Did Lordi deserve to win Eurovision?

[Soup Dragon]

With enough pyrotechnics to convince most viewers that it was 5th November, Lordi stormed to victory on Saturday night. The usual raft of Baltic / Balkan & Scandi block voting ensured that plucky Daz Sampson could only register 19th place for the UK. So did the Finns deserve their win or has Eurovision gone too far. (or does anyone care?)

[zeibura]

finland did deserve to win, on the grounds that their song was imo a bloody great song, they were a good band, and their music was representative of the country. finland is the place to be for power metal, exactly like that, it was superb.

daz sampson was, i suppose, representative of the UK and i'm pretty ashamed of that to be honest!

[CrunchySaviour]

I missed it, but of what I have heard, read and seen of it, it was FANTASTIC!

"The day of rockening has come"!!!!!!!

[Root]

Hey guys - this is probably a good opportunity to mention that I have dual British and Finnish nationality...

I thought either the UK or Finland had a good chance of winning, but I had a niggling feeling the rest of Europe would see Daz Sampson as a slightly strange man with paedophilic tendencies. Finland, on the other hand, had a simple, hard-hitting, radically different song that appealed to the rebellious and the vagrant in every country, and surely a lot of people who were simply bored of the pop rubbish that is churned out year after year.

I've got to say though, I loved Lithuania's entry!

Finland, technically, is not a Baltic country, not a Balkan country and not a Scandinavian country. It is classified as Nordic country - Hakan and I had this conversation last week!

[Soup Dragon]

Well I was very pleased for Finland to get their first win, even if the song is not my cup of tea (or glass of ouzo). I agree that the Lituanian entry was a good one and can't understand why it got booed, some people just take this contest too seriously and surely it should all be a bit of fun!
Thanks for the clarification on Finland's status as a Nordic state. I guess my question is what does the UK need to do to win? Perhaps we should enter the Darkness or have songs from England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Isle of Man etc... so we can all vote for each other?

[Root]

You seriously think we'd vote for each other? I'm sure Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island would give each other lots of points, but most people in those countries seem not to like the English! Most of our points yesterday came from Ireland, and if we were split up into sub-countries England would probably receive very few votes.

I can't wait to see what Finland follow up with next year o_O.

[standclearofthedoors]

I was piste off Morrissey wasn't our entrant...

[sweek]

It was great fun. I got drunk with a few friends, and our favourites were Finland, Lithuania and the UK.

[Going Underground]

The UK was easily the best song

err actually I dont remember the song, all I can recall is seeing a lot of girls in school uniforms, but that will do for me

[Soup Dragon]

I still reckon we should try to split the UK into 4 or 5 countries. After all Ireland was the only country to give us a big score of 8 points. If this fails then we need to split into counties. The Wurzels could represent Cornwall and would no doubt get douze point from Devon & Somerset at the very least.

[Soup Dragon]

Well so far Lordi are doing quite well and have 50% of the poll, so anyone interested in downloading the Fantastic Finns song please follow this link:

http://www.hoteyes.net/esc2006semi.php

you will find other classics here including Lithuania which is well worth a listen....!

[G Force]

I actually preferred the German entry

[Soup Dragon]

Agree, it was a very good German entry, almost their best one since they entered Poland.

[Going Underground]

Ouch Just as well Beary isn't viewing this post

[CrunchySaviour]

Soup Dragon should be given an ASBO for that.