Eurovision

Started by DavidN, May 20, 2006, 22:09:16

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DavidN

May 20, 2006, 22:09:16
Lordi won. Hilarity ensues. The line between genius and madness is a thin one, especially as far as power metal goes. :)

Squirrel Havoc

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May 21, 2006, 03:17:30
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Most musicians are talented. I'm just determined.

speed-goddamn-focus

#2
May 21, 2006, 04:03:01
go funland!

georg

#3
May 21, 2006, 11:56:57
go, ya bunch of fruity wankers. we love you. we really do.
I'll never make sword-chucks...
Update - 2013 I still havent made sword-chuks.
Update - 2021 What the hell are sword-chuks? :((

LPChip

#4
May 21, 2006, 12:04:58
Since we have people here from all the world, this topic is about an event present in Europe called: Eurovision Song Festifal, where each country has one song and competes with eachother.

This year Finland won.
"Heh, maybe I should've joined the compo only because it would've meant I wouldn't have had to worry about a damn EQ or compressor for a change. " - Atlantis
"yes.. I think in this case it was wishful thinking: MPT is makng my life hard so it must be wrong" - Rewbs

speed-goddamn-focus

#5
May 21, 2006, 13:06:35
Quote from: "LPChip"Since we have people here from all the world, this topic is about an event present in Europe called: Eurovision Song Festifal, where each country has one song and competes with eachother.

This year Finland won.

Contest, not Festifal.

rewbs

#6
May 21, 2006, 18:00:48
Quote from: "LPChip"Since we have people here from all the world, this topic is about an event present in Europe called: Eurovision Song Festifal, where each country has one song and competes with eachother.

This year Finland won.

Though this description is accurate, it does not communicate the sheer strangeness of the contest - you probably have to see it to understand. Basically, all the music is incredibly shit, the entire event is a paroxysm of cheesyness, and it's extremely hard to understand who takes it seriously, and how they could possibly do so. Some people say it's all a bizarre theatre of futile political arse-licking that uses music as a very thin disguise. A point of interest, and an illustration of the general oddity surrounding the event, is that whilst the competition puts much emphasis on being European, Israel has been participating for many years.

LPChip

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May 21, 2006, 19:01:19
Quote from: "speed-goddamn-focus"
Quote from: "LPChip"Since we have people here from all the world, this topic is about an event present in Europe called: Eurovision Song Festifal, where each country has one song and competes with eachother.

This year Finland won.

Contest, not Festifal.

Its a contest, but it is named Eurovision Song Festifal!

EDIT: okay, seems thats the name used in The Netherlands... Everywhere else, they use Eurovision Song Contest :? weird...

See here: http://www.nos.nl/songfestival/voorpagina/index.html
"Heh, maybe I should've joined the compo only because it would've meant I wouldn't have had to worry about a damn EQ or compressor for a change. " - Atlantis
"yes.. I think in this case it was wishful thinking: MPT is makng my life hard so it must be wrong" - Rewbs

speed-goddamn-focus

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May 21, 2006, 19:25:39
Quote from: "LPChip"Its a contest, but it is named Eurovision Song Festifal!

EDIT: okay, seems thats the name used in The Netherlands... Everywhere else, they use Eurovision Song Contest :? weird...

Actually it's referred to as festival here too ;)

LPChip

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May 21, 2006, 19:26:59
Quote from: "speed-goddamn-focus"
Quote from: "LPChip"Its a contest, but it is named Eurovision Song Festifal!

EDIT: okay, seems thats the name used in The Netherlands... Everywhere else, they use Eurovision Song Contest :? weird...

Actually it's referred to as festival here too ;)

LOL, and you knew it... You knew it all along!!! :nuts: biatch :lol:
"Heh, maybe I should've joined the compo only because it would've meant I wouldn't have had to worry about a damn EQ or compressor for a change. " - Atlantis
"yes.. I think in this case it was wishful thinking: MPT is makng my life hard so it must be wrong" - Rewbs

DavidN

#10
May 21, 2006, 20:07:45
The whole thing is side-splittingly hilarious. Non-Europeans are missing out.

Sam_Zen

#11
May 22, 2006, 01:33:44
2 rewbs
I had this geographical questions too : How Israel in a European contest ? Why not Lebanon then ?
For the rest : Aaaarrggghhh..
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Louigi Verona

#12
May 22, 2006, 06:26:35
Russia got 2nd place!!!

yrk

#13
May 24, 2006, 23:01:30
I like it for its democratic nature... Lordi got the most votes so by definition, they deserved to win. No sense arguing about, eh?

Also, watching it gives you the comfort of knowing that all the other european countries have just as much crappy, cheesy pop music as your own country...

That said, I do think that on average, the quality of the songs had increased ever so slightly this year compared to the last few years...
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nickythenose

#14
May 26, 2006, 22:04:46
I thought that the track by Lordi was absolutely terriffic, not only a landmark sea change for the festival (namely some really good music for a change) but still in keeping with the contest's tradition of camp, with a blinding beat and some traditional rock inspired sounds. I downloadd the MP3 and will be using the inspiration that the track has given me to develop my own 12 bar blues harmony based stuff and hopefully include some nice electric guitar samples.

Does anyone know a download link for Electric Guitar samples to download?

Nicky Tn :<)
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