Sonic Youth Gossip - rage against the machine versus x-factor

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Sonic Youth Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/index.php)

- Non-Sonic Sounds (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/forumdisplay.php?f=4)

- - rage against the machine versus x-factor (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=36240)

auto-aim

12.17.2009 08:04 PM

It's all just the same thing and nobody promoting it sees the irony. I wouldn't mind but it's incessant. Sure, it can be argued aesthetically it's better and RATM are more conscientious people but it's kind of being sold on the back an anti-mainstream thing and like an example to individuality. if anything it's an example of just the opposite. homogenous culture just as x factor is. it wouldn't surprise me if some jerk PR person or something came up with it - particulary with majors activly looking for ways to make mo' money.

automatic bzooty

12.17.2009 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ni'k

rage are the machine

programmed to be in denial

Glice

12.18.2009 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Earl Of Slander

And The Pogues!

Didn't make number 1. And Imagine is often the song I think of when I think of over-played bags of humourless shit.

The Earl Of Slander

12.18.2009 07:13 AM

I was thinking of 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)' actually.

The Earl Of Slander

12.18.2009 07:13 AM

Wait, was that actually no. 1?

EDIT: Turns out no. Well there's my argument sunk then.

PAULYBEE2656

12.18.2009 10:22 AM

fuck rage against the machine.i hated that song when it first came out and im not gonna download it now to stop some 17 year old kid getting his dream come true.. its a hideous piece of tabloid bullshit this "lets make someone get to number one" who really gives a shit at the end of the day? music fans dont................

ni'k	12.18.2009 10:57 AM

people that hate music are the ones who care. fuck you i will pay 79p to download your single.

the ikara cult

12.18.2009 12:31 PM

Porky has started a group called "Merzbow for Christmas number one" on facebook. I dont think a late surge is out of the question, the charts being like they are these days it will probably get in the top 40

SuchFriendsAreDangerous

12.18.2009 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ni'k

if santa existed i'd hunt him down and kill him

but his bones are enshrined somewhere in Italy.

demonrail666

12.18.2009 02:37 PM

they faded out during the swearing. which is just as well because had it gone on any longer i'm sure i would've been inspired to blow up parliament, or harrass a policeman or speed or moon or give a nudge to one of those machines you see in seaside amusement arcades, the ones with all the coins and the logs moving backwards and forwards and all the 2ps dangle on the edge. close call really.

demonrail666

12.18.2009 02:46 PM

in my office there's a bin. one side is for landfill and the side is for recyclables. what side do i put my empty can of orangina?

demonrail666

12.18.2009 02:50 PM

i am the african cleaner

demonrail666

12.18.2009 02:57 PM

well next time you see one, ask them which side of the bin i put an empty can of orangina.

demonrail666

12.18.2009 03:03 PM

Keeping It Simple

12.18.2009 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Where was that photo taken?

barry swedgin

12.18.2009 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Earl Of Slander

Well I've never been a RATM fan, but Killing In The Name is a single that I personally like quite a bit, politics be damned. Also, living in the UK, the X Factor = Christmas Number One thing is obscene to me, especially since the fucking EVIL thing they did last year (which I can't even refer to by name), so I bought a copy as a token rebellion against them, and a personal protest about last year, for what (very little I know) it's worth. I don't think I'm changing the world, or RATM are powerful revolutionaries instead of just some band, but fuck it, I LIKE THE TRACK, and it's better than the shit factor. I don't feel the need to defend the campaign any further than that.

this

Rob Instigator

12.18.2009 04:57 PM

fuck this shit. I vote for The New Mutants

chicka

12.18.2009 05:02 PM

and in concert Killing in the name of gets the loudest sing along of any song I've heard at concerts and I've been going for 40 years now

demonrail666

12.18.2009 06:54 PM

Glice

12.18.2009 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonrail666

i am the african cleaner

I feel I should clarify this: demonrail isn't a cleaner, he's washing Africans as an apology for slavery.

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