Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:47 amLast week: 75
This week: 51
Total number of weeks on chart: 48
This week: 51
Total number of weeks on chart: 48
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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:47 amRe: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:51 ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeexciting !
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:49 amRe: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:34 pmphilipchevron wrote:Last week: 75
This week: 51
Total number of weeks on chart: 48
Is this the UK charts?
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:58 pmSmoz wrote:philipchevron wrote:Last week: 75
This week: 51
Total number of weeks on chart: 48
Is this the UK charts?
Official UK chart, yes.
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:18 amRe: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:47 amPistolPaddyGarcia wrote:Fairytale of New York on the third position.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... -Xmas.html
As my late grandmother, bless her, was fond of asking, "where's Bing Crosby?"
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:49 amWell, at LEAST its played more frequently than that god awful Slade tripe - and it must be said that being the 3rd most played Christmas song of the decade is pretty great going for a song containing what many purists would consider "expletives".
And it goes without saying, by far the best Christmas song ever and one of the best songs ever.
And it goes without saying, by far the best Christmas song ever and one of the best songs ever.
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:49 pmQuote"....
John Cage's 4'33'' vs The X-Factor 2010
Release Date: 13th December
From implaccable opponents of The Man and the reality show sausage machine, to "real music lovers", and people who just used to enjoy a punt on the Xmas no 1, supporters of 2009's Rage Against the Machine assault on the XMAS no1 spot covered enough demographic ground to score a historic victory against it's X-Factor opponent. RATM enjoyed a well deserved re-entry into the nations 'consciousness, homeless charity Shelter benefited from the proceeds, and fan and foe alike enjoyed what was a deeply symbolic but no less enjoyable spectacle.
This year's frontrunner against X Factor's renewed assault is an altogether quieter (but no less potent) force than RATM's 'Killing in the Name'. Thrown up thanks to the collective wisdom of the Facebook crowd (http://www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine), John Cage's 4'33'' has emerged as the ultimate cry against the manufactured noise, a waft of near silence that could end up sending the same loud and clear message as RATM did last year: there is another way.
Media coverage of the snappily titled 'Cage Against the Machine' campaign so far has ranged from Radio 4 revisiting the counter cultural implications of the ultimate avant garde musical piece, to Holly Willoughby enthusing about the annual XFactor vs the People contest on 'This Morning', and all points in between. For the full story behind John Cage and his 1953 minimalist masterpiece, please see the Guardian piece below, or any of the many links listed.
For all inquiries please email: catm433@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.catm.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine
http://www.twitter.com/JOHNCAGEXMAS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -christmas
It's a brilliant bit of wordplay, for a start. Cage Against the Machine is the campaign to put John Cage's infamous silent piece, 4'33'', on top of the Christmas charts – and to consign whatever X-Factor effort Simon Cowell chooses to unleash on an unsuspecting public to mid-chart mediocrity. Based on last year's successful bid to make Rage Against the Machine king of the Crimbo hit-parade, this year's Cage campaign already has nearly 50,000 people signed up to it on Facebook, with all proceeds going to charity when the single becomes available on 13 December.
It's self-evidently a good thing, but there's much more to CATM than the statistics. 4'33'' has a unique capacity to offend, to shock, and to entertain, nearly six decades after its premiere at the Maverick Concert Hall at Bard College in August 1952, when pianist David Tudor sat down at the piano to play – well, not a single note. 4'33'' is also one of the very few pieces in history that has crossed from the avant-garde to the mainstream. When the BBC Symphony Orchestra performed it the Barbican in London in 2004, the Sun carried the story, and just as many listeners were outraged as were thrilled by 4'33'''s three movements of silence.
The CATM campaigners want 4'33" to win the Christmas poll to "make it a silent night on Radio 1". They're closer to Cage's original intentions than some of them might know. According to Kyle Gann's recent book on 4'33", Cage may have conceived the idea of his silent piece as a reaction to a postwar urban America and its near-constant soundtrack of muzak. A few months before the premiere of 4'33'', Cage cut out an article from the New York Post, which imagines a jukebox with silent singles, giving people the chance to escape the tyranny of continual aural bombardment. If the idea of a temporary respite from noise pollution was a good idea in 1952, it's even more necessary now.
But as Gann's book shows, there's, "no such thing as silence", even when you're talking about 4'33''. Think about the two minutes' silence on 11 November: what you hear is never "nothing", but a heightened soundscape of quietness that you never normally notice: the shuffling and breathing of your fellow human beings if you're in a crowd, or the sonic landscape of the city that you don't normally notice. The essential non-silence of "silence" is especially true for one of the people putting together the new version of 4'33" that will be released in time for Christmas. DJ Eddy Temple-Morris suffers from tinnitus (the British Tinnitus Association is on the charities that will benefit from sales of the track), and the final track looks like it will be a remix of ambient sounds and background noise.
That's fine, and in the spirit of Cage's ideas, but I hope it doesn't end up being too loud. The poetry of trumping Cowell et al with no intentional sounds requires the track to be as quiet as possible to make Cage's victory complete. 4'33'' has long been the avant-gardistas No 1, but perhaps it can now become the people's favourite too. Imagine next year's X Factor auditions, as contestant after contestant announces that they won't be singing Lady Gaga or Madonna, but 4'33''. ITV forced to broadcast hour after hour of silence as Cowell and co look on in bemusement, and have to give everyone three yesses for their impeccable renditions of one of the great masterpieces of 20th century music. Remember: 4'33" is not just for Christmas ..."
The Sound Corporation label, re-releasing Cage's original recording (edited from three movements into one) on December 13th, will be donating all profits to campaigning, not-for-profit organization www. jailguitardoors.org.uk. Set up in 2007 by Billy Bragg and friends in memory of Joe Strummer, JGD's prison - music - rehabilitation work has a unique place in the wider charity spectrum, and was the subject of the Community Channel's 'Breaking Rocks' documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWKm4OHHnrI
Matching the force and energy of last year's campaign with four and half minutes of silence is going to be no easy task, but with two weeks until release date the buzz is growing and a different kind of energy is building around the record, as media and music fans alike recognize the power of silence in the face of the incessant noise.
'This campaign works on a number of levels – as a comment on the noisy commercialisation of Christmas; as a way of upsetting Simon Cowell's master-plan for another year; and as a way of raising funds for a good cause. Jail Guitar Doors is very pleased to have been chosen to be the recipient of the goodwill expressed by those who join us in this campaign to get 4'33'' to the top of the Christmas charts.'
Billy Bragg
.........."End Quote
John Cage's 4'33'' vs The X-Factor 2010
Release Date: 13th December
From implaccable opponents of The Man and the reality show sausage machine, to "real music lovers", and people who just used to enjoy a punt on the Xmas no 1, supporters of 2009's Rage Against the Machine assault on the XMAS no1 spot covered enough demographic ground to score a historic victory against it's X-Factor opponent. RATM enjoyed a well deserved re-entry into the nations 'consciousness, homeless charity Shelter benefited from the proceeds, and fan and foe alike enjoyed what was a deeply symbolic but no less enjoyable spectacle.
This year's frontrunner against X Factor's renewed assault is an altogether quieter (but no less potent) force than RATM's 'Killing in the Name'. Thrown up thanks to the collective wisdom of the Facebook crowd (http://www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine), John Cage's 4'33'' has emerged as the ultimate cry against the manufactured noise, a waft of near silence that could end up sending the same loud and clear message as RATM did last year: there is another way.
Media coverage of the snappily titled 'Cage Against the Machine' campaign so far has ranged from Radio 4 revisiting the counter cultural implications of the ultimate avant garde musical piece, to Holly Willoughby enthusing about the annual XFactor vs the People contest on 'This Morning', and all points in between. For the full story behind John Cage and his 1953 minimalist masterpiece, please see the Guardian piece below, or any of the many links listed.
For all inquiries please email: catm433@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.catm.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine
http://www.twitter.com/JOHNCAGEXMAS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -christmas
It's a brilliant bit of wordplay, for a start. Cage Against the Machine is the campaign to put John Cage's infamous silent piece, 4'33'', on top of the Christmas charts – and to consign whatever X-Factor effort Simon Cowell chooses to unleash on an unsuspecting public to mid-chart mediocrity. Based on last year's successful bid to make Rage Against the Machine king of the Crimbo hit-parade, this year's Cage campaign already has nearly 50,000 people signed up to it on Facebook, with all proceeds going to charity when the single becomes available on 13 December.
It's self-evidently a good thing, but there's much more to CATM than the statistics. 4'33'' has a unique capacity to offend, to shock, and to entertain, nearly six decades after its premiere at the Maverick Concert Hall at Bard College in August 1952, when pianist David Tudor sat down at the piano to play – well, not a single note. 4'33'' is also one of the very few pieces in history that has crossed from the avant-garde to the mainstream. When the BBC Symphony Orchestra performed it the Barbican in London in 2004, the Sun carried the story, and just as many listeners were outraged as were thrilled by 4'33'''s three movements of silence.
The CATM campaigners want 4'33" to win the Christmas poll to "make it a silent night on Radio 1". They're closer to Cage's original intentions than some of them might know. According to Kyle Gann's recent book on 4'33", Cage may have conceived the idea of his silent piece as a reaction to a postwar urban America and its near-constant soundtrack of muzak. A few months before the premiere of 4'33'', Cage cut out an article from the New York Post, which imagines a jukebox with silent singles, giving people the chance to escape the tyranny of continual aural bombardment. If the idea of a temporary respite from noise pollution was a good idea in 1952, it's even more necessary now.
But as Gann's book shows, there's, "no such thing as silence", even when you're talking about 4'33''. Think about the two minutes' silence on 11 November: what you hear is never "nothing", but a heightened soundscape of quietness that you never normally notice: the shuffling and breathing of your fellow human beings if you're in a crowd, or the sonic landscape of the city that you don't normally notice. The essential non-silence of "silence" is especially true for one of the people putting together the new version of 4'33" that will be released in time for Christmas. DJ Eddy Temple-Morris suffers from tinnitus (the British Tinnitus Association is on the charities that will benefit from sales of the track), and the final track looks like it will be a remix of ambient sounds and background noise.
That's fine, and in the spirit of Cage's ideas, but I hope it doesn't end up being too loud. The poetry of trumping Cowell et al with no intentional sounds requires the track to be as quiet as possible to make Cage's victory complete. 4'33'' has long been the avant-gardistas No 1, but perhaps it can now become the people's favourite too. Imagine next year's X Factor auditions, as contestant after contestant announces that they won't be singing Lady Gaga or Madonna, but 4'33''. ITV forced to broadcast hour after hour of silence as Cowell and co look on in bemusement, and have to give everyone three yesses for their impeccable renditions of one of the great masterpieces of 20th century music. Remember: 4'33" is not just for Christmas ..."
The Sound Corporation label, re-releasing Cage's original recording (edited from three movements into one) on December 13th, will be donating all profits to campaigning, not-for-profit organization www. jailguitardoors.org.uk. Set up in 2007 by Billy Bragg and friends in memory of Joe Strummer, JGD's prison - music - rehabilitation work has a unique place in the wider charity spectrum, and was the subject of the Community Channel's 'Breaking Rocks' documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWKm4OHHnrI
Matching the force and energy of last year's campaign with four and half minutes of silence is going to be no easy task, but with two weeks until release date the buzz is growing and a different kind of energy is building around the record, as media and music fans alike recognize the power of silence in the face of the incessant noise.
'This campaign works on a number of levels – as a comment on the noisy commercialisation of Christmas; as a way of upsetting Simon Cowell's master-plan for another year; and as a way of raising funds for a good cause. Jail Guitar Doors is very pleased to have been chosen to be the recipient of the goodwill expressed by those who join us in this campaign to get 4'33'' to the top of the Christmas charts.'
Billy Bragg
.........."End Quote
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:21 amgwrwho wrote:Well, at LEAST its played more frequently than that god awful Slade tripe - and it must be said that being the 3rd most played Christmas song of the decade is pretty great going for a song containing what many purists would consider "expletives".
And it goes without saying, by far the best Christmas song ever and one of the best songs ever.
I like that Slade shite...it was played for me on british forces radio, when it was a big hit (december 1973) but unfortunately I was locked up in the guardroom for drunkenly streaking through Dortmund city centre!
Fairytale is a classic that doesn't need christmas..it's a genius of a song.
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:59 pmFONY now no 27!
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 9:23 pmhttp://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/k ... t16,515589
Ranking: Five Christmas songs of the gently sloping nature
"
1 "Fairytale Of New York" by The Pogues: Shane MacGowan and heart-rending duet by Kirsty MacColl on a homeless man who meditates on Christmas Day on better times.
2 "Christmas in Hollis" by Run DMC: The Hip-Hop veterans with a loud, funny and twisted contribution to the quietest time of the year.
3 "Merry Christmas (I Do not Want to Fight Tonight)" by The Ramones: Even the chaos troops from New York wants peace and harmony for the mess.
4 "Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)" by Pearl Jam: Since 1991, the band is about Eddie Vedder every year a Christmas single, which will be donated to fan club members.
5 "Mistress For Christmas" by AC / DC: Brian Johnson wants a threesome with two young, red-haired and long-legged ladies of the Christ child.
http://www.wochenblatt.de/nachrichten/i ... 1177,23648
Every day we sweeten the waiting time for the Christ child with a little ditty.
Today, a Christmas song about the Anglo-Irish cult folk-punks The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York". The song was chosen in various surveys in England and Ireland to the best Christmas song of all time. Have fun.
Ranking: Five Christmas songs of the gently sloping nature
"
1 "Fairytale Of New York" by The Pogues: Shane MacGowan and heart-rending duet by Kirsty MacColl on a homeless man who meditates on Christmas Day on better times.
2 "Christmas in Hollis" by Run DMC: The Hip-Hop veterans with a loud, funny and twisted contribution to the quietest time of the year.
3 "Merry Christmas (I Do not Want to Fight Tonight)" by The Ramones: Even the chaos troops from New York wants peace and harmony for the mess.
4 "Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)" by Pearl Jam: Since 1991, the band is about Eddie Vedder every year a Christmas single, which will be donated to fan club members.
5 "Mistress For Christmas" by AC / DC: Brian Johnson wants a threesome with two young, red-haired and long-legged ladies of the Christ child.
http://www.wochenblatt.de/nachrichten/i ... 1177,23648
Every day we sweeten the waiting time for the Christ child with a little ditty.
Today, a Christmas song about the Anglo-Irish cult folk-punks The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York". The song was chosen in various surveys in England and Ireland to the best Christmas song of all time. Have fun.
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:56 pmPistolPaddyGarcia wrote:http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/kultur/art16,515589
Ranking: Five Christmas songs of the gently sloping nature
"
1 "Fairytale Of New York" by The Pogues: Shane MacGowan and heart-rending duet by Kirsty MacColl on a homeless man who meditates on Christmas Day on better times.
2 "Christmas in Hollis" by Run DMC: The Hip-Hop veterans with a loud, funny and twisted contribution to the quietest time of the year.
3 "Merry Christmas (I Do not Want to Fight Tonight)" by The Ramones: Even the chaos troops from New York wants peace and harmony for the mess.
4 "Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)" by Pearl Jam: Since 1991, the band is about Eddie Vedder every year a Christmas single, which will be donated to fan club members.
5 "Mistress For Christmas" by AC / DC: Brian Johnson wants a threesome with two young, red-haired and long-legged ladies of the Christ child.
http://www.wochenblatt.de/nachrichten/i ... 1177,23648
Every day we sweeten the waiting time for the Christ child with a little ditty.
Today, a Christmas song about the Anglo-Irish cult folk-punks The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York". The song was chosen in various surveys in England and Ireland to the best Christmas song of all time. Have fun.
Who you calling a cult?
Mr MacGowan was definitely "gently sloping" tonight.
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:50 amphilipchevron wrote:Mr MacGowan was definitely "gently sloping" tonight.
Yes... that's certainly one way of putting it I suppose. Maybe not so gentle at times though...
Yourself and Spider did some trojan recovery work up there tonight!
Re: Fairytale of New York Chartwatch
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:27 pmNumber 26 today