Where are you now Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh, Danni Minogue – eat leaden death motherfuckers!
FIRST WOBBLY TO TOP THE CHART SINCE JOE HILLRATM ARE PLANNING A SUMMER FREE VICTORY GIG IN ENGLAND IN 2010 -WHAT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO TURN IT INTO SOMETHING MUCH MORE THAN A GIG AND GET THOUSANDS ONTO THE STREETS IN CELEBRATION OF RADICALISM AGAINST A TORY GOVERNMENT! OH FUCK IT – LET’S TURN IT INTO ‘RUCK, RIOT, N.ROLL’.
Ian Bone 
YES!!! fucking result 😀
its like fucking kronstadt all over again
and you’re trotsky
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You know were gonna get the blame,
“RATM Anarchists spoil christmas for you gordie boy” I can see the headlines now
18 years after it’s original release, the song was an unlikely candidate for the best selling Christmas song of 2009. It’s lyrics rail against imperialism, mass media propaganda, the military industrial complex and those who benefit from it’s violence against the world. As such there is a certain irony that the Sun newspaper who have backed numerous wars, and attacks on the poor formally backed the band and published quotes from Tom Morello asking people to stand up to “illegitimate authority”. Whilst Simon Cowell has condemned those behind the Facebook campaign as being “Scrooge”, they have successfully raised £50,000 for the homeless charity Shelter, and Rage Against the Machine intend to give profits from the sales away to a UK music charity which supports disadvantaged children.
As Rage Against the Machine are signed to Sony records, the very same label as the contending X Factor song, many have condemned the exercise as pointless and counterproductive as millionaire corporate executives and investors are benefiting significantly the campaign’s success. But if these events prove anything, it is that capitalism is greedy enough to sell you the weapons to fight it.
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Fear, and Many Happy Revolutions..
Projectsheffield is right. The content of ‘killing in the name’ is forgotten. Now the talk is of how it’s ‘good for music’ and how next year Coldplay might issue a Christmas single. How about you start the campaign now for next year with a record they can’t explain away.
The content “Fuck You, Wont Do What You Tell Me” is perfectly relevant, although the context in which it was originally written might be different. Makes no odds anyway, it beat the X-factor to automatic xmas #1, which was the intention and its got thousands of people around the country taking up a worthy battle cry this christmas – which will hopefully continue into the new year.
Have a wombling merry chrisimas brothers and sisters
they will be avenged
What a lovely Christmas present.
But not for some wanky, vague, fuck you to simon cowell, anti capitalism has won by out selling your record, up the revolution bullshit reason.
But because I won a bet against my miser brother.
Big win for the working classes. £5. Fuck you Jacob.
There’s one line in Project Sheffields comments that I think we should remember……”capitalism is greedy enuf to sell you the weapons to fight it….”
And it’s true,they’re all there for us to use.We have to think outside the anarchist bubble….
Ok lets be positive about this: one in the eye for Cowell and all that unfeasibly mawkish shit these corporate fuck-wits produce. On the other hand – Sony seems to be the big winner – have we all forgotten what Crass used to say about how capitalism repackages rebellion and sells it back to us – this is how most of the punks of yesterday are now in the corporate board rooms of today I suspect. But I realize now that Crass got a lot of their ideas from Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. Isn’t this whole campaign and anti-campaign “spectacular” where the Spectacle “is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”. Let’s face it the click of a mouse in the isolation of your own home is not the most revolutionary of acts (or if it is today, that shows how far we still have to go). Don’t we want want a revolutionary movement which is “directly lived”, not “mediated by images” or even alternative websites? I looked at a RATM youtube video where the crowd chant back to the band “and you do what they tell you”. Ah, the irony. The next stage in the process has to be active doesn’t it? On the streets? A RATM gig will be fun but better still, let’s organize a live, bring your own instruments etc jam (or riot, if you prefer) outside the venues of all the x-factor events. We want to take the power and the activity back, show them the freedom and spontaneity of real culture produced by real people; we want to go beyond the click of a mouse. Now excuse me while I click to submit. Ah, the irony.
Yes, the politics behind it aren’t perfect. Yes, it’s somewhat hypocritical. Yes, it’s easy to knock.
But fuck me, the better band won. The better song won. I’d much rather hear RATM over Christmas than that weak-willed bland banal nomark Joe cunt.
I’m a musician and my band struggle to make any money out of the industry nowadays and it pisses me off to see these doss cunts like Joe get success given to them on a plate. Most bands spend fucking years touring shitholes before they get any kind of recognition and financial stability. These X Factor cunts get it all on a plate. Within a couple of months, they’re all over. It’s bollocks. And if they get voted out after 6 weeks, they are devastated that their music career is over! Bollocks. Get out there and tour. Hone your art on the road. Every cunt says “I love music” but if they did, they wouldn’t give up music after being kicked off of the show, they’d get out on the road.
The winfall of the royalties are going to Shelter and the band are currently organizing a free gig sometime next year to celebrate. It’s win win win.
Hopefully, this will become tradition every year; to prevent the X Factor cunts getting to number 1. Next year, let’s have some smalltime independent band take on the X Factor cunts, and win. A band that could really do with the recognition and the royalties from 500,000 single sales, so they can afford to keep existing as a band in an age when rich major labels own the industry and downloading has destroyed many smalltime bands.
Wong side of the barricades this time comrades.
The working class will not forget this.
The wong side of the barricades?
(Insert cheap stereotyped crack of your own here)
I don’t give a fuck i saw em back in the day at glasto great band great song fuck you simon high pants hahahaha
This rules, and is the best argument EVOR!1!
It was mentioned on BBC Radio 5 today, that the RATM track is an anti KKK song. This is even better news…a song that is anti fascist, anti KKK at No.1 at xmas…f*ckin wonderful!!! Just as Nick Griffin and his bunch of morans hope for a white xmas, we get an anti KKK song as the xmas No.1…HA HA HA HA HA!!!
IWW?
One big union = One big union boss.
Not self-organisation and autonomy.
We should organise a tour of un-authorised RATM street gigs outside X-Factor events. It would not be environmentally appropriate for RATM to fly over for only one gig.