Most criminally underrated Eurovision song contest ( ESC ) entries of the last two decades

[DanielBerlinTV]

So we discovered that hell is a real place and this is it. How awful, huh?

[livaso2003]

I agree with Norway 1993, Russia 1997. OMG, Omar should have been first <3, Turkey i 2004 had a much better place than they deserved. People, like Tose Proeski or Julia Savicheva were better. Igor Cukrov yes, definitely...one of the greatest, better than ugly and untalented Hadise. Totally disagree with your last one...ESC is not a contest for celebrities like her to enter, a total disappointment for herself and her fans who expected more out of it!

[annakfan]

Totally agree with Bebi Dol how it only got 1 point is shocking.

[ProudToNotBeRacist]

2997? That's in the future! (Of course, I know it's a typo...)

[TheNightingaleMaster]

Iceland 1997 and Croatia 2005 - they all deserved more.

France 2009 - are you kidding? That bitter performance deserved bottom 5!

[SRJ1703]

Norway 1993 is one of the most beautiful (and pan-european) songs in ESC ever

[SRJ1703]

well, tastes differ - thank for that....

[Ecd4life23]

croatia 2009? no way awful song

[jsra54]

Athena's song was great, but overrated  too.

[esgtravelbug]

i think most of them sucks...so they kinda deserved!

[Javirene2010]

Bosnia 2009 must have won, my winner of 2009.

[AquaOinkOink]

Lena's "Satellite" was underrated! :D <33333

[upfrontbear74]

Iceland 1997 was fantastic, love Sweden 98 and the Patricia Kaas song was amazing.

[SecretNameL]

Agree with Yugoslavia 1991 <3 Amazing

[josegodinama]

underrated? overrated? I don't understand this list.

[Serbiastiaan11]

SIGGA from Iceland was AMAZING

[klarinetta]

Belgium 89 agreed,Norway 93 soooo agreed,Croatia 94 agreed,Iceland 94 sooooo agreed,Slovenia 95 soooo agreed,Iceland 97 soooooooo big time agreed,Slovenia 97 sooo agreed,Poland 97 sooooo agreed,Sweden 98 sooo agreed.

Only one that I truly miss are Romania 94 and Portugal 08.

[eesceet]

Michelle from Germany is from 2001 and not from 1998. And I agree with you in this song... it's one of my fave ever. What about Spain 1991?

[Heidi19689]

Anna Maria Jopek with "Ale jestem" representing Poland ( 1997 ) ! One of my favorites. Great song, great singer!

[Golossus117]

Awsome songs, every singel one!

[252beuro]

I agree some very underated songs particularly Patricia Kaas for France 2009, Bosnia Herzegovina from the same year, Norway (Alle Mine Tanker) from 1993 and Slovenia (Prisluhni Mi) from 1995 which i thought was a better song than the winner of that year.

[Abacas4ever]

You forgot to put Portugal, and several times! If no country more unfairly treated, that country is no doubt Portugal.

[as1p23]

Denmark 2005 underrated? Well, i'm Danish and i loved the song, but i don't think it's underrated.... But thanks, i guess :D

It came in 10th, right?

[juancar988]

Not all are underrated.

Bosnia&Herzegovina and Croatia 2009 it are very good songs and France too.

[MammalucaArt]

FRANCE 1994 SO TRUE!

[MrInsaneMixer]

BIG LOL@Lithuania (2997) in description XD..

But, yeah; 2 things:

1. I just love your taste of music :)

2. Boaz Mauda song was the most underrated in whole Eurovision..

[aric2007]

Blue (United Kingdom 2011) was underrated this year...

[MrGoodfella666]

You forgot to include Ukraine 2006 Tina Karol, a very catchy song. Should be in the list.

[nmgscp]

I love Kali with Monté la Riviè and Bebi Dol with Brazil

[Alathaea]

Completely agree with Boaz! Oh my lord, he was underrated. And agreed with Maria Haukaas Storeng too.

[sportsfan1414]

finally someone who loves Brazil :D



[TheNightingaleMaster]

The only one I agree is "Minn hinsti dans" in 1997. The most underrated song in ESC history.

[rooma1979]

I think they're all simply awful :D

Except Norway 1993,

[rooma1979]

I think they're all simply awful :D

[Biaagirl]

Turkey 2004, Croatia 1994, Denmark 2005, Slovenia 2005, Norway 2008, Croatia and Bosnia 2009 deserves MOOOOOOOOORE points!

AND!

Croatia and Yugoslavia 1993!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!:(

[MrTerraincognita]

whatabout germany in 2006 and 2007? thats what i call criminally underrated. or bosnia herzegovina in 2010, they had a great song.

[lemonnis]

I LOVE BRAZIL-BABY DOLL YUGOSLAVIA 1991. SUUUPEEER!!

[FilipGriffin]

nice,i think here should be Macedonia in 2006 and in 2008. Greets!

[Ciachowy]

Turkish Athena won 4th place, why is it on the list (yes, i also think they should win that day :) )

[as1p23]

I love Slovenia 2005 <3

[nacht98]

you have forgoten Portugal 2008..

[TheTurkishboy90]

2005-slovenia:no i'm not a fan of this. denmark: AGREE it was underrated!

2007-so suicidal and it got where it deserved

2008-israel could be a bit higher. norway already got where it should be

2009-i was even unhappy when i saw croatia in final!bosnia was kinda overrated. france was terrible overrated!

nice video.

[TheTurkishboy90]

1995-nice song.could be top 5.

1997-oh i don't like none of them except poland xD

1998-estonia was in good place.sweden underrated i agree.macedonia was even overrated xD

2001-it was in good place again.

2004-OHH thank u so much :) but the same comment with "1993" :)

[TheTurkishboy90]

1989-i think both songs were overrated :P

1991-agree!so fancy

1992-it was where it should be

1993-it was already 5th.so not "criminaly" underrated

1994-france was overrated!croatia was where it should be!agree with iceland

[Sergioperis]

And Spain 1999?

[gogec2007]

i dont think some of the listed songs were underated..

[elpelegrino10]

Israel 2008!Boaz Mauda-fire in your eyes!so underrated.This was the true winner and not that russian buble!

[alcafan]

Out of those you posted I agree with Sweden 1998, Israel 2008 but the most UNDERRATED is ICELAND 1997!!! I could easily put it in the top 3, if not in No1!

[kayusica]

The only one I agree is France 2009.

I loved Patricia Kaas' song so much! :X

[Brank088]

Nice list. So many great songs.

[sussexpenguin]

Omar Naber "Stop" .. criminal he didn't get to final. Most of those songs are terrible though.

[sussexpenguin]

Omar Naber "Stop" .. criminal he didn't get to final

[manderas]

what is the point of this list my friend????? some of these songs took really good places (top 5 and higher) Each year there can be only 1 winner !

[cassav]

I miss the really innovative, but harshly neglected songs, like Poland 1995, Lithuania 1999 or Macedonia 2002? And of course Poland 1996, the saddest song of all time ..

By the way, the German bore wasn't in 1998, but in 2001 (even if it sounds like being from 1980!)

[chriswales19]

Very happy you put Poland '97 in and couldn't agree more!

[cvetzjuga]

I agree with you 100% about Israel 08, Norway 08, Bosnia & Herzegovina 09, France 09... either one of these should have won in those years. I'd also add France 04, Macedonia 07, Serbia 04, Slovenia 07, Poland 03 and France 91 to that list -- and yes France 91 should have won by a big margin...

[LCScampi]

I like the idea, but if your yardstick for what underrated means is "whatever has come lower than it ought to", then I think you've got about a dozen in every contest..! But some of these are good unusual ideas.

[zdrim]

I think that the portuguese entries from 2008 and 2009 are underrated too! They are missing on your list!

[Ady198]

So agree about Kali (France 1992), Silje Vige (Norway 1993), Patricia Kaas (France 2009), Athena (Turkey 2004) and Jill Johnson (Sweden 1998). They all were my favourites No1!

Omar Naber, Bebi Dol, 4fun and Koit Toome also should have finished higher.

But totally disagree about some OVERRATED songs: Michelle (Germany 2001), Boaz Mauda (Israel 2008) and Maria Haukaas Stoereng (Norway 2008).

Anyway, thanks for the video ;)

[IIEFcenter]

This is the reason why IIEF started a special project. This projects is called REVOTING. Everything about this project you can find in my chanell

[nunovski2001]

And how is "criminally underrated" a song that should have ended some 2-3 places higher?

[nunovski2001]

And there isn't a single PORTUGUESE underrated entry in your opinion?? You've got to be kidding! Here are some examples: 1991, 1994, 2008 (the worst robbery of them all)

[Ruud22NL]

There is a mistake in it. Germany 1998 should be Germany 2001......

[EscTautwis]

I liked your video. Lot of good songs which were really underrated. Especially amazing Patricia, she should be in top 3 at least.

[Fabian81]

2001 Germany terrible song like so many others that year 2004 Turkey was what I called the "drunken stage number made to entertain and not really to compete" but hey televoters go for any funny mouse that runs the stage so - I hate the song, 2005 a nice Ronan Keating-ish song but better fit for the UK charts not for Eurovision territory Lithuania 2007 terrible singing! 2008 Israel was OK Norway was kinda cool! 2009 Croatia boring song! Bosnia was a great chorus it has!

[Fabian81]

Norway 93 (though it wasn't underrated but should have won that year), Slovenia in 95 was a well deserved top 10 song I see nothing underrating in it, Russia in 97 could have scorred better as well as Iceland but Iceland was too ahead of its time back then. I also liked Slovenia and Poland on the other hand was an amazing song. Estonia 98 ONE OF MY many favourites and YES SWEDEN was sooooooooo underrated what a great SONG and SINGER! ESC from 1999 onwards lost meaning for me ...

[Ticoshay]

Patricia Kaas should have won 2009

[LudoVolkov]

Totally agree with "Je suis un vrai garçon", "Primadonna", "Zbudi se", "Ale jestem", "Wer Liebe lebt", "Stop", "Hold on, be strong", "Lijepa Tena", and specially "Kärleken är", "Et s'il fallait le faire" and "Bistra voda", the latter two should have been 1st and 2nd of 2009, closely followed by "Mamo" :-)

[Niril89]

Romania 1998!!!! Most underrated song that year!!!!

[Fabian81]

@Niril89 Maybe I like it it's tender and sweet but had no strengh to compete really against the so many good songs that year ... It lacked charisma towards the eyes and ears of was watching. For me it was fun to learn that "I" in Romenian is the same as "I" in Portuguese LOL That's means "Eu" LOL

[inxia38]

That's a really well put together video. Whether I agree with the inclusions or not (and most of them I do), it's just really good to take a trip down memory lane. I'm assuming someone has already picked you up on Germany 1998 actually being 2001, but that's just nitpicking. Thanks for the video.

[shalle2630]

Turkey was in 4. Place in 2004 how can they ne underrated

[greeko25]

@shalle2630 I actually thought it was much better than the three songs which ranked higher that year

[88monti]

nice list! But among the slovenian entries for me the most underrated song was from 1998 " Naj bogovi slišijo" - Vili Resnik. That was really a beautiful one and he is a good singer. It was placed somewhere around 20th place.

[zackeemzy]

I don't like the early 90's ESC and 2000 to 2002 , not my type , but 2003 and above was cool , except 2004 when all of a sudden the SF starts

[chart77]

I love france 1992!!

[NBdweller]

Germany 1998 is actually Germany 2000...

[DannyBoy20802]

@NBdweller Wrong again, it was 2001.

[pelukon90]

France 2009: Super Underrated Big Time!!

[only5ones0who5know]

denmark 05 <3 jakob <3

[alias609]

some of these songs are horrible

[LePeintreOrageux]

Bistra Voda is one of the best songs I can remember from ESC. I voted for it many times, but it didn't help... :C

[FrancoFile7]

Yep, France definitely should have won with Kaas all right... But what can ya do!

[trinemartine]

Totally agree with some of these songs.. Especially Slovenia 1995. My 3rd place, after Norway and Spain. Also Norway 2008, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and France in 2009.

[Ohioma]

what about germany 2008?

[toncVE]

I guess you are Slovenian (three slovenian entries in this video), anyway this video is almost the same i would make, excepr i would change croatia 2009 with Slovakia 2009; greetings from Slovenia

[greeko25]

@toncVE Actually im greek

[klarinetta]

Believe is in my book by far the worst winning song ever. Glad that We(Iceland),Denmark and Sweden didn't bother to throve points to it. Dima sings like a bleating sheep.

[mumineaux]

lithuania 2007 underrated? it was crap as was not worth even beeing in the final.

Israel 2008 was not either anything special.

tho i agree on Bosnia 2009, that was criminal not haveing more points.

[SuperBilly1992]

Επίσης ξέχασες να βάλεις την Κύπρο το 1989, την Ελλάδα το 1995, το 1997, το 2001, το 2003 και το 2006 καθώς και την Ανδόρρα φέτος.

[Herzlos666]

whats so underrated about norways 5th place in 2008?

'ein lied kann eine brücke sein' for germany, thats what i call underrated

[greeko25]

Every song i include here, i consider that i should have ranked higher.I think that Norway's entry was well written,quality stuff and loved Mrs.Storeng's confidence on stage.This was surely better than let's say Armenia ( 4th-really annoying cheap dance tune ) , Greece( catchy but not top 5 material ) or even Russia's winner which was corny and overdramatic ,plus Billan was really struggling with his english up there .

[klarinetta]

You forgot the most CRIMINALLY underrated entry of them all Dincolo de nori that got only 21th place out of 25 with 14 points. That's a crime. And just to point it out then I find the France entry 94 to be actually overrated a lot. But I'm very glad to see two of our very best entries Nætur and Minn hinsti dans on this list :)

[joiorn92]

well, even though I'm from Iceland, I never liked Minn hinsti dans, but Nætur is a beautiful song.

I was really sad though about "If I had your love" because it was a really great song, but didn't get anywhere

[klarinetta]

Believe is in my book by far the worst winning song ever. Glad that We(Iceland),Denmark and Sweden didn't bother to throve points to it. Dima sings like a bleating sheep.

[Fabian81]

@greeko25 Billan struggles with his english (like everybody from eastern coutries who still are convinced they make a great image of themselves by singing in dreadful english ) he also struggles to convince "yes I am the best always the best" and he struggles with his "look at me I almost naked I need to win I want to win", He had a personality issue that night ... and saddly he won. I hope we will learn to be more humbles as any true singer needs to be.

[BaronVonHookhand]

@Herzlos666 I totally agree about ein lied kann eine brücke sein which i think is one of the most underrated songs of all time along with the 1984 dutch entry Ik hou van jou

[jovanovicmilan]

slovenia 1997 was criminally underrated

[No1Gezz]

You put Michelle - for Germany in 1998...she performed for germany in 2001! and yes, she was underrated.

[greeko25]

yeah i know ...sorry about that . I just realized after finishing the video and was too tired to start it all over again . Indeed , she was underrated and that's why i included her in the vid .

[chriswales19]

Alla Pugachova ! Yes love that song, brilliant. Nice to see Anna Marie Jopeck there as well, thats always stood as a favourite of mine

[SaNBeanz]

Became a fan in 2006 onwards and these are underrated songs from 2006 - 2009 I think

2006 - Romania, Armenia, Belgium, Norway, Macedonia, Croatia, Poland, Iceland

2007 - Iceland, Montenegro, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland, Belarus

2008 - Israel, Belarus, San Marino, Montenegro, Ireland, Spain, Denmark, Turkey, Poland, UK, Finland, Switderland

2009 - Belarus - The most underrated song of ALL TIME!

Alongside Croatia, Lithuania, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Hungary, Poland, Finland

[SaNBeanz]

Also forgot

2006 - Malta (Not 1 point!!!)

2007 - Spain

2009 - Germany and Moldova

[No1Gezz]

Totally agree with Belarus being one of the most underrated songs....it was one of my favourites this year!!

[Fabian81]

@SaNBeanz You should try to listen Eurovision before 2006 ... actually before 1999 when Eurovision wasn't just a contest with too many dancy silly stage song with not very talented singer really singing that well ... I understand that for the "common people" who pay to vote it's fun to have these songs these days... but nothing can replace the seriousness of real song and trully professional singers on stage than before 99. ESC now it's almost like any MTV show ... too commerical.

[SaNBeanz]

I wrote that ages ago, now I have watched most ESC songs since then I know exactly what I like and dislike, just piss off with you're so called 'adult' tastes. You don't know what you're on about, let me guess, you're gonna write a long comment telling me I'm wrong, whatever.

[Fabian81]

@SaNBeanz Why would I do that? Aren't these your personal tastes? Since when a personal taste is a wrong thing? It's incredible how people here take views that don't necessarly match theirs and feel personally hurt of angered at those. Listen, respect for what you like - my biggest critic is against the show today and its musical choices and how people made "bad taste" become the new "great stuff"! You didn't even showed here the really bad awful songs that were saddly so overrated.

[Leifang12]

I think that Norway 2006 - Christine Guldbrandsen - Alvedansen was very underrated!!!!