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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 20, 2019 13:51:15 GMT
Who do we want this year?
Last year’s “winner” was LADBaby (from LADBible) covering Starship with We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls) with all proceeds going to food banks across the country via the Trussell Trust.
This year LADBaby has covered Joan Jett’s I Love Rock n Roll (renamed I Love Sausage Rolls), again to raise vital funds for food banks.
Jarvis Cocker’s “C**ts Are Still Running The World” to raise money for Shelter is my fave though. The lyrics sum up our political life at the moment and an organisation like Shelter is going to be so so important over the next five years.
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 20, 2019 13:56:18 GMT
Well did you hear, there's a natural order
Those most deserving will end up with the most
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top
Well I say, "Sh*t floats”
If you thought things had changed
Friend, you'd better think again
Bluntly put, in the fewest of words:
C**ts are still running the world (x2)
Now the working classes are obsolete
They are surplus to society's needs
So let 'em all kill each other
And get it made overseas.
That's the word, don't you know
From the guys that's running the show
Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls,
C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2]
Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails,
Find a school near the top of the league
In theory I respect your right to exist
I will kill you if you move in next to me
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so
C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2]
The free market is perfectly natural
Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?
It's the ideal way to order the world
"F**k the morals, does it make any money?"
And if you don't like it, then leave
Or use your right to protest on the street.
Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard
C**ts are still running the world [[Repeat: x 6]
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Post by Lobster on Dec 20, 2019 14:06:09 GMT
LadBaby's got it I think.
It says a lot about the way the country is seeing out the decade that this is the second year running that we're likely to have a Christmas No. 1 in aid of food banks, and that Jarvis will hopefully be in at least the top 10.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 14:07:17 GMT
I can see that being played a lot at Christmas just the kind of filth your kids need to hear.
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Post by Ian H Block on Dec 20, 2019 14:44:25 GMT
135,000 homeless kids in the U.K. is fine, as is treating sick ones on the floors of overcrowded hospitals. Just don’t use industrial language near them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 14:46:39 GMT
Well if your happy with 130000 homeless kids who am I to argue with you.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 20, 2019 16:02:52 GMT
I can see that being played a lot at Christmas just the kind of filth your kids need to hear. I won't be playing it in front of my kids, thanks, and neither will any radio stations in its uncensored form. As a grown adult though, I think I'm OK to make my own choices on whether swearing is acceptable - and in some cases powerful and necessary. |
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Post by ddod on Dec 20, 2019 16:33:09 GMT
Well did you hear, there's a natural order Those most deserving will end up with the most That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top Well I say, "Sh*t floats” If you thought things had changed Friend, you'd better think again Bluntly put, in the fewest of words: C**ts are still running the world (x2) Now the working classes are obsolete They are surplus to society's needs So let 'em all kill each other And get it made overseas.That's the word, don't you know From the guys that's running the show Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls, C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2] Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails, Find a school near the top of the league In theory I respect your right to exist I will kill you if you move in next to me Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2] The free market is perfectly natural Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy? It's the ideal way to order the world "F**k the morals, does it make any money?" And if you don't like it, then leave Or use your right to protest on the street. Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard C**ts are still running the world [[Repeat: x 6] Surely with Brexit, and it being harder to trade with the EU, I imagine, we can start making stuff back in the UK. Just an idea. I'm guessing Jarvis Cocker is making a cheap buck out of the Corbynites who will buy this song too. |
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Post by Ian H Block on Dec 20, 2019 16:38:26 GMT
Well did you hear, there's a natural order Those most deserving will end up with the most That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top Well I say, "Sh*t floats” If you thought things had changed Friend, you'd better think again Bluntly put, in the fewest of words: C**ts are still running the world (x2) Now the working classes are obsolete They are surplus to society's needs So let 'em all kill each other And get it made overseas.That's the word, don't you know From the guys that's running the show Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls, C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2] Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails, Find a school near the top of the league In theory I respect your right to exist I will kill you if you move in next to me Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2] The free market is perfectly natural Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy? It's the ideal way to order the world "F**k the morals, does it make any money?" And if you don't like it, then leave Or use your right to protest on the street. Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard C**ts are still running the world [[Repeat: x 6] Surely with Brexit, and it being harder to trade with the EU, I imagine, we can start making stuff back in the UK. Just an idea. I'm guessing Jarvis Cocker is making a cheap buck out of the Corbynites who will buy this song too. It’s a charity single. |
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Post by Lobster on Dec 20, 2019 16:45:17 GMT
Well did you hear, there's a natural order Those most deserving will end up with the most That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top Well I say, "Sh*t floats” If you thought things had changed Friend, you'd better think again Bluntly put, in the fewest of words: C**ts are still running the world (x2) Now the working classes are obsolete They are surplus to society's needs So let 'em all kill each other And get it made overseas.That's the word, don't you know From the guys that's running the show Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls, C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2] Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails, Find a school near the top of the league In theory I respect your right to exist I will kill you if you move in next to me Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so C**ts are still running the world [Repeat: x 2] The free market is perfectly natural Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy? It's the ideal way to order the world "F**k the morals, does it make any money?" And if you don't like it, then leave Or use your right to protest on the street. Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard C**ts are still running the world [[Repeat: x 6] Surely with Brexit, and it being harder to trade with the EU, I imagine, we can start making stuff back in the UK. Just an idea. I'm guessing Jarvis Cocker is making a cheap buck out of the Corbynites who will buy this song too. It wasn't Jarvis's idea - the song is 13 years old. The campaign was started through a Facebook campaign, and once Jarvis found out about it, he agreed to donate the proceeds to Shelter. |
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Post by ddod on Dec 20, 2019 16:59:09 GMT
So that would have been when Labour were in charge really circa 2007.
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Post by ddod on Dec 20, 2019 17:41:48 GMT
So Labour yes.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 21, 2019 11:07:43 GMT
It's not an anti-Tory song specifically. It was written at a time when people were getting sick of New Labour and not long after Bush had won his second term. But people can relate to it now I suppose.
Anyway the song reached number 48, which might seem a bit disappointing, but the whole thing was organised in four days with no money behind it, it's a fairly obscure song that's over a decade old, and a lot of the media seemed to want to play it down. Plus the whole way the charts are compiled these days seems a bit of a mystery - it was near the top of all the download charts, and given that nobody buys physical singles any more, I'm not sure what stopped it finishing higher.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 22, 2021 18:49:08 GMT
The Kunts are back with another charming festive ditty about Boris. Number 5 in the midweek charts apparently. Would be great if it got higher! borisjohnson.info/ |
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Post by vandycandy on Dec 22, 2021 19:24:43 GMT
How about the Tiny Tim one entitled "Santa Claus Has Got The Aids This Year"?
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 24, 2021 21:52:00 GMT
LADBaby have broken the record held by The Beatles and Spice Girls to become Christmas Number 1 for the fourth consecutive year.
The Beatles and Spice Girls each posted a hat-trick of Christmas number ones but it seems the general public absolutely love a Greggs… and raising money for a very worthy cause, the Trussell Trust.
LADBaby’s Christmas number ones:
2018 - We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls)
2019 - I Love Sausage Rolls
2020 - Don’t Stop Me Eatin’
2021 - Sausage Rolls For Everyone
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Post by Lobster on Dec 24, 2021 22:45:03 GMT
LADBaby have broken the record held by The Beatles and Spice Girls to become Christmas Number 1 for the fourth consecutive year. The Beatles and Spice Girls each posted a hat-trick of Christmas number ones but it seems the general public absolutely love a Greggs… and raising money for a very worthy cause, the Trussell Trust. LADBaby’s Christmas number ones: 2018 - We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls) 2019 - I Love Sausage Rolls 2020 - Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ 2021 - Sausage Rolls For Everyone Good cause, but he keeps sticking up for the government and has heavily implied he voted for them, which makes me think the whole thing's a bit of a charade, really. I prefer Kunt's message. Another top 5 hit for him! |
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 24, 2021 23:59:10 GMT
I do agree. Charity exists where governments fail, his apparent political leanings seem strange in that respect.
The Kunts’ frontman said:
“We may be vulgar in the language we use to get our point across but we would not be so vulgar as to use food banks to hawk records, increase our profile or sign lucrative sponsorship deals.
“Let me be clear, we would not stoop to using poverty, hunger and despair to promote our career and bolster our bank balance like we believe LadBaby have done in this year’s and last year’s Christmas Number One campaign.
“But please don’t let any of this distract from the fact that the Trussell Trust is a necessary and worthy charity at this point in time and it is good to support food banks with donations of food and money, we do, but at the root of the problem is the corrupt and heartless Conservative government, and the man in charge of that who leads by example is Boris Johnson.
“And he is STILL a fucking cunt.”
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Post by Lobster on Dec 25, 2021 0:07:39 GMT
For a bloke who calls himself Kunt and writes songs with names like "Wanking Over a Pornographic Polaroid of an Ex-Girlfriend Who Died", he's surprisingly articulate and principled.
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Post by Lobster on Dec 16, 2022 23:08:56 GMT
The Kunts are back for Khristmas! No doubt LadBaby will be number 1 again with yet another song about sausage rolls. Maybe his intentions are good and if the Trussell Trust benefits from it, I suppose that's a good thing. But for me, his throwaway songs (as well as being bloody awful) fail to address the scandal of food poverty in Britain with the required levels of seriousness and outrage. A message of "give to food banks" isn't good enough I don't think. The Trussell Trust's slogan isn't "give to food banks", it's "Stop UK Hunger". They don't want to be running food banks, that's just where they are right now. You can't seriously support that cause without at least questioning the people who have the power to change it - something he absolutely refuses to do. In fact, I believe he votes for them. In many ways, all he's doing is facilitating the Conservatives' interests in food banks as an alternative to them doing anything about the situation - a viewpoint once actually said out loud by Jacob Rees-Mogg. And gaining a lot of money and publicity in the process. Fuck The T*ries at Christmas No. 1 (while donating to the Trussell Trust as well if you can) would be a much more direct and effective way of showing our disgust and anger at the government's role in increasing food poverty, along with many other fuck-ups. theconservatives.info/Oh, and the Armagortion version is a banger anyway. |
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Post by Firestick Frank on Dec 17, 2022 11:50:06 GMT
Getting tired of LADBaby being wheeled out every year to normalise foodbanks instead of calling out the government he publicly supported and voted in.
I’m all for the Kunts.
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Post by Curva Nord on Dec 17, 2022 13:17:40 GMT
Another grifter, none of the merch he sells on the back of this bollocks goes to charity, tax dodger apparently too
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Post by miltongraham on Dec 20, 2022 8:10:44 GMT
ghost town specials
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Post by Mr Mark on Dec 21, 2022 16:55:51 GMT
This year LADBaby has covered Joan Jett’s I Love Rock n Roll (renamed I Love Sausage Rolls), again to raise vital funds for food banks. I know this is only trivial, but "I Love Rock 'n' Roll was actually recorded by The Arrows in 1975. Joan Jett then recorded a version of the song in 1979 as a b-side, before re-recording it in 1981 as a single which is admittedly the most famous and successful version of the song. |
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