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Bob Singleton wrote:

> One of the "I Hate X Factor" Facebook groups is suggesting John
> Cage's 4' 33" thereby forcing music radio stations to fill the
> air with silence instead of whatever crap Simon Cowell tries to
> flog us.
>
> INSPIRED!!!!!
>
>

Yep, i'd love it to be that one too, but I suspect it's not available on iTunes, and a successful campaign would need a digital download site to make the numbers.

Peter wrote:

> Bob Singleton wrote:
>
> > One of the "I Hate X Factor" Facebook groups is suggesting
> John
> > Cage's 4' 33" thereby forcing music radio stations to fill
> the
> > air with silence instead of whatever crap Simon Cowell tries
> to
> > flog us.
> >
> > INSPIRED!!!!!
> >
> >
>
> Yep, i'd love it to be that one too, but I suspect it's not
> available on iTunes, and a successful campaign would need a
> digital download site to make the numbers.


In that case the ONLY solution is to kill Simon Cowell (something which should have been done years ago anyway)

Just looked on iTunes and 4'33" IS available to download, so no problem there then! I still think we should kill Simon Cowell anyway, just to be safe.

I think it is great when records are released that raise money for our soldiers. The line in this song "we could be heroes, just for one day" is not really appropriate though - our soldiers are heroes every day.

Bob Singleton wrote:

> Just looked on iTunes and 4'33" IS available to download, so no
> problem there then! I still think we should kill Simon Cowell
> anyway, just to be safe.
>
>

Can you imagine the complaints that will generate. "I just downloaded this track and there's nothing on it!"

I remember a few years ago when "The Best Air Guitar Album in the World" was advertised on TV as having a free air guitar with every purchase, and people were asking for it in record shops when they were only given the CD!

No one object to money being raised for soldiers and their families. What I personally object to is a musically talent free idiot and his here today working in mcdonalds tomorrow wannabe hijacking a great song and gaining creedence by saying 'it's for charity' particularly when it is part of cowells own 'give me a knighthood' campaign.

Let's compare for a second Bowie released unarguably the longest run of great albums in history - hunky dory through to heroes. If you give the benefit of the doubt to a couple that can be extended to cover 12 years work. Unquestionably and admittedly influenced generations of musicians. Sold out arenas and stadiums for thirty years. Simon Cowell gave us a few one hit wonders who we could have all done without and turned the music industry into a supermarket overnight, sell this years disposable product and then move on to next year's invariably providing lame cover versions of songs which used to mean something to people but are now sold alongside and in a similar fashion to the baked beans in tesco.

m100 wrote:

> No one object to money being raised for soldiers and their
> families. What I personally object to is a musically talent
> free idiot and his here today working in mcdonalds tomorrow
> wannabe hijacking a great song and gaining creedence by saying
> 'it's for charity' particularly when it is part of cowells own
> 'give me a knighthood' campaign.
>
> Let's compare for a second Bowie released unarguably the
> longest run of great albums in history - hunky dory through to
> heroes. If you give the benefit of the doubt to a couple that
> can be extended to cover 12 years work. Unquestionably and
> admittedly influenced generations of musicians. Sold out arenas
> and stadiums for thirty years. Simon Cowell gave us a few one
> hit wonders who we could have all done without and turned the
> music industry into a supermarket overnight, sell this years
> disposable product and then move on to next year's invariably
> providing lame cover versions of songs which used to mean
> something to people but are now sold alongside and in a similar
> fashion to the baked beans in tesco.


Couldn't have put it better myself.

Every week I see and photograph dozens of bands and solo artists. Some are good. Some are average. Some are dire. But the thing they have in common is that they write their own material, and perform it on a regular basis to a live audience alongside other bands. The X Factor is nothing more than a televised National Karaoke Championship featuring people who, on the whole, are totally lacking in talent, and certainly have never "gigged". One minute they're stacking shelves in Lidl, the next they're on TV saying how much they've wanted to be a singer. How many of them have actually got off their arses and got themselves bookings in local pubs and clubs?

Cowell is a cunt, but the biggest cunts of all are those who watch the X Factor, spend money voting, and who buy the resultant crap CDs. May they all die horribly of cancer.

"Bowie must be desperate if he lets these twunts ruin a classic."

Probably incorrect Arginald Valleywater. I think you'll find that Bowie does not own the rights to 'Heroes'.