Band Aid 20 - Your Comments

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CU_AMiGA wrote:

It is a shadow of the 1984 version and i almost need new underwear when i heard the Dizzy Rascal (c)rap part. The whole song sounds as though pre-school children messing about with tambourines and drums in a music room. What you other who have heard it think of it?

Actually, I didn't think it was that horrendous...  Besides, everyone should put aside their cynicism and buy it as it's for a very good cause indeed.  You can console yourself with the knowledge that both Bono and Macca are involved, even if you can't stand the sound of everyone else taking part.

Personally, the very thought of the current trend of Urban/R&B/boy bands/girl bands/etc brings on violent intestinal distress but the message of Band Aid is as valid now as it was in 1984 - even if then it featured "artists" like Bananarama and Phil Collins who we all seem to have forgiven for their musical misdemeanours.  

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CU_AMiGA wrote:
Actually, i think a radio station here in the UK has banned playing the new Band Aid song, instead, they play the 1984 version.

Regards,

How utterly despicable.

I daresay said radio station still persists with airing stuff like Westlife, Nelly and Girls Aloud?  

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mdma wrote:
What I find utterly despicable, is Busted "singing" on this record.

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Me too.  There's something seriously wrong in the world when artists like Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, Otis Reading, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, Michael Hutchence and Kirsty McColl all pass way before their time and we're stuck with the likes of Westlife, Usher and everything else that Pap Idol pedals onto the public in shameless orgy of promotion before innovation.
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but I agree that some of the artists involved may have been in it for the glory as much as for making a difference.

These middle-class little boys have gone on record as saying they do not believe in the redistribution of wealth, and that if people are poor then it is of their own making!

Well I haven't heard that quote, but I'd be disgusted if it were true.  However I suspect you're right.

These people are only involved with this record to boost their own commercial profile.  Someone please pass me the sick bucket.

Of course they are! But at least they've loaned their services for free and that BandAid 20 is going to hopefully capture the hearts of a new generation.  

IMHO Bob Geldof and Midge Ure sum up everything I admire in humanity for all that they achieved with Band Aid, Live Aid and their continuing efforts to bring the plight of the third world into our very living rooms.  The fact that they remain laudably self deprecating about their achievement speaks volumes.  If using fame to help others makes the slightest difference then long may it continue.

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CU_AMiGA wrote:

Plus4 wrote:

Don't panic gang, this version of 'Do they know...' will be forgotton and glossed over just like that crappy version in the late 80's with Kylie singing at the beginning.

You never hear any mention of THAT do you !
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Oh yes? I have never heard of that version. It must be bad! lol Is there any way i can hear it (legally)

Oh dear lord no...  

Am I alone in having not forgiven Kylie for her late 1980's bubble perm and annoying Stock, Aitken & Waterman atrocities?

Now she's re-invested herself as Madonna circa 1990 and everyone raves about her arse, people forget she was responsible for some hideous crimes not so long ago.  Back in the day, Kylie was regarded as THE epitome of crap manufactured disposapop.  

Thinking about that last sentence, had we known then what we know now, suicide rates would be much higher....

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If you don't like it then turn off the radio...  IMHO it's justified in reaching no 1 because it's raising funds for charity which is something desperately needed right now.

I don't like the song or most of the so called "artists" involved, but if some good can come out of it then it's a very good thing IMHO.

However, I daresay very soon the latest reality TV "personality" will release a record of mind-numbing levels of crappiness, which will be bought/downloaded as a ring tone/given too much airplay by every pre-pubescent or corporate sponsored radio station, thus claiming the number one spot and making yet more shed loads of money for the faceless suits forcefeeding us the endless diet of manufactured disposapop at the expense of true innovation.