2023×12: My Favourite New Songs This Year
These are my twelve favourite music tracks released during 2023.
Tag: alexander rybak
Eurovision Insight Podcast: Ultimate Juke Box Jury Heat 1
Join Ewan Spence and guest judges Paul Jordan and Colin McKnight as ESC Insight attempts to answer the question “which is the greatest Eurovision song of all time?” It’s the first of many heats in Ultimate Juke Box Jury!
Carlsberg don’t make Eurovision follow up albums…
…but if they did, it would probably sound a bit like Fairytales by Alexander Rybak. Over on Boom Bang a Blog, my irregular look at the music and discography of previous Eurovision entrants continues. This week I’m listening to the winner of last year’s contest, Alexander Rybak, and his debut album Fairytales. The album has a certain streak of innocence running through it, and ‘Funny Little World’ showcases that. The second single from the album has plinky guitars and wouldn’t sound out of place in a TV commercial for a certain supermarket and Jamie Oliver on his scooter with a
Report on the Eurovision 2009 Final
This went up on The Stage’s website this afternoon, my thoughts on the results of the Eurovision Song Contest: Not only did Rybak win, but he won in style. Scoring a massive 387 points, he smashed through the previous highest points scored record of 298 points, which belonged to Finnish Rockers Lordi in the 2006 competition. There will be a lot of Eurovision fans happy they don’t need to see Lordi mentioned as the highest scoring song ever now. It’s not quite the greatest song ever, though. Adjusting scores to take account of total points available each year, it’s beaten
