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Ro L.

As a kid I always watched the contest, but I was the only one in my family, I have always been a fan (and more for the whole show, than the music, because I think it could be a lot better), but the past years became a bigger fan, buying the albums and now also the dvd's I always watch alone, for some reason I just don't want to be distracted while watching ;-) And I also love to rate the stages. It seems the past years they've been improving a lot.
Besides that, not many people I know like the ESC so... hahaha.
As you can see on my pic: Stop by Omar Naber was my fave song entered in ESC ever. I absolutely love that song. Plus one of my alltime favorites is Marija Magdalena by Doris Dracovic (1999). I still love to hear that song every now and then, even though she cheated a little ;-)
(update: nowadays more and more of my friends start to watch ESC together with me (it is contagious) and seem to like it more and more)
For some fave songs scroll down, but to date 2003 is the ESC I have the best memories of. I just loved watching it that year. 2005 is the year I loved the most songs and that year is the best year imo, though I hated the stage. Way too dark. I loved the stage in 2008, the stage in Finland was a little too small and I hate all the words screaming on the screens behind the artists. 2010 was a bit too big, though it did look good on screen.
My fave Dutch entry still is Hemel & Aarde and even though it was a simple song, Esther Hart can really sing well. 2010 brings Sieneke. I'll leave you with: I'm sorry for that!!!!
hopefully next year we'll come to our senses. cheers Ro

musical interests besides ESC are among others:
Muse (big fan)
Garbage
Within Temptation
Sugababes
Elisa
Marie Fredriksson
Siobhan Donaghy
Traci Chapman
Annie Lennox
30 Seconds to Mars
Hard-Fi

March 12th 2010:
Almost all songs are known, just a few to go and I can only say�¢ï¿½�¦. 2010 is not going down as a good ESC�¢ï¿½�¦ I only love 3 songs, which I put in my top 3, the rest is mediocre. I managed to make a top�¢ï¿½�¦ well whatever�¢ï¿½�¦ just look underneath. As a true fan I have to say I�¢ï¿½ï¿½m very disappointed in this years ESC entries.
Oh and.... I'm sorry for the Dutch entry of 2010.... I'm TOTALLY AGAINST 'IK BEN VERLIEFD'!!!!!!!

some songs I really liked in the previous years (random order and CD versions, live some disappointed me):
2010 - Turkey (my #1), Sweden, Georgia, Albania
2009 - France (my #1), Germany, Iceland, Estonia, Hungary, Ukraine & Denmark
2008 - Turkey (my #1), Ukraine, Portugal, Israel, San Marino (Malta, Iceland and Bulgaria were nice too)
2007 - Georgia (my #1), Russia, Serbia, Moldova, Finland, Hungary, Cyprus
2006 - Ukraine (my #1), Armenia, Russia, Turkey, FYR Macedonia, Norway, Germany
2005 - Slovenia (my #1 of all time) Iceland, Greece and Israel were fantastic, plus Switzerland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, France (Andorra & Austria were nice in a cute way, loved the dancers of Andorra) I think 2005 is the ESC I enjoyed most the past 10 years because of the songs. I loved so many of them! I just didn't like the stage.
2004 - Ukraine (my #1), Norway, Serbia & Montenegro, Turkey, Cyprus, Sweden, FYR Macedonia, Belgium
2003 - Spain (my #1), Turkey, Belgium, Russia, Netherlands, Romania (this is the ESC I have the best memories of, though not all the songs were that great, I think it was a fantastic ESC year)
2002 - Greece (my #1), Malta, Sweden (not such a good year)
2001 - Greece (my #1), Slovenia, Netherlands (not a very good year either)
2000 - Russia (my #1), Denmark (this says enough)
1999 - Croatia (my #1), Iceland, Sweden
1998 - UK (my #1), Israel, Netherlands,


MY RANKING FOR 2010 as far as possible making a ranking. After #21 I just think it is all rubbish and I cannot even rank them. (mostly based on studio versions)

1 Turkey
2 Sweden
3 Georgia
4 Albania
5 Latvia
6 Belgium
7 Greece
8 Germany
9 Israel
10 Armenia
11 Bulgaria
12 Slovakia
13 Bosnia & Herzegovina
15 Croatia
16 Moldova
17 Switserland
18 Spain
19 FYR Macedonia
20 Cyprus
21 Denmark
22 Ireland
23 Serbia


Rest is just awful.


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