Thank Frida it’s Friday.
We hope you all enjoyed the show.
This week’s voucher-free music forum comes courtesy again of a suggestion by treasured Broadsheet Trailer Park caretaker Andy Pipkin.
Andy writes:
“After a disappointing night at Eurovision last night – and the last number of years – as an idea for today’s Esteem competition: ‘what’s your favourite Eurovision song, winner or loser?’ Here’s mine.”
Thanks Andy. And here’s mine.
Lines MUST close on Saturday Midday
Please include video links if possible.
Last week, thanks to another suggestion by Andy, I asked for your favourite song about cheating. You answered in your tens. But there could only be one winner. Janet won my esteem with a French offering….
Paul Braffort – La Java De L’Adultere
Janet wrote:
“I’m an unfortunate expert; infidelity is rather more the norm in France…and I suppose if you can’t beat them ;))”
Nick says: Congrats Janet. Merci beaucoup to everyone who entered.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Earlier: Blame It On The Boogie
Bunker Vinyl, Cork
wayhayyy ! Merci Nick from the bottom of my overly romantic heart and wandering eyes everywhere ;)
Janet,
Are you going for ABBA in this week’s competition?? ;)
pours hot oil into ears in anticipation of the ABBA car crash this thread is bound to be ;)
( peppy, smiley, sparkling, squeeky overly upbeat Nordic fuppers )
https://youtu.be/KiLw45oAuD0
here’s my entry, it was the year of my leaving cert and I was overly upbeat and peppy myself;)
Oh ah just a little bit !
( 96, UK entry )
Well done, Janet!
And an excellent choice. I was travelling at that time and well remember the song, but I had not realised until much later it was a Eurovision entry.
De rien!
Ireland didn’t qualify again.. sure, what’s another year… https://youtu.be/AJ2jDdOfRwM
shut it and listen to my songs about orgies ;) blows kiss
I do like an orgy.. blows all sort of kisses back..; )
Muriel Day – ireland’s first female eurovision singer – ireland’f first eurovision singer from the north.
elsewhere i read the following.. regardnig muriel.
” lively, happy singer who pays as much attention to her appearance as to her singing, and she certainly had the vast majority of male viewers rooting for her in the national song contest.”
The tune – the wages of Love, I have never heard – why I hear you bellow is that your favourite then?
Only because Nine Times Out if Ten is a stone clod classic – Ireland’d first lady of northern soul – credentials enough I hear you concede.
I will post 2 links – one i can vouch for nine times out of ten…
https://youtu.be/VzgWVmQhEwU
the wages of love… no idea
https://youtu.be/qQl6itXi0Yg
A classic for the ages Volare, the Italian entry from 1958, covered by Dean Martin, and the Gypsy Kings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DPAb9-Stmo
Got in there before me!
Well done- the contest is now over
Daði og Gagnamagnið – Think About Things
https://youtu.be/1HU7ocv3S2o
The great lost Eurovision winner that never was from the cancelled 2020 contest. The Eurovision jobsworths wouldn’t let Dadi Freyr enter this song again in 2021, so please let him win this equally prestigious song contest.
Beat me to it. Great song. Also Hot Chip did a nice remix of it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ltbExiTn4
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
https://youtu.be/Zd9jeJk2UHQ
Wet Leg from the Isle of Wight, has failed qualify on many occasions,the track above gained some notice and traction last year,better luck next year.
Eurodance as its most infectious – formalistic for sure but what pop song isn’t – building as it does to a chorus that is € anthemic perfection – with nice homage to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights routine going on as a sideshow during the performance.
“Euphoria” – by Loreen for Sweden in 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfo-8z86x80
Absolute banger!
Chooon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OnRxfhbHB4
Started Italy’s honest efforts to win it. Even if you don’t speak Italian the message was clear, almost universal and catchy as hell. The simple staging maybe done them. But the dancing Ape was fun.
My personal favourite comes from a Greek lady who sang in French for Luxembourg, a year before a certain palindromic Nordic band swept through and, possibly over, theworld.
My father bought a brand new Sanyo 3 in 1 hifi with four speakers just to be able to play this ladies songs, and later those of aforementioned group. For years, they were the only remotely pop records allowed be played on that set, with my mother’s opera and classical somewhat grudgingly allowed. All others, including our Disney Little Long Playing records and my treasured Jungle Book soundtrack from a Christmas trove, were relegated to the old vertical mono player. Itself now perhaps an item of worth.
But back to the song, which is, of course, Apres Toi (never liked the English version) by Vicky Leandros, winning in 1972 for Luxembourg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgmg794ckeg
Slightly may I also humbly suggest
Celine Dion – Ne partez pas sans moi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEYw8PcBas
The craythur looks very ill of late and had to cancel shows.
My wife says she hasn’t been well since her husband passed.
Did you ever have an in joke with mates, in a public setting, and you know its making others a bit puzzled? Uncomfortable even? But you can’t help it. The giddiness is too irresistible? Well then….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps3kxGo_gro
The booing at the end really adds to that sense of ‘totally worth it’.
Who was the woman singer there with the great set of pipes?
If I am not mistaken, that was Kitty B, and the other lady was Ann Harrington.
Thank you Slightly
Excellent well done Janet
You certainly entered enough times to deserve it!
But this is a worthy winner!
This week, and because I know Slightly had surely nominated Vicky Leandros, I am going to offer:
A little peace – Nicole
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o67vWrkWUAQ
So good even Israel gave it douze points
ah the odd Friday I get the nipper to sleep and I crank up the tunes and memory lane via Nicks comp ( headphones on ! ) so I make up for the Fridays I get nada in
Fair play, you’re by some distance one of the soundest persons on this though Slightly runs you a close second
Aw shucks, you make me blush :-)
Also, good call on A Little Peace. I remember being strangely and pleasantly surprised when she swapped between languages
Stella Mwangi – Haba Haba. Norway 2011. Absolute Eurovision belter. Didn’t even make the finals. Robbed they were.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKqVLmzIFQ
The Music of Love
Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love
Here or beyond me, it’s eternally with me, the music of love
In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach
I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that’s the music of love
Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love
The little bird sings it, the wind plays it for me, the music of love
Morning or midday, I always hear it
Listen to the tune, you are my sweetheart, that’s the music of love
This is the Land of Eternal Youth and wings are in place of my legs
Now and forever happiness is before me, all around
You are my sweetheart by day and by night
And every single moment of my life
Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love
Here or beyond me, it’s eternally with me, the music of love
In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach
I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that’s the music of love
Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love
Here or beyond me, it’s eternally with me, the music of love
In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach
I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that’s the music of love
In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach
I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that’s the music of love
https://youtu.be/DJzhQz4V2CU
Fair play Janet – enjoy bathing in all of that esteem.
Eurovision has never floated my boat, as a young lad I despised it as an affectation and it had some sort of CBT type of impact on me, so much so that I just can’t get down with the Euro groove at all. I do like Marty Whelan though!
. Look at the Israelis. Years in the wilderness, then all of a sudden, “A ba ni be a ba ni boo.” Genius.
That’s true
I can’t remember the last Israel winners name but she was a tremendous laugh
Do you remember the Les McQueen character from the 90s comedy League of Gentlemen? Ref: the 18.15 mark in this video https://www.bitchute.com/video/pKoCmZj4ME60/
Epic stuff. I never saw that entire episode before – thanks very much. I must watch the series
I want to be a polar bear…
1973 UK: Cliff Richard – Power To All Our Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVzGntQw1SA
Yes like before the hospitality industry singled out for price gouging by this government
I do not run a hotel but will fall subject to being penalised by having my VAT 9% rate increased to 13.5% no matter if I put our prices up to cope in the massive increases in energy the wage increases insurances increases and the increases of all my supplies
Not sure about that verse…
What way does the chorus go? :-)
:)
Congratulations Janet on your win…
Now on to the tunes.
Eurovision, the wackier the better.
1979, Germanys entry…
Mongol warrior and Boney M collide in this disco number that praises the great Khan’s military and sexual achievements, all performed in Jerusalem in front of a ginormous saturnian lizard eye.
What’s not to like?…
Dschinghis Khan • Dschinghis Khan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eAEUrp2V4ss
I am not a huge fan of drag because it is mainly clueless heifers in frocks but when it is done well it can be stunning- wow- art even. This act didn’t just enter the Eurovision- nothing came close, and she knew it.
Conchita Wurst – Rise Like a Phoenix (Austria) 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4
Rise like a penis more like…
Brotherhood of Man
Save All Your Kisses For Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OW1JJwqVRQ
That’s not even borderline creepy..
Ding-a-dong: Teach-In (NL, winner).
Great little hook, surprised it’s not “sampled” more by the young folk. Or Madonna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNet0NF2DE
So, my actual favourite Eurovision song:
https://youtu.be/hGYm3EwOI1Q