Finland was so good that year, deserved a better result for sure.

1985 had the WOW FACTOR after the 1984 contest I remember being impressed with the stage

For those who didn't experience Eurovision in the 1980's and want to discover a year that says out loud: "THIS IS THE EIGHTIES!", I'd say 1985 is a good one to begin with.

It was nice to hear those songs again

A solid ESC year with quite a few nice entries. A personal favourite of mine is the one from Greece. Not everybody's cup of tea, but it's very nice.

New ideas: Eurovision all Entries participating right BEFORE the winning entry (Grand Finals only) Eurovision all Entries participating right AFTER the winning entry (Grand Finals only) What if only Baltic states won? What if only BeNeLux countries won?

The stage. Cant be more Eurovision than this. And the winnning song is the most typical eurovision winner ever. Cant be more ” schlager” than that

Luxembourg is one of my guilty pleasures. It's such a hot mess but so catchy.

1985 was maybe the only year where the real/exact top 3 was also my top 3!

Nicht zu vergessen: Die wunderbare Lill Lindfors als charmante und humorvolle Moderatorin.

For "if only" video ideas, you could do If only Romance countries won ESC If only German speaking countries won it If only Balkan countries won it If only Slavic countries won it If only countries outside of Europe won it

Spain’s results has always been somehow unfair. However this year it was more than obvious.

It’s great to see you doing more of these recaps, and I expect you’ll probably recap all the years that Sweden host to because we’re going to Sweden in 2024, but I have a question. Wouldn’t it make more sense to put Cyprus above Greece because it was earlier in the running order in this full recap ranking, or were you going alphabetical order for the ties?

A decent edition, which is a rare treat in the 80s (by comparison 86 and 87 are abysmal)! My favorite is Finland, also my favorite Eurovision entry of the entire decade! followed by Austria and Turkey, I like many others (Greece, Spain, France) but a special mention to Kikki, a national treasure!

Here are my personal votes/rankings, i'am from the Netherlands (Rotterdam City) 12 points: Finland - Sonja Lumme - Eläköön elämä 10 points: Israel - Izhar Cohen - Olé olé 8 points: Ireland - Maria Christian - Wait until the weekend comes 7 points: Austria - Gary Lux - Kinder dieser welt 6 points: France - Roger Bens - Femme dans ses rêves aussi 5 points: Italy - Al Bano & Romina Power - Magic oh magic 4 points: Denmark - Hot Eyes - Sku' du sporg' fra no'en? 3 points: Sweden - Kikki Danielsson - Bra vibrationer 2 points: Spain - Paloma san Basilio - La fiesta terminó 1 point : Portugal - Adelaide - Penso em ti, eu sei

Norway 🇳🇴 my runner up this year, amazing song, powerful vocals and performance, they absolutely had a wonderful time together on stage! Germany 🇩🇪 well deserved 2nd place, I adore the German language in this song Sweden 🇸🇪 grest host entry! The dancers did a fantastic job even before Carola! Definitely gives me good vibrations UK 🇬🇧 not s bad song, but a bit overrated for 4th place in my opinion Israel 🇮🇱 So much energy! I prefer this song over his winning song from 1978 Ireland 🇮🇪 a bit repetitive but a nice and calm melody Italy 🇮🇹 I didn't like their song in 1976 and this one is not good either unfortunately Austria 🇦🇹 a bit boring for me, but not bad song either Finland 🇫🇮 my winner! Just perfect from the beginning till the end France 🇫🇷 a bit over dramatic, but I like the song and the violins Denmark 🇩🇰 awful! The song is ok but the little girl just can't sing Switzerland 🇨🇭 I like it very much Luxembourg 🇱🇺 I'm the only one who love this entry, my ultimate guilty pleasure of the 80's Turkiye 🇹🇷 I like it, but it's a bit repetitive, I prefer their 1988 enrty Spain 🇪🇸 she sings amazing, I just don't like the song Greece 🇬🇷 I love this so much! I love his singing, and the song is is really different from the others, deserves top 10 Cyprus 🇨🇾 catchy song, but not memorable enough Portugal 🇵🇹 good song and vocals, not one of my favorites this year Belgium 🇧🇪 really small and cute song, didn't deserves to be last at all

Greeece, France, Spain, Israel, Germany, Norway.

Request : What if only countries that never won could win ESC

How we Finns didn’t win this is still unbelievable to me. Or am I biased?

Can you please do that with all the Eurovision Editions?🥺

Too bad we dont see Lil in this video, the best host in Eurovision history!

Still one of the best stage designs at Eurovision - along with 1986.

Spain entries are always entering to another dimension

I remember Tony Blackburn playing Gary Lux in English on Radio 1.

Who have ever said "Sweden hasn't done a back to back" should think over, because in this edition a Swede won for Norway in Sweden. Each time Europe is gathered in Sweden or a nordic country, they really try to bring their best to our hears ;)

Finally I have one more song is Spain La fiesta termino

The Spanish song was a true gem and very underrated, a total disdain.

Its crazy how amazing songs Finland was sending in 80’s and still they did not do well. Especially this and 87.

My top 10 is: 10) Italy (7th) -> Yeah. 09) Switzerland (12th) -> There's something nicely catchy there. 08) Germany (2nd) -> Pleasant. 07) Cyprus (=16th) -> Nice ballad. 06) Portugal (18th) -> I like the power within that song. 05) Ireland (6th) -> The Irish ballads are legendary. 04) Spain (=14th) -> Such a powerful entry. 03) United Kingdom (4th) -> Classic but sweet. 02) Sweden (3rd) -> The catchy part of Sweden. 01) Norway (1st) -> Norway deserved that first victory.

Please make korea contest in eurovision

It is a pity that Greece and Spain are in the last places. Greetings from Türkiye.

Eurovision of 1985 is not very memorable except the winner! But it has some great songs Like Denmark, Finland, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Germany...

imo belgium and portugal was robbed

My top 1. Finland 2. Spain 3. France 4. Germany 5. United Kingdom 6. Switzerland 7. Cyprus 8. Portugal 9. Belgium 10. Greece 11. Israel 12. Norway 13. Sweden 14. Ireland 15. Italy 16. Denmark 17. Luxembourg 18. Austria 19. Turkey

Belgium is great!

Top 19 1 Finland 🇫🇮 2 Germany 🇩🇪 3 Denmark 🇩🇰 4 Norway 🇳🇴 5 Sweden 🇸🇪 6 Israel 🇮🇱 7 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 8 Portugal 🇵🇹 9 Ireland 🇮🇪 10 France 🇫🇷 11 Austria 🇦🇹 12 Italy 🇮🇹 13 Turkey 🇹🇷 14 Spain 🇪🇸 15 Switzerland 🇨🇭 16 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 17 Belgium 🇧🇪 18 Greece 🇬🇷 19 Cyprus 🇨🇾

Turkey should’ve been higher. It’s a catchy, fun song. And for me Israel should’ve been the winner🤩

Ireland is sooooo cheesy here😅 still they came 6th

What were the Turkish jury listening to when they gave Belgium 8 points 🤔 Belgium fully deserved null points that year.