Spain in Eurovision: All songs from 1961-2018 (REACTION) 

Este hombre se merece UN MONUMENTO EN LA PLAZA ESPAÑA DE MADRID! Gracias por darnos visibilidad y a las recibidas infravaloraciones.

i have to say that Pastora in 2012 was AMAZING!!! getting 10th place was absolutely criminal. i still can't get over the fact that those grandmas from Russia got 2nd place and Pastora got 10th. also i think Edurne in 2015 deserved a higher place. i liked her a lot but that year was pretty hard. there were a lot of great songs.

Spain was my favorite in 2018 and it will always be my Favorite Eurovision song From Ireland 🇮🇪

About Chiquilicuatre, we totally gave Eurovision the middle finger with him, actually, the charcter and the song were thought as a joke by a really well known humorist here in Spain, but ey, we knew we were going to end with really shitty results no matter what song we chose, so we decide to have a good laugh about it all at least xD

95% of the songs are masterpieces My favorires are : 1968 1973 1982 1983 1985 1987 1989 1990 1995 my favorite 2002 2005 2006 2008 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 Hugs from Portugal 🇵🇹😉✌️🇪🇸♥️♥️

We have been so underrated, I agree some songs are really low quality but I would say that we have master pieces!! "Eres tú" is one of the best songs in Spanish ever!!!

Yeah, in 2008 we sent that like a joke because in Spain we have an inside joke of winning Eurovision, like: “we won’t win anyways so we don’t really care” and that year just went too far. The thing is: we joke about it but we really enjoy watch it and make comments about it. Thanks for the review though. My favourites are Anabel Conde, Pastora Soler and Amaia and Alfred.

Pastora in 2012 was PERFECTION!

Yes, in 2008 Spain gave Eurovision the middle finger. And I think and I hope that soon we are going to repeat it.

Thanks for your excellent review, Matt. I am the first one to admit we have sent some trash songs over the years but we are soooo underrated when we’ve sent quality songs, it is frustrating at times. I wish I am mistaken but no high hopes for 2019 either. I loved Tú canción and Amaia & Alfred’s performance in Lisbon but there were too many external factors that sank their song to where it ended (i.e. wrong decisions by Spanish delegation regarding staging, hectic promotional tour prior to the festival, etc). At this point I ignore if something’s been learned from that. Our 2019 representative will also come out from this year’s Operación Triunfo edition, which doesn’t fancy me much. Let’s see how underrated we end. Thanks again for your great review and superb objective Eurovision channel.

In 2008 we didn't really give the middle finger to Eurovision, we more like gave the middle finger to the public tv channel that selects the songs, because it was the first year that they let us choose the song and I think the general opinion was that the few last years were crap lol so we just sent something bad but funny ahead to at least have a bit of fun instead of just cringing xD Ironicaly it ended up in a higher position that those past songs.

Great review! Agree in most points, especially when you mention other songs with potential in some of our recent national finals. Keep the good job!

Baila chicki chicki

In 1983 she was singing about losing her boat

I love how you love 'Mocedades' HAHAHAH💛

I'd like to say in 2008 they made a public voting system to choose which spanish song will go to the contest. Since we have send tons of great (and no so great) songs to the contest and never got a deserved place we decided to show Europe our middle finger. That's what happened. We didn't win (of course) or got a "good place" but we enjoyed it a lot!.

1978 Bailamos Un Vals by Jose Velez was the best song of 1978 and my third favourite Spanish entry ever.

Dear Matt, my thoughts are 1) I LOVE Spain at ESC with very few exceptions, 2) I almost always agree 100% with your comments on ESC songs, and 3) you are wonderful and I appreciate very much ESCunited and everything it does for us ESC fans out there. WELL DONE and KEEP UP the good work! Greetings from Paris xx

Omg! I still remember so clearly Rosa's year with Europe's living a celebration! Such an exciting year and she had such an amazing voice. Love that song!

La mejor canción de España ha sido Eres tú de Mocedades, éxito en las listas de Estados Unidos en español, en 1973.

2012 criminally robbed winner!

I like your videos, and I totally agree with this review. You got an Spanish subscriber!

Chikilicuatre was a middlefinger definitely

Totally agree with your opinions about the entries of my country. Except... lady lady. It's one of my favourite entries of Spain hahaha. Good video ^^

Pastora needed so much more than she got. Robbed.

I can explain you what happened in 1965: today is weird, but in that times, the singer didn't move far to the microphone, this was forbidden, and she dance a little. She sung a mix between a traditional music style (copla), and modern music. She is the same woman who sung in 1961. In 1961, he weared a typical dress (but without the arms), which usually are very, very heavy; around 30 kilos, with a large tail. If you see the original video, she downstairs with that like if she didn't wearing nothing. And she was the first Conchita in Eurovision, Conchita Bautista. About 1968, Massiel won because the jury knew she had less than a month to prepare all, learn the song, and all, so she received more points for that. In the beginning, that song was for Joan Manel Serrat, but i the last minute, he decided to sung it in catalán. Of course, Franco wasn´t agree, and he was banned (and have a lot of problems), and they quickly must to find another singer. Massiel left her tour in Mexico for that.

Loved Spain’s 2018 song

Raphael, Karina, Mocedades, Sergio Dalma,Paloma San Basilio, Azucar Moreno...and a a few more of those artists were huge in Latin America also. Some of thoe songs had comercial success. You should react to them. Raphael is a legend.

How can you not love Manuel in 2017 when he went off key! One of my favourite bits.

Nice video! I really love old and new songs

Los mejores de España para mí, son las dos veces de Raphael, Mocedades, Karina, Rosa López, Ruth Lorenzo, Edurne, Daniel Diges, Lucía,1984, Azúcar Moreno, Anabel Conde, Sergio Dalma, Pastora Soler, Ramón, David Civera......

1990 How come you first think I'm trash? ;) This flamenco Still give me goosebumbs and it's grooving. It sounded good even with tape confusion in live without vocals. :)

Very good review. Thank you! I agree with you in most of the songs.

Great review! For me, Spain is a quite underrated ESC country. Here are my opinion: 1961: 8p - catchy and nice 1962: 8p - also catchy 1963: 5p - bit boring 1964: 10p - magnificant 1965: 8p - funny tune 1966: 8p - great 1967: 8p - strong 1968: 5p - well, a bit boring 1969: 12p - Love this! 1970: 4p - a bit boring 1971: 10p - wonderful! 1972: 3p - not my cup of tea 1973: 12p - all time favourite 1974: 6p - quite funny 1975: 8p - slow, but strong 1976: 6p - ok 1977: 8p - cute 1978: 3p - nope 1979: 8p - nice tune, happy 1980: 2p - not so nice 1981: 2p - boring 1982: 12p - Love this! 1983: 12p - Another brilliant entry! 1984: 10p - Cute entry 1985: 8p - a bit to much 80’s vocal 1986: 1p - all time low 1987: 6p - cute but a bit boring 1988: 10 p - funny 1989: 12p - Wonderful! 1990: 12p - epic fail, but still catchy and great! 1991: 8p - nice 1992: 8p - cute but the song is to repetative 1993: 10p - epic! Great! 1994: 4p - boring 1995: 12p - magical! 1996: 1p - oh, dear! 1997: 6p - good, but not my winner 1998: 5p - boring 1999: 1p - no, no, no 2000: 7p - his entry from 1992 were better 2001: 10p - cute and catchy 2002: 7p - cute and sweet 2003: 8p - decent and catchy 2004: 5p - a bit flat 2005: 7p - cute 2006: 3p - nope, boring 2007: 6p - well performed 2008: 12p - so bad that it’s good 2009: 3p - nope, it’s so flat 2010: 8p - cute 2011: 8p - sweet 2012: 12p - well, great 2013: 7p - okay 2014: 8p - good 2015: 7p - never one of my favourites 2016: 8p - great song, okay performance 2017: 4p - bad, but joyful 2018: 10p - love it. So sweet!

A este hombre le gusta mucho lo flamenquito y las moviditas.

Rapahel for the Win 66 & 67 🙂 so much energy on stage. never stop to listen to him and these songs.

I might be a little biased since I'm Mexican and spaniard. But Spain has been robbed on so many occasions that it's criminal now. Especially in 2018 and 2012, I want them to win another contest. It's been too long.

1968 is such a guilty pleasure

My favorites: 1968 (I actually love the melody) 1969 1973 (Duh!) 1989 1990 1995 (Duh!) 1997 2001 2002 2011 2012 (Duh!) 2014 (Duh!) 2018

Spain is one of my favourite countries in the ESC, even though ultimately Spain hasn't been really up to it. Bandido is still one of my all time favourite entries, and my number one spanish entry. Other gems are Estando Contigo, En Un Mundo Nuevo and Vuelve Conmigo. And the fact that Paloma San Basilio ended far down the scoreboard is still unbelievable to me. Then Spain sent 4 brilliant uptempo songs in the consecutive years 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 - my personal favourite being Dime (but yes, Beth did not do a very good vocal performance). But ever since 2004 Spain has only managed to place 10th twice. A top 10 IS still a good placing. It's true that Pastora Soler did an amazing vocal performance - but unfortunately her song was quite generic. I really liked Say Yey - but the staging...uff... Come on Spain - I am waiting for another great entry! It's been so long.....

Great video, as usual. I was wondering how long UMG would let your video stay up and then I saw your solution. It is really a shame that they are such a**holes... They have just flagged my pre contest review of all songs from way back in April... Keep up the good work and you nearly gave me a heart attack when you said you hated Vuelve Conmigo. :)

I loved Amanecer by Edurne. I think she was totally thrown by that wind machine, killing her makeup.

From Ireland, Alfred and almaia were the best, loved them

I voted Spain in 2012. Stunning performance cannot understand why it didn’t do better.

I agree with you! 60’s were awesome!and 70’s even better with Karina and Mocedades!and Su canción!

9:17 Esa es la abuela de un amigo mio.

The advertisement in this video was a Spanish Trailer with Vivo Cantando in the BSO... wow

My question is who you think should represent Spain for next years contest? I would love to see Edurne come back for another try. I absolutely loved her song in 2015, and I think with some small tweaks, I think it could of possibly won or be at least top 5. But near the bottom, I thought it was too low.

Pocos han hecho una carrera internacional y muy conocidos en medio mundo, Aquí te vito algunos: Raphael, Julio Iglesias, Massiel, Mocedades, Paloma San Basilio, y poquitos más. Otros han tenido éxitos esporádicos como Nicky, Peret, Karina, Sergio Dalma o una grandiosa gira de Daniel Diges por Sudamérica con Los Miserables.

Bandido, mi canción favorita de todos los tiempos y siempre fue y sera moderna. Saludos desde Serbia

The problem with Eurovision fans and commentators is that they listen endlessly to each and every song before the contest and over analyse. What you fans forget is that the overwhelming percentage of Eurovision viewers, and therefore the ones who vote, hear each song once, on the night of the performance. after that they forget all the songs with the exception of maybe the winner and perhaps their national song which they cannot vote for. Ask any British person to sing a few lines from a British Eurovison entry during the last twenty years and they'd be stumped. I believe it would be the same in any other country if they haven't had a winner.

Raphael is one of the most famous singers in Spanish history. He's still in active. I'm a great fan (I'm 34) and my mum was too. I don't like La, la, la either.

I get up in 3 hours but I don't care, I'm gonna watch this right now. I'm from Argentina. Spain is one of the countries with the most amount of Eurovloggers and they all have very different tastes.

Muchas gracias

You know you're early when the video has no views 😂😂

2019 Spain whit La venda or Muerdeme

Dude i love your analysis!! 2012 best song EVER

My favourite is 1996. Such an ethnic and fascinating song :)

Pastora & Annabelle were my to faves, but I still think Secret Garden were deserved winners, I also loved Beth, Sorya & Eris Tu.

Have they ever considered making a major motion picture about the 1969 contest; the one that ended in a 4-way tie? BTW, I have a toothpick that held a piece of Manchego that Edurne was offering samples of at the Eurovision Village in 2015.

There's no wedding in Spain where you don't listen the 1978 & 1991 songs!

When you want, I tell you what it was, what it has been and what it is about the representatives of Spain in Eurovision.

Me ha encantado el repaso. Ahora conozco canciones que no conocía jaja

Vivo Cantando is THE best Eurovision song ever, hands down.

Hola from turkiye..my favourite 1982 lucia el and azucar moreno bandido☺

Great review, agree on most opinions. Think the biggest robbery was Say yay, it was a clear contender to win and is a song that still keeps growing quite a lot on youtube, didn't even remotely deserve to end up near last. Beth is a great vocalist, but Dime was pretty much the opposite of her usual style so it felt a bit out of place, and she even said that she didn't really like the song lol. And Chiquilicuatre, some people are commenting that it was deffo a middle finger, and while partially that's true, I think it was mostly something like a "don't have the balls to send a joke song to eurovision" "hold my beer" moment. Was mostly about having a laugh.

Ruth lorenzo 😎😎😍😍😍

I like 1961, 1965, 1968-1970, 1973-1974, 1977, 1981, 1983-1985, 1988, 2002

Ruth Lorenzo ❤❤❤

Serafin Zubiri is blind. I think everyone forgot about it.

Spain shared its victory with 3 other countries in 1969 in Madrid, and we all know Franco bribed jurors in 1968, so....

I wasn't even alive when "La la la" won. But I really like that song.

Talking about Bandido: "When this came out 15 years ago...". Try 30 lol.

2008 Chikilicuatre was a middlefinger to Eurovision, for sure. After Rosa, Spanish people had look to Eurovision just like a funny request for political reasons and Chikilicuatre was so asked to go when he showed in a humoriatic program, Buenafuente. I'm sure that year everyone was looking Eurovision laughing at it.

In 2012 they have started to take it a little more seriously

1966 and 1967 are the same guy

You should listen to the original la,la,la wrote and sang by Joan Manuel Serrat. The lyrics are different. It was a protest song. The type of music you like it was in fashion in the 2000s but now doesn’t work.

Yeah... Manel was... forget it xD Aún me da rabia toda la injusticia que hubo ese año. El público no quería que fuera, queríamos que le fuera mal en eurovisión y cuando hizo el gallo fue como.. bien! Buscamos el último puesto xD Muy comentado jajaja Thank you for the vídeo. Greetings from spain ^_^

The song Spain had in 2003 sounded like what Greece had in 2001.

I love 2011,2012,2013 and 2016.

Please, read the lirycs of "Brujería". Good video, greetings from Spain💜.

Hahahahaha thank you for the video... so nice .... I think Pastora Soler deserved the firs place , not for been Spanish, for her amazing amazing voice she is so talented artist

Spains entry in 2018 were my favourite! Sadly it didn't won. 😭

SORAYA IS A QUEEN, NO MORE TO SAY ABOUT IT

I loved Coral as well.

El cantante de 1986 hace los coros de 1995.

Spain is such a underrated country but I have to say that their earliest efforts wasn't very good at all my favorites were 1961, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1980 1982, 1984, 1990, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (yes, i know it's trash), 2010, 2015 and 2018 I'm Spanish and I think that some of the songs weren't good in performance and all but the lyrics just made them incredible, so if you watch the lyrics of some songs you'll notice why they're so great (That's why Spain 1980 is one of my faves Spanish entries :p)

Nicky no, es Micky, el corrector....y no vito, sino cito, ...From Spain.

Quedate esta noche is so much better in its studio version...

2013 was actually great apart from the shaky vocals... if anything is an uninspired composition it was dancing in the rain

In Spain eurovision isn't the same than before. Because we always have bad positions with goods singers and better with el chiquilicuatre

Creo que nos merecimos ganar en algunas ocasiones del siglo pasado

Hey, may I suggest France, last big 5 country ? :)

In 60' we were punished by Franco. Europe want to say to us that they were not agree with a dictatorship

How about Netherlands?

21:20 HAHAHA yes please

I want you to review Romania's Eurovision journey. Please!

Hey you have to react to bulgaria too

Spain also hated Do it for your lover, the audience did not choose him.

Spain in 2008 was supposed to be a joke due to how bad they were doing in Eurovision