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The Pessimist 
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 Topic: Rage Against The Machine at Christmas No. 1
Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:25 |
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Yes, that's right. The song Killing In The Name Of is the Christmas number 1 2010 in Britain and has finally knocked the X Factor off its high horse. I love it.
Brits (and of course everyone else), discuss please.
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mrcozdude
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Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:28 |
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I can't wait till everyone shuts up about it to be honest.
Good statement and money for charity.But I'm so bored of hearing about it.
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Pekka
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Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:35 |
Not much else to say except:  
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lazland
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Posted: December 20 2009 at 13:56 |
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Of course, the cynic inside me wonders why people fall for all the hype spun by Sony, who, of course, released this and Cowell's crap. They were on to a winner whatever.
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: December 20 2009 at 14:00 |
 mrcozdude wrote:
I can't wait till everyone shuts up about it to be honest.
Good statement and money for charity.But I'm so bored of hearing about it.
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Bah Humbug!!! 
I'm very pleased for one! Makes a change.
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Help me I'm falling!
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stonebeard
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Posted: December 20 2009 at 14:00 |
Oh so they won it?
It's pretty hilarious. I wouldn't actually buy a song I already owned, really, but this is still great.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: December 20 2009 at 16:49 |
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I think next year the country should pitch in for a Grindcore track to be Crimbo no. 1. Now that would be beautiful.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 01:21 |
This whole campaign has been a "Rage Against Simon Cowell" - the trouble with us British is that we hate anyone that is doing well and we ridicule and run down our own success...
Simon's sugary X Factor world has been rocked this year, usurped from the Christmas No.1 by a campaign solely designed to wreck a harmless bit od Christmas fun, a "song" that very few of the downloaders would actually listen to again - it is not even a good song, just an even worse Rap/Punk dirge which should have remained in the gutter and totally unsuitable for this time of year, though ironically has only been redeemed by the charity money it has raised, therefore making it "acceptable",
Cowell's own vomit inducing plastic production line pop singers will be soon forgotten, another pop pap competition will receive record viewing figures and it will be "here we go again", the "winner" attacked by another antithesis of some description but just as bad - overall the victim of this cultural battle will be good music, but the winners, thank goodness, will be a yet unnamed charitable cause...
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mrcozdude
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 01:41 |
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I feel a little better seeing them on the news.
I miss crazy frog
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Pekka
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 01:44 |
mystic fred wrote:
it is not even a good song
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Oh yes it is.
I'm not a huge RATM fan at all, but this song might have my favourite guitar riff in the world. Absolutely majestic.
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stonebeard
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 02:54 |
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Rage's debut is a classic. It's not really good to call it rap rock, I think, because it has such a lowbrow connotation with nu-metal and all that. Rage preceded all that. To me, it's protest metal. De la Rocha's lyrics and delivery just seems more rock to me than rap. It's all just...different. Anyway, they're so completely better than Limp Bizkit or Korn or anything like that I shouldn't even feel the need to defend them. Grr.
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 06:26 |
It's nice to see that there are plenty of people around who can't stand X-Factor music (and Joe Mcthingy's song is truly awful) but ultimately Sony have just made pots more money.
Overall it's worth to see that Simon Cowell may just begin to realise that not everyone has the same taste in music as him. I was quite disturbed to read that he once watched Later with Jools Holland and turned it off after 10 minutes (it didn't say who was on).
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 09:10 |
RATM are part of the machine because they are signed to Sony too, this is ridiculous. And in my opinion, swearing on a radio show after you've been asked not to is pretty damn unprofessional.
Oh lol, Elderry's single was a Miley Cyrus cover! I didn't even realize The Climb was a Miley Cyrus song, I had heard it at work but it was too bland for me to learn its name, but that's not even a good cover. NOBODY CAN FILL MILEY'S SHOES!
Edited by Henry Plainview - December 21 2009 at 10:03
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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debrewguy
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 12:19 |
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Heck, at least the U.K. can get something like that going. If only to show the "mob" mentality of such offerings.
I hope Susan Boyle does go on to a decent career. But I can do without the sycophantic media overkill of ephemera. Let us enjoy it for what (the song) it is. I don't need it everywhere. Too many great pop songs have come to be hated because of overplay. Hellep, I don't even care to listen to AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long anymore because of classic radio.
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"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.
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The Runaway
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 13:10 |
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Knew it. Thank the lord and the people!
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Intruder
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Posted: December 21 2009 at 17:42 |
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To me, "Whiter Shade of Pale" was a thousand times more "revolutionary".
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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