POLL: Favourite Eurovision Winner, 1975-2006.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Yes, "Waterloo" is NOT an option. Because how boring would that have been?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
2006: Finland: Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi	10
1998: Israel: Diva - Dana International	3
1975: Netherlands: Ding-A-Dong - Teach-In	3
1978: Israel: A-Ba-Ni-Bi - Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta	2
2004: Ukraine: Wild Dances - Ruslana	2
1987: Ireland: Hold Me Now - Johnny Logan	1
1993: Ireland: In Your Eyes - Niamh Kavanagh	1
1984: Sweden: Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley - Herreys	1
2003: Turkey: Everyway That I Can - Sertab Erener	1
1981: UK: Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz	1
2002: Latvia: I Wanna - Marie N	0
1995: Norway: Nocturne - Secret Garden	0
1996: Ireland: The Voice - Eimear Quinn	0
1997: UK: Love Shine A Light - Katrina and the Waves	0
1976: UK: Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood of Man	0
1999: Sweden: Take Me to Your Heaven - Charlotte Nilsson	0
2005: Greece: My Number One - Elena Paparizou	0
2001: Estonia: Everybody - Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL	0
2000: Denmark: Fly On The Wings Of Love - Olsen Brothers	0
1994: Ireland: Rock 'n' Roll Kids - Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan	0
1992: Ireland: Why Me - Linda Martin	0
1979: Israel: Hallelujah - Gali Atari & Milk and Honey	0
1980: Ireland: What's Another Year? - Johnny Logan	0
1982: Germany: Ein Bisschen Frieden - Nicole	0
1983: Luxembourg: Si la vie est cadeau - Corinne Hermès	0
1985: Norway: La det swinge - Bobbysocks	0
1986: Belgium: J'aime la vie - Sandra Kim	0
1988: Switzerland: Ne partez pas sans moi - Céline Dion	0
1989: Yugoslavia: Rock Me - Riva	0
1990: Italy: Insieme 1992 - Toto Cutugno	0
1977: France: L'Oiseau Et L'Enfant - Marie Myriam	0
1991: Sweden: Fångad av en stormvind - Carola	0

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Nooo where is "Dansevise"? (Thanx Mark S for alerting me to it)

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

It's between Teach-In, THE FIZZ and Ruslana for me. Though I seem to remember Diggi Loo Diggi Ley and the Bobbysoxers one being good too.

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Worst (possibly EVER): "Rock And Roll Kids"

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hopefully this should be more interesting without the supposed Golden Age of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s.

The victory of "Waterloo" in 1974 was widely thought at the time to be a turning point, which would bring the contest up to date with current pop styles and make it all cool and unpredictable. Didn't really pan out that way, did it?

Some people have said much the same thing about Lordi's victory in 2006. There are certainly a load more rock guitars this year, I'll say that much. But not much more than that.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Seems to me Eurovision has generally worked by unpredicted winners influencing a scrabble of imitators until people get bored of that style at which point an unpredicted winner grabs it again. "Waterloo" is towering but it's impossible to imagine an ABBA-style track winning it now.

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Tough call between Ruslana, Dana Int and Teach-In, but I ended up going for "Ding-A-Dong," if only because the intro alone invents "I Want Your Love" by Chic.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

If this had been a best UK Eurovision entry poll over the same timespan then "One Step Further" would have walked it.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Can anyone link to audio clips? Can't remember how most of them go.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually one of the things I really like about E-vision is that it's a pop space which regularly and brutally REJECTS retro and revivalism via the ballot box: the regular ABBA-clones now can only scrape 12th or 13th and the French entries in their early-60s timewarm end up in the bottom four. Eurovision's commitment to the modernist project is impeccable!

(This is why Scooch are doomed, obv, and why the UK will never win again because its public perception of Eurovision is that there's a "Eurovision style" which wins.)

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You also have to factor in the shift to the East that has occurred, since Sertab Erener broke the Baltic flush in 2003. The centre of Euro pop has shifted well away from the UK and France - although there's also complacency from the Big Four, who never have to face relegation and re-qualification. It's telling that last year's ten qualifiers from the semis all placed in the top 12 on finals night, and equally telling that the Big Four finished in the bottom four in 2005.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes but that's only because they all vote for each other!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

And because there's more of them. It's an Eastern Europe versus Baltic power struggle these days...

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I can see the day not so far off where, after strong representations from the Big Four, the idea of country-by-country voting is abandoned in favour of a central panel of judges, probably headed by Simon Cowell.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The whole "raking in the dosh" part is rather lost though!

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yr right though that the basic model of Eurovision seems somewhat unsustainable given that four rich countries are basically paying a lot of less rich countries to say that their music is shit every year.

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Voted "Hold Me Now". The best song never wins though.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted for A-Ba-Ni-Bi, but have a soft spot for Buck's Fizz and of Katrina & The Waves. The latter only because of Kimberley Rew.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

It was nearly "Diva", "Love Shine A Light" or "Fly On The Wings Of Love", but "Wild Dances" got it in the end.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted for A-Ba-Ni-Bi

... or, as it was known in the playgrounds of the West of Scotland, "I wannae be a polar bear". Ruslana would get my vote, but, errrrrrrr, not really on musical grounds, to be honest...

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I right in thinking those Ireland winners are all overwrought weepy ballads with a bit of Celtic flute bollocks over the top?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link

racist

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

but yes

― blueski, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Except for the 1995 one which was just the Celtic flute bollocks.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I right in thinking those Ireland winners are all overwrought weepy ballads with a bit of Celtic flute bollocks over the top?

Indeed, MC, I was just about to say that a couple of the non-Irish winners from the same period were in the same vein

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The exception being "Rock n Roll Kids", whose otherwise inexplicable victory smacked of an evil conspiracy by the other jurors to lumber Ireland with hosting the damned thing for a third consecutive year. Second worst winner after Toto Cotugno.

As for the Celtic flutey bollocks, it lives on to this day (see Norway's "Alvedansen" (Elves' Dance) last year), occasionally mixed with a bit of Gypsy Fiddle.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

If Pick Of The Pops ever goes as far as 1994, Dale will play "Rock 'N' Roll Kids" as a new release. "Good single, that."

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I would vote for 'Teenage Life' over every winner ever - crackin' record that was.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

In Your Eyes.

― I know, right?, Thursday, 3 May 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Diggi Loo, cos a swedish girl called cecilia bought me a copy when i was 17

― whatever, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I right in thinking those Ireland winners are all overwrought weepy ballads with a bit of Celtic flute bollocks over the top?

The 90s ones, yes.

The older ones are ballads too, but not as exaggeratedly "folkish" as the later ones.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Lordi!

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

And for this year's Irish entry, the Celtic flute bollocks is back, back, back...

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Lordi rule.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Like Sarkozy.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

'hard rock hallelujah' is horrid! u r all mad, how can you think it's better than 'wild dances'?

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Has rockism finally toppled popism on ILM?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Nobody voted for the brotherhood of man? That is SCANDALOUS.

― hobart paving, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That is a rare show of good taste.

Who TF voted for Izhar blinking Cohen?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, Dr C - "C" me in my office tomorrow morning at nine o'clock sharp...

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Here I am Mr. Carlin, Sir.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU WAS TOLD TO SELL THE BEST OF BRITISH PRODUCE TO THEM FRENCH! NOT TO GO BLEEDIN' BUY PROCESSED SHIT OUT OF THE BLEEDIN' CASH AND CARRY!!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Has rockism finally toppled popism on ILM?

sadly this would appear to be the case, not just here but all over these godforsaken polls

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

As with Islam, they have triumphed through sheer weight of numbers.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I cannot really understand what is so "rockist" about Lordi? Surely, they were rock, but they were a very hair metal kind of rock that had nothing to do with the "canon" that critics tend to love. Lordi are just as mainstream as many other Eurovision winners. That said, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" was a bad copy of "In My Dreams".

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

It was nothing LIKE "In My Dreams"! However, you could certainly argue that Wigwam prised open the door marked ROCK a year earlier.

(Wigwam also turned up at the 2006 post-finals after-party in Athens to congratulate Lordi on their win, so there can't have been too many hard feelings...)

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Obviously Wigwam were happy about how such a song managed to win. :)

But I still stand by that "In My Dreams" was a better song.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Norway's big problem this year is that Portugal have fielded an extremely similar brassy Latino number, which is being performed two songs before them in the draw on Thursday night. They even have similar titles: "Dança Conmigo" and "Ven A Bailar Conmigo". Norway's is catchier, though - that Thomas G:son can knock out a memorable tune...

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

But Sir, it was good quality processed ~~shit~~ cheese. It's just that Adam couldn't sell it, Mr Carlin sir, because he's a pleb and he hasn't been in the army like me. I can speak French too, and I know how to make a passable cooking stove out of nothing at all, sir. Did I mention I was in the army?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I DON'T BLEEDIN' WANT YOUR SHITTY BRECON BEACONS BAKED BEAN TIN WHEN YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT A DECENT AMSTRAD CALOR GAS COOKER ANYWHERE FOR TEN QUID! YOU THOUGHT YOU WAS GONNA GO BACK TO THE 'OUSE TO SHAG KATIE? I'M TELLING YOU SON YOU'LL BE OUT THAT WINDOW BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT'S EVEN HIT YER!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

baah :(

― t**t, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(that was one beautiful moment of TV, Marc. The lead up of "ooh, who should I fire? oh it's so DIFF!!!, Actually no it isn't!)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Those bits always look as though they've been edited in from somewhere else. It's as if they sit him down and get him to do a series of minor variants on "ooh, who should I fire?" which they can insert as necessary to create bogus tension.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course they do that!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

a-ba-ni-bi was robbed.

― o_O (ken c), Friday, 13 February 2009 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link

"I wanna be a polar bear!!!"

― Mark G, Friday, 13 February 2009 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Pretty sure "Hard Rock Hallelujah"'s win wouldn't have been so solid today. I mean, did the song even become a hit?

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 February 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link

"Hard Rock Hallelujah"'s win another classic milestone on the road to ILM indiefication.

― Otto von Biz Markie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 February 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link

25 Lordi Hard Rock Hallelujah Single Jun 2006

(xpost)

― Mark G, Friday, 13 February 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.