Why not be a bit annoying this Christmas?

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm so with *Bob* on this one

[Brendan]

So you don't really get it either?

[SeanMacGabhann]

yes, it's THAT complex a prank ....

[*Bob*]

Leave it to the musical egg-heads, Sean. You're way out of your depth on this one.

[Brendan]

No it?s THAT simple a prank Sean.

[Atila Reincarnate]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I suggest everybody gets out there and buys as

> many copies of Joe Thingy's record as soon as

> possible.

>

> Word on the street is that if Rage win, X-Factor

> will be dropped from the TV schedules and replaced

> by a weekly two-hour special consisting of Rage

> Against The Machine playing their pompous musical

> toecurler over and over whilst a procession of

> monks set fire to themselves live on stage.

Sounds better than X Factor any day of the week!!!!!

[*Bob*]

I'd probably watch the auditions, Atila.. you know - where the monks fail to ignite properly (or haven't even bought a match in with them and have to ask Zack for a light!!!). But I'd lost interest after the live shows started.

[giggirl]

capt_birdseye Wrote:

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> Quite funny and only 29p on Amazon:

>

> http://bit.ly/rage-amazon

The captain is right - only 29p

http://bit.ly/rage-amazon

[*Bob*]

It's way overpriced

[giggirl]

I'll buy it for you *Bob*. An un-Christmas present if you like. No need to thank me.

Px

[Keef]

Don't remember all this fuss last year when people were trying to get Jeff Buckley to number 1

Although I was totally on board with that! Well, you know, on board in that I thought it would be nice if he got number 1, not that I actually bought the single, having paid for Grace, the overrated album, about 3 times.

[*Bob*]

I've already got it - A souvenir from my misguided student days.

It's in the same box as Ned's Atomic Dustbin.

[giggirl]

*Bob*, I probably shouldn't ask; I think I might regret it, but "misguided" how?

[Keef]

I have to say, I still think that RATM album sounds great today. I'm not really in to this prank though, as basically it is counter productive, and SC will be loving it!

I also suspect that the guys who started this on FB, have very little idea about "the machine", and that in 10 years time, they'll be another cog in said machine, and living somewhere like Dulwich.

[Brendan]

I've got a copy for him this Christmas. Wrapped up with a big lickery kiss.

It?s comes with a 300 page dissertation on Tom Morello?s influence on modern guitar playing and his role in brining the technical aspects of hardcore into the mainstream as well as why RATM were groundbreaking in mixing rap with hardcore rather than metal as so many had tried and failed during the ?80s.

[Brendan]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> It's in the same box as Ned's Atomic Dustbin.

So I take it you aren?t going to watch them play the whole of Godfodder at Brixton on Saturday?

[*Bob*]

giggirl Wrote:

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> *Bob*, I probably shouldn't ask; I think I might

> regret it, but "misguided" how?

I bought a few dreadful albums..

[Keef]

Hmmm, that is one band I am happy to leave in the past. I don't think I even liked them when I was 14, I think I just thought I should like them, and CUD.

[Keef]

That was regarding Ned's.

[*Bob*]

You can't put CUD and NAD in the same box (ie the one in the loft)

I'm quite partial to Leggy Mambo (bought only recently again on CD).

[Brendan]

What the fuck is a CUD?

[Brendan]

Anyway Bob I thought we were talking about your disdain for people buying an MP3 to annoy Simon Cowell or at least annoy some people who watch X factor. Or have we moved on to your shit taste in music?

[*Bob*]

My only complaint is the song choice itself.

Someone needs to have a word with Jon Morter's mentor (It was probably Louis).

Clearly he believes 'Killing In The Name' to be some sort of polar opposite to Joe McElderry's 'The Climb'. As it happens, they're simply two sides of the same musical dog chod - and given the choice I don't want either of them.

That said, if I were pushed, I'd choose the X-Factor single over Rage, because X-Factor has at least given me 50 hours of throwaway cosy winter gogglebox fun, whereas RATM have only mananged three minutes of shouty vegan sweary dreadlocked sulky teenage tedium.

No contest. And here's looking forward to X-Factor 2010.

[Jeremy]

I won't be buying it, I was never really into RATM... even when I was 15 I found them rather hypocritical and tedious.

But saying that, I like it as a way for people to collectively say that actually, Simon Cowell and Joe whassisname don't represent everyone's tastes in music (probably not even the majority). A lot of people are totally fed up with the dull routine of yet another talentless 18 year old singing bland cover versions.

[*Bob*]

That's well-put, Jezzer.. and I'm with you all the way.

But 'real music' ceased to have anything to do with the charts long ago, and chart sales themselves are virtually meaningless too now. There is no TOTP. It's over.

The Facebook campaign is a wistful pipedream. Nothing wrong with that. But the supreme irony is that the track that's been chosen to outwit Cowell's novelty X-Factor nonsense.. is actually a novelty record itself - only masquerading as something that's supposed to be all, like, important and stuff.

So the all-round message seems to be "You need a novelty angle and television exposure to sell bucketloads of singles".

Whoop-dee-doo.. what's new?