Europop 2005 - The Beat Goes On

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When better than Eurovision weekend to start a new 'rolling Europop' thread - I want examples of pop music from the 'old country', my personal tastes run as ever to the flagrant but subtler examples of European pop are welcome. Recommend, enthuse, YSI, whatever you like - the old rallying cry, "Where are the Latvian Girls Aloud?" is as relevant today as it ever was...

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm out of the loop.

Valerij Meladze - Saliut, Vera!
Kayliah - Quand Une Fille Est Love
Dimension-X - Why'd I Have To Fall In Love With U?
Bertine Zetlitz - Ah-Ah
Sarah Connor - From Zero To Hero (first decent song she's done!)
Lorie - Toi et Moi
The Ark - No End
Bodies Without Organs - Sunshine In The Rain
Timbuktu - Alla Vill Till Himmelen Men Ingen Vill Da
Karma -Zemljotres
Rebeka Dremelj - Ne bos se igral
Elize - Automatic

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, plug plug.

http://umlauts.blogspot.com

I have one of those songs up right now. Proper relaunch tomorrow - Cross-Europe Chart Challenge of Death returning etc. etc.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

london boys,modern talking,worlds apart.

― dieter b, Friday, 20 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're out of the loop Edward, is there any hope for the rest of us?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah Connor - From Zero To Hero (first decent song she's done!)

U is crazy. "Let's Get Back To Bed Boy" is an ACE pop track. "He's Unbelievable" is also good.

― xenografia, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, OK, I'll definitely agree on the former. Forgot about it. It's just that most of the rest of her (esp. recent) output is crap, particularly the stuff that's actually been released outside of Europe.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know what she's up to these days, and most of her material has always been lo quality that's for sure! she has sold a fair number of records. why doesn't her management get better songwriters?

― xenografia, Friday, 20 May 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"sunshine in the rain" seconded, as is...oh fuck it, the entire BWO album. but that song's my favorite

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

and i STILL haven't made my damn mind up about "stars above my head" by kristin frogner, but i'll throw it out as a suggestion anyway

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 21 May 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

army of lovers ( dvd in august),vaccuum,bwo

― camille, Saturday, 21 May 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Bodies Without Organs - Sunshine In The Rain

This is amazing, thankyou.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Anneli Drecker: You Don't Have To Change

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Swedish Robyn. New album this month. Single "Be Mine" and especially album track "Konichiwa Bitches".

Norwegian Bertine Zetlitz, apart from "Ah Ah" also search: "Fake your beauty"

Danish Tiger Baby. From 2004, but they still need the plug - all tracks on their website.

― Koens (Koens), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Robyn "Be Mine" seconded. Also Laura Lynn "Je Hebt Me 1000 Maal Belogen", if your Schlager-filters can take it.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Sunday, 22 May 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I love "Be Mine" and rather like "You Don't Have To Change". My favourite BwO song so far is "Conquering America" but I haven't heard "Sunshine in the Rain" yet.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 22 May 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

SITR is the best song off the album - the singles get progressively stronger, actually. It's just lovely. The Johan S version of "Conquering America" may even be better than the original too.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nadiya - Si Loin de Vous
(I raved about this on another thread recently to no avail, it's French disco-R&B aceness!)

Ye Man vs Gabry Ponte - Sin pararse
(ex-Eiffel 65 dude eurofies midtempo-Fatboy Slim with a little help from a naff fake-ragga MC!)

Fettes Brot - Emanuela
(German hip hop fun with marching drums!)

Luka Nizetic - Proljece
(the biggest Croatian hit of the year so far!)

i'm gonna contribute to Ed O's new blog, so you can expect YSI's for a few of these soon.

― Mind Taker, Monday, 23 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

ex-Eiffel 65 dude eurofies midtempo-Fatboy Slim with a little help from a naff fake-ragga MC

This is the sort of thing we need more of.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, at last a thread where my knowledge of spanish pop can be admired and not seen as a simple consequence of actually being spanish!

Some hot spanish pop tracks at the moment:

"Nunca Volverá" by El Sueño de Morfeo. Both this song AND the name of the band is the paradigm of spanish pop in 2004-05. After our Eurovision failure, I wonder if this song could have done better in the contest.

And, a band who unironically claims to be influenced by The Smurfs: Santa Justa Klan, or just SJK. Check "A Toda Mecha" and "Yo Paso Del Amor" for europop cheesiness... They are very famous in Spain because it's the fiction band of the teen characters in a well-known sitcom, "Los Serrano". Not even in the sitcom is it suggested that the kids write the music -it just *is*, bombing out of the laptop of a new kid in town-type of character called, ahem, "DVD" (because DVDs are hip and modern, etc)

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Svadbas are several dour blokes and a moody girl, and they usually play dour'n'moody music... but "Treblebass" is something completely different, and it's possibly the closest Croatia has come to Girls Aloud-alike pop! I've put up a YSI link on Umlauts few days ago, along with some highly recommended tracks from Colonia's new album. get it while it's hot.

also, blog-wise: Sounds of Sweden is BACK!, Jessica's Into the Groove still coming up with the goods, and Girls on Pop is on FIRE.

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yes. I've just posted some Ukrainian rap. Hooray! Also, the young one out of M2M has gone all Avril to better than average results.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Max Martin wrote "Break You", right? i think i read that somewhere.

i picked up M2M's "Shades of Purple" album from a bargain bin recently - haven't digested it properly yet, but from what I've heard it was surprisingly strong and consistent! "Mirror Mirror" is an early favourite.

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I think MM did write "Break You", but I couldn't find confirmation on it. Grr. My favourite M2M song is still "Everything You Do".

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Check PopText over the weekend for me tackling the bright new hope of Eurometapop, Simone Cristicchi. Those of you with P2P programs may also be able to download his "Vorrei Cantare Come Biagio Antonacci" single now.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Would you people like a cover of Alexia's 1998 classic "Uh La La" done by 13 year old girls dressed as a kind of strippergram version of Avril circa "Sk8r Boi" (they play Spin the Bottle during the video), and sounding like M2M marshalled by the shouty one out of Mis-Teeq? The world has obliged you.

The band's name: Blog 27

You couldn't make it up.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

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