View Full Version : Best Christmas #1 of the decade?
It's been an atrocious decade. I'll have to go for Girls Aloud simply because of what they are today. Still one of the best singles they have, too.
Patrick
29-11-2009, 05:49 PM
Shayne Ward - Thats My Goal
First X Factor Christmas Number 1
ONE song is about Christmas. Jesus ****ing christ. Five are from that goddamn TV show.
Good job, general public.
MrGaryy
29-11-2009, 05:51 PM
they're all absolute abominations bar Girls Aloud and Robbie. I voted Girls Aloud.
2004.
What's this years XF winners single?
HeatherTWx
29-11-2009, 05:52 PM
2004 :)
Patrick
29-11-2009, 05:53 PM
This years X Factor winners song is so ****!
It could of been Miley Cyrus for Stacey but now its ****ing some stupid song made for Joe.
Shaun
29-11-2009, 05:53 PM
Girls Aloud, but I also like the Gary Jules song.
Harry!
29-11-2009, 05:54 PM
Most have been utter rubbish this decade due to XF. I choose Band Aid.
ONE song is about Christmas. Jesus ****ing christ. Five are from that goddamn TV show.
Good job, general public.
6 after this year
I can see the XF bubble bursting in the next couple of years though. I think this is the 'CBB5' of X Factor
Shayne Ward- Thats My Goal
Great Song
ILoveTRW
29-11-2009, 05:59 PM
band aid obz
6 after this year
I can see the XF bubble bursting in the next couple of years though. I think this is the 'CBB5' of X Factor
Agree with you on that. It can only last for so long.
And Gary Jules, as much as I love that song, did not deserve the number 1 that year, the Darkness did. I hate the Darkness but wow, that was a classic Xmas song.
The line on that's That's my goal
" Am here to say am ready that i've finally thought it through "
I use to think it was
" Am here to say am ready and i've finally followed through "
InOne
29-11-2009, 06:09 PM
Gary Jules, the rest are just awful. Bob the Builder? I mean come on!!!
Who voted for that godawful Band Aid song?
''Here's to you raise a glass for everyone''
''Yo, yo being poor and shitz y'all''
''Here's to you underneath the mistletoe''
''Kids in da hoodz are starving innit''.
Sophii3x
29-11-2009, 06:13 PM
Omg, only one of them is about Christmas and nearly all of them are from reality shows :/ But I choose Girls Aloud- Sound Of The Underground.
Patrick
29-11-2009, 06:14 PM
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FTW
Patrick
29-11-2009, 06:16 PM
Omg, only one of them is about Christmas and nearly all of them are from reality shows :/ But I choose Girls Aloud- Sound Of The Underground.
Isnt that from a reality show?
Pop stars rivals?
I didnt watch it but Im assuming that was their first song?
You should of voted Bob The Builder then hes not from a Reality show :P
i voted for robert the builder
Patrick
29-11-2009, 06:16 PM
Actually, how on earth did Bob the Builder get to Number 1 ? :joker:
Harry!
29-11-2009, 06:19 PM
Did you know that the last NON cover, NON TV show, NON charity and original Xmas number 1 was the Spice Girls Goodbye way back in 1998.
Shame how commercial and unoriginal we are nowadays.
Arneldo
29-11-2009, 06:24 PM
Leon Jackson- When You Believe
Did you know that the last NON cover, NON TV show, NON charity and original Xmas number 1 was the Spice Girls Goodbye way back in 1998.
Shame how commercial and unoriginal we are nowadays.
Because the Spice Girl's weren't commercial or unoriginal?
Harry!
29-11-2009, 06:30 PM
Because the Spice Girl's weren't commercial or unoriginal?
They wrote there own music. Plus they were unique and has inspired the girl bands of this decade. There will never be another girl group like them.
They wrote there own music. Plus they were unique and has inspired the girl bands of this decade. There will never be another girl group like them.
I'm not going to argue the inspiration but just because you write your own music don't necessarily make it original.
Patrick
29-11-2009, 06:35 PM
There was a really good thing on yesterday on a Music Channel
Xmas #1s Since 1988
Was great to watch must say out of all of the Number 1s Leon has the shittest song.
Girls Aloud, but I also like the Gary Jules song.
Same.
Twilight
29-11-2009, 06:44 PM
Girls Aloud
..How can the 2009 one have votes? Seriously?!
Shaun
29-11-2009, 07:23 PM
was the Gary Jules thing a cover? I know it was in Donnie Darko...
Yeah Tears For Fears done the original.
InOne
29-11-2009, 07:28 PM
Why are GA winning? What the hell are you people on!!! Mad World it is indeed.
was the Gary Jules thing a cover? I know it was in Donnie Darko...
Yeah but the original sounds nothing like it, its a lot faster
I kind of class Mad World (2003) as an original song ... its a completely different interpretation
bronaaaa
29-11-2009, 08:14 PM
Band Aid <3
Scarlett.
29-11-2009, 08:16 PM
Mad World :3
Why are GA winning? What the hell are you people on!!! Mad World it is indeed.
Because people think they had the freshest, most original, best written Christmas song in a decade that was generally pretty piss for Christmas songs?
Sorry, but Mad World does not stroke my chain. If I was about to hang myself maybe it would work, but not as a Christmas song.
InOne
29-11-2009, 08:30 PM
Because people think they had the freshest, most original, best written Christmas song in a decade that was generally pretty piss for Christmas songs?
Sorry, but Mad World does not stroke my chain. If I was about to hang myself maybe it would work, but not as a Christmas song.
Was a very very bad bunch, and I guess it is a little depressing for an X=Mas song/ I liked it when I first watched Donnie Darko but got a bit much after that. Still, if GA is the best in the decade, there must be something wrong with music.
30stone
29-11-2009, 08:38 PM
Band aid 20 then leona
Scarlett.
29-11-2009, 08:39 PM
Since 2005 the Christmas #1's have been dreadful
Princess
30-11-2009, 12:23 AM
Out of those my favourite song would probably be Sound of the Underground. I'm never a big fan of the X Factor winner's single,I prefer the stuff they do after.
Was a very very bad bunch, and I guess it is a little depressing for an X=Mas song/ I liked it when I first watched Donnie Darko but got a bit much after that. Still, if GA is the best in the decade, there must be something wrong with music.
Girls Aloud are a superb pop group. Even people who are not into pop will tell you that. They are one of the best things this decade. Perfect image, perfect songs, perfect mixture of personalities, good consistency, they have it all.
Girls Aloud are a superb pop group. Even people who are not into pop will tell you that. They are one of the best things this decade. Perfect image, perfect songs, perfect mixture of personalities, good consistency, they have it all.
I normally hate that music but I have a massive soft spot for Girls Aloud
The production team they have behind them is absolutely top notch. Even the most manliest of males are forced to give in. Look at Biology, for example. Which bit is meant to be the chorus? It's just catchy hook after catchy hook ****ing battered at you. Like throwing pies at a fat person.
30stone
30-11-2009, 12:32 AM
Have to say band aid should be smashing this list!
InOne
30-11-2009, 12:45 AM
Girls Aloud are a superb pop group. Even people who are not into pop will tell you that. They are one of the best things this decade. Perfect image, perfect songs, perfect mixture of personalities, good consistency, they have it all.
Not a fan really. Just another girl band...
The production team they have behind them is absolutely top notch. Even the most manliest of males are forced to give in. Look at Biology, for example. Which bit is meant to be the chorus? It's just catchy hook after catchy hook ****ing battered at you. Like throwing pies at a fat person.
Its all about Can't Speak French :dance:
MrGaryy
30-11-2009, 01:27 AM
Not a fan really. Just another girl band...
erm no. In fact the only thing like them at the minute or since they started really has been the Saturdays except they lack the consistency. Girls Aloud are girl pop band perfection. As Stu has already said everything they release is pop gold, they're look has evolved at progressed with time so they always look immaculate. Their videos are some of the best in the British mainstream this decade.
Barbie
30-11-2009, 08:54 AM
I picked the christmas one, just because it was about christmas and wasnt just another xfactor number one,
Getting a christmas number one is only good if you didn't win the xfactor, then you have achieved something, xfactor gets it every year now, boring.
Lewis.
30-11-2009, 09:00 AM
Band aid 2.0
At least it is a christmas one
I think that the X factor one should be released a week after christmas
Getting a christmas number one is only good if you didn't win the xfactor, then you have achieved something
Like Bob The Builder?
Not a fan really. Just another girl band...
Give me an all girl pop group in the last twenty years who have been so consistently successful both within music and outside it.
They are gold as long as a court order prevents them from singing ballads. Girls Aloud suck a **** at ballads.
alc09
30-11-2009, 12:00 PM
****ing hell there is some shite there.
LemonJam
30-11-2009, 12:05 PM
Did you know that the last NON cover, NON TV show, NON charity and original Xmas number 1 was the Spice Girls Goodbye way back in 1998.
Shame how commercial and unoriginal we are nowadays.
Spot on.
Shaun
30-11-2009, 12:12 PM
Band Aid 20 was diabolical.
Band Aid 20 was diabolical.
I don't see all the love for it myself. It's a heartless, modern spin on a classic. The original was better in every possible way.
30stone
30-11-2009, 01:05 PM
I don't see all the love for it myself. It's a heartless, modern spin on a classic. The original was better in every possible way.
Its 20 years since they first done band aid... and had a 20 year anniversary song to raise money for charity (far more than what was raised 20 years before) so heartless??
They done another cover of it in 1989 i think was that heartless to?
The song wasn't as good as the original no, but it was still better than other rubbish number ones here.
Shaun
30-11-2009, 01:07 PM
a) Dizzee Rascal's rap was just shite.
b) I hate this whole Bob Geldof/Bono self-righteous 'omg africa's poor' thing.
c) The artists were generally quite disappointing. Joss Stone and The Darkness apart were evil souls, but together...wow. New ears please.
Its 20 years since they first done band aid... and had a 20 year anniversary song to raise money for charity (far more than what was raised 20 years before) so heartless??
They done another cover of it in 1989 i think was that heartless to?
The song wasn't as good as the original no, but it was still better than other rubbish number ones here.
Yes, heartless. I'm not talking about d'charridy, I'm talking about the song. That is what this thread is about, right? And yes, the second Band Aid song was awful too, the worst of the lot. But this one was also horribly conceived and horribly executed, and just looked daft with a lot of the 'hip' young stars in it. Same as with the Live 8 concert in 2005. When you think of Band Aid you think of Freddie Mercury, not young Master Dizzee.
They should do Band Aid 25. It might keep X Factor off the number 1 spot for a year
InOne
30-11-2009, 03:35 PM
Why do you think GA have everything? They came from the show Popstars. They are popular because of Simon and the fact this idiot nation eats up processed pop which the X Factor and similar shows churn out. They have everything because they were chosen by the judges.
Why do you think GA have everything? They came from the show Popstars. They are popular because of Simon and the fact this idiot nation eats up processed pop which the X Factor and similar shows churn out. They have everything because they were chosen by the judges.
Simon has nothing to do with Girls Aloud. Louis Walsh was originally their manager but Girls Aloud got shot of him- One True Voice didn't and look where they ended up.
Why do you think GA have everything? They came from the show Popstars. They are popular because of Simon and the fact this idiot nation eats up processed pop which the X Factor and similar shows churn out. They have everything because they were chosen by the judges.
They have everything because they perform well, they have stuck together, and because they have a genuinely amazing team behind them who pick and produce perfect songs for them. It's not as easy as all pop being processed garbage. It's the pop business at the end of the day. Did Elvis write his own material? Do we deny his greatness as a performer?
They're Girls Aloud. Not Radiohead.
InOne
30-11-2009, 03:54 PM
They have everything because they perform well, they have stuck together, and because they have a genuinely amazing team behind them who pick and produce perfect songs for them. It's not as easy as all pop being processed garbage. It's the pop business at the end of the day. Did Elvis write his own material? Do we deny his greatness as a performer?
They're Girls Aloud. Not Radiohead.
Evis had great songs. They don't. Yes they might be able to perform, but can they really sing? Cheryl sure can't.
InOne
30-11-2009, 03:55 PM
Simon has nothing to do with Girls Aloud. Louis Walsh was originally their manager but Girls Aloud got shot of him- One True Voice didn't and look where they ended up.
Ahhh yes, forgot it was before he popped on the scence. Still that was the one that kick off all the dire shows after.
Evis had great songs. They don't. Yes they might be able to perform, but can they really sing? Cheryl sure can't.
Matter of opinion, surely. Girl's Aloud's better stuff is as good as conventional pop gets, simple as.
Nadine is more than capable of belting out a tune. See : Untouchable.
Ahhh yes, forgot it was before he popped on the scence. Still that was the one that kick off all the dire shows after.
Simon was about, Popstars and Pop Idol alternated, so it was Popstars one year, then Pop Idol the next, then back to Popstars and the last series of Pop Idol. Thats when X Factor came about.
But noone really cared about Simon, the nasty one in Pop Idol 1 was Pete.
InOne
30-11-2009, 04:11 PM
Matter of opinion, surely. Girl's Aloud's better stuff is as good as conventional pop gets, simple as.
Nadine is more than capable of belting out a tune. See : Untouchable.
Come on, I mean most people will say Elvis was alot better. Have GA cracked America? Spice Girls did.
Come on, I mean most people will say Elvis was alot better. Have GA cracked America? Spice Girls did.
Most people are sensible enough not to compare the two.
Have Spice Girls lasted as long as Girl's Aloud? Have they been half as consistent? Were they half as talented?
InOne
30-11-2009, 04:17 PM
Most people are sensible enough not to compare the two.
Have Spice Girls lasted as long as Girl's Aloud? Have they been half as consistent? Were they half as talented?
It was you who brought Elvis into it! Yes but there was Spice Girls mania and all that. They proved it was not really about talent. GA do not break the mould really. Tweens and pervy Dads are probably their main purchasers.
It was you who brought Elvis into it! Yes but there was Spice Girls mania and all that. They proved it was not really about talent. GA do not break the mould really. Tweens and pervy Dads are probably their main purchasers.
Yeah, because Elvis did not write his own material thus he was a useful prop in providing clarity in this discussion. I never directly compared the two's music. You may as well compare Nine Inch Nails to The Priests.
Who cares if there was Spice Girls mania? Why is another comparison being made now? If anything it means Spice Girls had this huge flash of hysteria [which they did] then died out soon after [which they did].
Girls Aloud do break the mould in a sense. Remember when I asked you to provide me with another all female pop group who have been as consistent and long lasting as them in the modern age? Besides, pop is not expected to break the mould. Experimental music is.
As for the shocking demographic stereotyping, people of all ages buy Girl's Aloud music. A whole score of legitimate rock artists sing the groups praises. Chris Martin covered one of the groups tracks. Did he do it just because he is a pervy dad?
InOne
30-11-2009, 04:26 PM
Yeah, because Elvis did not write his own material thus he was a useful prop in providing clarity in this discussion. I never directly compared the two's music. You may as well compare Nine Inch Nails to The Priests.
Who cares if there was Spice Girls mania? Why is another comparison being made now? If anything it means Spice Girls had this huge flash of hysteria [which they did] then died out soon after [which they did].
Girls Aloud do break the mould in a sense. Remember when I asked you to provide me with another all female pop group who have been as consistent and long lasting as them in the modern age? Besides, pop is not expected to break the mould. Experimental music is.
As for the shocking demographic stereotyping, people of all ages buy Girl's Aloud music. A whole score of legitimate rock artists sing the groups praises. Chris Martin covered one of the groups tracks. Did he do it just because he is a pervy dad?
Ok maybe the Pervy Dad thing was a bit much. But they don't write or produce their own stuff, they have a great team behind them as you said, so he sang a song someone else wrote. I meant breaking the mould as in being different, which they are not, just pretty faced average singers. But alas that sells, but they are no way breaking the mould in anything musical. They are just....there.
Jords
30-11-2009, 04:28 PM
Don they know its christmas?
Sound of the underground
Hallelujah
Ok maybe the Pervy Dad thing was a bit much. But they don't write or produce their own stuff, they have a great team behind them as you said, so he sang a song someone else wrote. I meant breaking the mould as in being different, which they are not, just pretty faced average singers. But alas that sells, but they are no way breaking the mould in anything musical. They are just....there.
Again, I give you Elvis.
Who writes their own stuff should not even come up in a pop debate. It's pop, treat it as such. Again, Girls Aloud, not Radiohead.
They are different. Again, I have no examples of other all female pop groups in the modern age that have lasted as long as they have, do I? They broke the mould in the sense that they have had incredibly longevity for a band that has come from a TV show, where the routine dictates that shelf life is somewhere between two weeks and a year.
InOne
30-11-2009, 04:34 PM
Again, I give you Elvis.
Who writes their own stuff should not even come up in a pop debate. It's pop, treat it as such. Again, Girls Aloud, not Radiohead.
They are different. Again, I have no examples of other all female pop groups in the modern age that have lasted as long as they have, do I? They broke the mould in the sense that they have had incredibly longevity for a band that has come from a TV show, where the routine dictates that shelf life is somewhere between two weeks and a year.
As I said, mass audience eat up that kind of stuff. They have lasted long, but in my opinion they are not very good. And back to the original point, Sound of the Underground was not deserving of a Christmas number 1.
As I said, mass audience eat up that kind of stuff.
Again that's the point. That's what the music is designed for! It's pop! If you want sonic innovation you are looking in the wrong place.
InOne
30-11-2009, 04:41 PM
Again that's the point. That's what the music is designed for! It's pop! If you want sonic innovation you are looking in the wrong place.
Indeed, that is why I tried to get back to what I was on about before. That it was a rubbish Christmas number 1.
MrGaryy
30-11-2009, 04:42 PM
it's also worth noting that not many groups' - TV show orginated or otherwise - debut single still sounds as good now as it did the day it was released, which Sound Of The Underground has so far managed to do.
it's also worth noting that not many groups' - TV show orginated or otherwise - debut single still sounds as good now as it did the day it was released, which Sound Of The Underground has so far managed to do.
That's why I voted for it. It's polished to perfection and was not a typical sort of first single for girl group from a talent show.
Besides, look at the competition it had this decade.
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