Eurovision time again...

[Nowhere]

And this time I have a really bad feeling. So, please, whatever you want to do, don't vote on Poland!

[ZokesPro]

What's this Eurovision?

[az]

Each country votes for its worst singer/band, and then they all square off in a final battle. Last man standing wins.

AZ

[ZokesPro]

Ah! Kinda like American Idol or Canadian Idol or even Quebec's version: Star Académie.

Not a big fan of those types of shows. Although we don't have any BANDS just singers. I'd probably watch it if the music was better and if they had bands, good bands playing GOOD music and not the same old stuff we hear all the time.

@Nowhere: Go Poland!!! (j/k)

[Nowhere]

No Zokes, we also have Idol (and polish one is not so bad because it revealed few really good artists...), this is much, much worse.
I don't even know what's the point of Eurovision anymore (hm..actually, I never knew), it's so horrible.

edit: Luckily, right now I can say there is no way PL can win. Danger is over...

[Taz]

It's laughingly called the Eurovision Song Contest but it has very little to do with music The idea is each country give the highest marks to it's neighbours and freinds, as we have none at the moment we scored bugger all

[UtwigMU]

Untill the 70's the Eurovision used to be in step with the current pop trends and some of the songs or bands really took off (for instance ABBA).

http://www.balticsww.com/eurovision_pastwinners.htm

Check out the winners and you'll see that you recall songs up till about 90 (if you're that old, or even if you're not that old).

The last sparks from that period were IMO Johnny Logan and Toto Cotugno.

After that Eurovision sort of became encapsuled in it's own time bubble and audience with taste stopped watching it which also reflects in the music/bands produced for it.

IMO the idea behind Eurovision is good, however the music and the criteria that generate such music are not.


As for UK not having any friends (a bit temp forumish) - Blair being the only pal of dubya, Iraq crusade, not adopting Euro, being against constitution - it's a bit your own fault, some are of opinion that best would be to tow the Britain across the pond and anchor it outside New York, make it 51st state, leave Ireland behind.

[bsdgeek]

Oh, so it's Eurovision we have to blame for Celine Dion and ABBA.

But why did Celine Dion enter Eurovision for Switzerland?

[UtwigMU]

Beats me.


But AFAIK untill sometimes in the 90's the rules were that song had to be sung in national language and contestants had to be from the state they were representing.

Of course due to this English speaking countries (Malta, Ireland, UK), were privileged. So in 90's english refrains started popping up.

Another problem was that eastern bloc didn't participate in Eurovision.

After fall of Iron curtain and creation of manny new countries, the number of contestants increased so they have adopted qualifications.

[Brian Ellis]

It's a load of PURE RUBBISH which has nothing whatsoever to do with music or lyrics but simply the charisma of the so-called artistes and the political affiliations of the countries they are purported to represent.

The last decent hit that came out of it was an Irish entry, "All kinds of everything", sung by a cool, very charming young girl, Dana, plainly dressed, sitting on a bar stool. I can't remember how many decades ago that was, no doubt somebody here can fill me in on the year.

Actually, the contest goes back much longer than that. I think it started in the late 1940s as the European Song Contest, on steam radio, long before it was possible to interconnect TV systems. It transferred to TV when the Eurovision network came into being, I think in the 1960s. Big mistake, because, on steam radio, the songs were judged on their merit as songs.

[TransformX]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
It's a load of PURE RUBBISH which has nothing whatsoever to do with music or lyrics but simply the charisma of the so-called artistes and the political affiliations of the countries they are purported to represent.

The last decent hit that came out of it was an Irish entry, "All kinds of everything", sung by a cool, very charming young girl, Dana, plainly dressed, sitting on a bar stool. I can't remember how many decades ago that was, no doubt somebody here can fill me in on the year.

Actually, the contest goes back much longer than that. I think it started in the late 1940s as the European Song Contest, on steam radio, long before it was possible to interconnect TV systems. It transferred to TV when the Eurovision network came into being, I think in the 1960s. Big mistake, because, on steam radio, the songs were judged on their merit as songs.

/me agrees with most of it

Kill the eurovision and return the San-Remo fastival instead !

p.s.
Israel sucked (and I'm using the term sucked just because my english is lacking a stronger term)

[KeiFront]

10 points for our neighbours (just fill in a country).