Ghosty.

It took weeks! :drama:

I spent the third Welsh lockdown uploading my entire collection on there :lol: https://www.discogs.com/user/Ghosty233 I haven’t got a huge amount of great value as I favoured CDs over vinyl, but I’m starting to build my vinyl collection now too!

Congrats Jake, thanks to those who supported Madame Monsieur, very much appreciated.

Joined!

I used to know almost all of them back in the day, and have mastered Scared Of The Dark, What The Future Holds, Something In Your Eyes (both sets!) and Heartbreak since their comeback. Of the early routines, I can still do 5678, One For Sorrow, Tragedy, Deeper Shade Of Blue and Stomp from memory. Would have to practice the others now. Here And Now and You’ll Be Sorry I never managed to succeed at :( My favourite routine is probably Summer Of Love, definitely need to have a go at relearning that one!

I’ve got tickets for Cardiff, hopefully it’ll go ahead as planned. This will be my fourth time seeing them after The Ultimate Tour, Party On The Dancefloor and Summer of Steps. My partner is a HUGE Sophie fan so really pleased that she’s supporting them, it’ll give him something to look forward to as well! :lol:

Congrats Global! Damn that one still from WTFH fooling me!

I don't think it was anything to do with Brexit, it was just a very weak performance in a very strong field. Unless it's got a novelty element (Moldova 2017), male led dance tracks ALWAYS bomb at Eurovision. If Darude and Gromee can't get out of a semi final, then why would James have scored anything in the final this year?

I was quite a UK stan in the early 2000s, absolutely LOVED the string of Nicki French-Lindsay-Jessica Garlick-Jemini, and am still fond of all of those entries now. Imaani and Gina G are probably my ultimate favourite non-winning UK entries though. Also got a lot of love for Vikki's Love Is from 85. While I liked a fair few of our recent entries at the time of the contest, none of them have particularly stuck with me as favourites.

It's interesting to see the varying viewpoints... I think it could be good as long as they have a great track - if Spirit In The Sky can win the final televote and songs like Verona can qualify with the public from the semi finals (damn those juries!!), there's no reason why Steps couldn't do reasonably well with a strong track. I think off the recent album, Under My Skin and Heartbreak In This City could have done very well points wise - UMS appealing massively to both juries and the public. Their output these days has all the charm of what viewers are looking for from a Eurovision pure pop song - a genre that is lacking in the contest now, but one that the contest is famed for. If done well (which Steps can do), I think it could bring in masses of votes. My worry would be the staging. The BBC have a knack of completely messing up on that side of things - in recent years, only Lucie Jones has had a decent set up, so creative control should remain fully with Steps, or someone that they trust to do a good job. With the allowance of pre-recorded backing vocals in the contest now, that also alleviates my other concern that I had about their vocals being strong enough. While they do have good voices, the option to blend the live vocals with backing would enhance the quality much more than if it was just their 5 voices (plus 1 potential backing?!) It mainly comes down the strength of the song though. If they have a strong song to go with then I would love them to try it, but anything less than magnificent then I'd rather they didn't as it would risk sullying their image that they have worked very hard on building up since their 2017 return.

Should they or shouldn’t they? With the BBC having struck a deal with BMG to collaborate on our entries, the possibility must have been discussed and may even be on the table for 2022..?! What’s everybody’s thoughts about it? Would you like to see them try? If they had entered this year with something off WTFH (can’t be Something In Your Eyes or Father’s Eyes as they are covers), what song do you think could have earned us some points?

The Sleazesisters remixes were always my favourites, with the best one being Deeper Shade Of Blue. FqGlj4_soC8 Of their recent material, the 7th Heaven Mix of Story Of A Heart was better than the original mix for me! khnr1IK7-L8

Last Thing On My Mind got my vote here, but it’s so tough!

Exactly this for me!

Fab to qualify again after a couple of NQs, thanks to those who voted Madame Monsieur through :wub: Such a shame to see Oslol, Greenfroze and N DNTN go out though. All would have scored highly for me in the final.

Want: 01. Lithuania: 'Discoteque' by The Roop 02. Slovenia: 'Amen' by Ana Soklič 03. Russia: 'Russian Woman' by Manizha 04. Sweden: 'Voices' by Tusse 05. Australia: 'Technicolour' by Montaigne 06. North Macedonia: 'Here I Stand' by Vasil 07. Ireland: 'Maps' by Lesley Roy 08. Cyprus: 'El Diablo' by Elena Tsagrinou 09. Norway: 'Fallen Angel' by TIX 10. Croatia: 'Tick-Tock' by Albina 11. Belgium: 'The Wrong Place' by Hooverphonic 12. Israel: 'Set Me Free' by Eden Alene 13. Romania: 'Amnesia' by Roxen 14. Azerbaijan: 'Mata Hari' by Efendi 15. Ukraine: 'Shum' by Go_A 16. Malta: 'Je me casse' by Destiny Think: 01. Lithuania: 'Discoteque' by The Roop 02. Slovenia: 'Amen' by Ana Soklič 03. Russia: 'Russian Woman' by Manizha 04. Sweden: 'Voices' by Tusse 05. Australia: 'Technicolour' by Montaigne 06. North Macedonia: 'Here I Stand' by Vasil 07. Ireland: 'Maps' by Lesley Roy 08. Cyprus: 'El Diablo' by Elena Tsagrinou 09. Norway: 'Fallen Angel' by TIX 10. Croatia: 'Tick-Tock' by Albina 11. Belgium: 'The Wrong Place' by Hooverphonic 12. Israel: 'Set Me Free' by Eden Alene 13. Romania: 'Amnesia' by Roxen 14. Azerbaijan: 'Mata Hari' by Efendi 15. Ukraine: 'Shum' by Go_A 16. Malta: 'Je me casse' by Destiny 4 of my top 5 and 7 of my top 10 in this semi. I’m going to be distraught!

After today, Australia are back in contention for qualifying, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it knocked out most of the generic pop girlies (Azerbaijan, Croatia and Israel) in the process!

Revised predictions for the semi finals following first rehearsals, plus a tentative guess at the final: Semi Final 1: 01 Lithuania 02 Malta 03 Sweden 04 Ukraine 05 Russia 06 Belgium 07 Cyprus 08 Norway 09 Ireland 10 Israel 11 Azerbaijan 12 Croatia 13 Romania 14 Slovenia 15 North Macedonia 16 Australia Semi Final 2 01 Iceland 02 Switzerland 03 Bulgaria 04 Finland 05 San Marino 06 Portugal 07 Greece 08 Austria 09 Albania 10 Moldova 11 Estonia 12 Serbia 13 Denmark 14 Czech Republic 15 Latvia 16 Georgia 17 Poland Final 01 Iceland 02 Switzerland 03 Lithuania 04 Bulgaria 05 Italy 06 Malta 07 France 08 Sweden 09 Finland 10 Russia 11 Ukraine 12 Belgium 13 Greece 14 Cyprus 15 United Kingdom 16 Norway 17 San Marino 18 Albania 19 Moldova 20 Israel 21 Austria 22 Ireland 23 Portugal 24 Netherlands 25 Spain 26 Germany

Last Thing On My Mind Say You'll Be Mine Neon Blue Say You'll Be Mine really should have been out way before this round! :unsure:

Was a staple of my diet back in the day :lol: Shame I never kept one for prosperity!

Well, SF1 is an experience.

I’ve submitted my attempt. Relatively confident but 8 and 11 had me stumped for a bit. May have got a few of the neon-y ones wrong :lol:

Completely agree with JSG

Post CD release ranking: ***** 01 01 Lithuania: THE ROOP - Discoteque 02 02 Ukraine: Go_A - Shum 03 03 Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou - El diablo 04 05 Australia: Montaigne - Technicolour 05 09 Greece: Stefania - Last Dance 06 04 United Kingdom - James Newman - Embers 07 06 Malta: - Destiny - Je Me Casse **** 08 07 Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Sugar 09 08 Belgium: Hooverphonic - The Wrong Place 10 11 Croatia: Albina - Tick Tock 11 10 Ireland: - Lesley Roy - Maps 12 14 Israel: Eden Alene - Set Me Free 13 12 Russia: Manizha - Russian Woman 14 22 Romania: Roxen - Amnesia 15 27 Poland: RAFAŁ - The Ride 16 18 San Marino: Senhit - Adrenalina 17 23 Azerbaijan - Efendi - Mata Hari 18 19 Latvia: Samanta Tina - The Moon is Rising 19 16 Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið - 10 Years 20 17 Sweden: Tusse - Voices *** 21 13 Switzerland: Gjon's Tears - Tout l’Univers 22 25 Finland: Blind Channel - Dark Side 23 15 Denmark: Fyr & Flamme – Øve os på hinanden 24 35 Norway: TIX - Fallen Angel 25 24 France: Barbara Pravi - Voilà 26 21 Italy: Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni 27 20 Georgia: Tornike Kipiani - You 28 34 Slovenia: - Ana Soklic - Amen 29 26 Bulgaria: Victoria - Growing Up is Getting Old 30 32 Serbia: Hurricane - Loco Loco 31 30 Albania: Anxhela Peristeri - Karma ** 32 37 Austria: Vincent Bueno - Amen 33 28 Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Omaga 34 29 Estonia: Uku Suviste - The Lucky One 35 33 North Macedonia: Vasil - Here I Stand 36 36 Germany: Jendrik - I Don't Feel Hate 37 31 The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy - Birth of A New Age 38 39 Portugal: The Black Mamba - Love is on my Side * 39 38 Spain: Blas Canto - Voy a quedarme

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