Your favorite Eurovision Songcontest song?

Mari · #1 10-21-2005, 01:18 PM

Yay! Euro-kitsch time... pure nostalgia

Tomorrow night they're holding the Best of 50 years of Eurovision Songcontest in Kopenhagen, and these are the finalists:

* "Nel blu, di pinto di blu (Volare") - Domenico Modugno - Italy, 1958
* "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" - France Gall - Luxemburg, 1965
* "Congratulation(s)" - Cliff Richard - UK, 1968
* "Eres tú" - Mocedades - Spain, 1973
* "Waterloo" - ABBA - Sweden, 1974
* "Safe your kisses for me" - Brotherhood of Man - UK, 1976
* "What's another year" - Johnny Logan - Ireland, 1980
* "Ein bisschen Frieden" - Nicole - Germany, 1982
* "Hold me now" - Johnny Logan - Ireland, 1987
* "Ne partez pas sans moi" - Céline Dion - Switzerland, 1988
* "Diva" - Dana International - Israel, 1998
* "Fly on the wings of love" - Olsen Brothers - Denmark, 2000
* "Everyway that I can" - Sertab Erener - Turkey, 2003
* "My Number One" - Helena Paparizou - Greece, 2005

your favorite to win, please. Or any other favorite not in that list. If you don't know the songs, you can see the performances on the official site:
www.eurovision.tv

shackin'up · #2 10-21-2005, 01:39 PM

Vicky Leandros' Apres-toi. It's not even in the list damnit.

Mari · #3 10-21-2005, 01:47 PM

The more songs I hear from this list, the more I wonder how they compiled it.. what's Greece doing in there?! The last song? Come on, must be better songs out there. Anyway, for now I'm going with Nicole & Ein Bisschen Frieden, because that's the first eurovision song I can actually remember, although I'm sure I've seen the show in years before that

Richard B · #4 10-21-2005, 02:46 PM

Waterloo - ABBA

JazmenFlowers · #5 10-21-2005, 06:05 PM

waterloo, I was defeated, you won the war...oh, um Waterloo - ABBA

Mari · #6 10-22-2005, 05:31 PM

Well, Waterloo won. Doh. Wouldn't have expected anything else. A bit snobby of them not to turn up though

Richard B · #7 10-22-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Mari

Well, Waterloo won. Doh. Wouldn't have expected anything else. A bit snobby of them not to turn up though

They are so over it. They can barely get Agnetha to appear at all in anything, especially for the documentary stuff they filmed for their DVD's.

shackin'up · #8 10-22-2005, 06:27 PM

come on people. am I THAT old? Apres-toi by Vicky Leandros was the best and most heartfelt song ever in that creepy competition.

BombaySapphire3 · #9 10-22-2005, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

Well, Waterloo obviously. Why the hell isn't it on the list?
But also Sandie Shaw's Puppet On A String and Bucks Fizz's Making Your Mind Up - classic.
I miss the days when Ireland used to win every year

Where's Johnny Logan when you need him?

Wasn't Buck's Fizz put together specifically for Eurovison? I know they did have a few U.K. hits in the early 80s after ABBA were no longer putting out records.

danax6 · #10 10-22-2005, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by shackin'up

come on people. am I THAT old? Apres-toi by Vicky Leandros was the best and most heartfelt song ever in that creepy competition.

No no, I have to agree.

*But*, I wanted to vote for Celine Dion, thinking she was number 12 (I wasn't really paying attention, my beer was more interesting) and it turns out I ended up voting for Johnny Logan.

Celine was number 11.

And he ended up third. I will never forgive myself.