Eurovision song contest.... Just WTF ????

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  1. JamDrop

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    I don’t think it’s sad to have a fun evening with a group of friends that hurts no-one. Posting about them on a forum they don’t read to call them ‘very, very sad’ when they probably had a great time all together whilst you watched it anyway at home on the other hand...
     
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    Agreed. It'd be a sad old world if we all had to enjoy the same stuff. There's plenty of room for all of us.. even Wednesday fans.
     
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    That's the first time I have watched it in about 50 years. Not impressed.
     
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    How’d you get 6-1 on that?!?! I thought it was a cert!
     
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    I like it. It's a bizarre rag-bag of politics, cheese, wannabe pop-stars, art-school creative types, comedic quips, and campness. Everybody doing their own thing in their own way.
    It reminds me of watching TOTP when I was a kid - you'd sit through the crap then The Smiths would come on and you remembered why you were bothering.
    I still thing the chorus on the Icelandic entry in particular was absolutely banging.
     
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    It's about time that the people involved in "our " persistent inclusion in this meaningless
    competition, realise that the majority of the other countries taking part, do not like the United Kingdom.
    We have no chance of ever winning it again, even if we ever had a decent song to enter. When we Brexit
    ( if ever we do that is), we need to exit from the ESC.
     
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    All the songs from the UK are **** though.....even the ones that won were pants.
     
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    I hang my head in shame. If I didn't know better I'd think this admonishment had come straight from the mouth of a teacher.
    Oh hang on ...
     
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    [QUOTE="
    Best live act I've seen in the past few years has been Rod Stewart.
    Puts on a fantastic performance. Makes no secret of his love for
    Celtic. Their logo is on his stixmans drum and was also on the
    numerous footballs he chipped into the audience part way through his show.[/QUOTE]


    Top bloke. When I lived in Hong Kong I played for HKFC. Rod Stewart came to do a concert at the HK Coliseum but they changed the venue to our Club for two nights with 3000 each night. On the Tuesday night before the gig when they were rigging up the stage on the 18 yard line, we were training at the other end. He came down and asked if he could train with us. He wasn't a bad player. He was good 'craic' and is absolutely nuts about football.
     
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    Top bloke. When I lived in Hong Kong I played for HKFC. Rod Stewart came to do a concert at the HK Coliseum but they changed the venue to our Club for two nights with 3000 each night. On the Tuesday night before the gig when they were rigging up the stage on the 18 yard line, we were training at the other end. He came down and asked if he could train with us. He wasn't a bad player. He was good 'craic' and is absolutely nuts about football.[/QUOTE]


    Reading that as a young lad he had trials for Brentford and was seriously thinking of becoming a pro.
    He then got into music and bands and quickly realised that music didn't demand the same fitness and
    discipline as football did, but the biggest attraction for him at his age, was the glamour and the fact he
    could get to know plenty of girls.
     
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    Didn't watch it, seldom have, but saw bits about it on the news during the build up. Seems it's got a large gay following these days.

    I think the only reason we stay in it is to save face. The British music scene is second to none, but we're disliked for one day a year.

    We could pull out and say **** it, but that would look like we're bothered, so we keep going through the motions as if we have a chance of someone voting for us.
     
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    Just read that we voted 52% to leave and 48% to stay in the Eurovision after Brexit. Hope Farage gets the opportunity to sort that one as well, enough of the pretence of a united europe, they want our holiday euros but feckin hate us. I’m Backing Britain.
     
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    To be honest I take great pride in our last place finishes . The irony of the most musical country in Europe finishing last is not lost on me .
     
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    The most musical country in Europe???
     
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    Granted, we have some very good songwriters and talented artists in the U.K.
    but I don't care for a lot of some of the stuff you hear these days. Bloke next
    door has a CD blaring out when he's cleaning his car. It's mind numbing.
    Sounds like somebody making a shed.

    I grew up liking pop and then heard Ozzy Osborne and it changed my tastes forever. My lads
    have inherited my love of Metal. Youngest travels all over wearing his T- shirts - "Metal
    to the Bone." Can't print what it says on some of the others.! He met a Finnish Band on his
    travels " Night Wish" and has some of their CD's. I like some of their stuff now as well.
    Part of his admiration might be down their chanterelle.!!!!

    These days, probably due to my Irish/Scots/ Welsh heritage, I love the more "progressive"
    types of Country Music, although I have to admit I have a good collection of CD's by the
    late great George Jones. Argubably the finest Country Music singer ever.?


     
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    With the possible exception of the US, which country had anything close to the impact the U.K. has on popular music?
     
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    There are some fantastic bands from Finland (not a fan of Nightwish to be honest) but the UK is the birthplace of heavy metal - even if we don't have many great bands today.
     
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    Depends on the location, to be fair. It's easy for us to say that, we're exposed to our own music far more frequently. It also depends on how you define 'musical' I suppose. Beethoven, Motzart etc. have had more impact on the world than any 'modern' artist. I'm sure I saw that Germany is the largest consumer of music per person in the world. You could make the case for us being the most musical, i suppose, but I don't think it's clear cut.
     
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    Do you think Mozart had had more impact on the world than The Beatles?

    I like a couple of German bands but they haven't sold (m)any records. Which German artists have had an impact on popular music compared with say Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd?
     
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    I think it could be argued.

    There aren't, not even close. That's only one metric to determine 'the most musical country' though. I think the consumption of music is just as valid.


    I do agree, however, that we are 'too musical' to be coming last in Eurovision, but our song was ****. Plus, with Brexit, nobody in Europe was ever going to vote for us, were they.
     

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