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Semi 3

Sorry, I left it too late and loads of this had dropped of the MB :(

but there were also 3 FAAAB songs and all three could do very well in the final ;o)

it was very tough to decide who to give the douze to; and I can see those two doing extremely well in the final too...

• OK, and not only to please Alex... i started to love "Moja Stikla" after reading the ALs - LoboinMadrid - 2006-07-27 2:02:51pm
  • Same happened for me, but with Solo :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-27 2:19:03pm
    • Solo - Waterpolo? do i see tendencies here darling? maybe coming out party? ;-)) [R] - euroUSA hearts KYLIE - 2006-07-27 2:20:17pm
    • You mean last year, because of "Pointless"? :o)) [R] - Alexander-NL - 2006-07-27 2:21:52pm
      • Yeh. I needed smth to make me listen to the song again, as I'd just decided I didn't like it once - Harrow - 2006-07-27 2:24:39pm

        and left it alone. But it's not too bad I suppose now :)
        
        And the "That's water polo" line just fits so well imo, so it sounds good. No partying I'm afraid :)

    • I much prefer Solo when i don´t see Alsou performing it :-) [R] - LoboinMadrid - 2006-07-27 2:33:41pm
  • Mucky Puppy is so bloody brilliant, and seriously to the author of it - you have dinner on me when we see each other. - euroUSA hearts KYLIE - 2006-07-27 2:19:11pm

    
    

    • Yay! [R] - LoboinMadrid - 2006-07-27 2:29:07pm
      • Yay rhymes with Nay! [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 2:31:36pm
    • lol Must be Jonas. ;o)) [R] - Alexander-NL - 2006-07-27 2:30:37pm
      • lol! [R] - Jonas - 2006-07-27 2:50:31pm
    • It's a grower indeed. i think it'll do very well [R] - Jeremy - 2006-07-27 2:33:00pm
    • I agree,its totally brilliant :))) [R] - Jelena - 2006-07-27 2:57:45pm
  • Both MS AL's are fab imo [R] - Jeremy - 2006-07-27 3:03:03pm
    • I don't think I agree. [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 3:06:32pm
      • Neither do I. [R] - Timoteus - 2006-07-27 4:07:24pm
      • i agree with you. Mucky Puppy is brilliant, the other one is just blah :-) [R] - euroUSA hearts KYLIE - 2006-07-27 4:16:58pm
        • I'd just say that one is better than the other :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 4:28:34pm
    • I'm very fond of No Stickler - it took a fair bit of work to see how it fits, but I found it worth the effort. - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 4:35:33pm

      I'm a sucker for random nonsense though... :-)

      • Have you read semi 3 yet? Still at least 580 points to be given out in semi 3 :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-27 4:42:01pm
        • I got stuck at my commercial break after song 8 yesterday :-) - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 4:51:08pm

          But I'm going to have to finish it off tonight otherwise I'm in serious trouble! :-)

      • I don't do stretch jeans either :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 4:43:49pm
        • Some of us have to! :-) [R] - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 4:51:26pm
          • I always liked Tight Fit :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 5:02:00pm
            • All well and good until the lion wakes up :-) [R] - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 5:03:23pm
              • He sleeps when I'm awake!! :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 5:05:07pm
    • Agree. [R] - Alexander-NL - 2006-07-27 4:53:52pm

Actually, I thought I was going to struggle to find anything wonderful in semi 3, but I've found a run of three straight 10s. And I think that one of those three is the outstanding entry of the semifinals and could just win the whole thing...

• Oh. A new guessing game! - RogerF - 2006-07-27 8:12:32pm

  Which is Nick's run of three? My guess is songs 19-20-21. :-)

• What is your favourite ALC entry about having sex with Maltese cyclists on a hot day (to a 1950s ESC song)? - Yair - 2006-07-27 10:12:18pm
  • Refraine [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:14:04pm
  • Give me half an hour on this one... :-) [R] - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 10:14:29pm
    • It's this one. - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 10:25:08pm

      Shag, shag, shag little cyclists
      Shag, shag, shag it!
      
      There's a bike on a road
      There's a road on an isle
      There's an isle in the Med and it goes on for fricking miles!
      
      Near that bike on a road
      Near that road on an isle
      There's a couple that's naked except for beaming smiles
      
      Shag little cyclists, have your fun
      Shag there in the Maltese sun
      Shag little cyclists all day long
      Sing your shaggy song!
      
      There's a bike on a road
      There's a road on an isle
      Where two bodies are forming a somewhat unsightly pile
      
      Near that bike on a road
      Near that road on an isle
      There is gonna be a public indecency trial
      
      Shag little cyclists, have your fun
      Shag there in the Maltese sun
      Shag little cyclists all day long
      Sing your shaggy song!
      
      When the case comes to court and they're under escort
      And the trial is adjourned pending psychiatric reports
      They'll still think of those bikes on a road on an isle
      And they'll still both be wearing those beatific smiles
      
      Shag little cyclists, have your fun
      Shag there in the Maltese sun
      Shag little cyclists all day long
      Sing your shaggy song!
      
      Shag little cyclists, have your fun
      Shag there in the Maltese sun
      Shag little cyclists all day long
      Sing your shaggy song!
      

      • ROFL!!!! [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:28:14pm
        • 12 minutes and 50 seconds after Yair's post! :-D [R] - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 10:30:42pm
          • I know!! I'm sure it was a set up :)) - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:32:56pm

            Well done, Mr. D!!
            
            Pff, I'm all discouraged now :)

          • So quick, in fact, that we can't even accuse you of having too much time on your hands! [R] - Richard_CT - 2006-07-27 10:33:48pm
            • It was a miracle that everything worked first time on this one... - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 10:50:36pm

              ...the Med/meadow connection was pure dumb luck - I didn't have that in mind when I wrote it.
              
              ...the "psychiatric reports" line needed a bit of a run-up.
              
              Everything else completely fell into place from the constraints Yair put on it. I was about to start work on Een Beetje, spotted UK '59 in the 1959 folder (because I'm organised like that), the title popped into my head and then it was like I was more or less typing up something that had already been written.
              
              Nice feeling... it's usually *far* more of a struggle than that.

              • That's how the best ones are created! - Frank - 2006-07-27 11:23:40pm

                My fastest one is still my best scoring one, and will most likely remain so :)

      • OMG!! If you don't do well in ALC this year then it was on purpose! [R] - Yair - 2006-07-27 10:32:05pm
        • Seriously, this is actually way better than anything I entered! - Nick D. - 2006-07-27 10:32:50pm

          I think I'm thinking too hard about it! :-)

      • Oh dear, fabulous!, and this in just 12 minutes... - Jortsu - 2006-07-27 10:36:36pm

        How I lack the talent to enter the ALC ;)

  • I shouldn't reveal the finalists before the schedule says to :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-27 10:14:39pm
  • "Follare", to Volare (Italy 58) [R] - LoboinMadrid - 2006-07-27 10:16:06pm
  • The one that I'm going to write for next year's ALC, now that - Richard_CT - 2006-07-27 10:17:01pm

    you've put the idea in my head.

    • But not Follare or Refraine, these are already taken! [R] - Yair - 2006-07-27 10:19:13pm
      • Hot bike and Maltese fuck (Ger 56?) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-27 10:20:17pm
        • LOLOL!! [R] - Yair - 2006-07-27 10:22:16pm
        • Well, it sure isn't Le plus beau jour de ma vie!! :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:24:15pm
    • Oh, we'll know who'll have written "Hello Boy" then :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:19:53pm
      • Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of "Amours Maltes." [R] - Richard_CT - 2006-07-27 10:22:32pm
        • I would go for "Le temps perdu" :)) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:25:01pm
          • Mmmm... is sex with a Maltese cyclist lost time? - Richard_CT - 2006-07-27 10:37:34pm

            Maybe I can write a song about how having sex with a Maltese cyclist took away time that could have been better spent writing a song about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
            
            But don't hold your breath for that.

            • Have you seen Fabrizio? Why do you think I came up with Refraine in the first place? :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-27 10:38:50pm
              • It took me a few minutes, but I got it eventually! [R] - Richard_CT - 2006-07-27 10:39:56pm

• I cannot wait for the ALC final. It will the highlight of my week :) - Josef - 2006-07-28 5:05:31pm
  • Should be fun indeed :-) [R] - Jeremy - 2006-07-28 5:06:29pm
    • Which semi do you think was best? For me was number two I guess :) [R] - Josef - 2006-07-28 5:07:26pm
      • First....but I found some true gems in all 3 :-) [R] - Jeremy - 2006-07-28 5:09:13pm
        • Me too! I just hope the automatic finalists deserve to be there! :)) [R] - Josef - 2006-07-28 5:10:12pm
          • Of course they do! Tsk!!! :)) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 5:13:14pm
            • hihi :))) [R] - Josef - 2006-07-28 5:14:16pm
        • I am sure I will find favourite in final also :) [R] - Josef - 2006-07-28 5:12:43pm
      • There was good stuff and rubbish in all, but the third seemed most imaginative to me [R] - ade - 2006-07-28 5:24:58pm
        • I much prefered semi1, both on a technical level and contentwise. - Frank - 2006-07-28 5:29:09pm

          Which doesn't mean that the other two semis don't have great ones, of course.
          

      • For me number one - but as Jeremy says true gems in each semi! [R] - David in Hull - 2006-07-28 5:26:37pm
  • Well, ALC final is getting very close - orionas - 2006-07-28 5:28:05pm

    and the revalation of the songs that made it to the final is even closer! Less than 24 hours!

    • Yes, and I just noticed that I'm gonna miss the revelation shows :( [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 5:29:41pm
      • Really? That's too bad. But i guess you'll catch up with the rest of us somehow! [R] - orionas - 2006-07-28 5:43:25pm
        • I'll have to watch it on sunday and bite my nails a bit longer :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 5:48:22pm
          • Tsk! Make sure you watch the shows before visiting the MB then :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 5:56:29pm
            • I'll try :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 6:00:12pm
  • Oh, yeah, I should probably vote....hehe [R] - carly in lund - 2006-07-28 5:42:30pm
  • Will you read all of them tomorrow in order, or skip the semifinalists and read the 9-10 new entries? - Yair - 2006-07-28 5:55:33pm

    Reading them all in order would be the fairest, but I'll probably be too curious tomorrow (that and pushed by the late hour) to read just the new 9 first.

    • I'm sure I'll read the finalists first! - RogerF - 2006-07-28 6:06:19pm

      I think it is actually fairer. Reading them a few times and rating them before comparing them to the qualifiers allows them to "catch up" in the familiarity stakes.
      
      Maybe next year the finalists could be published a couple of days before the semi qualifiers are announced.

      • The only reason for having automatic qualifiers is for something 'new' to be revealed in the final - Harrow - 2006-07-28 6:12:43pm

        releasing them earlier means we may as well just abolish automatic qualifiers completely :)

        • Oh, I thought the reason - RogerF - 2006-07-28 6:18:51pm

          was to reward people who achieve the dizzy heights of 18th the previous year ;)

          • :) That's why the rules have been changed this year. Only writers who have an entry finishing in the top 10 qualify :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 6:21:27pm
            • Theoretically, there could be as little as 4 somethings new in the final then?:) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 6:26:52pm
              • yep :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 6:31:36pm
                • and more or longer semis? :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 6:35:43pm
                  • more :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 6:37:38pm
                    • so ALC will be longer? :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 6:41:28pm
                      • depends on the decision of our 2006 winner :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 6:44:19pm
                        • If there's more semis, it's longer by default :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 6:47:56pm
                          • Not really :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 6:54:30pm

                            • Four is more than three! Even if you apply Weirdoman's uncertainty principles :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 6:57:50pm
                              • But if the time is reduced, ALC can have more semis but be shorter :) [R] - Harrow - 2006-07-28 7:04:07pm
                                • If the time is reduced, but there aren't more semis, it'll be even shorter :) [R] - Frank - 2006-07-28 7:12:49pm
                  • 45 participants and 92 entries is quite a large number compared to last year's number - orionas - 2006-07-28 6:39:17pm

                  • I don't think we'll see such a big difference in numbers from 2006 to 2007. Of course i could be wrong!

              • Wow, that would be so disappointing! [R] - Richard_CT - 2006-07-28 6:41:40pm
        • It also means 31-32 songs in each semi! *shudders* [R] - Yair - 2006-07-28 6:24:18pm

Now that the semis are over I have to confess that this was my first attempt in ALC. I believe that this year the level of the contest is very high and I will be very happy if my entry enters the TOP15 in the semifinal that takes part.

Good luck to all the participants. :)

See you in the final. LOL

• Good luck to you too. :o) - Alexander-NL - 2006-07-29 12:05:46pm

  I'm not counting on anything, but I'm still superexcited and curious to see where I ended... well, and to see if I got more than 2 points. ;o)))

• The same goes for me. First time in ALC - orionas - 2006-07-29 12:08:00pm

  and i found some really good entries and some i would love to have written (i would love to be able one day to write AL like those). But i also found some not so good entries so i have some hopes that i could reach the final. We'll see in a few hours.
  
  

• Same here ;) - Geert - 2006-07-29 12:09:08pm

  I hope I won't be last in *every* semi! :)

  • So you have 3 entries in ALC? [R] - orionas - 2006-07-29 12:10:20pm
    • WHo knows? Only Harro and I ;) - Geert - 2006-07-29 12:12:55pm

      I didn't put a lot of effort in it, I have to add though. Only in the one I had submitted last year, but then had to withdraw because I went to work in Turkey for a whole month :)