*What are you moaners doing for charity? Nothing? As I thought. So quit yer whining. At least Band Aid makes some cash. Sure, the song sucks, the people in the record are morons etc etc

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If it saves a few lives then it is a good thing.

― C*Taylor, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heared it yet.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Big-hearted Brian"

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

what am I doing? Buying the Girls Aloud single in all formats.

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Geldof's heart is actually on his sleeve - not the right place at all. do your research calum

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

If it saves a few lives then it is a good thing.

Yes, but it could save more lives by being a worse thing.

― Acme (acme), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Caring Colin
Loving Lee
Fashionable causes Frank

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

There were four responses - two people said yes, and two people went for option C. Now let's assume that the hardcore Sam & Mark fans on the duo's messageboard at 11pm on a Monday night are representative of the 18,000 hardcore fans who bought the duo's last single. It suggests that while 18,000 people are prepared to buy the Band Aid 20 single, half - 9,000 - will only do so if Sam & Mark are on the record.

A sample size of 4. Well, I guess they can't do worse than Gallup, Zogby, etc. two weeks ago.

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I’m already exploring the entertainment avenue with my management training, but I’d like to do that on a global scale really. And that’s not going ‘Ooh, look at me today, I’m entertaining whilst saving lives aren’t I brilliant?‘, it’s going ‘If you think I’m brilliant, then give generously and help save these guys who are starving, but are also brilliant’-not as entertainers, a lot of them can’t even speak English, but you know don’t give them their own game show, but save them from dying at least.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Calum, with the best will in the world, how could you possibly know what anyone on this board does for charity?

This record may save some lives, pretty true - I'm sure the few thousand pounds that it produces will be gratefully received. Is the record important because it puts the issue back on the agenda (although the egos of the stars involved seem to be taking prior place in all the news articles I've seen) or is it simply a salve to the guilty conscience of the richer countries who have helped to create this situation in the first place? Do people who donate to this then go and donate to something else, or do they think they've done their bit, and not look any further into what is going on?

And, personally, I could happily never hear this song again.

"Well tonight thank God its them
Instead of you"

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

As for the commercial arguments here: Coldplay, Travis, The Darkness and Keane are all selling bucketloads of albums. They may not be selling them to "da kidz", but they are still certainly selling them, not at least to the same 30 something that were in their teens when the original was released, and who may now suddenly be caught by a wave of nostalgia, picking up the re-recording too, particularly after learning that their current favourites from Travis and Coldplay are singing on it.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

They may not be selling them to "da kidz", but they are still certainly selling

You will never find me wanting sales to "Da Kidz".

But why not sell to everyone? Why is fucking Michael Ball not on it? And http://meish.org/files/albums/albums/album_cover_challenge_1a/22.jpg this dude?

Oh yes, and thanks for reminding me. Some of us do work for charity. Which doesn't make us more or less entitled to moan.

― Acme (acme), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(blatant google-bait removed. Give it a rest plz, fake-calum)

― (NOT ACTUALLY)C@lum R0bert W@ddell, Tory/Furry Enthusiast, Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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*What are you moaners doing for charity? Nothing? As I thought. So quit yer whining. At least Band Aid makes some cash. Sure, the song sucks, the people in the record are morons etc etc – but Bob Gel