Rage Against The Machine for UK Christmas No.1
Al | 14.12.2009 03:14 | Culture
A massive grassroots campaign has begun on Facebook to make Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name the UK No.1 this Christmas. The main group currently has over 700,000 members.
Main group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228594104
Backup group (the main group is very highly trafficked and keeps going down):
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37655682127
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228594104 Backup group (the main group is very highly trafficked and keeps going down):
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37655682127
Al
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Fun Times
14.12.2009 04:03
Plus anything simon cowle thinks is a 'personal attack' (interview he gave) gets bonus points in my book... plus 49pence to buy the track online isn't a great deal of money.
Ether
Details
14.12.2009 04:05
Q: So how do we do this then?
A: Take your pick(s) of the digital providers below. It should take you to the page where you can purchase your copy of KILLING IN THE NAME. in most cases it's track#2 but check before you click! To be counted in the Christmas chart it should be bought between the 13th and 20th of decemeber any later and it won't be counted.
(multiple downloads are likely to be annulled in the chart)
TUNETRIBE - 49P - track #2 - LIVE version (yes it counts)
7DIGITAL - £1.19P - track #2
WE7 - £1.07p - track #2
HMV.COM - 79p (careful - this is track #1)
PLAY.COM - 70p - it's the only track on the page
iTUNES - 99p - track #2
Anonarchist
Please remove this shite!
14.12.2009 08:35
@narchist
Irony and not a huge fan
14.12.2009 08:44
anti-Simon
Ian Bone's outlook
14.12.2009 09:46
I salute Johnnie Void’s spirited advocacy of a STACEY SOLOMON victory for the Xmas No.1. Stacey is obviously a hugely likeable working class girl (give her a chat show) but Susan Boyle and Paul Potts were also likeable proles and did their victories do anything to advance the class struggle comrades? No! Capitalism will always provide individuals a way out of poverty through sport or music. A victory for RATM will be a collective victory – 548,000 on Facebook so far – and bring anti-authoritarian song to millions and boost confidence that the media moghuls can be beaten. And if in one sphere of life.. why not others? Remember comrades – ‘WHEN THE MODE OF THE MUSIC CHANGES THE WALLS OF THE CITY SHAKE’
Anonymous
+1 Ether
14.12.2009 12:56
bob
This isn't news
14.12.2009 13:31
Fucking nonsense, get it off the news-wire now please.
Concerned Hippy
Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me!
14.12.2009 13:32
I won't be buying a copy but good luck to the people who are, it will be funny if nothing else.
And Facebook is an evil CIA conspiracy to facilitate spying on people and their connections! Ditch it now, people. Use PGP and email or similar to communicate, that way no-one can spy on you. Just the other day a depressed woman got her insurance benefit stopped because she had a picture of herself smiling on her (private) Facebook page. It's also full of time-wasting crap.
anon
Consumption = the illusion of action or identity
14.12.2009 16:52
(Although I do like their music...)
Kia
Response to @narchist/Concerned Hippy
15.12.2009 09:29
- Yes, we're sticking it to the man by giving him lots of money. We get it. We also know about the Sony connection. We're not daft. We understand irony. The song also contains the lyric "Fuck you I wont do what you tell me". But we're telling people to buy it.. Wait, what?
However:
- This is a popular protest organised through social media, and just the fact that it's happening is news, and I think is relevant for anyone who cares about how social media is encouraging this sort of thing. It's not being done perfectly, I do wish myself that social media was more decentralised, but it's being done. Next time it might be about something altogether more radical.
- RATM is one of the very few popular bands in recent times who put out a decent radical message. They got a lot of people politically agitated. Music is a great way to reach out to the young, and, speaking for myself, RATM really opened my eyes when I was a teenager. I guess because I didn't grow up on a commune and had to buy a CD before I got that kind of awakening that makes me a shallow capitalist apologist, but there you go. I think it would be great to get their message out there in front of millions of people who haven't heard it before.
- This is IndyMedia, not your personal media. I've got as much right to post this as you do your news, and I did so in all sincerity without intending to get people's backs up. I don't go screaming to pull stuff down that doesn't quite mesh with my political point of view, so please, show me some courtesy.
- The kind of negative reaction from professional anarchists and the like that I see above is exactly what puts people off from your cause. When you see something like this, this is your chance to engage with people. Show them better ways they can organise, educate them about other issues (hell, just tell them to listen to the band they're promoting). Be constructive for crying out loud. I have has some great discussions now on the group forums about things like direct action, things which these people have never heard about, and never would have heard about had this not happened.
Al
Seems to be working... BBC News link
15.12.2009 15:48
Rock anthem outselling X Factor winner Joe McElderry
Rock band Rage Against The Machine is ahead of X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the race for the Christmas number one, early sales figures suggest.
(for anyone not familiar with the song, the repeated chorus says "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." They'll need a lot of bleeping out if they play it on Xmas TV and radio!)
anon
Jeez
15.12.2009 18:43
It's nothing to do with this 'meshing with my political point of view', THIS IS JUST NOT NEWS. It's a silly campaign to push one piece of corporate major-label crap to the top of the charts in place of a different one.
If you *really* think some ancient RATM track and Facebook is going to precipitate any sort of change you urgently need help. Grow up for fuck's sake.
Concerned Hippy
You Killjoys
15.12.2009 22:01
This is in no way a serious comment on capitalism but it is hilarious that we may end up with RATM as xmas number one rather than the usual dross.
Remeber, it's a bit of fun. :)
Proffesional Anarchist
and consumerism wins again!
16.12.2009 02:15
Capitalism wins in the end.
Some kid on facebook has a group trying to get people to buy aphex twin - come to daddy instead. Nice idea but with ~200 people not gonna do anything.
Whoever was behind this could've thought of a better track to do it with, something by crass maybe? heh
@iccus Finch
RATM: this will be a "wonderful dose of anarchy".
16.12.2009 13:31
this is a great story, just what Indymedia needs, never mind the boring humorless politicos.
Rage Against The Machine's Morello praises chart race
Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has said that beating the X Factor single to Christmas number one will be a "wonderful dose of anarchy".
He told the station's breakfast show that the "rebel anthem song will transcend the Christmas holidays".
The guitarist said the single's position as a Christmas number one contender was an "unexpected windfall" and he plans to donate some of the proceeds to a charity which helps children progress their musical careers in the UK.
"My hope is that one of the results of this whole Christmas season is there'll be a new generation of rockers who will take on the establishment with the music they write."
anon
@Concerned Hippy
16.12.2009 18:06
Well I disagree, I think it is news. I'm obviously not the only one. But apparently you're the boss around here, so what you say goes huh?
Oh well better pull it down then! Shows over lads! And next time I'll be sure to run stuff by you first.
> If you *really* think some ancient RATM track and Facebook is going to precipitate any sort of > change you urgently need help. Grow up for fuck's sake.
I ask for courtesy, and you tell me to "Grow up for fuck's sake". And yet, it's me that doesn't understand irony?
I mean really, you're free to ignore the article. It's not like there's a set limit of articles that can be published to the news wire. I didn't put this up at the expense of something else. There's enough space here for all of us, isn't there? Or not?
Al
re recuperation
17.12.2009 19:54
Switch off the TV and reclaim the internet
anon
Homepage:
http://www.thesargeants.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=264
Ahoy Peeps, Just Do It!
18.12.2009 02:37
One Love!
Don BK
Rage On Board
19.12.2009 06:02
Rage Announce They Will Play Massive Free Victory Gig In UK If "Killing In The Name" Is Number One Xmas Single!
Official RATM Battle Of Britain (Black) T-Shirts £9.99 Donation to Shelter
Come On Peeps ... Buy The Single
One Love!
Don BK