Rage Against The Machine for christmas number one!

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me? toddles off politely to itunes to do as told A cunning plan indeed!

Painfully humourless music for earless people = x-factor
Painfully humourless music for earless people with piercings = RATM

Humourous music for earless people with fake tan

YouTube- Macarena - Los del Rio

It's all music, it's all entertainment - even the indy, non-mainstream stuff. It just entertains different groups.

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me? toddles off politely to itunes to do as told A cunning plan indeed!

Painfully humourless music for earless people = x-factor
Painfully humourless music for earless people with piercings = RATM

Well summed up, any type of non-comformist plan is a failure right from the start surely?

Yeah, better to go straight to the HMV and set it on fire on Christmas Eve.

Well summed up, any type of non-comformist plan is a failure right from the start surely?

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.

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

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

Super this.

The Xmas number one has become all about a career launch for the winner of the X-factor - it has been co-opted as an extension of the show.

I want mad people with loads of make up on and ludicrous clothes and lots of colour singing a stupid Christmas song they wrote, and hopefully drunk and mucking around in the video - not some fucker launching their career with another earnest and deeply sincere ballad that they had not even heard until a week ago.

. . . or Kiki Dee.

YouTube- Kiki Dee - Star

. . . and listen up kids, that wobbly voice is not Autotune™ - it's a crappy video cassette fucking up in the shitty rented VCR.

Fuckin' A. You used to enjoy films much, much more when you just knew that your Betamax might munch up at any second your taped copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark or Barbarella from which you'd carefully edited out the adverts.
And pirating music used to involve crouching over the top forty on the radio with your sticky little paw trembling over the 'Play/Record' buttons, waiting for that cunt Tony Blackburn to stop chuntering on and finally get to playing Golden Brown by The Stranglers.
Simpler, less throw away times, when wank fodder was Anneka Rice's arse wobbling about on Treasure Hunt and men didn't 'have a tidy up downstairs', for fuck's sake...

Fuck it. Despite my claiming that I didnn't want to get involved, and my thinking that RATM has nothing to do with Christmas, I've downloaded their song (though like most I have it already). The thing that turned me was hearing Simon Cowells dismissive, arrogant, patronising voice and then hearing a person called 'Joe' sing an absolutely awful, dreary ballad.

It's not about RATM, it's about hating The X-Factor. Tynan is exactly right about the Christmas Number One having become co-opted as an extension of the show.

Fucking bullshit the lot of it.

"There's only one way of life"

Chains unwashed self to tree.

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

RATM on BBC Radio 5, some of the monies go to Shelter, which is no bad thing

Lets get christmasy

YouTube- Rage Against the Machine LIVE - BBC Radio 5 Live - ZACK DE LA ROCHA SAYS F*CK 'ON' AIR!!

essentially legitimising laughing at mentally ill people,

a bit like our own dear forum

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men didn't 'have a tidy up downstairs', for fuck's sake...

Bullshit...

If its good for the goose, its good for the gander.