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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 5, 2009 1:30:23 GMT 2
You often read things; people's hopes, dreams, goals, ambitions, and you meet them with a world=weary smile and think, "yeah.. it'd be nice, but it's never going to happen." And this is one of those times, except replace the word "nice" with "the best thing since recorded history began." Because war, WAR, my friends, is being waged against the X-Factor. Jon Morter's blog has attracted "tens of thousands" of people willing to back his cause to end the never ending run of karaoke cretins stealing the Christmas number one slot. So who could possibly hope to topple Cowell's latest creation? Who does Morter have in mind? What band, and more importantly, what song? How about Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine? new.uk.music.yahoo.com/blogs/touchingthevoid/19324/rage-against-the-x-factor/I think we can all agree there are far too many brainwashed simpletons mindlessly buying whatever shit is shovelled from the X Factor (and this year it's a cover of Miley Cyrus's The Climb.. really, is that the best they can do? I'm a fan of the girl but.. seriously?) to ever be troubled by an expletive laden rock classic. It'd certainly make my Christmas merry, though. I know I'll certainly be downloading it. |
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 5, 2009 1:48:13 GMT 2
Maybe if I didn't have a half dozen different versions of it already. I appreciate the movement and attention to a worthy tune, but I truly just don't give a shit what's at the top of the charts. I'd rather they busted X-Factor up with this... ummm...unique version of another Rage classic.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 9, 2009 12:57:13 GMT 2
Ha, that was brilliant. Zack's voice is never going to sound anything other than amazing. They played a couple of festivals last year and (according to Mrs C anyway, I wasn't there) they're still amazing. It's surely time for a RATM comeback? It's not like there's a lack of political upheaval and social injustice for them to get bothered about.
The RATM for number 1 campaign is really heating up. I thought it would just be a sort of token, "Oh yeah, that'll really happen" thing but every media outlet has pounced on the idea. Interesting.
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 9, 2009 23:38:55 GMT 2
Good. I think Rage just has too many personal issues between them. They get together every now and then, but they obviously aren't in the mood for creating music or touring together.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 17, 2009 17:06:55 GMT 2
Holy shit, this REALLY could happen. As amazing as it sounds, RATM are actually AHEAD of the X Factor goon Joe McElderry right now. As the thread of the title said, I thought there was no way it could ever happen. But its doing it, man. It really is. And even better, RATM got loads of complaints this week after being on early morning radio (honestly, what did the producers expect?) This is a pretty uncomfortable, stilted interview at first, but they say a lot of good stuff. new.uk.music.yahoo.com/blogs/snapcrackleandpop/34642/outrage-on-the-bbc/Skip to the last 40 seconds or so. Ha ha - brilliant stuff. |
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 17, 2009 23:22:55 GMT 2
Shit. So we've come no further since telling Jim Morrison to he can't say "higher" on television? You're seriously going to tell RATM to just no sing the last anthemic quarter of their song? Sheeee-it. I thought Britain was supposed to be ahead of America when it comes to that kind of stuff. Oh no, naughty language! Run screaming through the streets because the big bad Americans said a bad word!
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Post by sybaritic on Dec 21, 2009 12:38:30 GMT 2
The US and the UK are SOOO much alike... but this is one of the great instances of where we are completely opposite.
I dislike Rage's preachy music just as much as the next person who can think for himself without some jackass with a microphone screaming directions at you, but the people who are actually up in arms about this whole christmas charts BS are fucking idiots plain and simple. Holy shit... really? Some douchebag on the radio tells you that Rage Against the Machine made the no 1 xmas song so you immediately go out and buy the CD so you and your family have some nice background music while the kids open their presents? Fuck you, you shouldn't have done what they told ya. Passive onsumption... Gotta love that shit.
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 22, 2009 10:09:05 GMT 2
I could care less what the lyrics of any given song are. I love the music. Lyrics I happen to agree with are a bonus. And no, they shouldn't free Mumia.
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Post by Benjamin Haines on Dec 24, 2009 20:14:11 GMT 2
You often read things; people's hopes, dreams, goals, ambitions, and you meet them with a world=weary smile and think, "yeah.. it'd be nice, but it's never going to happen." And this is one of those times, except replace the word "nice" with "the best thing since recorded history began." Not sure if you've heard yet or not, but Merry Christmas: www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/20/facebook.cowell.christmas/index.html |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 28, 2009 19:50:48 GMT 2
You couldn´t escape this news in the UK, so yeah we already knew Benjamin. It was the most Yahoo researched news in the UK the day it happened. Sniff. Happy times.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 28, 2009 20:00:07 GMT 2
but the people who are actually up in arms about this whole christmas charts BS are fucking idiots plain and simple. Holy shit... really? Some douchebag on the radio tells you that Rage Against the Machine made the no 1 xmas song so you immediately go out and buy the CD so you and your family have some nice background music while the kids open their presents? Fuck you, you shouldn't have done what they told ya. Passive onsumption... Gotta love that shit. See, I get what you´re saying, and this argument that it´s all pointless and the ironic "think for yourselves, buy this instead" mentality, but that´s missing the point. Here´s a few things that happened this week that made me realise this was a fantastic thing to happen. A magazine from a month ago was talking about Christmas, and they mentioned no-one takes bets on the Christmas number one because it´s ALWAYS X Factor. In another column they were talking about Top of the Pops, a Christmas music show that always plays the Christmas number one. They then said "we´re willing to bet it´ll be this years X Factor winner." Louis Walsh, horrible Irish gremlin judge on the show, even said a few weeks before the show had even finished that the winner would be Christmas number one. Just like that, no question about it all. Talk about fucking arrogant. And then just this week in a bar in Gran Canaria, the female DJ reluctantly played RATM because it was the Christmas number one, and she stood disgusted the entire time it was on, as did the majority of people there, except me and Mrs C who cheered and whooped and sang along the whole time. Honestly, when you read about the whole thing it sounds stupid and pointless, but when you actually HEAR that fucking amazing song in a club that up till then was playing dance and pop tunes, it sounds like your ears could explode in ecstasy. And another thing, I was talking to a 60 year old guy who downloaded RATM purely in principle to stop the X Factor. He´d never heard it before and he LOVED it, so much so he went out and bought the first album and loved that too. And think how many 13 year old kids who´ve never heard of RATM suddenly getting introduced to them and that style of music. So think about it that way. |
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