Well you all socked it to The Man

[Damian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8423340.stm

Well, you would have, if Rage Against the Machine weren't signed to Sony.

So you sucked his bell end if you bought XFactor or RATM

What a brilliant marketing scam from Sony!

[TGITC]

I liked the idea of people getting together, to stop some 'pap' being the Xmas #1...
But cant really say I thought much of the alternative (RATM)

What I think WOULD have been nice, would have been instead of ratm, the alternative was an album of traditional carols, sung by a traditional choir...

You know... Silent Night, Good King Wenceslas, I saw 3 ships, etc etc...

OK, call me old fashioned, and in a way, I suppose I am... But thats what I would have liked for XMAS :)

[Damian]

I liked the idea of people getting together, to stop some 'pap' being the Xmas #1...
But cant really say I thought much of the alternative (RATM)

What I think WOULD have been nice, would have been instead of ratm, the alternative was an album of traditional carols, sung by a traditional choir...

You know... Silent Night, Good King Wenceslas, I saw 3 ships, etc etc...

OK, call me old fashioned, and in a way, I suppose I am... But thats what I would have liked for XMAS :)

People were not getting together. RATM are signed to Sony. It was a marketing trick by Sony.

[TGITC]

Oh OK, so Sony started the facebook group thing?

To be honest, Im so out of the loop on this one. I dont watch the X Factor, Don't listen to ratm and dont really listen to much music at all these days...

Except for Xmas, when I expect I will probably listen to a few trad carols :)

[Damian]

Oh OK, so Sony started the facebook group thing?

To be honest, Im so out of the loop on this one. I dont watch the X Factor, Don't listen to ratm and dont really listen to much music at all these days...

Except for Xmas, when I expect I will probably listen to a few trad carols :)

Course they did.

[wingless]

it was started by some guy making a video of xfactor people singing (dubbed) the ratm song. profits from the sale of the song went to charity as well

[mOBSCENE]

Wish they had done this song:

YouTube- Get on your knees

You better fuck as good as you look and suck as good as you fuck.

Class :)

[daveydude]

Course they did.

Well, supposedly it's some couple called Jon & Tracy who started the Facebook group to get RATM to #1. They tried & failed to do the same with Rick Astley year - copyright on Astley's music is held by Sony as well...

Fishy? Maybe, but at least a large chunk of the revenue from this prank is going to charity, so all in all I reckon it's a good bit of festive fun.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the same tactics could work for elections!

Vote Astley 2010 - who's with me?

[gawdi]

To be honest, Im so out of the loop on this one. I dont watch the X Factor, Don't listen to ratm and dont really listen to much music at all these days...

Except for Xmas, when I expect I will probably listen to a few trad carols :)

You Old Git....

Just like me............ what the fuck is XFactor and who is this other fucking Group?

Bringback Slade and Wizard at Xmas

[redwhiteandblue]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8423340.stm

Well, you would have, if Rage Against the Machine weren't signed to Sony.

So you sucked his bell end if you bought XFactor or RATM

What a brilliant marketing scam from Sony!

Are you saying Simon Cowell owns Sony?

[Damian]

Are you saying Simon Cowell owns Sony?

No. I am saying that his company gives Sony loads of money.

By 2008, it was reported that Syco accounted for 70% of profit at Sony Music UK

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

http://newsarse.com/2009/12/15/x-factor-protestors-to-give-money-to-sony-in-slightly-different-way/

[ajaxjones]

No. I am saying that his company gives Sony loads of money.

By 2008, it was reported that Syco accounted for 70% of profit at Sony Music UK

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

http://newsarse.com/2009/12/15/x-factor-protestors-to-give-money-to-sony-in-slightly-different-way/

I bet Simon was right behind the campaign to make him look like someone had slapped the smug grin off his face.

[wingless]

naa if he was behind it he wouldent have lost, would have made it close but hes to smug to have setup his own loss

[dvtimes]

justr a thought....

whao cares???

for a start i am not the remotest interested in what the no 1 song is.

and for another, i have 0 interest in x factor or whatever its called.

x factor and strictly dancing are for those who are retaded. they can sit and clap when they are told to.

i have no problem with this.

in fact it proves my point that democracy does not work as so many people are clealy morons.

i may get ridn of my tv in 2010 as its realy only for the mentaly ill.

being an accademic i realise that its wasting my skills.

i need to concentate more on my accademic studies.

[rogue]

I'd have liked to have seen them choose a Cliff Richards song, i don't like his music but it would have kept his record alive of having a number 1 song in every decade since the charts began.

[dvtimes]

I'd have liked to have seen them choose a Cliff Richards song, i don't like his music but it would have kept his record alive of having a number 1 song in every decade since the charts began.


everybody likes cliff richards music.

i do.

i think people just say they do not, to look cool.

but stick on a record and i bet you would have a little sing a log to it.

YouTube- Mistletoe and Wine by Cliff Richard

[dvtimes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGOU0o9K89g

[Elisha Jade]

naa if he was behind it he wouldent have lost, would have made it close but hes to smug to have setup his own loss

I've met him.. he's just as smug in real life as he is on the tv :S But this is a bit fishy!

[Cardinal_Sin]

But this is a bit fishy!

Wot - sniffin yer fingers in yer avatar?

[dvtimes]

Wot - sniffin yer fingers in yer avatar?


no

she is yawning at your jokes

[strictlybroadband]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8423340.stm

Well, you would have, if Rage Against the Machine weren't signed to Sony.

So you sucked his bell end if you bought XFactor or RATM

What a brilliant marketing scam from Sony!

Like most marketing people, you think marketing people are far clever than they actually are.

Even if the whole thing WAS started by some bright-spark at Sony, this was the first chance people have had to block the X Factor from producing a winner. I think it's a great result (but no, I didn't buy either of the singles).

[Damian]

Like most marketing people, you think marketing people are far clever than they actually are.


Don't feel bad about fooling for it, loads of people did!

[Johnny Kleenexxx]

pretty much anyone signed to a major feels babylons cock in their bottom
woulda been far more interesting had it been a previously unsigned act

reckon guy chose RAM cus the 90's was probably the last time he had any fun,
last time he remembers swearing in public & feeling slightly rebellious,
last time he remembers shagging anyone that wasn't called "wife"..

any track that gets rinsed by a major for 15 years ceases to be edgy by definition..
wasted opportunity to bring global profile to a new sound or genre..

the whole thing has been engineered.. regardless of the outcome,
everyone is laughing all the way to the bank except the public sheep

[strictlybroadband]

Don't feel bad about fooling for it, loads of people did!

Damian made a typo! It must be Xmas. :D