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Brits Rage Against Simon Cowell's Hit Machine

By Theunis BatesDec 21st 2009 – 7:30PM
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LONDON (Dec. 21) -- Christmas songs are normally sedate, soppy affairs crooned by the likes of Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis and Mariah Carey. But on Sunday, Britain added an explicit, anarchic new anthem to the Xmas canon: Rage Against the Machine's 1992 rap-metal hit "Killing in the Name." And even Sir Paul McCartney thinks...

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  • 12/21/11 Wednesday Rushes – Veronica Mars,... Source: Bleeding Cool Kristen Bell promises that "the few people involved with [ Veronica Mars ] that have it in our hearts" are still trying to get a movie spin-off made.
  • 11/04/11 She & Him: A Very She & Him Christmas (Capsule Reviews) Source: PopMatters Blame it on the non-stop Christmas-song radio in every retail store you walk into post-Thanksgiving, or blame it on the fantastically repetitious renditions of songs you've heard a million times by musicians you've stopped caring about, but Christmas music stopped garnering excitement for most of us quite a few years ago.
  • 09/23/11 New Eagles quickly learn the depth of team's rivalry... Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA Facing his first home game and first NFC East game and first taste of the Eagles-Giants rivalry, rookie center Jason Kelce will sit in the locker room at Lincoln Financial Field, put on a pair of headphones, and crank up some Christmas music.
  • 04/04/11 Hymns from Nineveh – Hymns from Nineveh Source: The Line Of Best Fit Unless you're a musical loving Dane, there's every chance that you've never heard of Hymns from Nineveh .
  • 12/18/10 The man behind the most irreverent Christmas musical... Source: Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek CA I was too embarrassed to tell anyone that I was meeting a man for lunch whose sole musical hit was, just last month, called "The bullet train of musical suck."

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