Rage against the X-Factor Journey

[The Original Muzza]

As some of you will know, the X-Factor has apparently held X-Mas No.1 slot for 4 years now in the UK singles chart.
As almost all of you will know, Simon Cowell is a smug cunt.

There are apparently facebook groups urging everyone to buy Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" so the X-Factor does not receive top spot.
Good idea? Yes. However...
There is also a lot of people who urge us to buy Rage Against The Machine's "Killing in the Name of" to hit the top spot.

Why can't these daft bastards collaborate their ideas and decide on one or the other? Now it's just going to be X-Factor at number 1 with two old songs taking the next two slots.
Maybe next year they will have some organisational skills and the message will get through to Simon C. For now though, I'll just stand back and watch the peons perform another failure at their own expense (or maybe I'll buy one or both of the alternative singles, just in case .)
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[Hetzer]

Baron Manfred Von Richthofen will always have the xmas #1 spot.
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[lostboy]

people are trying to rise up against herr cowell? what foolishness I can see this all ending in tears,

but if they want help I vill say zis only vonce...
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[wizzzard]

Sadly there is nothing that will stop the deluded masses buying the manufactured tripe that Cowell pumps out. The nation as a whole is retarded and will buy into every gimmick going, the viewing figures for such programmes as x-factor and I'm a celebrity speak for themselves.

Bring back Cliff Richard number ones at christmas, at least the guy actually believes in the wet mushy crap that comes out of his mouth.

Oh and I went with Rage against the machine because it kicks ass
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[Throttle]

Maybe the people buying the epic Journey single, should have done some research.

Idiots.

and just for the hell of it.

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[Phil.]

You really care about who is number 1 at xmas? So much so that you'd buy a song you probably have already owned at some point just so that can be an xmas number 1 instead? All so you can apparently get one over on Simon Cowell?

Well then consider this..

Epic Recordings are RATM's label.
Epic's parent company is Sony Music Entertainment
Simon Cowells record label (which i presume is what the pop idol/ xfactor / britains got talent [I have no idea which one it is this time] will be released under) is named Syco
Sycos parent company is....Sony Music Entertainment.

I'd imagine that the bosses at SME would be quite pleased with Simon if the grand plan game off.
"Thanks to you being a twat Simon we made millions from all the sheeple throwing money at some old song just to piss you off".

Please, if you want to give your money away to something this xmas, consider one of these:

Cancer Research
NSPCC
Centre Point (Homeless)
RSPCA

They need the money much more than Sony Music Entertainment.

[The Original Muzza]

Yeah, it's about the money. People want to buy an old song so Simon Cowell can't afford to feed his family at XMas.

What it's about is RAGING against the MACHINE, the machine being XFactor spitting out a 1 hit wonder every year with promises of awesomeness.
Sometimes anarchy has no direction, and yes I am a halfwit etc. Sometimes you have to be part of a retarded statement to highlight something you feel is mildly worthy.

This post was poorly written, but I'm still hungover and have no intention of upping the grammarings.
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[ashwell-09]

I'm not going to buy any songs, download em for free
I'd like to see rage against the machine win just cos i think they're a great band and if they get number one it'll just be funny.
And x-factor is just about the shittest program about, i'd be happy if Busted got number one.
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[Ste]

[The Original Muzza]

[Raffles]

Joe Mcelderry is a good little singer though isn't he?
Mrs Raffles wants to adopt him. (At least I think that's what she said she'd like to do to him!)
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[Flip]

The singles chart is a meaningless pile of poo and facebook groups are gay. In short I won't be told what to buy by the media, facebook groups or any other fcuker.

[pa_broon74]

Not keen on X factor. Some overly cheerful, overly enthusiastic white toothed git noodling their way through some R&B'ified gut turning rendition of an old hit that was shit first time round while Sony/Cowell/X Facter producers rub their hairy mits together with glee...

Ok, when I say 'not keen' I'm under-playing it slightly. I would put in place a slight change to the program's format in that, when a performer is voted off, they are killed inhumanely. The winner is allowed to survive but instead of a recording contract, their tongue is cut out and their vocal chords frozen permanently so that I (yes, just me) don't have to listen to them warble, tremble and otherwise ululate through some fucking awful version of song that at one point may have been sung quite well.

A bench mark would be that R&B hag who's name escapes me trilling her way through U2's One love (I think.) Despite the fact that Bono is a moaning sunglass wearing arse & fancies himself as the world's moral barometer, it's a not half bad song that was ruined by someone far to enamoured with the sound of their own screeching voice.

Was she a product of X factor? I can't remember, a point in my favour I think.


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[s44678]

Not sure it's really worth fighting against it.

Pop music and the UK charts have always been formulaic.
Cowell has just absolutely nailed the formula (x-factor is essentially a 4 month promotional campaign for the eventual winner) and now he's rinsing the fuck out of it. Fair play to him. People are stupid enough to lap it up, he'll keep on milking it.

Who gives a shit what's xmas number one anyway? You'll only hear it if you listen to shit radio stations in the first place.

There's so many different ways to get access to good music now, you can almost completely detach yourself from commercial, mass-market wank-fests like traditional day-time radio. It's really not that hard, and infinitely more productive that getting pissed off at Cowell.

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[wizzzard]

[pa_broon74]

I think the thing about xmas number ones is, they are more lucrative money spinners in that they'll elbow their way onto the xmas compilation albums year in, year out.

Frankly, I don't rate any xmas number one since Jonah Lewie's Stop the Cavalry, in honesty, because it's quite a dark song.

Actually, scratch that, it's in second place. I just checked that list on a hunch which bore fruit. Rolf Harris' Two Little Boys was an xmas number one in 1969. This song is in my top 5 best ever songs, ummm, ever.


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[LordShaftesbu...]

[Clanger]

I heard about this on Kerrang! radio this morning, and to be frank, I don't give a damn about the charts.

The best Christmas No.1 was a few years back...Iron Maiden pipped Cliff to the top with Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter (not their best single mind, but definitely a funny one to get to the top during the festive season).
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[Ste]

The only song which I'm disappointed didn't make christmas number one was South Park - Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls. It'd have been brilliant for that to be played on the radio and top of the pops on christmas day.

[Fisty]

Fuck you I wont do what you tell me
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Got to be RATM, but as said it'll make no difference. The baboons that seem to make up the masses will simply buy it because it's the x factor winner.
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[quoteSimon Cowell has branded a campaign to prevent the X Factor winner from having the Christmas No 1 single as "stupid" and "cynical".

He also said he felt it was "dismissive" of the show's viewers and that he felt the campaign was aimed at him.

Speaking at a press conference with the competition's finalists Stacey Solomon, Joe McElderry and Olly Murs, and its judges Dannii Minogue, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh, Simon said: "If there's a campaign, and I think the campaign's aimed directly at me, it's stupid. Me having a No 1 record at Christmas is not going to change my life particularly.[/quote]

So its not bothering him then...

[Clanger]

Oh...this is getting a lot more airtime. It's just been discussed on The Wright Stuff. As well as daily comments on Kerrang! radio.

Gail Porter is right behind the issue too, she is apparently a big RATM fan, and dislikes the X Factor Xmas take over too.

I never thought it would make such a big impact on the media! But it has...Good luck to them.
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