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Dont let the RUBBER BANDITS Get to number 1 for Christmas

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    #32
    davidmichael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭davidmichael


    I saw it posted on youtube. Could be a load of crap.....hopefully its true it would give people an incentive to buy it!


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    #33
    opinion guy
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    KeanSeenan wrote: »
    In the last ten years, the christmas number one has been religious once, Alexandra Burke's cover of Hallelujiah. While being religious, that cover is a crime against nature.

    :eek:
    You need to listen to the lyrics of Halleljiah a bit harder. This song is many things but it is most definitely NOT religious. I suppose you could say it say its spiritual - I mean its basically a song about la petit mort:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort


    Still, whilst you are right that that cover is crininal, I suppose there is some small subversive comfort to be had in the fact the millions of goons bought a 'religious' cover version, when in actual fact they were listening to a musical depiction of post orgasmic emptyness/ the loss of a lover - thou I very much doubt Alexandra Burke was aware of that fact (the Simon Cowell may well be)


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    #34
    TunaSaladBB
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭TunaSaladBB


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Nah, they spell it as one word, not two.

    Not suggesting that the OP is a Rubberbandit. Just that they're trying to promote them.


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    #35
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    opinion guy wrote: »
    :eek:
    You need to listen to the lyrics of Halleljiah a bit harder. This song is many things but it is most definitely NOT religious. I suppose you could say it say its spiritual - I mean its basically a song about la petit mort:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort

    Yes, having religious sounding words in a song doesn't automatically make it religious. I'd say you'd have to go back as far as Cliff Richard to get a religious Christmas number 1.

    What's the relevance of a Christmas number 1 in Ireland anyway? As far as I'm aware it was a big deal in the UK because there used to be a Top Of The Pops special on Christmas Day and if you were number 1 you got to be on it. No relevance here whatsoever. It's not like you get extra money for being number 1 on Christmas or something.


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    #36
    LKAlias1989
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    The Rubberbandits song is kind of Religious. The Video is set in a church!


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    #37
    Android 666
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    And by the way, Santa is a tool of commercialism that was cleverly tacked on to a religious celebration in order to fool millions of people into parting with their hard earned cash. Let's celebrate that instead.

    Yes, you're right. He was cleverly dreamed up by a shadowy cabal of international bankers to coerce the ordinary working man into parting with the money they had made and thus keeping them enslaved to the faceless corporations that run this planet. Well that's what Jim Corr told me…


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    #38
    Insect Overlord
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    Android 666 wrote: »
    Yes, you're right. He was cleverly dreamed up by a shadowy cabal of international bankers to coerce the ordinary working man into parting with the money they had made and thus keeping them enslaved to the faceless corporations that run this planet. Well that's what Jim Corr told me…

    The icon of Santa Claus as we know it was created by Coca Cola. It was part of their advertising campaigns in the 1930s. They based him on a combination of mythical folk-characters and the saint Nicholas. And Jim Corr didn't tell me that ;)


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    #39
    Seanachai
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    I know the being who was called Jesus the Christ when he walked on this plane. I meet him in the spirit world from time to time , he exists on a level of supreme knowledge and wisdom and because of this he has a very well developed sense of humour. He loves the Rubber Bandits but he can't f**kin stand Joe Duffy :D .


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    #40
    nxbyveromdwjpg
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    People like the OP make me want to buy this song, and I wasnt planning to.


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    #41
    DarkJager
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    I smell a member of the Joe Duffy brigade here. Get over yourself and your hysteria over a ****ing comedy christmas record. The humour obviously goes way over your head so don't download it or listen to it on the radio. Nobody cares.


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    #42
    irishonline
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    some people just don't get satirical comedy :rolleyes:


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    #43
    smurph11
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    KeanSeenan wrote: »
    In the last ten years, the christmas number one has been religious once, Alexandra Burke's cover of Hallelujiah. While being religious, that cover is a crime against nature.

    hahaha religious?? Brilliant!!


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    #44
    peckerhead
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    If it's OK with Willie, it's OK with me. :cool:


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    #45
    flutered
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    the op posted a similar thread over on bargain alerts, it got locked.


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    #46
    JerryHandbag
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    It's not like some devil worship song is going to be number 1 and to celebrate we're going to sacrifice a church full of virgins.

    Now theres an idea....

    *runs and gets guitar*


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    #47
    Fighting Irish
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting.

    :rolleyes:
    Jeekers wrote: »
    Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children.

    :rolleyes:
    Jeekers wrote: »
    It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1.

    I totally agree with this, it's a stupid song, it's pretty much a richie kavanagh song with curse words

    Jeekers wrote: »
    Im praying it doesnt make it.

    :rolleyes:
    Jeekers wrote: »
    I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    :rolleyes:


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    #48
    CortezTheKiller
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.


    If the Rubberbandits don't get to the Xmas number one, X-factor will -- and that would be disgusting!


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    #49
    Kold
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    Viral marketing much? I don't believe you're the tool your post makes you out to be.


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    #50
    Raze_them_all
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    JerryHandbag wrote: »
    Now theres an idea....

    *runs and gets guitar*
    screw that must save the virgins like any real man would

    *runs and gets condoms*


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    #51
    yupyup7up
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭yupyup7up


    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    how is it disgusting? Im sure you've sworn plenty of times. Christmas is a holiday for everyone. A lot of people in Ireland now aren't even religious or are of other faiths, why can't we celebrate(I don't have any personal interest in religion).

    Who care about being the laughing stock anyway? It just shows to the world that the Irish are still about "The Craic". It's part our culture to be up for a laugh and this is a modern way of expressing it.

    And your last point, don't download it. I personally couldn't care less what you do. I'll turn off Matt Cardle when it comes on because I don't like that music but you don't see me registering on a forum just to give out about it. I'll the lads about this on th 29th in Limerick :D


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    #52
    Abelloid
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    I agree, it's a disgrace, and on Santa's birthday too. *stamps feet*


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    #53
    yupyup7up
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    JustinOval wrote: »
    I agree, it's a disgrace, and on Santa's birthday too. *stamps feet*

    didier_drogba-eyes_1398097i.jpg

    IT'S A DISGRACE!


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    #54
    Abelloid
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    I'm buying a copy for every member of my family, and then I'm going to delete them (the files, that is) just to send a message to these muppets; we will not stand for this type of nonsense while the little baby Jesus lies shivering in a barn waiting for Santy, on his birthday. Bag of jokes indeed. Grrr.


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    #55
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.
    Great and while your on your knees praying, ask for guidance for the spelling and grammar in your future posts; they're a bigger embarrassment than anything the Rubberbandits ever produced. Thanks for sharing.

    an' i've a horse outside like, pal.


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    #56
    Stompbox
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    Im praying it doesnt make it.

    Yeah good luck with that.


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    #57
    blueburd
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    wont lie but they deserve it.....

    the lads are cleaning up simply cause people are sick of the shame ****e on the charts every week.


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    #58
    mathepac
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    The icon of Santa Claus as we know it was created by Coca Cola. It was part of their advertising campaigns in the 1930s. They based him on a combination of mythical folk-characters and the saint Nicholas. ...
    It makes sense though. Rudolph with his nose so bright (coke?), Santa flyin' through the sky and breakin' into people's houses in the dark, robbin' food and drink, givin' presents to strangers - obviously off his head poor man (coke?). Then they crash and burn, hibernate in rehab for 11 months and repeat the dose next year.
    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    ... And Jim Corr didn't tell me that ;)
    Nor me, but he wanted to come with us last year :eek:


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    #59
    rob555mark
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭rob555mark


    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    Go on outa that, I heard you related to one of bandits, :D

    Free publicity!

    Anyway C'MON THE BANDITS........... do it for Ireland.


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    #60
    Resi12
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    Jeekers wrote: »
    This song and video is disgusting. Christmas is a time for Jesus, and the Spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus and children. It makes a pure laughing stock of the Irish to have a song like this reach to number 1. Im praying it doesnt make it. I for one certainly wont down load it and will switch of the radio when it comes on.

    christmas-trollface_detail_081210051420.jpg


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    #61
    nosco
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    The icon of Santa Claus as we know it was created by Coca Cola. It was part of their advertising campaigns in the 1930s. They based him on a combination of mythical folk-characters and the saint Nicholas. And Jim Corr didn't tell me that ;)

    Not true. He was around, as we know him, a good bit before coke used him.


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