Colm

I know predictions are not a barometer of quality but Wax and Wane not qualifying would make my heart sore. 😕

Not as much as they did at the start. I

I despised Lighthouse Family until High. Great great song.

Notable songs

I can't figure out whether you support Canada's introduction or not. 😀

Globevision

I want to feel like I am not gatekeeping. Maybe I am.

It seem like every decision the EBU has made over the last few years serves to dilute Eurovision. It's all about money now because it continually has to prop itself up due to the fall out of those decisions. Just pitch-correct the singers or allow them to lip-synch and be done with destroying the whole thing in one step, instead of this slow tortured erosion. As gooddelta said yesterday, Eurovision is irrelevant now. Once it was at the forefront of progress and inclusion - a platform for normalising and celebrating LGBT+ entertainment. For giving visibility. It could still have been politically brave by excluding Israel but instead it chose to allow that country to instrumentalise the contest.

I never really liked Don't Leave me This Way. The Chicken Song is far too low.

Summer banger(anga) has been submitted. All fit boys, please take your tops off and dance in the blazing heat.

I can understand why you would hate those 😄 Boys Do Cry is one of my favourites of 2022. What I hated was Not the Same

Such an odd country in the contest, They sent nothing that interested me until 2017 when they manged to send my favourite entry of the year. I love Özünlə Apar and really like Fade to Black also. Although Fade to Black's studio version is offensively pitch corrected in places and the lyrics are terrible. Notable songs Fade to Black ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Özünlə Apar ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Skeletons ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Austria were intermittently amazing in the 10s. Very obviously, winning the jury twice with Conchita and Cesár, and the gorgeous Loin d'ici. But, my the lows were low. Walking on Air is so mid that even Ireland would have rejected it. And to go from Nobody But You to Limits in 2019 was quite a comedown. Vincent Bueno might as well not have turned up in 2021 with Amen. It was just charmless and self-conscious. But that all changed in 2022 with Halo. It's certainly not the best thing they've ever sent but I liked it a lot. There was a ring of Marina and the Diamonds to it and I'm always up for that. Of course, it was doomed due to the shambolic live rendition. But dance music is generally not a strong performer at Eurovision, even when done well - see also Czechia 2022, Sweden 2026 so there was a limit to how well it could have done. That failure didn't deter them because they then entered their "Ireland in the 90s" era, submitting 3 absolute crackers in a row, all of which spent time as my winner. Edgar is utterly unique - what more can I say? We Will Rave is textbook retro dance heaven for me. Wasted Love is one of my all time favourite entries.. That leaves them firmly my favourite country at Eurovision. I don't anticipate having to score 7 notable songs many times in this thread - apart from my home country. Notable songs Loin d'ici ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Halo ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Who the Hell is Edgar ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We Will Rave ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nobody But You ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wasted Love ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rise Like a Phoenix ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Beaten by one of my favourites!

Shouldn't this be happening at 2am?

That's how this works. 😄

Voting should be completed before midnight.

I hardly ever listen to Rise like a Phoenix. It's to be watched.

My thoughts on Rise Like a Phoenix are well known. Loin D’Ici is a wonderful classic Eurovision song in the mould of Poupée de cire, poupée de son.

Try as I have, I find it difficult to listen to most entries from the 00s. I gave up watching in 2003 because I just wasn't enjoying any of the songs. In the 90s there were at least 3 or 4 each year that I could support. Wasted Love is my favourite entry this decade. I still remember the first time I heard it. It brought similar chills that Gjon's Tears did. I did feel that the switch the dance part was a bit contrived and an obvious attempt to make it more than just an opera song, hoping it would bring in votes from non-opera fans. I did worry about how they were going to transition to it on stage. I think Sergio Jaen did an excellent job with the staging. The "lost at sea" camera work was so well done. And it transitioned just fine. I will say that JJs vocals were a bit shaky in places. Somehow that didn't stop the jury from giving it so many top marks. Nobody But You is a bit too earnest in the verse but the rest is magical. I wasn't a fan at the time because I didn't hear it until the semi-final. I quickly grew to love it afterwards.

Two amazing songs. The choruses of both are knock out!

A popular choice.

Thanks danG

I think so.

Well done on finding 20 songs that you feel you could rate. I wouldn't get past 10.