Christmas #1 (UK)

sony wins, but it would be more interesting than seeing bland popstar number 304495 being number one and sony still winning.

im not buying either of them though.

Instead of Rage Against The Machine, they so should've tried to get this bad boy up the charts:

could someone please make a gif of simon doing some cowell movements, that is, shitting out a series of his produced popsters dripping with gut paste, in chronological order. what was the last good christmas number one?

  On 12/15/2009 at 9:11 PM, mcbpete said:

Instead of Rage Against The Machine, they so should've tried to get this bad boy up the charts:

How hard do I have to request?

REQUEST!

on the 'sticking it to the man' note, this decade has been mired by the iraq/afghan wars, a new recession, and in-your-face political scandle (expenses). these have actually been in the public consciousness though (ie. not just people who take a interest in economics or politics), so on this level i think that there is a degree of protest, or at least articulation of disgruntlement at political culture/global events/the arts that a song (which could otherwise sound dated or teen angsty) carries the sentiment of well.

in this case, rage against the machine are a vessel for a conglomerate of public dissent, and most certainly not promotion of their own. it's a communal act that could have only been made possibly by the social technologies developed over the last decade too, which makes it all the more beautiful.

it is a protest song, that's what makes it appear to be a protest.

This was being pushed for Xmas number 1 in 2007, I think. It didn't make it.

[youtubehd]BbL9Vsobx8I[/youtubehd]

proof!

protest against the x-factor

FUCKING LOL

protest against the x-factor

FUCKING LOL

  On 12/15/2009 at 11:53 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

proof!

If you were talking to me... http://www.nme.com/news/malcolm-middleton/32692

"The song was beaten to the top on 23/12/2007, having reached number 31 in the UK singles chart, with the UK Christmas number one being a cover of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston's When You Believe as performed by X-Factor winner Leon Jackson."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Middleton

I'm all for the reality tv combo breaker idea - just don't kid yourself that the band that sang about evil corporations while signed to Sony Records is any less fake than the X Factor band

So you lot would rather see some awful nineties crusties at number one with an aural equivalent of the average youtube comment, rather than a fresh faced young Geordie lad with an interpretation of Camus' myth of sisyphus?

dunno about anyone else, but I'm rooting for shakin' stevens to hit the top spot once again with "merry christmas, everyone".

i'd think it was briliant if rage against the machine could have a christmas #1. it's got nothing to do with the record label, it's all to do with the fact that x factor has had the xmas #1 for the last 4 years now, maybe 5 this year. a dirty protest, if you like.

  On 12/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

i'm a capitalist

Why do you like capitalism?

My Xmas number one every year, sod the charts, sod X factor, sod Rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOq4JZNEkB4&feature=related

  On 12/16/2009 at 9:00 AM, Bread said:

  On 12/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

i'm a capitalist

Why do you like capitalism?

most liberal allocation of capital i know of, compared to feudalism and the socialism practiced in east germany.

RATM got away with a lot of shit and shrieking.

Still far better than Cowell's puppet mind.

i prefer joe's song

the most amusing thing about this is that people care what is at number one.

in the charts.

it's cool but i don't really give a toss lol

  On 12/16/2009 at 12:45 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

  On 12/16/2009 at 9:00 AM, Bread said:

  On 12/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

i'm a capitalist

Why do you like capitalism?

 

most liberal allocation of capital i know of, compared to feudalism and the socialism practiced in east germany.

i like HIV. it's okay compared to bubonic plague and polio

i'm gonna spend £0.50 on it and then delete it

take that capitalism

  On 12/16/2009 at 4:18 PM, chimera slot mom said:

  On 12/16/2009 at 12:45 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

  On 12/16/2009 at 9:00 AM, Bread said:

  On 12/15/2009 at 6:16 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

i'm a capitalist

Why do you like capitalism?

 

most liberal allocation of capital i know of, compared to feudalism and the socialism practiced in east germany.

 

i like HIV. it's okay compared to bubonic plague and polio

heh, so you believe diseases are worth spreading?