March 17, 200916 yr right, I've spent the last half hour downloading all of the songs, just Latvia left to get now!!! Will listen to them all and update my rankings :D
March 17, 200916 yr Author I've got all of them since saturday :kink: The 2 month marathon has begun!
March 17, 200916 yr I'm listening to them in alphabetical order by song name and am on Et Cetera by Ireland...absolutely excellent :o :wub: I have also so far really enjoyed Denmark (obviously), Azerbaijan and Romania's entries...Belgium, Ukraine and Hungary were ok, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Czech Republic's songs didn't interest me :(
March 17, 200916 yr Author Bosnian entry don't interest me this year. Last year's one was absolutely fantastic to be honest! :wub: Ukraine is ok but far worse than 2007 and 2008 :wub: Interestingly, I like Czech Rep. song this year. Gypsy theme has always been one of Russia's best obsessions. Loads of Russian soaps and movies are connected with/tells us about the gypsy culture. AVEN ROMALE!
March 17, 200916 yr Turkey - verging on good, very generic France - too complex for ESC, but a good song Belaurs - dire, had to turn it off before the end Norway - incredible :heart: Cyprus - I love the studio version! hated the live performance that I heard about a month ago, put me right off wanting to listen to it... Switzerland - so original for ESC, could be a huge radio hit...they'd better qualify with this, it's brilliant!!! I'm so fed up with Switzerland missing out every year with brilliant songs Moldova - love it, very typical of modern Eastern Eurovision entries but that's no bad thing
March 17, 200916 yr I'm listening to them in alphabetical order by song name and am on Et Cetera by Ireland...absolutely excellent :o :wub: Woah, not a lot of people like it! :o It's getting slated on youtube and various ESC sites. :(
March 17, 200916 yr Woah, not a lot of people like it! :o It's getting slated on youtube and various ESC sites. :( What?! :o Et Cetera is fabulous! :wub: Definitely the best Irish entry of the decade...
March 17, 200916 yr Have the final versions of every entry been released yet? If so, could someone direct me to somewhere I can get them all at once? ^_^ (by PM, of course)
March 17, 200916 yr What?! :o Et Cetera is fabulous! :wub: Definitely the best Irish entry of the decade... Yeah, comments on Youtube are like "it's $h!t, cheap and tacky" and it's scoring very low on the ESCtoday charts! :cry:
March 18, 200916 yr Author Having listened to Et Cetera in HQ I must agree that it's a good song. A grower in my eyes.
March 18, 200916 yr carrying on where I left off last night: Turkey - verging on good, very generic France - too complex for ESC, but a good song Belaurs - dire, had to turn it off before the end Norway - incredible :heart: Cyprus - I love the studio version! hated the live performance that I heard about a month ago, put me right off wanting to listen to it... Switzerland - so original for ESC, could be a huge radio hit...they'd better qualify with this, it's brilliant!!! I'm so fed up with Switzerland missing out every year with brilliant songs Moldova - love it, very typical of modern Eastern Eurovision entries but that's no bad thing Poland - alright, can't remember it 10 minutes later though... Bulgaria - quite liked the music in this, the vocals weren't as good but it could certainly grow on me Iceland - gorgeous ballad, really nice and hope it does well for them Montenegro - my god!!! What a shock, my favourite Eastern song so far by a mile!!! top 10 for sure I'd say, brilliant disco pop Spain - excellent, their best entry for many many years and performing last, it's GOT to return them to the top 10, surely!?! Andorra - very pleasant...their best since 2004's brilliant and hugely underrated Jugarem A Estimar Nos...nice happy pop song Sweden - fantastic, I'm no opera fan but this song is incredible...perhaps it's because she was absolutely stunning live and I'm biased though!?! Slovakia - truly awful on first listen...didn't hear a hook, just screaching, by a man and woman...terrible Croatia - can't understand the hype over this song...sounded boring to me and won't do well at ESC at all...if it goes to the final it will finish mid-low top 20 max Finland - fantastic Eurodance, a bit like E-Type's True Believer crossed with Cascada's cover of Wouldn't It Be Good, but very good nonetheless Lithuania - oh ok, I can sort of see the fuss over this song on ESCToday, the verses are really nice and the chorus isn't bad either...will be a grower Slovenia - wow, very different for ESC...let's hope they don't get drawn next to Sweden in the final or it will sound like the 'classical Eurovision Song Contest'!!! Russia - so many years on top and now this...terrible, hope it flops and if it doesn't I want answers as to why not!!! Albania - didn't stick out hugely for me, but it's a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff they've sent in the last few years...good chorus Germany - haha, you can always rely on the Germans to do something a bit different...not bad actually, quite Michael Buble...will flop though United Kingdom - beautiful, very dramatic, stunning voice, performing 3rd from last...it's got to be our time to go top ten again, surely!?! FYR Macedonia - hmm...not quite as bad as I'd imagined it would be...very 1980's - sounds a bit like the old Alvin & The Chipmunks show theme tune! Armenia - went straight over my head...nothing special at all Latvia - dire, dire, dire...at least Macedonia's similar song has a tune...this is just terrible, the worst so far I think Estonia - not great...I don't think they will qualify again The Netherlands - I know there's a new version of this and this is probably the old one...so cheesy and dated and will definitely fail to qualify, not that bad though Israel - not bad actually, they almost always send something decent don't they Greece - well they are finally doing something different for once...nicked Charlotte Perrelli's tune! by default then I really like it! Another top 5 finish for Greece! Portugal - bland, did nothing for me Chiara - lovely, another great song by her and will hopefully put Malta back into the top ten!
March 18, 200916 yr gooddelta's official ESC 2009 ranking: 18/3/09 Stunning 1. Norway 2. United Kingdom 3. Sweden 4. Denmark 5. Switzerland 6. Spain 7. Montenegro 8. Finland 9. Ireland 10. Iceland 11. Azerbaijan 12. Malta Very Good 13. Greece 14. Romania 15. Moldova 16. Cyprus 17. Andorra Good 18. Lithuania 19. Bulgaria 20. France 21. Turkey Average 22. Ukraine 23. Hungary 24. Germany 25. Slovenia 26. Israel 27. FYR Macedonia 28. Albania 29. Belgium 30. The Netherlands Poor 31. Estonia 32. Armenia 33. Portugal 34. Russia 35. Poland 36. Czech Republic 37. Bosnia & Herzegovina 38. Croatia Atrocious 39. Belarus 40. Slovakia 41. Serbia 42. Latvia
March 18, 200916 yr Author 18/03. #1. Pure ESC perfection 1. Norway 2. Israel 3. Croatia 4. Malta 5. United Kingdom 6. Sweden 7. France 8. Moldova 9. Iceland 10. Czech Republic 11. Bulgaria 12. Spain 13. Finland 14. Armenia 15. Switzerland Very good 16. Andorra 17. Greece 18. Estonia 19. Russia 20. Serbia 21. Slovenia 22. Denmark 23. Bosnia & Herzegovina 24. Romania 25. Montenegro 26. Ireland Good 27. Lithuania 28. Slovakia 29. Albania 30. Turkey 31. Germany 32. Hungary 33. Ukraine Average (quite listenable) 34. Azerbaijan 35. Portugal 36. Latvia 37. Poland Awful (not listenable) 38. The Netherlands 39. Belgium 40. FYR Macedonia 41. Cyprus 42. Belarus ____________________________ I didn't think i'd place La Voix that high :lol: AMAZING quality this year! :wub: Probably the best year of the decade for me personally so far
March 18, 200916 yr really, the general consensus is that it's a weak year for ESC :o it's pretty average for me, but there do seem to be more awful songs than the last couple of years of course, my views are bound to change once the hype kicks in
March 18, 200916 yr Author really, the general consensus is that it's a weak year for ESC :o it's pretty average for me, but there do seem to be more awful songs than the last couple of years of course, my views are bound to change once the hype kicks in Vice versa for moi :o Comparing to at least last year - this one has far better songs overally. I don't hate many songs, just Belarus, Cyprus and The Netherlands from the very beginning :heehee: Oh and Macedonian and Belgium-Elvis-in-the-building songs are super awful :( Where're you, Tamara, Vrcak etc and Ishtar (:wub:)
March 18, 200916 yr Vice versa for moi :o Comparing to at least last year - this one has far better songs overally. I don't hate many songs, just Belarus, Cyprus and The Netherlands from the very beginning :heehee: Oh and Macedonian and Belgium-Elvis-in-the-building songs are super awful :( Where're you, Tamara, Vrcak etc and Ishtar (:wub:) I would be happy not to listen to about 10-12 of them ever again :lol: I love how all of Boyan's favourites are amongst my worst ones...it really is about cultural and personal taste over politics, and these huge differences prove it ^_^
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