Post Your Top 39's

[NikkiBoy]

Great video Nikki

I wont comment on your rating since everyone has their own taste : D

Oh, you're so sweet.
Lovely words!

 

[doctormalisimo]

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[Sabrewulf238]

Brilliant
1. Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
2. The Netherlands: Anouk - Birds
3. Israel: Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo

Great
4. Spain: ESDM - El Sueño De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta el Final
5. San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Crisalide
6. Montenegro: Who See - Igranka
7. Bulgaria: Elitsa & Stoyan - Samo Shampioni
8. Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity
9. Iceland: Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Eg a Lif

Good
10. Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives
11. Slovenia: Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love
12. Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh
13. Austria: Natalia Kelly - Shine
14. Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem
15. Greece: Alchohol Is Free - Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas
16. Sweden: Robin Stjernberg - You
17. United Kingdom: Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me
18. Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops
19. Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda

Average
20. Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me
21. Cyprus: Despoina Olympiou - An Me Thimase
22. Italy: Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale
23. Germany: Cascada - Glorious
24. Albania: Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet
25. Estonia: Birgit Õigemeel - Et uus saaks alguse
26. Switzerland: Heilsarmee - You and Me
27. Moldova: Aliona Moon - O Mie
28. Armenia: Gor Sujyan - Lonely Planet
29. Russia: Dina Garipova - What If

Poor
30. France: Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer et moi
31. Macedonia: Lozano & Esma - Pred da se razdeni
32. Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja
33. Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something
34. Azerbaijan: Farid Mammadov - Hold Me
35. Belgium: Roberto Bellarose - Love Kills

Awful
36. Romania: Cezar - It's My Life
37. Latvia: PeR - Here We Go
38. Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani - Waterfall
39. Malta: Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow

 

[Sean]

I've finally finished my Top 39, which goes as follows...

Perfection
1. Montenegro

Awesome
2. Germany
3. Sweden
4. Slovenia
5. Ireland
6. Switzerland
7. Albania
8. Netherlands
9. Romania
10. Denmark
11. Lithuania

Great
12. Norway
13. France
14. Hungary
15. Italy
16. Belgium

Good
17. Georgia
18. San Marino
19. Greece

Nice
20. Malta
21. Croatia
22. United Kingdom
23. Bulgaria
24. Spain
25. Austria
26. Israel
27. Latvia
28. Iceland

Okay
29. Armenia
30. Macedonia
31. Azerbaijan

Boring
32. Moldova
33. Ukraine
34. Serbia
35. Estonia

Dislike
36. Belarus
37. Cyprus
38. Russia

Horrific and Shameful
39. Finland

 

[Fionfindel]

Great
01. Ukraine
02. Norway
03. Denmark
04. Germany

Good
05. The Netherlands
06. United Kingdom
07. Spain
08. Sweden
09. Russia

Average
10. Moldova
11. Romania
12. San Marino
13. Serbia
14. Ireland
15. Hungary
16. Iceland
17. Italy
18. Switzerland
19. Malta
20. Estonia
21. Azerbaijan
22. Lithuania
23. Belarus

Poor
24. Georgia
25. Bulgaria
26. Belgium
27. Croatia

Pitiful
28. FYR Macedonia
29. Austria
30. Slovenia
31. Israel

Garbage
32. Finland
33. Greece
34. Latvia
35. Cyprus
36. France
37. Montenegro
38. Albania
39. Armenia

 

[Matt]

This is though cause a lot of them I would rank equally good or bad but since it's just for fun, here is my ranking

LOVE
1. Ukraine
2. Germany
3. Greece
4. San Marino
5. Netherlands

Great
6. Iceland
7. Cyprus
8. Malta
9. Estonia
10. Moldova
11. Finland
12. Ireland
13. Switzerland
14. Lithuania
15. France
16. Hungary

Not bad
17. Belgium
18. Croatia
19. United Kingdom
20. Norway
21. Belarus
22. Azerbaijan
23. Israel

Meh
24. Russia
25.Georgia
26. Sweden
27. Serbia
28. Montenegro
29. Austria
30. Bulgaria

This is bad
31. Denmark
32. Spain
33. Italy
34. Slovenia

Awful
35. Macedonia
36. Albania
37. Latvia
38. Armenia
39. Romania

 

[Trece]

My TOP10

 

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Leaving my country out as usual, but I'd place it around 11-15.

 

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Leaving my country out as usual, but I'd place it around 11-15.

I spent some time looking for Cyprus in your ranking until I read this

 

[A-lister]

So, here's my current top. 39 and a quick review aswell:

01. Moldova

A very good example of where native language should be used instead of English. The English version of this sounded like a bad take at a musical ballad, with dreadful lyrics and dreadful pronunciation, which made it all sound cheesy... however in its Romanian version it was like the beauty of this song finally was able to shine through.

02. Sweden

Now some of you may think I'm biased or something, but then you know me too little because I don't judge songs based on the countries (including my own), but thing is that we once again send a respectable contemporary pop song. The 10's have been a good decade for Sweden so far. And no, don't compare this to Eric Saade please, this is way more interesting and grown-up!

03. Iceland

When some people compare this song to former ESC entrlies like "Butterflies" then I don't know where to start? This is a cute (without being cheesy) but most of all genuine and well-sung ballad with folk influences and in a language that we have not heard in ESC since 1997 and which adds alot of beauty to the song. One of Iceland's best entries ever.

04. Israel

Israel is one of my all-time fav ESC countries and while they haven't been as consistent in the 00's/10's they are atleast back on form with this one. A dramatic (without being pretentious and kitschy) melancholic ballad in a very native style. Somehow I think of "Molitva" when I hear this, but have to remind myself that I never really liked that song but I like this. Strange huh?

05. Macedonia

While I initially preferred the more "direct" "Imperija" over this I've come to terms and realized this is a much more serious song. Some people have called it unfinished and mis-matched... but I actually like what I hear and I even like the mis-matching in this.

06. Denmark

I can see why this is a pre-favorite, it's an instant catchy song but just like with Rybak back in 2009 I find it perhaps a bit too catchy (does that even make sense?). Some people have unfairly compared this to the masterpiece "Horehronie", while I would instead describe it as if Soluna May decided to make a poppier version of Katy Satyn's "Magican Sensation" (Belgian pre-selection 2008) and in the same time making out with Alexander Rybak's "Fairytale" (but throwing out the violin in favor of the flute instead). More celtic than Scandinavian.

07. Ireland

Alot of people seem to dislike this while I personally find it one of Ireland's stronger entries of the past decades or so. It's hardly something ground-breaking, but it feels up-to-date and a pretty decent contemporary dance-club-pop song. One of this year's most contemporary entries.

08. Montenegro

... speaking of contemporary... have ESC ever sounded as up-to-date as this one? Montenegro is going all in this year and send their best (and perhaps only good?) entry to date. This is very risky because it has no typical ESC formula written on it what-so-ever. Is ESC ready for 2013?

09. Serbia

My initial reaction to this was "meh", but I have to eat up my words. Nothing ground-breaking but actually quite catchy and surprisingly "interesting" for being a simple pop-dance song with a typical "ESC" stamp on it.

10. Azerbaijan

Quite formulaic ESC pop-ballad, but still strong with a good hook. This is sort of a better version's of Koldun's "Work Your Magic". But it does get boring with Azerbaijan always relying on other countries when it comes to this though.

11. Ukraine

This could very well fail, like a theme from the Lion King mixed with Celine Dion... but somehow the structure of this song keeps it interesting enough to make it stand out from other ballads(?) in the contest and without making it cheesy.

12. Croatia

I wasn't fond of the Klapa idea and I would have preferred something more poppy/uptempo instead then (like "Provjelce" from the Croatian selection 2005). But the song is quite ok, although a tad dated (sounds like something Croatia or Bosnia would have sent in the 90's). It's cute but a little boring but a plus for its being genuine, true and in native language!

13. Bulgaria

Ok ok, it's no "Voda" but then again this is not 2007. I think the too dragged-out drum instrumentation part in the end is what takes away from the overall impression of this. Kudos to going ethno (without pop compromises!) on us but it's also risky.

14. Cyprus
15. Estonia

A try at re-creating the 90's Estonian ballads? It's alright but it's not even close to doing that.

16. Switzerland

Instantly catchy but also gets boring quickly. The melody is a bit too simplistic and monotone for my taste. This is scouts sitting around a camp-fire singing. It should deserve a spot in the final though.

17. Germany

No, this has nothing to do with "Euphoria" other than perhaps being in a similar genre. Typical Cascada. Not bad but not good either.

18. Norway

Robyn's electro-pop meets Björk's weirdness meats industrial pop. On paper it all looks interesting but somehow I'm not too fond of the execution of it.

19. Slovenia
20. Italy

Tactically a smart choice from Rai to pick the Sanremo winner and a song that has become a native hit with a current popular artist, Italy need to boost interest for ESC badly. However the song itself is rather boring isn't it? Perhaps a grower.

21. Belgium
22. San Marino

Alot of people love this, I however find it a bit too formulaic.

23. France

This is one of those that could be good but leaves me rather cold. I miss some melody here.

24. Netherlands

Ok this is a pre-favorite, but beware... this could flop in the televoting leaving it mid-place. What I like with this entry is more the idea than the actual entry (if that makes sense?). The song itself is rather... boring?

25. Belarus

It's totally beyond me how people can compare this to the fabulous "Wild Dances"? People should get some ears. This is extremely static and fake, it's uptempo but it has no life in it.

26. Romania

Alot of people think this is the worst song this year, well I can't really agree on that. I can't say I like it much but it's hardly the worst entry this year. I'm no fan of opera, especially pop-opera... but there are far weaker and less interesting songs though and atleast it has SOMETHING catchy in it.

27. Georgia

Alot of people compared this to "Running Scared", I guess all it takes is a male/female duo singing a Swedish-made ballad for such comparisons to be made. While I wasn't a big fan of "Running Scared" it felt atleast more up-to-date and a bit with a better hook. This is just cheesy and dated and I had to listen to it many times to even recall it. It's not the worst of its kind this year, but it's definitely a song that doesn't deserve any of the success some people predict it'll get.

28. Greece

On paper I should like this right? It's ethno-influenced, it's in native language. But nah... I was never a big fan of the ska genre (which is a very hit-or-miss for me) and sadly this comes across as more of a novelty act than a serious song in my ears. I don't draw comparisons song-wise (because they differ) but to me this is this year's Can Bonomo, which imo was last year's ethno-influenced novelty act.

29. Hungary

I guess this is one of those entries I want to like but I just can't. I applaud them for keeping it in Hungarian and sending something a bit alternative, but it's just too boring for me.

30. Austria
31. Latvia
32. Spain

Please bring Lucia Perez or Susanne Georgi back to ESC! This entry is so boring. I like the celtic influences and that it's sung in Spanish, but the song itself is just so boring! Hook? Melody? Something interesting? No... Spain should prepare themselves for a last spot in the final I'm afraid.

33. Lithuania
34. United Kingdom

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is one of the best ballads ever made, this however is a complete anonymous nonsense? Alot of people were hard on the Humperdinck last year, but that entry is miles above this boring balld.

35. Albania

After the fabulous "Suus" I feel a bit sad with a comeback. A quite boring rock song with no actual hook or melody

36. Finland

If the only good part in a song is "a la lading dong" (or whatever she sings?) and the rest is just some juvenile-lack of a decent hook-Disney pop/Katy Perry left-over demo then we got problems! Awful!

37. Russia

This is probably Russia's worst entry to date, it's beyond me why a country like Russia need to rely on Swedish-penned American wannabe cheese... I thought they didn't even like the USA so why send something that comes straight out of the rejects for American Idol's winning-songs? This is so anti-intellectual I don't know where to begin, and I don't mean to sound pretentious... I can totally like some silly, cute, fun, catchy and even bit kitschy song... but this is just kitsch cheese without a soul, without substance, without being tongue-in-cheese... this believes it's something it is not. This is this years' "C'est ma vie"... I feel emotionally raped by this relic cheese and it's only in ESC that such craps are allowed to stay alive... jury-wank of 2013? For the sake of music and ESC please let it not be!

38. Malta

Unmelodic singer-songwriter cheese. While I expect more from countries like Russia in ESC I just can't become as angry at Malta for sending this because I got used to it by now. Atleast their last entry was catchy, this is just nothing.

39. Armenia

Minus their debut entry Armenia started to become one of my favorite ESC countries with strong etho-pop entries... then came Emmy and "Boom boom shaka laka". But I thought that the withdrawal would lead to a strong comeback, but we end up with a big fat ZERO of an entry. This is just lame in all aspects and it would be a shame if the juries (oh but he's got good live vocals so let's grade him high shall we regardless of the song being crap?) and the diaspora (Armenian entry? Ok let's vote even if we don't like the song) would put this nonsense of an entry in the final taking the place from something more worthy.

 

[GRE]

@ A-lister,
you have your country in n.2
Ok you do whatever you want to do.
But by a person who says in EVERY topic ALL the time,that eurovision should be more about native languages and traditional instruments,
i should expect a different position for a pop song in english.
If it was another country you would say "noooo,you destroy eurovision spirit!its not anglovision!"
You can put it to n.2,but dont try to persuade us that you are not biased.

 

[A-lister]

@ A-lister,
you have your country in n.2
Ok you do whatever you want to do.
But by a person who says in EVERY topic ALL the time,that eurovision should be more about native languages and traditional instruments,
i should expect a different position for a pop song in english.
If it was another country you would say "noooo,you destroy eurovision spirit!its not anglovision!"
You can put it to n.2,but dont try to persuade us that you are not biased.

so you call me a biased liar for liking my country's entry (which happens to be a pop song in English? So? Have I ever stated I hate Pop in English? Then you must have misunderstood me).

... has this perhaps more to do with me not really liking the Greek entry this year?

Yes, just because I prefer countries to choose entries in their native languages and/-or in local style, doesn't mean that that's the only thing I judge the songs on. I don't have anything against good song regardless of genre or languages used, I always judge the whole package. Now if I would put all native languages songs in the top regardless, then that for sure would be a bias!

On contrary I think my top. 15 is quite diverse....

I know where I stand on this and I'm not biased, during the whole 00's I rarely even had Sweden in a top. 10 so if you think me liking the song has something to do with country biasism then you're wrong... I'm not a little child, I can judge song without a country bias (including my own country's entry).

 

[CrimTV]

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Left out my country,

 

[randajad]

blue = I' would give it douze points
green = süper
olive = ok
orange = meh
red = awful
dark red = hate it, hate, it, hate it

01. ITALIA | Marco Mengoni — L'essenziale
02. FRANCE | Amandine Bourgeois — L'enfer et moi
03. EESTI | Birgit Õigemeel — Et uus saaks alguse
04. NEDERLAND | Anouk — Birds Falling Down
05. SAN MARINO | Valentina Monetta — Crisalide
06. SVERIGE | Robin Stjernberg — You
07. ÖSTERREICH | Natália Kelly — Shine
08. DANMARK | Emmelie de Forest — Only Teardrops
09. UNITED KINGDOM | Bonnie Tyler — Belive In Me
10. NORGE | Margaret Berger — I Feed You My Love

11. CRNA GORA | Who See & Nina Žižić — Igranka
12. ÍSLAND | Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson — Ég á líf
13. MAGYARORSZÁG | ByeAlexa — Kedvesem
14. ESPAÑA | El Sueño de Morfeo — Contigo hasta el final
15. SCHWEIZ | Takasa — You and Me
16. HRVATSKA | Klapa s mora — Mižerija
17. DEUTSCHLAND | Cascada — Glorious
18. יִשְרָאֵל | Moran Mazor — Rak bishvilo (רק בשבילו)
19. LATVIJA | PeR — Here We Go

20. LIETUVA | Andrius Pojavis — Something
21. ΚΥΠΡΟΣ | Despina Olympiou — An Me Thimase (Αν Με Θυμάσαι)
22. საქართველო | Sopho Gelovani & Nodiko Tatishvili — Waterfall
23. AZƏRBAYCAN | Farid Mammadov — Hold Me
24. ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆ | Gor Sujyan — Lonely Planet
25. MOLDOVA | Aliona Moon — O mie
26. РОССИЯ | Dina Garipova — What If
27. MALTA | Gianluca Bezzina — Tomorrow
28. SHQIPËRIA | Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko — Identitet
29. SLOVENIJA | Hannah Mancini — Straight into Love

30. ÉIRE | Ryan Dolan — Only Love Survives
31. SUOMI | Krista Siegfrids — Marry Me
32. МАКЕДОНИЈА | Vlatko Lozanoski & Esma Redžepova — Pred da se razdeni (Пред да се раздени)
33. BELGIQUE | Roberto Bellarosa — Love Kills
34. УКРАЇНА | Zlata Ognevich — Gravity
35. ΕΛΛΑΔΑ | Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas — Alcohol Is Free
36. БЕЛАРУ́СЬ | Alyona Lanskaya — Solayoh
37. ROMÂNIA | Cezar Florin Ouatu — It's My Life
38. СРБИЈА | Moje 3 — Ljubav je svuda
39. БЪЛГАРИЯ | Elitsa & Stoyan — Samo shampioni (Само шампиони)

 

[A-lister]

So, I made some slight changes to my top. 39 (the reviews on page 3 are still pretty much accurate descriptions on how I feel about the entries though). Since some couldn't handle me adding Sweden to the ranking hehe, I'll do this one without Sweden this time around not to risk being falsely labeled as "biased" (something I truly ain't!).

So here's my new top. 39 (minus my own country that is... so my top. 38):

Good ones

01. Iceland
02. Moldova
03. Israel
04. Macedonia
05. Denmark
06. Montenegro
07. Ireland
08. Serbia
09. Germany
10. Croatia
11. Ukraine
12. Cyprus
13. Estonia

The decent bunch

14. Azerbaijan
15. Bulgaria
16. Switzerland
17. Italy
18. Slovenia
19. San Marino

Try-harders

20. Norway
21. Belgium
22. France
23. Netherlands

Different shades of bad

24. Belarus
25. Hungary
26. Georgia
27. Romania
28. Greece
29. Austria
30. Spain
31. Albania

Should be banned!

32. Latvia
33. United Kingdom
34. Lithuania
35. Finland
36. Russia
37. Malta
38. Armenia

 

[i anixi]

Brilliant
1 Norway

Great
2 Bulgaria
3 Albania

Very Good
4 Montenegro
5 Netherlands
6 Ukraine
7 Greece
8 Sweden
9 Lithuania

Good
10 Italy
11 Moldova
12 Cyprus
13 Israel
14 Germany
15 Ireland


Average
16 FYR Macedonia
17 France
18 Malta
19 Spain

Poor
20 Croacia
21 Denmark
22 Latvia
23 United kingdom
24 San Marino
25 Azerbaijan

Very Poor
26 Georgia
27 Armenia
28 Hungary
29 Austria
30 Finland
31 Iceland
32 Estonia
33 Russia
34 Belgium
35 Belarus

Awful
36 Serbia
37 Slovenia
38 Switzerland

Ridiculous
39 Romania

* This is mad. I wouldn't be able to get the right order again tomorrow to save my life. I would probably remember Norway and Romania anyway, though

 

[Mannone]

Since some couldn't handle me adding Sweden to the ranking hehe, I'll do this one without Sweden this time around not to risk being falsely labeled as "biased" (something I truly ain't!).

I hardly doubt that anyone on here judge you, or anyone else, as biased. For a true fan, it's always more important to support and placard ones favourite songs than to support ones own country. The songs you love is your blood for existing on here. Negative comments about your favourite entries will always hit you harder than any blasphemy of your country. The songs reflect your persona, your image. They tell us who you are. Your country is just not as closely connected to your absolute essence.


Speaking on-topic: I just moved Latvia out of my gutter category. And I like your "different shades of bad" analogue!

 

[Simon87]

I love it


Denmark
Norway
Serbia
Sweden
Germany
Switzerland


Its really nice


Finland
Austria
Belarus
Netherland
Ukraine


Sounds okish


San Marino
Azerbeijan
Moldova
Malta
Slovenia


It could be way better


Ireland
Montenegro
Spain
UK
France
Bulgaria


Its boring


Belgium
Macedonia
Russia
Estonia
Iceland
Georgia
Israel
Croatia
Hungary
Lithuania
Armenia
Cyprus


I dont like it at all


Greece
Italy
Albania
Latvia
Romania

 

[A-lister]

I hardly doubt that anyone on here judge you, or anyone else, as biased. For a true fan, it's always more important to support and placard ones favourite songs than to support ones own country. The songs you love is your blood for existing on here. Negative comments about your favourite entries will always hit you harder than any blasphemy of your country. The songs reflect your persona, your image. They tell us who you are. Your country is just not as closely connected to your absolute essence.


Speaking on-topic: I just moved Latvia out of my gutter category. And I like your "different shades of bad" analogue!

I'm what some people might call a patriot or perhaps nationalist (not the ugly kind though), but I won't blindly support Sweden just because it's Sweden though and I have track-record of being one of Sweden's biggest critics so if people think I'm biased for liking our entry then they don't know much

Thank you I will check out your ranking as we speak... to see if we happen to agree on stuff or not

edit: oh, we hardly agree on much but heck what the h... different taste

 

[Mannone]

I'm what some people might call a patriot or perhaps nationalist (not the ugly kind though), but I won't blindly support Sweden just because it's Sweden though and I have track-record of being one of Sweden's biggest critics so if people think I'm biased for liking our entry then they don't know much

Thank you I will check out your ranking as we speak... to see if we happen to agree on stuff or not

edit: oh, we hardly agree on much but heck what the h... different taste

Well, we don't have the same favourites, that is for sure. But I think there are a couple of common characteristics after all. We both have Netherlands on the bottom half and we share four songs (Cyprus, Iceland, Croatia, Ukraine) in the highest category. I wonder who is the most lonesome of us though, according to our first choices. Are you the only one with Moldova on top? However I've only seen Croatia (my fav) on top of PeterLPZ's list too.