Eurovision 2007

[Niko]

can't watch it right now, but am recording it as i still have to work;

this is the official apology of the people of germany for submitting this crap; my girlfriend asked with a sinister smile, isn't this what they call jazz... well, the part of me that appreciates jazz can't relate to it and the rest hates the lyrics very much... if some guy in Moldavia likes it and will end up buying Kenny Dorham records there was some use to it but for the moment I am really sorry (though admittedly of the three performers between we could choose on television this may even have been the best choice)

[Tom Storer]

I found my wife and son watching it and we guffawed through a few songs. It's so bad it's quite a laugh. I didn't see Germany, though, so I don't know what you're apologizing for. What does Kenny Dorham have to do with it?

[Niko]

I found my wife and son watching it and we guffawed through a few songs. It's so bad it's quite a laugh. I didn't see Germany, though, so I don't know what you're apologizing for. What does Kenny Dorham have to do with it?

in case someone like this crap for the right reasons he or she might turn into a jazz fan and buy good records some day, i could have written Johnny Griffin instead , have only seen Serbia so far and was not too impressed

[Claude]

I'm watching it too, for the first time in years. It's better than I feared, although none of the songs is really original and they are just using calculated clichees and some are stealing from well known hits or almost cloning successful artists. Obviously all of the songs are conceived to please immediately to a maximum number of people. It's disappointing that most acts are singing in english now.

The german contribution Roger Cicero (son of jazz pianist Eugen Cicero) is a kind of jazzy Sinatra-style song.

The Americans must envy us for this freak show.

[Niko]

The Americans must envy us for this freak show.

they just don't have states like Moldavia... if I were Angela Merkel I'd offer them Thueringen or maybe Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (the latter would even include couw, but that's one of the more attractive features); Sinatra... i don't know, you are being extremely nice

[Alexander Hawkins]

You're all cynics - in a non-world cup year, this is the best tv of the year

[Teasing the Korean]

Have the 60s and 70s Eurovisions made it to DVD? I would LOVE to see these. Some decent stuff made it during this period.

On a related note, does anyone other than me collect those annual "San Remo" albums? Usually horrible stuff except for a couple of tracks. Always a stunning Italian bathing beauty on the covers, though.

[Niko]

You're all cynics - in a non-world cup year, this is the best tv of the year

0 points for our "Sinatra" from Moldova (at least Eurovision taught me the correct spelling) and the only song i've seen has won, will I watch the rest?....

[couw]

The Americans must envy us for this freak show.

they just don't have states like Moldavia... if I were Angela Merkel I'd offer them Thueringen or maybe Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (the latter would even include couw, but that's one of the more attractive features);

ey, we's got a big ass G8 fence too!

some shipyards, a bunch of trees and all that nature...

that should increase value

[Niko]

The Americans must envy us for this freak show.

they just don't have states like Moldavia... if I were Angela Merkel I'd offer them Thueringen or maybe Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (the latter would even include couw, but that's one of the more attractive features);

ey, we's got a big ass G8 fence too!

some shipyards, a bunch of trees and all that nature...

that should increase value

convinced, maybe Sachsen-Anhalt is the more reasonable offer though it lies right in the middle

next year's candidate?

[sidewinder]

my girlfriend asked with a sinister smile, isn't this what they call jazz...

The German 'entry' was SABA recording artist Eugen Cicero's son, I believe !

UK entry was embarrasingly bad. They narrowly avoided 'nul points' thanks to our friends the Irish and the Maltese.

The regional block voting has turned the whole thing into an ex-Communist Block mutual back-patting stitch up worthy of the Kremlin at its worst. Good production by the Finns though.

I should have given it a miss and gone to see some live jazz.

Edited May 13, 2007 by sidewinder

[couw]

Edited May 13, 2007 by couw

[Claude]

The regional block voting has turned the whole thing into an ex-Communist Block mutual back-patting stitch up worthy of the Kremlin at its worst.

If you take into account the western european votes only (first column in the table in the middle of the page), the top rankings would have been almost the same:

http://www.bildblog.de/2258/warum-mag-uns-eigentlich-keiner

Edited May 14, 2007 by Claude

[Niko]

The regional block voting has turned the whole thing into an ex-Communist Block mutual back-patting stitch up worthy of the Kremlin at its worst.

If you take into account the western european votes only (first column in the table in the middle of the page), the top rankings would have been almost the same:

http://www.bildblog.de/2258/warum-mag-uns-eigentlich-keiner

i've seen a little more during lunch... i think given the extreme crapiness of most of the western submissions ("our" song was not great but e.g. UK and Spain had a quality that was hard to believe, and the Irish singer was so much out of tune i've hardly heard such a thing on TV before) there is really no reason to complain (though maybe this is a decline in quality in response to the eastern block voting of recent years) besides it is quite apparent that these eastern countries have some common taste which is different from ours... once you have accepted that groups like the one from Russia or Romania have fans at all it is easy to imagine that these are spread over several countries (my imagination still has problems with the first step) nevertheless the songs i liked best came all from eastern countries, they just put more effort into the thing... that crappy "dancefloor" thing from the uk, will have to see it again before i go to sleep...

[Swinger]

What can I say....the whole event is just a big joke but I kinda enjoyed it. Those small inserts about Finland between the songs were quite funny and they hopefully gave some other perspectives about our country.

All the songs sounded pretty much same :/

Maybe the best part of the whole event was when the Finnish announcer announced Flying The Flag as "Flying The Fag"

Did she do it on purpose? Most likely

Edited May 15, 2007 by Swinger