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Points: 1823 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 07:32

In 50 years of the Eurovision Song Contest, how come nobody ever thought of sending an instrumental band?


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Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Exactly! It seems that most Finnish people would like to see another "Barbie Doll" prancing around the stage like a complete idiot. Lordi is not exactly something I would normally listen to, but at least they bring some colour to the overall very bland show.
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Originally posted by Tony Fisher Tony Fisher wrote:

i don't know about prog, but I really hope Finland win with their death metal act, Lordi! I just want to hear Terry wogan rendered utterly speechless for once. Slipknot with attitude!


Death metal? LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL

Lordi is pretty good! Surely the best song we've ever had in the contest.


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Re Lordi:
 
I only know what I've read about them, here & in the papers; and if they're as much fun as they sound, I'm right behind them! "Finland; douze points" !! I also gather the bookies have shortened the odds on Lordi, but don't know offhand who the favourites are.
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Points: 1823 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 11:16
Go Finland!


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We were watching the semi-final yesterday just to have good laugh. 'Watching' is exactly the right word for it because we had the volume set to silent. At first we really tried to listen to them, but we endured only the first 2 minutes so we turned the volume down and listened to Lands End instead! There were some occasional moments though like Finland or Lithuania that we conceded to listen to. Actually I felt quite gloating about Estonian song as it didn't pass, maybe they will write better songs next year!
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Points: 1043 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 13:36
^Lands end is great and Holland is outThumbs Up. I have also watched some of the festival listening to POS and ultimately zapping to Animal Planet as i couldn't stand it any longer. Which Lands end album were you listening to?
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Yeah eurovision is really more video vision than audio...

i might vote for the first time in my life...khm finland...
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 14:58
The Semifinal was yesterday. Did you see polish representatives?



Uhhh...

They dropped out...


And as for Lordi:

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Points: 72 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 07:22
to Dirk:
well I don't have any of their albums unfortunately, we listned to mp3 tracks. I guess we found them via Mike's ratingfreak site.
How bad can the dutch song be then?LOL

to Tuzvihar:
Yes, I saw the Polish ones!WinkConfusedLOL
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Points: 20585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 07:51
The Brussels Jazz Maraton (some 400 concerts during the lenght of the WE >> most free or fairly cheap) is systematically run the WE of the Eurovision which means that we have a great alterative
 
On the Grand Place at 5PM, Thijs Van Leer (Focus) is playing for free with a jazz bandClap
 
But it's been pouring rain all morningCry
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 1043 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 08:33
^saarepiiga, I stopped listening to POS(ShockedShocked Shocked mistake!) to hear the dutch song as i had never heard it before. Really stupid song with  naive presentation. We have enough to be embarrased about in country lately don't need Treble Dead to add to  this.

As for Lands end, Natural selection is one of the best albums i know. I don't have it yet
Embarrassed, it's really hard to get. Going to do a dedicated search for it in the near future. Their last album Lower depths is easy to get but not nearly as good.
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Points: 72 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 09:43
Thanks for recommendation!Smile
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 09:57
Tuzvihar, thanks for posting those pics, I think I'm going to watch just to see LordiLOL
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I saw Lordi post performance yesterday, but missed the song!  I maybe out this evening, so I may miss it again... what it's like exactly?

I'm still rooting for them though, as they're completely non-Eurovision (yet in a completely Eurovision way).  They had the lowest betting, but they got through to the finals.

And one country sounded just like Abba!  That was very odd.

And I missed that controversial performance by that girl who got booed... again, what was that all about?

After Finland, I think I'd go for that tune about "We're going to win" or whatever...


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Well, Lordi won. And I didn't dislike it.
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I still can't believe Finland actually won - and it's hardly Death Metal, but what fun!

My favourite was Latvia - but it was obvious they weren't going to win - they had talent.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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i endured the show........... I thought Lordi were great! ....................well, far better than the rest of the bunch, some were inevitably appalling, which is of course why Eurovision is so much fun.........the English entry was down right embarrassing tho..........
As usual, Terry made the evening stomachable !


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Points: 11985 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 18:16
My favourite was definitely Ukraine.....not sure about the song,but the talent was incredible...
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Points: 11985 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 18:17
Great performance by Dream Theater tonight,jeeze,I never knew they were from Finland.
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