Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 There's something perverse about multi-millionaire rock stars trying to get working class people on a minimum wage to contribute to charity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stripey Posted November 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Will Young was interviewed about it on radio 1, and he was stuffing his face with something (probably a pret a manger sarnie) while talking about....starving africans. The record is awful too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 There's something perverse about multi-millionaire rock stars trying to get working class people on a minimum wage to contribute to charity...I caught the video when they played it on every channel on TV the other night. It was disturbing to see all these pampered, over paid egos trying to pretend they gave a shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulDW Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 They could have just reunited the original line up now, and have made a better job of it... I admite Im a fan of a few of the indivuduals who took pat, and have a lot of time for them as individuals... But here, it sound like they all had a hangover, were forced out of bed, thrown a microphone and some music, and told to play/sing it in one take. Its a very very poor rendition... Doesn't compare to the original.Ive changed my mind, Ill be making a donation to charity directly... because I don't want to promote this single by buying it! But I can see this being one of those Number 1's that tops 'The No. 1 Hits That You Didn't Want To Top The Charts!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 How do you know that they don't really care? If someone had turned down the offer to help with the record they would have been slagged off for not caring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 I would have considered it a far more caring gesture if they each donated 10% of the royalties from each of their records to charity.This is just a way to make people who have less disposable income feel guilty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 thats if they earn anything from their royalties. unless they are the writers and make the royalties off publishing.does anyone know what record/publishing labels this is being released on? is it a special made up one for band aid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 thats if they earn anything from their royalties. unless they are the writers and make the royalties off publishing.Well, whatever, those who don;t wirte the songs are still rolling in it. 10% of their earnings would be chicken feed to them but would probably go a long way to addressing the suffering in the 3rd world.But no, it's the job of single mothers and minimum wage workers to buy this single to make the difference.What a crock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Of course because the whole general public of this country is made up of poor people being exploited by the big bad record company boogie men. Everyone has the choice whether they buy the single or not, if they are so poor that they can not afford ot spend the money on buying band aid then they shouldn't buy it, if they do, then it's their fault. There is plenty of people who can afford, and a lot that earn more than any of the artists involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Of course because the whole general public of this country is made up of poor people being exploited by the big bad record company boogie men. not the whole, no.Must you be so absolutist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 i'm not going to answer that question.....i don't know what absolutist means! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv tanned Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 that it is either everyone or no-one who is poor.I never saiud everyone is poor, but the vast majority of people who will be buying this single are those who do not have the disposable income, they will be the ones who are targetted, it is just the laws of marketting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HARRY Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Regardless of it making me cringe (especially that fucking Dizzie Rascal part and Bono's line, which he has completely annihilated), the purpose of the single is what really matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 that it is either everyone or no-one who is poor.I never saiud everyone is poor' date=' but the vast majority of people who will be buying this single are those who do not have the disposable income, they will be the ones who are targetted, it is just the laws of marketting.[/quote']actually the purpose of marketing is to target people WITH disposable income. anyway i still like the song, apart from bono's line and joss stone's little bit at the end, dizzee rascals rap and jonny greenwood's guitar bit at the end are great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skacel Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 the dizee rascal bit is fucking ace!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jake Wifebeater Posted November 21, 2004 Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 There's something perverse about multi-millionaire rock stars trying to get working class people on a minimum wage to contribute to charity...Absolutely game, set and match. That is it in a nutshell, bang on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest allsystemsfail Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Feed the world - starve the rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontman Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Anyone who has the spare time and effort to complain about any song helping 5 1/2 million starving african children, Has issues.Theyve got a decent bunch of guys to re-record the origonal, which wasn't even that great anyway. Rappings not to my tastes, but it needs to be "mass appealing", which most of u probably hate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest allsystemsfail Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Anyone who has the spare time and effort to complain about any song helping 5 1/2 million starving african children' date=' Has issues.[/quote']While the raising of funds is to be commended, charity projects such as this do not address the real issue - that is why so many people are poor and without food. They do not consider the actions of transnational corporations, the legacy of colonialism... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 They've turned it into a fucking dirge! I blame Thom fucking Yorke and his hippy beard.Dizzee drops the lyrical bomb though, and the bit where Justin hawkins and Joss Stone harmonise is good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Double Jack Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 i heard it again yesterday and it gets worse. dire, dire, dire.Out of interest, can anyone remember the second version that was done with Kylie, Jason Donovan, Bros and Sonia. I saw it on VH1 last night and have only just regained my composure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontman Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 I agree with u there allsystems.But it's better than nothing and it raises the profile of the issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 i heard it again yesterday and it gets worse. dire' date=' dire, dire.Out of interest, can anyone remember the second version that was done with Kylie, Jason Donovan, Bros and Sonia. I saw it on VH1 last night and have only just regained my composure.[/quote']i know of it but i cant remember what it sounds like. Now it was horrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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