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Knuckleberry? Rage against monkeys? Oh Iceman09, what a wordsmith you are. Quote:
erm... it IS a historic event in british pop music... its the first time ever ive known a track be released deliberately to counter another as a political gesture...
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Have RATM given proceeds to charity before? I'm not sure... I know Tom vehemently supports homeless charities though, so it wouldn't surprise me. His guitar has had "arm the homeless" written on it for years. I know homeless charities are close to his heart. Actually, you only have to listen to some RATM songs to see it.
If I can C+P straight from Wiki: Quote:
Over its career, the band played benefit concerts for organizations such as Rock for Choice, the Anti-Nazi League, the United Farm Workers, children's care organization Para Los Niños and UNITE. 1994 saw the band organizing Latinpalooza, a joint benefit concert for the Leonard Peltier Defense Fund, and Para Los Niños. The band also raised funds for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the National Commission for Democracy in Mexico, Women Alive, and played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert on more than one occasion.
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Funny how you managed to miss their public vocal support of Shining Path.
Still, the latter is only a terrorist group guilty of the murder and maiming of hundreds of men, women and children (the latter of whom were kidnapped and used as child soldiers by SP), eh?.... |
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Knuckleberry? Rage against monkeys? Oh Iceman09, what a wordsmith you are.
KITN hasn't been re-released, it's a product that has been available for years being put forward to front a campaign. What's happened here isn't a new historic event, it's similar to the Jeff Buckley song being nominated to head up the charge last year. |
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Funny how you managed to miss their public vocal support of Shining Path.
Still, the latter is only a terrorist group guilty of the murder and maiming of hundreds of men, women and children (the latter of whom were kidnapped and used as child soldiers by SP), eh?.... |
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Fair enough. Given my recent run in with a RATM nut this week who wont hear a word said against them, I thought you were another....
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Correction I'm not a fan of the Sex Pistols, hell I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum (Gabriel, Collins, Bush, Lennox to name a few) but historically they will be remembered, whilst Rage against monkeys I doubt will. Despite that I hope they get number one this Christmas as it is the lesser of two evils. Maybe that will b their calling card in a few years time "Do you remember when we created anarchy of facebook for a week!"
![]() rage against the machine have sold over 30 million records, sell out every world tour they do and headline 80,000 capacity festivals worldwide... they have been going for 20 years and are as popular today as they have ever been, and yet you think no one will remember them ? lol just lol |
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Nah, I liked them enough to buy their albums in the 90s and saw them at festivals a few times, but that's about as far as it goes. I hadn't even realised their reunion had lasted this long until this campaign came about.
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rage against the machine have sold over 30 million records, sell out every world tour they do and headline 80,000 capacity festivals worldwide...
they have been going for 20 years and are as popular today as they have ever been, and yet you think no one will remember them ? lol just lol El oh El or Lol just Lol
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Ah the facebook generation so fickle, I bet half of the people buying the song have been x-factor fans in the past.
El oh El or Lol just Lol
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Ah the facebook generation so fickle, I bet half of the people buying the song have been x-factor fans in the past.
El oh El or Lol just Lol |
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Ah the facebook generation so fickle, I bet half of the people buying the song have been x-factor fans in the past.
El oh El or Lol just Lolyou said no one will remember them, and i gave you plenty of good reasons why people will.. |
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Rage Against The Monkeys = Cheap Sex Pistols wannabes!
But having said that Cowell is a Bar....d and I hate all the shit coming off the X-factor if I have to hear Leona Bleeding lewis or Alexandre I band bad boys the Burke! ![]() Sorry, I see what you did there - you substituted the word Monkeys for the word Machine. Good effort, but my 4 year old can do better. ![]() I do agree with your X Factor sentiments though. |
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Or have they donated proceeds from other releases to charity?
Iain They also wrote and recorded an album which has sold three million, re-defined a musical genre and is widely regarded as one of the best of its time. Come back when you've done that, Joe McElderberry. |
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Ah the facebook generation so fickle, I bet half of the people buying the song have been x-factor fans in the past.
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Carefully thoughtout response to the OP: Heh.
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They didn't start this campaign- somebody on facebook did.
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But they're happily going along with it now they've seen their income being boosted by it.
What would you have them do anyway? Tell people to stop buying their song? Get real! Whatever they'd have done, people like you would have criticized them. |
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Looks like Rage Against Monkeys have made a monkey out of Joe.
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I'd never heard of them in the past but their song is horrible!
I'm a rock fan, but this is just...awful. Long live Motley Crue, Bowie, Bon Jovi, Warrant & Guns 'N Roses
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I'd never heard of them in the past but their song is horrible!
I'm a rock fan, but this is just...awful. Long live Motley Crue, Bowie, Bon Jovi, Warrant & Guns 'N Roses ![]() ![]() ...Warrent? Errgghh... aren't they the ones that sing that song about a cherry pie? Mega cheesy! And Motley Crue- shameful Van Halen rip offs with none of the skill- Van Halen were bad enough! Bon Jovi- what an arrogant irritant- his music is some of the cheesiest, most annoying, overplayed, cliched crap I've ever heard! Phew, I feel better now!
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That is exactly where I was coming from, to compare the two musically would be a crime, one group are Gods the others are well politely put not!
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But they're happily going along with it now they've seen their income being boosted by it.
![]() .They are already a quite successful band.Their success being based on genuine liking of the band from the underground & not media marketing campaigns.They probably already a large pay day from signing to Sony as they were well established before that so could name their price.They are not particlarly interested in the pennies they got from this.They could explote it in the future mind??? I don't think they would go into over the top mode, like if Cowell was their manager mind.
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Rage Against The Monkeys = Cheap Sex Pistols wannabes!
: Sex Pistols = Cheap New York Dolls wannabes. |
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Oh dear. I take it your a full on X Factor fan who is miffed.
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Mega cheesy! And Motley Crue- shameful Van Halen rip offs with none of the skill- Van Halen were bad enough!