Our songs for Europe

23May08

Hello Europe! Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Belgrade and the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest!

Bonjour l’europe! Bonsoir Mesdames et Messieurs et bienvenue à Belgrade et la 53e Concours Eurovision de la chanson!

Okay, I’l stop this now, cheesy presenter-ese is too much for me even in a text format, but Eurovision is on us again. Remarkably eMusic is carrying the British entry, Andy Abraham’s ‘Even If.’ And whilst I’m sure Mr Abraham is a lovely bloke, it’s not one to throw your downloads at - so few Eurovision entries ever are. But I have a suggestion - Alternative Song Contest - can we find one great track for each country competing in the Song Contest? Children of Bodem for Finland? Word of warning, there are 43 countries taking part - see below the fold for a list.

Good luck! Bonne chance!

Albania
Andora
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herz.
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czek Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
FYR Macedonia
Gorgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Latvia
Lithuiania
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovienia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom

And a gratuitous link to Roxy Music’s ‘Song for Europe’ just because I like it.

anna.

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1 Tom Hilton on May 23rd, 2008 said:

No Roxy Music link is ever gratuitous.

I’m rooting for Albania, by the way. They’re a tiny country, but they’ve got pluck.
2 ottocazzi on May 23rd, 2008 said:

Italy’s not in. ITALY’S NOT IN?!?!?

Wow, now I really feel ashamed.
3 anna on May 23rd, 2008 said:

Wow - I hadn’t even noticed Italy were missing! I’d just assumed they’d be there. But I don’t know ottocazzi - listen to the British entry and then we’ll talk about who feels ashamed.
4 lemoneyes on May 24th, 2008 said:

The france entry is here too with Sebastien Tellier and his single Divine:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Sébastien-Tellier-Divine-Bonus-Edition-MP3-Download/11204485.html
5 ottocazzi on May 24th, 2008 said:

anna: as far as I understand being ashamed is the main reason for which this particular contest exists at all…
6 lemoneyes on May 24th, 2008 said:

Link to the Tellier video.
I love this song. I wonder why countries aren’t sending “well-known” or proven artists like Sebastien Tellier more often?
7 ross on May 24th, 2008 said:

italy dont enter Eurovision. They have their own contest- the San Remo song festival. The benfit for Italy is that no one else watches thus saving Italians the shame of Eurovision.
8 aphexbr on May 24th, 2008 said:

ottocazzi: yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever been “proud” of anything in Eurovision apart from Terry Wogan taking the piss with his voiceovers…

At least I’m not… quite…. as ashamed about this year’s entry as last year’s monstrosity.
9 xtrev on May 24th, 2008 said:

Just caught the Tellier performance live on TV (almost by mistake, wasn’t watching the whole thing, honest) - thought it was absolutely atrocious even by eurovision standards. Maybe that’s why ‘name’ artists don’t get involved any more?

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