The Xmas Factor: best seasonal song ever?

[matgb]

Ye gods, what a silly publicity stunt for a radio show, running a silly online poll in a cheap rip off of some TV show I've not watched. Still, what do we expect from Capital Gold:

The day's match is launched during the Capital Gold Breakfast Shows. You then have 24 hours in which to vote for your favourite song out of the day's choices.

The daily champs will move into the next round until we have the 2006 Xmas Factor Champion. The winner will be announced on Friday December 22.

Thing is? The finalists are some Queen song^[1] and Fairy Tale of New York. Given yesterdays discussion, the results should be conclusive, but it appears that there are some fans of that godawful Queen song. As I look, it's exactly 50/50. So go make a choice. No pressure of course. Vote.

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[1]Queen may have once been Mat's favourite band ever. He currently denies this having discovered a sense of musical taste. However, there are still a number of songs by them that rate as all-time greats, even if they are cheesy pomp rock. The song competing against FONY isn't one of those greats.

[2] Oh yeah, aside. I mentioned I'm using Deepest Sender to make Braindumps for memes and links I want to write about later, yes? Well, um, I currently have 12 posts in the line up. I'm assuming you don't want them all at once?

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Jeez - it's Queen 52%, Kirsty & Co 48%.

Get voting!

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

53/47 now, and I voted for the Pogues!

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There's nowt wrong with being a Queen fan, just ask snapesbabe. You might like her taste in music, Mat.

[matgb]

She is in fact someone I've come close to adding a few times, far too much a crossover of interests, but have never really got around to doing.

Mebbe later. Need more people to linkwhore the poll methinks.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

Well, you should. She's great. I sent her a Christmas present.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* innocent whistle *

No, I'm not bored and going through Mat's tags in an ad hoc manner this morning, why do you ask?

I have to say that while I agree with Mister Mat on this particular pair of songs, the proposition that The Pogues are better than Queen in general is just ODD... Lyrically, the Pogues were great, but musically? They had ONE SONG, which they did over and over at varying tempos/in varying keys [/possibly mild exaggeration]. There's not a single Queen album that doesn't cover a bewildering variety of styles, and always with extreme competence. Yes, even Hot Space.

Personally, I think there's quite a big streak of Mister Mat that doesn't want to admit to liking some stuff because he thinks they're uncool. I'm happy to embrace my uncoolness. I know I'll never be hip, so I don't bother trying... [/intentional provocation]

[matgb]

Pah—I didn't say Queen were better than t'Pogues, I said Fairytale was better than Thank God It's Christmas, which, you have to admit, was hardly their finest hour.

I have the Best of the Pogues (I think you do as well?), but I mostly like their collaborative songs best.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* reads comment *

You're still half asleep, aren't you love?

* smooch *

Yeah, I have the best of. And (as I may have mentioned before) Fairytale is one of the few Christmas songs I can listen to without descending into a slough of despond and bitterness due to years of working in retail. But I still think you have issues with admitting you like uncool things. Although you seem to have admitting a small fondness for me, so... ;)

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

I'm not wondering if the Queen fans are deleting their cookies and reposting.

[matgb]

It, um, might have crosssed my mind to do an f-locked "how to" on that, but I decided against it.

I'm thinking it more to do with people having no taste.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Well, I've found out that they aren't doing it by deleting all capitol gold cookies nor the one labelled favourite artistes.

[matgb]

Ah, in that case it's IP based. So I could keep voting by simply going on and offline, but most broadband users can't.

Hmm, wonder how many total votes there are? Alternately, just need to get more people to go vote. *ponders9

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

I've pimped it all I can. Actually, I haven't.

Wanders off to the ladies_loos

[matgb]

I'd try livejournal_uk but I'm worried about the general quality of the audience, I suspect they may vote the wrong way :-(

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Well I have pointed out that it is clearly a feminist issue that FTofNY *isn't* winning.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

IP based it is. Have tried the above methods in order to induce a Norn Iron-style voting scenario :) Feminist issue or not, it appears the "silent majority" of AOLers and Daily Mail readers who don't actually like music much have the upper hand here. Tossers.

Face it folks, Queen weren't really *that* good, were they? Bohemian Rhapsody was no more than nonsensical cheesy bombast (albeit a pretty good example thereof), and was about the fourth-best track on A Night At The Opera. This one up against the mighty Kirsty & co is no Bo Rap. In fact it's not even Fat Bottomed Girls.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Pimp it in your journal, though, if you can. Tx

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I can't help thinking that it must be thirty one years since Bohemian Rhapsody was number one (in the UK)...

I heard it playing at a Christmas party I went to, all that time ago.

I actually rather liked it at the time!

[pinkshifter.livejournal.com]

Wash your mouth out with soap young man!

Have voted :)

[matgb]

Wha, what'd I say? I only took the piss out of Queen a bit...

[pinkshifter.livejournal.com]

and there i was looking forward to finally meeting you.....

:P

[two-brains.livejournal.com]

well, I've done my bit for the cause, but queen are pulling ahead 54-46 at the moment!

[susumu.livejournal.com]

I hate that Pogues song. I'm not voting for Queen either though.

[fearmeforiampink]

Me too. Makes my brain ache almost as bad as the Flogging Molly stuff.

I could be bothered to vote for Queen. I quite like that particular song, and it's far better then the Pogue.

[fuzzyduck.org (from livejournal.com)]

Testing OpenID login. If this works, I'm scared.

[matryx.livejournal.com]

I was about to enquire what Deepest Sender was but then I actually got off my own fat ass and looked it up.

Looks very interesting. Would be more useful to me if it was a standalone application that could post to many journals at once, but it still looks useful. Maybe one day I'll be able to install firefox at work for more than just "compatability testing" purposes.

[matgb]

There are standalone aps that can do that, but I like the integration aspect a lot. Highlight text, right click, send, and I've got a formatted link with blockquote of the highlight, very useful. Can do multiple selections for one post, but you currently need to do them all first before editting.

And yeah, moving away from full admin priviledges with every plugin I want to whatever I get wherever I end up will be annoying, odds of getting an IT manager prepared to let me loose very small methinks. Fx is (slowly) gaining grounds, but the bigger the company, the more hidebound the software requirements are it seems :-(