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Three Minutes to Eternity: My ESC 250 (intermission + honorable mentions)

Eurovision has >1600 songs in its discography, with the exact number varying on whether to count the songs that didn't qualify from the 1993 and 1996 pre-qualifier rounds, along with the 2020 songs lost to the pandemic (1603 without both categories, 1614 including the pre-qualifier songs but without the 2020 songs, 1644 with the lost 2020 songs, and 1655 including both).

Either way, taking 250 from so many songs is a challenge, and a lot get lost the way. (250 into each of them would round out to 15% of all Eurovision songs ever. By the time we get to song #2000, it will only be one eighth of all of them. It's a very exclusive club)

As a result, here's an honorable mentions list for the songs that didn't make it on the list, but I still adore (in chronological order). Later, I'll give you songs that I love, but fell into the categories above, and where they would place.

If by the end of this project, you could replace any of the songs in my top 250 with any of these, which ones would you go for?

Jacqueline Boyer: Tom Pillibi (France 1960)

Nora Brockstedt: Voi Voi (Norway 1960)

Betty Curtis: Al di la (Italy 1961)

Marion Rung: Tipi-tii (Finland 1962)

Isabelle Aubert: Un premier amour (France 1962)

Udo Jurgens: Warum nur, warum? (Austria 1964)

Tonia: Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel (Belgium 1966)

Lili Lindfors and Svante Thuresson: Nygammal vals (Sweden 1966)

Raphael: Hableamos del Amor (Spain 1967)

Eduoardo nascimento: O vento mudou (Portugal 1967)

Inge Brück - Anouschka (Germany 1967)

Noelle Cordier: il doit faire beau là-bas (France 1967)

Isabelle Aubert: La Source (France 1968)

Dubrovački Trubaduri - Jedan Dan (Yugoslavia 1968)

Katja Ebstein: Wunder gibt es immer wieder (Germany 1970)

The New Seekers: Beg, Steal, or Borrow (United Kingdom 1972)

Sandie Jones: Ceol an ghrá (Ireland 1972)

Ilanit: Ey sham (Israel 1973)

Carlos do Carmo - Uma flor de verde pinho (Portugal 1976)

Ilanit: Ahava hi shir lishnayim (Israel 1977)

Izhar Cohen and the Alpha Beta: A-bi-na-bi (Israel 1978)

Springtime: Mrs. Caroline Robinson (Austria 1978)

Gali Atari and Milk and Honey: Hallelujah (Israel 1979)

Ted Gardestad: Satellit (Sweden 1979)

Tommy Seebach & Debbie Cameron - Krøller Eller Ej (Denmark 1981)

Peter, Sue, and Marc: Io senza te (Switzerland 1981)

Guy Bonnet: Vivre (France 1983)

Maria Guinot: Silencio e tanta gente (Portugal 1984)

Kikki Danielsson: Bra vibrationer (Sweden 1985)

Gerard Joling: Shangri-la (Netherlands 1988)

Karoline Kruger: For Vår Jord (Norway 1988)

Scott Fitzgerald: Go (United Kingdom 1988)

Peppino di Capri: Comme E' Ddoce 'O Mare (Italy 1991)

Sergio Dalma: Bailar Pegados (Spain 1991)

Clouseau: Geef het op (Belgium 1991)

Dafna Dekel: Ze rak sport (Israel 1992)

Extra Nena: Ljubim te pesmama (Yugoslavia 1992)

Kali: Monte la rivie (France 1992)

Annie Cotton: Moi, tout simplement (Switzerland 1993)

Paul Harrington and Charlie Mcgettigan: Rock n Roll Kids (Ireland 1994)

Nina Morato: Je suis un vrai garcon (France 1994)

MeKaDo: Wir geben ne Party (Germany 1994)

Maarja-Liis Ilus & Ivo Linha: Kaelakee Hääl (Estonia 1996)

Fanny: Sentiments songes (France 1997)

Michalis Hatzigiannis : Genesis (Cyprus 1998)

Dana International: Diva (Israel 1998)

Jill Johnson: Karleken ar (Sweden 1998)

Vanessa Chintor: Like the Wind (Belgium 1999)

Alsou: Solo (Russia 2000)

Goran Karan: Kada zaspu anđeli (Croatia 2000)

Nusa Derenda: Energy (Slovenia 2001)

Walter and Kazha: The War is not Over (Latvia 2005)

Zdob si Zdob: Boonika Bate Toba (Moldova 2005)

Wig Wam: In My Dreams (Norway 2005)

Luminita Anghel & Sistem: Let Me Try (Romania 2005)

Feminnem: Call Me (Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005)

Chiara: Angel (Malta 2005)

Hanna Pakarien: Leave Me Alone (Finland 2007)

Sarbel: Yassou Maria (Greece 2007)

Euroband: This is My Life (Iceland 2008)

Sebastian Tillier: Divine (France 2008)

Miodio: Complice (San Marino 2008)

Svetlana Loboda: Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl) (Ukraine 2009)

InCulto: Eastern European Funk (Lithuania 2010)

Tom Dice: Me and My Guitar (Belgium 2010)

Kristina: Horehronie (Slovakia 2010)

Juliana Pasha: It's All About You (Albania 2010)

Jon Lillygreen and the Islanders: Life Looks Better in the Spring (Cyprus 2010)

Jessy Matador: Allez ola ole! (France 2010)

Anna Bergendahl: This is My Life (Sweden 2010)

Lena: Taken By a Stranger (Germany 2011)

Loukas Giorkas and Stereo Mike: Watch My Dance (Greece 2011)

A Friend in London: New Tomorrow (Denmark 2011)

Loreen: Euphoria (Sweden 2012)--probably the weirdest omission here, because it's my second place, but I preferred a good number of songs above it in the sorters. It's not something I would listen to, but it has a beautiful staging and it definitely made waves for the contest. As a result, I'll always have mixed feelings for Euphoria, though it is a complete package.

Rona Nishliu: Suus (Albania 2012)

Greta Salome and Jonsi: Never Forget (Iceland 2012)--actually my second favorite from Iceland!

Ivi Adamou: La La Love (Cyprus 2012)

Zlata Ognevich: Gravity (Ukraine 2013)

ByeAlex: Kedvesem (Hungary 2013)

Who See: Igranka (Montenegro 2013)

Donatan & Cleo - My Słowianie - We Are Slavic (Poland 2014)

Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta: Hope Never Dies (Czech Republic 2015)

Maraaya: Here for You (Slovenia 2015)

Uzari and Maimuna: Time (Belarus 2015)

Molly Sterling: Playing with Numbers (Ireland 2015)

Voltaj: De la capăt (All Over Again) (Romania 2015)

Edurne: Amanecer (Spain 2015)

Nika Kocharov and the Young Georgian Lolitaz: Midnight Gold (Georgia 2016)

Greta Salome: Hear Them Calling (Iceland 2016)

Justs: Heartbeat (Latvia 2016)

Lucie Jones: Never Give Up on You (United Kingdom 2017)

Norma John: Blackbird (Finland 2017)

Kasia Mos: Flashlight (Poland 2017)

Naviband: Story of My Life (Belarus 2017)

Nevena Božović: Kruna (Serbia 2019)

Luca Haani: She Got Me (Switzerland 2019)

KEiiNO: Spirit in the Sky (Norway 2019)

Ester Peony: On a Sunday (Romania 2019)

Destiny: Je me casse (Malta 2021)

Victoria: Growing Up is Getting Old (Bulgaria 2021)

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