Topic: Anti-X Factor campaign searches rise

[Clive]

I've just heard the Rage Against The Machine track.  Bilge - utter bilge.  There's more musicality in an ABBA sound check.  Heck, there's more musicality in the sound of a dentist's drill, and I should know because I had one new filling and a loose filling replaced today.

But it doesn't matter Gill.  All that matters is that the winner of the X Factor doesn't automatically get to number one.   Simon Cowell believes it is his God-given right.

[Rik]

Whatever happened to Cliff having the Xmas no. 1?

[Clive]

Those were the good old days!   

[Rik]

 

In some ways...

[GillE]

But it doesn't matter Gill.  All that matters is that the winner of the X Factor doesn't automatically get to number one.   Simon Cowell believes it is his God-given right.

Sadly, that's the top and bottom of it.  When I was a teenager it was almost (but not quite) prohibitively expensive to fiddle the music charts.  That was because pop music mattered to to so many millions of individuals who bought singles each week and it was a true representation of what is now known as youth culture.  Far fewer singles are now sold and it is relatively easy to influence the charts.  But it doesn't matter because pop music is no longer representative of any part of society, much less youth culture.

[Rik]

It's just a music making system, I agree.

[Clive]

Don't you mean money making system Rik?

[Rik]

I do, but I was thinking about all the good music we enjoyed in our youth.

[Clive]

Bring back Ernie!  (the fastest milkman in the west)    Oh well, suit yourself! 

[Rik]

What was that group that used to do a medley of other people's hits each year, with new words?

[Simon]

Dunno, but all these X-Factor winners seem to sing the same song.

[Rik]

The no tune tune, you mean?

[Simon]

The instantly forgettable one.

[Rik]

I've forgotten, how does it go again...

[GillE]

What was that group that used to do a medley of other people's hits each year, with new words?

The Barron Knights?  Their "A Taste Of Aggro" has to be one of the funniest records ever made.  I was surprised to find they're still on the go - and even better, they're coming soon to a theatre near me .

Time for me to 'fess up.  I bought the Ernie CD earlier this year .  Apart from the title track, there are some other very amusing numbers on the album too.