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| Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - Athens | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 45657
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 094636536927
EAN: 0094636536927
ASIN: B000FDKAU2
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Sense Tu - Jenny | | • | Zjarr E Ftohte - Ejlli, Luiz | | • | Without Your Love - Andre | | • | Lejla - Hari, Hari Mata | | • | Je T'Adore - Ryan, Kate | | • | Let Me Cry - Popova, Mariana | | • | Mum - Smolova, Polina | | • | If We All Give A Little - Six4one | | • | Why Angels Cry - Artani, Annet | | • | No No Never - Texas Lightning | | • | Twist Of Love - Semmane, Sidsel Ben | | • | Through My Window - Oxenryd, Sandra | | • | Bloody Mary - Las Ketchup | | • | Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi | | • | Il Est Temps - Pouchin, Virginie | | • | Teenage Life - Sampson, Daz | | • | Everything - Vissi, Anna | | • | Moja Stikla - Severina |
Disc 2
| • | Every Song Is A Cry For Love - Kennedy, Brian | | • | Together We Are One - Butler, Eddie | | • | Congratulations - Night, Silvia | | • | We Are The Winners - LT United | | • | I Hear Your Heart - Vocal Group Cosmos | | • | La Coco-Dance - Ferrer, Severine | | • | Loca - Arsenium & Natalia Gordienko/Connect-R | | • | Ninanajna - Risteska, Elena | | • | I Do - Faniello, Fabrizio | | • | Amanbanda - Treble | | • | Alvedansen - Guldbrandsen, Christine | | • | Follow My Heart - Ich Troje | | • | Coisas De Nada - Nonstop | | • | Tornero - Traistariu, Mihai | | • | Never Let You Go - Bilan, Dima | | • | Invincible - Carola | | • | Mr Nobody - Dezan, Anzej | | • | Super Star - Tuzun, A. Sibel | | • | Show Me Your Love - Karol, Tina |
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 the best yet April 8, 2007
The 2006 ESC was the best in recent years and the CD shows what a huge variety of music is on offer with everything from haavy metal to Country via reggae. This is a double CD with 37 tracks from the final and semi final and at least half of them are great pop songs and a doxen or so being perfect little pop tunes. I won't do a review of them all (not enough space) but here's my faves. Armenia - A noble first effort, imagine Ricky Martin with an ethnic twist. Bosnia - a beautiful instrumental break but the melody is a bit cryptic. Belgium - perfect Europop which amazingly didn't get into the final. Cyprus - A Whitney Houston ballad. Germany - a bit of bluegrass, including a mock US accent. Denmark - a 50s twist toe-tapper. Spain - if you liked the Ketchup Song then you will like this. Finland - on the night this was the most amazing thing I've seen on TV, but the studio version lacks the sense of wonder. A good standard hard rock song though. France - bad singing on the night but one of the nicest tunes on the CD. UK - a great catchy chorus but nothing else. Greece - a strangely lyricked power ballad.Lithuania - hilarious on the night, this pokes fun at the competition with a tune based on a playground chant. Latvia - acapella simging, very odd, very original. Macedonia - this could've been a hit for J-Lo or Shakira and sung by an equally attractive girl. Russia, the girl in the piano on the night distracted from a good song. Sweden - an epic ESC ballad with a disco beat and very well sung from a country that never submits a bad song. Slovenia - a great pop song with better English lyrics than usual. Ukraine - a totally infectious Shakira-type dance number with a soviet twist. So good I went to Kiev and bought the CD!
Even if you hate ESC (and everyone says they do but it is still the world's most popular annual TV show) you will find something on here to enjoy and repeated listening imprints some of these tunes into your head forever. Get it while it's cheap!
 Beware Recording Mistake June 1, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Firstly this years Eurovision was great.....But on my copy at least, there had been a recording error. The first 5 songs of Disc 1 were the same as Disc 2. Which means the first 5 entries (in alphabetical order of country) are missing.
The best ever Eurovision May 28, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This years Eurovison was by far the best ever.
Great Britain did badly Ireland did quite well. A hard rock band won it. Monaco gave proof that they hate France. Moldova were my favourite for the second year running. Latvia were so bad you loved them. Spain showed why they don't care any more (With the Ketchup Girls) aaaaaaaaand Belarus voted for Russia Great Britain voted for Ireland Sweden voted for Finland Moldova voted for finland Andorra voted for France and Spain.
Next year the chances of great britain winning 1000000/1
Great CD and good value for money a must buy.
The usual great throwaway pop... May 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everyone knows that when you watch the Eurovision, you will hear some duds and when you buy the CD you get the same deal! The entries here from Switzerland, Iceland, Latvia and a slew of other Eastern European entries are not easy on the ear by any stretch of the imagination.
But please don't let that put you off: there were genuinely some great songs in the Eurovision this year. Malta, Armenia and the UK all contribute some catchy bubblegum while the Ukrainian and Turkish entries are a little bit different and well worth a listen for that. Both Romania and Greece produce very contemporary sounds which would not sound out of place on radio.
The Swedes, as usual, go for the "big sound", and Carola's "Invincible" is one of the best. There are many more entries deserving of a mention, including those of Norway, Croatia (a grower!) and the under-rated French ballad, but my douze points would have to go to the Belgian "Je t'Adore", which is one of the best songs I have ever heard ( and it didn't even make it through the semi-final!)
Buy it!! It won't be out of your CD player for long if you do because there is something for everyone, even rock from the winners Finland(?)!
 Play once and file May 25, 2006
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Strip away the visual entertainment of the (music half of the) Eurovision Song Contest and what are you left with, as presented on this 2-CD set? Thirty six uniformly bland and deeply unmusical pop songs, and one even worse, the winner (Lordi, from Finland), which sounds like a Motorhead B-side reject from 1980 and probably owes its success more to the pre-event publicity and the band's fancy dress than to any musical or potential commercial value.
To illustrate the point, the day after the show I played Lordi's track to a friend who not only watched it but voted for it. He/she didn't recognise it. Ditto the UK entry, by Daz Simpson, the start of which sounds like the end of "I Am The Walrus" and which at least had the childrens' classroom sing-song chant going for it, if not much else.
This collection, issued as a formal record of all 37 songs entered, follows the usual practice of running them in almost but not quite alphabetical order of country. Three quarters of them are sung wholly or partly in English, and only a couple are truly ethnic (that is, heavily based on the country's folk music), which is slightly surprising given the success that the Ukraine and Turkey had playing that card in recent years.
The opening track, by Jenny from Andorra, is quite a powerful slab of mid-paced pop/rock, but has the disadvantage of being sung in Catalan, which few outside Northern Spain could understand. Things go downhill from there and one mediocre song seems to merge into the next and so on with little to relieve the tedium. Lordi's song was different in tempo and volume on the night, but the CD is mastered so as to remove the varitions that come with recordings from several sources, so its impact here is much less. Ireland made a concerted effort in persuading Brian Kennedy to risk his street cred by doing a number more worthy of a certain boy-band of that nationality. LT United (for Lithuania) provided an execreble chant "We Are The Winners (Of Eurovision"), followed by a Bobby McFerrin tribute band, the Vocal Group Cosmos from neighbouring Latvia. And Sweden, who gave Eurovision arguably its finest hour thirty two years ago, rolled out previous winner Carola, who shouted a lot but was unable to make lightning strike twice.
Like all Eurovision albums before it, this is handy to have as a faithful record of the songs at the event, or as a curio; in 99% of homes I suspect it will be played once and then filed away, never to see the laser light again. One of these years one act or song must come along to replicate the success of Abba (even a Bucks Fizz would be good). Sad to say it won't be this year.
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