I thought my musical taste was eclectic!

Does anybody else here like Big Country? I think they are fantastic, they were unbelievable performers live. Strangely they only had a couple of big hit singles ("in a big country dreams stay with you" and "look away, look away"icon_wink.gif but their whole catalogue is full of fantastic music. They did some superb anthems, then they could do slow ballads without them sounding gay, a lot of their music had socialist political undertones to it.

I went to see them as a teenager, still the most amazing crowd atmosphere I've ever been in, it was full of hard working class Glaswegian men and the patriotic fervour was incredible. In the middle bridge of one of their songs, they started freestyling traditional Scottish songs on their electric guitars making them sound like bagpipes, all the tattooed tartan meatheads started crying while they were bouncing around on each other. Me and my mates started crying as well. Amazing scenes but the atmosphere pulled you in, their music is infectious.

Sadly Stuart Adamson committed suicide so they are no more.

had my usual darts night with my mate tonight,treated us to one of my own compilations which took us back to woolston primary school disco's and some woolston leisure classics,among the playlist were......
deep purple
free
rush
rainbow
thin lizzy
saxon
motorhead

you have to go back to your youth at least once a week when you hit 40

My version of Woolston Leisure was

Pistols
PIL
Clash
The Damned

That's about it. We didn't get as much as you grebs.

CD's currently in the car:

Belle and Sebastian
Sigur Ros
Gil Scott Heron
The Unthanks
Noah and the Whale
Jay Z
Isobell Campbell and Mark Lenegan

CD's sat in the centre console of the car:

Kings of Leon
Arcade Fire
Johnny Cash
Foo Fighters
Reverend and the Makers

I'm not one for Facebook (I am registered but never use it) but I had a look as someone mentioned that RATM thing and it is quite amusing.

I love Rage (I was devoed not to see them before they split up but made up to finally get the chance at Reading 200icon_cool.gif and I've never seen a single episode of X-Factor/Pop Idol/whatever so I might purchase KITN from iTunes next week, despite obviously already owning the album.

Will it work though? I haven't paid attention to the charts for about fifteen years but I'm informed that they're now nothing like how I remember them. Since downloads started getting counted meaning pretty much any song could end up number one in theory, have any of these online campaigns actually worked?

There's been a lot of media coverage about the campaign to get RATM to number one this year. Some has been positivehttp://www.rockradio.co.uk/rock-news/rage-against-the-cowell-machine/q21vkhx6/rl and some of it not sohttp://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog. It's been mentioned (and supported by) such prominent personalities as Bill Bailey, Phil Jupitus, Mike Sweeney and Zane Lowe.

The criticisms around the whole debate beinghttp://www.justgiving.com/ratm4xmasrl

You asked if any of these campaigns have actually worked? Last year, when Alexandra Burke released her awful version of Jeff Buckley's 'Hallelujah' there was a similar campaign to get the original version to no.1 in stead. It got to no.2. Which goes to show that these things can, and do work. The FB group currently has over 470'000 members. Everyone can buy up to 3 copies of the song (one from each official retailer) to count towards the Christmas chart, from registered outlets 7Digital, Play.com and iTunes. Alexandra Burke sold 500'000ish copies last year to make no.1. I reckon it's do-able!