Christmas Number One campaign
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Mr Pig
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Rhythm Thief said:
I don't know. I think the people who like XFactor would still have been listening to crap if they'd lived twenty years ago. Just a different kind. And it is music, just not the kind that you or I want to listen to.
Talking of Christmas songs, I've got this at home, both the UK single and the original on a German LP. Fantastic song: LINK
Fnaar
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galaxy1 said:
With all due respect, I'm trying to turn my kids either into Mods or Rockabillys or Jazz Fiends... they will go their own way...
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Rhythm Thief
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Ghost Donkey said:I hate the MNE but they made a good point on this campaign. RATM sand F**K you, I won't do what you tell me. Now I'm being told to buy that song
Good point. Incidentally, while I know the Zack De La Rocha has been politically active for years, I can never hear "Killing in teh Name of" without thinking "F**k you, I won't tidy my bedroom".
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Rhythm Thief
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Wigsie said:
...is that pejorative?
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Fnaar said:I'm trying to turn my kids either into Mods or Rockabillys or Jazz Fiends... they will go their own way...
Yeah - it's rock and roll and country music in our house - if my lad hasn't mastered the complete works of Jerry Lee Lewis and George Jones by the time he's five there'll be hell to pay!!
Mr Pig
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I don't see the point to such a campaign, just seems childish and spiteful.
I won't be rushing out to buy a Subo or XFactor CD any time soon but at least the people who are buying them are doing so because they actually want them. So if they get to number one in a pop chart it's because they are popular, isn't that the whole point? The chart reflects what is popular, not what is good or what we personally might like.
Say this campaign succeeds. This song gets to number one. Has it done so on its own merit, because the people who bought it like it? No, they've just bought it trying to deliberately manipulate the chart because they personally don't approve of the music that is popular just now. Maybe not even that, they might just be jumping on a juvenile bandwagon and buying it for a laugh.
And this is morally superior to the XFactor how exactly?
I won't be rushing out to buy a Subo or XFactor CD any time soon but at least the people who are buying them are doing so because they actually want them. So if they get to number one in a pop chart it's because they are popular, isn't that the whole point? The chart reflects what is popular, not what is good or what we personally might like.
Say this campaign succeeds. This song gets to number one. Has it done so on its own merit, because the people who bought it like it? No, they've just bought it trying to deliberately manipulate the chart because they personally don't approve of the music that is popular just now. Maybe not even that, they might just be jumping on a juvenile bandwagon and buying it for a laugh.
And this is morally superior to the XFactor how exactly?
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Just people exercising their right to protest, surely? But with the right, comes the responsibility to sing along every time they hear it. 
JamesM
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Is it bad that I'm thinking of buying the X-Factor single for my brother in law for Christmas just to wind him up?!? (he's been harping on about this rage against the machine thing for a while)
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mangaman said:
We're not puppets of anyone ... we might get somewhere if we were.
We did write a christmas song for our regular BBC radio slot a few years back (coming up again this Sunday: BBC Radio Shropshire on the web, look up "Sunday Folk" and have a listen), but we don't seem to do it much these days.
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personally i see as a protest vote against the sort of shite music that shows like the x factor propagates.
i don't personally care if my 99p goes into simon cowell's pocket, the point is that some of us prefer the music to exist independent of the revenue it makes, and the spirit of the song at least has a resonance, even though there's the depressing inevitability that the record industry will profit anyway…
i don't personally care if my 99p goes into simon cowell's pocket, the point is that some of us prefer the music to exist independent of the revenue it makes, and the spirit of the song at least has a resonance, even though there's the depressing inevitability that the record industry will profit anyway…
