Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em
So, the power of Facebook and Twitter are demonstrated yet again...Like many things, they probably have as many good points as bad, so whilst Twitter may given a voice to many a discontented Iranian voter, it - along with The Book Of The Faces - is also responsible for replacing one complete bastard Christmas number one with another.
To be honest though, I'm not really all that fussed one way or another. I always found Rage Against The Machine's corporate-sponsored angst utterly boring and maybe that's because when they were at their most prolific, I was busy rediscovering music with proper tunes (En Vogue's My Lovin', Suede's The Drowners, Saint Etienne's Join Our Club and Maria McKee's Youth-produced joyfest, Sweetest Child being prime examples). For a reasoned argument against the tiresome Let's-Get-"Our"-Christmas-Number-One-"Back" campaign, just read the sentiments expressed by Mr Andrew Collins here (aye... of course, you come to my blog before you go to his... you're only human after all!).
Anyway, the whole point of this post is not to rage against RATM or, indeed, the X Factor. It's just that I'm so surprised that I actually know what is at the "top spot" - festive or otherwise! Putting aside the X Factor's yuletide successes of 2005 to 2008, I really cannot recall the last time I knew what was number one, far less give a shit!
Perhaps it was the time in 1998 when I wanted Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls to beat Spice Girls' Goodbye. And a fat lot of good that did.
5 comments:
Your argument is exactly why I always thought a return of TOTP would never work - Generation X types, like us, who don't give a toss about the pop charts would never watch it, and ver kids don't give a toss about TOTP (if they did, it never would have got taken off in the first place).
BUT, listening to some person off 6 Music at the weekend, the X Factor is where all the pop acts go these days, as 'special guests', to launch new singles etc. That has to be wrong, but then, I hate Simon Cowell.
I've taken the stance over RATM that 'we won'.
I refuse to buy this argument that 'The X Factor isn't about music.' Of course it is, it's about taking something I love and turning it into a way that Simon Cowell can generate huge amounts of cash to spend on jumpers and crap haircuts.
I'll say it again, I hate Simon Cowell.
The last time I knew what the Christmas no. 1 was it was Wham's White Christmas. After that I threw my radio onto a pyre.
I think if I'm being honest, the last non-Xmas number one I remember was Gnarls Barkley's Crazy in spring 06, but I'm fucked if I can remember many others from the "naughties".
For some unfathomable reason my wife has always rated don't-forget-the-exclamation-mark Wham!/George Michael and goes all a-quiver when she hears Last Christmas. Naturally, I fucking hate it. For me, 1984 was all about Frankie and er... Big Country.
Wait a cottonpickin' minute, Steve! I see what you did there.
Of course, Wham! never released a single called White Christmas. And their hit Last Christmas never reached the UK top spot either!!! In fact, wasn't it (famously) the biggest selling single never to reach number one?
Haha. You nearly got me there.
Chocolate salty balls - Mmmmm
Merry Xmas!
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