Christmas No 1.

[Graz]

RATM are currently outselling Joe by 10%

Pretty sure that will change, since the CD single isn't even released until tomorrow!


I think it's funny how over 700,000 people have joined a group crying rebellion against Simon Cowell. 700,000 people are now planning on buying a song that says, over and over, "**** you I won't do what you tell me"... because a Facebook group told them to! Hmm

 

[Macky]

700,000 people are now planning on buying a song that says, over and over, "**** you I won't do what you tell me"... because a Facebook group told them to! Hmm

It's a very beautiful irony, isn't it?

 

[Macky]

Still early days but RATM just edging it

 

[LCFCmonkey]

RATM are currently outselling Joe by 10%

Pretty sure that will change, since the CD single isn't even released until tomorrow!


I think it's funny how over 700,000 people have joined a group crying rebellion against Simon Cowell. 700,000 people are now planning on buying a song that says, over and over, "**** you I won't do what you tell me"... because a Facebook group told them to! Hmm

But to be fair, the Facebook group never told anyone to buy it. People join the group and buy the song for their own reasons. It just so happens that the majority of people have bought it because they are fed up of having a bloody X-Factor Number 1.

I have brought it for that reason, as well as the fact that I like the band and like the song.

 

[Macky]

[youtube]v2AYUqVNSsY[/youtube]

 

[pork pie fox]

Typical of these X Factor types, they're clearly all miming Macky!

 

[Darth Vodka]

RATM are currently outselling Joe by 10%

Pretty sure that will change, since the CD single isn't even released until tomorrow!


I think it's funny how over 700,000 people have joined a group crying rebellion against Simon Cowell. 700,000 people are now planning on buying a song that says, over and over, "**** you I won't do what you tell me"... because a Facebook group told them to! Hmm

you have to not conform!

 

[Jeff]

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/conte...ber-one-and-whats-more-they-cant-make-me-care

Posted by David Hepworth on 14 December 2009 - 7:18am.

I woke this morning to a torrent of tweets about what is and what isn't going to be the Christmas Number One. Bookmakers are piling in, somebody's suggesting that we should buy a Rage Against The Machine record in order to protest against the commercialisation of the music industry (!), news programmes on the BBC (!!) are full of puffs for the winner of X Factor and everybody's ringing up for a comment as if the chart were an organic expression of people's interest rather than the barely perceptible twitch of a long-dead corpse.

What I want to know is this - WHERE WAS ALL THIS INTEREST WHEN CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES WERE INTERESTING?

What record shops are people going to rush into this year to buy these records? Which pressing plants are going to be put on overtime stamping out this Christmas's equivalent of "Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West" or "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"? Where will you and your family be watching Christmas Day "Top Of The Pops"? Have you got your copy of Smash Hits with its Christmas flexi-disc featuring messages from the stars yet? No? Know why? Because none of these things exist any more. That's the march of time. And yet the meeja seems to have a desperate, pathetic need to pretend that we're all as excited about the advent of pop's big season as we once were.

Here's my advice. If you want to indulge yourself in some seasonal spirit and support recorded music, go and buy some ancient Christmas record that you always felt like buying. There are millions of them. It's possible to have a great Christmas without having to be led by the nose to contribute to the funds of or further inflate the already perilously taut self-regard of Simon Cowell, Rage Against The Machine, the people who have to fill the bulletins of 24-hour rolling news stations and their ilk. This isn't about putting out records any more. This is about how stupid and bovine they think we are.

 

[Lako42]

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/conte...ber-one-and-whats-more-they-cant-make-me-care
This is about how stupid and bovine they think we are.

Or how stupid and boving a great many people actually are.

I won't be buying any single this christmas, Why would I?

 

[Jeff]

I won't be buying any single this christmas, I'll be downloading the X-factor song for free instead

I'll be buying the Thea Gilmore xmas song as soon as Amazon send me the voucher they owe me.

 

[Motown Fox]

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/conte...ber-one-and-whats-more-they-cant-make-me-care

Posted by David Hepworth on 14 December 2009 - 7:18am.

I woke this morning to a torrent of tweets about what is and what isn't going to be the Christmas Number One. Bookmakers are piling in, somebody's suggesting that we should buy a Rage Against The Machine record in order to protest against the commercialisation of the music industry (!), news programmes on the BBC (!!) are full of puffs for the winner of X Factor and everybody's ringing up for a comment as if the chart were an organic expression of people's interest rather than the barely perceptible twitch of a long-dead corpse.

What I want to know is this - WHERE WAS ALL THIS INTEREST WHEN CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES WERE INTERESTING?

What record shops are people going to rush into this year to buy these records? Which pressing plants are going to be put on overtime stamping out this Christmas's equivalent of "Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West" or "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"? Where will you and your family be watching Christmas Day "Top Of The Pops"? Have you got your copy of Smash Hits with its Christmas flexi-disc featuring messages from the stars yet? No? Know why? Because none of these things exist any more. That's the march of time. And yet the meeja seems to have a desperate, pathetic need to pretend that we're all as excited about the advent of pop's big season as we once were.

Here's my advice. If you want to indulge yourself in some seasonal spirit and support recorded music, go and buy some ancient Christmas record that you always felt like buying. There are millions of them. It's possible to have a great Christmas without having to be led by the nose to contribute to the funds of or further inflate the already perilously taut self-regard of Simon Cowell, Rage Against The Machine, the people who have to fill the bulletins of 24-hour rolling news stations and their ilk. This isn't about putting out records any more. This is about how stupid and bovine they think we are.

I think I might just do that or indeed buy an old record (non-Christmas) that I don't have in my collection that I have always wanted. I might even get it off ebay and get a bit of vinyl.

Well said Jeff I quite agree that everyone feels they have to follow one thing or another when WE HAVE A MIND of our own - use it and do what you wanna do NOT what someone is telling you to.

 

[Motown Fox]

Who's Geraldine?

Here she? is:icon_eek:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kmPz5IbU90&feature=player_embedded[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Macky]

everyone feels they have to follow one thing or another when WE HAVE A MIND of our own - use it and do what you wanna do NOT what someone is telling you to.

Why should I do what you tell me to do?

 

[Motown Fox]

Why should I do what you tell me to do?

Don't!!! Do what you want to do
Be argumentative like you usually are:icon_wink

 

[Kingy_85]

At least the twins didnt win.

 

[LCFCmonkey]

Well said Jeff I quite agree that everyone feels they have to follow one thing or another when WE HAVE A MIND of our own - use it and do what you wanna do NOT what someone is telling you to.

For me, that is what this whole campaign is about. To get people to realise that there is more out there than Simon Cowell's latest money gimp.

Everyone in this group is buying the song because they want to make a change, even if it is a small, insignificant one. And the money raised for charity is another plus.

It's easy to say that "one man can make a difference", but 850,000 people can make a bigger difference.

 

[Joe_Fox]

I just wanna here the song on the radio on christmas day. I bought my copy.

 

[LCFC'sGodWears9]

I don't like the Xfactor rubbish blitzing the charts at Christmas every year either.

But the song their trying to replace it with - i'd rather listen to the sound of my dads farts, if your going to get something to replace the xfactor song at least make it decent.

 

[tedfoxxx]

I don't like the Xfactor rubbish blitzing the charts at Christmas every year either.

But the song their trying to replace it with - i'd rather listen to the sound of my dads farts, if your going to get something to replace the xfactor song at least make it decent.

I think their choosing it is to do with the main hook in the song; '**** you I won't do what you tell me'.

 

[LCFC'sGodWears9]

I think their choosing it is to do with the main hook in the song; '**** you I won't do what you tell me'.

Nice idea - pathetic song :icon_cool