Best non-winning song

[sannerz]

Wow, hardly anything from the good old days, seriously?

The two that immediately spring to mind

1997 - Iceland - Páll Óskar 'Minn Hinsti Dans'
1958 - Italy - Domenico Modugno 'Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu'

COME ON GET IN THE GAME GUYS

I'm not that old.
My first ESC was 2006. Hah

 

[Samb]

I'm not that old.
My first ESC was 2006. Hah

This is pretty much like saying you weren't born in the 1960s and therefore cannot listen to the Beatles. Arguably, for me, the best songs and competitions were from the earlier years. If you haven't already I encourage you to check out old contests.

 

[sannerz]

This is pretty much like saying you weren't born in the 1960s and therefore cannot listen to the Beatles. Arguably, for me, the best songs and competitions were from the earlier years. If you haven't already I encourage you to check out old contests.

Haha, that's true, but it's much easier to find Beatles songs than it is to find whole ESC videos, with whole songs on them.

 

[Samb]

but it's much easier to find Beatles songs than it is to find whole ESC videos, with whole songs on them.

Every single song is available on youtube very easily.

 

[94ayd]

^+9999999999999... That's how I was able to listen to everty single one. I have to say that the 50s and the 60s, too aren't my fave decades, as there used to be too many ballads but I absolutely love the rest and still, I do have some major faves from those two ones, too.

 

[sannerz]

Every single song is available on youtube very easily.

Oh, I know that. But having to search for each one and all, without having them successively ordered takes longer.

Also, I can name some older songs in Eurovision that I thought were amazing that didn't win.

Yugoslavia - 1973, 1983, 1987, 1990
Germany - 1979, 1987
France - 1991
Israel - 1991

 

[Dessi]

Italy 1992, Mia Martini "Rapsodia".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmRRYSiKew

 

[Stargazer]

Oh man where do I begin? Haha. I have SO many favorites. This will take me a while...

1958 - Italy
1960 - Norway
1966 - Norway, Sweden
1967 - Luxembourg
1968 - United Kingdom
1969 - Germany
1972 - United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden
1973 - Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
1974 - Netherlands
1975 - Italy
1977 - Finland
1978 - Luxembourg
1979 - Germany, Sweden, Spain
1982 - Sweden
1983 - Sweden, Yugoslavia
1985 - Sweden
1986 - Yugoslavia
1987 - Belgium, Italy, Switzerland
1988 - Sweden, Luxembourg
1989 - Italy, Israel, Turkey, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden
1990 - Turkey, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Iceland, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Portugal, Sweden
1991 - Yugoslavia, Iceland, Greece, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, Turkey, Portugal, Norway, Israel, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Italy
1992 - Greece, France, Sweden, Cyprus, Iceland
1993 - Luxembourg, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia
1994 - Iceland, Norway
1995 - Germany, Croatia, Cyprus, Sweden, Israel
1996 - Turkey, Norway, France, Finland, Sweden
1997 - Turkey
2000 - Sweden
2001 - Greece
2002 - Greece, Estonia
2003 - Iceland, Russia, Poland, Belgium, Sweden
2004 - Belarus, Latvia, Greece, Albania, Denmark, Serbia & Montenegro, France, Sweden
2005 - Moldova, Latvia, Norway, Romania, Hungary, Andorra, Switzerland, Croatia, Albania, Serbia & Montenegro
2006 - Albania, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland, Norway, Denmark
2008 - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Armenia, Finland, Romania, Switzerland, Latvia, Bulgaria, Serbia
2009 - Sweden, Armenia, Turkey, Iceland, Portugal, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Greece, Estonia
2010 - Slovakia, Belgium, Belarus, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Norway

Just to name a few.

 

[Quent91]

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2010 - (...), Belarus, (...)

wow

 

[Stargazer]

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wow

I know many people hated it and yeah, it was really corny. But I still enjoyed the melody, I thought it was pretty.

 

[sannerz]

I know many people hated it and yeah, it was really corny. But I still enjoyed the melody, I thought it was pretty.

I went to the bathroom when the butterfly wings came out.

 

[busybee]

2001
2002
2007
2007
2009

 

[Samb]

Also not so much love for Latvia's 2000 cult classic? That song got me really excited back in the day.

 

[inak]

Wow, hardly anything from the good old days, seriously?

The two that immediately spring to mind

1997 - Iceland - Páll Óskar 'Minn Hinsti Dans'
1958 - Italy - Domenico Modugno 'Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu'

COME ON GET IN THE GAME GUYS

Absolutely! Had there been televote in 1997, I'm sure Páll/Paul would have done much better - if I remember correctly, only the UK used televote that year and they gave him 5/6 points? I remember vividly the look on my mother's face during his performance.

I'd add Spain 1995 - Anabel was robbed - as well as Sweden 1993 - the chorus is still stuck in my head, almost 20 years after (now in the age of YouTube that's not saying much but even in the pre-YT days I'd catch myself randomly singing it although I hadn't heard it for years).

But the best of the non-winning best for me must be France 1991 and 1990 - no wonder they kind of lost interest after the Rome disgrace.

 

[Arv]

1958 Italy
1999 Iceland
2000 Latvia
2003 Belgium, Russia (WHY did Turkey win that one...??)
2008 Norway

 

[LakZaNokte]

1991 - Yugoslavia

seriously? :shock: :shock:

 

[sannerz]

seriously? :shock: :shock:

Was that Bebi Dol? Haha

 

[LakZaNokte]

Was that Bebi Dol? Haha

yes...I even checked to be sure...

 

[sannerz]

yes...I even checked to be sure...

That was such a hilarious and embarrassing performance!

 

[Stargazer]

seriously? :shock: :shock:

Hahaha yeah. I was seven years old back in 1991. I thought it was a fun, catchy song back then and I never stop liking something just because I get older.

However, had I been an adult when I first heard it, I have no idea what my reaction would have been. Nostalgia comes into play here I think.