O/T just like all my posts:)

[patrick]

Anyone heard the new band aid single? What a complete load of rubbish. Yea, I know its in a good cause etc, but as a stand alone record, it sounds like a karioke sing along by a load of tone deaf buggers

Band Aid 20 - Who sings what

Chris Martin (Coldplay) - It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid. At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade

Dido - And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy. Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time.

Robbie Williams - But say a prayer, Pray for the other ones. At Christmas time it's hard, but when you're having fun.

Sugababes - There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear.

Fran Healy (Travis) - Where the only water flowing

Fran Healy and the Sugababes - Is the bitter sting of tears

Fran Healy and Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) - And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom

Bono - Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Will Young and Jamelia - And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time

Ms Dynamite and Beverly Knight - (Oooh) Where nothing ever grows, no rain nor rivers flow

Group of 10 and Joss Stone - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Tom Chaplin (Keane) - Here's to you

Justin Hawkins - Raise a glass for everyone

Dizzee Rascal - Spare a thought this yuletide for the deprived, if the table was turned would you survive

Busted - Here's to them

Justin Hawkins - Underneath that burning sun

Dizzee Rascal - You ain't gotta feel guilt just selfless, give a little help to the helpless

Joss Stone and Justin Hawkins - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Tom Chaplin - Feed the world

Tom Chaplin and Chris Martin - Feed the world

Tom Chaplin, Chris Martin and Sugababes - Feed the world

Everyone - Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again (repeated)

Fran Healy - Wooo

Group of 10 - Feed the world

Everyone - Feed the world (repeated to end)

Joss Stone - Ad-libs over outro

 

[mathew]

i agree, i've would never of thought all that tallent could make such a bad record.

 

[AlfaNige]

When you need a place bombed where are the nutters when you need them! Just think, with one easy swipe we could have no more Darkness, Travis, Coldbore etc. I would of course hope the Sugababes survived intact but voiceless.
PLEASE PLEASE do NOT buy this bloody awful record...again. The original was crap, the remake was crap and remake 2 is even worse. Just so a few has been and think they are Gods pop stars can give themselves a pat on the back and make themselves look good. Feed the world - ********, that lot know EXACTLY what doing that remake will do for their own bank balances.
Cynical - yes, but I am fed up with bloody charities - I will give money to who I want and when I want without having my ears violated all over bloody Christmas by this crap.

 

[patrick]

I feel sorry for the shop workers. I used to work in morrisons and can still recall having my ears assaulted for 12 hours a day listining to crap music just cause it was christmass.............like you say, there are some almighty big egos at play and its a dire result

 

[Anonymous]

from the BBC website
At the start of the day, Stone - who was not born when the original song came out - mistakenly called Geldof "Gandalf" and James Bourne from Busted did not recognise the man who started it all.

The Darkness singer Justin Hawkins said he and guitarist brother Dan both cried.

"But then Frankie [Poullain, bassist] goes 'You pansies, you've let the band down. You're men'."

"We've had the creme de la creme of what the UK's got to offer. The quality of the singing and the quality of the musicianship is unbelievable."

Will Young and Natasha Bedingfield rush out before the end, looking like they have other very important places to be.

In the Hard Rock Cafe section of the studio, I grab an egg sandwich and put a donation into one of two metal buckets that have been put out to raise more money for the Band Aid Trust.

Despite the presence of so many stars, the buckets - which had been out since about 1200 GMT - are empty except for an orange.

 

[angie-B]

i dont like the song either but for different reasons...

ok fine people in africa are living in poverty, but there are also people in africa living absolutly fine!!! Why can't africa help its own???

We have homeless people here, homeless children here...who helps them????

Why dont they sing a some for the people living in poverty in OUR country, not someplace at the other side of the equator that 70% of the people living in this country will NEVER go to...but 100% of the people in this country will see people living in poverty on our streets...

thats the end of my rant..thanks for listening...

 

[Anonymous]

And whichever complete and utter ****ing moron decided to put Dizzee bloody Rascal on it needs feeding to Jo Brand...absolutely ****ing terrible. It might have been ok if they'd done it over the original music instead of the stupid composition theyve used this time. And whats with the maccarene at the end?!?

 

[patrick]

"There wont be snow in Africa this christmass".....yes there will, frigging loads of it on top of mount Kenya

 

[mathew]

1 radio station in wales has stoped playing it as the listeners were complaining it was crap.
1 down 1,000s to go.

 

[mathew]

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