How awsome would that be? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8413557.stm

For those not in the UK, the last few years the chrismtas number 1 was always got by simon cowells crappy X-Factor show winner (who then fades into oblivion).

Anyway, I'm gonna download it and help the cause

I ****ing love Rage Against the Machine. They helped me to release so much teenage angst in my day.

When I saw this title, I thought maybe there was some new 'Rage against the Machine' Xmas song. That would be a christmas song worth listening to.

I got the song off itunes mid day today

hate x-factor.

I don't really care either way. While I do not like X-Factor at all or anything that has come out of it, it is kind of a dick move to the winners of the show. But then again, this is just an example of how many people don't like X-Factor, and this is the best way to show it.

Oh Come on, cant it be the Muppet Bohemiam Rhapsody?

I've done my bit :-)

What it comes down to, is not that the X-Factor winner is necessarily bad (they're usually pretty good singers), but that there's an inevitability about it that undermines everything music should be about. When the same people will buy the X-Factor single regardless of who wins, it shows that it's not about what's good but about what people are told to like.

Simon Cowell is no John Peel, he's not out to discover great talent and push them on to the airwaves. He doesn't care who wins as long as he can make money from them (and they tend to get dropped from his label very quickly after their first album). Fair enough, he's a businessman and is out to make money, but he has more money than he'll ever need and there are far less socially disruptive ways to make a fortune.

He could learn a lot from Bill Gates to be honest.

Yes, what Simon Cowell does is socially disruptive. He is unraveling the very fabric of British society. He must be stopped.

He's good telly, but he's just average, inevitable radio.

It's not a dick move to the winners of the show; The Christmas Number 1 spot has usually had a contest between a few contenders every year, and having that spot isn't something thats guaranteed as part of the show. Just because you win a glorified Kareoke contest doesn't mean you deserve anything else.

The whole reason that it's done in the second half of the year is for the precise reason that they can attempt to hijack it, and frankly I'm just plain bored of that. I believe Cowell has been quoted as saying something about how he has "saved" Britain from the #1 being bland stuff like Westlife and The Millenium Prayer, while all he's done is warp it so he's making money off the ****e.

personally I don't mind Cowell in the slightest, he's a clever guy, works bloody hard by the sounds of it and deserves the success he has got.

But.....I hate what he is doing to music, I hate the X-Factor, which as folks have said is nothing more than a glorified Kareoke contest and the humilation some people go through trying to get on to the show is just plain wrong in some cases. Although to be fair a lot of the people who are made out to look like idiots probably needed a slap of reality.

Anyways, I damn well hope RATM get No.1

I only have any interest in X-Factor when it's at the (as my dad calls it) bear-baiting stage at the beginning. Once the crap, arrogant, and/or deranged people have been filtered out it gets boring.

Also, I dislike how whenever someone is introduced with a piano track in the background you know they're going through on sob-story grounds.

But I really don't care about who gets the Christmas number 1. It won't affect my festivities in the slightest (drinking).

I'm peeved now, iTunes store won't let me gift it to someone because it's "experiencing difficulties".

"**** you I won't do what you tell me! Now, buy our single. All of you."

Rage don't have anything to do with it.

They said it it worked they would play a show

Yeah, they said they'd do a free gig. Which is nice. They've also pledged the proceeds to a music charity, and to Shelter - a homeless charity.

Better yet, it's made me interested in the Christmas number 1 for the first time since about 2003.

That's because theres a bit of competition, just like how there used to be.

Aye. This sort of thing has been happening for a couple of years now, but there have been too many campaigns for too many songs splitting the votes. This year I told myself i'd buy the first real protest song I saw, and hope others did the same. That's why as much as iwould prefer the muppets bo-rap there was no point as all the protest votes need to be lumped in together.

Rage wins!

bahahahaha wtf

I wish it were a more festive tune, but go internet!

*haapydance*

haha trolled