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Strix · May 20, 2006, 04:05 PM

Ok, so we're half way through. UK song will be soon... Only two more hours, and six more pints of lager to go.....

Is it me, or has Apple secured subliminal suggestion adverts by getting the Greeks to put silohette dancers against single colour backgrounds during the breaks??????

Judge_Fire · May 20, 2006, 04:55 PM

Hell, I'll vote for myself:

1 : Finland

.. and, uh, that's it

(ok, I liked Bosnia-Herzegovina, too.)

J

Strix · May 20, 2006, 04:57 PM

Award for Best Makeup goes to Finland.....

TETENAL · May 20, 2006, 05:25 PM

Finland is getting points.

People are stupid.

euphras · May 20, 2006, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Finland is getting points.

People are stupid.

have you grown up ?

Strix · May 20, 2006, 05:41 PM

Well Judge_Fire, looks like the party is at your place next year...

Judge_Fire · May 20, 2006, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Strix

Well Judge_Fire, looks like the party is at your place next year...

Oh no

J

Person Man · May 20, 2006, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

Oh no

J

CONGRATULATIONS FINLAND!!!

After so many years of "Finland, null point," you did it!

TETENAL · May 20, 2006, 06:19 PM

(source)

Judge_Fire · May 20, 2006, 06:31 PM

Aww, Tetenal, to be fair you should have put up a picture of the girl in the band, Awa, who does the keyboards.

You're only in it for the chicks

J

ajprice · May 20, 2006, 06:41 PM

For Judge_Fire and TETENAL...

TETENAL · May 20, 2006, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

Aww, Tetenal, to be fair you should have put up a picture of the girl in the band, Awa, who does the keyboards

Of which band? Post a picture of her if you have one.

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

You're only in it for the chicks

I posted a picture of the Finnish band out of respect for the winner (though I'm going to burn all my Finnish possessions out of protest now). And you must admit that the Macedonian girl was gorgeousness.

voodoo · May 20, 2006, 09:12 PM

Yay for Finland! I voted for them

Congratulations and see you all in Helsinki next year! Brilliant. Totally busted the competition. Hard rock halelujah for Lordi!

V

Person Man · May 20, 2006, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Yay for Finland! I voted for them

Congratulations and see you all in Helsinki next year! Brilliant. Totally busted the competition. Hard rock halelujah for Lordi!

V

If you look at the points listing from the semi-final, you'll see that Lordi cleaned up there, too.

Aquataris · May 21, 2006, 03:43 AM

Alright! Lordi are the undisputed champions of Europe... now they need to work on an American distribution contract.

Kr0nos · May 21, 2006, 04:06 AM

Look familar?

What a ripoff.

macmad · May 21, 2006, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

And you must admit that the Macedonian girl was gorgeousness.

Natalia Gordienko. Nice!

vexborg · May 21, 2006, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by ajprice

For Judge_Fire and TETENAL...

I'd hit it!

turtle777 · May 21, 2006, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by vexborg

I'd hit it!

-t

TETENAL · May 21, 2006, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by macmad

Natalia Gordienko. Nice!

No, she is from Moldavia. I mean the girl from Macedonia – Elena Risteska. She was gorgeous.

Also cute was the Ukrainian singer.

Judge_Fire · May 21, 2006, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by Kr0nos

Look familar?

What a ripoff.

I agree, but it's not an originality contest. Plenty of room for masked bands in the world.

J

Person Man · May 21, 2006, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Also cute was the Ukrainian singer.

My father liked the Ukranian singer. He called me after her entry and said he hoped she won. His top 5 for the night were:

1. Ukraine
2. Bosnia & Herzegovina
3. FYR Macedonia
4. Greece
5. Norway

But he said that he was afraid Finland was going to get first place because of the novelty value.

Oh, and who wants to bet that after this year, there will be a rule that the person representing the country has to be a real person and not an "act"?

ajprice · May 22, 2006, 06:06 AM

Had anyone heard of Lordi before Eurovision?? Just wondering if all their stuff sounds like that or whether their fans are leaving them now for 'going commercial' and bringing out a soft song that isn't as hardcore as their usual stuff!

.

kick52 · May 22, 2006, 06:08 AM

the uk one sucked.

tae667 · May 22, 2006, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by ajprice

Had anyone heard of Lordi before Eurovision?? Just wondering if all their stuff sounds like that or whether their fans are leaving them now for 'going commercial' and bringing out a soft song that isn't as hardcore as their usual stuff!

.

Search Youtube. The band has been rather popular in Finland and I think it has always sounded the same.

Judge_Fire · May 22, 2006, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by ajprice

Had anyone heard of Lordi before Eurovision?? Just wondering if all their stuff sounds like that or whether their fans are leaving them now for 'going commercial' and bringing out a soft song that isn't as hardcore as their usual stuff!

.

The leader of the band started out doing latex masks and stuff in the eighties, then went on to do music with a band. I used to read Fangoria as a Finnish teen in the eighties, so I can relate

The current look (and even some original costume parts) is from around 1996, but their first real album is from 2002. I'm not familiar with the stuff, though. I think they've merely gone from amateur toward pro, as in 'they play better'.

Favorite tidbit: His wife and mom help out with costume and mask construction - cute. A family business

J

Doofy · May 22, 2006, 11:57 AM

Right then. Anyone got a working torrent for the whole thing?

Person Man · May 22, 2006, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Right then. Anyone got a working torrent for the whole thing?

Someone somewhere might.

You should have watched the online stream.

Or you can buy the DVD for $28.20 (21.95 euros) at http://www.eurovisionshop.tv

Doofy · May 22, 2006, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Person Man

Someone somewhere might.

C'mon, cough up. if anyone's got a link to the torrent post here or PM me.

Originally Posted by Person Man

You should have watched the online stream.

I watched it on TV. Just happened to be taping a film on another channel.

Originally Posted by Person Man

Or you can buy the DVD for $28.20 (21.95 euros) at http://www.eurovisionshop.tv

Screw that - I've already paid for the event to be staged (as have all Europeans, in one way or another). I'm not paying twice.

Person Man · May 22, 2006, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

C'mon, cough up. if anyone's got a link to the torrent post here or PM me.

I watched it on TV. Just happened to be taping a film on another channel.

Screw that - I've already paid for the event to be staged (as have all Europeans, in one way or another). I'm not paying twice.

hehe. Forgot you were in England. Ok, so buy the DVD for £14.96

I honestly don't know of any torrents, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were. Perhaps they're waiting for the DVD to be released June 6 first so they have something high-quality.

voodoo · May 22, 2006, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

C'mon, cough up. if anyone's got a link to the torrent post here or PM me.

Here ya go Doofy, it's got swedish commentary though, but hey!

V

Doofy · May 22, 2006, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Here ya go Doofy, it's got swedish commentary though, but hey!

Cheers V.

Person Man · May 22, 2006, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Here ya go Doofy, it's got swedish commentary though, but hey!

V

Shoulda known that they would have it.

I ordered the DVD several weeks ago. And the only reason I even care about owning it is because it was in Greece. And I have last year's DVD too, for obvious reasons, again.

DeeKat · May 22, 2006, 03:47 PM

Lordi rules!!!

Oh Man this is absolutly hilarious. Monsters playing metal LOL Wow I never thought I'd see this in my life!!! Obviously those guys aren't taking themself seriouly it's a big joke, very cool LOL. There is a cool clip on BBC where Lordi meets the press. It's so absurd, I'm still laughing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4998186.stm

[edit] And you know what? Their song isn't so bad, it's actually a good rock anthem. (And I'm NOT a metal fan anymore)

Oisín · May 22, 2006, 04:19 PM

[I agree with all the song analyses in Tetenal’s post, apart from these:]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

08 Germany: Beautiful text, beautiful song in country arrangement. Really great. The audience was ecstatic. I doubt this can be topped.

Uh, sorry, which German song did you hear? I heard a horrible parody of what is already just about the worst genre of music in existence. I barely noticed the song itself because of all that country wrapping. And her voice was nothing to write home about either, exactly. Not the worst song there (by a long shot), but quite bad nonetheless.

09 Denmark should stick to drawing cartoons. Outdated rock songs is not one of their strengths.

Hm, I quite liked it, really. Not a huge fan of the twist, but it had spunk, and Sidsel has a lot of charisma, presence, and—most importantly—a great and full voice, especially for a 17-year-old. Not a winner, but deserved better than the 26 points it got, I think.

10 Russia:

Hilarious with the ballerinas in the background. This is going to be a well merited last place.

If only it had been. Or, well, at least one of the last places... there were worse songs.

15 UK: A rapping teletubby

Correction: a borderline-paedophilac teletubby with a penchant for schoolgirls, who thinks he can rap and is sadly mistaken. God, what utter rubbish that song was.

16 Greece: Rather decent pop song.

Very good pop-rock song, I’d say. Great voice, and amazing stage presence! Did you notice how she managed to fill up that entire stage all on her own, without a single dancer or ‘helper’ in sight? Beautiful performance.

17 Finland: Wow, what crap. http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail141.html

No no, this is good. A fairly decent song—and most importantly one that breaks the formulaic plastic-poppy Eurovision contestant song mould something thoroughly.

18 Ukraine has a Shakira as well. And she's cuter than the original even.

Tastes in looks aside (I think the looks like a molested milk-maid Heidi), the song was just horrible. To say nothing of that girl’s English—good grief! I wonder if anyone actually understood just 50 per cent of what she was singing. It took me quite a while to figure out it was even English.

20 Croatia: I need a bucket of Slivovitz now.

For once, I almost wished I drank. God, what utter crap. That woman’s ‘singing’ was downright painful to listen to. And the extreme disharmony between the choir’s and her voices didn’t make it better. Nor did the ridiculous ‘authentic’ outfits or the idiotic dances, for that matter.

23 Turkey: Actually quite good song, and süper use of Sprechgesang, but I hate tattoos, so Turkey is disqualified.

I kind of liked it too. What is Sprechgesang, exactly? The dictionary definition (“a style of dramatic vocalization intermediate between speech and song”) doesn’t make me all that much wiser...

24 Armenia: Last song. Let's say it this way: The Russian was worse.

As were several others. My only comment about the Armenian song was that I had absolutely nothing whatsoever to say about it. It was complete boredom and lack of any kind of stimulation, good or bad. The only thing that sort of piqued my interest for a moment were the suspenders that Terry Wogan had already advertised when the song began.

My top five was:

1. Finland/Greece
2. Greece/Finland (couldn’t make up my mind about those two)
3. Bosnia & Herzegovina
4. Norway
5. Denmark

[Just pointing it out, in case it’s not clear to some—this is obviously all my personal opinion and taste. Fine if you disagree with it.]