Scratch Acid, the Offenders and Not 4 Sale
at the Ritz, 1987.
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Eurovision 2002 - Number 21 - Maria-Louiza & Not 4 Sale - "2 Be Together"
Greece has worked it out. Apart from a brief blip towards the end of the 1990s while they worked out how to deal with televoting, whether it's internally selecting or recruiting acts for a national final, ERT know what it wants and what the Eurovision voting public will vote for.
Take 2 Be Together. It's written by Antonis Pappas & Nikos Terzis, the team who wrote Elina Constantopoulou's Pia Prosefhi from 1995 and Antique's Die For You from last year. Nikos was originally one of Kati Garbi's backing singers at Eurovision 1993. Maria-Louiza Vassilopoulou herself made it to the final of Ellinikós Telikós 2001. This is a team that have pedigree.
Like Die For You, this is a high energy danceable floor-filler, a pulsating plea of desire that keeps much of what made Die For You successful. It's 100% less Swedish in terms of creative input although this would absolutely fit into Melfest without anyone suspecting it was Greek. You could almost guarantee this would win and then go on to do well at Eurovision.
Except that Ellinikós Telikós this year is exceptionally strong. Not only is there serious competition on the ballad side of things, but there's another upbeat Melfest-y entry. And then there's this self-written stomp about passwords from a UK educated mechanical engineer and his friends who look like they indulge in future urban-warfare LARPing at the weekends...
2 Be Together may have the pedigree and lineage from Greece's past very good Eurovision heritage, but in the face of a band who just captured something of the moment and won over both the televote and the judges. That doesn't detract from just how polished this song is and that perhaps should be better known and loved by Eurofandom at large.
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Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas
Not 4 Sale
2002 Cabo Wabo Music
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Tracks:
01. Stand Up
02. Hallelujah
03. Halfway to Memphis
04. Things’ve Changed
05. Whole Lotta Zep
06. The Big Nail
07. Make It Alright
08. Not 4 Sale
09. The Big Square Inch
10. Karma Wheel
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Mona Gnader
Sammy Hagar
Jesse Harms
Vic Johnson
David Lauser
* Long Live Rock Archive
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Can I interest anyone in a banana python spiral?
He’s sold!
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