Comments on: Europop 2008: Group B - Austria 0 Poland 3

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:45:04 +0000

I have been slack about cross-promoting on LJ recently - it’s also possible some people didn’t like either track enough to vote for it. The usual voting range seems to be 20-24, so this is one under that.

By: koganbot

koganbot — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:39:14 +0000

(Btw, where have all the voters gone?)

By: koganbot

koganbot — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:30:37 +0000

Lex is probably the first person in recorded history to refer to Blog 27 as “indie.” (Lex, in Poland Blog 27 might as well be Paris Hilton in the sense that anyone and everyone feels the right to villify Blog 27 as freely and meanly as possible.) But I kind of get what he means, in that this was the Bloggies being “sensitive” and guitary, probably in preparation for their tour with Tokio Hotel. But the voices aren’t indie, simply young. Click the link in my post upthread to experience them in full scamper.

By: Gerhard Whippenpfieffer (Assistant Coach)

Gerhard Whippenpfieffer (Assistant Coach) — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:43:43 +0000

Not the Poland we expected to play before the game so credit to them. I maintain we played well but today there was nothing we could do against a strikeforce particularly potent this time round and a disappointingly depleted and partizan crowd.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:46:44 +0000

Vienna roll-over.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:35:31 +0000

Oh dear.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:47:10 +0000

One more day to vote in this tie - voting has been a little low on this one so get ‘em in!

By: Lex

Lex — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:26:41 +0000

I have just spent a few minutes trying to work out how I should be voting tactically and I can’t work out which side winning would benefit me? it is v confusing. disappointingly I shall have to vote on the music, and…I’m not too keen on either! I knew the Product 01 track already, it’s years old, and my opinion is unchanged: totally unnecessary and clumsy futzing around with something which doesn’t need it. the Blog 27 track is just basic cutesy indiepop isn’t it? nothing special about it in the slightest. this sort of thing can be really good depending on the lyrics but this isn’t funny or rude or anything. cutesy is not enough. might go for AUT by default as the song itself is still great, even with the austrians doing their best to sabotage it.

By: CarsmileSteve

CarsmileSteve — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:58:18 +0000

perhaps my voting for poland was a bad idea, i may have shot croatian hopes in the foot, it’s all going to get a bit tactical from here on in…

By: koganbot

koganbot — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:51:33 +0000

Austria may have played the game of the tournament, but that was last time, and they only got a draw for it. “Heart Of Glass” is a pretty song and I don’t mind hearing it again; the bass electronics are a combination of constructive and obstructive, which can work if it successfully moves you forward even while bashing you against the scenery, and I think the Austrians do this, but unfortunately for them…

THE GIRLS ARE HERE AND WE THE SWINGFLIES! Except not on this song, where, strangely, our live-wire teen Polish Eurobrats go relatively pensive. The result is nicely fetching actually, but they’re vastly more exciting being scamps and beating Teddybears STHLM at their own game. Please people click the link. Boom chicka-boom chicka-boom ch-boom-boom. (However, “I Still Don’t Know Ya” floats sweetly enough to get a solid vote from me.)

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:22:52 +0000

I think the Austrian coach is openly courting controversy here, given the furore over well-known team selection in other games. This is the first track I’d been familiar with before the start of the tournament and I was about to give the manager a rousing chorus of “You Don’t Know What You’re Doing” for the source material being TOO BLEEDING OBVIOUS BY HALF, but then I listened again and remembered how much I liked the track. So I’ll let him off.

Thankfully the performance of the Poland team makes that an irrelevance. Suddenly, France and Swededen shirts are being cast unloved into corners from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. “Poland! Poland!” the kids shout. Polish Europop 2008 Panini stickers have mysteriously becoming much harder to come by. The clamour is justified - this is a tremendous pop track from beginning to end. Comfortable win for Poland.

By: MIGHTY POLSKA

MIGHTY POLSKA — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:20:40 +0000

This ain’t their new single. This is from back when they were a duo, think it was summat like the third or fourth single off their first album.

I did consider their (or rather, her) new one, though. And then I heard it…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:40:37 +0000

Team details, team talks etc. now added.

FIPA would like to apologise for this late delivery of the matchday program, caused by a slow-moving herd of cows in an Alpine tunnel.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:41:40 +0000

Are you suggesting the Polish manager doesn’t pick his own team? Mind games at its most cynical!

By: Gerhard Whippenpfieffer (Assistant Coach)

Gerhard Whippenpfieffer (Assistant Coach) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:08:08 +0000

Curse you Idolator!

That is to say, after seeing the Blog 27 video linked on there last week I had a feeling I would be facing off against it in this match. Talk about yer freebies!

This in turn explains my choice - I will live or die by the song’s reworked familiarity. I think we’ve got the power but will it be enough? Audacious tribute vs generic honesty: FITE

By: thomasthomas

thomasthomas — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:07:17 +0000

An enjoyable contest, I thought.

In the end the Austrians came out losers for me. They were working with some classic material of course, and the backing was solid. Unfortunately it just didn’t all come together on the day. Too much individual flair, not enough team effort perhaps. And it went on a bit.

The Austria track would probably have seen off most opponents, but was completely taken apart by Poland. The first couple of bars were suggesting ‘glam stomper’ to me, and the laid back pop that followed took me by surprise. I particularly liked the way they counted in the choruses.And the rap. Maybe it’s the fact that I can see some glorious sun outside my window, but that chorus has got me *right there*. Excellent.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:05:27 +0000

Wait, there is a band called BLOG 27?!