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just bought it, have the album but defintely worth a purchase of the single, love Rage against the machine

Unfortunately whoever wins Mr Cowell will end up a richer man, a conspiracy within a conspiracy.....................got to admit he's a smart cookie!

"Rage Against The Machine, meanwhile, are signed to Epic Records, which is part of Sony BMG, the same label as McElderry"

ho ho ho!

WtF
you couldn't make it up!

Sorry Rob, don't like it.
Willow

sony bmg is huge anyway theres only a handful of majors now, cos each one is massive, get it bought!!

the lad Joe who won is talented so nothing against him,i tipped him to win about 6 weeks ago, im buying the rage single cos wanna see some rock back in the charts, rock music is huge and the charts dont reflect that whatsoever -( and it always seems that the x factor is the christmas number 1 without any competition pah.......... :-(

Maybe there should have been a campain for everyone to buy "two little boys" instead then. After all it is the 40th anniversary of the song which was xmas no.1 in 1969 and I would rather the money go to Rolf.

ps - Rage are currently no.1 this week!

Rob ... "rock music is huge and the charts dont reflect that whatsoever "

I bet the rock charts do!

Seriously tho ... we all have our favourite musical idiom (whooo!), but i'm afraid buying rock music is nowhere near as huge as buying crap pop music ... how do i know this ... cos the POP charts tell us so.

Production line manufactured product ... sales recorded at predetermined points of sale ... payola in any other name .. i just wouldn't worry about it!

@TCS .. yaaay .. my mate does two little boys on karaoke to take the piss but it goes down a storm!!!

oooops ... "my mate does two little boys " - perhaps I should rephrase that!
LOL

Willow

Willow

i think the lyrics are rather appropriate and it will be good to look back to see that in a list of christmas no 1s, so i've bought it twice

Hey,Why does anybody give a shit,whats at number 1 ? Anyone who's ever looked at,or listened to RATM lyrics will surely know that their concerns are definitely not,"the pop charts".If you don't like Mr Cowells products,don't bloody buy 'em,turn the telly off.If your concern is charity,ring 'em up and make a donation yourself -there simple!

just in

new.uk.music.yahoo.com/.../

Nobody will top Iron Maiden with bring your daughter to the slaughter IMO. lol

Ha..well ..I just bought Dora Bryan , all I want for christmas is a beatle..there..take that mr Smug Cowell !!!..Dora for Chrimble number 1 ..yayyyyyyyy !!!....nurse!..time for my medication methinks!!

@ the urban bassman (ex minim)- ohhhhh BUGGER!!! i remember that one!!! nurse!! never mind kev's medication-where's me zimmerframe??!!!!?? :-/

wahay viking!..got a spot for you in my new band.. Jerry and the Hattricks, welcome aboard m8..lol

@ the urban bassman (kev ex minim) - you're on!! ( i ain't doing no "tits and bums and pelvic thrust" stuff , though!! leave that to cowell's clones!! ):-/

its ok viking..I have the Marjorie Clarke over 80s pilates group signed up as backing dancers!

@ kev- i would have though the "the roly polys" better-far more to "move around?" certainly better than what you see these days?? :-)

haha! soz guys...bein female i luv simon...dont fancy him but love what he does...thousands and thousands of people have signed a petition on facebook in favour of RATM v x-factor, and it turns out...he'l reap the benefits from that too....bloody genious!!!

ok...i is finkin that u dont like mr.cowell, or x-factor too much, but reality tv is what weve got today...theres no TOTP, no grey whistle test etc(even i dont remember that!)even mr boogeywoogey man's hootenanny cant generate a decent act nowadays!
what chance does our future generation have when all theyre exposed to is tv with acts whose 'looks' overtake their musical talents, people who are hyped up by the media as the ones our kids look up to and want to be like...
im sorry but id rather my kids have leona lewis or alexandra burke...will young or joe mcwots'hecalled as someone to aspire to be like than some bad mannered ill mouthed idiot that many of us find lurking around these days.
you're right theres always going to be someone who gets his dollars from these situations but i bet any one of us would swap our pension funds for simon cowells regardless of how we feel about it x

The point we're all missing with this is that we all have a great love for music, and the vast majority of the population do not have the same depth of feeling for it. They WANT convenience media to give them easily digestible tunes in an easily accessible package.

Why do you think the Sun newspaper, McDonalds, Big Brother, Strictly Come Dancing etc are so popular? Yes, the media feed people safe, middle of the road programming. Why? It's formulaic and it's SAFE.

There is no way EGGHEADS would get the ratings that Harry Hills TV Burp does. That's what popularity IS in the mainstream. People in the media know what they are doing, and no matter how much we dislike it, it hasn't changed in centuries. Only the technology to broadcast has got better so the packaging has become easier to manipulate and distribute.

"Artistic Integrity" won't put food on the table folks. lol.

Anarchy? Ah.......no. lol.

@ Bad Horsie
"There is no way EGGHEADS would get the ratings that Harry Hills TV Burp does"

In this example I think the Great British public has remarkable taste :o)

.....but you understand the point I'm making....right?

hmm - is this an example of irony...or coincidence?

Facebook page - 'Rage against the machine for christmas number one' - members at last count...800,422!

i have it on good authority - as i havnt heard the song (yet) myself that one of the lines/lyrics goes..now this may not be exact...

"f**k you..i wont do what you tell me!"

so...irony or coincidence????

i think the wurzels combine harvester song should be up there battling it out as well haha xx

Scott from Metaleeka finds it hilariously ironic for that exact point.

"f**k you..i wont do what you tell me!"

"Just buy this song cos I said so"

......"uh.....OK!"

lmao.

@ bad horsie...i did say i had it on good authority.. haha x
see he's not bloody here and he still gets his tuppence worth lmao x
miss u scott!!

baa!

I'm in the polar opposite camp to that. 90% of the population are sheep. That's why we can give them anything we want as long as it's processed to taste.

OK ... lets have a conspiracy theory

Remember when Lily Allen was "discovered" via Myspace??
Not a chance ... already backed by record labels , production companies etc ..

Well get this ... the Facebook page was initiated by the very people it was purporting to be against .... !!
Why?
Well,
a) it keeps Xfactor in the news after the show's finished
b) it makes more people buy the winner's record as they are affronted by these rock chappies!
c) so, if XF made #1 with no intervention it would sell X number of copies, Now, even if it only hits #2 it will still sell a lot more!!
d) Plus, the record they choose to push is on their label/management!

win, win, and, er, win!!

Clever bastards these marketing men eh??

ha ha haaaa I love it!

Willowonthegrassyknoll

p.s.

I like Eggheads

and I like Harry Hill's TV Burp

but which one's best ......

:0)

WillowFII-II-II-GHT!!!!

Hehehe. Willow, don't forget your tinfoil hat mate! :o)

Actually Eggheads annoys me because a couple of them are smug as hell. lol.

here here willow for prime minister and bad horsie mick - at least i can rely on some folks to have clout when it comes to hearing the 'other side'...i was beginning to think i was on me own here xx
@ drum bloke - av a brandy...chill...take it out on the skins...
its really NOT that important.
...it only becomes so when we make it so and as willow said, this keeps it in the forefront of conversation therefore ...job done!
Cleverpainintheassmarketers - simples x

Eggheads ? Annoying ?

Damn right! LOL

Actually though, don't you think its been watered down with these new Eggs?? Barry looks like your typical pub quiz nerd and the rest of them have no character to speak of at all!

the first five are the best, smugness(Daffers) and all!!

HH would wup their asses in a fight!!

@Karen ... now then, I like the Prime Minister, and I like Bad Horsie Mick .......

..................... continue until fed up!! LOL
Willow

stop press

apparently simon c is rage against the machine's new manager

"ah nevermind, Cowell's still a dick.."

Now that I can get behind. lol.

ALL reality tv sucks donkey b*llocks, get a life

love the RATM link at the top, LMFAO, buy the whole album as well, its a classic -)

X facter is just the same as "The Muppet Show" without the comedy, oh and the muppets on factor can't sing, or dance as well as Kermit and Miss Piggy. But they do have one thing in common, they all have someones hand up their arse!

why you looking at me, i'm a real Pig (in more ways than one) lol

@ pig-can't say the charts have been much better for as many years back as i can remember either?? who was it said "video killed the radio star"?? damn right!! oh-and i reckon "reality tv" is an oxymoron (moron being the operative word?):-(