Following last year's triumphant, internet-bolstered, telly-talent-compo-orthodoxy-upending ascendance of the gleefully inappropriate and profanity-sprinkled Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine to the once-sacred top spot, a campaign is under way to get a charity recording of avant garde composer John Cage's 4'33" to the lofty position for 25 December. The track famously consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of unfettered silence.

As in 2009, when the disaffected sought to thwart the now drearily predictable hogging of the Christmas number one by the latest X Factor winner, Facebook has been the home of the effort. More than 55,000 have merrily clicked 'like' on the Cage Against The Machine page.

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Edited December 6, 201015 yr by Brettly

X-Factor! - what a load of rubbish.

X-Factor! - what a load of rubbish.

X Factor! Absolutely splendid! What a laugh. Cowell and co are so far up themselves and so far detached from real life, they don't realise how transparent they are! A bit like our local government boys! No! I'm wrong there, the whole political system should be included in that! :dribble: