WMP Supplemental 14: Eurovision 2025 – Basel. Bankruptcy. Bastu.

Eurovision 2025 is coming faster than Erika Vikman on a giant microphone stand. So, grab your Milkshake (Man not included), Poison Cake, and/or Espresso Macchiato, and join Danie and Mark as they serve up their thoughts about all 37 songs of this year AND play their Top 10 based on a Jury of Two.

Songs discussed:

Zjerm – Shkodra Elektronike (Albania)

Survivor – PARG (Armenia)

Milkshake Man – Go-Jo (Australia)

Wasted Love – JJ (Austria)

Run with U – Mamagama (Azerbaijan)

Strobe Lights – Red Sebastian (Belgium)

Poison Cake – Marko Bošnjak (Croatia)

Shh – Theo Evan (Cyprus)

Kiss Kiss Goodbye – ADONXS (Czechia)

Hallucination – Sissal (Denmark)

Espresso Macchiato – Tommy Cash (Estonia)

Ich komme – Erika Vikman (Finland)

Maman – Louane (France)

Freedom – Mariam Shengelia (Georgia)

Baller – Abor & Tynna (Germany)

Asteromata – Klavdia (Greece)

Róa – Væb (Iceland)

Laika Party – Emmy (Ireland)

New Day Will Rise – Yuval Raphael (Israel)

Volevo essere un duro – Lucio Corsi (Italy)

Bur man laimi – Tautumeitas (Latvia)

Tavo akys – Katarsis (Lithuania)

La poupée monte le son – Laura Thorn (Luxembourg)

Serving – Miriana Conte (Malta)

Dobrodošli – Nina Žižić (Montenegro)

C’est la vie – Claude (Netherlands)

Lighter – Kyle Alessandro (Norway)

Gaja – Justyna Steczkowska (Poland)

Deslocado – NAPA (Portugal)

Tutta l’Italia – Gabry Ponte (San Marino)

Mila – Princ (Serbia)

How Much Time Do We Have Left – Klemen (Slovenia)

Esa diva – Melody (Spain)

Bara Bada Bastu – KAJ (Sweden)

Voyage – Zoë Më (Switzerland)

Bird of Pray – Ziferblat (Ukraine)

What The Hell Just Happened? – Remember Monday (United Kingdom)

We’ll be back to regular programming with Episode 103 – 1967 after we get back from Eurovision and probably do Supplemental 15.

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Legal and Licencing Notice:

“We at Wind Machine Podcast have taken every legal step allowed to us to present this podcast with a current APRA licence and we claim “Fair Use” for the music played.

We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave SoundInto The Lights by Global Sound System.

Episode 98 – “1974: Briiiighton, Wombledon, and Finally Facing Our (Spotify) Waterloo”

In this episode, we chat about host city of Brighton, the host of 1974, the postcards, the controversies, the fashion at Eurovision 1974, the interval act, European and Australian news, what was happening in entertainment, the WTF and OMG moments of the contest, the voting, and play our top 10 of 1974 based on a jury of two.

Songs Include:

The First Day of Love – Anne-Karine and the Bendik Singers (Norway)

Die Sommermelodie – Cindy and Bert (Germany)

Keep Me Warm – Carita (Finland)

Canta y sé feliz – Peret (Spain)

Fleur de liberté – Jacques Hustin (Belgium)

Long Live Love – Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom)

Bye Bye I love you – Ireen Sheer (Luxembourg)

I See a Star – Mouth and MacNeal (Netherlands)

Si – Gigliola Cinquetti (Italy)

Waterloo – ABBA (Sweden)

The Yoda Beanie of Doom then gave us our next year for Season Five:

In episode 99, we’re off to The Hague for Eurovision 1976! Which means, episode 100 will be 1977!

If you like what we do, you can shout us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/windmachinepodcast. Every $3 goes towards the running costs of this podcast.

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Hypercut of the postcards: https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeLyrics2012

Check out A Tech Ops History blog here: http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/more-eurovision-memories/

Rewind ESC 1974 here: https://x.com/RewindESC

Snippets from Nine News Melbourne, Jimmy Rees’ Meanwhile in Brighton series, and the theme from The Wombles used only for storytelling and all their rights are reserved. We’re already dealing with Spotify not accepting our music licence, come on and give us a break.

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We are not affiliated with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), its partners, or SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). We are just fans.”

Intro and Indents provided by Shock Wave SoundInto The Lights by Global Sound System.