X-factor; from the Latin for “marketing machine designed to relieve pre-pubescent teenage girls of their pocket money”

FFS ruin a perfect song why don’t ya Cowell

This is great news for Damien. You can avoid hearing the x-factor’s karaoke hits easily enough of you don’t listen to mainstream radio.

Damien Rice left Juniper (which went on to become Bell X1) because of the “artistic compromises” they had to make to their record label.

Presumably as the main songwriter/producer he had to give his approval for the song to be used in the X-Factor.

It’s funny how quickly artistic integrity can be pushed aside when Simon Cowell comes knocking with a blank cheque.

awww I thought they were gonna release a cover of Dream Theater’s Six degrees of Inner Turbulence in its entirety! Damn

another reason to detest that god awful sh!te

ah whisht will yis. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it. Whining is not gonna make it disappear. They’re not gonna care if you don’t like it. It’s called POP music for a reason! I mean, having a nobody cover the song doesn’t erase the original from existence does it? The original is still there to listen to (if you like it) This is just another forgettable cover song from a forgettable era in manufactured pop music. X-Factor and contemporary pop music is a lot like an annoying dog begging for food… ignore it and it’ll go away eventually

The music snobbery in Ireland is just laughable.

Great. Another awful, whingebag song aiming for Christmas number 1. Sure, make number 2 a Frames cover and number 3 a maudlin Luke Kelly and we can have a ginger whinger Christmas!

At what point in the song is the key change then and when do the vocal gymnastics kick in. I’d say it’s probably mid-way through the raping when the X-factor winner is speedily committing career suicide while sucking on simon cowell’s slimy, scaly c**k.

You’ll find the winners carcass on the heap with the rest of them in 6 months.

shite + shite = shite, merry Christmas :)

Any time anyone uses the term “sacrilege” in relation to anyone covering a song, it makes me laugh.

The reason why they are covering this is because cowel part owns them! That is to say, the label Rices and Biffy Clyro’s album’s were made under, 14th Floor Records, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Floor_Records
is part owned by Cowell, and soon everything will be!!!! *panic* :)

Who’ll be first to say Many of Horror wasn’t the Biffy Clyro song that was covered?

aw man nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Wait now… as bad and all as it might be to hear an awful version of a (what was when it came out first anyway) pretty decent song, isn’t it worth it to get new people kick-started to find out more about the original artist? I can’t imagine many XFactor fans were into Biffy, Leonard Cohen or Jeff Buckley… this might get them looking for more Damien Rice material and have a whole new set of kids into alternative music instead of manufactured POP…

Note to author, the album “O” was released in 2002 not 2004.

Rice and all the rest of those whining ,acoustic navel gazing , bards of the boomtown , should be put in a large container and shipped to some desert island where they can inflict their moaning on each other. If I had a cannonball I know what I’d do with it.

Distinctly average song for a distinctly average competition.

Shame on rice for allowing this to happen. It not like he needs the money.

Awful song anyway. Loved by a load of fat women around the country. “Awwwh dat song is my song luv em I do” bleh

No way….dis is so wrong….does bunch cant even song…

Just dont buy or request it if you dont like it. Simple. It will be on the radio because some people will request it. Just change channel then. Easy. I dont like x-factor and I dispise Damian Rice but I am not gonna get in a sulk about it.

Oh the horror of having that song bought back on to airwaves. Was bad enough first around, never mind as the x factor winner’s song.

Try cannonball YouTube cover by Ortopilot. Quality stuff, best I heard.

I hear johnny has done his own arrangement & renamed it ‘anyonesball’

Seems fitting seeing as Damian Rice sucks ass! Xfactor are hardly going to cover a good song!!

Cant stand this useless excuse for song.