From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #257 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, December 11 2007 Volume 10 : Number 257 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] The next Christmas #1? ["Keith Knight" ] Re: [idealcopy] The next Christmas #1? [Tim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:53:21 -0000 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] The next Christmas #1? I don't know whether to be cheered or not that Malcolm Middleton's 'We're All Gonna Die' is now 12-1 to be the UK Christmas Number One, following support from Radio 1. On the one hand this is from the album which has occupied my album of the year spot for the last six months. On the other hand it could result in him being regarded as the new Gary Jules and resigned to some one-hit wonder novelty ghetto. Strangely you only have to skew reality a tiny bit for it to be plausible - it's relatively easy to imagine people in Christmas hats bopping to the chorus of "You're gonna die, you're gonna die, you're gonna die alone". It IS very catchy. http://www.myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton The video with the children's choir and sleigh bells is particularly affecting. Another the Keith ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:08:37 -0500 From: "Mike Edwards" Subject: [idealcopy] AC Marias Has AC's "So/Drop" collaboration with Dome ever come out on CD? Every vinyl copy I ever had was terribly noisy. Thanks- Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:34:18 +0000 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] The next Christmas #1? Nooooo! I feel a rant coming on! No Offence whatsoever to Mr Knight but... Ah come on does anyone really give a fuck who gets Xmas no.1 anymore since you probably have to sell about 200 records to make no.1 these days. That said I hope that the No.1 spot is filled by a POP RECORD chosen by people under the age of 30 rather than one hyped to No.1 by Radio-1s Colin-Lee-Travis and 50,000 bored office workers on Facebook who (in between spending $1 to send each other a picture of a traffic cone or playing virtual snowball fights) think that it would be "like really maaaad if that bloke from Arab Strap was No.1 and then we could congratulate ourselves on how ironic it was". Ho fucking ho. In his younger days, to earn a few bob Noddy Holder from Slade used to crap on people for money while they sat under a glass coffee table. No really he did, read his biog. I'm hoping he'll be persuaded to crap on everyone who plays virtual snowball fights on Facebook (Splat ho ho uhhh I got you!), Colin Murray and all the wacky funsters from Radio 1 live on the Xmas Day edition of Top of the Pops while singing "Merry Xmas Everybody". And then he'll be joined by Roy Wood and Clive Dunn to crap on Gary Jules *without* the Coffee Table...theres a "mad world" for you Gary. Keith Knight wrote: > I don't know whether to be cheered or not that Malcolm Middleton's > 'We're All Gonna Die' is now 12-1 to be the UK Christmas Number One, > following support from Radio 1. On the one hand this is from the album > which has occupied my album of the year spot for the last six months. > On the other hand it could result in him being regarded as the new Gary > Jules and resigned to some one-hit wonder novelty ghetto. > > Strangely you only have to skew reality a tiny bit for it to be > plausible - it's relatively easy to imagine people in Christmas hats > bopping to the chorus of "You're gonna die, you're gonna die, you're > gonna die alone". It IS very catchy. > > http://www.myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton > > The video with the children's choir and sleigh bells is particularly > affecting. > > > Another the Keith ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #257 ********************************