Thursday 28 November 2013

Switzerland 2014 - Horst Blue & Melody Refrain-Hookline - The Ding Dong Eurosong







Oh my giddy aunt! This somewhat cloying twosome appear to think that they're being terribly delightful, and maybe a tad ironic by gluing together all those funny Eurovision song titles from down the years together into a single song. Oh dear.

If you're a seasoned Eurovision spotter you'll be mildly amused to see which titles they're going to drag up next, but for everyone else - this is going to be a long three minutes…
 
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Wednesday 27 November 2013

Switzerland 2014 - Lisa Stoll und SängerFREUNDe - Mountains


The Swiss have missed a trick here. One of the intentions with Eurovision is surely to showcase the best elements of your national culture to the wider continent and beyond. So why they didn't shortlist this little gem from Appenzellerland is beyond me!

There's none more Swiss!

The song itself is either a work of deliberate Dadaist genius, or is a little bit rubbish, but quite accidentally became one of the best things ever, despite itself.

I just wish the bloke in the specs would take his hands out of his pockets…

(Be warned, you'll be singing this all day!)

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Tuesday 26 November 2013

Switzerland 2014 - Arxplendida - Mercurii Diei


So the Swiss have finally sifted through the hundreds of bedroom chancers and funky pub jazzers, and dealt us a particularly uninspiring short-list of 18 songs to put before the quality assessors (I kid you not!) to decide who's going to appear in their national final.

Uninspiring except for this mob.

Three blokes in ties and regional jackets singing a hymn to excessive drinking – in LATIN! - anyone?

Yes please!

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Sunday 24 November 2013

Switzerland 2014 - Anthony - Throwing Bottles




When the inevitable happens and people start to bleat that a song that is either noisy, creative, has a smart lyric or is sung by an ugly man is the worst song that's happened in the history of ever, let alone Eurovision 2014, may I just draw their attention to this small gem...

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