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RATM - Killing in the name for UK Xmas No1?

marqueemarkmarqueemark Posts: 31
edited December 2009 in Other Music
Sick of XFactor pop twats? Then buy Killing In The Name after Dec 13th and hopefully deny them the Xmas No 1 spot!

http://www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48727
Rage Against The Machine are to make a bid to beat this year's winner of 'The X Factor' to the UK's Christmas Number One single position.

A Facebook group asking people to buy the band's 'Killing In The Name' has at the time of writing attracted over 45,000 members.

The group states that fans should buy the song from December 13 – the same day that this year's X Factor winner's song becomes available.
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  • PontikasPontikas Posts: 210
    If the money went to charity and not in their pockets i would gladly buy it.
    http://youtu.be/cwPgXkNOun4
  • RicsardRicsard Posts: 1,943
    cool idea, I hope they'll make it
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  • pearl spampearl spam Posts: 154
    i doubt it will get to number 1 but i am going to buy it anyway :D
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Pontikas wrote:
    If the money went to charity and not in their pockets i would gladly buy it.

    well better than simon cowell's pockets...RATM are pro a lot of stuff so they may donate..
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Plus they are encouraging everyone who buys it to also donate money to the Shelter charity - so far they've raised over £10,000 for the homeless. Incidently, I used to know the guy who has set this all up. I've just done my bit and downloaded it.

    Oh, and that NME report is old, they now have nearly 700,000 people signed up on facebook!
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Bump! Come on people, you can buy the track for 29p on Amazon!
  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    facepollution wrote:
    Bump! Come on people, you can buy the track for 29p on Amazon!

    I think I read somewhere that if the track is bought for less than 40p (or something), it "doesn't count". :? I could be wrong though. if so, someone correct me!
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  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    facepollution wrote:
    Bump! Come on people, you can buy the track for 29p on Amazon!

    On the facebook page it says if you pay less than 40p it doesn't count towards the chart (I guess it's to stop record companies more or less giving a track away to sell more and get a better chart position) ... think they are now over £20000 to Shelter ... and it is no 1 on hmv, play and I believe iTunes at the moment.

    Although the X-Factor has the advantage of physical sales as well as downloads.

    EDIT: The info on the Facebook group has changed. They now say the Amazon download does count :?
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  • RicsardRicsard Posts: 1,943
    Instead of amazon

    try play.com or iTunes!!!
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  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    Has to cost more than 40p to count. Get it from itunes or HMV - there's a link from the HMV home page (1st track on album).
    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
    http://www.strummersphotography.com

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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    strummers wrote:
    Has to cost more than 40p to count. Get it from itunes or HMV - there's a link from the HMV home page (1st track on album).

    well apparently the facebook group have checked and had it confirmed by amazon that their sales do count.

    iTUNES - 99p - track #2 (click on 'view in itunes' on the right)
    http://bit.ly/ratm-itunes

    PLAY.COM - 65p - it's the only track on the page
    http://bit.ly/ratm-play

    7DIGITAL - £1.19P - track #2
    http://bit.ly/ratm-7digital

    HMV.COM - 79p (careful - this is track #1)
    http://bit.ly/ratm-hmv

    TUNETRIBE - 49P - track #2 - LIVE version (yes it counts)
    http://bit.ly/ratm-tunetribe
    or
    http://bit.ly/rage-tunetribe (Studio Version)

    TESCO DIGITAL - 67p - track #2
    http://bit.ly/ratm-tesco

    AMAZON - 29p - YES IT COUNTS: CONFIRMED
    http://bit.ly/rage-amazon

    WE7 - £1.07p - track #2
    http://bit.ly/ratm-we7
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Bump!
  • duggroduggro Posts: 1,343
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... chine.html
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    ^^^^^^^^
    That's what we like to see :lol:
  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    facepollution wrote:
    strummers wrote:
    Has to cost more than 40p to count. Get it from itunes or HMV - there's a link from the HMV home page (1st track on album).

    well apparently the facebook group have checked and had it confirmed by amazon that their sales do count.

    iTUNES - 99p - track #2 (click on 'view in itunes' on the right)
    http://bit.ly/ratm-itunes

    PLAY.COM - 65p - it's the only track on the page
    http://bit.ly/ratm-play

    7DIGITAL - £1.19P - track #2
    http://bit.ly/ratm-7digital

    HMV.COM - 79p (careful - this is track #1)
    http://bit.ly/ratm-hmv

    TUNETRIBE - 49P - track #2 - LIVE version (yes it counts)
    http://bit.ly/ratm-tunetribe
    or
    http://bit.ly/rage-tunetribe (Studio Version)

    TESCO DIGITAL - 67p - track #2
    http://bit.ly/ratm-tesco

    AMAZON - 29p - YES IT COUNTS: CONFIRMED
    http://bit.ly/rage-amazon

    WE7 - £1.07p - track #2
    http://bit.ly/ratm-we7

    Bollards - wish I knew that before I ordered! ;)
    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
    http://www.strummersphotography.com

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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Order again! From all of them :D
  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    Apparently Tom Morello was interviewed by Radio 6 Music this morning
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8415750.stm
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    With respect, this whole campaign seems completely moronic to me. We'd get a shouty, cod-political anthem from the early nineties at number one in the charts rather than some Cowell-manufactured, easy-listening muzak. It won't save the future of popular culture as we know it.

    It's a shame people can't get so motivated about things that matter.

    PS Bah humbug. :lol:
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,941
    Pontikas wrote:
    If the money went to charity and not in their pockets i would gladly buy it.

    It is going to charity: http://www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48901
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  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    Here's more on Tom's interview

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/200912 ... hine.shtml
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • wash_wash_ Posts: 1,073
    I think it's brilliant.


    A very apt Christmas alternative!
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  • JimNasticsJimNastics Posts: 679
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    With respect, this whole campaign seems completely moronic to me. We'd get a shouty, cod-political anthem from the early nineties at number one in the charts rather than some Cowell-manufactured, easy-listening muzak. It won't save the future of popular culture as we know it.

    It's a shame people can't get so motivated about things that matter.

    PS Bah humbug. :lol:

    The whole thing, at the end of the day, is just a bit of fun... hence why they tried Rick Astley one year. They just happened to chose a song which actually stands a chance this year, due to RATM's vast popularity. I'd say the moronic people are people like yourself reading far too much into it.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    At least the Rick Astley idea wasn't pandering to middle-class snobs' chav-punching, quasi-masturbatory fantasies.


    I do so enjoy hyper-defensive people on the Internet who, having no means of dialectical skill or wit to propose a contrary point of view to something originally posted on a thread, voluntarily allow remote DSM-IV diagnoses of their evident personality disorders by resorting to cheap abuse (where somebody's differing opinion threatens their fragile ontological security). Keep it up. Vote for Bob Garolgees and Spit The Dog singing Irish rebel songs next year.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    At least the Rick Astley idea wasn't pandering to middle-class snobs' chav-punching, quasi-masturbatory fantasies.


    I do so enjoy hyper-defensive people on the Internet who, having no means of dialectical skill or wit to propose a contrary point of view to something originally posted on a thread, voluntarily allow remote DSM-IV diagnoses of their evident personality disorders by resorting to cheap abuse (where somebody's differing opinion threatens their fragile ontological security). Keep it up. Vote for Bob Garolgees and Spit The Dog singing Irish rebel songs next year.

    One could argue that someone who tries to put somebody down with such OTT verbal diarrhea was also a bit of a snob.

    I don't really think it's fair to refer to Killing In The Name as a "cod-political anthem" - with respect to RATM, they've always stood up for their beliefs - hell, they've been arrested enough times to prove it!

    I think the point of this campaign is to simply bring a bit of excitement and spontaneity to the Christmas number one again. Obviously in the grand scheme of things it doesn't mean a great deal. I do think it is kind of sad how contestant show winners and artists related to the shows, are making up most of the top ten these days though. Plus as a side note, the X-factor's hold over the Christmas number one spot has prevented other charity singles from raising money.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AYUqVNSsY :lol:
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Okay then, I'll spill it out in baby language for you. :lol::lol: RATM has been arrested a few times? Does that make them more genuinely political than your friendly local city councillor? How does that work? Politics is more about unblocking drains and fixing street lights than it is clenching your teeth and being seen to donate royalties to sexy revolutionaries from the seventies. :lol:


    X-factor has prevented other charity Christmas singles from reaching the top spot? Give me at least three examples, or I'll write what you just said off as being complete bollocks. :lol:

    Anyway, carry on. Unite, brothers and sisters! Unite against the scourge of scepticism. :lol:
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,941
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Okay then, I'll spill it out in baby language for you. :lol::lol: RATM has been arrested a few times? Does that make them more genuinely political than your friendly local city councillor? How does that work? Politics is more about unblocking drains and fixing street lights than it is clenching your teeth and being seen to donate royalties to sexy revolutionaries from the seventies. :lol:


    X-factor has prevented other charity Christmas singles from reaching the top spot? Give me at least three examples, or I'll write what you just said off as being complete bollocks. :lol:

    Anyway, carry on. Unite, brothers and sisters! Unite against the scourge of scepticism. :lol:

    My god dude. Enough with the laughing smiley faces.

    Anyway, I'm not from the UK so I don't know much about the British charts around Christmas time or anything like that. But what I do know, is that a mass movement against anything Simon Cowell-related has to be a good thing. He's an annoying twit to us Americans...I can't even imagine how much Brits must hate him.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    edited December 2009
    Pfffffft. Okay, you take silly things seriously and don't like being laughed at. Why does it even matter if Cowell is number one every year? Really? What difference does it make? Cowell is a pop impresario who feeds chum to the masses the way they like it: saccharin and inoffensive. Have you ever watched old 1970s Christmas episodes of Top of the Pops? The charts were wall-to-wall shite then. In fact, they were worse. Why would any intelligent human being over the age of 12 care about what was top of the charts? Are you bastions of high art, or something? Wait, why would any intelligent person even discuss something so dumb? That's it, I'm off to do something constructive ...
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Okay then, I'll spill it out in baby language for you. :lol::lol: RATM has been arrested a few times? Does that make them more genuinely political than your friendly local city councillor? How does that work? Politics is more about unblocking drains and fixing street lights than it is clenching your teeth and being seen to donate royalties to sexy revolutionaries from the seventies. :lol:


    X-factor has prevented other charity Christmas singles from reaching the top spot? Give me at least three examples, or I'll write what you just said off as being complete bollocks. :lol:

    Anyway, carry on. Unite, brothers and sisters! Unite against the scourge of scepticism. :lol:

    It doesn't need to be written in baby language, just language that doesn't make you look like a hypocrite.

    I didn't say that it did make them more political, it just means that they are willing to fight for the things they feel passionately about - things like censorship in music, civil rights, human rights etc. I think human rights are more important than broken street lights - which is not to say they aren't important, but they are more community based issues which don't need such a big platform to bring them to people's attention.

    Here's an example of a charity single this year that hasn't had the opportunity to gather any momentum:

    http://te-in.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58604186050

    another....

    http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/the-womb ... ity-single

    another....

    http://www.looktothestars.org/news/3534 ... ity-single

    another....

    http://onethirtybpm.com/2009/12/10/chri ... ravaganza/
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    They're not directly clamouring to challenge the top spot, so your point falls down. Carry on finding silly links that don't back up your case. :lol: Bye, angry people!
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