Rage Against The Machine for christmas number one!

that's what i thought too. i was thinking that they were idiots for not seeing the irony in the lyric "fuck you i wont do what you tell me". but then i thought - but what if it fails ? and the thought of the moronic x-factor dross being a greater part of society than the anti-moronic x-factor dross vote alarmed me - so i bought a copy and a gift copy for my girlfriend.

i fucking hate simon cowell and the shite that his circus of a show spews out and i hate the audience for essentially legitimising laughing at mentally ill people, which is what the whole x-factor thing seems like to me.

bring back xmas number ones from when it was some eccentric weirdos battling out some inane novelty records. that's what an xmas number one should be in my opinion.
+1

I just heard the interview with Tom Morello who seems articulate and realises that this is not so much about RATM as such. Also, apparently the profits are going to go towards some music groups/charities that do loads more to actually encourage kids with real talent, as opposed to the bland shite that is the X Factor. For that reason, I'm downloading this track (actually one of my least favourite when I was a teenager and had this album). Another reason is that I hate the humiliation of these shows and the laughing at disturbed people that the audience do, goaded on by loathsome tv types.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8415750.stm