Congrats to Rage Against The Machine

Congrats to Rage Against The Machine

Xmas # 1

What a fucking crease

This really has restored my faith in the British public. I hope Simon Cowell is crying into his high waistband the smarmy cunt.

Both 'artists' are signed to Sony BMG anyway aren't they?

Cowell wins regardless.

Story of my life. To be fair he probably doesnt need the coin that much anyway. It just made me chuckle when he spat his dummy and came out and called the campaign "stupid" and "cynical".

Aye I don't think it's the money that's the issue. He just wanted his little effeminate produce at number one this Christmas.

im glad that horrific little x factor twat never got it like

'fuck you i wont do what you tell me'

I bet he's been crying into his cornflakes over it trying to figure out how he'll pay the bills because he never got to number one. Oh wait....He's probably just deciding what to spend the vast amounts of cash he's going to get regardless of where his record came.

+ he'll be number one next week

No matter how much cash he makes he'll always be an annoying little mincer. Hopefully he'll be crying into his cornflakes 5 years down the line when hes been dropped by his record label & everyones forgotton who he is.

Joe shouldn't feel too disheartened, I had a number 2 at Christmas last year, it smelled of Sprouts, peas and gravy.

best comment as usual from Charlie Brooker in the guardian

"Anyway, while I'm happy for Rage Against the Machine to be enjoying the sales and publicity, I can't help thinking we could've organised a slightly better protest ourselves. Chances are the X Factor will try to kick back extra hard next year – perhaps by actually releasing a song with a melody in it – so it's best to start planning the resistance now.

The temptation might be to pour a lot of time and effort into creating a catchy anti-X Factor anthem, but the smartest counter-move would be to release something short, cheap and throwaway that isn't even a proper song at all. I propose a track called Simon Cowell: Shit for Ears, which consists of a couple of eight-year-olds droning the phrase "Simon Cowell, shit for ears" four times in a row in the most deliberately tuneless manner possible. It should last only about 15 seconds or so. Quick enough to register; brief enough not to outstay its welcome.

Then we release it online at the lowest price possible. What's the bare minimum you can charge and still be eligible for a chart position? It could be as little as 2p. Because the track is just recorded on to a cheap mic, and released without the assistance of any record label, 100% of the profits go to charity.

Dot-eyed CGI judge and omnipresent hair product spokeswoman Cheryl Cole recently complained that the campaign against McElderry's single was "mean", adding "If that song – or should I say campaign – by an American group is our Christmas No 1, I'll be gutted for him and our charts."

She's missing the point. It's not mean: it's funny. The Christmas No 1 turns out to be an angry, confrontational rock track that concludes with an explosion of f-words, it's precisely the shot in the arm the charts have been sorely lacking the last few years: something that puts a genuine smile on the face of millions of people; sensitive people, thoughtful people; people alienated by the stifling cloud of grinning mechanical pap farted into their faces on a weekly basis by cocky, clattering, calculating talent shows such as X Factor. It would give these people hope. Maybe only in a very small and silly way, but still: a tiny spoonful of hope. And what could be more Christmassy than that?

Conspiracy theories galore!!

http://johnnylyle.co.uk/2009/12/22/...hristmas-number-1-is-exposed-as-a-viral-scam/

I read this today, I'm pleased I dicovered him column, he's fucking brilliant.

Re: Charlie Brooker

Watched his review of the year this morning.


If you have not got time to watch the lot just watch from 26 mins him ripping Fern & Peaches is f***ing brilliant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=brooker