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"And the Christmas Number 1 is..."

Mad World

*sigh*

I was hoping the Darkness would be number 1, bit more festive than Mad World, but it's a great song anyway...

Wonder whats happened to Donnie Darko sales :)

Mad World rules, I got my copy of the single.

And it was a £1 more expensive than the Darkness track.

Nice to see the overpriced £4 single of Avid Merriem getting in at number 4. Changes dropping to number 3 and the poor pop idols at a pathetic number 5.

It's overplayed, it's spoiling the song.

I enjoyed Mad World a lot when I first heard it (about a year ago). Now it's overplayed and ruined - for gods sake, I heard a dance version recently. What a crock of sh.

Darkness = rubbish

Mad World is over played, has become the 'Haunting TuneTM' of peoples lives and while good, is around too much.

But since when has Christmas, media-wise, been about joy? Titanic was on Christmas day a few years ago, because it was a big film, not a happy one.

I bought the Vinyl of the number 1 today and I really do think it's quite good. Listening to it though it just soooo takes away the emotion in a room. The T.V. went off, my parents stopped talking, my brother stopped walking around the has and sat in the lounge and I figured out how to use the player. Honestly a christmas single shouldn't do that. It is so dreak and whatever. Whenever you hear it you just want to sit down and listen to it quietly. That's the way to have a good christmas. At least with the darkness you could still talk to people through it and it's all nice and cheery. Jesus talk about a mood killer.

P.s. The alternative version is better although the mix is shockingly bad.

At least that Bo Selecta rubbish didn't win.

Cubist wrote:
> P.s. The alternative version is better although the mix is shockingly
> bad.

The one with a nice drum beat? That's nice!

Borat, what dance version you on about? A really fast, dancey one? Man, it's gonna get ruined even more!!

Yeh the one with the drum beat. The dance version one is the mix (I think) which is shockingly bad on the vinyl. However on vinyl if you put it on the wrong setting it thinks it's an album instead of a single and goes really really fast in a comical fashion.

Ms NY wrote:
> Borat, what dance version you on about? A really fast, dancey one?
> Man, it's gonna get ruined even more!!

I don't know which version, I just heard it on radio 1 one dinnertime, and was quite frankly appalled. are no tunes sacred anymore? we'll have silent night : the drum and bass remix, soon, or avie maria : the rythm and blues spectacular.

sad sad sad.

on the flip side of the coin, you would think that adagio for strings would make a terrible dance tune, but I thought it was quite good.