10 (03) Ukraine Very Good 11 (10) Finland 12 (11) Ireland 13 (12) Moldova 14 (14) Romania 15 (13) Germany Good 16 (15) Greece 17 (18) Montenegro 18 (19) Albania 19 (28) Portugal 20 (17) Russia 21 (22) Azerbaijan 22 (27) Lithuania 23 (16) Turkey 24 (20) Hungary Listenable 25 (23) Denmark 26 (21) Croatia 27 (25) Cyprus 28 (29) Estonia 29 (26) Andorra 30 (31) Malta 31 (32) Israel 32 (30) Poland Tolerable 33 (33) The Netherlands 34 (34) Slovakia 35 (35) Slovenia 36 (36) Serbia 37 (37) Belgium Hideous 38 (38) Bulgaria 39 (39) Belarus 40 (41) FYR Macedonia 41 (40) Czech Republic 42 (42) Latvia --- srsly, my top 5 are actually TOO CLOSE TO BE JUDGED APART :(
May 6, 200916 yr The Highest Heights is absolutely fantastic...the riff, THE RIFF :wub: It would so easily do a 'Human' if The Killers covered it...
May 6, 200916 yr TRASH HAS JUDGED (AGAIN). Fantastic 01 (01) Sweden 02 (03) Switzerland 03 (02) Iceland 04 (09) Armenia 05 (05) United Kingdom 06 (07) Norway 07 (06) Spain 08 (24) Bosnia & Herzegovina 09 (08) France 10 (03) Ukraine Very Good 11 (10) Finland 12 (11) Ireland 13 (12) Moldova 14 (14) Romania 15 (13) Germany Good 16 (15) Greece 17 (18) Montenegro 18 (19) Albania 19 (28) Portugal 20 (17) Russia 21 (22) Azerbaijan 22 (27) Lithuania 23 (16) Turkey 24 (20) Hungary Listenable 25 (23) Denmark 26 (21) Croatia 27 (25) Cyprus 28 (29) Estonia 29 (26) Andorra 30 (31) Malta 31 (32) Israel 32 (30) Poland Tolerable 33 (33) The Netherlands 34 (34) Slovakia 35 (35) Slovenia 36 (36) Serbia 37 (37) Belgium Hideous 38 (38) Bulgaria 39 (39) Belarus 40 (41) FYR Macedonia 41 (40) Czech Republic 42 (42) Latvia --- srsly, my top 5 are actually TOO CLOSE TO BE JUDGED APART :( I wouldn't call Belgium's song in any way 'tolerable', diabolical/atrocious and ridiculous would be more apt :heehee: surprised Sweden are on top, I absolutely love La Voix but it's not going down too well on most of the usual Sweden worshipping ESC forums :snif: they obviously would have preffered Hope & Glory :rolleyes:
May 6, 200916 yr Belgium only edge into tolerable as I can actually listen to it without getting an overpowering urge to tear my ears off, as the five below do :( And La Voix is absolutely FANTASTIC :wub: Hope & Glory is just a poor man's (pun half-intended :kink:) Hero. The key change makes La Voix for me! :heart: Sweden, Norway and Spain (and Switzerland to a degree) give me goosepimples from imagining the crowd reaction on the night!
May 6, 200916 yr My first 2008 ESC ranking: 1 Norway: Alexander Rybak - Fairytale 10 2 Turkey: Hadise - Düm Tek Tek 9.5 3 United Kingdom: Jade - My Time 9 4 Malta: Chiara - What If We 9 5 Estonia: Urban Symphony - Randajad 8.5 6 Sweden: Malena Ernmann - La Voix 8.5 7 Bosnia & Herzegovina: Regina - Bistra voda 8 8 Ukraine: Svetlana Loboda - Be my Valentine 8 9 Montenegro: Andrea Demirović - Just get out of my life 8 10 Iceland: Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir - Is It True? 7.5 11 France: Patricia Kaas - S'il fallait le faire 7.5 12 Finland: Waldo's People - Lose Control 7 13 Greece: Sakis Rouvas - This Is Our Night 7 14 Spain: Soraya - La Noche Es Para Mí 7 15 Andorra: Susanne Georgi - La teva decisió 7 16 Israel: Noa; Mira Awad - There Must Be Another Way 6.5 17 Albania: Kejsi Tola - Më mërr në ëndërr 6.5 18 Slovenia: Quartissimo - Love Symphony 6 19 Poland: Lidia Kopania - I Don't Wanna Leave 6 20 Denmark: Niels Brinck - Believe Again 6 21 Ireland: Sinead Mulvey & Black Daisy - Et Cetera 6 22 Lithuania: Sasha Son - Love 6 23 Switzerland: Lovebugs - The Heighest Height 5.5 24 Armenia: Anush & Inga - Jan Jan 5.5 25 Romania: Elena Gheorghe - The Balkan Girls 5.5 26 Portugal: Flor-De-Lis - Todas As Ruas De Amor 5 27 Cyprus: Christina Metaxa - Firefly 5 28 Azerbaijan: AySel & Arash - Always 5 29 Hungary: Ádokzoli - Dance With Me 5 30 Russia: Anastasiya Prihodko - Mamo 4.5 31 Belarus: Petr Elfimov - Eyes That Never Lie 4 32 Moldova: Nelly Ciobanu - Hora Din Moldova 4 33 Latvia: Intars Busulis - Sastrēgums 4 34 Germany: Alex Swings, Oscar Sings - Miss Kiss Kiss Bang 3.5 35 Bulgaria: Krasimir Avramov - Illusion 3.5 36 The Netherlands: De Toppers - Shine 3 37 FYR Macedonia: Next Time - Nesto Sto Ke Ostane 2.5 38 Serbia: Marko Kon & Milan Nikolić - Cipela 2.5 39 Croatia: Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea - Lijepa Tena 2 40 Slovakia: Kamil Mikulčík & Nela Pocisková - Leť Tmou 1.5 41 Czech Republic: Gipsy.cz - Aven Romale 1.5 42 Belgium: Patrick Ouchene - Copycat 1
May 6, 200916 yr Belgium only edge into tolerable as I can actually listen to it without getting an overpowering urge to tear my ears off, as the five below do :( And La Voix is absolutely FANTASTIC :wub: Hope & Glory is just a poor man's (pun half-intended :kink:) Hero. The key change makes La Voix for me! :heart: Sweden, Norway and Spain (and Switzerland to a degree) give me goosepimples from imagining the crowd reaction on the night! the crowd reactions are always interesting at ESC, who do you reckon they'll boo this year? there is no novelty as such like Dustin or Pirates Of The Sea...Dima got big boos last year too :lol: in Melodifestivalen the big crowd reactions weren't reserved for the best songs but rather the biggest acts, E.M.D. got by far the biggest cheer, mainly from young girls in the audience, but the ESC audience is more filled with ESC fans whereas the MF audience was basically just about anyone and everyone :lol:
May 6, 200916 yr I think I'm about the only person on Buzzjack who doesn't think much of "Fairytale". It was good to start with but his voice isn't that good and the actual song is something you could only really listen to in a Eurovision context. It's so cheesy sounding that I couldn't imagine liking it 6 months on. Norway should have gone for Tone Damli Aaberge and "Butterflies". :wub: I still haven't listened to them all. I want the actual album to leak. My favourites so far are the UK, Iceland and Turkey.
May 6, 200916 yr The actual album has leaked Aaron! :P Check torrentz.com...and Fairytale does grate after a while but it's still quite fantastic :o And Russia could possibly get booed, along with maybe Greece...I do sincerely hope all the schlock-rock gets booed to death along with Latvia :heehee:
May 6, 200916 yr I think I'm about the only person on Buzzjack who doesn't think much of "Fairytale". It was good to start with but his voice isn't that good and the actual song is something you could only really listen to in a Eurovision context. It's so cheesy sounding that I couldn't imagine liking it 6 months on. Norway should have gone for Tone Damli Aaberge and "Butterflies". :wub: I still haven't listened to them all. I want the actual album to leak. My favourites so far are the UK, Iceland and Turkey. Butterflies is a lot more cheesy than Fairytale I think, I absolutely love it and they were both former No.1's in my personal chart but the lyrics 'time to wake up, don't know what to wear, do my make-up, then I brush my hair' are on par with Maria's hilariously awful lyrics from last year :lol: Tone's song is very 'Disney' infact, I can imagine one of the Miley's/Demi's or whoever else's doing a cover of it the album has leaked Aaron, I'll PM you a link :o
May 6, 200916 yr I've actually fallen in SEVERE LOFF with Bistra Voda. WOO FOR THE EAST ACTUALLY BEING GOOD AFTER ALL.
May 6, 200916 yr The actual album has leaked Aaron! :P Check torrentz.com...and Fairytale does grate after a while but it's still quite fantastic :o Oh, I saw a download link for it the other day, but some of the tracks were over 3 minutes long so I didn't trust it. I guess it was right anyway. I can't quite get back into "Fairytale" on first listen I thought it sounded good, but when I put it on iTunes I decided that it was just really average. I can't believe this is the track everyone's raving about. I certainly hope there are some good tracks I am yet to hear. Most of the ones people have been raving about (Norway, Sweden, Ukraine) disappointed me and my three favourites aren't quite on par with Kalomoira, Maria, Ani or Sirusho of last year. :(
May 6, 200916 yr I've actually fallen in SEVERE LOFF with Bistra Voda. WOO FOR THE EAST ACTUALLY BEING GOOD AFTER ALL. they do have some good songs once again, I'll give them that, I just don't want them completely dominating the top ten again because by no means are their more than 5 Eastern songs that actually deserve to be top ten this year Maria was flying the flag for the west all alone last year :lol:
May 6, 200916 yr Butterflies is a lot more cheesy than Fairytale I think, I absolutely love it and they were both former No.1's in my personal chart but the lyrics 'time to wake up, don't know what to wear, do my make-up, then I brush my hair' are on par with Maria's hilariously awful lyrics from last year :lol: Tone's song is very 'Disney' infact, I can imagine one of the Miley's/Demi's or whoever else's doing a cover of it the album has leaked Aaron, I'll PM you a link :o I dunno, maybe cheesy isn't exactly what I meant. I just find the "Years ago, when I was younger, I kinda liked a girl I knew" line and the chorus really cringey. I'm not keen on his vocals, there's just a quality of his voice that irritates me. The music isn't quite as contemporary as "Butterflies" either. I know that's intentional but it's not so good when you listen back in 6 months time and think "wow, that really was a Eurovision only song" which I don't think will happen with "Butterflies".
May 7, 200916 yr Downloaded the album and I'm listening to most of the songs for the first time, I shall post my thoughts tomorrow once I've listened a bit more.
May 7, 200916 yr Author I don't care what people say, Spain will be such an epic closer :wub: I sure as hell hope that Turkey don't go top 3, Dum Tek Tek is alright but not great tbh...Spain and Azerbaijan are far superior :wub: I also thought you'd like Switzerland a LOT more tbh Rich! :o Let's see that one rocket up his list/chart after the semi :kink: Judging by your rankings, Azerbaijan are not FAR superior than Turkey :heehee:
May 7, 200916 yr Belgium: Patrick Ouchene - Copycat: Oh dear, oh dear. A dire Elvis impersonator does his worst Tom Jones meets Adam Ant impression over a Jive Bunny backing track. Hopeless. 1 you're bang on here Rich, I kept thinking 'what on earth does this utter $hite remind me of', now I know; Jive Bunny :puke2: it's like the sort of song that would have been a UK xmas No.1 in the late 80's
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