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By *now white1000 OP   Woman
over a year ago

York

When was the last time there was a real concentrated effort by singers & groups to grab the coveted Christmas number with a festive song?

X-factor, love it or hate it, has killed off the annual Christmas number 1 festive single and replaced it with a guaranteed cover version number 1.

I used to love the festive songs fighting it out to top the charts and appear year after year in the festive compilation CD's

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

X Factor has killed music

I love the drama

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol popular music in the hit parade has always been manipulated.

Each to their own some people like it some don't. Its all personal choice

Pop six music on your wireless and rediscover great music and some amazing new bands.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

mr Blobby

bob the builder

st winifred choir

all fantastic Christmas Number 1's of the highest musical craftsmanship

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

The NHS have done a cover of Bridge over troubled water/Fix You this year. But not Christmassy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So....you're saying that artists who aren't X-Factor contestants, just don't try at Cristmas time?

Really?

If so, does this really constitute the 'death' of music?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"X Factor has killed music

I love the drama"

X factor has killed music. I hate everything about it. All these whiny fuckin pretentious bastards crying their eyes out when their egos aren't being massaged. Even the judges really have no discernible talent! None of these idiots have ever done a gig under a single bare lightbulb to the bar staff and a dog. They shouldn't be allowed near a stage. I saw AC/DC ON THEIR FIRST BRITISH TOUR PLAY TO 14 people! They did the whole show! I've seen BB. King play to an audience of 12! And yes I was the one who played to the bar staff and the dog.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope. X factor is crap but there is plenty of music out there. Go local.

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"X Factor has killed music

I love the drama

X factor has killed music. I hate everything about it. All these whiny fuckin pretentious bastards crying their eyes out when their egos aren't being massaged. Even the judges really have no discernible talent! None of these idiots have ever done a gig under a single bare lightbulb to the bar staff and a dog. They shouldn't be allowed near a stage. I saw AC/DC ON THEIR FIRST BRITISH TOUR PLAY TO 14 people! They did the whole show! I've seen BB. King play to an audience of 12! And yes I was the one who played to the bar staff and the dog. "

that's cleared that up then

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By *allipygousMan
over a year ago

Leicester


"X Factor has killed music

I love the drama

X factor has killed music. I hate everything about it. All these whiny fuckin pretentious bastards crying their eyes out when their egos aren't being massaged. Even the judges really have no discernible talent! None of these idiots have ever done a gig under a single bare lightbulb to the bar staff and a dog. They shouldn't be allowed near a stage. I saw AC/DC ON THEIR FIRST BRITISH TOUR PLAY TO 14 people! They did the whole show! I've seen BB. King play to an audience of 12! And yes I was the one who played to the bar staff and the dog. "

4th September 2004. When your life changed and you were forced to watch x factor, cajoled into buying the music of the featured performers, and you decided your taste is the taste everyone else should share.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rage against The Machine... Christmas Number 1 in 2009.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People who buy the X factor singles buy them because they like them. If you don't like them, fair enough but what makes your taste more valid than theirs?

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Modern music passes me by. OK, X Factor may have killed the Xmas single but you're not telling me that, left alone, the British music buying public shows any more discernment. *cough*Mr Blobby anyone?*cough*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Rage against The Machine... Christmas Number 1 in 2009. "

Fucking excellent song!

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"Rage against The Machine... Christmas Number 1 in 2009.

Fucking excellent song!"

Must have pissed off Simon Cowell no end, loved it.

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"mr Blobby

bob the builder

st winifred choir

all fantastic Christmas Number 1's of the highest musical craftsmanship"

I'm quite fond of the Mr Blobby Christmas number one, it's naff and cheesy but it has become part of Christmas. I couldn't even name you one X FACTOR Christmas single though such is the blandness of them all.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"Lol popular music in the hit parade has always been manipulated.

Each to their own some people like it some don't. Its all personal choice

Pop six music on your wireless and rediscover great music and some amazing new bands.

"

this..

there is some cracking music on 6..

by and large most number 1 records have been rubbish anyway so some other contrived pap is hardly any different..

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

I think any sort of gimmicky Christmas track would seem too naff for a serious artist so they don't consider trying.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When was the last time there was a real concentrated effort by singers & groups to grab the coveted Christmas number with a festive song?

X-factor, love it or hate it, has killed off the annual Christmas number 1 festive single and replaced it with a guaranteed cover version number 1.

I used to love the festive songs fighting it out to top the charts and appear year after year in the festive compilation CD's"

Did anyone ever realy care about the Christmas number one other than the music industry? I'm pretty sure most artists didn't.

I hate the X-Factor, and the crap it churns out with a passion, but it hasn;t killed music

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI


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I hate the X-Factor, and the crap it churns out with a passion, but it hasn;t killed music"

I think we have a more buoyant music scene now than we did in the mid/late 90's manufactured pop era, and that was pre-X-factor.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

pop music was killed long ago by stock,aitken and waterman back in the mid 80's .bland,boring samy tunes in every chart from 85 onwards complete garbage and its never recovered in the 30 years since in fact its got worse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you think that nobody on X Factor has tried to make it big by playing small gigs and doing it 'the old fashioned way' then you're sorely mistaken.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was fun at Christmas seeing who won the Xmas battle. Not necessarily how tacky they or the song was. It wouldn't hurt for Simon Cowell to postpone the release just so this tradition can come back again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The charts aren't representative of music and never were. Any more than tabloid papers are representative of literature.

Chart music serves a purpose but a world of music has never been so instantly available as it is now.

I hate the X factor for the derivative sham it is but if it's killed festive number ones, then it can stay a bit longer for me.

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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago

folkestone

Wasn't it the Jam who once sang 'the public gets what the public wants'? I think they pretty much summed it up!

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By *ssexguy69Man
over a year ago

thurrock Essex

It's all load of crap this year can't be asked with watching it anymore after the other week when they let that twat come bk on it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Xfactor hasn't killed off the Xmas No1~ it hasn't been trendy as a credible artist to release a specific song for the festive season since the early 1990's!!

It's an easy programme to knock, maybe look it another way it brings a lot of pleasure on a Saturday night to a wide audience ~ that can't be a bad thing in this day and age.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best comedy on TV at the mo'. Love it.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

I think half of the X-factor get-up is to boost the careers of the judges, and keep them in the news, and not about the contestants at all.

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

Xmas no 1 deathmatch, simon cowell vs sir cliff of richard

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By *kindofmagicXXXMan
over a year ago

Bristol

X factor all about the judges. Drama queens. Judges all up their own ass. With the exception of cowell not in least bit qualified to make comments. Better bands and artists playing in pubs!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Xfactor is horrible it's killed music and TV

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I bet Beethoven's turning in his grave .

How on earth can one television show kill thousands of years of music?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

X factor is a load of fixed shite full stop!!!

G

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By *ssexguy69Man
over a year ago

thurrock Essex

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Think the X factor is just indicative of the cheap manufactured pop that seems to work for the masses nowadays. There's still a lot of quality music out there it's just a lot harder to find and not played by the mainstream.

My worry is come 10-15 years time what live music/headline bands will we have for festivals etc everything now is just throw away pop

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By *homasP80Man
over a year ago

Linwood

Always funny to watch the people who THINK they can sing, but are rank rotten (or the ones that are deluded)

Yea, just a money spinner for Simon cowell

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I find it quite amusing that so many people who hate x factor carry on watching it.

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By *razedcatMan
over a year ago

London / Herts

Not to sound like an Internet troll, but all reality TV shows are trash. History will not be kind to this era.

And Simon Cowell is an extremely clever man, having effectively guaranteed himself a fat paycheck every Christmas.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"Not to sound like an Internet troll, but all reality TV shows are trash. History will not be kind to this era.

And Simon Cowell is an extremely clever man, having effectively guaranteed himself a fat paycheck every Christmas. "

I hope history doesn't judge us by reality shows .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The charts aren't representative of music and never were. Any more than tabloid papers are representative of literature.

Chart music serves a purpose but a world of music has never been so instantly available as it is now.

I hate the X factor for the derivative sham it is but if it's killed festive number ones, then it can stay a bit longer for me. "

I agree

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find it quite amusing that so many people who hate x factor carry on watching it. "

I do too, it's really easy to switch over or switch off!

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"I find it quite amusing that so many people who hate x factor carry on watching it. "

I don't watch it but you still get the annoying adverts on telly every day and night of the week and the newspaper stories about it so it's kind of hard to avoid even when you actively try to avoid it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I find it quite amusing that so many people who hate x factor carry on watching it.

I do too, it's really easy to switch over or switch off!"

I've gone for the switch off approach... I usually use netflix if I want to watch something other than sport, and tend to read the broadsheets who rarely cover American Jungle Brothers Celebrity Apprentice Factor ... It's quite pleasant living in ignorance of pop culture.

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

Ffs first video killed the radio star.

Now the x factors killed music.

What next,

Could the painting by numbers gang,be planning the same fate for art.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I don't watch X-Factor, it's fine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't watch X factor it kills artists by ing them down to one and making Simon Cowell an even richer man than he already is hugs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OP You watch the X Factor? Oh dear!!!

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