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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-In-T.../dp/B001I4NZP4

Bargain. :rolleyes:

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Humbug.

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Bum Hug. :D

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But, could any of these Xfactor robots actually write their own stuff? Ill bet not, and that this is why most of them just get forgotten, they are just not great.

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Not that i like XFactor, but how many songs did Frank Sinatra write for himself?

My guess is non or not many. Just a thought. :rolleyes:

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According to The Official Chart Company's website, you have to pay a minimum of 40 pence for a download to be eligible for the chart.

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Ah, i've read articles that the Amazon sales are outselling the XFactor one and that it looks good etc blah blah.

Maybe not then. :(

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Hitler Finds out Killing in the Name is the 2009 Xmas number 1

Sorry Dirk, way too many f-words for U rating haha, but its out there on youtube if anyone wants to search for it ;) - Warty

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I wont buy either. I think that we should all be putting our efforts in a bringing something really odd to #1 this Christmas! I mean Last Christmas by Wham is back in the Charts 25 years on!

No music is truly unique anymore. If you know enough about it, i am sure that you can sit there and go 'Ah thats so n so from that other track'

Most things are a cover of something that never even made it off the ground, and that applies to all genres of music. FACT!

Talent shows have been round for ages. Some of the modern day stars made thier first apperance on talent shows, it just that now they are seriously mainstream.

Whoever gets to number 1, its still good for music and keeping the dwindilling music industry alive. Joe, will still have his Million quid contract, he is going to go to the US, which Leona and Alexadra done and will probably do well. If you were 18, and singing is what you wanted to do, and you had the chance to do what he did, you would, no doubt about it...plus he got to hug Cheryl Cole more than once, id do it for that alone...and and he probably has her mobile number!

Lets get Jasper Carrott and funky moped to number 1 :)

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Or the Goodies and Do the Funky Gibbon :thumbsup:

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Anyone remember when this was in the charts first time around? The Chart Show producer on Radio 1 accidentally played the unedited version in full on the countdown. That is about 26 F***s and 1 M****r F****r at 6.45pm. He got sacked. We sent him a leaving present from Sony. :p

And I'm off to see Depeche Mode tonight - now there's a proper band, the best thing to come out of Basildon.

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Ahahahahhaahah. Wait are you serious?! :p

The music industry isn't dwindling in the slightest, 'cept maybe if you count the gigantic dearth of tallent in the charts. The best thing for music would be the death of the music industry. Then we'd just have the choice to buy music that you know, was actually good, rather than the crap that souless corporate bohemoths decided they could sell the most of.

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Yup it was November 1992 and the DJ was Bruno Brookes . He didn`t actually get sacked from the BBC until 1995 .

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That is another great Hiter Video :D

Im not so sure, granted he wasn't a big writer but he did have a part. Thing is he wasnt shot to fame simply by winning a song contest, though he did win a song contest, still It took him a few years of trying and getting a leg up from a popular band. Was he gifted it? Certainly not id say. Then there was a lull in his career, one that he came back from. If Joe were to have a number one for this Christmas, and then have the album sink, would he come back?

Then there is the argument of which was/is the better singer, Joe or Frank. Do we need to answer that? :p

I know it might seem like im picking fault... and perhaps I am. But the people that love X factor seem to have very short attention spans and seem very eager to move on. Not that I can blame them with what X factor produces :roll:

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Frank is a badman. :cool: Great voice and he knew the mafia. ;)

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*Helps Mr Squiz down off his soap box* ;) We do have choice to buy the music we want. Music sales overall are far less than they were when i was buying music by the bucket load. Back in the old days *Goes all wobbly nostalgic* a #1 single had to sell in excess of a million copies, and for platinum albums, it was something like 500k. Now we're lucky if its 100k for a #1 single and its 50k for a platinum album. So with that in mind, this is why i say its dwindling. I know that the huge corporate machines are doing thier level best to force the likes of the latest christmas album upon us and they will never stop. But nowadays we have far more sources for music, like MySpace music, You tube and the other mirad of video sites, so we do have choice 100%.

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According to the BPI, music isn't dwindling, pre-recorded music sold by the middle men is dwindling...;)

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2...-file-sharing/

The same thing is being reported in Sweden:

http://www.danieljohansson.se/post/T...hs-Report.aspx

Ignoring the file-sharing issue that inevitably gets tagged to any discussion of the recording industry it's pretty clear consumers aren't interested in pre-packaged albums, they want to see artists perform and be entertained, which is great for the artists as they get more money, great for the consumers because they get more than yet another cookie cutter CD but not so great for the middle men who aren't as easily able to milk both for profit anymore...

:smt073

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How can you generalise like that? thats so narrow minded!!! I like watching X factor - but that doesn't make me thick :confused: I'm halfway through a degree (distinction on one honours level course) perhaps one could say that people posting on an internet forum for hours and hours each day are a bit strange and need to get a life :smt102

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+1 :)

however, from some of the undergrads I've had to teach how to suck eggs this past term, studying for a degree dosn't entitle one for brainy status either :lol:

(i'm far from it tbh)

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haha, your halfway through, your attention span will end soon and you'll leave the course.:thumbsup:

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Not really, especially if you want to listen to the radio you don't.

Artists should be allowed to produce music for their genre, not have music for every genre perverted into pop crap!

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He didn't but his producer did.

Depeche were great last night, but why do some people feel the need to talk all the way through gigs? Martin Gore was singing 'Judas' solo and it was wonderful, apart from three blokes standing next to me chatting at the top of their voices. I told them in my best school mistress voice to shush and enjoy the moment or go to the bar. I must have been quite stern as they apologised and shut up.

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Cowell is music ATM, Joe will be top at Christmas, no doubt!

Then next year his plan is to make him just like that tw@ Zac Efron.

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radio 5 fail!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8418158.stm

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

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Haha, epic win. That couldn't have been anymore perfect. :smt041

That 'Sheila' at the end is an **** hole though. Don't buy Joe's record. ;)

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"get joe's records!"

na thanks, i like screaming the banned F word. it'll make a good family sing along song in years to come

"come on kids, gather round now while i play the guitar. lets all sing that yuletide classic...killing in the name of"

:smt041

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:lol:
Amazon have generously awarded me £1 to spend on their MP3s after spending several hundred pounds with them, how kind. Guess the only thing to do is buy this track...again.

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Joe McElderry is such a wet blanket and never heard of RATM!! "i only listen to pop chart" what kind of musician is he!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8415750.stm

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anyone else want to hear him to say

"PJ!"

and

"Byker Grove"

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I say we make him go on tour with New Model Army. That'll toughen him up!

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Reccon they were on the 3rd or 4th "Won't do what you tell me" when the irony kicked in :)

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I take it you mean Five live? They didnt exactly do what they asked them after the 4th one... ha ha. :rolleyes:

Im surprised they let them play live, or at the very least didn't put it on a delay so they could bleep it if they needed to. lol

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Just watched the clip. Cheers.
PMSL!



....after the song put shivers down my neck!

I was agreeing with folk who said they were a bit sick of hearing the song but after hearing it live again. No. Its a classic.

Anywayz, if its bores you , you are not playing it loud enough!:p

And singers are singers. NOT musicians.:smt105

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Rubbish!!! course they are musicians! what makes you say that?

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Which song? :p

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Just heard on BB1 that the X factor song may be edging ahead :(

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Rage against machine song (if you can call it that) is bloody awful, i have no idea what the xfactor one is, down with both of them :D:D:D

Also, i think the meaning of chav is being confused some what, a chav is an idiot in a hoody and a hat hanging round a park up to no good, i cant see them all running in to watch x factor! lol.

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Doesn't surprise me - I'd figured that come the weekend, the x factor would eek out a lead due to the cd sales as stocking fillers.

Despite nearly 900000 people on the Rage Against the X Factor facebook group the RATM single has sold shy of 300000. Not a bad turn out, but must do better!

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it was a nice dream but tbh even if it is 2nd i be happy, can turn the radio off and pretend it was number 1

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They have got the message though , I have never contributed/voted in any way whatsoever to "Organised" PopFactor type things ..... maybe one day soon he will give it up as a bad idea in the same way that Big Brother lost its audience and zest .