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Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Fishu on May 20, 2006, 05:02:24 PM
What a first time! Quite a debut considering the circumstances.
Besides the first time, Lordi scored the most points in the history of the contest.

BBC: Finnish monsters rock Eurovision (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4998186.stm)

"A Finnish "horror rock" group who dress in monster costumes have pulled off a surprise win at the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens."


For those who doesn't know what is Eurovision song contest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision

...and who doesn't yet know what is Lordi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi

The New York Times:  Finland Squirms as Its Latest Export Steps Into Spotlight (http://www.nytimes.com/iht/2006/04/24/world/24finn.html)

Photos of Lordi in Athens (http://www.hs.fi/kuvakoosteframe/1135219957895)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Gh0stFT on May 20, 2006, 05:35:37 PM
they cant sing, but i must admit they are handsome singers.

;)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: uvwpvW on May 20, 2006, 05:42:44 PM
And HERE THEY ARE!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5390275663408095042&q=lordi


ROFL! :lol
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Fishu on May 20, 2006, 05:45:58 PM
Quote
Originally posted by uvwpvW
And HERE THEY ARE!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5390275663408095042&q=lordi


ROFL! :lol


Hopefully someone comes up with the video from finals - audio was much better set up, for every contestant.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: uvwpvW on May 20, 2006, 05:58:23 PM
With Norway's contribution last year, and Finland's this year, I have to ask: What's wrong with Scandinavian people?

LOL Just kidding! :)

My favorite Scandinavian metal band are these guys:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8369956111082655856&q=dimmu+borgir
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Debonair on May 21, 2006, 12:18:49 AM
gwar sucks
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Harppa on May 21, 2006, 12:41:30 AM
This is the end of the world !

H*ll is freezing over, Finland won the Eurovision song contest:aok

Lordi sucks, but on the other hand he is the only one who's song I can remember. Others were just plain dull.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Tarmac on May 21, 2006, 12:51:08 AM
Sweet.  I'm glad they did well.  Kind of a Kiss (but not sucking) plus some Halford-y vocals and some awesomely cheeseball 80's rock lyrics.  Not to mention it's not traditional bubblegum pop that I'd expect at something like this.  

When are they touring the US? ;)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: FiLtH on May 21, 2006, 01:24:27 AM
Looks like a wierd mix of Gwar, residents of AltereVII , and the set of So you want to be a Millionaire.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Nilsen on May 21, 2006, 02:24:36 AM
Hehe.. wtg Finland.

We spent our saturday eating, painting the boathouse and trying out a new set of sheets. Mia saw some of it, but she is only 2.

Thank cod for GP.. keeps potential visitors and callers infront of their TV sets, and leaves us alone :)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Angus on May 21, 2006, 03:33:58 AM
WTG Finnish cousins!!!!

(Oh, BTW I voted Finland in the televote. Twice :D)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: bozon on May 21, 2006, 06:42:37 AM
what? the eurovision contest still exists?!
Next thing you'll tell me that England still has a queen.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: mipoikel on May 21, 2006, 07:21:40 AM
I voted Norway. :aok
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: -aper- on May 21, 2006, 07:50:23 AM
WTG Finland. Very nice !!!
(http://www.ljplus.ru/img/f/a/faceted_jacinth/_lordi_preved.jpg)

But still nothing can beat  Luituma :)
Luituma rulez!!! (http://thailand.nm.ru/ratsatsa/Loituma-LevanPolkka.mov)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: -tronski- on May 21, 2006, 08:27:02 AM
Lithuania's We are the winners (of Eurovision) should've won!
 
 Tronsky
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: eskimo2 on May 21, 2006, 08:59:30 AM
Hallelujah for Hard Rock!
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Maverick on May 21, 2006, 10:00:18 AM
So that is an example of the best European entertainment?!?!?!?!?! :huh  :rolleyes:  Wow what a fantastic bit of European "culture".   :lol
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Tarmac on May 21, 2006, 12:28:32 PM
Celine Dion could have won again.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 21, 2006, 01:08:31 PM
Hmmm...kind of sounds like Finntroll.




ack-ack
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Grendel on May 21, 2006, 01:49:24 PM
What a fantastic show :)

(http://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1135219975306.jpeg)

(http://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1135219959467.jpeg)

(http://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1135219958897.jpeg)

(Norway got my vote)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Yeager on May 21, 2006, 04:00:45 PM
Russia is going to invade!
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Maverick on May 21, 2006, 05:07:24 PM
Looks like they already did. Isn't that boroda behind the guy with the shopping cart????  :noid
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Grendel on May 22, 2006, 02:42:28 AM
The video from finals:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8576567677038063896
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: deSelys on May 22, 2006, 03:07:16 AM
I'd hit it :aok
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: -aper- on May 22, 2006, 04:30:59 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Yeager
Russia is going to invade!


It's too late...  :)
(http://loituma.ru/pics/img/181.jpg) (http://www.ahom.ru/rabota/tuma.swf)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Grendel on May 22, 2006, 06:50:39 AM
Finnish Weather
+15°C
It doesn't get warmer than this in Finland, so we'll start here;
The Spanish put on caps, winter jackets and gloves.
The Finns work on their tans.
+10°C
The French try, in vain, to get the central heating started.
The Finns plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C
Italian cars refuse to start.
The Finns go cruising in cabriolets.
0°C
Distilled water freezes.
The water in the Vanda stream gets a bit thicker.
-5°C
People in California get cold damage.
The Finns are grilling the last hot dog before the winter.
-10°C
The English turn on the heat in their homes.
The Finns put on a sweater.
-20°C
The Australians flee Mallorca.
The Finns stop celebrating midsummer, autumn is here.
-30°C
People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth.
The Finns hang their laundry to dry indoors.
-40°C
Paris cracks in the cold.
The Finns stand in line at the hotdog stand.
-50°C
The polar bears evacuate the north pole.
The Finnish army postpone their winter survival training in waiting for a
proper winter.
-60°C
Koarvatunturi freezes.
The Finns rent a video and stay indoors.
-70°C
The fake Santa Claus moves south.
The Finns get upset because it's impossible to make Kossu (Koskenkorva)
outdoors. The Finnish army start their winter survival course.
-183°C
The microbes in food doesn't survive.
The Finnish cows complain that the milkers' hands feel a bit cold.
-273°C
ALL atom-based movement ceases.
The Finns tell each other "Perkele, it sure feels cold today".
-300°C
Hell freezes over.
The Finns win the Eurovision Song Contest.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: cpxxx on May 22, 2006, 01:38:16 PM
Eurovision is gone ridiculous or should I say even more ridiculous. All this bloc voting is stupid. Finland votes for Sweden votes for Denmark votes for Lithuania votes for Latvia votes for Estonia votes for Russia votes for Ukraine. Who cares about the songs! Even we and Brits got in the act and voted for each others songs. It's a song contest not a fancy dress joke or it used to be.

The truth is that the only countries in Europe that write and perform good songs are Britain and Ireland. The trouble is that Britain stopped taking it seriously years ago and now send only leftovers and we are afraid to win it again because we already won it seven times and the TV company doesn't have the money to stage it again.

The truth is most Europeans are can't hold a note;) :p . No wonder the Brits, Irish and Yanks dominate the world of rock and pop music.:aok
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Grendel on May 23, 2006, 01:22:52 PM
Somebody took a few clips of the other Eurovision contest songs and put them together with Lordi, and included bits of the vote counting and the final song. This gives some slight perspective how different the Lordi song was to the others - and definitely some idea how enthusiant, orgastic the Finnish announcers were :)

http://www.byterapers.com/~grendel/scan/video/ESCLordi.mpg
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: SASMOX on May 23, 2006, 02:07:03 PM
Another version of Hard Rock Halleluja (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6666637566522776701&q=lordi)
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on May 23, 2006, 04:42:16 PM
WTF is the euro song festifal good for when we got the idols hype now .
It lost my interest a long time ago.

:rolleyes:

Its outdated and that band sure looks like it.
Is has some way to go thats so obviously.

cmon eurosong festival says nothin about talent ,originality,and artistics.
Its a stupid arse licking crap contest
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: lasersailor184 on May 24, 2006, 12:19:28 AM
Don't let the band's "Look" scare you away.  They are not nearly as hard or hardcore as they would have you think.

They are actually quite enjoyable to listen to.




But after downloading all their music videos and seeing Eurovision videos, I have come to one conclusion.


The Pianist (piano player) is flamingly gay.  If he were any more gay, he would randomly burst into flames during the day.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: LLv34 Jarsci on May 24, 2006, 01:21:03 AM
...hmmm lasersailor, I think you are correct, the pianist prolly likes men..

The cause may be that he is a SHE really...

http://www.lordi.org/main.html

check out AWA at the lower portion of the page..

"possessed sorcerer...etc."



:lol:rofl
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: Grendel on May 24, 2006, 09:13:52 AM
Quote
Originally posted by lasersailor184

The Pianist (piano player) is flamingly gay.  If he were any more gay, he would randomly burst into flames during the day.


But... It's a girl.
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: lasersailor184 on May 24, 2006, 10:07:46 AM
It's not my fault, she looked like a guy!  Especially under all that makeup!
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on May 24, 2006, 10:54:49 AM
Maybe you see what you hope to see.. :D
Title: Finland won Eurovision Song Contest, for the first time!
Post by: lasersailor184 on May 24, 2006, 11:34:03 AM
Or maybe I assumed that a group of people in ugly monster outfits was all guys...