Rage against the Christmas number one?

The UK is a funny old place. :-) This week saw a curious battle for the top spot in the music charts. One contender was from the winner of X Factor, as expected. The other was more of a surprise: a rock song from 1992 that a bunch of people started buying in response to a Facebook campaign. And...the song from 1992 won and is the Christmas number one.

I like the song (Rage Against The Machine's "Killing in the name of", for anyone who didn't follow the story); it has some nice guitar work in it and some catchy riffs. That said, I can appreciate it's not to everyone's tastes. But a lot of people's reaction is "but it's Christmas, this song is so unsuitable!" While I can agree that the expletive laden ending is not exactly family friendly, the song lyrics of the song are actually a cry out against corruption and injustice. And in a way, that makes it Strangely Appropriate. Christ didn't come to stay a cute baby, but to grow up into a man who would fight injustice. Granted He did it without the expletives as such, though claiming to be the Son of God was likely as offensive to many people of the day anyway. It's certainly a call to stop and think about what Christmas is really about anyway, and in that sense, I'd count it a win. (Also, the band said they'd donate a bunch of the windfall to a UK charity. And I'd count that as quite fitting with the Christmas spirit. :-))