Comments on: Europop 2008: BARAN SENDS SWISS CUCKOO

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:51:25 +0000

Well done Pete! I completely failed to find much joy in the Swiss in the Pop World Cup, crashing out in the first round. I noticed the same thing happening with my charge this year, and after being beaten by said Swiss in the first game, defaulted on my managership, convinced that no-one could ever do very well with the Czechs. Who, er, turned out to have previously won said PWC. I think the lesson “learned” is that I couldn’t find a pop tune if my life depended on it…

By: jeff w

jeff w — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:18:26 +0000

I arrived late at the tournament, but enjoyed the knockout stage. Congrats to Pete, and commiserations to Matt whose team consistently surprised me.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:51:15 +0000

A great tournament, and congratulations to Pete!

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:22:13 +0000

And the Swiss trophy cabinet is, at least symbolically, no longer barren. (Do you see?)

By: koganbot

koganbot — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:16:05 +0000

Congratulations to the Swiss. Began with an impressive romp over a disorganized Czech side, but who thought they’d continue on with victory after victory?

Favorite Swiss track: Yves Larock “Zookey.”

Favorite Italian track: Matia Bazar “Ti Sento.”

Favorite tracks of the elimination rounds: Najoua Belyzel “Gabriel,” Expander & Thinkfreak “Trackum”

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:29:21 +0000

Well done Matt, and I cannot think of a better team to meet in the final. And I respect a team who never went for the easy option and fired out a number of volleys in Italian (wheras you’ll note that after my first track, I eschewed the large number of home languages).

The Swiss are proud to be hosts and winners of this tournament, even if it came as a bit of a shock. And in my first competition I have to say I am overwhelmed by all the support I have been given (especially in the office).

But most of all I want to thank the Swiss for having a surprising amount of interesting music. In particular the two websites
http://www.swisscharts.com (the swiss top 100 site, very useful to see what’s going down) and
http://www.mx3.ch - a pretty encyclopedic swiss pop-site. I couldn’t have done it without them.

Roll on the World Cup.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:08:51 +0000

The Italian team are slumped to the turf, their heads in their hands. A couple of them are in tears. They gave everything to win some very challenging games earlier in the tournament and maybe this was a match too far for them. Certainly I thought this was the weakest we’ve played this tournament but I thought that of the Swiss too but they clearly had more in the tank. Congratulations to the Swiss, they richly deserved it.