Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Old or existing songs that could win Eurovision?

2

Comments

  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    hawksmoor said:
    Kick Out The Jams by the MC5.
    Aren’t they dead Americans?
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,372
    Bad Manners revival 2022

    Lip up fatty...
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,193
    Any Floyd, from any album. Would piss it!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,054
    edited May 2021
    Rothko said:
    It needs to be something that sounds ok on Capital or Radio 1 now, so Bill Bailey can forget it 
    I actually think Bill Bailey is the perfect act for it. He could do one song using five styles in 2½ minutes and be an absolute wow. Musically he would be better than anyone else on there, and if he bombed, it wouldn't matter anyway because he's primarily a comedian. In fact he'd likely get enough material out of it for a new stand up routine. I hope he does it, it would be the most refreshing thing on Eurovision since... errr, well since ever.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,919
    Anything by the cheeky girls
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,888
    Eurovision has got little to do with quality of the song. Voting is a charade & a national beauty contest. Post Brexit & generally being a big pain in the neck, UK could raise Beatles from the grave to sing their finest song ever & UK would still be on the second page - behind some kitschy pop crap from Estonia 🇪🇪. 

    Next winner from UK will be some reheated Proclaimers type number from Scotland after Scottish independence.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,759
    Actually, 'I'm Gonna Be' has the qualities of a great Eurovision song. It would defy people not to vote for it. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,476
    edited May 2021
    https://youtu.be/tqketmsRz1E

    Ballroom blitz - Sweet

    Europe would rock to this
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,362
    I think there should be a referendum to decide whether we leave the Eurovision Song Contest.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    thai malaysia addick said:
    I think there should be a referendum to decide whether we leave the Eurovision Song Contest.

    Leave

  • Sponsored links:



  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,625
    Frieheit - Keeping the dream alive 😎
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,372
    Withdraw our funding.
    Take our chances in the preliminary heats.
    Give the job to young up and coming talent with an added carrot of above funding.
    See what happens.

    Can't do much worse can we?
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,285
    Stig said:
    Rothko said:
    It needs to be something that sounds ok on Capital or Radio 1 now, so Bill Bailey can forget it 
    I actually think Bill Bailey is the perfect act for it. He could do one song using five styles in 2½ minutes and be an absolute wow. Musically he would be better than anyone else on there, and if he bombed, it wouldn't matter anyway because he's primarily a comedian. In fact he'd likely get enough material out of it for a new stand up routine. I hope he does it, it would be the most refreshing thing on Eurovision since... errr, well since ever.
    100% this. We need to stop taking it so seriously and maybe just do a pastiche of the whole thing. No idea what Bill Bailey's profile is like in Europe but I'd bet there's very few performers anything like him, so they would be blown away by his versatility. He can even dance better than any of them, probably.

    Who knows if that would transfer into votes but more importantly who cares? He'd be a breath of fresh air after a succession of bland pap. 
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,964
    iainment said:
    No.1 in South London said:
    Shudupayouface Joe Dolce
    Isn’t he an Aussie?
    Yep, they're allowed in :smile:
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,832
    Anti nowhere league So What
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,673
    https://youtu.be/G5GXS8jMSgI
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 373
    Scootch should have won in 2007! Magic lyrics, ''would you like something to suck on?''
    ''Just hold it to you mouth and blow''. We were robbed!
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,476
    Silverdreammachine said:
    Scootch should have won in 2007! Magic lyrics, ''would you like something to suck on?''
    ''Just hold it to you mouth and blow''. We were robbed!
    I do think the lyrics and the whole dance routine were superb. It was beyond camp.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,976
    Think this year's one is actually pretty decent.

    https://youtu.be/udsMTb2NIak
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,618
    Peter and The Test Tube Babies - Up Yer Bum

  • Sponsored links:



  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    nice song
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,507
    Zero 7 - Destiny 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,757
    North Lower Neil said:
    Think this year's one is actually pretty decent.

    https://youtu.be/udsMTb2NIak
    Another song for 2-5 points.

    The Europeans like a gimmick not something that seems like car advertising or a DHS sale.

    When will they ever learn?
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    edited March 2022
    Writing as an ex Israeli (4 times winners), the winning formula is: you've got to be a European wannabe from outside Europe.  I'm pretty sure Boris knew that when he did Brexit.

    Ah, and drop that awful English accent...

    So perhaps: 'Where do you go to my lovely'
    Sung by Nigel Farage
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,133
    Ant Man Bee by Captain Beefheart... of course
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,759
    jimmymelrose said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    Think this year's one is actually pretty decent.

    https://youtu.be/udsMTb2NIak
    Another song for 2-5 points.

    The Europeans like a gimmick not something that seems like car advertising or a DHS sale.

    When will they ever learn?
    It won't win because it is British. But it is the best song we have put out for quite a while. I would say, if we get in the top half with it, it should be treated by us as a win.

    In terms of the best Eirovision songs. I like one that came 6th in 1979! Disco Tango, the Danish entry by Tommy Seebach.  
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,757
    edited March 2022
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    Think this year's one is actually pretty decent.

    https://youtu.be/udsMTb2NIak
    Another song for 2-5 points.

    The Europeans like a gimmick not something that seems like car advertising or a DHS sale.

    When will they ever learn?
    It won't win because it is British. But it is the best song we have put out for quite a while. I would say, if we get in the top half with it, it should be treated by us as a win.

    In terms of the best Eirovision songs. I like one that came 6th in 1979! Disco Tango, the Danish entry by Tommy Seebach.  
    What nonsense of a persecution syndrome.
    Being British wasn't a problem for our five winners and fifteen runners-up. Bucks Fizz set the perfect example: a catchy song that appeals to all peoples of different cultures with the surprising gimmick of the two men tearing off the women's skirts halfway through.

  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,846
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    Anti nowhere league So What
    I went to see the League loads of times in the 80's, they often used to introduce one of their other gems as their "Song for Europe". The song? I Hate People.

    As Animal said, it lost.
  • MeebaumAzanitch
    MeebaumAzanitch Posts: 605
    "We're f***in sh15, we're f***in sh15" by The Covered End Choir.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,495
    Warm Leatherette……The Normal. 🤗

Categories

“Marketplace”