Band Aid - Original or New Version?

**corturbra** · November 30th, 2004, 08:04 AM

Ok don't know if you chaps over the pond in America-Shire have heard the new version or even know what I'm talking about....

My questions are above in a poll, but are - which version do you prefer or do you not care so long as it raises money for a good cause?

**TripleRLtd** · November 30th, 2004, 08:06 AM

Have yet to hear the new one. But, I loved the old/original. Note my sig btw.

Whatever, it's a great cause.

**corturbra** · November 30th, 2004, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Have yet to hear the new one. But, I loved the old/original. Note my sig btw.

Whatever, it's a great cause.

It was your sig that prompted me to post!

**shamus** · November 30th, 2004, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

Have yet to hear the new one. But, I loved the old/original.

Whatever, it's a great cause.

Same here. Although U2's 'Bad' had to be one of the most electrifying live performances ever.

**kato2274** · November 30th, 2004, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by shamus

Same here. Although U2's 'Bad' had to be one of the most electrifying live performances ever.

Luka bloom covered this tune on his "Keeper of the Flame" album (which was a album of covers) when you hear his stripped down acoustic version, you forget it was ever a U2 song. . . . . spectacular. if you want to hear it pm me.

**Stalemate** · November 30th, 2004, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

...Whatever, it's a great cause.

I agree, and yet would be interested in finding out just how much of the actual money raised will be used for the cause they support.

Anyone have any independent numbers on that?

Just found this while googling:

http://smh.com.au/news/Opinion/A-Ban...?oneclick=true

Even in the more innocent age in which it was first recorded, it seemed gob-smacking that no one involved in the project questioned the appropriateness of singing Do They Know It's Christmas? in the context of a famine in Ethiopia.
Not only was it hard to believe that starving children and their parents had given much thought to Santa, but as the columnist Julie Burchill said at the time, many of the intended recipients of Geldof's largesse were Muslims.

Two decades later, with Islam at the top of the political agenda, it would be reasonable to expect a greater degree of cultural sensitivity from even the most bone-headed celebrities.

What makes it even worse this time is that the proceeds of the record are intended for Sudan, where the Darfur region has become notorious as the site of a savage religious and ethnic conflict, prosecuted against the Christian and Animist population by the Janjaweed (Muslim) militia. The prospect of starvation in Darfur over the next few weeks is not the result of the harvest failing or some other natural disaster but the deliberate destruction of crops in the course of this conflict.
In May the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights identified large-scale human rights violations in Darfur. It talked about murder, rape and pillage. In July Amnesty International produced detailed evidence of gang rape of children, sexual slavery and the abduction of girls as young as eight.