The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)

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1. With the exception of 1990's Fourth of July, every Galaxie 500 song released has the exact same opening five seconds.

2. Before making it big as the lead singer of Culture Club, lead singer Boy George was a famous homosexual groupie who for years was known for his backstage antics with other musical performers. Among the men notched under his belt are Freddie Mercury, Bill McKenzie and Neil Young.

3. Although much has been made of his fascination with the occult and his purchase of Aleister Crowley's Lock Ness house, not much is known about Jimmy Page's fascination with American children's programming. In March 2005 the former Led Zeppelin virtuoso purchased the entirety of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. This to go along with his 1996 purchase of Eureeka's Castle.

4. Born with an obnoxious Irish accent like that of a middle-aged leprechaun and unable to get acting work in large part because of this, actor Liam Neeson modeled his now familiar voice after Psychedelic Furs singer Richard Butler after hearing Sister Europe on his car radio in England.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

5. After hearing that Public Enemy's Chuck D patterned his flow after sportscaster Marv Albert, NWA's Eazy E overhauled his style so that he would sound more like Howard Cosell.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, Dr. Dre DID change his production style after hearing Public Enemy...and Eazy E changed his direction after hearing Ice T's 6 in the Morning.

Before that, they both were riding on the Beastie Boys ripoff express.

(sorry for being such a rap nerd that I can't even play along)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

6. Vanilla Ice is actually British.

(note: this is just a stupid rumor that my friends and I decided to spread in college, and didn't pursue very hard)

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

7. Gwen Stefani has no idea why those Japanese women are following her around.

8. In 1985 Bob Geldof spent 4 days bombarding Gene Vincent's management with requests for him to play Live Aid, before being told that Gene had died in 1971.

9. Phil Collins' unique drum-sound is a result of his having two left hands. The former Genesis frontman uses specially modified sticks to overcome his condition.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

10. Miles Davis didn't actually record Bitches Brew on acid, he just had really bad stomach acid that day. In fact, he suffered from Gastro-intestinal Reflux Disease, which wore away his esophagus, causing his voice to be raspy.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

8. In 1985 Bob Geldof spent 4 days bombarding Gene Vincent's management with requests for him to play Live Aid, before being told that Gene had died in 1971.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I meant to

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

*heart* that.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

10. Contrary to popular belief, Gene Simmon's tongue is not actually a cow's tongue, but that of drummer Peter Criss which was removed after the request for more studio time.

― darin (darin), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

11. Momus had a promising career as a footballer with Hearts but abandoned it for a career in music after a particularly violent argument with Thatcherite chairman Wallace Mercer in 1986.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

12. In 1963, following a run-in at the NME Reader's Poll awards show, Freddie Garrity offered the Beatles outside. Contrary to his later pacifist image, John Lennon responded to the diminutive Garrity's challenge, only to be shanked in his left ball in the Palladium car park.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

13. Dusty Springfield was so named after a joke by her brothers because of her obsessive compulsive cleaning disorder.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

14. "American Pie" songster Don McLean is ironically both Canadian, and allergic to pastry.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

15. Rod Stewart was once rushed to a hospital complaining of intestinal pains whereupon doctors pumped one gallon of semen (from his stomach.)

(Note: depending on who you believe this story may not be 100% false.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

16. Tony Yayo's prison sentence was for computer piracy, after he was found selling copied versions of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventures for the Amiga at a car boot sale.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

17. No black artist has ever signed to No Limit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

18. Due to an administrative error, the winner of the 1998 FHM World's Sexiest Woman award was Mr Lif.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

19. Dwight Yoakham has AIDS.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

20. Rapper Ludacris is a huge fan of novelist Umberto Eco. In 2001 he recorded a track for his hit album Word of Mouf based on Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, but after record company pressure he opted to retitle the song "Move Bitch".

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

21. The Human League took their name from Uganda's Football Division 2.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

22. Noel Gallagher originally planned to take Oasis in a Free Jazz/post-Krautrock direction, but abandoned the idea when he discovered that he was an imaginationless cloth-eared churl.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

23. The members of Led Zeppelin screwed funnyman Abe Vigoda with a mackerel.

― darin (darin), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

24. Before forming Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carabba was a pool hall hustler, and worked on the international trick shot tour. His attempts at a professional snooker career ended when he was defeated in straight frames by Tian Pengfei at the Butlin's Invitational

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

25. The so-called "second member" of Mylo is in fact Porridge and Last of the Summer Wine star Brian Wilde.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

26. Although best known for his bluesy guitar-work with Thin Lizzy and his solo hit "Parisienne Walkways", Gary Moore spent 18 months between 1977 and 1979 as Chief Economic Adviser to the Labour government.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

27. The frontman for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has served a seven year prison sentence for aggrevated rape.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

28. The Webb Brothers are merely Milli Vanilliesque frontpieces. Their music is in fact made by Joan Osbourne and DJ Towa Tei using overdubs.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

29. Due to contractual issues, Ghostface's lyrics on the majority of "The W" were performed by impressionist John Culshaw.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

30. The biggest ever selling single in the US is "Extremis" by Hal ft Gillian Anderson.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

31. Toploader were originally a Christian Ska band.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

32. 80's rockers Ratt took their name from drummer Bobby Blotzer's favourite film, Basil - the Great Mouse Detective.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

33. The original cover of "Street Survivors" by Lynyrd Skynyrd featured them in an aeroplane crashing into the side of a mountain.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

34. In Tagalog, the phrase "Bil-ee Korg-un" means "misshapen flaccid penis".

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

35. Kanye West appared on three series of Whose Line Is It Anyway, specialising in the "Hoedown" and "Greatest Hits" rounds.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

36. DJ Martian had a #33 hit in 1998 in collaboration with DJ Quicksilver, with a remix of Wet Wet Wet's 'Julia Says'. Marti Pellow later unsuccessfully sued.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

37. As a Tax evasion scheme, Elton John spent the entirety of 1975 with a dormouse living in his lower intestine.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

38. After his release from prison, Nelson Mandela thanked Darts for their 1978 single "Boy From New York City", a cassette of which was the only entertainment he was allowed during his incarcertaion.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

39. Black Metal icon Mortiis has every episode of Band of Gold on video.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

40. At least 30% of all UK Top 40 hits this year were written by Tom Fletcher of McFly. These include 'Retreat' by The Rakes, 'Avalon' by Juliet and 'Lion Rip' by The Duke Spirit. Ironically, McFly's own #1, 'All About You', was a collaboration between Richard X and Guy Chambers. Tom Fletcher of McFly has yet to write a top 10 hit and can frequently be heard complaining about this in the pubs and clubs of Soho, often accusing Girls Aloud, The Cuban Boys and Kasabian of conspiring to 'freeze him out'.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

41. The Twinings' adverts with Stephen Fry in were originally written to be performed by DMX.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

42. When Brian Jones died, the Rolling Stones first offered his place in the band to the then-unknown Michael Palin.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

43. Joey Beltram wrote the techno anthem "Energy Flash" as a gift to his mother, who was having a tough time going through menopause and wanted him to write a "fun piece of disco music that will cheer me up".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

44. The Kaiser Chiefs have been forced to call themselves The Musical Chiefs in Uganda, as Kaiser Chiefs is the name of the country's number one Football club.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

45. Dave Pearce is permanently banned from the Reading Festival after getting so drunk that he was unconscious for the whole of Saturday, then awaking to claim that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. He then stole a van and attempted to run over Richard Hawley. Hawley opted not to press charges.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

45. Luke Vibert stood as a candidate for Fianna Fail in the last Irish elections, missing out on a seat by just 42 votes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

46. Ray Charles lost his eyesight after he and some schoolfriends attempted to emulate a famous scene from the movie Un Chien Andalou.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

48. The Dropkick Murphys invited Anadin.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

49. Production chores on Kajagoogoo's 1983 smash "Too Shy" were handled by Professor Julius Norwich.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

50. Bloc Party were originally going to be called The Small Faces, before drummer Matt Tong remembered that he owned a copy of 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'. He would later claim that he thought it was by Amen Corner.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

51. Canada's Prime Minister is the lead singer of Moist.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

51. The members of Franz Ferdinand, The Bravery, The Killers, The Strokes, and Interpol are all actually incredibly lifelike Russian nesting dolls, called matryoshka, who sought to escape the limited earnings potential of the souvenir industry by forming various 'bands'.

― cdwill, Monday, 11 July 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

53. Cave-In and Sparta are actually the same band.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

54. George W. Bush roadied for Black Oak Arkansas on their "Keep the Faith" tour of 1972.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post

52, sorry.

― cdwill, Monday, 11 July 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

55. Brody Dalle is a lesbian.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

56. Buddy Holly faked his own death and emigrated to England. In a desperate attempt to cover his tracks, he formed Freddie & The Dreamers.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

56. "serge gainsbourg" is actually an elaborate hoax perpetuated by european zionists. there have been numerous "serge gainsbourg"s over the years. the hoax was called off--but not revealed--after the fall of the soviet union, for reasons still unclear.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

58. 'Blinded By The Light' was originally written with the intention of being the theme music for The New Avengers.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

59. Phil Collins wrote that song because he saw that one guy let that other guy die.

60. Marilyn Manson is actually the actor who played the nerd on the Wonder Years.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

61. Aerosmith wrote "Love in an Elevator" after encountering Arthur Lee on the way up to a meeting at the offices of Sony Music in New York.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

7. Gwen Stefani has no idea why those Japanese women are following her around.

I couldn't read past this one because I was laughing too hard.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

62. Chicago White Sox third basemen Joe Crede changed the pronounciation of his name from "creed" to "CREE-dee" in 1999, in order to avoid any unfortunate association with the Scott Stapp-led band.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i think several of these are actually true

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Bloc Party were originally going to be called The Small Faces, before drummer Matt Tong remembered that he owned a copy of 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'. He would later claim that he thought it was by Amen Corner.

I think this is my new favorite.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

63. The 'keyboard sound' on Saint Etienne's version of 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' was actually a looped sample of Pete Wiggs honking the horn of his Citroen BX outside Neil Tennant's house at 3AM on Christmas morning 1987 in a mildly petty act of revenge for the Pet Shop Boys having kept 'Fairytale Of New York' off the Christmas number one. However, Tennant was not home at the time, and Wiggs therefore decided to incorporate the sound in one of his records "just so the bastard knew." To date, Neil Tennant has never knowingly listened to a Saint Etienne record.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

64. Britney Spears was enrolling at Notre Dame the same fall as I was (I subsequently heard the same thing about Miami of Ohio and Oberlin, so that nicked it).

65. "Fire and Rain" was about how James Taylor's girlfriend died in a fiery plane crash.

66. Billy Corgan played the little kid on that robot girl sitcom "Small Wonder."

― PB, Monday, 11 July 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

67. The working title of Blur's "Song 2", was "Mr. Robinson's Day Trip In a Jumbo Jet".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

68. Billy Corgan played the robot girl on the sitcom "Small Wonder."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NEW WINNER IS MICHAEL DADDINO

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

69. George W. Bush listens to Sigur Ros.

― PB, Monday, 11 July 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

70. Rock 'n roll is still strictly outlawed in Liechtenstein on the grounds that The Rubettes were shit.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

71. Kraftwerk had originally intended to write a song about the Giro D'Italia (NOT the Tour de France). However, the idea was scrapped following a series of band-only meetings during which the foursome realized that none of them could speak a word of Italian.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

72. Pavements first UK gig took place at The Working Men's Club in Stoke, according to eye witness reports they were watched by a crowd of six. One of the crowd is said to have described them as "a bit noisy". Stephen Malkmus later explained this odd venue choice in a 1998 Select interview with the words; "y'know it was like what The Fall did."

― elwisty (elwisty), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

72. A defective typewriter at the Capitol Records head office is to blame for the Beach Boys' inability to spearhead the "Smurf Music" craze.

73. Geir Hongro is the Seventh Beatle.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

74. In a 2004 poll the readers of Scandinavian music magazine Yo! Yo! Hot Pop Boys! voted lo fi king Daniel Johnston the 23rd hottest man in the history of pop.

― elwisty (elwisty), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

75. The Flaming Lips, sans Wayne Coyne, are the Residents. Coyne doesn't know.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

76. Van Morrison only started making music in the hope that he would one day be famous enough to go out with Sandie Shaw.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

77. Your favourite band are Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

78. The original version of "Scenario (Remix)" featured eight MCs, with the verse from a 13 year old Roy Carroll being cut due to reasons of length.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

79. According to a secret newsletter that was leaked to the blogosphere in February 2005, Godspeed You! Black Emperor will change their name to Godspeed, You Black: Emperor the night before the next winter solstice.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

80. An unnamed member of Girls Aloud baffingly insists on writing the groups to write it as "Girls Allowed". This has resulted in a number of financial mishaps. The annonymous member is unrepentant claiming; "I always was against the name, the lacklusture punning was what did for Hear'Say." Adding mysteriously "It is only my correct use of the English language that prevents us from sliding down a slippery slope that ends with us fobbing sob stories to Frank Skinner."

― elwisty (elwisty), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

81. Howard Jones would like to get to know you well.

― elwisty (elwisty), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

82. Haddaway is the majority shareholder in Yates' Wine Bars.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

83. Aphex Twin is really just Paul McCartney's horticulturist, taking the piss. All Aphex Twin records are just Macca screwing around.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

84. Aphex Twin is actually an octet.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

85. "We are the World," despite being one of the best-selling records of its time, never hit #1 in the U.S., having the misfortune of being released during Scritti Politti's thirteen-week reign on the top of the charts with "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

86. Aretha Franklin is 35% nachos.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

77. Your favourite band are Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
-- Dom Passantino

My new favourite!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

(Piece of trivia, that is.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

God, I wish it were so! re: 85 (Cupid and Psyche!)

― Ian Riese-Moraine: that obscure object of desire. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

87. Rod Stewart did not actually sing "Hot Legs". At a hastily arranged recording sesion in 1976 while Rod was having his stomach revived, which everybody already knows about, his sister Kim ( Carnes ) stood in for him and no one could tell the difference.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

88. will oldham had the tires slashed on his 2001 bentley by nicole hilton after a rough breakup.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

89. The White Stripes are named after an obscure Estonian terrorist group.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

90. Eminem has a master's in biology from Loyola University.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link

91. Boxer Eric "Butterbean" Esch is actually Frank Black.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link

92. Glenn Branca ghostwrote Lil Wayne's verses on "Tha Carter."

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

93. If you play "Helter Skelter" backwards, it sounds really cool.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Savage Garden is comprised of TV child stars Ben and Fred Savage.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

95. To get his trademark guitar sound, Kevin Shields sat in a boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a tape recorder waiting for whales to approach.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link

96. The Cocteau Twins met while taking scuba diving lessons off the east coast of Scotland. In memory of their first meeting, they named their band the "Cousteau Twins" after the famous inventor of scuba-diving. However, on the night of their debut gig, the promoter misspelled the name to the band's chagrin. Nonetheless, the new name stuck.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

97. Desmond Dekker invented emo.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

98. Cluedo was a major influence on the Beatles. Sergeant Pepper was a never used character from the game Cluedo and many of the characters in later songs (Polythene Pam, Mean Mr Mustard etc) were thinly veiled attempts to muscle in on the lucrative boardgame market.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:16 (eighteen years ago) link

99. Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes are mother and son.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

100. Motorhead's rider invariably contains a demand for 4 ounces of St Paulin, as Lemmy is a huge fan of the bland French cheese.

101. Perennial indie nobodies The Tompaulins actually took their name from a schoolfriend. They have never heard of the poet and critic Tom Paulin.

102. Visitors to his swish LA penthouse are unlikely to be allowed to use MC Ren's washing machine, as he controls the automatic.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

103. Sir Mix-a-Lot started out as a conscious rapper in the vein of KRS-One and Professor Griff. He changed the theme of his 1992 single promoting adult literacy, "Baby Got Book" ("I like Big Books and I cannot lie!") to "Baby Got Back" to cash in on the success of the 2 Live Crew. Ironically, Weird Al Yankovic then released a parody record called "Baby Got Book". It was shit.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link

104. In private, Phil Lynott had a broad Jamaican accent. He adopted his trademark Irish brogue when Thin Lizzy first started gigging on the notoriously tough Showband circuit. They changed the title of their hit single "Whiskey an' Ting in the Jar" after a particularly brutal bar-fight in Bundoran, County Donegal.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

105. Technohead's 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' was made by UK comedians Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis as the basis for a sitcom on Radio 4. It was rejected because it had too much bass.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

106. Crazy Frog's "Alex F" hit record was actually made by Lions.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link

107. Grindcore doesn't exist.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link

108. Cliff Burton from Metallica didn't actually die in that fateful 1986 bus crash. he survived, secretly altering his appearance through reconstructive surgery. in 1989 he legally changed his name to gwyneth paltrow and moved to los angeles. of course he is now married to coldplay's chris martin, who has no idea 'she' is still a man. martin knows nothing of how babies are made, so when 'gwyneth' brought home a baby girl he just accepted her story that the 'stork' had come and delivered them a new bundle of joy. he is not aware that Cliff/Gwyneth is raising Apple to be the next bassist for Metallica's glorious return to form, entitled "St. Anger 2: Metallimucil". The only soul who knows about this is Kirk Hammet, and oddly, Charles Nelson Reilly.

109. The Empire never ended.

― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link

The Chemical Brothers are really Peter Skellern and Richard Stilgoe.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Noted electronic dance music pioneer and one-time member of Ultravox, John Foxx, is the son of late actor/comedian Redd Foxx.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link

112. Snoop Dogg remains absolutely convinced that Hall & Oates were actually called Hall Of Oats, and refuses to believe any suggestion to the contrary.

113. Aside from you and that Australian guy you met in Goa, absolutely no-one has heard of Manu Chao.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link

114. That band you dreamt about last night? With the matching grey suits and the early Nick Cave collaborations? They do exist in real life. But they live in Mansfield, not in your garage.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Bruce Springsteen still doesnt realise that the girl he got up on stage is courtney cox. Whenever a repeat of friends comes on, he talks about how one of them is kinda familiar and the band just stare at the floor.

― danny boy, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

116. God is flattered, and even "a little humbled" that so many albums are dedicated to him.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link

117. Jars of Clay were originally a swingbeat act.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

118. One of the more obscure examples of music industry beef is the ongoing rivalry between the remaining members of the Bobby Fuller Four and minor British rapper Doc Brown. Nobody knows why.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

119. Luke Haines is the heir to the throne of Latveria. He refuses to accept his rightful legacy on the basis that "something bad" might happen.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

120. Third Eye Blind only play musical instruments carved out of limes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Collectively all the MP3s in existence weigh almost as much as John Cale

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

121. John Cale is used as a standard measurement of weight in Wales.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

123. Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier was the voice of Tony Meo on "Snooker Loopy" by the Matchroom Mob Featuring Chas and Dave.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

124. The Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash also killed both members of Go West, who were providing on-flight entertainment.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link

possibly not the most apposite kind of fake trivia to be posting at this precise moment...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link

125. Far from being a Joker or indeed a Smoker Steve Miller in fact lives an acetic life, he is completely teetotal and only laughs knowingly at that sketch from BBC2's late '90s comedy sensation Goodness Gracious Me where two lad use the term “chuddies” to describe female mammary glands.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

126. Sensational '80s New Pop icon Belouis Some now lives in a compact and bijou apartment in London's desirable Thamesmead district, where he runs a painting and grouting business with his partner, TV's Tim Vincent.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link

127. Graeme Garden's son plays keyboards in the Scissor Sisters.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

That one's sort of 100% true though, innit?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

127. In a disused warehouse on the outskirts of Hilversum, 75 people are still dancing to "Poing" by the Rotterdam Termination Squad.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost to Marcello - is it? I thought it had been properly debunked.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

128. In Russian, they don't even have a word for Grindcore.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll get my coat.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

129. The world's highest paid house DJ is Liam Lynch, who can charge up to $40,000 for a two hour set.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

130. The sax solo on "If You Love Somebody (Set Them Free)" by Sting was played by ITN's Katie Derham.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

131. Electrane's planned last album, featuring a number of uptempo Hi NRG disco pop numbers and a cover featuring the girls in fetching bikini's and heels was ditched at the last minute when the Wire offered a cover feature.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

132. Wolf Eye's planned last album, featuring a number of uptempo Hi NRG disco pop numbers and a cover featuring the boys in fetching bikini's and heels was ditched at the last minute when the Wire offered a cover feature.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

In a fit of psy-op pique, Republican strategist Lee Atwater infiltrated the sessions for Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy (1989), laying some twangy lines down on “Everything is Broken.” The duck-walker gained entry to the sessions after producer Daniel Lanois draped the studio in 250 square yards of gauzy muslin.

Atwater was killed in 1992 by a “brain tumor” named David Geffen.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

U2's era-defining 1987 classic The Joshua Tree album was originally to be produced by Derek Bailey. However, the lads took umbrage as Bailey brutally edited out all of their pseudo-Americana guitar/synth backdrops, replacing them with improvised electric slinky and sopranino bullroarer, played by Han Bennink and Anthony Braxton respectively. "Where the streets have no name? Where the song has no feckin tune more like!" quipped The Edge at the time.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

135. Musicians who made guest appearances on hit drama show Oz include Kim Lian, Abs, and the drummer from Electrasy.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

136. Marilyn Manson had two ribs removed so that he may self-fellate.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

137. Twiggy Ramirez was the first ever person to make it to $500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

138. Half Man Half Biscuit were due to be awarded the freedom of the city of Prague in June 1987, but the ceremony was postponed indefinitely owing to Nigel Blackwell's crippling stage fright.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

139. Pete Waterman was originally slated as producer of Radiohead's international chart-topping album Kid A but the band dispensed with his services after finding his approach "too extreme." "I found a Stockhausen record in Avid," quipped band frontman Thom Yorke. "It was called Roadblock and it was really funky. I wanted Radiohead to go down a more acid jazz route, sort of like Jamiroquai meets Nasty Rox Inc. Trust those disreputable rogues in the shop to switch the artist dividers around!" he chuckled.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

140. Brian Eno often cites the fact that he was sick in bed and unable to turn up the stereo as the inspiration for his ambient work. He was, in fact, strapped to the bed as he was at the height of his sexual compulsive phase and friends thought he was in danger of dying of exhaustion.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Suzanne and Alan Vega are identical twins.

TV critic Clive James's hobby of collecting powerful magnets and sellotaping them to his underclothes wrought disaster when he was invited to sit in on a Steely Dan mixing session in the late 70s; when Fagen and Becker realised the antipodean scribe had wiped their work by drunkenly slumping over the Studer 24-track, they sought and gained a court order to force him to recreate (with Jonathan Cohen and Tristan Fry) side B of Aja from memory, in his own time and at his own expense. CJ's long-running smirking-at-the-Japanese shows of the 80s were his way of covering studio costs. See also: Chris Tarrant, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles and Helium Outgassing Syndrome.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

142. The only reason the Killers got so popular is that the drummer's uncle is the well-connected Karl Rove.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

144. Since 2001, Eiffel 65 have been comparing every single song they hear to their own 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)', then giving it a score between -1 and -10 based on how much worse it is than 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'. Currently leading is Freeland's 'We Want Your Soul', with a score of -7.628.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

145. McDonalds' UK only burger the "Big Tasty" was created in order to celebrate "The Gentle Art Of Choking" by My Vitriol reaching the top 40, My Vitriol frontman Som Wijay-Wardner being a former four star worker at the company's Thannet town centre branch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

146. Though they're loath to admit it, Funeral For A Friend are actually really good at rugby union.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

147. "With A Little Bit of Luck" by DJ Luck and MC Neat is the official song of Jainism.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

The engineer and mixer of Napalm Death's 'From Enslavement to Obliteration' album is none other than Phil "Mixmaster" Harding, who was also mixing many of Stock Aitken and Waterman's classic hits at the time!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

149. Exeter is the largest city in Britain without a thriving drum & bass scene.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

150. The term "gaydar" was first used on the inlay to Pinhead Gunpowder's debut album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

151. Wondering what Sash! has been up to lately? Wonder no more - he's been writing a book about how all his hit singles were actually about Communism, and is currently hawking it around the major publishing houses of Germany.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

152. The legendary producton team, the Bomb Squad, is actually just one man, Rieg Siseneg Orgnoh from Utter Egypt.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Bjorn Ulvaeus lost his eye during a freak accident concert with his old band the Hootennany Singer, and had a glass eye replacement. If you carefully in the Abba videos, you can see his left eye (ie the one on the right from the viewers perspective), it looks a bit funny!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

154. The Police quietly reunite once a year in the Arctic circle, exclusively for family, friends and Inuit. Sting secretly thinks that this is what's really behind global warming ... and he likes it!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

155. It would take approximately sixteen years to listen non stop to every song posted on every MP3 blog in the last 12 minutes.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

156. Dr and the Medics were all actually firemen, but they couldn't come up with an appropriat name.

157. Mick Hucknell started the rumour about his amazing ability to attract women, in an attempt to be attractive to women.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

158. Andy Partridge is an uncredited collaborator on all of Richard Curtis' movie projects, including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Morvern Callar, Soul Plane, and Art School Sluts 2: Yoni's Revenge.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

159. Neil Young's legendary contempt for the CD format was actually a result of his having invested heavily in a rival technology, JVC's UltraDisc. The UltraDisc was a tiny 1.5 inch vinyl disc, designed to be played on portable turntables. Each disc was capable of holding exactly 1.5 inches of data, i.e. approximately 20 seconds of music.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

160. Due to a rare bone condition, Bootsy Collins is unable to float in water, and has not had a bath since 1967.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

161. The original version of Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'Love Child' was written by Ross herself, and was entitled 'Martha Reeves Doesn't Know Who Her Daddy Is'. Ross only performed the re-written version under heavy sedation.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

162. There are no less than three separate British Government departments solely devoted to ensuring that John Martyn never becomes popular.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

163. The Goombay Dance Band, who scored a UK number 1 with "Seven Tears" in 1982, featured a young Sizzla and Shabba Ranks on backing vocals.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

164. The Pet Shop Boys' song "Left to My Own Devices" features the lyric "Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat". Ironically, Guevara hated Debussy's music, describing it as "reactionary bourgeois indie shite". Debussy, on the other hand, was a huge disco fan, scoring the string arrangements for several classics including Odyssey's "Use It Up and Wear It Out".

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

165. Journalists who were originally "dissed" in Guns N Roses 1991 album track before time constraints led to a rewrite include Alan Coren, Polly Toynbee, and "Beano" editor Euan Kerr.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

165. Journalists who were originally "dissed" in Guns N Roses 1991 album track "Get In The Ring" before time constraints led to a rewrite include Alan Coren, Polly Toynbee, and "Beano" editor Euan Kerr.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

167. Brian Higgins, in an effort to feel more "real" as an artist, is secretly ghostwriting/producing the forthcoming comeback album by Nick Kamen.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

168. Swearing on rap records was first invented by Biz Markie on his 1988 b-side "Bloody Postman's Late Again". Record Industry bosses told him that bad language would never become popular.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

169. Richard O'Brian, writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, presenter of The Crystal Maze and occasional actor is only two degrees of seperation from every UK #1 hit since 1983.

On a side note, the "Mumsy" character was played by Carol Vordeman's mother.

― Magnakai (Magnakai), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

170. Jaco Pastorius was shot dead while attempting to knock a deer unconscious on a roadside. His killer was never caught.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

171. Koch Records recently released their own version of the boardgame Risk, with the continent of Australasia replaced by C-Murder.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

172. Three of Mayhem's songs are uncredited Orange Juice covers with different titles.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

173. A fateful meeting between Jimmy Saville and Michael Jackson in 1977 - which degenerated into a childish name-calling contest, during which the silver haired DJ lifted up his trouser leg for extra movement before stamping on Jackson's foot - inspired both the sock fetish and the famous cry of the King of Pop.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

174. 'Help The Aged' is actually a belated response record to 'Earth Song'.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

175. For their first 12 gigs, Sly & The Family Stone were called He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. Sly Stone only decided to change the name after falling over a coffee table at Crosby, Stills & Nash's house.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

175. Tom Jones was once mistakenly booked to open for a pre-fame Ramones at CBGB's. Jones, undaunted, launched into scorching rockabilly renditions of his greatest hits.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

176. The chorus of 1997's "Beetlebum" marks the first ever use of the chord C major in Blur's recorded output, as Graham Coxon had only recently overcome his irrational terror of it.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

177. Most people don't know that Koch records was founded by former NYC mayor Ed Koch.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

178. In addition to naming their outfit "The Beta Band" and disowning their debut artist album immediately before its release in 1999, the Scotland/Portsmouth quartet's legendary lack of self-confidence and poor judgment led them to run up a large debt with their record label by paying Radio 1 & 2 not to playlist any of their subsequent singles and visiting various therapists almost every day of each week for 5 years.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

180. Stevie Jackson of Belle & Sebastian is Clare Grogan's dad.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

181. Ghostface Killah has only actually killed one person.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

182. Alt-classical band Rachel's shortened their name from Rachel's Hair in disgust, after Jennifer Aniston restyled her mane in season six.

― alberto confetti, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

183. James ate Richey.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

184. Stevie Nicks.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

185. Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Nicola Roberts and Est'elle will perform 'Like A Virgin'/'Hollywood' at the 2006 Brit Awards. Est'elle will sport the most conservative outfit.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

186. Jesus Jones' original name? Jesus Juice.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

187. Roni Size and Shy FX are both secretly from the Canadian town of Barrie, Ontario.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

188. Barry Ontario is the real name of singer-songwriter David Gray.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

189. David Grey, Barry White, Jason Orange and Frank Black were part of a range of "Rock Tints" introduced by Dulux in its Autumn 2002 range.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

190. The b-side on the German release of Eminem's "Ass Like That" is a hip-hop cover of Smart E's rave classic "Sesame's Treat". Playing on the M&M/Smarties candy pun and Eminem's famous "nobody listens to techno" utterance, this rarely-heard track went to #4 in Germany, and is credited with inspiring the "ironic hip-hop" craze that has been wildly popular in Germany and Switzerland this summer.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

191. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl did not play on Nirvana's Nevermind. All of the backing tracks on Nevermind were created by carefully manipulating samples from a variety of sources, most notably Big Black's Songs About Fucking, Anthrax's State Of Euphoria, and Yaz's Upstairs At Eric's.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

192. The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" was originally titled "Ringo, He's No Joe Cocker, Ennit?"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

193. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel invented rave music with their 1973 song "Crazy Raver." It wasn't until years later, as a solo artist, that he invented drum machines, lights, ecstacy and dancing. Credit for glow sticks, baggy pants and pacifiers goes, of course, to Flava Flav.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Crass' Penny Rimbaud is actually a distant relative of Ray Kroc and an heir to the McDonald's fortune. Furious with his family's immoral business practices, he used his share of McDonald's to buy a house in the country, set up a record label, and promote vegetarianism to a generation of young people.

― mike a, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

195. Scooter are actually Einstürzende Neubaten.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

196. James Blount used to be the drummer in Stump.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

197. Monkee Mike Nesmith was rarely seen without his knit cap in the 1960s because he was being treated for a rare disorder that rendered his cranium transparent, thus giving him that "Brainiac look", even though it's Psimon, not Brainiac who has visible brain matter.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

198. The Righteous Brothers were neither.

― erb, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Decca actually offered the Beatles a contract, but rescinded it after Pete Best left the band.

― mike a, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

200. Elton John isn't actually gay, but perpetuates the myth to distract the public from his real preference - necrophilia.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

201. Roots Manuva has three locks on his bedroom door in case the Britannia Music Club come in the night to kidnap him and force him to host the Brit Awards.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

202. Through a connection with Leland Rogers' brother Kenny, George W. Bush briefly joined the Thirteenth Floor Elevators on bass. Roky Erickson later burned the master tapes, and they remain unheard. Rumor has it he also appeared on one of the Free-Form Freak-Outs on Red Krayola's _Parable of Arable Land_, and that he gave Roky the idea to play insane.

― mike a, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

203. Rapper Nelly's last name really is Furtado.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

204. Neil Peart is the drummer in Gay Dad.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

205. Joey C got his first big break as one of the midgets in the video for Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

206. Steve Earle once drove a truck made completely out of watermelon rinds.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

207. The Bangles' hit single "Walk Like an Egyptian" was originally titled "Walk Like Two Egyptians." The group insisted on changing the lyrics, but never received co-writing credit. Bassist Michael Steele has not been seen in years, and is widely suspected of murdering songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

-- Josh in Chicago (Vitesse9...), July 12th, 2005.

i run into this last year, while caribou hunting. sting mistaked me for marilyn manson and asked me to 'jam' with him. i told him to fuck off but his 'entourage' tried to force me to play with him. i kill three of them slashing my way through. they pack up and leave tundra in jet. they never come back i am guessing.

i would have played with him if he had not mistaken me as manson. i'm quite fond of "do do do, da da da".

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

208. "Crazy Frog Riddim" was the original name for "Brothers In Arms"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

209. The least read issue of Vice Magazine ever was the "Egyptian Lover Issue"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

R. Kelly was originally set to be cast in the Todd Bridges role on "Diff'rent Strokes" until a bout of mono one week before filming forced him to be replaced.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Mike Skinner of the Streets is a keen model train enthusiast, and thanks to his massive success, has become a minority shareholder in Hornby!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Adam Clayton was so inebriated during the recording of Zooropa that he frequently failed to show up for recording sessions. Most of the bass parts on that record are actually supplied by California anti-comic Neil Hamburger.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

If you read the recent review of The Kaiser Chiefs album in NME, might notice that the first letter of each paragraph spells the word "BRIAN", which strangely enough is the name of leade singer Ricky Wilson's cat!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

214. Gin Blossoms wrote the song "Til I Hear it From You" about ex-MTV hostess and current Poker Battle of the Sexess commentator Kennedy.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

215. Wild Cherry's biggest hit was originally titled "Play That Punky Music", but the title and lyrics were significantly altered because nobody in the band could think of a suitable rhyme for "boogie" that could be associated with punk music.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

215a. Unfortunately, "loogie" was suggested too late.

― laura marx ingals, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

on the four track magnetic tape release of Sgt. Pepper, you can hear George Harrison fart.

― danny boy, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

217. Former Twisted Sister bass player Lew Melciano is now fourth chair at Boston's hoity-toity Purience salon.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

218. Just Blaze's weed man is Mike Vanportfleet from Lycia.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

219. Kenny Loggins now spends most of his time responding to "fan mail" from "Genny P. Flavia" about "Satisfy Her All Night Longpwt" and "What Is Wrong With Your Penisfv"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

220. George Harrison taught Ravi Shankar to play air on the G string while holding breath.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

221. Kurt Cobain's ashes were scattered over Jim Morrison's Paris gravesite.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

222. Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight" was based on guitarist K.K. Downing's experiences working nights in a meat-packing factory in Tipton.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

223. Early pressings of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" feature a slowed-down infrasonic recording of a young Rosie O'Donnell chanting "Congratulations, you beat the meat!" Rosie was soon removed from the release upon discovery that the word "meat" sounded at the resonant frequency of the human anal cavity, causing listeners to experience sustained pants-shitting.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

224. Iron Maiden's Eddie is Dick Clark's Dorian Gray portrait.

― the full truth, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

225. The Shona language of southern Africa has 34 words for Rockism. Bantu, however, has none.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

226. "Bah!", hissed Shankar, with contempt.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

227. Grunge-rocker Tad Doyle was a child actor who starred in the title role of the 1974 Broadway production of Oliver!

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

228. Beck Hansen played Cousin Oliver in the Brady Bunch TV series.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

229. Contrary to his drole moniker, Rob Zombie is actually a werewolf / mummy hybrid.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

230. "Autotune" is actually a myth put around by a cabal of Christian fundamentalists to discredit evolution.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

231. Jamie Lidell's planned last album, featuring a number of dirge like post-rock jams, broken loop pieces and a cover featuring the artist barefoot in a Melvins T-Shirt was ditched at the last minute when the Wire offered a cover feature.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

232. Melissa Auf Der Maur is employed by Sports Interactive to perform scouting duties on the MSL for the Football Manager games series.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

233. Exotic foodstuffs named after indie bands of the late 80s include pad thai, arrancini di riso, and Captain Crunch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

234. Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson once ate 53 boiled eggs.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

235. When the police raided the Rolling Stones' country house, they found Keith Richards extracting a Mars bar from Marianne Faithfull's handbag.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

235. Jamiroquai? Jamirogay.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

aside from that last one, this is quickly becoming quite the classic thread! however, huk-l, your one about Kenny Loggins has still got me in tears! haha

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

237. Of the Four Tops, two were actually bottoms.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

238. The Stroke's originally planned their second album to be a mind expanding marriage of acid glitch beats and Glenn Branca style guitar was ditched at the last minute when an NME insider told them that; "favours would be withdrawn". The band choose to record a number of songs they had previously discarded because they were a bit rubbish.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

239. Cam'ron won Est'elle's apostrophe off of her in a game of briscola.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

240. Former husband of suicidal UK TV nobody Gail Porter and former Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrove now claims never to have never have been in Toploader and insists he was actually in Ultrasound or The Montrose Avenue in a desperately misplaced lunge for indie cred.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

241. Global warming is an elaborate KLF prank.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

242. Sienna Miller was named for an early Chris DeBurgh demo, a song that evolved into "Lady in Red".

― satanzilla, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

243. Notorious B.I.G. wanted to use the moniker King Tubby before learning of the dub artist's existence.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

244. Synth-pop one-hit wonders Fiction Factory were so named after an unpatented invention of the vocalist's father: a vast mechanical computer housed in a shed, capable of hammering out passable romantic novellas and third-rate thrillers at the rate of one every three hours.

245. All but one of the Bangles blister badly if they're exposed to lager shandy; the weaker the mix, the greater the pustulation - if it's diet lemonade, they look like bubble wrap.

246. Saffron from Republica is serving three consecutive life sentences in an Angolan prison after "entering a box junction before [her] exit was clear" on the outskirts of Luanda during their "Mid-90s Fever!" co-headline tour with Babylon Zoo and Stiltskin; in the absence of defence counsel, Jaz Mann represented her in court.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

247. The so-called Sun Ra was actually nothing but a carefully planned cover-up operation for the US Star Wars program.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

248. Shed Seven were originally a seven-piece, but three members left the day before they were signed after finding out that Rick Witter had slept with all of their sisters (of which there were fourteen). The three departees would go on to form part of the original line-up of the Longpigs.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

249. When Eminem was runner-up in the Rap Olympics, the winning MC was in fact future EU Commissioner Romano Prodi.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

250. ...whose sister formed the Scissor Sisters.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

251. The so-called Star Wars program was nothing but a slightly ludicrous cover up for Saturn Records.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

250. The Wolfgang Press are actually a gang of wolves who run a newspaper.

251. Red House Painters are actually a firm of decorators with a limited colour palette.

252. Insides are actually...your insides.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

253. The real advice on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is actually given by Bloodhound Gang frontman Jimmy Pop Ali off-camera.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

254. Joanna Newsom said she thinks you'd be kinda cute if you did something with your hair.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

255. Microhouse doubles in density every eighteen months

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

258. Judge Jules is actually a heavily made-up Adrian Juste.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

259. Billy Corgan's true passion is breeding pitbulls.

― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

260. Ralf Hutter can't program his VCR.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

261. Dead Prez once recorded a track for the Brie Marketing Board, entitled "Attitude of Melts"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

262. Before MOP, Billy Danze was a supply drama teacher in the Home Counties.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

263. The original personnel of Derek BBB & the Dominos featured bass Bill Brown (ex-The Dominoes), Syd Nathan (of King Records) and BB's cousin Bukka White. When the limelightly challenged moran Clapton suddenly invited himself into line-up, all the B's bumbled out faster than you could say Rimsky-Korsakoff!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

264. The Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact was bought at auction in 2002 by Devin Lima from the Lyte Funky Ones, who renamed it the Molotov-Ribbentropp-Lima Pact

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

265. Also, contrary to the lyrics of the song, Devin Lima in fact hated it when girls dropped by for the summer, due to a bad experience with stalker in the mid 90s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

266. Imani Coppola invented the wheelchair.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

267. Jefferson Airplane invented the armchair.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

268. t.A.T.u. invented Siberian Khatru.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

269. Since being lent a copy of Unknown Pleasures by Matt Dillon in late 2004, the actor Frankie Muniz has become obsessed with trying to prove to everyone he meets that he knows more about Joy Division than they do. He trapped the writer and broadcaster Paul Morley in conference room in Miami for six hours earlier this year in order to get him to watch a PowerPoint presentation about how Peter Hook is superior to Flea, Bernard Edwards and Flea and Bernard Edwards put together. Morley was only able to escape after repeatedly striking Muniz between the eyes with a tea tray. Later that week Muniz would be thrown from a second-floor balcony by Racing Stripes co-star Mandy Moore after choosing to open a press conference by declaring that "The Correct Use Of Soap is for shit."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

270. Dave Pirner wrote "Misery" based on an entry he stole from Greg Dulli's secret diary.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

270. The Television Personalities know where Syd Barret lives.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

272. Michael Barrymore was the drummer for Totally Tropical.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

274. Jamie Stewart believes that Jessica Simpson's In This Skin is the most "emotionally honest" record made so far this decade. He dplans to cover "With You" on his next EP.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Upon hearing the Primtive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hands" for the first time, Brian Eno declared the song "the sound of the future"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

276. All air-raid sirens on the United Kingdom mainland were reconfigured in 1986 to play Telstar. This was a present for then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 61st birthday from Gary Numan and the 1922 Committee.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

276. Jim Croce was a scriptwriter on the first series of "Till Death Us Do Part", coining Alf Garnett's "Silly moo" catchphrase based on an argument he once had with Patsy Cline.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

278. Ian Akkerman's (ex-Focus) mid-80s solo album Oil In The Family was a belated answer-record to Abba's The Visitors, the title track of which tells of the jaunty Swedes's misadventures while trying to build contacts with Siberia's future oil baron Hodorkovski.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

279. "Johnny Yen", as referred to in the lyrics of "Lust for Life", rather than being a person is actually rhyming slang for "zen", the song detailing Iggy Pop's achievement of totally relaxation.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

280. Willie's weed is actually weak and seedy, but nobody has the guts to tell him.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

281. Deep Blue Something's planned follow-up to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was titled "The African Queen" after the Audrey Hepburn film of the same name. When it was discovered that it was in fact Katherine Hepburn that starred in The African Queen, the single was pulled, just days before its release, dealing an unsurmountable blow to DBS's career.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

282. "America, Fuck Yeah!" from the Team America soundtrack was originally a Lene Marlin b-side.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

283. Before becoming a country music legend, Hank Williams was a small-town pimp with a stable of 12 whores he liked to call the Dirty Dozen.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

284. Jenna Jameson's uncle is the dude with the eyepatch from Dr Hook

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

285. Madonna Ciccone's infatuation with New York City began when, at age 17, she hitched a ride on the van that transported Jimmy Hoffa's body from the Red Fox restaurant to the Meadowlands.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

286. Will Smith is a card-carrying member of the Black Panthers.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

287. Sheryl Crow's attraction to Lance Armstrong stems from the fact that she "just loves old jazz music."

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

288. Your copy of Loveless isn't meant to sound like that.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

289. Omarion is huge in Germany.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

290. The members of Slayer currently run a Boys and Girls Club in East Los Angeles.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

291. Since a two mile stretch of his left arm collapsed, The Edge has devoted much of his time to fighting coastal erosion.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

292. Puffy and NaS were slated to do an anthem for the short-lived XFL called "He Hate Me Now" but by the time the two got in the studio, the league had been dismantled.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

293. "Shondell" is a corruption of "gendelle", a French sexual slang term from Jean Genet's novel Querelle, which Tommy James learned from a tourist while working a summer job as a stable boy at Fort Michilimackinac.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

294. A CD factory in Germany produced nothing but Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music," 24-hours a day, for 7 years in the eighties.

― Jimmy_tango, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

295. The actual lyrics are, in fact, "'scuse me while I kiss this guy."

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

296. ILX was originally intended to be a message board for Christian teens.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

297. Bjork - the other white meat.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

298. "A Love Supreme" was originally titled "Struttin' with some prime rib"

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

299. Lene Lovich's sister was Dr. Jack Kervorkian's receptionist.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

300. The fact that "Defendant is a big fan of Third Eye Blind" was used as mitigating circumstances in 92.7% of all court cases in the UK in 2002.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Slash wears a wig.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

302. At a House Banquet in 1996, former US president Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky sang a karaoke version of "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus". Hillary Clinton's reaction to their performance is unknown.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link

303. Benzino has appeared as a studio guest on "Loose Women" a record 14 times.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

304. Mark "Deep Throat" Felt was an uncredited backup singer on the Denim album Back in Denim.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

305. Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace was an uncredited backup singer on Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

306. Ikara Colt were a fiendish ploy devised by Mark E Smith to foist his new tunes on Britains indie kids, Smith rapidly discarded the group when he realised whether it was a bunch of art students or a speed raddled, toothless wiry ex docker the kids didn't give a shit.

― elwisty (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

307. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are considering changing unwieldy monkier. Amongst the currrent front runners are The Much Praised Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Pitchfork Faves Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! and Shine 5.

― elwisty (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

308. Shane MacGowan was once dangerously addicted to those green milkshakes McDonald's sells on St. Patrick's Day, once to the point of being declared legally dead for a full three minutes after a late '89 binge.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

309.None of the Jackson Five were actually brothers. In fact, Marlon was the only one related to any of the other four.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link

310. Many people have wondered why we call rock concerts "concerts" when concerts involve music, and rock obviously is not music.

According to William Safire, back in the early days of the youth movement, whenever a hippie played his guitar or his drums or whatever, the racket was just so awful that he'd need a lot of drugs to make it bearable. So soon enough, any event with this so-called music would be called "a trip." In Canada, though, the acid was just not very potent. So instead of "taking a trip," Canadian hippies would say they were "going to a hotel" or, even more anti-climactically, "going to the concierge." Eventually the slang got imported back to the States (rumor has it by Skip Spence), where evidently someone got confused by the subtle "g" sound in the word and mistook "concierge" for "concert." Nobody saw fit to correct the fool, so this bit of mutilated language lives with us to this day.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

(I didn't invent that, though I wish I did.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

311. The band 311 got their name from the KKK. (There are three Ks, and K is the 11th letter of the alphabet, etc.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link

312. Kid Rock's stage name is actually a play on his real name, "Little Boulder," given to him as a child by his late Chippewa grandmother.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

313. Neither member of Trans Am knows how to drive.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

313. In fall 2004, 50 Cent shocked fans with his announcement that he is a homosexual man, and that tracks of his such as the hit single "Candy Shop" were written with the intention of gaining respect in the homosexual community.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link

...and it's all captured in Super Size Me 2.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link

314. Anton Newcombe is the illegitimate child of Brian Jones and a SF go-go dancer. (That one made it into print, in all seriousness!!!!)

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

kylie can sing.
madonna is a virgin.

― dance electrician, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

309.None of the Jackson Five were actually brothers. In fact, Marlon was the only one related to any of the other four.
-- Myonga Von Bontee (scottyfield...), July 13th, 2005.
this sounds like "none of the taylors in duran duran are related."
i only found this out the other day.
all the farriss brothers in INXS are related.

― dance electrician, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

315. Starship's "We Built This City" was actually written by future sports columnist and "Tuesdays With Morrie" author Mitch Albom.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link

316. You can use Slayers "Reign in Blood" as an alternate soundtrack for the first half hour of "My Friend Totoro", the same way that stoners insist you can use "Dark Side of the Moon" with "the Wizard of Oz"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

317. There is no such a person as "Latoya Jackson"; Her existence can be blamed entirely on Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, and a disgruntled nerd who used to work as a graphic artist in Motown Records album design department.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link

318. Matsumoto Hideto (aka "hide" of X-Japan) did NOT commit suicide.
He finally got that surgery he secretly wanted and is now back on the pop charts again as "Yumi" of Puffy (Ami-Yumi).

319. Oh, and same goes for Richey James of the Manic Street Preachers. He is now Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisholm. (The fondness for longsleeve tracksuit tops is to cover the residual "4real" carved into "her" arm.)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link

When Puff Daddy re-named himself P Diddy, Snoop Dogg was seriously considering renaming himself Woof-Boy!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link

260. Ralf Hutter can't program his VCR.
hahahahahahaha!
That one bears repeating.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

(I didn't invent that, though I wish I did.)
-- Michael Daddino (epicharmu...) (webmail), July 13th, 2005 4:06 AM. (later) (link)

....

ah ha ha! yeah!

― joey Tribiani (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

321. SWAT Teams had to be called to Heathrow Airport in August of 1991 when Shane MacGowans liver took hostages and demanded to be transplanted into the body of a hippie chick named Wendy-Belle Lascoux.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:53 (eighteen years ago) link

322. Trife Diesel got his stage name as a reference to the old "stick your dick in your ear and go as a petrol pump" gag.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

323. Letter from America by The Proclaimers is the official theme song of the Tanzanian postal service.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link

324. Rock'N'Roll was invented by communists for subverting the youth of teh West.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link

325. Bruce Willis never left the music industry - Justin Giuarini, Daniel Bedingfield and Joss Stone are just three of his latest mouthpieces ala Milli Vanilli.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

326. The lyrics to the song 'Tin Man' by America were written by Jeffrey Archer.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

327. The lyrics to the song 'We Built This City' by Starship were written by Jonathan Aitken.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

328. Contrary to popular (!?) belief, Steve Reich and Philip Glass actually do get on. In fact, they had dinner together in New York just last Friday, and Reich invited Glass to come and stay at his summer place in Vermont.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link

When this thread has run its course, could a mod remove the "(that are 100% false") bit?

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't Believe The Truth

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link

329. Backing vocals on the hit cover version of "Two Little Boys" by Splodgenessabounds were supplied by none other than Conservative politician and top TV personality, Boris Johnson MP.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

330. Unbeknownst to the world at large, the true Geri Halliwell was never Ginger Spice - the woman we saw being none other than "the original Spice Girl", M*rg*r*t Th*tch*r.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link

331. Ray Davies' babies have rabies.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

332. While not hollow, Gwen Stefani's back is remarkably spacious.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

333. Rapper Lil' Kim is actually Kim "Tootie" Fields of The Facts Of Life fame.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

334. Before settling on "It's hammer time" as his opening salvo for the Second Iraq War, Vice Admiral Timothy Keating's original address to the world's media involved him reciting the lyrics to "Steal My Sunshine" on repeat for 27 minutes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

335. Unbeknownst to many, Peter Cetera was the leading light behind the 'Disco Sucks' movement. It all stemmed from a failed attempt to seduce Goldie Hawn by dancing to 'Boogie Oogie Oogie', which left the actress in fits of giggles due to the sheer incompetency of Cetera's dancing. From that night on, Cetera has been a sworn enemy of the groove.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

336. Nostradamus accurately predicted the rise of Bran Van 3000.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

337. Katrina & the Waves were all trained Navy SEALS.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

338. Derek Bailey is deaf

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

339. That chick from Goldfrapp has a treasure map tattooed on her left buttock.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

340. A young Madonna worked as an au pair for the Jackson family

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

341. Los Lobos is an anagram for "Salty Balls"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

342. At the time of his death, Michael Hutchence was considering taking Aussie rockers INXS in an entirely new, avant garde, direction. Among the CDs found in his hotel room were: Stockhausen's 'Stimmung', 'Out to Lunch' by Eric Dolphy, Pat Metheny's 'Zero Tolerance for Silence' and Bob Graettinger's 'City of Glass' by the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

343. In Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light", the lyric "Some silicone sister with a manager mister / told me I go what it takes" is a reference to Dolly Parton, with whom Bruce had a brief, illicit affair.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

344. Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" is about a May-December relationship.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

345. Before the music thing exploded, Devendra Banhart was in line to replace the current voice actor for Ernie, the Keebler Elf.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

346. Jacques Brel kept his voice in shape by eating pussy every day.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

347. Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, E, Jason Lytle, Sam Beam, and Paddy McAloon all bought their beards via a cut-rate online costume shop. The spirit gum gave E a rash, hence his newer clean-shaven image.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

358. Bands named after catchphrases of cult darts commentator Sid Waddell include Avenged Sevenfold, Voice of the Beehive, and The Beatles.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Rapper 50 Cent Blasts Colonel Oliver North For Role In Iran Contra Affair

Rapper and political activist 50 Cent has come out with heaters blazing against Colonel Oliver North for his alleged role in the tangled Iran Contra scandal. In an interview in the latest issue of Vibe, 50 had this to say about the sordid ordeal:

"These government n****s like this mofo Oliver North cat are fronting like they all heroic and sh*t with this guns for hostages bullsh*t, but the truth is that they causing all kinds of problems in Nicaragua and the Mid-East -- all praises be and all that sh*t, nahmsaying? It's like, yeah, they saving like 10 people, hostages, you know-- from the US of A!-- nahmsaying, but it's like, there's about 5,000 people dying in Nicaragua during all this. On top of all that, you know, they violating UN sanctions."

50 Cent went on to perform what some political commentators are calling a "verbal drive-by" on President Ronald Reagan, who he described in unequivocal terms as a "braindead Alzheimer's-having motherf***er."

Jason Farmer, a spokesperson from 50's record label Interscope had not read the interview at press time, but didn't believe that the rapper's inflammatory comments would have an effect on album sales. Of course, some beg to differ: the Republican Party, which has traditionally embraced the pro-gun and pro-money sentiments championed in 50's Billboard topping record Get Rich or Die Tryin', is now in the process of organizing a nationwide boycott of the album.

― Vestigial Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

That was 359, BTW

― Vestigial Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

360. Amy Grant still breast feeds her eldest son, Loughridge, 23.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

James Chance is black

― matlewis (matlewis), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

362. 2 Live Crew's "We Want Some Pussy" was originally penned as an ode to Marissa, Luther Campbell's grey tabby cat.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

363. Calexico are in fact They Might Be Giants in really shitty disguises.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol was interviewed by the BBC as a possible 10th Doctor Who. He was rejected because it was found he genuinely believed the BBC has a real TARDIS which could "take him anywhere, like to see The Carpenters in 1970".

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

364, that, obv.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

365. Quite apart from being an amusingly ironic addition to any music video, Gary Coleman is also a shit-hot session bassist.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

366. The main event of Wrestlemania XII originally featured Doink the Clown vs Jeff Lynne.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

367. Britney Spears has the world's largest collection of outsider art and is a silent partner in several well-known galleries.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

368. Before the record company pushed for "Axel F", Crazy Frog's debut single was going to be a cover of "Black Hole Sun"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

369. David Bowie holds the patent for popular 1980's game, 'Connect 4'.

― moley, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

370. The scream at the start of "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players is actually provided by reedy voiced TV finance expert Alvin Hall.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

371. Eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted that Alan Sugar's receptionist on The Apprentice UK was in fact Royce Da 5'9"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

372. The best selling album of all-time is "Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

373. Mogwai and Arab Strap signed a joint death pact in 1997, to be acted upon exactly ten years from that date, in 2007. Three weeks later, Aidan Moffat accidentally left the pact in an ex-girlfriend's bedroom. He has not been in contact with her since. Thus, the pact's whereabouts are currently unknown, and it is therefore nullified until it is found. The Arab Strap single "Love Detective" contains veiled references to this incident.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

374. "Hit 'Em Up" was co-written by Stephen Pastel.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

375. Since his retirement from production work, Sir George Martin has been working on a device that will finally be able to provide an objective analysis of what constitutes a 'good' melody.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

376. Shellac takes such along time to record their albums because of all the overdubbing

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

377. In 2003, Wire Magazine declared Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" to be the key song in the genesis of mathrock.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Murder City Devils vocalist Spencer Moody had a very small cameo in the first Revenge of the Nerds movie.

― Lemming Radio, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Due to poor craftsmanship, LL Cool J's nine was in truth nearly impossible to load.

― Well, Big Kyle Says This:, Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

380. Frat rock duo Ween is actually an ongoing side project of Tom Waits and Keiji Haino "just to goof around."

381. Lil' Jon is terribly, terribly agoraphobic.

382. Johnny Cash? Gay as a circus.

383. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had an enormous collection of pogo sticks, most of which had names.

384. The Beatles "Dr Robert" was actually written as an homage to John Lennon's childhood pet, Doctor Rabbit.

385. Morrissey wrote "Frankly Mr Shankly" not as a dig at Geoff Travis, but in fact as a slight directed at Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, Morrissey always having been more of a Newcastle United man himself.

386. When Ozzy left, the other members of Black Sabbath were really after Elton John to take his place. Though he was never officially a member, it was in fact he who wrote and sang "Sign of the Southern Cross," though it's always been credited to Ronnie James Dio.

387. Neil Young can ball, man. Neil Young got game.

388. Bone Crusher often cites shakuhachi player Kohachiro Miyata as "a major influence of mine, you know?"

― Well, Big Kyle Says This: (Well, Big Kyle Says This:), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link

389. Right this very minute on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Johnny Depp just said he's wearing the same genie pants MC Hammer wore in the "U Can't Touch This" video.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

390. Oh, the Who's "Behind Blue Eyes"? It's about Sinatra.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

391. It is speculated that John Philip Sousa was a homosexual. Legend has it that "Under the Double Eagle" was named after an experience he had in a gay bathhouse.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

392. Donna Summer once said in an interview that AIDS was God's revenge on homosexuality.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

393. Bill Pullman was the first lead singer for Faith No More.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

394. When the English Beat went to film the video for "Mirror In The Bathroom" at Birmingham's Rum Runner nightclub, they ran into then-house band Duran Duran and, after drinking and discussing music for hours on end, they stumbled into a nearby recording studio and ended up recording one full album. The master reel to this album was snatched up by Rum Runner co-owner Michael Berrow, who then claimed he "lost them". He's just waiting for Duran to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame to magically "discover" the tape.

395. Spandau Ballet actually began as a four-piece outfit minus Tony Hadley. They were known as The Kemps and played Phil Spector-influenced '60s-style pop in small clubs in Utrecht. They only decided to change musical direction after seeing the glam-rock Japan on German TV in 1979 and listening to a copy of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Gary Kemp picked up from an outdoor music stall. They were inspired to move back to London, where they met Hadley at a Curtis Mayfield concert and subsequently formed the "classic" Spandau Ballet lineup.

396. David Bowie had a short-lived love affair with Visage's Steve Strange. It was kept quiet not because Strange didn't want the public to know but because Bowie thought of it more as a fling and only really slept with Strange to get close to Strange's then-friend Midge Ure, whom Bowie had a crush on. Ure, however, was an asexual who didn't want to get involved in relationships with anyone. This was Bowie's secret shame and a large part of why he suddenly decided to embrace heterosexuality, and why he didn't want anything to be said about the Strange affair.

397. Japan didn't break up because of Mick Karn's girlfriend, as the fans think. Japan broke up because they had grown tired with the secret they had been hiding -- that Rob Dean went missing, a la Richey from the Manic Street Preachers, sometime in early 1982. The band didn't want their fans to know about this, though, so they'd been quietly searching for Dean as Tin Drum became successful and they toured in support of the album. The burnout was what made Japan break up. Even now, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, and Mick Karn each try to scour the whole of Western Europe in search of Dean. (David Sylvian's too busy in America to help out, though he does give financially to the cause.)

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

398. David Byrne wrote the song "Animals" in response to his lethal allergy to pet dander.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link

399. Johnny Marr left the Smiths because Morrissey refused to have anything to do with Marr's concept for the band's fifth LP: a covers album consisting entirely of acoustic versions of songs originally recorded by Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream and Amon Duul II.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:17 (eighteen years ago) link

400. Konishi Yasuharu, former Pizzicato Five mastermind, still lives with his parents. He is almost 40.

― BARMS, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

401. Meatloaf was presented with a custom Harley on Bat Out of Hell reaching 10 million sales. The bike's features include satellite TV, surface to air missiles, and an alarm that goes off whenever Wendy's is having a sale.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

401. after starting a thread, a fan (of music that she read about) started to suffer from fuckin' asshole-itis and poor imagination. gee-whiz, what happened next? well i'm sure she got a job with allmusic.com and pitchfork wrote an email asking for a review of MIA's new single or perhaps some "alternative hip-hop". and it was fuckin delightful. next thing you know momus gave her a fuckin meat-curtain-job [because her mom was asian] and then the rest was history when drag city called to ask her for a one off EP of willie nelson covers on thumb piano. her project was called "don't stand to clap when you have the clap because the dude from smog has the clap and i bought a peaches cd many years ago before i traded it for an acoustic guitar and a slight tiny tim influence [aka. will oldham knows my sisters roommate and they fucked her at a party in chicago about 2 1/2 years ago]. boy, was it fuckin delightful!

― tad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link

and i'm referring to the fuckin snooze that started this ass fest, yes. good night, i think the curfew for the dorms is 9PM, no? get your rest cause college radio surely needs you tommorrow, ok? ha-ha-ha. well, alright...

ps - i heard that the pixies reunited, isn't that greattt?!?! whoa!

― tad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:43 (eighteen years ago) link

402. In order to overcome the latent rage brought on by his microscopic penis, Tad Jackson makes barely comprehensible posts on random Internet message boards.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

403. Prince is a monster Basketball player and makes great pancakes.

404. Calvin Broadus wanted to call himself Snoop Doggy Cat, but was overruled.

405. By the same token, Sean Combs first (short lived) stage name was actually Yanoush Pohar and his Exciting Member!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 14 July 2005 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link

406. Genesis P. Orridge was ranked #17 in the shortlist for the position as Tom Cruise's new girlfriend but could not audition because of prior commitments touring in Bulgaria.

― Arnault (arc73hk), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

407. Godspeed You Black Emperor actually started out as sitcom.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

401. Meatloaf was presented with a custom Harley on Bat Out of Hell reaching 10 million sales. The bike's features include satellite TV, surface to air missiles, and an alarm that goes off whenever Wendy's is having a sale.

might be the best one yet.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

408. Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier wrote "Welcome to My Life" in attempt to woo Avril Lavigne from Sum 41 lead singer Deryck Whibley. When he was consequently denied an invitation to the two's wedding, he wrote "Shut Up" as a snipe at both of them. At live shows he has been known to dedicate the song to "those two fucking has-beens".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

409. Queen Latifah is the real life queen of Uganda's Kolda region.

410. Ironically, Duke Ellington was only a Count in real life, whereas Count Basie was a commoner, having renounced his title in order to marry fried-chicken heiress Peggy "Dixie" Dean.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

411. Mark McGrath is actually Mark McGwire. (So is Alan Jackson.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

403. Prince is a monster Basketball player and makes great pancakes.

Um, but ain't this one true (esp. the 1st bit)?

― BARMS, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

My Bloody Valentine's revolutionary sound was a result of Kevin Shields's stubborn insistence, after 1988, upon recording all tracks with a lone guitar, without even changing or replacing the dead strings. Thereafter, he broke an average of two strings a year until 1992, when he had none left intact. This accounts for the lack of new material released since then.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Akon is multi talented he can talk and piss you off the same time

― Alice Munn, Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

412. Eddie Stobart is planning to rename each of his fleet of vehicles with the names of the members of The Polyphonic Spree.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

413. In a November 2004 interview with Spin Magazine, Courtney Love and Dave Grohl revealed that their long-running feud was in fact just a publicity stunt to sell more records, and in fact they got married shortly after Cobain's death at a Vegas wedding chappel.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

When Mama Cass' autopsy was complete, they found out that she was made up of 39% ham sandwich.

― Alice Munn, Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

415. One of the oddest incidents in the promotion of The White Stripes' Elephant album was Jack White's one-off appearance as guest commentator on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. White insisted on talking solely in a terrible Irish accent, repeatedly referred to one fighter as having had "the shite knocked out o' him", and at one point leapt into the corner of a French-Canadian fighter and yelled "BOBBY, WHAT'S THE FRENCH FOR VA VA VOOM?" He was finally ejected after choosing to spend the opening round of the second match of the night singing an acapella version of 'Hey Joe' directly into co-commentator Joe Tessitore's face, despite the fact that he was note-perfect.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Will Smith has a degree in astrophysics.

― Alice Munn, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

417. If played backwards, Aphex Twin's masterpiece Selected Ambient Works, Vol 2 turns out to be made entirely of dialogue from the final episode of M*A*S*H*.

― latebloomer: occasionally OTM (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

418. Maximo Park's fathers formed the original line-up of Thunderclap Newman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

419. Laila Ali was the original bassist for sHEDAISY.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

420. The shouting and screaming in the background of Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35" is by the then-Broadway cast of "South Pacific". It has always been Dylan's favourite musical.

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

421. As well as being a succesful recording artist, Lisa Loeb is also in charge of Tigerproofing all of the world's PGA standard golf courses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

422. If you try and upload "Carrot Rope" by Pavement to your iPod, iTunes automatically replaces it with "I Got 5 On It" by Luniz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

423. Bluegrass/Byrds legend Clarence White sired both Jack and Meg White. So yes, they are brother and sister. And they were married. Clarence White was notorious for just not raising his kids right.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

424. Dischord House, home to Minor Threat and the Washington DC hardcore scene, has been owned and operated by the Sheraton Corporation since 1985.

― oh come now, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

425. Gilbert O'Sullivan had no hands.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

426. The key members of Ottowan were in 1983 revealed to be members of the notorious "Brigate Rosse" terrorist organisation. Three of the band are currently serving life sentences for their roles in the kidnap and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

427. Visionary musician Brian Eno regularly visits internet music sites using the alias "Mr. Snrub".

― now this one's true, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

38. After his release from prison, Nelson Mandela thanked Darts for their 1978 single "Boy From New York City", a cassette of which was the only entertainment he was allowed during his incarceration.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005 12:04 AM. (later)
45. Luke Vibert stood as a candidate for Fianna Fail in the last Irish elections, missing out on a seat by just 42 votes.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005 12:17 AM. (later)
82. Haddaway is the majority shareholder in Yates' Wine Bars.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 12th, 2005 1:58 AM. (later)

Dom Passantino - I've just read the whole thread and you are the funniest person in the world.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

428. Musicians who agree that Dom Passantino is the funniest person in the world include Dan the Automator, Crazy Titch, and Les Gray from Mud.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

(and thank you, I try)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

429. In those hilarious Channel 4 adverts for The Ashes, WG Grace is actuually being played by a heavily made-up Phil Anselmo from Pantera.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

430. The first video ever played on MTV was for "Dune Buggy" by Presidents of the United States of America.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

431. The word 'video' was invented by William Shatner in 1992.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

432. In Forbes Magazine's list of the 400 Richest Americans, Prince Po came 137th, mainly due to profits made from his stable of Group 1 winning racehorses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

433. The opening credits to The Sopranos originally featured James Gandolfini dancing to "Nu Flow" by Big Brovaz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

434. Talib Kweli's cousin is Fat Duck restauranter Heston Blumenthal.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

435. When not collaborating with Wendy Richards on 'A Guide To The Phonology of Modern English', Eminem can be found surfing on E-Bay looking to add to his sizeable collection of second-hand Blue Peter badges.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

427. Visionary musician Brian Eno regularly visits internet music sites using the alias "Mr. Snrub".
-- now this one's true (o...) (webmail), July 14th, 2005 11:35 PM.

Oh, stop it you tease.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

435.5) Canadian mystery band Klaatu was actually a pseudonym for a super-secret supergroup merger of members from Mocedades and Boney M.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

436)David Thomas invented the Cleveland Steamer.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

437)Sting is unable to maintain erection for longer than 30 continuous seconds.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

437a. ...but he is able, via yoga, to make love for 6 hours straight, but only if he is the "bottom" and only if a prize winning banana squash in involved.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Supertramp bought all of their songs from a publisher in Australia - and the true author of all that junk remains a mystery.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

439. Lisa Loeb only entered the music industry in order to make enough money to buy a pair of spectacles that weren't second hand. Once her single "Stay" achieved worldwide success, she bought a pair of Armani frames and returned to her job as a librarian in Bent Dick, Colorado.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

440. Bobby Gillespies obsession with dropping vowels was so extreme over the period of XTRMNTR's release that he began to communicate verbally without using vowels. This proved costly. Many reports from this era concern a "tired and emotional" Gillespie wandering around London lost asking confused strangers;
"Whr th fck am ? nd t gt sm fckn drgs w fck 'm n hh fckn' cmdwn n wnt t g hm!!!"

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

441. Despite his claims Brandon Flowers is not Mr Brightside. The honour instead belongs to David Baddiel who won the award in 2002.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

442. Manchester United fans have adapted "Mr Brightside" as a new terrace chant, with the punchline changed to "I'm Norman Whiteside."

Well, I have anyway, and I don't even like Man U.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

443. Manchester United briefly signed Wedding Present singer David Gedge in the early ninties. He now plays for Total Network Solutions depending on touring commitments.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

444. The Von Bondies couldn't pick their own lead singer out of an identity parade after his fisticuffs with Jack White.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

445. Kano's Mmm has to record Last of the Summer Wine for him if he is out when it's on. He thinks the addition of Burt Kwok to the cast was an inspired move that has kept the show relevantin a changing world.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

446. Joey Ramone couldn't cook toast.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Joseph Gorden-Levitt couldn't boil water.

― Alice Munn, Friday, 15 July 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

448. But Richard Hell made a quite nice quiche one day in 1978.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

449. Don't tell anyone but Rivers Cuomo has a "wobbly head".

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

450. During a commercially lean period in the late 1980s, Marianne Faithfull turned to a lucrative career in radio drama and voiceover work, reaching a pinnacle with her performance as "Mrs. Rudd" in the Radio 4 series "King Street Junior". To this day, she remains employed as lip-syncher to Mariella Frostrup, whose own speaking voice contains frequencies unsuitable for broadcast.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 15 July 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

451. Despite their name, The Thompson Twins are not actually twins - they're identical septuplets.

452. Despite his name, Neil Tennant is in fact a notorious slumlord.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link

453. Marc Almond is in fact heterosexual. DJ Mike Read, who managed them briefly, suggested they'd appear more trendy if Marc pretended to be gay. Marc is stuck with the tag now but is considering coming out.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

454. Chali 2na has a chronic fear of laminating.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

455. Michael Jackson's father, Joe, did not beat him. But he did foist "Jumpin' Jive" on an innocent world.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

456. Michael Bolton, Billy Preston, Will Oldham, Melissa Manchester and Mick Fleetwood have a real chip on their shoulder about Julie London.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

The Rapture began as Gang of Four's attempt to emulate the Monkees. They actually played all the music on "House of Jealous Lovers." By Echoes, the band had taken over the reins.

― mike a, Friday, 15 July 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

458. In a famous contest, Frank Zappa beat Rod Stewart and Alice Cooper in determining who could down the most orange soda.

459. PE's "Welcome to the Terrordome" got its name because the group was such a big fan of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome to the Pleasuredome," the album the S1W's would train and work out to.

460. Otis Redding faked his own death, changing his appearance with plastic surgery. He's actually been recording and performing under the name "R. Kelly."

461. A teenage Danny Elfman, of Oingo Boingo/Tim Burton fame, did the string arrangements on Scott Walker's early albums.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

462. All of Boston's album covers are photographs of real natural phenomena.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

463. Rom-com hunk Paul Bettany provided backing vocals on Silver Bullet's "20 Seconds to Comply"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

464. Busta Rhymes suffers from an extremely rare form of Tourette's Syndrome, making him prone to sudden manic outburts, proclaiming "Kitten, kittens - happy, fuzzy kittens!" and "Sunshinelollipopshappinessflowers!" between vocal takes.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

465. The "DJ" in DJ Otzi actually stands for "dinner jacket"; immaculately-attired Otzi has never owned a record player, but has a garage full of heavily-modified AM clock radios that he uses to create the trademark infrasonic gutpulses that permeate his own recordings.

466. Snap's "The Power" refers to a Swedish card-game in which the objective is to ram a 30ft steel rod through the roof of an electricity substation.

467. If you type "11" into every third cell in column AA of an MS Excel 2000 spreadsheet and then choose Tools>Protect Workbook, your hard disk will make a reasonable fist of the flute riff from Flowered Up's "It's On" before it dies.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

468. More Fire Crew disbanded in 2002 as a mark of respect for the passing of Professor Stanley Unwin.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

469. Christina Aguilera is actually a transexual named Honey Bee. She had an illicit affair with Linda Perry in the 90's and threatened to go public with it unless Perry got her a record deal and wrote some of the songs on her albums.

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Friday, 15 July 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

470. Tangerine Dream recorded over 86 hours of original music for the CBBC series "Maid Marian and her Merry Men". It is yet to see commercial release.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

18. Due to an administrative error, the winner of the 1998 FHM World's Sexiest Woman award was Mr Lif.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005.

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19. Dwight Yoakham has AIDS.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005.

That twofer right there is what sent me over the edge, esp. since I was listening to Dwight's newest at the time.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

471. Deeply moved by the plight of the Dutch primary-school children left without heat, light or easy access to pastries for nearly an hour by an administrative error one spring afternoon in 1988, Peter Egan coaxed the rest of the cast of Ever Decreasing Circles into cutting a charity single - a ramshackle cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Maple Sugar Boy" backed by The Dream Academy. Unfortunately, Stanley Lebor was never sufficiently happy with his backing vocals to sanction its release.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

(Damn you, Josh Love and yr xposted quote...)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

472 Ron and Russel Mael are in fact just mirror images of each other. And hollow.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

473 Pop Will Eat Itself are composed of a swarm of south american ants which is why they get through so much jam on tour.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

474. Madonna's infamous conetits were originally purchased to be used as part of a planned traffic safety breakdown towards the end of the video for "Vogue".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

475. Bob Dylan recently announced plans to retire from music at an amazing 432 years of age before returning to his underground lair to box kangaroos until the end of time.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

476. 'We Are The World' was actually sung by the future cast of Buffy. Joss Whedon directed the video and can be seen briefly attempting to separate Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters and Seth Green from Michael Jackson.

― BARMS, Friday, 15 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

477. Tina Weymouth is allergic to gravity.

478. Lynsey de Paul's nerve endings are inverted in such a way that she is impervious to pain and changes in ambient temperature but acutely aware of every action of her own internal organs. "Rock Bottom" is about this.

479. Colonel Abrams has a phobia of the Trebuchet font family.

480. David A Stewart and Dave Stewart are patently the same person. Yes, they bloody are.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

481. Peter Andre is still a virgin.

― BARMS, Friday, 15 July 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

482. As is Alanis Morrisette.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

483. Prior to his career in show business, Robert Goulet was known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's most feared interrogator.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

484. Buddy Guy owns the original Batmobile.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

485. Jimmy Page used to go fishing using the fingers of slain hobos as bait. To clear his soul he's been living as a hobo for the past 20 years, traveling from town to town in empty train cars, getting work where he can find it.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

486. Lambchop's Nixon LP was inspired by "The Chairman Dances" section of John Adams' Nixon In China opera; Kurt Wagner, raised in total seclusion by strict agrarian cultists in the 70s, knows nothing of the 37th US President, which is just as well as Adams' opera is about late British magician David.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

487. My Vitriol are on musical hiatus so Som Wijay-Wardener can fully devote their energies to picketing Granada to do a full and comprehensive re-release of Maid Marian & Her Merry Men on DVD.

488. Som Wijay-Wardener doesn't actually like Maid Marian & Her Merry Men, he's just doing it to impress this girl he knows.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

489. Penny Marshall was the original drummer of the Beatles.

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

490. The KLF originally planned on burning three million quid. They decided against it, because, in the words of a close associate, "burning three million quid would have been a crazy thing to do".

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Friday, 15 July 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER!

Best. Screen Name. Ever.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

491. Thanks to more than 30 years of championship drinking, Bernard Sumner is fireproof, waterproof, and able to survive up to 16 days without food or sleep.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

492. The old joke about the ignorant A&R man thinking Skunk Anansie were a duo called 'Skunk and Nancy' actually isn't a joke. The lead guitarist really was called Skunk and the lead singer really was called Nancy. The rest were just session men.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

493. ...and the band 'Deke and Blue' decided to change their name to Deacon Blue after a review of one of their early gigs was incorrectly transcribed by an NME copy taker. They had already changed their name from Dave, Deke and Blue, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich thinking that no-one would believe the co-incidence that they all had the same names as the famous 60s hit paraders.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

494. The anonymous producers behind 90s Euro-poppers 2 Unlimited were, in fact, Detroit techno pioneers Kevin Saunderson and Blake Baxter.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

495. Gordon Oliver was given the stage name Gordon Gano due to his notorious homophobia.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

496. Contrary to popular belief, Dean Martin didn't spend the final ten years of his life in a hermit-like existence due to grief over his son's death. In fact, he was an integral part of the Stock/Aitken/Waterman hit factory, and performed lyric writing duties on tracks as varied as "I Don't Believe In Miracles" by Sinitta and "Can't Shake The Feeling" by Big Fun.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

497. Eagle-eyed cinema buffs may well have noticed that one of the gangs in the final scene of Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle was portrayed by members of the cast of Jackass. However, what you may not have noticed is that the Mexican gang were actually The Monochrome Set in stupid moustaches.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

498. Justin Timberlake's biological mother is inoffensive comedian Rita Rudner. She's been able to drop out of the public spotlight and live a comfortable existence at home because Timberlake provides for her.

499. "American Idol" also-ran Justin Guarini was actually a sophisticated animatronic device built by Cal Tech grad students to sing random notes and lyrics. His success on "Idol" surprised everyone involved.

500. Haruomi Hosono from the group YMO composed the theme to the popular game show "Jeopardy!". Because of this, Alex Trebek has become a huge YMO fan, sometimes shelling out hundreds of dollars for rare imports.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:35 (eighteen years ago) link

30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER!
Best. Screen Name. Ever.

-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...) (webmail), July 15th, 2005 5:33 PM. (Tantrum The Cat) (later) (link)

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/a/ae/Ibiza.jpg

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

So that he wouldn't be mistaken for his dad (director Klaus Kinski), Klaus Kinski of the band Kinski changed his name to Chris Martin.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

502. Hit teen-com "Drake and Josh" is based upon the relationship between Graham Coxon and Alex James.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link

503. Whilst earlier teen-com hit Boy Meets World was based on the childhood memories of Leonard Cohen. The character in the show known as "Topanga" inspired the young Cohen to write Suzanne.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

504. Pete Waterman persuaded Kylie Minogue to record The Locomotion as part of a subtle plan to train Kylie to become a driver of his large collection of historic steam engines. The plan backfired when Kylie revealed she holds a lifelong antipathy towards the Great Western Railway.

505. In 1995, Norman Cook and Paul Heaton joined forces in an attempt to help fellow Housemartin Hugh Whitaker break out of prison. However, Humberside Police heard about the plan, and laid in wait to capture all three immediately after the breakout. A Humberside police officer who considered himself "Beats International's number one fan" tipped Cook off about the ambush, and the escape was cancelled at the last minute.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

506. Souljah Slim is the former social secretary of Sheffield Hallam University's rowing club. "Souljah Slim" was in fact a nickname he picked up after attending a fancy dress pub crawl disguised as Pike from Dad's Army.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

507. In terms of record sales, the most popular band of the past 25 years are Rachel Stamp.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

508. The New Zealand version of Bargain Hunt is hosted by Just Blaze.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

509. Indie-rock website "Pitchfork Media" was set up by the Indian guy from racially abusive 1970s sitcom Mind Your Language

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"Benji and Joel of Good Charlotte fame once thought they had discovered a new chord in high school. When they showed their music professor, he told them it was a 'C' Chord, which has been around since Beethoven"

I can't take credit for that little nuggest though.

http://groups.msn.com/TheGoodCharlotteCommunity/gcfacts.msnw

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 17 July 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

511. Neve Campbells famous no nudity clause was inspired by her less famous but equally strong love of proto Tatu act The Indigo Girls.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

(hahaha, are you watching Scream just now as well?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, I know this is the tiredest meme ever, but, honestly, BEST THREAD EVER!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

507. In terms of record sales, the most popular band of the past 25 years are Rachel Stamp.

That just slew me, for some reason.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

512: Doctor John was neither a doctor, nor was his name John. He was actually a butcher from Lancaster named Robert.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

513: R. Kelly is a horrible claustrophobe; the writing and performance of the "Trapped in the Closet" cycle is part of his therapy.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

514. Ciara's grandparents (from different sides of the family) include Ethel Merman and Howlin' Wolf.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

515. Stevie Wonder is actually not blind; it's just an attention-getting device.

516. Prince, however, has been deaf for the past six years.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

517. Tupac Shakur is dead.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

518. Kanye has only got one ball, the other is in Albert Hall; David Schwimmer has something similar, but Pharrell has no balls at all.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

519. British hip-hop star Blak Twang got his stage name due to starting his career out as a Duane Eddy tribute act.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

(hahaha, are you watching Scream just now as well?)

Yeh I was did you notice the rather incongrous Indigo Girls poster on her wall as well?

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

520. "Here Come the Warm Jets" was supposed to be the commercial jingle for Braniff.

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link

521. Gene Simmons does have a cow's tonuge, but not where you might think: it is a souvenir from a cow tipping contest he won at the 1987 Iowa State Fair.

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

^^^tongue, obv.

522. Glen Campbell was a notorious chubby chaser. His catchphrase in groupie circles was "If it ain't got that bootle, she ain't getting Campbell's chicken noodle."

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link

523. Spiritualized's Jason Pierce has not spoken an audible, complete sentence since August 28, 2002.

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Monday, 18 July 2005 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link

524. 12% of the sales of White Stripes "Get Behind Me Satan" are purchases made in the mistaken belief that it is the soundtrack to "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory"

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

525. An EU policy requires exactly 2 in 5 Scandinavian-made hip-hop songs to be reminiscent of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" in order to be considered for radio play or chart entry.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

526. David Bowie doesn't just have two differently colored eyes: he's blind. Iggy Pop wrote "I Wanna Be Your Dog" when he read a piece about Bowie in "Reader's Digest," felt bad, and wanted to help out.

527. Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan was born and raised in Iowa.

528. Sandy Denny was allergic to peanuts. She had to leave Fairport Convention because Richard Thompson was addicted to them.

529. Van Halen had no idea "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" was an acronym.

530. Polly Jean Harvey's dad was Benny Hill.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

531. Chuck Klosterman doesn't really need glasses -- he just wears them to pick up chicks.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

532. Jeff Buckley's dad was actually Todd Rundgren.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

533. A young Robert Pollard can be spotted in the audience duirng the Pere Ubu sequence of the 1981 film "Urgh! A Music War."

534. Joy Division took their name from 1920's surreallist/dadaist Joi de Vision.

535, John Lennon can be heard to mutter "I buried Paul" for real during the fade-out of "How Do You Sleep"

― Declan Zimmerman, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

536. 154 is number 28

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link

537. Exceptor frontman and No Neck Blues Band alum, John Fell Ryan got his big break in music as a founding member of the American two tone band Bim Skala Bim.

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The idea of "Everyday is Like Sunday" goes back to when Morrissey was a five-year-old boy roaming the Stretford streets with his father. It was during Christmas break while looking out his car window when Steven was confused as to why all the little shops were closed. "Why is the candy store closed on a Tuesday, father?", he asked. "Everyday is like a Sunday this time of year, Steven".

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

539. Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" is based on the real-life exploits of the young Phil Lynott; hence its ultra-realism and obsessive attention to detail about western living.

540. EVERY song written by Stuart "Adam Ant" Goddard actually happened. That's his policy, sworn on a blood oath.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

541. Atlanta Braves slugger Julio Franco was an original member of Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs. He played bass, and sometimes rhythm guitar.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

542. Burzum's Varg Vikernes has recently become a born again Christian. In fact very soon he plans to record his next opus, an unofficial soundtrack to Mel Gibson's Jesus epic called "My Burning Passion".

― latebloomer: You may order a puppet similar to this one (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

542. Diplo invented Brazilian poverty.

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

544. Franz Ferdinand actually got their band name by taking the names of their two hairdressers.

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

They only have 2?

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Back when they were on Domino, it's all they had a budget for.

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and director Wes Anderson are both closet homosexuals and have been dating in secret since 1999.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Supposed Gimmicks of Yore
546. On stage Kelly Osbourne blew up a goat.
547. In the early days the Village People used to pass a bowl through the audience, and after everybody spit it in - - they'd drink it!!
548. I heard that Wings stomped on baby chickens with their big ol' rock boots.

All true!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah... and KISS really stands for Kids Improve Self Stature.
http://www.neffzone.com/kiss/genekids.jpg

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Right wing pundit and all around douchebag Tucker Carlson wears his trademark bow tie in tribute to his favorite hard rock guitarist, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen.

― casey (t. fiend), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

551. TLC's "Creep" is an answer record to the Stone Temple Pilots song of the same name.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link

552. The scream heard in the song "Love Rollercoaster" as performed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Beavis and Butthead Do America Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is actually a real scream.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link

553. Donna Summer once told an interviewer that lesbians were G-d's chosen people, which is why they were unaffected by AIDS.

554. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" was the first popular hit song to be released with the phrase "fucking cocksucker" intact.

555. So-called "platinum" albums, as awarded by the RIAA, actually contain no platinum at all. They're really chocolate wrapped in platinum-coloured foil.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

556. Before achieving success as rappers and in demand producers, The Beatnuts used to "whiten up" and perform a Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill act at children's parties.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

557. The national anthems before the final test of The Ashes will be performed by Converge.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

558. Rachel Trachtenberg is actually 19.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

559. [I]Buena Vista Social Club[/I] is entirely fictional.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

560. Christian Marclay was the fill-in DJ for the Fearless Four on at least two occasions.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

561. Mama Cass choked to death on a bag of Pop Rocks... unopened.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

561. Humpty Hump is actually Miami Vice's Phillip Michael Thomas with a fake nose.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Michael Nesmith's mom invented AIDS

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

564. The majority of communion wine taken at Catholic churches in the UK is brought from a warehouse owned by K-Os and Zia from the Dandy Warhols.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

565. Keith Richards is a woman; Yoko Ono is not.
566. The lead singer of the Gorillaz is engaged in a torrid affair with Betty Rubble.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

567. The collected lyrics of Kiss contain at least one example of every rhetorical device known to man.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

568. Thom Yorke's mother used to warn him about the danger of a sudden change in wind-direction.

569. There are currently 13 bands touring the UK claiming to be the original Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.

570. Alanis Morissette is totally on my dick.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

571. The Kirstie Alley looking one from the Magic Numbers is actually the niece of 1960s London gangster Jack "That Hat" McVitie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

572. In central Europe, Dairylea Lunchables are endorsed on the television by NOFX dressed as seals.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

573. The Stone Roses are banned in Anglesey. It has never been explained why.

574. Drum 'n' bass was invented at illegal raves held in the radiology department of King's College Hospital on the third Sunday of every month in 1989.

575. Sleeper originally formed in Dulwich, at a support group for people who had had one or more fingers bitten off by wildfowl. Louise Wener has since had her right index finger restored by plastic surgery.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

576. Not even his closest friends are quite sure why, but Mark E. Smith secretly covered the publishing costs for some slim volumes of Guns & Roses slash.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

577. Babyface can only count up to fourteen.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

578. Kid Creole and the Coconuts' "Stool Pigeon" is about Timothy Leary.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

579. Bilal owns the world's largest collection of nautical compasses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

580. People seem to forget that the Woodstock festival was named after the Peanuts cartoon character, not the other way around.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

581. Menswe@r were originally going to name themselves after 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?' star Rodney Bewes, until they realised that they didn't actually know who he was.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

582. In April 2005 it was revealed that Pete Doherty's entire career was actually a viral marketing campaign for the Playstation Portable.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

583. There are no permanent members of the Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne will allow any group of people to perform under the name so long as they have received his express written permission beforehand to perform under the name on a given date when no other band is using the name. Coyne has also legally arranged for the name 'The Flaming Lips' to pass into the public domain 35 years after his death, though WarnerChappell will own the rights to all works recorded under said name in perpetuity.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

584. Both Diplo and The Dipset are named after popular racehorse Benny The Dip, winner of the 1997 Derby.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

585. "The Avenue" by Roll Deep was originally going to be based around a sample of "Army" by Ben Folds Five

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

586. Li'l Jon officially purchased the gift of bass from Mark King of Level 42 in November 2002 for $75.3m.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

587. Chris Helme of The Seahorses is the nephew of 'The Fast Show's Arabella Weir.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

588. Before getting Courtney Love pregnant, Steve Coogan had already fucked 3/4 of L7.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

589. Before becoming famous, The Game worked as a scullery maid for Donatella Versace.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

590. "Lola's Theme" by Shapeshifters was actually a Butthole Surfers' cover.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

591. Doctors can sometimes diagnose gonorrhea from a person's hands, as the disease can swell extremities and cover them with greenish sores. This is how Clap Your Hands Say Yeah got their name.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

592. Divisions Of Laura Lee don't actually exist. Their 'records' are actually empty CD cases designed solely to fill out the shelves at HMV.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how I started the thread but yet I'm the only idiot who can't ever seem to remember to number the trivia he contributes.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

593. The only record that Virgin Megastores' 'mystery shoppers' are allowed to purchase is Cat Power's What Would The Community Think?. Employees incur an immediate fail if they do not ask the purchaser if they've heard of Joanna Newsom.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

594. Before becoming an indie musician, Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson held an impressive 17-5-0 record on the bare knuckle boxing circuit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

595. Blackalicious MC Gift of Gab has never lost a game of gin rummy in his life. He attributes this to "positive thinking"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

596. Drew Carey used to front not one but two Pere Ubu cover bands back in the early eighties, and all before he got fat, too.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

597. In a 1998 Melody Maker poll, 94% of musicians polled said they'd rather be in Slayer instead. Exceptions included Chris Geddes of Belle & Sebastian, Heather Nova, and Prince.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

598. The Proclaimers chose their name with the express intention of annoying Chrissie Hynde.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

599. My Bloody Valentine guitarist Bilinda Butcher was disqualified from the qualifying rounds of the 1987 World Professional Darts Championship for spitting.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

600. Ted Nugent has a genetic predisposition towards perfect teeth, but gets a dentist-to-the-stars to artificially yellow them so he can maintain his "street cred."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

601. Embrace's Danny McNamara will not allow any journalist to interview him until they agree that he knows more Simpsons quotes than they do.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

602. Charlie Simpson's desperation to prove his indie cred in early Busted interviews often led to him replying "I can't believe how the BBC fucked up the scheduling of Seinfeld and The Larry Sanders Show" when asked about how the band got their name.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

This is taking a Thrills: believe it or not turn...

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

603. Def Jux records originally only sold Dick Curless reissues.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Rick Witter practised as a Mormon for three weeks in 2002. Despite claiming to have "lost interest" in religion, he still has fourteen wives

― Jason J, Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

605. The moniker "Missy" Elliott is due to a dyslexic PR assistant at her record company. Elliott hints at this mistake in the song "Spelling Bee", her real name Melissa being Ancient Greek for "bee"; see e.g. Liddell & Scott.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

606. Paddy McAloon's real name is Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin. When, in the late 70's, he was pestering independent record companies with his early demos clearly inspired by his hero Paul McCartney (then considered desperately uncool), the Irishman overheard an A&R representative groaning "oh no, it's that wotsisname again, that paddy Macca loon".

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

607. Kano used to play drums in King Adora

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Journey's original name (back when they were an instrumental combo) was Everybody Loves I Love Shit Pinata.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

608. Journey's original name (back when they were an instrumental combo) was Everybody Loves I Love Shit Pinata.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Mark E Smith refuses to by his music from anywhere other than the Britannia Music Club. He's been a member for twelve years. His last purchase was Natasha Bedingfield's 'Unwritten'

― Jason J, Monday, 29 August 2005 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

610. GG Allin was lactose intolerant

― Jason J, Monday, 29 August 2005 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

611. John Gotti's mausoleum contains a miniature speaker system which has played "Higher State of Consciousness" on a continual loop since his burial.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

612. Shut Up & Dance won the only ever episode of "Celebrity Knightmare" in 1991, by spellcasting "S-P-I-D-E-R" at a vital moment.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

613. "Resurrection" by PPK was Pope John Paul II's favourite ever song.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Rapper T.I. was originally known as TI-86. He was given the nickname by his friends because he was the best student in his AP Calculus class.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Hence, "You know they call me T.I., but you don't know"

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Coincidentally, calculus also provided the inspiration for Master P.'s No Limit record label.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

616. REM turned down an offer to perform on a 1985 episode of "The Golden Girls". As a result, their commercial breakthrough wouldn't happen until years later.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

617. Ray and Dave Davies, despite being brothers, did not know of each other's existence until they met at summer camp in 1957, where they hatched a crazy plan to get their long-estranged parents back together.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

618. The character Alec Callender in the early 90s BBC sitcom May To December was loosely based on Darryl "DMC" MacDonald.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

619. "Daniel Johnston" is an ongoing side project of Jad Fair "just to goof around."

― declan zimmerman, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

620. The real reason Kate Bush has spent 12 years on her new album Aerial is that she has, for more than a decade, been completely deaf. This posed no problems for the instrumental parts – her innate musicality and classical training made composing and communicating her intention to other musicians easy. However, since she could not hear her own voice, several hundred takes were needed to get sufficient recorded material for each vocal track.

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 3 October 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

621 At one point earlier this year all ten songs in the Finnish top ten were Prog Metal.

― Bidfurd__, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ocean colour scene are named after a communtiy centre set up by billy ocean for poor black children.

― pw, Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Winwood is Conan O'Brian's real father.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1511/winwood2ng.jpg

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Prince has been responsible for all crop circles in the UK since 1992, when he took over from Gilbert O'Sullivan, who thought he was getting "a bit long in the tooth for all this lark". This explains the drop in creativity.

― pw (clam caravan), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

so glad this thread came back. gotta be my all-time ILM fave. thank you Cunga. truly a vision.

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Saturday, 8 October 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of these are fantastic. #591 had me in stitches (Clap? Your hands say yeah.)

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 8 October 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

#622
#623
#624

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 8 October 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

the stonehenge monument was secretly rebuilt by the mamas & papas in 1973 after mama cass ate one of the columns with a side of onion rings.

― clam caravan (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

thom yorke is the secret love child of david blunkett & kimberly quinn.

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

tom cruise was the original bass player in black flag

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

the mars volta wear wigs

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

george michael is korean

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

#630 robert johnson actually sold his soul to oprah. that's why she's so fat.

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

a guitar player from the measures & the montrose avenue is very very very bored, & has been making up stupid rock facts for the last hour...

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

kelly from the stereophonics is deceptively tall at 6"5 which makes the bass player over 8 foot...

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

ELO never existed. they were a figment of Bootsy Collins imagination.

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

frank black is actually black

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

barry white was actually white

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

bruce springsteen is a transvestite

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

foe christ's sake, can somebody shut me the hell up please?!!!

― pw (clam caravan), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link

#638

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon filmed cameos as bartenders at the New York City underground hangout that young Danny hangs around in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie. This scene had the Sonic Youth members praising the work of Shredder's Foot Soldiers but contained two F-words from Thurston and was later scrapped along with other questionable material to help the film remain clean enough for a PG-13 film rating. Scrapped from the second Turtle film's script was an entire subplot involving Danny's grunge band, Mudgarden.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7162/danny7in.jpg

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link

In September 2005, TIME author Jack White finally received a confidential document by a former KGB spy to proof that Michail Gorbatschow actually received an advanced copy of David Hasselhoffs "Looking For Freedom" in the morning of the 3rd of november 1989 and thus not decided to "pull a Stalin" but to let the eastern german revolution continue.

― radulescu, Monday, 10 October 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Morgan Fairchild is so meticulous about her manicure that she keeps a midget on staff to wipe her after she goes to the WC.

― whydjadoitjohnny, Monday, 10 October 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

641. The song "There She Goes" by the La's is actually about the death of Eric Clapton's son. They just messed up the pronouns.

― kyleg, Monday, 10 October 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

642. The Wall synchs perfectly with the third episode of Kenneth Burns Civil War miniseries.

― ultra blue, Monday, 10 October 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Jailbait pop starlets Kaci and JoJo are actually the respective solo projects of popular R&B duo K-Ci and JoJo.

― M. Ellis Conroy, Monday, 10 October 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

644 The album "Apollo 18" by They Might Be Giants is actually about the Manson Family slayings.

― Schwa Love, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45763

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

645. Because of his fascination with the Ford Model T, also known as the Flivver, Public Enemy's iconic vocalist originally referred to himself as Flivva Flav. Due to confusion, he was forced to change the prefix to Flava, and any mention of the word "Flivver" is considered grounds for the reposession of his royalties by Def Jam Records.

― Zach Korte, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

646. Scott Weiland stole the name of his band Velvet Revolver from Gwyneth Paltrow's list of potential child names.

― Zach Korte, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

After making his controversial "George Bush doesn't care about black people" statement during a telethon for victims of Hurrican Katrina, Kanye West was removed from President George W. Bush's short list of potential Supreme Court Justice nominees on the grounds that West was a threat to national security.

― A.Bo, Monday, 10 October 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Johnny Carson frequently vacationed with Thomas Dolby.

― theroil, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

At Mott The Hoople's secret mutant fish farm in the Bahamas.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:57 (eighteen years ago) link

DJ Spooky is a respected musician.

― jayoyayo, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

651) Each year a spot on the Mercury Music Prize shortlist is decided via a game of tennis held backstage at the Guildford Festival. This year's winner was MIA, who overcame British Sea Power's Yan 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 6-3 6-1.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

652. Johnny Hates Jazz are head of UK development for Daiwa, the fishing rod people.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

653. New York rapper Saigon believes is a massive fan of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" monologue series, and plans to include several skits based around the paedo one on a forthcoming album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link

653. Daddy Yankee was on Kidderminster Harriers' books as a youngster, before a gammy knee forced him to give up the football game.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

654. The original storyboard for video of "Buddy Holly" by Weezer saw the band being digitally inserted into footage of the Aberfan mining tragedy.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Popular Music was actually invented in 1986 as a way to keep tabs on ex-Nazi scientists by a crack team of Nazi hunters consiting of Simon Fuller, David Hasselhoff, Joan Jett and the girl who played Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

― Dr Shane M'Buto, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Crazy Frog isnt actually a frog at all; he is actually the side project of long dead glam-rock god Johnny Thunders. On being informed of this news, former lead singer of The New York Dolls, David Johannsen vomited in terror.

― Dr Shane M'Buto, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

It Bites were infact an episode of ITV's 1976 sit com Oh No It's Selwyn Frogitt

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

U2's album titles from 1980 to 1985 were meant to be pieced together and read as a telegram of sorts. In no particular order, it reads:
War. Wide Awake In America. Boy. Under A Blood Red Sky. The Unforgettable Fire. October.

― rahree, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Walt Disney Records plans to release the debut album of female hip-hop artist by the name of Spize D'Knut. It is rumored that that all songs contain explicit lyrics referring to violence, drugs, and hardcore sex. No word if the album will be released with the "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content." Sample of some of the lyrics from "Kickin It Dre Style": "WDR, muthaf**ka! / I got a gat in yo back, fool / I'm all wet and I ain't changing the rules / It's in excess, so you betta repress / I make you feel like yer forty fourth test /

― rahree, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Eric Harris, drummer for the Olivia Tremor Control, used to be in Journey.

― elfControlS, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Bright Eyes' father was the construction worker in The Village People. His mother was the indian dude.

― Fethen Feth, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

#662. The Olivia Tremor Control never recovered after their drummer Eric Harris gunned down a dozen teenagers at Columbine High School and then took his own life; after attempting to replace him with a Casio VL-1, a Boss DR-660 and a scratch DJ, they broke up.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

#663. M's "Pop Music" was the first acid house song.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

#664. Public Enemy's dancers/bodyguards the S1Ws were originally named the SW1s, because they bought their uniforms at Harrod's (during the UK tour that would be recorded on Nation Of Millions). The name S1Ws was a typo which stuck after Chuck D. noticed that it looked and rhymed better. Incidentally, Flavor Flav picked up an alarm clock in the same shopping expedition.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

#665. Michael Jackson used a foot double for the Billy Jean video because the UV lighting they were using on the sidewalk exacerbated his vitiligo.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

666. Mark E. Smith is actually not as hateful as many have been led to believe. His hobbies include knitting, woodcutting, and crying softly to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On."

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

667. Iggy Pop never golfs unless the air temperature is greater than 27 degrees Celsius. Alice Cooper won't hit the links unless the air temperature is less than 18 degrees. Hence, they have never golfed together, despite years of planning and convincing on each man's part to try to get the other to change his habits.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

#668. Roni Size (real name Ronit Seizman) was originally a psy-trance DJ from Israel.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

During the twenty-five years of the band's existence, there have been three Chas's and seventeen Daves. It is generally agreed that the period of 1995-1996, which had Chas II (Irving Wanamaker) and Dave IX (Mary Proudfoot, ex of The Incredible String Band), was the most creative and artistically successful in Chas and Dave's history, although the solitary album of that time ("Epiphany Of The Dawn") failed to chart. Two singles from Epiphany, "Consciousness In Fractal Time" and "Bare, Broken, Bleeding, Alive" made it to 75 and 71 of the Top 100, with "Consciousness..." being most notable for the first use of generative music (qv Eno) within a cockney ragtime framework.

― Dirk Whitesox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

The Cure's Robert Smith has not cut his toenails in 15 years & is only able to wear one metre long circus clown's shoes. He is rarely seen in public these days.

― Barnie Prosley, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Eno produced the Berlin trilogy.

― Jack L., Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

672. Beck was the little kid on Silver Spoons

― richard wood johnson, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Before AC/DC asked him to join the band, Brian Johnson served with the SAS in Northern Ireland. Though never confirmed, it is said that he holds the province record of seventeen kills as a sniper.

― tefnal, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

DJ/producer Diplo never finished high school. he's currently studying for his GED and if he passes, he say he'll change his name to Diploma.

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Andre 3000's uncle did the set design for the film Boxing Helena starring Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn.

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

A friend of mine who has no idea that I visit this board -- and who I had no idea visited it herself -- just forwarded me this thread. I feel like I've been pina-colada'd.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

676. Daddy Yankee's next album is going to be a Duke Ellington tribute entitled "In a Reggaeton"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Adam Ant used to be called Vehem Ent

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link

He also has identical triplets named Defend, Milit, and Lieuten. The three of them have set up their own shoeshine business, imaginatively named 'The Ant Brothers Shoeshine Emporium'. They are currently engaged in litigation over the lack of apostrophe.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link

679. Brandon Flowers first got his break into showbusiness playing a chess club member during the "Fergus invents a computer that can write poetry" episode of Clarrisa Explains All.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Beverley Craven appeared in every episode of Ask Aspel, requesting to see the same clip every week - that time the elephant p00ped on the floor in Blue Peter.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Noel Gallagher, later to shoot to fame as one-half of nineties power ballad duo Status Quo, was offered his first big break as a child star in the mid-70s when he was given the role of 'Morph' in Tony Hart's kids art programme 'Take Heart'. Unfortunately these scenes were poorly recieved and after two episodes he was replaced by animated plasticine.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Jandek recently appeared as a contestant on The Weakest Link.

― Hopkin, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

683. Before "O Canada" became the official national anthem for Canada in 1980, "The Hockey Song" by Stompin' Tom Connors had been the official anthem since 1975.

684. Maynard James Keenan of Tool became so obesessed with wearing wigs on stage that he had all his pubic hair laser removed, and owns a "pubic wig" collection of 87 pieces of varying lengths and colours.

685. James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins was genetically created in a lab. The DNA is his hair follicles is actually female.

― Evo, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

127. In a disused warehouse on the outskirts of Hilversum, 75 people are still dancing to "Poing" by the Rotterdam Termination Squad.

I only just noticed this one!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

686. "Wang Chung" is the only new wave song which is not about masturbation.

― casey (t. fiend), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

687. Slint were originally formed in Oban, Scotland in 1984 out of irritation at local covers bands who played 'Teenage Kicks' too quickly. Their grand plan was to cover it at half the speed, before moving on to their own, Rezillos-esque compositions. This plan was swiftly abandoned during their first gig, however, when instead of changing chords during 'Teenage Kicks'' intro David Pajo fell asleep instead. And then someone hit him with a brick.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link

688. Between March and May 1993, at the height of his fame, Shabba Ranks fired 64 separate bass players, only three of which had ever actually worked for him.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

689. Roots Manuva was originally the 6th member of mid-90's R&B boyband MN8, though they only found success once slimming down to a four piece. No-one especially knows or cares what happened to the fifth member.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link

690. Lars Ulrich has the largest private collection of early primate skeletons on earth.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link

691. The character "Trent" on the show Daria was based on pre-Wallflowers fame Jakob Dylan, who dated one the writers after high school.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

see, that last one sounds real, though

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

692: The lyrics to Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise" predicted Universal's purchase of Def Jam parent PolyGram some eight years before it happened.

― acb (acb), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link

693. Frannie from Travis took up singing/songwriting after being fired from his resident DJ slot popular Glasgow West End nightspot Cleopatra's for playing 4 hours of Happy Hardcore on grab-a-granny night.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Now that one is true, I read it in Billy Sloan's column and it's above the bar in The Horseshoe.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Those four hours were the happiest of my life

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Thursday, 13 October 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

694. The rock band KISS was formed as part of a Welfare to Work scheme to rehabilitate porn stars. Gene Simmons is actually Ron Jeremy, Ace Frehley is Linda Lovelace, Peter Criss has been played by 3 actors including Tracii Lords and is currently being played by Seymour Butt's cousin.

695. Jarvis Cocker's first job was shelling peas for the Jolly Green Giant.

― Avid Fan, Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

696. Joe Cocker is not Jarvis Cocker's uncle, as widely believed, but his father.

― acb (acb), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

697. Contrary to popular belief the Sugababes are not actually babes, but early gigs performing as the Suga-munters were poorly attended, prompting a name change.

698. PJ Harvey is so called because she wore nothing but her pajamas up until the age of 16.

― Avid Fan, Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

699. Will Forte, best known as the Falconer from Saturday Night Live, is the son of origonal Kraftwerk member Florian Schneider.

700. The Reverend Horton Heat is actually Jewish.

701. Former Faith No More and Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton lives in the foremer residence of director Roman Polanski and actress Sharron Tate, the sight of the infamous Manson Family slayings. Patton only discovered this after viewing the E! True Hollywood Story about Tate, and goes around acting like he knew about it the whole time.

702. Tom Petty was first approched to be the salesman for what would later become the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. To this day, every time Petty eats a hamburger, he sheds a single tear in lament.

― Doug Fisher (Infamous Amos), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom used to hang out with the original members of Thin Lizzy in Ireland during the 70's. The song Whiskey In The Jar was originally titled "That Slut-Whore Drank All The Whiskey Out Of My Jar Which I Was Saving For A Special Occasion, Maybe My Cousin's Wedding" but was later shortened.

― The W, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

The Macarena was originally penned by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo in the fall of 1995. Los Del Rio rode it to the top of the charts by creating a dance based upon real surveilance footage of the Notorious B.I.G. inside a McDonald's in Aplington Iowa after he became the 45 billionth customer served.

― Rob McDougall, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

704. Bruce Springsteen was originally slotted for the title role in the sitcom: Who's the Boss?

705. Supertramp is an amalgamation of 80's Funk legend Ultimate and out of work late 70s band Filthy Slut. The amalgamated band name did not test well, and they cleaned it up as a result.

706. Lou Reed currently subsists off a diet of heroin and the Stroke's settlement cheques.

707. Sonic Youth have fans.

708. Roger Water's biggest argument with Pink Floyd had never been aboot royalties, but rather that they ordered a sandwich tray with mustard, after he specifically asked them not to, in 1974.

709. Billy Joel stole Piano Man, word for word, from an actual Piano Man, who was allegedly "really on that night." The Pianist's body was found in South Central Miami in 1973, days before the CD was released.

710. John threw a candy bar wrapper to the ground after getting out of his limo December 8, 1980. Moments later, he was shot to death. Instant Karma killed John Lennon.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, those are real groaners.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Proper apostrophe usage might make them 1.8% funnier though.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked 704!

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Me too -- the first 703 times I heard it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link

711. To get "Courtney-Loved" or "Sid-Vicioused" only seem to mean something in Philadelphia and Picton county.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Bob Mould was a school teacher in Akron, OH before he fronted the Orange Crush-drinkin'-obsessed indie rock band Sisters With Voices with friend Toby Dammit

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Friday, 14 October 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

713. When Cher refused to allow her voice to be manipulated electronically on her hit single 'Believe', ex-Husker Du/Sugar member Bob Mould was drafted in to do vocoder overdubs. The result was an instant worldwide club smash, the royalities from which just about covered Mould's gym membership fees.

― M. Ellis Conroy, Friday, 14 October 2005 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

698. PJ Harvey is so called because she wore nothing but her pajamas up until the age of 16.

714. PJ Harvey, like Jamie Lee Curtis, has a XXY genotype. Her name is not actually Polly Jean; the nickname came about from a mishearing of "polygene".

― acb (acb), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Miller now runs a sucessful take-away shop and gym in Ohio - "Abrakebabra" and "Macho City"

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Friday, 14 October 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

716. Ralf Hutter is oblong.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link

"684. Maynard James Keenan of Tool became so obesessed with wearing wigs on stage that he had all his pubic hair laser removed, and owns a "pubic wig" collection of 87 pieces of varying lengths and colours."

that one doesn't seem so implausible...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

717. Johnny Marr's first ever appearance on Top of the Pops was not with the Smiths, but rather as a shirtless backing dancer during Rupert Holmes' 1980 performance of "Escape".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

718. Guns 'N' Roses started off as a post-C86 jangle-pop band.

719. As of mid-2005, Axl Rose's long-awaited Chinese Democracy album will be a reggaeton record.

― acb (acb), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Dom Passantino - 717 - Brilliant.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Friday, 14 October 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

720. Sinitta's time spent working in an abattoir provided the inspiration for her smash hit 'So Macho'. The song was originally entitled 'Those Poor Brutes', but underwent an eleventh hour re-write under pressure from record company executives who deemed the song "not sufficiently commercial".

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link

721. A typographical error has prevented Robin Williams, star of 'Mork & Mindy' and 'Good Morning Vietnam', from receiving due acclaim for his 1997 hit 'Angels'.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Freddie Mercury's butt babie is to head the upcoming Queen tour.

― Tyler Clerk., Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

723. Following the success of his one and only hit 'The One and Only', Chesney Hawkes retired to his native Warsaw where he became obsessed with the idea of creating a zoo. He convinced the local council that it was unneccessary for them to purchase any animals for this zoo, because he believed it was inherent within the nature of animals to seek out zoos themselves. "Build it and they will come," he predicted, but he was proved wrong.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

724. Sting is currently working on the pilot episode of a new Tyne-Tees programme called 'You Be The Judge' in which members of the public get the chance to spend a day presiding over developments at Hartlepool Magistrates Court.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

725. Crass' commune in rural UK was once known as Red Way Natural Farms but had its name officially changed to Dial House after the band unwittingly signed into an advertising agreement with the Dial soap and detergent corporation.

726. A strong advocate for legal self-reliance, Bushwick Bill always acts as his own attorney and drafts his own licensing contracts.

727. Chris Martin of Coldplay is frequently mistaken on the street as the main man behind American psych-rockers Kinski.

728. Madlib, MF Doom and Dangermouse all met in a landscape design class at Vassar.

729. Autechre is pronounced "RAW-bee"

730. Every time the NME refers to a musician by his first name and then the name of his band (ie. Richie Manic, Ross Futureheads) they submit an application for official name change with the county registrar.

731. Prussian Blue have asked Momus to produce their next single in the style of shibuya-pop

732. Jad Fair posts on I Love Music under the alias Marissa Marchant. We never him.

733. "Royksopp" run through Babblefish.com translates to "Typesetter"

734. Sly Stone recently left a sales clerk post at the Diesel store to manage the Paul Frank shop in downtown san francisco

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

735. Attempting to capitalise on the success of the early 90s cartoon series of both MC Hammer and Kid N Play, in 1993 Nickolodeon commissioned 24 episodes of animated adventures featuring the Frank & Walters. The project was put on hold indefinitely after frontman Paul Linehan described the proposed storyboards as "fucking shit".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

736. The first ever album review was written in 1986, when a scribe on the Bolton Chronicle wrote a short 30 word article about Big Audio Dynamite's "No 10 Upping Street"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

737. G.U.N. actually stood for "Guns? Uzis? Nice!"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

738. Fred Durst insists upon starting all his business meetings by leaping out of a cupboard while 'Rollin'' is blasted out of the internal PA system, before dropping a freestyle about how much of a slut the VP Marketing's wife is. This idiosyncratic strategy was apparently what convinced t.A.T.u to sign with Interscope.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

739. Kasabian refuse to play US-style eightball pool 'on principle'.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

740. The term 'wigga' was coined by The Connells on 'Baby (Get Off My Leg)', the b-side to '74-75'.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

741. The Mountain Goats' 2005 album "The Sunset Tree" is a concept album based around frontman John Darnielle's vociferous love of British red-top tabloids. "Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod" is in fact a thinly disguised retelling of the on-off "Gerrard to Chelsea" story, whilst "Dance Music" is a strict retelling of his lust for Michelle Marsh.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

742. Rahzel once lost a beatbox battle to Ronnie O'Sullivan.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

743. Girl Aloud Nadine Coyle is actually the inspiration for the hysterical "Pandora" cartoon that's been running in Kerrang for the past 27 years.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

744. Marcy Playground frontman John Wozniak completely missed the news all day on September 11th 2001, and in fact was totally unware that the World Trade Centre had been attacked until it was obliquely referenced in a Dilbert cartoon he read in July 2003.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

745. Just as Elijah Wood is suggested in playing Iggy Pop in a biopic, fellow Lord of the Rings characters are expected to follow suit. Ian McKellen is expected to play Neil Young in his old age, beating out Neil Young himself for the role. Viggo Mortesen is expected to conduct himself as John Lennon, opposite Orlando Bloom as McCartney, Billy Boid as Harrison and Andy Serkis as Ringo. For some reason, Cate Blanchett is expected to star as both members of the Proclaimers, despite both of them being male. John Rhys-Davies is set to be the sole voice actor for the original Sex Pistols line-up; the film will not be animated.

― Lazy Guy, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Josh Groban is apparently never photographed without long sleeve shirts or jackets on. It's because he's said to have arm-length tattoos depicting cartoon-like dogs having anal sex with cats and cows. (this is very loosely based on something i just heard two men saying about Mr. Rogers while walking to the subway in San Francisco.)

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

747. Phil Oakey of The Human League wrote the EastEnders theme.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

748. During her appearance on Desert Island Discs, Zadie Smith chose "Popular" by Nada Surf seven times over, "in case I wear the other copies out".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

749. Contrary to its name, "Popular" by Nada Surf was in fact a very unpopular song, and is the only record in history to have achieved negative sales figures.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

750. 40% of the samples from "Entroducing" are taken from "Calling Elvis" by Dire Straits.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link

751. "Popular" by Nada Surf completely rips off the chord sequence from "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear" by the Alan Price Set, and was thus the subject of a 1997 court case.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link

752. Will Smith Killed Tupac

― Stafford Moore, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

753. Dom Passantino was the choreographer for 'The Passantinos', a short-lived Barnsley-based tribute band to 'The Pasadenas'.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

754. The Artic Monkeys already had a series of top 40 singles in the mid 90s, under their original name "Stretch N Vern"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

755. The Arcade Fire are all Mormon siblings.

756. Every single Depeche Mode song is composed by Andrew Fletcher entirely using keyboard presets.

757. Enya was the original bassist in U2, whose other members were all Clannad roadies.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

758. Every single DJ Green Lantern mixtape contains a cryptic reference to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's famous "one legged tarzan" routine.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

759. Lee Harvey, of guest rap on N*E*R*D's "Lapdance" fame, has spent all of his percentage from that song's release on a fruitless campaign to achieve independance for the town of Corby.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

760. Pusha T got his nickname based on his resemblance to Pusha Taylor, former bassist for late 90s indie no-hopers the Llama Farmers.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Morrisey didnt think his ass was a Vase............ he in fact ha a vaginna for thart purpose.

― Sam Purnell, Friday, 21 October 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Daniel Miller, Robert Wyatt Derek Bailey, Paul Westerberg, Kevin Shields, John Squire, Alastair Galbraith, Mark Smith, John Lydon, and Peter Blegvad are just a few of the 50-plus musicians who have entered Kraftwerk's revolving-door membership since founders Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider died in a low-speed car accident shortly after completing "Autobahn." Recent photos of Ralf and Florian are, in fact, stock images which have been doctored using photo-editing software designed by Westerberg during the six months in 1992 when he was a member. Bailey was reportedly fired in 1981 after serving in Kraftwerk for two and a half years (a record which remains unmatched) for calling Wyatt a cunt and tipping over his wheelchair.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

1234
1234
ROCK FACTS
ROCK FACTS
ROCK FACTS

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Kelis washes her face in Lilt

― Dex, Saturday, 22 October 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Brandon Flowers invented polysterene, digital alarm clocks and Kentucky Fried Chicken. The rights for the last invention led to a prolonged fist fight between Flowers and Colonel Sanders, which only ended when Isaac Brock, confusing the Colonel for a bottle of Jack Daniels, attempted to "chug" him. Issac later described him as "tangy".

― PMT, Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

take that were actually made of play-do. their management couldn't afford the monthly fees and rolled the big ball up and sent it back. there was just enough left to make a small robbie - who is only 15inches tall

― neil g, Monday, 24 October 2005 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link

766. Ill Nino, The Colorblind James Experience, Racey, Markus Nikolai, The Datsuns, Fox, The Reynolds Girls, Cub, Cud, Lumidee and The Pale Fountains are all aliases of Joey Negro. Joey Negro is 74.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

767. Erick Sermon retired from the rap game in 2003, and now comes up with new product ideas for the Tesco Finest range.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

768. As a child, future techno icon Richard D. James disassembled his family's piano on their living room floor, but found himself unable to put it back together. Legend has it that he then said, "Fuck it," went to the nearest pawn shop, and bought a sequencer.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

769. "Like I Love You" was actually an N'Sync track, rather than a Timberlake solo effort. Prodution duties were handled by Lance Bass, and the purported Clipse rap at the end was actually performed by Joey Fatone. Indeed, the entirity of Clipse's "Lord Willin'" album was by Joey Fatone, and the two public faces of Clipse were just former catering assistants who worked on N'Sync's "No Strings Attached" tour.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

770. Kinda true but kinda not, perhaps? LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge" is based off of Mikey Wild's "I Was Punk...", which James Murphy heard on WPRB. Princeton Record Exchange gets a namecheck but WPRB is only referred to as a "local radio station".

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

771. HTML mark-up code was invented by Tracy Chapman.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

772. The most common song at funerals in Portugal is "King of Kissingdom" by My Life Story.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

773. Although Buschwick Bill and Scarface stopped recording together as members of the Geto Boys during the mid 90s, they still worked together as a highly respected marketing agency, and are credited as coming up with the "Lambrini girls just wanna have fun" campaign.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

774. Jon King of Gang of Four has psychic powers. In 1982, Barry J. Marshall (2005's Nobel Prize winner for medicine) performed a breakthrough experiment proving that gastritis was caused by a certain species of bacteria rather than stress or similar causes. This was done by drinking a liquid with the relevant bacterial culture and subsequently developing gastritis; this event was prophecized a whole three years in advance by Gang of Four in the lines "He fills his head with culture / He gives himself an ulcer" off their Entertainment! album.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

775. Gary Coleman is again in the acting business, playing both of Michael Jacksons veil'd children

― sparko Mcwiggley, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

776. Greg Kihn originated the role of Ron Nasty in the Original Broadway Cast of Rutlemania!

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

777. Mike Patton was on the very first season of You Can't Do That On Televison. Really.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

778. When David Lee Roth (now working as paramedic in New York) gets bored, he causes minor accidents and resuscitates the victims with a live acoustic version of 'Panama.' When he gets really bored, he kills puppies.

― Lazy Guy, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The Human League actually took there name from a board game they used to play.

― Bass242@talk21.com, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

780. Noel and Liam from Oasis have changed their surnames by deed poll. The name Gallagher is a bastardisation of Galaga, the 1980s arcade classic, which both brothers are huge fans of. However, due to legal issues they were not allowed to use the name Galaga, and were forced to change to the similar-sounding alternative. Their original surname was Farquaha-Smythe.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

781. The southern hip-hop slang term "Whut it dew" originates from the practice of linking tracks on Houston-area mixtapes with clips from Malcolm In The Middle, mainly those featuring the wacky antics of Dewey.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

782. Keith Strickland from the B-52's has hands made entirely of Styrofoam. He lost his original hands in an horrific fretboard accident in 1985. It has actually improved his ability to play certain chords.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

783. The southern hip-hop slang term "mayne" originates from the great sadness that many southern rap artists felt when Manchester City left Maine Roade for the City of Manchester stadium. At a recent memorabilia auction, Bun B paid over $60,000 for a turnstile from the old Maine Roade entrance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

784. The southern hip-hop slang term "cakeboy" originates from the fact that college rockers Cake invented crunk on their 1997 album Fashion Nugget

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

785. Dick Valentine, lead vocalist with Electric Six is actually the second-born son of Queen front-man Freddy Mercury. If you turn the speakers up really loud at the end of the single version of Electric Six's cover version of Radio Gaga, you can actually hear Dick weeping gently over a copy of Queen's Greatest Hits.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

786. The Shamen's 1992 number 1 hit single Ebeneezer Goode wasn't actually about drugs at all. It was just about a bloke Colin Angus met down Camden Market who tried to sell him some beaded car seat covers.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

787. Pop Will Eat Itself was actually one of Nostradamus' unpublished predictions for the year 1997.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

788. Bryan Ferry invented PlayDoh.

― Mark Prior (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

789. Daihatsu have chosen 'Ride It' by Geri Halliwell to be their corporate anthem for the 2006-2007 financial year.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Blur's hit, "There's No Other Way" was originally going to be called "There Is Another Way", until the band got lost in a maze

― elgringo, Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

791. Mimi Rogers of Low is widely considered to be the top Alexander Pope scholar in the state of Minnesota.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

792. Rufus Wainwright always eats with his hands. He proudly hasn't used a fork in over eight years.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link

793. Whitney Houston and Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys are actually the same person. Ad has had a penchant for blacking-up and dressing up in women's clothing since he was a child.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

794. Pete Doherty is a classically trained pianist.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

795. Emiliana Torrini is an Internet Service Provider in her native Iceland.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely no way does Furr look like KISS...no way I tell you

― Dave H, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

796. Lionel Richie's hit 'Dancing On The Ceiling' was written in the spirit of joy after Lionel was bitten by a radioactive spider and discovered he had many of the same powers as Spider-Man. His joy turned to crushing sadness, however, when his powers faded after being bitten on the knee by the lead singer of UB40.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

797. In 1986, Bono from U2, when asked if he would like a cup of tea by Andrew Ridgely from Wham, looked at the ground for a few minutes, sighed, and said: 'yeah... alright. No, wait - no.' Through various creative processes, this exchange ended up as Aqua's 1997 breakthrough album 'Aquarium'.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

798. 50 Cent is a keen collector of ladies' fashions, which he likes to arrange in dramatic poses resembling scenes from Henrik Ibsen's 'The Doll House', then sit back with an Ovaltine and cry himself to sleep.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

799. Avril Lavigne knows all the words to 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones, and can translate them instantly into eighteen world languages, including Swahili, Norwegian, Ancient Greek, and Welsh. But she still can't make crumpets without burning them, no matter how hard she tries.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

800. Bernard Sumner can create bees at will.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

801. Bronski Beat were an early Ministry Of Defense experiment in sonic weaponry. The experiment was deemed a failure on the grounds that it was 'a bit mainstream'.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Tony Iommi's nose was chopped off in duel with Richie Blackmore in the 70's. The argument was over which is the better song, War Pigs or Child in Time. He now has a metal thimble where his nose used to be.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

803. Singer/songwriter David Gray used to be a pneumatic drill tester, which explains his inherent wobbly headedness.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

804. Under The Bridge is about a game of pooh sticks Anthony Keidis and Flea once played.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

805. Meatloaf once played at fly half for Hull Kingston Rovers.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

806. The whistling in the Scorpions Wind Of Change was at exactly the right harmonic to loosen the bricks and eventually destroy the berlin wall.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

807. Mark Manning aka Zodiac Mindwarp now runs a ceramic figurines business out of his Cotswolds home.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

808. If Jack Black and Jack White ever appear in the same room at the same time, the universe will end.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

809. Popular Merseyside beat combo The Coral have never even heard The La's album.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

810. Former diminutive Take That pop heartthrob Mark Owen now works in software in the twee Victorian spa town of Harrogate, North Yorks.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

811. Lou Reed wrote the song Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) initially for the Berlin album.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha! Number 806 is genius!

812. David Hasselhoff is unable to see the colour red, meaning he could see through everybody's swimwear on Baywatch, but couldn't tell when K.I.T.T. was winking at him.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

813. The next album by Eminem is based solely around variations on the theme from 'Airwolf'.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

814. mark hollis was a robot that has been since disassembled and rebuilt as a honda civic

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

815. On his deathbed, Ronal Reagan expressed a keen love of Joe Dolce's 'Shut Up-a Your Face', and asked that his entire former government sing it with him in a heart-breaking whisper. This they did, before a red-faced Reagan realised he'd actually meant 'Rooms On Fire' by Stevie Nicks.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

815. Stevie Nicks is the girl from 'The Exorcist'.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

816. KT Tunstall's Mercury Prize nominated album Eye To The Telescope was originally going to be a concept album regarding the life and times of Galileo Galilee. However, Relentless record bosses convinced her that it wasn't such a good idea, and hadn't she written anything a bit more accessible? In a fit of pique she smashed down the dividing wall in her hotel room, and discovered a hidden wall covered in lyrics and musical annotations, previously left there by Joan Jett and Bernard Sumner. This became the basis for her album; however she insisted upon keeping the original title, as dedication to the tireless work of the 16th/17th Century astonomer.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

817. Darius Danesh is not a ladyboy. Neither is he talentless, irritating, or a fromage-ridden embarrassment.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

818. Both Marcella Detroit and Siobhan Fahey of Shakespear's Sister are genetic clones of the Bard of Avon. They were created in error as a by-product of trying to reproduce Shakespeare's writings under laboratory conditions. They escaped the labs because they were tired of writing sonnets and wanted to make pop music, yeah!

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

819. Scientists believe Mission of Burma's Clint Conley will be the first human ever to reproduce by binary fission; it is as yet unknown whether the second Conley will be allowed creative input into any further material the band records.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

820. Ronnie James Dio has a virulent, irrational hatred of horses and once smashed one to pieces with a hammer while on holiday in Italy. The cathartic bloodletting provided the inspiration for the song "Holy Diver(Destroy The Horse)", but all lyrical references to the killing of horses were subsequently altered for unknown reasons.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

821.

Morrissey Lambasts Morrissey In BBC Interview

"I'm really not a very good singer," offered former Smiths singer Morrissey in a candid interview with the BBC on Tuesday. "From a very young age, I planned my success around a moroseness and exaggerated melancholy that at the time, I was certain would capture a certain market. In retrospect, it seems rather silly, but somehow, it worked."

The statements came as a shock to rabid Smiths fans who after hearing the news ran shirtless into Manchester streets, denouncing the comments and throwing Molotov cocktails at cars and pedestrians.

"This is mad," stated an insurgent calling himself Kaiser, as he launched rocket-propelled grenades at an 18th century church. "Morrissey is a fookin' God. His self-effacement got England through the fookin' Thatcher era, fookin', fookin', misery is all we had then, isn't it?"

Another vigilante, Nancy Willoughby, shared Kaiser's outrage. "It just isn't right, I mean, who is this Morrissey fellow to be criticizing a legend, a groundbreaking musician who's a bleedin' cultural icon? You can't just fire off assaults like this in the tabloids and expect it all to be well and dandy." Willoughby's comments seemed to strike a chord with protestors, who cried "Death to Morrissey" as a large poster of the rock star went up in flames.

With no end to the destruction in sight, Manchester's Chief Minister of Urban Development has declared a state of emergency, while rioting and looting continue unabated. Manchester police are already estimating the damage caused by the celebrity's comments at £3.5 million.

At press time, Morrissey was absconding at an undisclosed location off the coast of South America, but remained unapologetic about his views on Morrissey. "No one is more shocked [about success] than me," he whispered from under a cardboard box in an abandoned warehouse. "I've never had much in the way of musical talent, really."

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

822. Jandek is really a Paul McCartney solo project

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

823. Before he got famous for his role in Home Alone, MacCauley Culkin managed the Beastie Boys

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

824. Contrary to popular belief, Eric Clapton was never a talentless drug addict.

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

791. Mimi Rogers of Low is widely considered to be the top Alexander Pope scholar in the state of Minnesota.

-- MindInRewind (mbvarkestra197...), October 27th, 2005.

i absolutely love the thought of Mimi Rogers being in Low

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Nobel Foundation officials, in an unprecedented move last Friday, announced that they would rescind current co-awardee Roy J. Glauber's half of the prize and re-award it to cult singer/songwriter Jandek, when it was revealed that he was the first human to travel through a black hole. The musician disappeared in 1984 after stumbling across a localized black hole outside of Dallas, and returned, apparently intact, in 1997. Corwood Industries representative Sterling Smith, long thought to be Jandek himself, revealed in an interview that he had recorded the vocals for the interim albums about two miles away from the black hole, when it was discovered that Jandek's voice was still audible and he appeared lucid enough to continue recording. Smith then dubbed the instrumental tracks onto the vocal tape. When asked for comment, Jandek pleaded with the reviewers not to paint their teeth; Nobel officials are reportedly nonplussed.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

826. Lionel Ritchie is in fact the real Michael Jackson.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

827. Frank Black's solo work is exhumed yearly from the grave of Joe Strummer.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

828. If Joe Strummer had known that the Clash had written "the rule book for U2" (according to Bono) he would have gone Country, wore leotards and fought everyone and everything indiscriminatly. He would also have killed himself the peak of Pop-Punk's popularity on stage at the local Good Charlotte at the peak of 'White Rabbit.'

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

829. Flogging Molly are actually Austrian.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

830. The Beta Band own a racehorse called "Postage Stamp"

― Jole, Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

831. Despite his lyrical claims otherwise, Pharell can neither do it "this-a-way" or "that-a-way", due to severe spatial awareness problems.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 29 October 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Michael Hutchence first developed the Cripps Pink apple variety in 1973. He did not, however, have anything to do with the Bonza variety. That was, of course, developed by Peter Garrett.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

833. JG Thirwell, the man behind Foetus, Foetus Inc, Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Manorexia, Baby Zizanie, and Steroid Maximus, has absolutely no idea why all his albums have differant names on them. He cliams that his band name has actually been "The Soundophiles" for 22 years.

834. Bobby McFerrin wrote Don't Worry, Be Happy hours after he beat a man to death with a whiskey bottle in a bar in Santa Monica for saying McFerrin had "anger issues".

― Doug Fisher (Infamous Amos), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

835. Psychic TV/Throbbing Gristle figurehead Genesis P Orridge is Howard Hughes' closest living relative.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

836. Sisqo's "Thong Song" was really just an innocent ditty about dancing in flip-flops.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

837. Boards of Canada took so long between records because they were initially slated to produce the new Madonna disc, but were then fired when Madonna discovered they were Scottish. Madonna really hates Scots.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

838. X got their name because John Doe really likes algebra.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

839. Wilco's "A Ghost is Born" is actually haunted, but the power of the spirit has been spread over hundreds of thousands of indivudual CDs and therefore quite diluted. In fact, no one would even notice beyond the occasional skip or low voice booming "GET OUT!!!!"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

840. "Bad Babysitter" by Princess Superstar was originally recorded as part of a "Remix Mogwai" competition.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

841. The Berlin Wall was built directly overtop of the collective graves of Roger Water's family; hence undeniable focus on "bringing down the wall." The Wall, as recorded by Pink Floyd, is the true story of Water's own Fear and Loathing-esque adventure as he made his way through Las Vegas after learning the news. Interestingly enough, The Wall was never written down on paper, but had to be exhumed from a tape recorder strapped to Water's left breast, a series of cocktail napkins (all of which were addressed to Lucy with a room number on the bottom), morse code printed on the hotel walls, and a series of room service bills and charges totaling $43,000. Waters has yet to pay the bill.

― Lazy Guy, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 06:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i absolutely love the thought of Mimi Rogers being in Low

HAHAHA, I FCUKED UP :)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

843. devandra banhart (sp?) was homeless.*

*had to live with friends cause mom and dad kicked him out apparently.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Patti Labelle donated the fur coat she wore in her "On My Own" video to a Blue Peter Bring & Buy Sale in 1984, only for it to turn up on the show worn by friend of Joey Deacon - Ernie Roberts.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

845. The Romanian version of Pop Idol contains a round where all contestants are forced around an abandoned S.A.S. assault course by David McAlmont.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

846. Wayne Jeffries was the mastermind behind the War of the Worlds album, but due to embarrassment at being associated with the project got his name reverse on the Album sleeve.

His sister Lynne did the same thing for a similar reason after forming ELO, but due to touring commitments had to also don a curly wig and false beard

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

847. Shed Seven were French.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link

60. Marilyn Manson is actually the actor who played the nerd on the Wonder Years.

-- Kim (grimstitc...), July 11th, 2005.

Steve Winwood is Conan O'Brian's real father. (now i see it)
you people crack me up and the rony my name is paul too.

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

848. Nobody knows more than three lines of Coldplay Lyrics. In fact, the band doesn't know any of the lyrics. When Chris Martin is asked about them, he disapears at "the speed of sound."

― Lazy Guy, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

849. BBC Radio 2 DJ, Steve Wright's favourite band is Nurse With Wound

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

In 1996, the Mark Burgess of Chameleons UK brought a suit against Baltimore-area crust-hardcore band Chameleons UK, forcing them to change their name to Chameleons UK US.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

McFly's songs are all composed by genetically modified hamsters.

― Melissa Berrill (whateverkiddo), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

852. Art Neville and His Three Feet changed their name to The Meters after being given a $10,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to promote the metric system in America.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

835. Billy Corgan chose the members of Smashing Pumpkins based on their resemblance to the four leads in the hit television sitcom Golden Girls, with Billy of course being Sophia.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

836. German techno artist Wolfgang Voight has a terrible case of irritable bowel syndrome.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris Tucker sang back up on "Young Americans"

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Sunday, 6 November 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

My own submission, #538 is WRONG. I've recently discovered that Every Day is Like Sunday was actually about Morrissey's disappointment with the National Football League's growing commercialization and overexposure. My apologies.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 6 November 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

839. The term "desi" to describe British-Asian urban music is a sly reference to the fact that Bobby Friction has every episode of I Love Lucy on DVD.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

840. Stone Roses singer Ian Brown was born deaf in his left ear ... He lost hearing in his right ear at age nine.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

841. According to thesmokinggun.com website, some of the kooky backstage demands Stevie Nicks has made over the years includes one hundred pounds of zephyr dung, fruit-flavored Dynamints, and the blood of innocents.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

841a. The blood of innocents on tap, that is.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link

842. MC Paul Barman is Barbra Streisand's son-in-law.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

843. As a reward for signing with 679, all of the Futureheads underwent surgery to have an extra arm attached. Annie received a similar bonus when she signed - a jaw bone made of cast iron.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

844. MF Doom was born wearing that mask.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

845. The baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind is Conor Oberst.

846. Paul McCartney's been lurking on ILM! And, inspired by a certain thread, is going to re-record an album's worth of Beatles tunes, all with the word "pants" replacing "love". ("All You Need Is Pants", "You've Got To Hide Your Pants Away", etc.) All proceeds from sales of the LP will be split between victims of the London bombings and Paul's personal "Legalize Hemp" campaign.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 7 November 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

847. The so-called "banned songs" list issued by Clear Channel post 9/11 was not due to any fear of upsetting or traumatising people in the aftermath of the WTC-attack. Instead, the idea was to "thin out" the playlist allowing for more time to play Condaleeza Rice's favourite ever song, "I'm Alive" by Flip and Fill. By November 2001, this song was being played over 3,000 times a day on US radio, and enjoyed a seven week stay at number one.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link

848. As of Fall 2005, Axl Rose's long-awaited Chinese Democracy album will be an entirely new soundtrack to the 1979 Bob Fosse film All That Jazz.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

849. In an attempt to drum up publicity for their 1998 fundraising single 'Guardians Of The Land', the Countryside Alliance decided to try and start a war of words with Mansun, referring to Paul Draper as a 'small-cocked poof with the voice of a dyspeptic haemhorroid', and mockingly likening Dominic Chad's bass-playing to 'the second coming of Sid Vicious' talent'. However, this was swiftly quashed when it was discovered that Draper was engaged to Clarissa Dickson-Wright's niece.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

850. Rob Birch of the Stereo MC's has hollow legs. He often removes his left leg and holds it up to the ears of fans so they can hear the sea.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

851. Right Said Fred have been mired in litigation since 1992 when they were sued by Bernard Cribbins.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham recorded the theme to the Road Runner cartoons for Warner Brothers and used the money to buy a 1972 Dodge Dart. Stevie named the car Sara.

― Mumblix Grumph, Friday, 11 November 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

853. Kenny Chesney, Randy Travis, Hank Williams Jr. and all other Patriotic Country Music 'Sensations' in fact have served their country and can legitimately claim to be patriots. It was a Black Op Mission sent to destroy the Berlin Wall in 1995. They refuse to brag because the wall had been destroyed six years previous, Fox News apparently failed to report it.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 11 November 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

854. Lee Greenwood takes potshots at Mexicans crossing the border.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 11 November 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

855. The Beatles were profoundly influenced by the occultist Aleister Crowley. The song "Yesterday" was written in his honour on the day of his death.

― acb (acb), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

260. Ralf Hutter can't program his VCR.

-- LRJP! (ell.arr.j...), July 12th, 2005.

"By holding down a special key, it tapes Where The Heart Is for me ..."

― coco, Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

856. Respectable by Mel & Kim contains an uncleared sample from Vashti Bunyan's I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Saturday, 12 November 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

857: Beck got into Scientology not out of any legitimate ideological interest, but strictly to meet Isaac Hayes.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

858: RJD2's name originated from the first four digits of number he was given during his stint in Ohio state juvenile prison. His crime: severely beating a classmate after getting into an argument over whether Stevie Wonder was gay.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

859: Julian Casablancas has a brief cameo in The Royal Tenenbaums as one of the drivers who nearly hits a jaywalking Royal, Ari and Uzi in the "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard" montage.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

860. The Racing Post has a policy to have the majority of its greyhound racing tips provided by celebrities under a pseudonym. The naps for the past two weeks have been provided by Nichola Roberts and Sage Francis.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link

861. Princess Grace of Monaco was secretly married to Peter Cox, lead singer of Go West.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

862. Hounded by quasi-legal strike action and rumors of accounting irregularities C + C Music Factory folded in 1993.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

863. Gillette have acquired the rights to use two minutes of John Coltrane's Ascension in their next advertising campaign.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

864. At the time of his death, GG Allin had the worlds largest Hummel figurine collection. They were his little treasures.

865. Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgance is the night manager of a Kinos. He insists it is just so he can have free access to the printer, because "printers ain't cheap, and I have a lot of shit to print".

866. Andrew WK has been dead for 7 years. What all of us saw several years ago was the revival of Andrew WK, but it was just not properly publicised.

867. In 1999, the Canadian government built a fake concert hall on a remote island off the coast of St. John, Newfoundland. The sole purpose of its construction was to get the band Econoline Crush to play there, and to never let them leave. What resulted was a 12 week battle royale, televised coast to coast, where the last surviving member of the band would be allowed to leave with his life. In the end, bassist Ken Fleming was proclaimed the winner, having killed and eaten two of his fellow band members to survive. To this day, it is still the highest rated program in Canadian television history.

― Doug Fisher (Infamous Amos), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link

868. Inspired by Van Halen, the White Stripes have a contract clause demanding a backstage bowl of M&Ms with all but the red, white and black ones removed. If in England, or any other M&M-less commonwealth nation, Smarties may be substituted, but only after the tiny letter 'm' is hand-painted onto every single piece.

869. Inspired by his fellow Detroiters the White Stripes, Eminem has a contract clause demanding a backstage bowl of M&Ms, each piece of the candy adorned with a tiny white stripe.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link

870. Elvis lives.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

871. Thom Yorke has Cotard's Syndrome.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 18 November 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

872. Re:837, if you log on to slsk at exactly 00:00:00, you can find early demos of this album. songs to look for include;

a) I am a rhombus
b) Justify my equation
c) New York = Disco Shitty

― danny boy, Friday, 18 November 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

873.. immediately following the release of the oliver stone 'Doors' movie in 1991, val kilmer bought up and subsequently destroyed all known original doors live footage, painstakingly refilming every Doors show scene for scene with those guys in the movie, So far no one has noticed.. when questioned.. val kilmer responded.. 'it just looks better, man..'

― G wolfcow, Friday, 18 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

874. Terminator X is the only member of Public Enemy to have ever actually cold lamped.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

875. When the Bay City Rollers stuck a pin on a map of the U.S. to choose their name, they actually landed on Frankenmuth, but the band didn't like the sound of the Frankenmuth Rollers.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

876. Brian Wilson's "Shine" is actually terrible. It got incredibly high reviews because he spent so long and worked so hard that all the reviewers felt bad for him. This was Wilson's plan all along.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 18 November 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

877. Try-too-hard Christmas number one hopefuls Nizlopi absolutely despise black people. "I thought it was hysterical when all those guys drowned in New Orleans" says frontman Luke Concannon.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 November 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

878. Freaky Zeeky has a Teeline Gold shorthand speed of over 200 words per minute.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 November 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

879. AJP Taylor's last essay before his death dealt with his thesis that if the D-Day landings had been unsuccesful, World War II would have continued until 1960 when, upon hearing "Cathy's Clown" by the Everley Brothers, both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler would have been so spellbound by its beauty that they would both become pacifists overnight.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

880. As a supporter of the anti-war movement, Michael McDonald had plans to record a protest-folk album for Reprise but scotched the project when a top-level exec suggested the title Kum Ba Yah Mo B There.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

881. In the early '70s, Gary Glitter and Gary Gilmore were in a short-lived band called The Garys. The Garys mostly played Manson covers and bubblegum pop, though their one, now-deleted album, Well, She Was Just Saying She Was Seventeen, featured "Rock and Roll, Parts One through Twelve."

― Drew LeDrew, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

aaron w, you're back!

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

882. Leslie Feist estimates she has keyed the cars of at least 27 different Suicide Girls.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

That's preposterous. Suicide Girls can't afford cars.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

883. Cheryl Tweedy is 947th in line to the English throne.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 24 November 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

884. The Telescopes are keen amateur ornithologists. 'Silent Water' is, in fact, an exegesis of the need for stealth when observing water fowl.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

885. Killa Kela is Stephanie Cole's grandson.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 November 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

886. Audioslave.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

887. Buzz Osbourne from the Melvins owns a sheep farm in Cumbria.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

888. After the grunge thing ran its course, Tad Doyle pooled together his life savings to pay for what would be known as one of the first successful gastric-bypass surgeries in North America. He soon changed his name to Tad Friend, and is now best-known as the author of Lost in Mongolia and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 25 November 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

889. One of The Corrs appears in Lord of the Rings as the ring-wraith who stabs Frodo.

890. Van Morrison is a big Wipers fan, and often lifts lyrics from 'Youth of America' when performing 'Madam George.'

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

891. Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen has 20/10 vision and, as a teenager in Liverpool, was once approached to become a junior member of the RAF.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

892. Every morning, Anthony Kiedis wakes and thanks Jesus that he's not a communist.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 25 November 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link

893. Inspired by Red Krayola's work with Art & Language, Huey Lewis and The News co-wrote Sports with the RAND Corporation.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Friday, 25 November 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

894. Madonna's "Hung Up" is about William Hung.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

895. Keiji Haino has gills and a fin.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

896. The contracts rappers receive on signing to the Lowlife record label specify that their moneys are to be paid, instead of pounds sterling, in gift vouchers for the Nationwide kitsch toiletries range Lush. Jehst allegedly spent the advance for his new "Nuke Proof Suit" album on £10,000 worth of citrus bath bombs.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

J Mascis and Evan Dando are currently halfway through a 40 year experiment to find out who's least motivated, but chances are this experiment will never be completed

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Monday, 28 November 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The song "Return the Gift" and Gang of Four's entire subsequent oeuvre are based upon Jon King's rage at being given an ugly pullover as a Christmas gift at age sixteen and not being able to exchange it at the shop

― malarkey, Monday, 28 November 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

897. The original title for famous 'Pet Sounds' was actually
'Cat Sounds' but because discussions between the members the final title was the all people know: 'Pet Sounds'. Many years after this, they resolve it with 'The M.I.U. Album'

― antonio, Monday, 28 November 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

898. Due to an adminstrative error The Neptunes regularly recieve royalty cheques for the track "March of the Gwladys Street Gladiators" on the 1996 album "Forever Everton: 22 Goodison Classics"

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

899. Upon entering heaven, Kurt Cobain was mortified to find out that rather than wanting him "for a sunbeam", Jesus flat out demanded that he become bass-tech for Noel Redding.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

900. Duff Mckagen has recently had to have excessively painful laser surgery to remove an animated tattoo showing the widescreen version of Point Break from his foreskin.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

901. Mark McGrath and Sugar Ray were a persona and a band created by Dave Navarro in the 1990s as a side project where he could create radio-friendly music when not touring with Jane's Addiction or the RHCP. He was able to transform himself into McGrath through cosmetic surgery and cutting-edge prosthetic masks. Navarro/McGrath appearances together are the result of modern CGI and imposters.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

sting lived in a flat above a chinese across from where i work in wallsend. nobody here likes him very much.

― thatll do, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

The one in ZZ Top without a beard is called Frank Beard.

(He's grown a beard now, the legend!)

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

904, the band ZZ Top are all anglophiles and get annoyed when their name is not pronounced Zed Zed Top

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

905, contrary to popular belief the only anglophile in ZZ Top is Billy F Gibbons. This has caused much disagreement within the band themselves over how their name should be pronounced, their best compromise to date being to pronounce one the the Zs as 'zed', the other as 'zee'.

Still, depending on who in the band you ask, their name is either "zee zed top" (Frank or Dusty) or "zed zee top" (Billy).

― mei (mei), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

906. RZA is a qualified Pilates instructor.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

907. In the late 90s, Kevin Shields decided to experiment with R&B production, took on the alias "Sisqo", and hit pay dirt with "The Thong Song". He then retired from the hobby, leaving the Sisqo franchise to another in a Milli-Vanilli-type stunt.

― Euler, Sunday, 11 December 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan was once stabbed in the face with a Bowie knife at a Lionel Ritchie concert in Toronto. He survived after extensive surgery.

― jacobp, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

What does "Deep Tracks" even mean? Is it like the album tracks that never get played on singles-oriented radio?

-- o. nate (syne_wav...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 11:18 AM. (onate) (later) (link)

It's a double entendre, because the non-singles tracks also have deep meanings, and they were often favourites of railroad engineers.

-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 11:20 AM. (Huk-L) (later) (link)

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

909. The DFA Mix of Mareisa Sabriel's "Sunset".

― Franklin Trench (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

910. Jonas Berggren, from Ace of Base, is the only Swedish chess grandmaster of the past 60 years.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

911. As of December 2005, Axl Rose will resume work on the long-awaited Chinese Democracy album once catches up on his backlog of unwatched Passions tapes.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

912. 100,000 Bon Jovi fans can't be wrong.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

913. Vatican scholars believe that if Jesus returned to earth today, his favourite band would be Brakes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

914. All of the original members of X-Clan were in fact qualified bespoke tailors.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

915. HIM started their career off as a filter-disco act, only changing their style after a series of anonymous death threats they received in the aftermath of the 2000 Europewide top 10 single "Time 4 Love 2 U"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

916. Vatican scholars are excited by the recent Sugababes line-up changes because as prophesized in Revalation, all three members are now direct descendents of the three wise men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Modern gift equivalents to be used in an Emmanuel Level Event are thought to be Teflon, Heat Magazine and Ogg Vorbis extension audio files.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

917. Snoop Dogg has never actually smoked marijuana.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

918. Nobody listens to Girls Aloud other than 12 year old girls, raving homosexuals, and formerly-indie music critics.

Dom P told me that one, btw.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

919. The Smiths were supposed to be a Simple Minds cover band but Morrissey couldn't sing fast enough to cover "I Travel".

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

920. Sufjan Stevens has webbed feet.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

921. Trip-Hop was invented by the Youth wing of the East German Communist Party in 1982.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

922. As of March 2006, all branches of Subway in the Home Counties area will be issued with special napkins that play a medley of ATB hits upon being dampened.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

923. Anita Ward penned 'Ring My Bell' in the aftermath of a pick-up gone wrong - her use of the line on her unsuspecting amorata resulted in the uncomprehending man punching her in the face. To this day, she claims it "felt like a kiss".

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

924. WOMAD is just a front for Peter Gabriel's international money-laundering scheme.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

925. Bowling for Soup are the only American band to have ever had a top 40 album in Canada.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

926. CL Smooth once endorsed a now defunct brand of laxative. Stores were forced recall the product due to reported cases of blindness.

― Give me Sufjan or give me credibility (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

927. Due to a recent court case instigated by Bryan Adams, the artist known globally as Ryan Adams must release his albums in Canada under his real name, Corky Shelley.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Rita Marley was ordered to pay the creators the Banana Splits $850,000
due to Bob unlawfully using the melody of their theme song in 'Buffalo Soldier'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

929 There exists an elegant mathematical proof that there cannot be a band called "Simply Red"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

930 Although John Lennon was killed, his music lives on in the Jurassic-Oolitic Limestone layer of the Earth's crust

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

931 "Indie" music is so-called because of a scandal in the 1978 World Cup when a team's mascot was tragically killed by a falling crate of fruit. The expression has been with us ever since.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

930 The Simply Red proof can of course be undermind by appeal to the Miles Hunt paradox.

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

933. 'Molly's Chambers' by Kings Of Leon was in fact an elaborate diss of Gomez, after the Southport bluesmen turned down a night on the town with the Kings.

This in itself would not have been so bad had the Kings not conducted a relentless campaign of taunts for the previous six months, primarily via the flickr account 'ottewellfearsthepunani' (account since deleted), whereby the Kings put up photoshopped photos of Gomez singer Ben Ottewell looking at FHM covergirls with the caption "Me no likey."

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards. Gomez then seized the instruments and jammed for the next 90 minutes straight, to a rapturous reception from the Danish fans. The Kings Of Leon have not shown their faces in Scandinavia since.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

934. Black musicians have been banned from appearing on "Later With... Jools Holland" ever since a June 1998 incident where a drunken Jurassic 5 set fire to the drummer from Lodger before chasing Jools around with a shovel they'd stolen from the Gardeners' World studio.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

934 On the subject of beards, only three fully-bearded bands have ever topped the UK charts, and in each case they were knocked off the top spot by synth duos with malevolent features!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

935. It's not people who are strange – it is YOU.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

936. When at a loose end while touring, Alizee occupies her time by recreating the legendary rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna on her Scalextric Monte Carlo set, using additional pieces to accurately recreate the Grand Prix circuits of the late 80's and early 90's. As you might expect, her personal favourite is their collision at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1988.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards.

936. This bit is copied off the official online histories of Gomez and The Kings of Leon, both of which assert in addition that "nobody noticed".

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link

937!!! dammit

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

938. But who is Alizee's favourite all-time Grand Prix driver? No, it's not Prost. It's Patrick Tambay.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

939. The other members of The Strokes insist that Nikolai Fraiture stand on the end in band photos in the hope that some dozy photo editor accidentally crops him out of the picture.

940. Bernard Butler left Suede due to Brett Anderson's incessant impersonation of Blakey from 'On the buses'.

941.No way is Madonna too old to be wearing that outfit and bending over in the 'Hung up' vid.

942. Fiddy Cent is producing his own line of hippie fashion outfits. He hopes to get rich tie dyin'.

943. Kate Moss was a last minute stand in for The White Stripes' 'I just don't know what to do with myself' vid after Jo Brand pulled a hammy warming up.

944. Ringo and Paul have a new album out mid 2006. Rumour has it it's drum'n'bass.

945. Bobby Brown new album is due for release. It's titled "Whitney Houston, we have a problem".

946. Chris Martin didn't read the 'permanent marker' warning on his texta.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

947. Early pressings of 'You're so Vain' are now worth over $600 due to the missprinted songwriting credit of 'Carly's Hymen'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

948. The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" was not actually about heroin, but rather was written by Hugh Cornwell as an homage to Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan. Cornwell became obsessed with Grogan when both the Stranglers and Altered Images appeared on the same episode of Top of the Pops in early 1980.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

949. The international B'nai Brith organization once denounced Elvis Costello as a "self-hating Jew" who has never acknowldged his Jewishness.

950. The common picnic table was invented by a drugged and drunken Hank Williams, Sr. out of necessity, after his wife once locked him out of the house just before dinnertime.

951. #s 100, #200, #300 etc. on this thread are all in fact true.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

952. Jandek is so called because he once "decked" Jan Leeming in a nightclub brawl.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

953. Bono has the link to this list in his Favourite Places, and checks it every day. Every time he sees it, he cries a little.

― Melissa Berrill (whateverkiddo), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

954. Dana severed all contact with the music industry on September 17th this year, symbolically marking the occasion by placing a bet of €100 on Nadine Coyle being the first member of Girls Aloud to leave the group, at odds of 6-1.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 25 December 2005 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

955. The most powerful man in the music industry is Bunny Wailer.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

956. 'Chinese Democracy' will not be an album. Axl Rose is set up in Manchuria, individually trying to spread democratic rights and individual freedoms in China since 1996. He's doing this because he was told that Perry Farrel successfully democratized the Ukraine, which in fact is, untrue.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

957. In his youth, Elvis Costello successfully held up a convenience store with a broken plastic comb.

― ohmyface (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

958. Ellen DeGeneres is Tom Petty's twin sister.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

959. Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt is the adopted son of actors Henry and (the late)Hoot Gibson, who were Hollywood's first married gay couple. They also invented the electric guitar.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

960. Rapper NAS got his stage name from the David Bowie lyric "He was the Nas, with god-given ass". His real name is Thelonius Fogerty.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

961. Those Reebok adverts where Jay-Z says "I got my MBA from the Marcy Projects" are a total lie. He actually graduated with a 2.1 in drama therapy from Herriot-Watt University.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

962. In March 2005, The Source magazine declared Leytonstone High Road Britain's "Most Hip Hop Train Station", narrowly beating Goodmayes and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

963. Andy McCluskey often edits posts from posters he doesn't like to include the "Goatse" image on the OMD website forum.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

964. The anus in the "Goatse" image actually belongs to Spike from late 90s boyband 911.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

965. I am going to murder the Mini Pop Kids. This is not a joke.

― Lazy Guy, Monday, 16 January 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

966. Punk was accidentally invented by a sufferer of tourette's syndrome, who is now morbidly embarrassed by what he started

― Dr X'O Skeleton, Monday, 16 January 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

The walrus was Ringo

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

968. Mark E Smith was actually born Marcus Quentin de L'Isle Adam, the son and heir of a merchant banking family in Weybridge, and was educated at Lancing College and Harrow. Aged 16 he ran away to Lancashire, where he fabricated a false identity.

― that's the triple truth ruth, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

969. While Glen Campbell's stint as a Beach Boy in the mid-'60s is well-known, less publicized was his brief tenure as touring vocalist for Sunn 0))) for several dates in 2004, when vocalists Wrest and Malefic were simultaneously stricken with bronchitis. Sunn 0))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley expressed interest in keeping Campbell on as a regular vocalist when the tour ended, but the rest of the band resisted the move on the grounds that Campbell's bellows were "too throaty" to fit in the context of the songs. As a gesture of goodwill, they are currently recording an album of Campbell covers, tenatively titled "By the Time I Get to Phoenix: the Songs of Glen Campbell."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

970. Every single Four Tops hit was exactly the same.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

971. Einsturzende Neubauten's song "Abfackeln!" formed the basis for Britney Spears' hit "Toxic". Spears invited Blixa Bargeld to help remix the track, but he politely declined.

― Col Tom Blue, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link

972. Professor Longhair, Mad Professor and Large Professor did a brief tour in 1993 as "The Three Tenureds"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link

973. Mama Cass died by choking on a ham sandwich.

974. Keith Relf died by playing the electric guitar in the bathtub and subsequently electrocuting himself.

― musically (musically), Sunday, 29 January 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

975. Simply Red are actually rather purple.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

976. Nobody has ANY idea as to singer Johnny Nash's current whereabouts.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Macy Gray has long suffered from a mild case of elefantitis. She has recieved many accolades for her charity work in helping find a cure for the dreadful disease.

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 30 January 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

978. Prince's favorite color is orange.

― EngleDinckFanClubPrez, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

979. The lyric "Two multiplied by ten plus one / Romeo done" from So Solid Crew's smash hit single "21 Seconds" marks the first ever time in UK chart history that a song had contained a piece of correct mathematics. The closest anyone had gotten to factual numercial accuracy before was when in his hit "War Baby", Tom Robinson claimed that the square root of 325 was 15.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, fake trivia thread. how i've missed you. happy valentine's day, love.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

980. The song 'Lone Ranger' by Quantum Leap contains the maori placename "Taumatawhakatangi
hangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu"

which, when translated, means "20 years from now this place will be crawling with Lord of the Rings obsessives"

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

981. Lennon and McCartney wrote all their own songs.

― whatever (boglogger), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Authechre were the brains behind Jive Bunny and the Megamixers.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

983. Daniel Miller hasn't done any actual work at Mute since mid-2002, instead spending his time looking at porn and running a "worked" MMA federation on the company's dollar. Workers within this illicit second venture have expressed frustration at Miller's haphazard booking style and insistence on using Fad Gadget songs for all entrance music.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

984. KT Tunstall's rider consists of a large pot of Marmite.

― whatever (boglogger), Saturday, 18 February 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

985. Fans of the Strokes can be deciphered by taste.

― Lazy Guy, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

986. Will Oldham's beard is on loan from Terry Riley's Big House of Beards in Berkley.

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand based their sound on 'Back Off Boogaloo' by Ringo Starr,

― Peter Griffiths (young sensation gruppe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Bob Marley was Welsh

― young sensation gruppe (young sensation gruppe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

989. Instead of lodging an appeal against his Austrian imprisonment for Holocaust denial, David Irving instead plans to collaborate on a cover of Repubblica's "Drop Dead Gorgeous" with Pendulum, in the belief that this will increase his popularity with the public.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

990. Popular gay scat fetish act the "Hot Lunch" was an integral part of early Tallulah Gosh gigs.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

991. Yellowcard are so called because frontman Ryan Key received a temporary "yellow card" on ILM in 2002 for accusing Cassius of being "prentious, and probably gay".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

992. Cassius are officially the most heterosexual act to have ever had a UK top 40 single.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

993. there's no business like show business

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

994. Since December 13th 2005, Alan Donohoe, lead singer of the Rakes, has been sat in front of his PC surviving only on a diet of sour cream and chive Pringles, so he can be sure of posting the 1000th fact to this thread. Industry insiders believe it will make reference to either the Young Rascals or Az.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

995. Late news: There is one business like show business.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

996. Johnny Cash supplemented his income by writing a highly successful series of physiotherapy textbooks under the unconvincing pseudonym Joan E. Cash.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

997. Johnny Cash was only invited to become a member of The Highwaymen at a late stage, when a chest infection meant that Sade wouldn't be able to take lead vocal duties.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

998. After replacing Gareth in 1987, Miles Hunt's reign in the Cockney Rhyming Slang dictionary is coming under threat from James Blunt. He was hoping to make it to 20 years and has only increased activity with Wonderstuff in order to keep his public profile high enough and remain in the dictionary

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

After the singer from Modern Romance propositioned each member of Bananarama in turn backstage on TOTP in 1985, the Bananas kidnapped him, shaved his head, made him drink bleach, castrated him and sewed his member into his mouth.

― riotgrrrrrl, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

1000. Contrary to popular rumour Alan Donohoe does not like sour cream and chive flavoured pringles and, due to an altercation with a 24 hour garage attendant, suffers pringles based flashbacks.

Since then he has only eaten the cheese and onion dippers pringles. He still use the same garage, but sends "thoughtful, literate gangsta rapper (Allmusic)" AZ out to buy them... and salsa dip (mild)

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

email:ca920105@gmail.com I just like spam! I'm collocting junk email...

― JAPHspam, Monday, 13 March 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

1001. All three members of 65daysofstatic are highly regarded members of the World Poker Tour circuit, and in fact met for the first time at the 1999 World Series of Poker, where between them they won over $4 million in prize money.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link

1002. Before they learnt to play instruments, the majority of The Boy Least Likely To's record output consisted of sinisterly whispered conversations about which female celebrities the band would like to attack with garden tools.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

1003. Morten Gamst Pedersen has fucked all three Pipettes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link

1004. Richie Hawtin and Varg Vikernes are second cousins.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

fenriz from darkthrone is a huge hawtin fan

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

1005. Rapper 50 Cent and world-famous pianist Elton John were both born on the same day in 1948 at the same hospital in Watford and were both originally named Reg Dwight. They were obliged by Equity to adopt different names when, in the late 60s, they collaborated for a West End musical called 'Up The Hornets'.

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

1006. In 1978 one of Keith Richards' mansions burnt to the ground due to the ineptitude of the Kent Fire Brigade who at this time were carrying out a short-lived experiment of literally 'fighting fire with fire'. For reasons which have never become clear, Richards blamed Keith Chegwin for this tragedy, resulting in a grudge which lasts to this very day.

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link

1007. Prior to their breakthrough hit 'When Will I Be Famous' in 1988, an administrative error on the part of Bedfordshire County Council allowed Luke and Matt Goss to earn a living for nearly three months employed to remove asparagus from Aylesbury Swimming Pool every morning before the punters arrived. This experience was obliquely referred to in 'Drop The Boy'.

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 16 March 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link

1008. Tim DeLaughter has used the proceeds from the first polyphonic spree CD to buy a complex, just outside Waco, for him and his acolytes. He's also mixing up special vats of Kool Aid for the ensemble to drink

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link

1009. Deuce continue to blame their commercial failure on their record label's decision to scrap the initial version of their debut album, which had been entirely penned by Half Man Half Biscuit's Nigel Blackwell; more specifically, they believe that their label's failure to sufficiently push lead single "Elton Welsby In Poundstretcher At Midnight" set their career and consequently the British pop industry back five years.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Reel Around the Fountain is about Morrissey's friendship with Michael Jackson.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

1010. ^

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

1011. The Cocteau Twins were conjoined at birth, but seperated surgically soon thereafter. To this day, one of them requires the use of a robotic kidney fashioned from a hollowed out Nerf ball and a stopwatch.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Sunday, 9 April 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

1012. Q-Tip's favourite single of the past 25 years is "The Only Difference between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" by Panic! At The Disco

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 9 April 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

1013. Following the success of her tv show Lil' Kim is to present a gardening show called Bitches n' hoes.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 9 April 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

1014. Young Jeezy has never worked a day in his life, and was a millionaire from birth. This is because his great-grandfather devised the ELO, or "chess" method of ranking sportsmen.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

1015. Tim McGraw used to sling D in the Pennington Projects in Newark, New Jersey, before hitting it big in music. He still has a tatoo that says "Brick City" on his left shoulder.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

1016. Dope boys do not, in fact, go crazy when they hear that boy Jay-Z. According to the latest Gallup poll, dope boys prefer Cam'ron by a 16% margin.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

1017. Wondering who America's biggest "soccer" fan is? Look no further than Regina Spektor. She's seen an estimated three whole football games in their entirity, as well as having once been in the same seafood restaurant as Tord Grip.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

1018. DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia was inspired to become a musician after hearing Whitney Houston perform "I'm Every Woman" live at a benifit concert for Eastern European orphans.

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 11 June 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

1019. In the early 80's, Rick Rubin played in Phil Collins' touring band.

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 11 June 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link

1020. Nabisco is Dave Matthews.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 June 2006 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

1021. Sammy Hagar was an extra in the movie Xanadu.

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 11 June 2006 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link

1022. Silkk The Shocker has had sex with all three members of Sleater-Kinney.

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 11 June 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link

1023. Basement Jaxx "Where's Your Head At?" was based on a old unused demo by The Supremes and the lyrics are the same.

(many people believed this one)

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 12 June 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

1024. Michael Stipe's conversion to vegetarianism was inspired in part by lingering humiliation over his pre-R.E.M. days, when he paid his way through college by attending classes dressed as a chicken to promote a local restaurant. The lyrics of "Seven Chinese Brothers" describe a particularly embarrassing encounter outside of his Women's Studies class.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

1025. Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn refuses to drink in any bar where he does not hold one of the high scores in Golden Tee.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

1026: KT Tunstall was one of the kids singing "It's 'Orrible Being in Love When You're 8 1/2"

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

1027. Lil Jon's mother believes that he has been working at the same Atlanta-area Radio Shack since 1990, and was recently promoted to assistant manager. He employs a full-time lookalike to maintain this illusion.

1028. Sonic Youth was supposed to appear in a series of ads for the Sega Saturn, but Sega execs scrapped the ad campaign after discovering that Thurston Moore refers to all video game systems as "Nintendos".

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

1029. Golden Earring's 'Radar Love' was originally written as the theme tune for Taxi Driver.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

1030. Alice Cooper was the Unknown Comic on The Gong Show.

― hank (hank s), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

1031. The voice-over at the beginning of each episode of Law & Order is actually a slowed-down recording of Paul Simon.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

1032. The first recording ever put out on the anticon label was an EP consisting of eight renditions of "Yakko's World" -- one from each of the label's founders.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

1033. Shrapnel Records pay guitarists by the note

― Øystein (Øystein), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

1034. Detroit police records indicate that Proof was killed after a heated argument over the difference between boules and bocce.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

1035. The cover photo on The Pink Opaque (Cocteau Twins) is a black-and-silver daguerreotype of Liz Fraser's vagina. ("The pink opaque" being Robin Guthrie's pet name for her nether region).

― hank (hank s), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

1036. Robert Wyatt sprained his ankle; he's just lazy.

― Øystein (Øystein), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

1037. Boards Of Canada chose their name as an homage to their favorite childhood band, Blue Oyster Cult. (Both use BOC as shorthand). "Telephasic Workshop" is (rather obviously, in hindsight) a cover of "Workshop Of The Telescopes". Furthermore, the "hooked cross" symbol is evident on all Boards album covers (but not the EP's).

― hank (hank s), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

1038. Tom Lehrer quit music to become a professional flair bartender. He triumphed in the 1972 All-American Flair Invitational after constructing three Mai Tais in ten seconds whilst blindfolded.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

1039. T.I. makes a joke about the similarities between the names of Tony Hawk and Tony Hawkes at least three times an hour.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Cher is a woman.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

^1040

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 12 June 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

1041. The Glastonbury Festival has refused to put The Polyphonic Spree in its line-up since the 2003 edition, because when they did a survey via sms to find what bands the public had liked the most in that edition, The Polyphonic Spree was the only "big" act that ended with a surprising 0 votes. In fact, this was because whenever people voted they got sent a certain polyphonic ringtone called "Spree" instead.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link

1042. Low collectively decided to abandon Mormonism in March 2006 and joined the Church of Scientology later in the month. The musician "Beck" has been said to have been an influence on their decision.

1043. Woody Guthrie's famous slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists" was originally supposed to be "Fascists Use This Machine To Kill" and recalled the story of Ezra Pound beating an Italian communist to death with an acoustic guitar. Nobody knows exactly why he changed it.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 16 June 2006 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link

1044. The Libertines originally formed as a Headswim tribute act. The original b-sides to "What A Waster" were fifteen seperate cover versions of The 'swim's 1998 top 30 smash "Tourniquet".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

1045. "Kathleen Brennan" is actually Diane Warren.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

1046. George Clinton, did not, as is often claimed, play guitar on the first PiL record. He did, however, steal John Lydon's car outside a nightclub in Berlin, inspiring Lydon to write "The Order of Death." Surprisingly, the two men have the same birthday--May 14th.

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

1047. The name of Chris Martin and Gwyenth Paltrow's child was only confirmed publicly after extensive focus grouping and the subsequent signing of separate promotional contracts with Apple Computers and Apple Corps.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

1048. DJ Zinc was the inspiration for the character of Robbie Rotten in hit kids TV show Lazy Town. During one episode, Robbie hums excertps of "Super Sharp Shooter" whilst attempting to foil Stephanie's attempts at making a trifle.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

1049. The majority of Wagon Christ's recorded output was made by having primary school children throw bars of soap at passers-by.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

1050. The Deftones have been on an enforced hiatus for the past three years due to frontman Chino Moreno's latest project, a Dave Gorman-esque reality TV show where he attempts to record a version of Ralph McTell's "Streets of London" with the senators of all 50 states. As of June 2006, he'd just finished a loose bossa nova interpretation of the track with Herbert Kohl (D-WI).

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Surprisingly, the two men have the same birthday--May 14th ... 1923.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

1051. Bob Pollard and Wyclef Jean recorded an single in 1998. Due to record company infighting it was never released.

― badg (badg), Thursday, 29 June 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

re: 1047, does that mean she's prevented from making any music?

1052. The Placebo song "Bruise Pristene" started life as a tribute song about Bruce Springsteen.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 29 June 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

1053. Rumors abound that the Red Hot Chili Peppers once released a song that DID NOT contain the word "California".

― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Thursday, 29 June 2006 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link

1054. The bit in Get Ur Freak On where Missy Elliot appears to shout "Holler!" is actually a sample of Mel B from the Spice Girls saying "Hello!". She happened to visit the studio as the track was being recorded.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd love that to be true

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I've managed to convince people that it was, in the past. :)

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

1055. Aesop Rock's original MC name was "Aesop Hat".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

1056. Tiger Woods' favourite musical moment ever is that bit in "When I Argue I See Shapes" by Idlewild where Roddy Woomble sings "I laugh at your lack of conversation skills, or lack thereof". He's been known to sing it during crucial putts in an attempt to put Vijay Singh off.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

1057. Maxïmo Park is as an over-elaborate and not particularly useful VST plugin designed by Keith Tenniswood as an amusing gift for band mate Andrew Weatherall's 40th birthday.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

1058. Country star Garth Brooks had a moderately successful playing career with Totthenham Hotspur in the early eighties before bursting back into the public consciousness as a rather pompous and pedantic interviewer.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

1059. The "trick" that makes the girl scream and laugh in "Just Like Heaven"? Robert Smith's ability to make his left nipple lactate.

1060. Director/Writer John Hughes had commissioned the Fall to write a song for 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The song, titled "Trickster's Run", was recorded as a demo but never made it onto the sountrack.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 1 July 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

1057. Maxïmo Park is as an over-elaborate and not particularly useful VST plugin designed by Keith Tenniswood as an amusing gift for band mate Andrew Weatherall's 40th birthday.

-- LRJP! (ell.arr.j...), June 29th, 2006.

this one seems way too likely to suit this thread.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 1 July 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Luckily the sentence construction is so poor that it can only be described as false.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Saturday, 1 July 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

1061. If you listen very closely to "Fall At Your Feet", around 2 minute 12 seconds in you can make out the faint background noise of Neil Finn shooting a pizza delivery boy for sport.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 2 July 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

1062. My Morning Jacket are all furries.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 2 July 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

1063. Michael Parkinson refuses to play Jamie Cullum on his Radio 2 show since the diminutive singer/pianist performed a cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Too Drunk To Fuck" during a live broadcast in October 2005.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 July 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

1064. Concerned at how quiet Princess Superstar has been recently? Don't worry: she quit music back in 2003 and now makes a living as a greyhound trainer at Perry Barr. Her two year old bitch "Droopys Swansong" is strongly tipped by many to be a candidate for the Ladbrookes Derby this year.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 July 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

1065. Contrary to popular legend, Ringo Starr and Edwin Starr are not brothers, but are only cousins.

― musically (musically), Monday, 3 July 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

1066. Moloko's Do You Like My Tight Sweater? is the biggest selling album of all time in Kyrgyzstan.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Monday, 3 July 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1067. Due to a bizarre childhood incident occuring while on a school field trip to a candy factory, Charles Thompson (aka Frank Black/Black Ftancis of the Pixies) has blood that is 45.8% licorice.

― latebloomer lives in a fucking castle that is so sweet (latebloomer), Monday, 3 July 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link

1067a. Charles Thompson's blood is 45.8% black licorice.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

1068. The dad of the woman from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs used to run a bus company in South Wales in the 1960s, before emigrating.

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

1069. In February 2006, rocker Mark E. Smith put away his grudge with ex-Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. Today, Smith can be found sharing a Myspace.com account with Malkmus while Malkmus runs the official Fall fanclub website.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

David Crosby gave the Red Hot Chili Peppers the idea for the sock thing, after years of trying to get Stills and Nash to go along with it. Young was game, as long as they were Argyle.

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

1070. David Crosby gave the Red Hot Chili Peppers the idea for the sock thing, after years of trying to get Stills and Nash to go along with it. Young was game, as long as they were Argyle.

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

1071. Summer blockbuster Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest features a charming cameo from Prodigy superstars Keith Flint and Liam Howlett. Experimental Music fans should also look out for Scanner’s own Robin Rimbaud as Turkish Guard #2.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

1072. Marcy Playground are actually from the Marcy projects.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

1073. Courtney Love had Kurt Cobain murdered.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

They're supposed to be false.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

1074. Vladimir Putin cannot make a decision without consulting at least one Oblique Strategies card.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

1074. Midge Ure's father Heinrich Üre played a large part in the Anschluss. This was the inspiration for the Ultravox song "Vienna".

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

1075. Rick Ross knows Manuel Noriega from when they were both members of the swim team at Lincoln High School in Davenport, Iowa. During Ross & Noriega's senior year, the team won the Iowa state championship, defeating a team that included future Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst.

― It's Rodney, chocolate-covered, freaky, and habit-forming! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

1076. The Wake and The Stockholm Monsters fought over whose release would receive number 69 in Factory's catalogue. Tony Wilson settled it by skipping over that particular number. (The resulting fall-out got The Wake booted from the label).

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

1077. Stuart Braithwaite is the only member of Mogwai never to have scaled all of the Munros.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

1078. Hugo Chavez's election as president of Venezuela was off the back of a manifesto consisting of one sole pledge: to get Rialto to reform. To date, he has failed in this task.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

1079. Upon learning of his terminal illness, J Dilla spent the final few months of his life in a futile effort to find the hidden levels on the Commodore 64 version of Rainbow Islands. He failed, mainly because Baatin pulled the joystick out of the port when he was going to collect the final diamond. He died soon afterwards.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

1080. Stanley Kubrick originally asked Oingo Boingo to score "Eyes Wide Shut," based on his love of "Back to School," but realized at the last minute that it was probably a bad idea.

1081. Everybody knows that Kleenex changed their name to Liliput, but few recall the band's original name, before they settled on Kleenex: Bachman Turner Overdrive.

1082. Ian Curtis hung himself after watching "Airplane!" for the third time, and the LP found spinning on his turntable was Meco Menardo's disco version of the music from "Star Wars."

1083. David Bowie has a crippling addiction to Pop Tarts.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

1084. Shystie's career flatlined because instead of promoting the album through press interviews, she used her spare time to carry on her day job as president of the Chevy Chase Fan Club.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

1085. Max Hardcore got his break in showbusiness as drummer for The Nails.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

1086. Mark Knopfler has a contractual obligation to kill all fourteen people who have illegally downloaded the Local Hero soundtrack.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Friday, 7 July 2006 05:52 (seventeen years ago) link

1087. The least succesful piece of furniture Ikea ever stocked was a Pembrooke table in the shape of Braintax.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

1088. 45% of posters to popular internet message board "I Love Music" are actually a bored Sha Money XL using a variety of wacky pseudonyms.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

1089. Next week sees the release of the hotly anticipated
Under The Iron Sea: Screwed and Chopped [Explicit Lyrics].

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

1090. Your Dad used to go to school with Noddy Holder.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The '70's fragrance "Charlie" was named after Charlie Daniels.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 16 July 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

That was 1091.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 16 July 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

1092. That dude from Cake wants hen fap.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 July 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

1093. Before Tina Turner found solo fame, she was in a little-known band who released the eponymous album Y Kand Tina Turner.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

1094. In March 2006, Avenged Sevenfold became the first ever band to be designated their own post code: N12 3XS

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

1095. DJ Babu has the lyrics from the lead single of every Dilated Peoples' album carved into his back with a metal toothpick from Evidence's Swiss army knife.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 July 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

1096. David Bowie's real name Elton John. He changed it because everyone said the name Elton John was too Faggotty.

Apparently the name David Bowie is just Faggoty enough

― Parksy (Parksy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

1097. Limp Bizkit took their name for episode three of the first season of the Flintstones.

Their first album was orginally titled. "I can't believe you did that Barney, that's some freaky shit right there"

― BP (Parksy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

1098. Limp Bizkit groupies have complained about Fred Durst's weel know penchant for sodomy.

Doctors have said if he does not desist from this activity he may lose the use of his anus.

― BP (Parksy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

1099. Robert Plant is reforming his old band for what is touted to bee the most exciting world tour - ever!

We llok forward to seeing the honeydrippers in Australia in February 2007.

― BP (Parksy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

1100. It has been revealed the Noel Gallagher in fact did not writ their songs. In 1989 in Liverpool he purchased a trunk of unrecorded Beatles songs, which he has been releaseing ever since.

Unforetunately for the world at large, the luggage belonged to Ringo

― BP (Parksy), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

some real golden ones here.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

1101. Pavement auditions to play the "Peach Pit" on Beverly Hills 90210. Malkmus gets into a fistfight with Jason Priestley and the band is promptly thrown out.
(I'm sorta surprised that this thread has gone on this long without this one being mentioned..)

― jacobo rock (jacobo rock), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

1102. Run-DMC originally wanted to cover "Dream On".

― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1103. Richard and Mimi Fariña wrote The Crying of Lot 49.

1104. Fred Neil used the royalties from Harry Nilsson's version of "Everybody's Talkin'" to buy 17 refurbished concentration camp ovens from a Hungarian arms dealer. In 1972, he retired to the Florida Keys, where he operated the popular Greenwich Pizza Shop until his death in 2001. He provided the voice of Snorky the Dolphin in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segment "Night of the Dolphin."

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

1105. Starting July 2006, Axl Rose has been using Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards to complete Chinese Democracy, only Axl mentally adds the words "on coke" to the end of every instruction.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you sure that's 100% false?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, but it is. Axl actually uses the phrase "in bed."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

1106. Hal Blaine's penis triples in length every autumnal equinox, returning to its normal size just in time for Valentine's Day. His testicles are normally excluded from this cycle.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

1107. To punish himself for Pinkerton, Rivers Cuomo added two glottal stops and a breve to his last name. His stationery has yet to reflect this change.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

reading this thread is the reason i joined ilx

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

1108. In September 2006, adultfriendfinder.com revealed that the millionth tawdry fuck in a back alley arranged through the site will be videotaped in person by Lupe Fiasco. Lupe will not, repeat not, sign any autographs during this meeting.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

407. Godspeed You Black Emperor actually started out as sitcom.

-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 14th, 2005

on second thoughts, Dom, i truly am not worthy. laughed until i cried.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

1109. If you drop all three members of The Secret Machines from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa at the same time, there is an 80% probability that Josh Garza will hit the ground first.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1110. Grant Hart's homosexuality was never that genuine. You couldn't really be in a successful alternative rock band in the 1980s unless you were gay and doubling the band's homosexual membership was thought at the time to be the kind of thing that would push Hüsker Dü over the edge. It didn't.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 7 October 2006 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

OKay, now that the old database is back we can continue this legendary thread. Bring it on!

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

1111 H from steps is going to win celebrity BB 2007

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

H & Claire to reform after CBB; producer Trevor Horn vows to finish the work he began with Ungrateful Dollar.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Jermaine Jackson strenuously denies rumours that CBB housemate Leo Sayer was the subject of his 1980 pop smash "Let's Get Serious."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

1113. Catherine Tate appears briefly in the movie for ZZ Top's 'Legs'.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

1115. Paolo Nutini has written an experimental psych-rock masterpiece, and his overtly 'commercial' first album is simply a way to obtain the recording budget he needs to create it.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

1116 Every time you hear Dermot o'leary's voice announce "a passionate new album from the most remarkable voice of his generation " (or whatever), while a bearded potato-faced gimp whines trite words over a dull acoustic guitar strum, i am knifing a puppy in the eyes.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I am rather proud of my contributions to this thread.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, are we really up to 1116?

(quick scroll-up later)

Blimey, we are!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

1115. Paolo Nutini has written an experimental psych-rock masterpiece, and his overtly 'commercial' first album is simply a way to obtain the recording budget he needs to create it.

If that were true he could call the album PAOLO MUTINI

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see what I did there?

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― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

1117. All the original music for the BBC children's show The Tweenies is written by Pan Sonic.

1118. Andrea Bocelli think he all that, but he ain't.

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

1119. Fiona Apple tours with the world's smallest set of maracas, verified by Guinness as measuring 135 nanometers in length.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

1120. James Brown's mama never did get him his licking stick.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1121. When I was a little girl I had a police caution.

― Boom Dershowitz (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

1122. Elliott Smith's last recording session was for Scott Walker's "The Drift" album in which he contributed vocals to the 9th track, The Escape.

― Busdriver Stu (Dags), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1117. All the original music for the BBC children's show The Tweenies is written by Pan Sonic.

Well, well. I've heard it was made by Panasonic! :/

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Sonny Rollins is justly famous as "The Saxophone Colossus." What's not so well known is that many other tenor players have X-Men derived nicknames, such as Stan "Saxophone Shadowkat" Getz, Albert "Saxophone Wolverine" Ayler, Wayne "Saxophone Nightcrawler" Shorter and most curiously Ken "Saxophone Marvel Girl" Vandermark.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

1124. After his singing career came to an effective halt, Rick Astley entered the business world, eventually becoming CEO of a successful canned tuna company. He invested his generous salary into some lucrative real estate deals, amassing more than twenty million in assets. However, he is now penniless, having squandered his fortune on a full-time dominatrix.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Now that the classic Dave Matthews thread has been revived, I figure the time was right for this other favourite to make its NU-ilm debut. So here it is...

1125. Todd Rundgren has a secret: He's dead. Yes, dead, dead since 29 January 1986. He was a stowaway aboard the Challenger, which tragically had a maximum capacity of seven and not, eight, and especially if the eighth happened to bring along a guitar, synth, and mixing board with the intent to create the first album recorded in space. At the time of his death, he had dozens of hours of tapes, which have been released at regular intervals ever since, one album at a time.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link

1126. The Arcade Fire's Win Butler look familiar to you? Perhaps you remember him from his previous musical incarnation as King Diamond.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link

1127. Whitney Houston did not have a drug problem. She was just very sad that MC Scat Cat's second album tanked.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link

1128. Those rumourmongers aren't entirely wrong - they're just gotten their bodily-fluids and respective donors/recipients mixed-up and conflated. The actual facts are:

a) Keith Richards DID get his blood changed, but not for heroin-free blood; rather, his blood was replaced with Rod Stewart's semen.

b) David Bowie DID get his stomach pumped; but the ejected content was found to consist entirely of Keith Richards's blood, and absolutely no semen.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 31 March 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

1129. Kate Nash's favourite thing to watch on television is the satirical political dialogues of John Bird and John Fortune, and intends to work on a George Parr musical in the near future.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

1130. The NME's yearly singles poll has been fixed for the past two years, where both times the legitimate winner was "The Weekend" by Michael Grey.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 26 May 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

1131 The primary lyrical inspiration for Jay-Z's "I've got 99 problems but the bitches ain't one" was none other than Prefab Sprout's 1985 album track 'Desire As'. He's on record as a big fan, owning all their CDs up to and including last year's Paddy McAloon solo effort.

― bidfurd, Saturday, 26 May 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers single "Dani California" is reportedly based on one of bassist Flea's many 'babymamas.' Flea met this one on the set of Penelope Spheeris's 1984 classic film Suburbia, reportedly impregnating her just before the redneck guy runs over the child punk on the tricycle in the dramatic climax of the film. Flea also co-wrote the song "Give it Away" as a diss record towards the woman, who gave him an uncurable bout of AIDS.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Friday, 3 August 2007 04:21 (sixteen years ago) link

1333. Amy Winehouse has an uncircumcised penis.

― King Boy Pato, Saturday, 4 August 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

1334. Kate Bush's favourite Australian Rules Football team is the SANFL's South Adelaide. She doesn't follow the AFL but kinda likes Carlton.

― King Boy Pato, Saturday, 4 August 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link

1335. The Gorillaz are actually a front for the remarkable musical talents of one man: Zombie Kurt Cobain.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 4 August 2007 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link

1336. Jerry Lee Lewis owns the world's largest collection of Clarice Cliff pottery.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 4 August 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link

1337. Director Jerry Zucker furiously lobbied Paramount Pictures to retain the original soundtrack of Ghost, written and performed by the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 4 August 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link

1338. Danzig's new backing band is Fugazi.

― Øystein, Saturday, 4 August 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link

1339. the Strokes got their name from the band's ritual of rubbing each other's penises for good luck before each gig.

― latebloomer, Saturday, 4 August 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link

1340. Eazy-E's college roommate at University of Wisconsin at Madison was then-undiscovered Hollywood heartthrob Jeff Goldblum. The two hit it off immediately after they discovered their shared obsession with French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Later, when Eazy was fronting NWA, he asked Goldblum to provide a few bars for "One Less Bitch." Goldblum declined, citing that Ice Cube had once called him "a jew."

― Richard Wood Johnson, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link

1341. If you play Wolfmother's self-titled album backwards, you will hear the band proclaiming John Howard to be Australia's greatest ever Prime Minister and that "the young guys and girls out there should vote John Howard in the next election because his new workplace reforms are fair and will keep the country's economy on track - which those dirty socialist union bullies want to ruin!"

― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 5 August 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link

1342. brad pitt was considered for the role of ian curtis in the hotly anticipated biopic of the troubled joy division singer, 'control', but was deemed too "pretty" to be able to pull it off convinvingly. he was also advised by spouse angelina jolie that to portray a husband in such an unstable domestic environment would undoubtedly affect negatively on the impressionable mindset of adopted son, maddox.

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

1343. Ice Cube's crime record is more like Roman Polanski, really.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link

1344. The first ever successful 50/50 grind in a professional skateboarding tournament was performed in 1990 by "Tennessee" Ernie Ford. He died the following year.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link

1345. W.A.S.P.'s "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" stole its tune note for note from an obscure Freddie and the Dreamers b-side called "What a Groovy Girl". Freddie Garrity successfully sued the band, and received a song-writing credit on the track.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link

1346. Seriously, nobody in the world gives a fuck about Jandek.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link

1347. If I ever meet Newton Faulkner I promise to kick his knackers up into his ribcage.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 5 August 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link

1348. Clifford the Big Red Dog was tapped to play the incendiary guitar solo that leads into Prince's "When Doves Cry," but canceled at the last minute because of side effects from a flea dip. Jazzman Olu Dara was calling in instead.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Sunday, 5 August 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

um, 'called'

― Richard Wood Johnson, Sunday, 5 August 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld played drums for an early incarnation of the Beastie Boys, but quit in frustration after Mike D refused to perform his contribution "What's the Deal With Lampshades" at concerts.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 6 August 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

1346. Former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was reportedly the inspiration for the character Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical "Rent."

― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link

1345. John Lennon's controversial 1972 tune "Woman is the Nigger of the World" was originally titled "Nigger is the Nigger of the World," but was changed after Arista head Clive Davis protested that the title used the racially-charged epithet 'nigger' too many times. Lennon had, at various points, considered using the terms 'spic', 'faggot', 'kike', and 'camel jockey' but settled on 'woman' after he noticed his wife Yoko Ono wailing into a microphone at the studio during the recording session.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

1345 (con't). Lennon was said to be pleased with the change, as he found the lyrics "more metaphorical, innit?"

― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

1346. A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez) from TV's Saved by the Bell was the last person to see Kurt Cobain alive.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link

^ a+

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link

1347. Lord of the Rings effects crew; Weta Digital placed a scale Bone Thugs n Harmony concert into the Battle of Helms Deep as a joke, however unbeknownst to them, it's mentioned in the original books as Tolkien was a fan.

― Hamildan, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link

1348. Morrissey's favourite film is "Nuns on the Run".

― acrobat, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 10:07 (sixteen years ago) link

In addition to having a hook for a hand, Moulty also had a prosthetic face.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 9 August 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Before his music career took off, James Brown was actually invited to sponsor the baptism of a large edible flounder, an offer which was accepted. So it's not just a nickname, he really was the Godfather of Halibut.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 9 August 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

groan.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 9 August 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

DU U C WAT I DID DERE?

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 9 August 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link

1351. "Ya Playin Yaself" by Jeru the Damaja was actually an attack on the then nascent "romo" genre, although heightened beef was caused when subliminals aimed at Dex Dexter frontman Xavior Roide were misinterpreted as a diss on the Bad Boy record label

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 9 August 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link

1352. Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck is known better in academic circles as African-American scholar and social critic Cornell West.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link

1353. Thom Yorke invested the royalties from OK Computer in a buy-to-let empire of over 700 properties in Ashford, Kent. He employs Phil Selway, who earns nothing from his role in the band (this being a tax-avoidance scheme for Yorke's benefit), to manage the portfolio.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link

1354. Conor Oberst named his group after a line from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - "Turn around, bright eyes"

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link

1355. Cameron Crowe first made out with his future wife Nancy Wilson of Heart while listening--at Ms. Wilson's request--to the first side of Led Zeppelin IV. Mr. Crowe would combine this event with some advice he overheard from two young men in a record store about how to listen to an unspecified Tom Petty LP while researching his book, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, resulting in a memorable moment in the film of said book.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 10 August 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

-- Hamildan, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:39 (2 days ago) Link

ROFL

― latebloomer, Friday, 10 August 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link

1356. As a show of support for his daughter, Lionel Richie is re-recording a new version of "Brick House", retitled "She's In The Big House"

[If Leno or somebody has already done essentially the same joke, I've never heard it. Still, my own fault for choosing an easy and obvious target.]

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 10 August 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link

1357. Stephen Morris is still on the roof of Martin Hannett's studio playing the drum part to "She's Lost Control."

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link

1358. Rihanna has a short tail.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link

1358. Rihanna has a short tail.

Amazing synchronicity! I swear I was about to write the same thing about someone else.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link

1359. Bass virtuoso Michael Manring has had a bitter ongoing feud with guitarist Joe Satriani since 1982. Neither has spoken publicly about it, but mutual friends of the two widdly-widdly-wee instrumentalists say that it started when Manring secretly changed Satriani's home address without permission and began collecting his royalty money, which was back then sent in the form of cash.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link

1360. Stephen Malkmus suffers from a severe psychological block which renders him literally unable to record vocals - unless he wears a false moustache and sings to his own reflection in a mirror.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link

So... who's gonna update wikipedia?

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link

1361. The song "Supersonic" by Oasis marked the first time in musical history that the phrase "gin and tonic" was rhymed with something other than the word "chronic".

― musically, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link

1362. Public Enemy first got their start as a party-loving hip-house ensemble based out of Chicago; it was only when Chuck D, on a trip to see his aunt, had an eye opening visit to Philadelphia, that he was inspired to convince all of PE to move there and drop their budding hip-house career in order to make socially aware music instead.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

1363. The dude who fucked up David Bowie's eye was none other than a young, pre-celebrity Billy Joel.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link

1364. Before changing the spelling of their name after signing to Atlantic to pursue the lucrative disco market, Chic were known as Sheikh and performed a unique brand of Middle Eastern-flavoured glam rock in full-blown Bedouin Arab attire.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link

1365. Daniel Johnston was elected Texas state representative for two non-consecutive terms in 1976 and again in 1982. Under his watch, convicted murderer Leo Thorer was allowed back on the streets after serving only 22 years for the brutal 1958 slayings of Texas police officers Bobby Higgins and Lionel Olden. Do we really want Daniel Johnston representing Texas values? Send a message this Tuesday to the liberal justice system that Texas won't tolerate representatives who have proven themselves soft on crime.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link

1366. Mick Mars of Motley Crue is sole heir to the Long John Silver's restaurant empire, currently valued at slightly over $500,000.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Thursday, 16 August 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link

1367. There is the well-known story of the two Norwegian brothers who were inseparable until they got into an argument over the fundamental role of melody in music. They eventually parted ways after a heated dispute left their relationship in shambles. While one brother remained in Norway, doomed to spend the rest of his life trolling internet message boards, the other traveled abroad and became perhaps the most acclaimed and influential musician of the 20th century. And that man's name was Eddie Money.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link

1364. Before changing the spelling of their name after signing to Atlantic to pursue the lucrative disco market, Chic were known as Sheikh and performed a unique brand of Middle Eastern-flavoured glam rock in full-blown Bedouin Arab attire.

The problem with this one is that it's not one third as funny as the truth, although if they had worn Bedouin attire at the time they called themselves "Allah and the Knife-Wielding Punks", that would have been awesome.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1368. Korn started as a Pylon tribute act.
1369. In 1985 Conrad Schnitzler was elected mayor of Tarzana, California, but declined the honor due to prior commitments.
1370. Blondie's Debbie Harry has worked as an uncredited script doctor on over 70 films, including "Big", "Out of Africa", "The Pelican Brief", and the entire "Police Academy" series.
1371. The Van Halen albums "Women and Children First", "Fair Warning",
and "Diver Down" were originally intended to be the first 3 installments of a 12-part album cycle about the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link

1372. Amy Winehouse [censored by the Jewish Conspiracy] in the donkey.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link

1372. Ace of Base's smash pop-dance hit, The Sign - while commonly misconstrued as having deep semiological undertones - is in fact actually about the Heideggerian concept of Da Sein, as Ulf Ekberg, the mid-90's Swedish pop-anthem powergroup's keyboardist had recently began his doctorate on Martin Heiddeger at the time. The naming of the track The Sign is the fault of record label Arista, who, unfamiliar with Heidegger, heard 'da sein' as 'the sign' as a result of the groups Swedish accents.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

William Bennett of Whitehouse used to do this trick in the early 1980s, he would book appointments at private clinics with female doctors and claim to have a strange lump in his groin, he'd then usually coerce the doctor into masturbating him.

Kevin Tomkins, Sutcliffe Jugend, couldn't cook when he lived in London, he used to buy canned foods, ie - beef stew, ravioli, peas, spaghetti bolognese, sweetcorn, tuna, soup etc and throw it all together in one saucepan. He also had all the Iron Man comics.

Did you know - the drummer from Lush who shot himself once wrote a sex manual under the pseudonym

― Carlos, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1376. and when the photographs came back from the lab, there was Midge Ure's disembodied face in the background of every single one.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link

1377. In 1980 Steve Ignorant of Crass was set to file a patent for his Bullshit Detector, but the prototype was destroyed when he accidentally left it switched whilst he was watching Laverne & Shirley.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Gary Grice is an expert mountaineer and guitarist, with a preference for fender telecasters.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link

David Hasslehoff once belonged to a Druidish cult

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Trent Reznor fused the song "Brickhouse" and Acid Rock to create a new genre called Acid House.

― bendy, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Phil Collins' "Easy Lover" was about anal sex

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Beyonce's new album was supposed to include a cover of "I Saw Gener Crying in His Sleep."

― Terrible Cold, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link

David Hasslehoff once belonged to a Druidish cult

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:53 (2 days ago) Link

not only this, he's appearing on the next Sunn O))) album

― latebloomer, Friday, 30 November 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link

1384. Goodie Mob's Big Gipp is currently studying for the Intermediate Construction Award in Brickwork at Atlanta Technical College. His father, Ted Gipp, has promised him a job on site in the summer providing he passes his CITB-Construction Health & Safety exam this year. Fellow posse member Khujo Goodie is hoping to take A2 Levels and go on to Uni.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 30 November 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link

18876. Karl Hyde is a protoclone of "Iggy Pop," himself a vampiric clonoform regenerated from the samples that the Fancigus Collatus recovered after the Black Sea massacre of 1699.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 30 November 2007 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link

1386. Kate Nash suffers from a rare degenerative muscle condition which makes her look and sound like she's fucking twelve.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 30 November 2007 08:39 (sixteen years ago) link

1387. "Disco Duck" is based on a true story. Oddly, that story is the Nativity.

― latebloomer, Friday, 30 November 2007 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link

― stephen, Friday, 30 November 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"Ayo Technology" is about 50 Cent's decision to leave the Church of Scientology.

― The Reverend, Monday, 17 December 2007 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link

^^^1388.

― The Reverend, Monday, 17 December 2007 11:39 (sixteen years ago) link

1389. Nicolas Anelka learned English via repeatedly listening to Tanita Tikaram's 1988 album "Ancient Heart", and has a clause in his Bolton contract that initiates a release clause should Ms Tikaram ever retire from full-time touring.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 December 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link

1390. The so-called "Tapas Nine" actually includes Shovel, the former M People drummer.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 December 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

1391. Fronting an English band in the 1980s meant that there was a 12% chance your first name was Ian.

― Cunga, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link

1392. Kenney Jones was never the first choice for new drummer in The Who after Keith Moon died. It wasn't until Animal from Muppet Show declined for the fourth time that Pete Townshend finally gave up and asked Jones instead.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Kate Nash changed her name to Nash when she married Graham Nash from CSN&Y.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link

1394. Drumming for an English band in the 1990s meant there was a 12% chance your first name was Loz.

― henry s, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link

1395. The deep, erotic sighs that follow the line "Picked up the phone, dropped it on the floor" in Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" were provided by former Leeds United great Johnny Giles.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

1396. Arvo Pärt funded his studies in Tallinn by taking part in brutal street fighting rings, eventually earning the nickname "Arvey Dangerous". The 1990s US band Dangerous Harvey derived their name from this.

― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link

309.None of the Jackson Five were actually brothers. In fact, Marlon was the only one related to any of the other four.

-- Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:18 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Still love this one

― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link

1397. Most of Jack Penate's songs were originally written as part of an effort to score every single MILFHunter.com episode.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link

1398. In their heyday all three of Bananarama would on request recite the screenplay of Mike Leigh's well loved television play "Nuts In May" verbatim.

― Hedgerows, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link

748. During her appearance on Desert Island Discs, Zadie Smith chose "Popular" by Nada Surf seven times over, "in case I wear the other copies out".
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

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749. Contrary to its name, "Popular" by Nada Surf was in fact a very unpopular song, and is the only record in history to have achieved negative sales figures.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
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751. "Popular" by Nada Surf completely rips off the chord sequence from "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear" by the Alan Price Set, and was thus the subject of a 1997 court case.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:45 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Love this run.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Popular Irish lady Enya once broke her arm whilst stage diving at a Tad gig.

― Hedgerows, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link

1400 Sherman Hemsley sank thousands into designing a room in his house to resemble the Gong track "Flying Teacups."

― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link

1401 The Beatles are planning an enormous reunion tour for 2009, with Spragga Benz replacing Lennon, and Tippa Irie standing in for Harrison.

― chap, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link

1402. Jay-Z asked Sean Combs to listen to several Spoon albums, in hopes of finding a suitable sample that would get American Gangster some hipster buzz. Combs briefly considered "Was It You?" and "Metal Detektor," but then decided that the entire ouvre of Britt Daniel was simply too "dorky."

― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link

1403. On seven seperate occasions, David Lee Roth has unsuccessfully asked a member of the Donnas for a blowjob.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

1404. Eighties pop princess Kim Wilde used to babysit for gravelly voiced rock god Antony Hegarty.

― Hedgerows, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

1405. Zach Braff originally wrote "Dimmu Borgir will change your life" in his Garden State script, but co-star Natalie Portman was unable to pronounce the band's name.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link

thought this was good:

1036. Robert Wyatt sprained his ankle; he's just lazy.

-- Øystein (Øystein), Monday, June 12, 2006 8:19 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

― henry s, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link

if we're reposting...

1037. if you "take out" the letters T, C and P from the word "respect" you are left with R, E, S, and E which stands for Reverse Everything, Satan Exists. The song was recorded during Aretha's brief dalliance with The Church of The Process.

-- Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:47 PM

― musically, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link

ok wau @ that

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link

1038. Former band members of The The and Mr. Mister planned a collaboration that they planned to call "The Mister"

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link

1039. members of the the, the cult, the jam, and lisa lisa and the cult jam planned a collaboration they planned to call lisa lisa and the the cult cult jam jam

― and what, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link

1040. An Australian band named The The was forced to change its moniker after legal action from the UK act of the same name. The case was termed 'The The The vs The The case' by the press. The Australian band subsequently retitled themselves The Australian The The.

― moley, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link

The numbering's gone a bit out of whack, hasn't it? But at a guess, we should now be on...

1209. Despite it being the title of hits for Kylie, Steps and Sonia, Pete Waterman still has no idea what the phrase "Better The Devil You Know" actually means. In an interview in 1998, he claimed it was "one of those Jewish things, you know, like that Ingmar Bergman feller does."

― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link

1210. Patrick Wolf's Halo 3 handle is BillyJacquesSmoothie.

― William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link

1394. Drumming for an English band in the 1990s meant there was a 12% chance your ~~first name was Loz.~~ name was attached to crypto-racist, reactionary news articles.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link

1211. 'in rainbows' was originally intended as a concept album about rabies

― whatever, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link

botw

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link

Okay, haha. I just figured out what "botw" meant after seeing it a bunch of times before.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link

baby on the way?

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Ornette Coleman was able to achieve circular playing whilst holding a clothes peg over his nose by breathing through his eyes.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

1413. Neil Young inadvertently invented Ambient music in 1972 with a 17-minute recording of "The Needle and the Damage Done". The synth-backed track was meant to be featured on an album that was provisionally titled "Harvest: The Chillout Sessions" but that album that was later scrapped.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1414. Tone Loc got his break in the music industry as a roadie for Mike Oldfield on the latter's Crises tour. Loc originally wrote "Funky Cold Medina" over a break from "Moonlight Shadow".

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 25 February 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link

1415. The entire oevure of indie-folk band The Mountain Goats is in fact the result of the labors of one remarkably talented artist: Zombie Kurt Cobain.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 25 February 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link

1416. There is actually no direction called "up". It is an urban legend started by a 1968 Rolling Stone interview with Grace Slick.

― latebloomer, Monday, 25 February 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1417. Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from Leonard Skinner, a disciplinarian gym teacher at the band members' former school, but they chose their unique spelling so that he would be unable to Google himself and discover this mocking tribute.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link

1418. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats was once videotaped sodomizing an endangered bobcat. The video was leaked to Youtube in 2007.

― res, Monday, 31 March 2008 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link

1419. Bob Lefsetz's music industry experience consists entirely of a two-week stint MCing a karaoke bar in Dayton in 1994.

― Eppy, Monday, 31 March 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link

1420. John Darnielle is secretly an actual mountain goat

― latebloomer, Monday, 31 March 2008 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link

lol at noodle vague's latest

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 31 March 2008 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link

1421. Most of us know, by now, about Brendan Canning's performance as "stoned dude #2" on Len's ubiquitous 1999 hit "Steal My Sunshine", but no one talks about fellow Broken Social Scenesters Leslie Feist and Andrew Whiteman and thier orange jumpsuited appearance in the video for Bran Van 3000's "Drinking in LA" video despite not performing on the song itself.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Classic material.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

1422. dom passantino is the fifth beatle

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link

1423. dom secretly thinks every entry on this thread is hilarious

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link

1424. In the original draft of Ray Bradbury's "a Sound of Thunder", a time traveler goes back to 1985 and accidentally kills Justine Frischmann & Kate Radley. Upon returning to the present he finds that popular culture has changed in subtle but noticeable ways.
(this could possibly be a thread in its own right)

― Hamildan, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link

This thread contains a stunning amount of marvellous material: I salute those who have produced it.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

1425. The Stars of the Lid track "Dopamine Clouds over Craven Cottage" was titled after an (abortive) plan by Mohamed Al-Fayed to cremate the body of his son Dodi in the centre circle at half time during Fulham's opening game of the season.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Holy shit - how many years since pinefox has posted here?!

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link

About 16 hours, I think.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i see him on here often, no?

― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link

1426. Minnie Riperton only had a two-octave vocal range. The rest was done with a theremin.

― henry s, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

1427. Def Leppard took their name from an obscure old Australian expression, "Wet enough to melt the antlers off a deaf leopard."

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link

1428. Although Hype Williams is credited, the music video for Busta Rhymes' smash hit "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" was actually ghost-directed by then Williams intern David Gordon Green, who silently filled in while Williams was being treated for a rare case of motor neurons disease.

― makeitpop, Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link

1429. Every Daft Punk album since Discovery begins with a different vocal sample from southern rapper Silkk the Shocker's No Limit Records debut "Physical Graffiti".

― makeitpop, Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link

1430. Three of the four members of Interpol worked as speechwriters for Kentucky governor Brereton Jones prior to releasing their debut album. Their most celebrated work, an uplifting speech delivered during a potentially devastating energy shortage was titled "Turn On The Bright Lights".

― makeitpop, Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:57 (fifteen years ago) link

1431. Mos Def is allergic to metal. When performing live, he uses a special microphone made of whole grain wheat.

― makeitpop, Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link

1432. Hyped BBC favourites Florence and the Machine recently signed a 10-tour sponsorship deal with Wrights Pies.

― Birth Control to Ginger Tom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 January 2009 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link

1433. Former ILX Controversialist Esteban Buttez owns Australia's largest collection of Sal Solo memorabilia. Nothing by Classix Nouveaux though because he thinks they're shit.

― Birth Control to Ginger Tom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 January 2009 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link

1434. I kissed a girl and received a restraining order.

― Birth Control to Ginger Tom (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 January 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1435. Michelle Obama and her cousin, Beverly, performed in the backing band in the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense concert.

― Kyle Clewett (bassace), Monday, 26 January 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link

The movie Gremlins was based loosely on screenwriter Michael Polino's experiences hanging out with the band Lynyrd Skynyrd in the mid-1970s. The Gremlin ringleader Stripe, in particular, was modeled on the antics of Ronnie Van Zant, while the general visual appearance of the Gremlins was modeled on Polino's vision of what the band might have looked like after the fiery plane crash that killed many of the band's members in 1977. At the time of the movie's release, Lynyrd Skynyrd spokespeople and fans called the move tasteless, an opinion that seems to have softened somewhat over time.

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 26 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link

that was 1436, btw.

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 26 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link

1437. Vampire Weekend is going to have a very long and fruitful career.

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 26 January 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Bruce Springsteen admits that most of the material for 2009's "Working On A Dream" was written as he scanned the posts on fmylife.com with his guitar in his lap and his computer on his desk. He'd spend forty-five seconds trying to put an fmylife entry to music and if he thought it worked he'd turn on the tape recorder and save it for later.

― Cunga, Sunday, 29 March 2009 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link

^ 1438

― Cunga, Sunday, 29 March 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link

1439. The first "promo video" wasn't a video at all! In 1830 Felix Mendelssohn commisioned a series of Magic Lantern slides of his recent holiday in Scotland, to be shown at concert performances of The Hebrides overture when he was too wasted to attend in person.

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 March 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link

1440. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" contains a sample of George Formby saying "Eh Oop Missus".

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 March 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link

1441. That singer out of Twisted Sister was a bloke. Hairy bollocks and everything.

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 March 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link

1442. Before it was a film, a live musical or even an album, Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" was actually a sandwich.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 29 March 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link

1443. Tim Westwood's dad is actually just a vicar.

― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link

1444. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Mrs Dalloway didn't do so well.

― Vanessa del Rio Ferdinand (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link

1445. Linda Ronstadt's cover of "Nookie" was supposed to be released on September 11, 2001, but was suspiciously canned at the last minute.

― Euler, Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

If you search #beatlefacts today on Twitter there are some pretty good ones!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link

1446. Beth Ditto derived her stage name by making an anagram of "hotbed tit."

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link

1447. Formerly popular production duo The Neptunes originally got together as a Chas and Dave tribute act.

― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link

1448. Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully molded Garth Brooks.

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link

1449. Garth Brooks (real name Duane Jockstrap) chose his stage name in honour of former Spurs striker and BBC pundit Garth Crooks. Brooks became a fan of Tottenham Hotspur during the year he spent at UCL whilst studying for his degree in Theoretical Physics.

― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link

1450. Ringo Starr plays drums on the first Led Zeppelin album; Bernard Purdie played on the rest.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link

1451. None of Cabaret Voltaire's recorded music has ever been played on any radio station in the world, ever. The only airplay they've ever gotten is the result of their infrequent live simulcast performances transmitted worldwide by satellite and emanating from their secret underground facility in Dresden.

― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 May 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

1452. The New York Dolls originally formed as a high-school barbershop quartet; they called themselves The Latin Kings, due to their prowess at classical languages.

― William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 15 May 2009 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link

1453. What's that Lassie? Young Jeezy's trapped down a well you say?

― Dom P's Rusty Nuts (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 May 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1454. Ben Ofoedu, vocalist on Phats and Smalls' 1999 classic "Turn Around", is now engaged to TV nightmare Vanessa Feltz, and often spends his time kissing and touching the demented harpy as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Sunday, 21 June 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link

1455. Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist DJ Talent originally DJed under the name DJ Swine Flu.

― Eastürzendes Annoybaten (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link

1456. PJ Harvey and DJ Harvey are brother and sister.

― daniel merriweather post pavillion (haitch), Sunday, 21 June 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee's nickname 'T-bomb' refers to his ability to deliver blunt and uncompromising, yet fair, assessments of people and situations

― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 21 June 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link

1458. On the original mono recording of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks Van can clearly be heard calling "who wants something from the chipper?" during the instrumental break in "Slim Slow Slider".

― Eastürzendes Annoybaten (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link

1459. The theme tune of BBC1 sitcom Men Behaving Badly was composed and performed by Wynton Marsalis.

― Eastürzendes Annoybaten (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link

1460. Varg Vikernes came up with his former pseudonym Count Grishnackh by combining his favourite musician, Count Basie, with the surname of childhood friend Dave Grishnackh.

― Pimp My Hearse (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 June 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Peter Hook (born Josef Hyman Mancewitz in Haifa, Israel) learned to play bass by stringing rubber bands over a bowls of matzah ball soup. His family left Israel in the early 1970s when Hook accepted a job at a Sheffield steel plant.

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Sunday, 5 July 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

1462. The Shins were originally called Untitled Wes Anderson Project

― Death to False Meta (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1463. In the late 00s, mainstream hiphop has enjoyed an increased popularity in "indie-centric" weblogs due to its lessened reliance on sounding like mid-90s Laibach.

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

1464. Dylan Kwabena Mills (aka 'Dizzee Rascal') began the 00s as the opening act for English pop group BBMak and filmed a cameo on Lizzee McGuire that to this point (Dec '09) has never aired. At the time he went under the stage name "Dizzney Rascal"

― Cunga, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link

1465. The major problem of the Petrucci Music Library in their quest to freely publish all classical sheet music currently out of copyright is that Paul McCartney claims he is the owner of the likeness of the C clef due to his kinship with a founder of the 15th Century Flemish National Bank.

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link

noah lennox aka 'panda bear' spent 1.5 years in prison for shooting a 12 year old in the face

― Fellini.Kuti, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link

1466. Dwight Eisenhower invented ska.

― abanana, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link

1467. Todd Rundgren and Trevor Horn got in a slappyfight once at a producer's conference.

― I X Love (Abbott), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link

1468. In November of 2009, a Los Angles Superior Court judge threw out a suit brought by Jenny McCarthy, who alleged all the vegetation on her property died in the months following the purchase of the adjacent home by Lemmy Kilmister.

― bendy, Friday, 8 January 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link

1469. When released in 1964 The Beatles' hit song 'Eight Days a Week' was titled literally, as it was not until the 1974 miners' strike that Ted Heath's Conservative government eliminated Smuesday from the British week.

― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Friday, 8 January 2010 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link

1470. "My Morning Jacket" is the best band name ever

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Yay! 2010 revive of my favorite thread ever, just in time for these nugget:

1471. Stephin Merritt is a direct descendent of Lenin.
1472. Alice Cooper and Rod Stewart once made a bet over who could eat the most live goldfish (they tied).
1473. Kevin Shields is remastering the two MBV albums.
1474. will.i.am is currently in the studio with Dirty Projectors (he and Dave Longstreth went to NASA Space Camp together).

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 January 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link

1475. A piano technician was summoned to Aretha Franklin's home because her piano sounded muffled. He opened the lid and discovered that the piano's interior was covered with a sound-deadening layer of flourescent orange Cheetos crumbs.

― mottdeterre, Friday, 8 January 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link

1476. historians report that the song "Caroline No" was sped up, at Murry Wilson's request, to make Brian's voice sound higher and more youthful. in actuality, the sheet music for "Caroline No" called for session bassist Carol Kaye to play the infamous brown note at the beginning of each verse. during a memorable studio session, Carol did just that. after she and the rest of the session musicians had showered, put on new underpants, etc., they were too irritated to run through the song once more. so the engineer just sped up the otherwise flawless recording until it no longer produced the offending frequency.

― petprojectfoundation.org/success/roberto.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 9 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link

1477. Coldplay was engaged to play in the kids area of the last Bilderberg conference

― meisenfek, Saturday, 9 January 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link

1478. Dave Sabo of Skid Row is an in-demand voice artist in his spare time. His most recent movie role is Eleanor the Chipette in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

― Chelsea Rabbit Rapist (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 January 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link

1479. The keyboard player from Wheatus has a phd in gender studies.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Saturday, 9 January 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link

1480. Sebadoh's Eric Gaffney checked himself into Cedars-Sinai in an attempt to combat his addiction to tap water.

― PaulTMA, Saturday, 9 January 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link

1481. Sean Moore of the Manic Street Preachers has a tattoo of Gregg Alexander on his neck.

― PaulTMA, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link

1482. James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has a tattoo of Graham Alexander on his neck.

― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link

1483 Graham Alexander has a tattoo of Sheena Easton on his neck.

― Chelsea Rabbit Rapist (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link

1484. Sheena Easton once gave David Nugent a cheese platter.

― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link

1485. Bryan MacLean of Love received a producer's credit on the film Where Eagles Dare, after introducing producer Elliott Kastner to his uncle, adventure novelist Alasair MacLean, at a party in 1967. The younger MacLean told Kastner, "You guys should get my uncle to write a story about this castle where me and the guys live."

― ithappens, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link

1486. Young Dro took his stage name from his hero Didier Drogba.

― Chelsea Rabbit Rapist (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link

1487. Kate Bush and John Bush, formerly of Anthrax, are second cousins.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Saturday, 9 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link

1498. Tesla's "Five Man Acoustical Jam" isn't entirely acoustical. Nor was it a jam. And come to think of it, there may have been more than five people involved (including future members of fellow Sacramento band Cake).

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

1499. Coldplay often plays fetish conventions under the alternate name Cosplay.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link

1500. The guitar solo on Purple Haze was played by Joe Brown, rather than by Jimi Hendrix, who was incapacitated on the day of recording by a dodgy curry the night before.

― ithappens, Sunday, 10 January 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link

1501. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Moby owns the world's largest collection of vintage track suits.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 10 January 2010 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link

1502. The little dreadlocked kid from the Bombfunk MCs 'Freestyler' video insisted on listening to Carnage Visors on his headphones throughout filming.

― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link

1503. Fields Of The Nephilim got the inspiration for their unusual name from guitarist Paul Wright's drinking buddy and local dairy farmer Dave Nephilim.

― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Due to his sheltered upbringing, Miles Davis always thought that cartoons were real, just filmed with a special camera.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link

1505. Brian Poole of the Tremeloes was the Official British Champion Milkman in 1975, delivering 204 pints of milk to 50 houses in just nine minutes and 23 seconds, on a route at the United Dairies test circuit near Thetford.

― ithappens, Sunday, 10 January 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link

1506. Pop mogul Simon Cowell and Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman have been blood brothers for over twenty years, having bonded on a long-haul flight over a shared enthusiasm for keeping tropical fish. Their friendship is such that Cowell filled in for Coleman on three dates of Killing Joke's 2003 tour, when the latter was suffering from ameobic dysentry. Cowell did such a good job that not even Coleman's bandmates noticed.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link

1507. The most decorated band in pop history was Jefferson Airplane. Marty Balin, Paul Kantner and Spencer Dryden held Purple Hearts from their service in Vietnam, Jorma Kaukonen was awarded the Medal of Honor after scoring some preemo grass for a then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Grace Slick holds Denmark's Order of the Elephant following a crazy mix-up involving some Rugbrød and an endangered Puffin.

― Chelsea Rabbit Rapist (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link

1508. In 1978 David Byrne spent 6 months conducting research into whether animals know what a joke is. His conclusion - that they don't - was discredited in 1985 when Mike Watt succeeded in eliciting a response from a team of trained Armadillos that he'd been playing Richard Pryor videos to in laboratory conditions.

― Chelsea Rabbit Rapist (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link

1509. Jonathan Richman has travelled to Iraq three times to train US troops in rapid wall-building in combat situations.

― ithappens, Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link

1510. Tori Amos has tiny vestigal bat wings sprouting from the base of her spine.

― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link

1511. Purely by coincidence, when they were toddlers, all of the members of These New Puritans appeared as extras in Look Who's Talking Too, though sadly not in the same scene.

― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Monday, 11 January 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

This one was all over the internet:

Roxanne Shanté and Warner Bros had a contractual agreement to fund Shante's education for life. After the company was sued by the MC, Warners ended up paying more than $200,000, to finance Shanté's undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College and Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell. Today Shanté" has launched an unconventional therapy practice focusing on urban African-Americans in which she incorporates hip-hop music into her sessions, encouraging her clients to unleash their inner MC and shout out exactly what's on their minds.

― mottdeterre, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Um, "this one" would be #1512

― mottdeterre, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link

1513. Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor has said he knew exactly what he wanted his band to sound like when, as a small child, he heard Paul McCartney's "Temporary Secretary" on the radio.

― Cunga, Sunday, 17 January 2010 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link

1514. Tiger Woods will reportedly skip the Masters this year and allow Alice Cooper to play in his spot. This is technically within the rules at Augusta National, thanks to an obscure and poorly-worded club policy that allows for non-members or non-exempted players to compete on the grounds of the club in the event of "elective family emergencies". The policy has not been enacted since 1954, when Frank Sinatra played in place of Ben Hogan. Sinatra shot an 82-80 in the first two rounds and missed the cut by 18 strokes.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ Classic material

― Sammo Hungover (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 January 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link

1515. Last year, one of Sting's hirelings lost his job after he misheard an instruction from his boss. Instead of buying 3000 acres of rainforest to prevent beef cattle being grazed on the land, he had 3000 beefburgers from the Rainforest Cafe delivered to the studio where Sting was recording his album of festive music. Sessions were cancelled for ten days to fumigate the studio, at Trudi Styler's insistence.

― ithappens, Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Johnny's Depp's flamboyant pirate character from Pirate of the Caribbean, despite claims it was based on Keith Richards, was really based on Adam Ant. Depp had seen one of his videos on vh1 classic at 4AM in 2001, and recalls feeling "drunkenly nostalgic and inspired."

― Cunga, Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

that was 1516

― Cunga, Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link

1517. The album He Poos Clouds by Canadian indie rock artist Final Fantasy was originally submitted to his national Olympic Committee for use at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games during the biathlon events; however, the organizers turned down the offer. The album's title reflects its history; the Norwegian word for "biathlon" – "skiskyting" (literally "ski shooting") – is sometimes humourously corrupted into "skyskiting", ie "cloudshitting".

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 14 February 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link

1518. The day his Nebula Award-winning novel Babel-17 was published, Samuel R. Delany was playing bass in The Blue Flame under the name Randy Palmer. The guitarist for this group, Jimmy James, was of course Jimi Hendrix. Oddly, neither of them are thought to have influenced each other one damn bit.

― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 14 February 2010 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link

1519. For one week in 1984, Mike Tyson was the drummer for Faith No More. Mike Patton reportedly kicked him out of the band because he wanted to be the only Mike in the band. Also Tyson fucked his girlfriend.

― Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link

1520. Michael Jackson isn't dead.

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

1521. Lady Gaga originally went by the name Lady GooGoo (a phrase that was also taken from the Queen song) but reluctantly changed her stage name after lawsuits were threatened by the management team of American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. The band and Ms. Gaga have since made amends and become close acquaintances, leading to Goo Goo Dolls lead singer John Rzeznik's appearance as an extra in the video for "Bad Romance".

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link

1522. Adam Ant's "pirate" persona was conceived as a tribute to Keith Richards, whom he met backstage after a Stones concert, snorting lines of ground-to-powder Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal.

― Ceci n'est pas une display name (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1533. In 2014, Rock Band will make its debut as an official Winter Olympics event - the only such sport not involving snow or ice.

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 08:12 (fourteen years ago) link

1524. In 1993, techno producer/label head Wolfgang Voigt was a driving force behind the "Provisional German Beer Law" that officially replaced the older Beer Purity Laws of 1516. When asked to comment on his role in enacting the new law during a 2008 interview, he said "we design the aesthetic in our music to conform to certain standards of streamlined simplicity. This need not always be true of our beer."

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link

1525. Family Guy's elderly pedophile character was voiced by Rod Stewart until 2007.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link

1526. Justin Bieber's favourite song of all time is Ned's Atomic Dustbin's "Kill Your Television".

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

1527. Gucci Mane had a supporting role on "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper"

― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link

1528. Dr. Hook was a session band put together to perform songs written by Adrian Belew and Keith Rowe

― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link

1529. Stryper mistakenly aligned itself with the White Power movement in the 80s because they thought it was a grassroots Christian movement.

― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link

1530. Lloyd Banks was the last amateur jockey to place in the Grand National in 2003.

― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link

1531. Michael McDonald sings the way he does because he has had a dorito lodged in his throat since 1983.

― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link

1532. Industrial band KMFDM's name actually stands for "Kids: My Fearful Death Moppets"

― Auntie Miss Andry (latebloomer), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link

1533. Michael Stipe formed R.E.M. to leave his gangbanger life behind.

― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link

1534. The bass and keyboard parts on Smoke on the Water were played by Chas and Dave, because Roger Glover and Jon Lord were being treated for smoke inhalation at a Swiss hospital during recording sessions for that song.

― ithappens, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1535. Raekwon calls himself a "chef" because he once worked for 3 weeks at a KFC Buffet in Evansville, Indiana. Yum Brands, the corporation that owns KFC, unsuccessfully sued Raekwon to stop him from using the title, because it implies that KFC sells food (rather, they claim to be selling a "unique dining experience"). In her judicial statement, Judge Judith Kranowitz suggested that the "construction, arrangement, and placement on trays of fresh food products, food-like substances, and products being sold for the purpose of consumption through by means of the human oral orifice" licenses one to refer to oneself as a chef even if it does not constitute the "primary objective of establishment's transactions." Upon hearing of his legal victory, Raekwon celebrated by cooking up a batch of crack cocaine and gingerly smoking the rock as he waxed contemplative with reporters.

― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Raekwon: Korean, Lil Kim: not Korean

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

1537.

In 2011 Kanye West collaborates with new best friend George W. Bush on a song called "Mr. Misunderstood," which uses a slowed down sample of the Animals' "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (1965)" and references Condi Rice, Des'Ree, and Animorphs.

― Cunga, Thursday, 25 November 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link

1538. Former MTV VJ Bill Bellamy gained 170 lbs to play the part of Notorious B.I.G. in the 2009 film "Notorious."

― billstevejim, Thursday, 25 November 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

1539. Judas Priest were originally called Turbulent Priest, but had to change their name as it was unpronounceable to the vast majority of Birmingham residents.

― Pauls to the Wall (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 March 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

1540. Billy Bragg's single "Sexuality" was originally titled "Bestiality", but his record label convinced him that a paean to his predilection for shagging tortoises was unlikely to gain radio airplay.

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

1541. 2 months before the release of Sublime's major label debut album, Brad Nowell completed a lucrative heroin transaction, allowing him to fake his own death and move to a sprawling ranch in Montana. Unable to resist the lure of the spotlight, he returned to music three years later under the stage name Brad Paisley.

― kkvgz, Friday, 15 July 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link

1542. Noted philosopher and public intellectual AC Grayling was born AC DC, but changed his name to avoid confusion between his solo Jew's harp project and a certain Australian rock band.

― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link

1543. katy perry's real name is ballooney marooney bingy blop toozlewip gaboon viper
1544. that band foster the people is just viral marketing for foster's beer

― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link

1545. Kurt Cobaine missed on his first two goes.

― dave lool (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link

1546. on the third try he was able to shoot the letter 'e' off of his name

― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Friday, 15 July 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link

1547. avid commodities trader Liam Gallagher named his new band after what he considers the "most essential" economic indicator, the Baltic Dry Index

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 15 July 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link

1548. The Cramps took their name from the athletic experiences of Bryan Gregory. In a trial for the 1976 US Olympic team, Gregory had been expected to qualify comfortably for the 800m, setting a season's best of 1:43:75 in the heat. In the final, however, he was overcome by cramping in his left hamstring in the back straight of the second lap. He retired from competitive athletics immediately afterwards, but on a dare after a gig at CBGB in 1978, he ran 800 metres up the Bowery in a time unofficially recorded at 1:42. He was wearing chelsea boots with cuban heels at the time, making his achievement all the more remarkable.

― Trudi Styler, the Creator (ithappens), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link

1549. Leonard Cohen (nee Koenigsberg) took his name from Belorussian pop star Nikolay Kogen, as a tribute following Kogen's unfortunate death in a skiing accident in 1978. Anyone who claims they saw Leonard Cohen performing under his current name prior to 1978 is lying.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link

1550. Ladytron recently made the Guinness Book of World Records by recording and re-releasing their single "Ghosts" in 24 different languages, including several extinct ones.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

1551. Sir Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono culminated a secret 40-plus year romance by getting married on April 29th of this year. Although the wedding wasn't technically a secret, the world's media was too preoccupied with the William & Kate wedding to notice.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

1552. The Power of Equality by Red Hot Chili Peppers'contains a tribute to Ralph Bakshi's full-length animated feature Wizards. The line "My name is Peace this is my hour" is a reference to the character Necron 99, whose name is changed to "Peace" 20 minutes into the film's 80 minutes running time.

― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link

1553. k.d. lang is actually a man.

― Turrican, Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

1554. Another "one of the best videos of all time" according to Kanye West is The Bluetones' 'Marblehead Johnson'.

― Peas, Ants, Pigs & Astronauts (PaulTMA), Friday, 21 October 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link

1555. Stephin Merritt currently voices Kermit the Frog.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 October 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link

1556. The directions listed in 'Busy Doin' Nothin'' by The Beach Boys don't actually lead to Brian Wilson's house, as is commonly believed, but to a brothel, where you will find Brian keeping busy while he waits.

― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Friday, 21 October 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link

1557. If you get to track 7 on the CD of 'O, Inverted World' and hit reverse on the CD before it starts playing, you access a secret track called 'The Ballad Of Pippa's Arse', which may, if you're lucky, change your life.

― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 21 October 2011 08:50 (twelve years ago) link

1558. The first singer in Judas Priest was the Rev Giles Fraser, now a popular figure on Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link

1559. Original Tool bassist Paul D'Amour was the namesake of 80s glam-rock band Dogs D'Amour. Vocalist Ned Christie baby- (and dog-) sat for the D'Amour family in the 1970s.

― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 21 October 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link

five months pass...

8. In 1985 Bob Geldof spent 4 days bombarding Gene Vincent's management with requests for him to play Live Aid, before being told that Gene had died in 1971.

http://deadspin.com/5901803/london-olympics-invite-keith-moon-dead-for-34-years-to-play-closing-ceremony

― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 April 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The music from the Bodyform advert, as sung by Stevie Vann, got to number 36 in the UK music charts in February 1991.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link

It had a verse and a bridge and everything.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link

'70s Solar Records artist Carrie Lucas is the illegitimate half sister of George Lucas. They discovered their shared parentage in the early '80s and, in a show of familial solidarity, George cast Carrie in Return of the Jedi as Jabba the Hutt's right arm.

― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link

Billy Bragg auditioned to replace Zach De La Rocha as singer of RATM prior to them splitting up.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

"Florence and the Machine" is an anagram of "Francis and the Lights"

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Even though it doesn't sound like it Bryan Ferry's 'Let's Stick Together' is actually a cover of Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together'

― bidfurd, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link

Mark Hollis works at the donut shop down the street. (The donuts are just OK, though).

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

shortly before the release of Treasure, the Cocteau Twins got a court order forbidding writers from using the description "tedious New Age" in reviews. the music press was initially outraged at the censorship, but journalists soon got crafty and learned to write in code. it soon became common knowledge that whenever a reviewer wrote something like, "the song drifts off into an ethereal haze", what he really meant was "the song drifts off into a tedious New Age haze", etc.

― starfish succulents (unregistered), Thursday, 21 June 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link

1567. in her senile later years, protest singer Malvina Reynolds would often write the same song multiple times without even realizing it. she'd come to her publisher with a new song called "Teensy Boxes", and he'd have to tell her, "why Malvina, this is just a rewrite of 'Little Boxes'. you wrote this 15 years ago." but it was no use, and she only got worse over time. from December 31, 1975 until her death in 1978, she wrote over 1,000 songs and poems, but all of them were titled "Don't Lick that Envelope" and all of them began with the words

it's bad enough to pay your rent,
but the price of stamps just went up 3 cents
a postcard soon will cost ten dollars
but the postmaster's dog wears diamond collars
don't lick that enevelope, it's made of gold
don't lick that envelope, it's made of gold

to this day, nobody has ever recorded it.

― starfish succulents (unregistered), Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link

1568. Eddie Vedder is such a fan of the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch that he tried to buy the vessel Cornelia Marie after Captain Phil Harris died. He was dissuaded by Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern, a Pearl Jam fan who did not wish to see the band torn apart by Vedder's crab-fishing dreams.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Saturday, 23 June 2012 09:26 (eleven years ago) link

1569. "Kula Shaker" is the Sanskrit translation of popular internet meme, "hen fap".

― Gentlemen Take Instagram Photos (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 23 June 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link

1570. Lindsey Buckingham wrote the in-game music for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis futuristic driving title, "Out Run 2019". The Stage 3 music was based on "The Trip (Theme from Vacation)", the B-side to "Holiday Road".

― Gentlemen Take Instagram Photos (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 23 June 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link

1571. The pilot episode of 90s game show The Crystal Maze was hosted by Schoolly D.

― democracy defends capital (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link

1572. Celtic Frost was the winner of the Greyhound Derby in 1978.

― democracy defends capital (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link

1573. The trademark in the band name "Doctor Feelgood" is owned by the British Ministry of Defence. Lee Brilleaux sold it to a civil servant in 1983, when both were drunk in a hotel bar in Torbay and Brilleaux was desperate for £50. The original members have been engaged in an ongoing battle to buy the name back, and have vowed never to play under that band name until they do so.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Sunday, 24 June 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link

1574. Harry Chapin recorded all 10 of his albums during a manic, coke-fueled, 96-hour-long recording session between October 14 and 18, 1971. he died in a car crash later that year. all of his releases were posthumous, and he still has about 100 albums' worth of material in the vaults (though the last 48 hours of tape is just Harry yelling "my boy was just like me" in various comedy voices (mostly wolves) while someone plucks a sitar in the background)

― starfish succulents (unregistered), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link

1575. Neutral Milk Hotel originally conceived In the Aeroplane Over the Sea as a concept album about Jeff Mangum's love for the 20-year-old Patty Hearst. The band politely sought Patty's approval by sending her a demo of the album, but all they got in response were libel threats from Patty's attorney. Intimidated, Jeff hurriedly rewrote many of his lyrics, replacing all the Patty Hearst references with Anne Frank references. an alleged demo version of "Frisco, 1974" has been widely circulated online.

― starfish succulents (unregistered), Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

1576. Deicide's shelved first attempt at a sophomore record consisted entirely of uncannily faithful covers of Edith Piaf songs.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

1577. The Weeknd produced Godspeed! You Black Emperor's first demos.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Sunday, 8 July 2012 09:06 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

1578. Sergei Prokofiev wrote "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers.

― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

Stereophonics hit 2005 single "Dakota" was about Kelly Jones' ill-fated relationship with the daughter of professional wrestler Dustin "Goldust" Runnels.

― Sgt. Biscuits, Friday, 11 January 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

On the chorus of Television's 1978 single "Foxhole", the band were actually singing "FUCK SOUL FUCK SOUL", the group's enmity for the genre stemming from an earlier incident where Ronnie Isley was witnessed to have laughed at one of the contours of Tom Verlaine's Jazzmaster.

― crazed lerner fan (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link

On the chorus of Don Johnson's 1986 version of "Heartbeat", Johnson was actually singing "HARPY, LOOKING FOR A HARPY". CBS executives released the record under its original title without Johnson's knowledge, fearing that the Miami Vice star's longstanding preoccupation with the grotesque mythical creatures would be interpreted as misogynistic.

― crazed lerner fan (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago) link

Bruno Mars is so named because he was conceived while his parents were playing Bruce Willis's The Return of Bruno.

― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link

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― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link

Bruno Mars is so named because he was conceived while his parents were playing Bruce Willis's The Return of Bruno.

― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought he chose the name for himself because of his infatuation with Bruno Ganz and his "warlike" musical style

― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

four weeks pass...

1582. Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was quietly canonized by the Catholic Church less than a month after her death in 2009. she is the patron saint of turtlenecks and raw foodists.

― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

(and jet plane passengers, obviously)

― second geir, lean right (little hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

1583. Stephin Merritt does not know how to play guitar.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 02:18 (eleven years ago) link

1584. deadmau5 is actually the sound project of george w. bush, who began fooling around on garage band during the final years of his presidency, anxious to find a hobby to fill his time in retirement.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link

The Doors' "Horse Latitudes" is the official song of the Kentucky Derby.

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 28 April 2013 04:58 (eleven years ago) link

1586: Lou Reed eats breakfast every morning at "Pies and Thighs" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He orders chicken and waffles and they serve him an hour before the restaurant opens for the public.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link

1586. R&B singer Brandy's "The Boy is Mine" sounds exactly the same played backwards as forwards.
1587. As a followup to his 1978 smash hit single "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", Rod Stewart released "Tuck It Under the Mole". The single did not chart.

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 28 April 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link

1588. The original series proposition for Man Vs Food was drawn up by Jonathan Richman, who passed it to his son Adam when he realised the show would interfere with his touring schedule.
1589. The idea came from Jonathan's habit of taking on an eating challenge in every town he plays.
1590. Jimmy Page is a fully qualified nursery nurse.

― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Sunday, 28 April 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link

1591. before rebranding as "rod stewart", rod stewart achieved some notoriety as the inventor of Pringles brand potato-inspired chips.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link

1592. Elvis Presley was actually just his stage name, he was born Melvin Minkovsky in Yonkers, NY.

― earlnash, Sunday, 28 April 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

1593. "Pylon's" albums are just Blondie outtakes. There was never such a band as Pylon.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link

1594. conan o'brien plays drums on several of the songs on galaxie 500's debut album "today"

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link

(i'm done writing these, sorry)

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link

The bass sound on Sly's "Family Affair" comes from the amp got shot in the woofer cause of drugs.

― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link

i heard that sly recorded his vocals for that album laying in bed. is that true?

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

1596. "The Amp Got Shot in the Woofer Cause of Drugs" initially appeared as the B-side to Sly and the Family Stone's 1971 hit, "Family Affair". This edition of single was pulled within days of its October 16 release date, however, when the FDA discovered that the vinyl used contained dangerously high levels of several toxic ketone compounds. When the single was re-released on 6 November 1971, the new pressing was backed with "Luv n' Haight". "The Amp Got Shot in the Woofer Cause of Drugs" has not since been released or compiled, and the few known copies of the original single (the volatile toxic compounds having long ago evaporated) trade for upwards of $1,000.

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link

lol.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link

damn dude, I was never sure before.

― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 28 April 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link

i always picture him like that when i listen to the album anyway. it's probably my favorite album ever.

― Pat Finn, Monday, 29 April 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link

fuck yeah. damn close anyway. and whether or not he did, he ought to have recorded it from bed. riot story i always heard (provenance dubious at best) is that the songs attains their softened, bleary-eyed vibe as the product of endless re-recordings on the same master. sly would bring a new girl into the studio "every night" and have her re-track this or that vocal part as part of some drug-fueled seduction routine. like check it baby, you're gonna be a star, see. stories...

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link

so like 1596.5

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link

lolling at "got shot in the woofer"

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link

In the village of Kapkatet, Kenya in the late 1990′s, members of the Kipsigi tribe somehow came across a few records of Sinead O'Connor. Convinced that such strange sounds could not come from a human, the voice was attributed to a centaur-like spirit they called Chenedokona. This half-man half-antelope is honored in fertility rites where young Kipsigi maidens dance seductively to the Sinead O'Connor records, begging her to join them in a leaping dance in hopes that Chenedokona will jump completely out of her clothes.

― m0stlyClean, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

^lol!

― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link

1598. you can make the http://i.imgur.com/s91yDLG.png symbol on Windows by holding down the Alt key and typing 1999.

― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link

1599. Due to a Warner Bros. vault fire, there are no surviving copies of The Pogues' debut album, "Red Roses For Me." In 1997, a fan discovered a copy at a Van Nuys pawn shop, but the LP contained no music, just 77 minutes of sampled police sirens.

― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link

1600. david bowie has no memory of recording station to station in los angeles, during the height of his coke addiction. (i know that bowie himself is the source for this but... come on. no way.)

― the strange and important sound of the synthesizer (Treeship), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:04 (eleven years ago) link

my middle school music teacher tried to convince my class that Eric Clapton had virtually no memory of the 20 years of his life that coincided with his most serious drug abuse. 20 years!

― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago) link

If only his audience could be so lucky.

― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:10 (eleven years ago) link

i wonder if eric clapton hates himself

― the strange and important sound of the synthesizer (Treeship), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link

It's okay, I can pitch in if he doesn't

― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Thursday, 6 June 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

1601. Noted film director Werner Herzog only owns one CD and forbids any other music to be played in his presence, it is entitled Gordon by the Bare Naked Ladies

― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1602. in homage to early wax cylinder technology, which didn't allow duplication, every copy of Tiny Tim's single "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips" contained a unique recording of the song. at the peak of the song's popularity, Tiny would sing it over and over in the recording studio more than 500 times per day, reducing his output only after the pressing plant workers went on strike.

― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link

omg

― Treeship, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

that's the best one so far. and plausible in its way.

― Treeship, Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link

thanks! I got the idea from reading George W. Johnson's wiki entry (50 times per day is impressive enough), y'know.

― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

1603. Johnny Burnette's hit song originally went, "You're nine, you're beautiful, and you're mine," but he changed it at the last minute because he thought the internal rhyme was too gauche.

― ☉.☉☂ (unregistered), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link

1605. Kate Bush and Andy Partridge have been indulging their love of the road by billing themselves as The Captain and Tennile - Unplugged! and limiting their performances to the hinterlands of Southeast Asia, the outback of Australia and also, the outhouses of Utah.

― rattled, Friday, 21 June 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link

1606 - Wishing to be more informed to handle copyright issues facing his band, Keith Richards earned a law degree online in 2008.

― Treeship, Friday, 21 June 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link

1607. NASA lied when they said the Voyager Golden Record included everything from Bach to Chuck Berry to Inuit war dances. it was really just a gold-plated copy of Mothership Connection.

― unregistered, Saturday, 22 June 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

1608. The stage name of the artist who recently released the album True Romance is properly pronounced "Charli Ninety-Ten".

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 26 July 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link

1609. While lesser know than Bowie's more successful personas such as Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke, Sass-Talkin' Grandma remains one of Bowie's most beloved characters. Created during his Vics 44-induced lost weekend w/Ruth Buzzy in Brandson, MO, Grandma was known for her southern drawl and witty catchphrases. Bowies' follow-up, Mittens - the lovable hobo, was met with mixed reviews.

― Darin, Friday, 26 July 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link

1610. bob dylan has been known to post to popular internet messageboard ilxor.com under the alias "waterface"

― fervently nice (Treeship), Friday, 26 July 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link

1611. John Mayer got his start in the New Bohemians

― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link

1612. The original title for Queen's 1977 album track, 'Get Down, Make Love', was originally 'Get Down, Make Loaves', and featured a different set of lyrics with a bread making theme to them. Brian May and John Deacon were apparently enthused by the original composition, but Roger Taylor decried the song as being a little "naff", leading Freddie Mercury to rewrite the lyrics based on a more universal, sexual theme. "We battled with Rog for ages over that one," recalls poodle-haired guitarist May, "we argued that it was perfectly acceptable for him to write songs about being in love with his car, but yet Fred writes this lovely, domesticated thing - quite a rarity for him - and suddenly there's a lot of protest. Warburtons even took an interest at one point, so we lost a lot of money in potential advertising income. Fred was sneaky though, and if you listen closely to the track, he is in fact singing 'loave' instead of 'love' at some points in the track as a bit of a fuck you to Rog."

― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Friday, 16 August 2013 06:47 (ten years ago) link

1613. Bad Brains won Best Punk/Hardcore Video at the first Video Music Awards, an honor they then bragged about in the song "Attitude" ("Hey, we got that VMA!")

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link

five months pass...

1614. Kitty Pryde is David Tibet's biological daughter.

― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Friday, 14 February 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

1615. Ted Nugent's family invented nougat, which is why he changed his last name. He wanted to succeed on his own merits.
1616. Thom Yorke is classically trained in tuba.
1617. Iggy Pop has an Etsy shop sideline that specializes in knit yarn cupcakes.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 April 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

1618. Britt Daniel adopted his stage name after a chance meeting with a young Daniel Radcliffe at a Harry Potter convention.
1619. Tom Waits honed his craft on the kibbutz circuit.
1620. Thomas Edison invented rap.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link

1621. Morrissey is really seriously ill

― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link

1622. Sinead O'Connor first shaved her head prior to a casting call by the producers of the fifth film in the Star Trek franchise to replace Persis Khambatta as Ilia. O'Connor won the role and was featured prominently in the film and in all subsequent Star Trek films based around the cast of the original series. O'Connor left the music industry after her popular character was spun off into her own series.

― Slurping Peppers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link

1623. The so-called "demon" make-up that Gene Simmons dons is actually his real face. The other guys in Kiss all wear make-up to help buoy his crippling low self-esteem.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link

1624. The Scott Walker featured on the upcoming SunnO))) collaboration is not *that* Scott Walker, and is in fact a financial adviser from Swindon who shares the same name.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link

Phillip Phillips' real name is Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip LaDon Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillip Phillips, which he shortened to Phillip Phillips so people wouldn't forget his name.

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link

that was 1625.

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link

1626. Soundgarden's Chris Cornell dated TV mainstay Oprah Winfrey briefly in the spring of 1993 after meeting her backstage at an awards show. The relationship was reportedly tempestuous, but the straw that broke the camel's back came when Cornell sang her an acapella version of a new song he was workshopping. The song, which eventually became the #1 smash "Black Hole Sun," was later released on their hit album "Superunknown."

"The moment I heard those strangled vocals," Winfrey allegedly told a close confidant, "I knew that he couldn't be the One. He was talking about 'snakes of disgrace' or something... It was weird and I just had to leave."

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link

1627. Olivia Newton-John originally wrote "Hopelessly Devoted To You" as the official AmWay theme song during her brief association with the company. After her messy departure, she hastily remade the song into the Charmin toilet tissue jingle we recognize today.

― Slurping Peppers (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link

1628. Blurred Lines was originally written as a jingle for the American Optometric Association, as an encouragement to people to check their prescription. Thicke's manager heard the jingle when collected a new pair of sunglasses, and realised that with some slight lyrical changes, it could be a summer breakout hit, and paid the jinglewriters $200 for use of the song.

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 31 July 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link

Many of the lyrics for Haddaway's "What Is Love" were lifted from a collection of letters written by Immanuel Kant to his favourite mistress. However, the "baby don't hurt me" line was Haddaway's personal creation, which he insisted on leaving in the song despite protests from his record company.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 31 July 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link

^^ 1629

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 31 July 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link

1630. I read that the lyrics actually date to the year 1629.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link

1631. Jimmy Osmond murdered thirteen fans at a 1973 Hong Kong concert when the then 10-year-old Osmond wildly fired a .45 from the stage. Osmond fled the country immediately thereafter and was never formally charged with the murders. His infamous 1993 comeback album, I Killed Thirteen People, went triple platinum in the US (but only double platinum in Hong Kong).

― Slurping Peppers (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link

1632. Beck Hansen is estranged from his birth family as a result of his choice of career. Beck was born into the Hansen crabfishing dynasty, starts of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, the younger brother of Sig, Edgar and Norman, who work aboard the Northwestern. It was expected he would join the crew as a deckhand, but after one trip – during which the Northwestern tradition of forcing greenhorns to bite the head off a raw herring caused a violent allergic reaction that laid him up for the whole voyage – Beck fled Alaska for LA to become a singer. His family disowned him, with Sig telling his younger brother: "You're a loser, baby. And I'm going to kill you."

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

1633. Lil' Kim recently set a new world record in the men's marathon, clocking in at 2:02:57. Her attempt at doing so incognito, under the alter ego of "Dennis Kimetto" from Kenya, failed due to the transparency of the pseudonym: she used her middle name Denise for the forename, while "Kimetto" is obviously just a masculinized Italian translation of "Lil' Kim".

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 3 October 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link

1634. Jonathan Richman disowned his son Adam partway through the first series of Man Versus Food, not because of the obscenity of the show's premise, but because Adam refused to feature the Richman family fish restaurant – specialty: the CLT, or cod, lettuce and tomato sandwich – in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Friday, 3 October 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link

1635. Once it was clear that their music career was on the wane, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson opted to become surgically reconjoined.

― Portly Backgammon (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 October 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

1636. Bobby Vee has been mentioned in more than 300 Grammy acceptance speeches, making him the most thanked person in Grammy history. Bobby Bare poked fun at this phenomenon in his Shel Silverstein-penned country hit "God, Mom, and Bobby Vee". Vee is reportedly "baffled and amazed" by the massive outpouring of gratitude from musicians he has never met.

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link

1637. The Beach Boys still receive over a hundred letter per year from fans who would like them to know the names of their favorite vegetables. the most popular responses are "potato" (27%), "corn" (21%), "carrot" (17%) "marijuana haha" (11%), and "PHIL SPECTOR IS WATCHING YOU SLEEP" (6%). Brian Wilson submitted the results to the FDA in 2004, but they dismissed the data as "trivial and unscientific".

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link

1621. Morrissey is really seriously ill

― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:01 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oops.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 13 February 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link

you killed him!

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link

1638. On March 15, 2011, unbeknownst to even the members thereof, the band Life Without Buildings accidentally reunited at the open mic night of a pub in Giffnock. Will Bradley absentmindedly drummed his fingers on a table two away from the booth wherein Sue Tompkins recited a draft of poetry for a friend's advice, while Chris Evans had fried bass with chips at the bar and Robert Johnson -- who now wears a fake mustache to keep paparazzi at bay -- performed a scorching rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" onstage. When asked of this historic moment in a rare interview in 2014, Evans replied "I think I remember the fish."

― franklin, Friday, 13 February 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link

^actual lol

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link

1639. Hank Williams, Jr. began sporting his trademark beard, sunglasses, and cowboy hat in order to obscure the extensive facial injuries he received when Waylon Jennings threw a drawer full of kitchen knives at his head. During his recovery, Williams wrote the song "Waylon, I Apologize, And Your Pork Chops Were Splendid", which later became the theme for Monday Night Football.

― You Just Mind Your P's & Q's, Buster Brown! (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link

1640. The stage name "Lorde" is a sly reference to the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Long Range Air Defense (LORAD) program. Ella Yelich-O'Connor is apparently unaware of her function as a recruiter/propagandist/mind control agent for the New Zealand armed forces.

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Sunday, 15 February 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link

1641. Quincy Jones sold his soul to the devil and partakes in diabolical, ritualistic sex. That's why he looks so young.

― longneck, Sunday, 15 February 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link

1642. Bruno Mars is actually two different people duct-taped together.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 15 February 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

1643. If you run the Carter Family's 'Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow' through a spectrogram, you get a ghost:

http://i.imgur.com/CWrULmo.jpg

spectogram analysis did not exist when the song was recorded in 1927, and nobody knows how the Carters encoded this hidden message without the aid of computer technology.

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link

1644. The song "Allentown" was written by Billy Joel as parody of Bruce Springsteen. Joel accused Springsteen of mimicking him with Springsteen's smash hit "Hungry Heart."

― Poliopolice, Sunday, 22 February 2015 06:27 (nine years ago) link

1645. XTC Bassist Colin Moulding shares a small cul-de-sac in rural England with Iron Maiden crazy-man Bruce Dickinson. They once had a minor land dispute but have since resolved it.

― Poliopolice, Sunday, 22 February 2015 06:30 (nine years ago) link

1646. Arthur Lee has been covered more times than any other American artist with the exception of Elvis Presley.

― Poliopolice, Sunday, 22 February 2015 06:43 (nine years ago) link

1647. Mama Cass's remains were accidentally baked into a shepherd's pie.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link

1648. To this day, even after fifteen years together, none of the members of Broken Social Scene know the names of anyone else in the band. To deal with this problem, the band uses a complex system of personalized coloured stickers and hand signals in order to give instructions to one another.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 23 February 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link

1649. Techno legend Juan Atkins' real name is Billy Corgan.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 23 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link

1650. Jimmy Page loves seeing his autograph on Ebay and encourages fans to bring guitars for him to sign.

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 23 February 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link

1651. Chunky A had a stint as a late night talk show host which he cut short when he had the opportunity to replace Russell Hitchcock in a revamped Air Supply.

― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Monday, 23 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link

1652. Deee-Lite were the winners of the third season of "Amazing Race Japan".

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 09:49 (nine years ago) link

1653. Natalie Prass started her career as the keyboardist for the Fugees. Her real name is Natalie Sanchez but decided to change her name after a brief affair with Pras Michel. They are still good friends.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:19 (nine years ago) link

1654. Credits to Beyonce's "Countdown" list an unknown co-producer under the Lamb moniker. Richard D James confessed in a soundcloud comment that its's a alias he frequently uses when producing R&B and pop singles.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:34 (nine years ago) link

1655. John Lennon wrote an answer song to David Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing". However, "David, It's Still Annoying" was considered subpar by everyone involved, and to date its only appearance on record is as a bonus track on the first Japanese CD reissue of Mind Games from 1987.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link

1656. Bob Dylan is the oldest rock star to have personally registered his own vine account. It primarily features clips of him telling his grandkids to have a good day.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link

1657. In 2011, David Bowie wrote a list of his five favorite Christian Bale performances but has been unable to find a "proper home" for it in the media. In 2014, he replaced Newsies with American Hustle.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link

1658. Rick Dees was convinced by his manager to record "Disco Duck" as the radio friendly b-side to "Disco Fuck" (the eponymous theme song from his debut as a porn actor). Surprisingly, both songs received equivalent levels of airplay.

― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link

1659. Tim McGraw was amused to discover his current physical similarity to Weiland recently, and is currently fond of writhing shirtless in front of wife Faith Hill and singing bits of "Interstate Love Song" and "Vasoline" before giggling "You married Weiland!"

― da croupier, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link

1660. Def Leppard named their third album Pyromania (following Rick Savage's 1982 arrest) to commemorate the fact that all of the band's members had been convicted of arson.

― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

1661. Brian Jones' nickname for Charlie Watts was "Chuckie". Charlie walked out of the film Child's Play due to the sentimental association, but told his friends he just thought it was a stupid movie. The truth was revealed to a potential biography ghostwriter in 2003.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link

1662. The Residents added Extreme's Gary Cherone and a rotation of members from the Little River Band and Urban Dance Squad to their ranks before they changed disguises and renamed themselves Slipknot.

― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link

1663. Rob and Fab of Milli Vanilli sang backup on a series of minor German electropop hits in the mid-eighties. After one too many takes (and beers), the duo stormed out of the studio in the middle of a session. The incident gave them a reputation of being difficult to work with and as a result, most top German producers of the time refused to work with them ever again. Frank Farian later dubbed them Milli Vanilli because the name "sounded like an Italo-disco outfit". This clever naming slight-of-hand achieved its desired result -- their true identity was never discovered by the people running the top German recording studios of the time. Entering the studio to sing on the records risked blowing their cover, so the band's management had no choice but to hire singers while Rob and Fab learned to lip sync along to their own records in Frank Farian's living room, lest they all risk being boycotted by the unforgiving music industry of the day. While their debut album was being recorded in their absence, Fab Morvan dedicated himself fully to his favourite hobby -- chess -- and by late 1988 was ranked as one of the top 50 chess players under the age of 30 in Bavaria.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link

1664. Ringo Starr's real name is Ringo Goldblatt.

― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link

1665. Both of Mr Mister's big hits – Kyrie and Broken Wings – were written as protests by singer Richard Page (real name Marinos Ouzounidis) after he was excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox church. Page had travelled to Istanbul to picket the Patriarchate of Constantinople, after he was banned from resetting the words of Greek hymns to REO Speedwagon and Styx melodies to play in his local church. When priests tried to remonstrate with him, he struck them, causing his excommunication. In 2009 Page set up his own church, and now – at last – he is able to play his MOR hymns to a loyal flock.

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link

1666. Mick Jagger was born in 1666.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link

1667. The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian" was banned in Egypt because it was deemed discriminatory by the national broadcast authority. Because they were unable to play their most famous hit during a 1989 tour stop in Cairo, the band protested by taking the stage, playing a 35-minute instrumental version of "Eternal Flame", and storming off without saying a word or returning for an encore. Despite the controversy, that concert went on to become the most bootlegged recording in Egyptian history.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 09:49 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

1668. Martin Denny's exotica records were banned in the United Kingdom due to an ancient public heath regulation that prohibited the importation of 'photographic and phonographic impressions of exotic avians'. Undeterred, Denny re-recorded his biggest hits for what was to be his Quiet Britannia LP, replacing his trademark parrot and toucan calls with the sounds of birds native to Britain (mostly finches). the cover photo depicted a sarong-clad Vera Lynn seductively straddling a tea table. the LP sold fewer than 500 copies upon its initial release but became a cult classic in the early '80s after John Peel played it in its entirely on Radio 1.

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 28 March 2015 03:01 (nine years ago) link

1669. in his final days, Sinatra requested that Comus's 'Drip Drip' be played at his funeral. nobody knows why.

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 28 March 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link

1670. Michael Nesmith's mother is a notorious liar. Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that she was involved in the invention of Liquid Paper, and her other claims — inventing the staple remover, owning the Alamo, being Michael Nesmith's mother, and holding the Guinness World Record for largest natural breasts — are all patently false.

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 28 March 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link

but she definitely holds the patentlys.

― Mark G, Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:13 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1671. Chuck Berry's original title for "Roll Over Beethoven" was "Rock Me Rachmaninov". Wanting to avoid any association with the Soviet Union or Russian composers in general, Berry changed the title and re-wrote the lyrics after the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 11 April 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link

...wait, that doesn't even work, because he immediately goes on to say "sing Tchaikovsky the blues".

― rushomancy, Sunday, 12 April 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link

1668 is magnificent, wp unreg

― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2015 08:54 (nine years ago) link

1672. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma started out in the music business as the drummer in a NYC band that played nothing but blues covers of Beatles songs. He took up the cello in his spare time as a form of protest against being forced to play one too many Ringo Starr songs.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 12 April 2015 10:30 (nine years ago) link

1673. Legendary British folk rockers Fairport Convention were originally named Airport Convention. The F was added mistakenly on the studio log for their debut album by engineer Bill Gates, and the name stuck.

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 12 April 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link

He thought it was Chai-Kovsky

― Mark G, Monday, 13 April 2015 07:33 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

1674. there are more edits in the chorus of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' than there are in Radiohead's entire discography.

― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Saturday, 19 September 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

The 'RP' in RP Boo stands for 'received pronunciation'

― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 30 October 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link

1676. Khudai Khidmatgar – literally translated as "Children of God" – was an early 20th century Pashto movement working against Western colonialism in the Indian subcontinent. Its strict non-violent stance led to it being more allied with the Gandhi-associated National Congress than with the Jinnah-led Muslim League in the process of India and Pakistan's eventual emancipation from the British Empire.

Previous reports that Swans named their 1987 album for this movement are entirely (and obviously!) false. However (and equally obviously!), Kid Cudi of WZRD fame took his stage name from a playfully inverted and shortened version of the movement's name.

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1677. "Besnard Lakes" is an anagram of "Barenaked Ladies".

― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 28 November 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link

1678. Electronic act Jlin is the hobby project of Fast & Furious director Justin Lin.

― ArchCarrier, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

1679. Immediately prior to his death, Christopher Lee recorded a cover of his favourite Young MC track, “I Come Off” from 1989’s Stone Cold Rhymin’. Accompanying footage of the screen legend’s vocal takes was captured, with a view to releasing a music video he wished to be directed by either Gus Van Sant or Guy Ritchie (it was Lee’s firm stipulation that he be able to address the project director as ‘G’ during the editing process), but since his demise plans are already afoot for a Tupac-style hologram performance at an upcoming Glastonbury Festival. A final date for this spectacle has not yet been set, as organizers are reportedly “waiting to see if he remains dead” to avoid any legal imbroglio his unholy return may present.

― messr potamia, Friday, 15 January 2016 02:42 (eight years ago) link

1680. Taylor Swift and Willie Nelson are in fact brother and sister, respectively.

― messr potamia, Friday, 15 January 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link

1681. The Ting Tings have been stuck with this insipid moniker since a Dublin promoter drew a blank while introducing them to a packed Whelan's during a late-2007 pilot gig. Their annoyance at this prompted the duo to replace the first song of their set with a 3 minute improvised musical tirade expressing their vexation, which was quickly to become one of their most widely known releases to date. The pair's original name, "Ceecy Munny", has since passed into obscurity with only one track entitled "demmo" (sic) credited to this name published to bandcamp.com by accident.

― messr potamia, Friday, 15 January 2016 03:27 (eight years ago) link

1682. The world record holder for "most Josh Groban records owned" for 2011 was reported in error by the Guinness Book as Marcel D'Eurre - it was actually Josh Groban, who easily triumphed by owning more than none.

― messr potamia, Friday, 15 January 2016 03:40 (eight years ago) link

1683. Lee Marvin's 1970 hit "Wand'rin' Star" is a whimsical, biographical retelling of how he came into being : the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. It is also notable for containing the second highest number of correctly-used apostrophes in a popular music title.

― messr potamia, Friday, 15 January 2016 06:05 (eight years ago) link

1684. Cutting Crew were so named because all of their members worked as therapists helping young people who self-harmed.

― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Friday, 15 January 2016 09:19 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

1685. Kisses was the name of Paula Abdul's dog.

― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, 28 February 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link

1686: Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness) was a 1983 contestant on Canadian schoolkid game show Reach for the Top. Google it!

― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 29 February 2016 02:20 (eight years ago) link

1687: For the past decade, Billy Idol has been making a decent living hosting musical riverboat cruises in Thailand.

― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 29 February 2016 02:35 (eight years ago) link

1688. During the 1976 Test cricket series between England and the West Indies, noted cricket lover Mick Jagger made a brief and unplanned appearance for England. With three members of the England team incapacitated by diarrhoea on the second morning of the final Test at the Oval, Jagger was inveigled by the England coach into appearing as a substitute fielder – announced to the crowd under the old Stone songwriting pseudonym of Nanker Phelge. He was on the field for 27 minutes, touching the ball only once, dropping a catch offered by Viv Richards, who had scored 23 at the time. Richards went on to make 291.

― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Thursday, 10 March 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link

1689. Mick had to endure quite a lot of good-natured ribbing from Keith for dropping that ball -- indeed, Keith changed his stage name back from Richard to Richards "in honour of that great near-triple-century".

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 10 March 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link

1690. The Scorpions changed the title of "Rock You Like a Caravan" to appeal to the American market

― Szechuan TV (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link

four weeks pass...

The 50 most amazing moments in pop history (that never actually happened)
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/07/bowie-producing-elvis-stevie-nicks-singing-purple-rain-greatest-50-pop-moments-that-never-happened?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Sleeve+Notes+-+NEW+with+2+editable+regions&utm_term=166036&subid=92428&CMP=ema_630

― Mark G, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link

He only seems to know a certain number of bands.

― how's life, Friday, 8 April 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link

1691. Taylor Swift's 1989 was named not in honor of her own birthday, but in honor of the 25th anniversary of Deee-Lite's World Clique. Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley provided the horn section for Shake It Off.

― how's life, Friday, 8 April 2016 23:38 (eight years ago) link

1692. The title of Daft Punk's "Around the World" comes from a friend of the group, who misheard the lyrics in the track's vocodered refrain. The actual lyrics are "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, reindeer".

― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 16 April 2016 11:47 (eight years ago) link

1693. The members of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band were initially baffled when their debut album Gorilla was hailed as a "revolution in musical comedy," as they had intended to make a completely straightforward Canterbury Scene record. The group eventually reworked their songwriting style and spent the rest of their career putting out intentionally humorous material.

― Stupor Fly, Sunday, 17 April 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link

1694. A recent study found that 90% of all instances of cultural appropriation can be traced back to Sublime's 1992 album 40oz. to Freedom.

― Stupor Fly, Sunday, 17 April 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

1695 "Fuck washing a hat" was dropped from "Lovesexy" at the last minute.

― Mark G, Saturday, 14 May 2016 09:49 (eight years ago) link

1696. Before becoming the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant was a lamaze coach- thus his frequent exhortations to "Push, push, yeah".

― diana krallice (rushomancy), Saturday, 14 May 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link

1697. "This Is The One" by The Stone Roses is a moving anthem to the Swedish giant Ikea and greets its first UK store in Warrington, North Cheshire.

― kraudive, Saturday, 14 May 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link

1698. Eurovision winner "Making Your Mind Up" considers the possibilities of anal sex.

― kraudive, Saturday, 14 May 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link

1699. Bangles and the Butthole Surfers did a one-off charity show together as the "Butt Bangles", were subsequently kicked off the stage after one song when Gibby Haynes urinated on ~~a seal~~ Seal.

― Neanderthal, Saturday, 14 May 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link

eight months pass...

1700. Arrival is a 2016 science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg and Tzi Ma. It is the story of a mysterious vessel, populated by apparently alien life forms, hovering just above the surface of Earth. After working for some time on communicating with the creatures aboard the vessel, the team of linguist Louise Banks (Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) are able to ascertain that what they're dealing with is ABBA in a helicopter.

― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 14 January 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link

1701. Rick Parfitt of Status Quo enjoyed an illustrious parallel career as an academical philosopher, using the lightly-modified name of "Derek Parfit" because of stipulations in the band's contract with their manager. To his and his family's astonishment, neither "Parfit"'s employer Oxford University nor the wider world ever caught up on the double life, and a few days after Parfitt's death on Christmas Eve 2016, the family had to make a separate announcement of "Parfit"'s death to avoid further confusion.

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 08:05 (seven years ago) link

1702. Ariana Grande killed a man on the set of Victorious, but she wasn't convicted after her lawyers argued it was self-defence.

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:25 (seven years ago) link

1703. The beige circle that cover's the woman's head on the cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is actually a close up shot of Robert Schneider's scrotum

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 12:08 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

1704. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is about a man afraid of getting a BJ from the sun.

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 14 May 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

1705. Lil Xan has always been a fierce opponent of benzodiazepine abuse. his stage name refers not to xanax but to xanthan gum, a thickening agent in his favorite condiment (Newman's Own Honey French Dressing)

― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Monday, 6 August 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link

Lil Wayne's father died in the boximg ring against a big Russian dude and was the inspiration for Apollo Creed

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 August 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link

1706. Former Metal Church vocalist David Wayne is rapper Lil' Wayne's father.

― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 6 August 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link

1707. Gwen Stefani has been morbidly obese for her entire career. Her non-obsese twin sister, Newg, operates as her stand-in for all public appearances.

― My Name is Pants and I Fit Snugly (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 August 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link

1708. The title of Playboy Carti's Die Lit is German academic jargon for Die Literaturwissenschaft.

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 10 August 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link

argh bb sorry

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 10 August 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

George was having a ball hanging out with Dylan and the Band in Woodstock in late '68
this post got me thinking: what did Dylan and the Band (and George) eat in Woodstock, and who was cooking?

please supply false trivia

― niels, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 12:19 (five years ago) link

Custard

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link

balls

― ghood ghravie (unregistered), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link

George Harrison's 1968 Thanksgiving dinner with Dylan and the Band in Woodstock so delighted him with the New World foods he'd never experienced that he was inspired to mutter "cranberry sauce" at the end of "Strawberry Fields." Some have questioned the chronology, but remember, the preponderance of Canadians meant they were celebrating Thanksgiving early.

― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link

"Hey Robbie, pass the I buried Paul."

"The what?!"

"Oh, um, I mean the cranberry sauce."

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link

― how's life, Friday, April 8, 2016 4:38 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Underrated post

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

1710. Although 'We Are the World' is probably the best-remembered of the all-star charity singles released during the 1980s, the highest-selling of those singles remains 1987's 'Don't Gimme No Lip (I Need a New Hip)', which was released after the accident that tragically ended Frank Stallone's professional snowmobile racing career. The ensuing flood of lawsuits quickly made clear that the celebrities featured on the single had all been impersonated by Stallone.

― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 December 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link

1711. Damon Albarn's real name is Daniel Norman. Teased at school with the nickname Normal Dan, he started to call himself Dan Abnormal, then anagrammed it for his career with Blur.

― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link

1712. Robert Smith (of the Cure) is the incestuous love child of sibling rockers Patty Smith and G.E. Smith.

― Brian Oenophile (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 December 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link

1713. Suede's rousing 2018 album closer "Flytipping" ("flytipping feels like just enough") is an admission that the boys found cowtipping far too strenuous.

― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

As everyone knows, U2 guitarist The Edge's real name is Paul Hudson. In between U2 tours, he switches out his fake beard and silly hat for another silly hat and a long curly wig to play in a hard rock side-project. To complete the disguise, he swaps the P in his first name for an S.

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

(That's some pretty good fake trivia, m'man.)

― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

Post Malone is actually Karl "Post" Malone who earned the nickname bc he be postin'

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 24 May 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

The inspiration for Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby" came at a late night comedy show. The MC came to the microphone holding an infant girl and asked whose it was, because they had found her unattended in the bathroom.

After repeated asks and no replies from the crowd, the MC angrily blurted "She's gotta be SOMEBODY'S baby!"

― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link

“Jack Antonoff” is a currently popular pseudonym used when a producer doesn’t want his/her name to be credited on a record.

― Sorry to clutter yr watchlist with my junk (morrisp), Sunday, 1 September 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link

lol

― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Sunday, 1 September 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link

1704. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is about a man afraid of getting a BJ from the sun.

An earlier version had "your son", which changes the context slightly. The record company preferred the cosmic theme.

― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 1 September 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link

Either way, the song was the original inspiration for "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons"

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link

lol

― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered),

yes

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 2 September 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link

Chas Hodges kept up his session work throughout the 80s, as he believed Chas and Dave would never be a lasting concern. He can be heard (uncredited) on "Running Up That Hill" (bass), "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (mandolin), and "Voodoo Ray" (keyboards). Also the theme music to TV's "Juliet Bravo" (lead guitar).

― fetter, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link

The idea for the chorus of the Jets' "You Got It All" occurred when Eugene and Eddie Wolfgramm got into a fight in the living room. Eddie, having lost the upper hand, found an open bucket of paint and chucked it at Eugene, costing him.

Mama Wolfgramm came running in, yelling "Goddammit, Eddie! You git it all over him!"

― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

*got

― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

Elton John's somg "Nikita" was written for Nikita Khrushchev.

― And the wind... cries... Larry (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link

five months pass...

Roedelius fragged the Oberscharführer of his Hitler Youth squad at the end of WWII when he and his fellow youths were about to be forced into action against the incoming Soviet army. They surrendered peacefully to the American forces a few days after.

― omar little, Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

The Vengaboys' 1999 hit "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" was originally subtitled "I'm Married to Geoff Hoon!", an unsubtle reference to singer Denise Post-Van Rijswijk's short-lived marriage to the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ashfield. The song's passionate exhortation for an unnamed non-Hoon third party to spend the night together with Post-Van Rijswijk was cited as a contributing factor in the couple's 2002 split, along with Hoon voting no on the second reading of that year's Tobacco Promotion and Advertising Bill.

― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Jim Morrison's talent for prognostication has not gone unremarked upon. However, what is lesser known is that in 1967, an early draft of one of his most popular songs would predict a genre-defining new wave hit 13 years in the future! Early drafts of the Doors' enduring single People Are Strange reveal that the lyrics' third line was originally "women sing Whip It when you're unwanted."

― peace, man, Monday, 2 November 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link

vg-

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link

serial killer Richard Ramirez had a budding singer-songwriter career, though people probably should have seen the signs with songs like "Baby, I Think It's Gonna Hail (Satan)" and "See You in Disneyland"

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link

Winner

Simon stated in interviews that the song was written in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate. "The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run (I like that sound, it's very soothing to me) and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again'."According to Garfunkekl, Simon originally wrote the lyric as "Aloha darkness, my old friend."Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."

― Cabo Weibo (卡波微博) (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link

Aert Garfunkekl

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link

ORNALDO BLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN

― Kabob Dylan (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Some years ago, I thought it would be funny to bullshit my friends by fabricating a story that the Goo Goo Dolls song "Name" was written about Drew Barrymore, during the troubled 90s phase of her career when she Grew up way too fast...

I have since repeated this story so many times, with so many embellishments, that I no longer recall what the truth of the matter is.

I guess you could say, Now there's nothing to believe.

― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Saturday, 6 February 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link

Lol it's about former MTV VJ Kennedy.
They dated for a bit

― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 February 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link

Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth was originally intended to be part of a marketing blitz for a new brand of juvenile speed with the same name. Gibson's management got cold feet and, because copies of the album had already been pressed, insisted that the makers of the drug change their product's name. After a protracted legal battle which ended in Gibson's favor, the drug's manufacturers found another willing artist with whom to partner, and thirty years later Extreme Strength Pornograffiti remains a popular OTC stimulant among America's teenagers.

― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link

1730. Beck's chosen title for the 1996 album that would become his all-time bestseller was Zero Delay, but the record company misread his scribblings.

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 18 February 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link

1731. Bad Brains's name was derived from a spoonerism of "broad beans".

― Tim, Thursday, 18 February 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

Van Dyke Parks, who began his career as a child actor, played the part of Opie in the pilot episode of The Andy Griffith Show.

― Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 12 August 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link

Scooby Doo sang for The Archies

― there's too much fucking shit on me (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 August 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are engaged to be married.

― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Thursday, 12 August 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

1732. Roger Waters owns a house in Aguascalientes, Mexico that he bought because almost no-one recognizes him in there and he lived there for most of the pandemic.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link

1733. He has a pool that he never uses.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link

1734. On Chic's 1977 single "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" , the group were actually singing "dents, dents dents". Nile Rodgers penned the song in a furious mood after discovering several of the titular hollow dips in the bumper of a Porsche 914 he had hastily purchased. Before the single's release, Rodgers changed the title after deciding to take the group in a more dancefloor-friendly direction.

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 11 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link

1735. Michael Sembello's "Maniac" was originally titled "Animaniac" and was actually the source of inspiration for the animated cartoon, "Animaniacs". When the idea was stolen, Michael sued Warner Brothers, who had him murdered. Weirdly, he continued to record new music after his death.

― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link

1736. They knew that co-branding was over as a fashion trend when Virgil Abloh’s love of hip hop had him collaborate with the singer on the 1995 Coolio hit Gangsta’s Paradise. L.V was an important part of the song but Louis Vuitton’s share price went into downfall and they quickly tried to disassociate with him, no longer advertising on Coolio’s youtube cooking channel, and even got Abloh’s friend Kanye West to shout “Fuck L.V.” to fans at his stadium release parties.

As fans didn’t realise this was a reference to the obscure rap singer and thought it was a rift between the rapper and the Louis Vuitton and Off White designer, this only made the share price of the two fashion houses drop further.

― a hoy hoy, Monday, 11 October 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Adele's "Rumor Has It" is actually misspelled. Adele is responding to an unknown friend in the song, who prior to the song has asked where her vacuum cleaner is. She had previously loaned it to Bruce Willis's daughter, so she is responding "Rumer has it".

― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link

ten months pass...

The “Z” in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zorro.” He earned the nickname as a teenager when he was frequently spotted carrying a fencing sword around Bed-Stuy. #falsemusictrivia
— False Music Trivia (@FalseMusicFacts) October 13, 2021

― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 23 September 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link

I am henceforth only going to refer to him as "J-Zorro"

― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 23 September 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link

Oh yeah, before he was a rapper he used to write quotations from De La Vega in chalk on the pavement next to popular NYC subway stations

― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 24 September 2022 05:47 (one year ago) link

Mariah Carey has confessed her song “Obsessed” is about a sex dream she had involving the rapper Riff Raff.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 September 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link

1739. Harry Styles moonlights as the mysterious masked wrestler Penta El Zero M.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 24 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link

Contrary to rumor, the Counting Crows song “Mr. Jones” is not about the singer’s penis. He did, however, write a song about his penis—titled “The Longest Member”—which he changed at the label’s request (to “A Long December,” retaining the rhyme scheme).

― "Cool ranch dressing!" (morrisp), Saturday, 24 September 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link

ten months pass...

The word "podcast" has its origins in a public health measure that was widely adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Individuals and their households were advised to form a "pod," a bounded social group within which close prolonged contact was permissible, so long as all members of the pod abided by restrictions on interacting with people outside of the pod.

As the pandemic stretched on and people began to long for wider social intercourse, it became fashionable for members of a pod to sit down together in one room with a microphone to record an unstructured, open-ended conversation. They would then reach out to other pods on social media and swap their recording for one with a different "cast."

― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 31 July 2023 14:34 (ten months ago) link

Did anyone else ever hear that Geddy Lee had throat cancer? For some reason, that was a rumor circulating among my friends in high school circa 1981.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 31 July 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link

Does he talk like an ordinary guy?

― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 31 July 2023 17:06 (ten months ago) link

Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. is the father of Lucy Lawless, the actress/singer

― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 July 2023 17:43 (ten months ago) link

Laura Les of the popular band 100 Gecs took her name from two of her favorite musicians: Laura Nyro and Les Paul.

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:39 (ten months ago) link

one of the members of Jesus Jones was actually Jesus Christ and he was crucified again after "Right Here, Right Now"

― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:45 (ten months ago) link

Rick Astley's childhood nickname was "Chicky Ricky" because his dad would often lock him up in the back yard chicken coop as a punishment

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:57 (ten months ago) link

oh yeah I heard about that, it's what Rockadoodle was about

― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:58 (ten months ago) link

The most popular attraction at the rock & roll hall of fame for the year leading up to and the year following the release of Bohemian Rhapsody: The Movie! was Freddy Mercury’s moustache.

― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 4 August 2023 15:38 (ten months ago) link

Rejected names for the band Yes included Yarp, Yessir and Fuckin' A

― nashwan, Friday, 4 August 2023 16:02 (ten months ago) link

three weeks pass...

influential beat boxer thom yorke . . .

― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Sunday, 27 August 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link

lol nashwan

― Stoned Wheat Thing (morrisp), Sunday, 27 August 2023 21:08 (nine months ago) link

Chris DeBurgh's "Lady in Red" was actually the other half of a conversation he had with his then girlfriend, while he was being a shit to her.

Chris: Never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight. Never seen you shine so bright.

Girlfriend: Are saying I usually look bad?

Chris: No it's just....I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance. They're looking for a little romance, give'em half a chance

Girlfriend: God, don't pull this again tonight. I wanted to look nice tonight. I can't help if I attracted some male attention. I dress up all the time.

Chris: I've never seen that dress you're wearing! Or the highlights in your hair that catch your eyes.

Her: I wore this dress at your cousin Louie's wedding last year. You spilled tuna salad on it.

Chris: I have been blind.

Her: this is pretty rich, given how you've been staring at that woman in the corner all night

Chris: (chuckles) The lady in red?

Her: Don't think I haven't seen you shooting glances at her when I go to refill my wine glass. I wouldn't be surprised if the two of you were slow dancing when I was in the bathroom.

Chris: (sarcastically) She's dancing. With me. Cheek to cheek.

Her: Would you keep it down so more people don't start staring at us?

Chris: There's NOBODY HERE! It's just you and me.

Her: And the lady in red in the corner!

Chris: But...

Her: Don't "but" me. Earlier I saw you two bantering like an old high school couple.

Chris: I HARDLY KNOW THIS 'BEAUTY' BY MY SIDE!

Her: And now you're yelling. Typical. But hey, keep downing those glasses of Jamesson, I'm sure you won't remember how to get back to our hotel after this lovely evening.

Chris: I'll never forget the way

Her: Ahh shit....one of my earrings is missing. Goddamnit, Chris, help me look for it. It was an heirloom from my great grandmother.

Chris: (mad) YOU look!

Her: You really are a jerk. I'll take a cab back.

Chris: (toasting to himself, dryly) Tonight....

― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 September 2023 16:48 (nine months ago) link

Neil Young was considering joining KISS.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 September 2023 18:33 (nine months ago) link

His persona would have been "Scarecrow."

― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 September 2023 13:27 (nine months ago) link

one month passes...

Weyes Blood stans call themselves “Weyes Geyes.”

― strawberry ice cream, one scoop or two (morrisp), Saturday, 21 October 2023 03:42 (seven months ago) link

Weyes Blood Stains

― sell cigs to kids (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 21 October 2023 08:39 (seven months ago) link

four months pass...

"Eye of the Tiger" is about Frosted Flakes

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link

Koyaanisqatsi was originally scored by Keith Emerson, but copyright issues got in the way and Philip Glass was drafted in at the last moment to salvage the project.

― doleful lundgren (Matt #2), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 19:23 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

Every member of Supertramp is named Roger.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:42 (two months ago) link

The Magnetic Fields got their name from Black Sabbath's "Iron Man."

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link

It’s actually from Dylan’s “Señor”

― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link

Ronnie James Dio is the father of Dido. She was extremely offended by heavy metal music due to a traumatic incident in her childhood where she fell off of a roller coaster while W.A.S.P. was playing in the background, and upset that her father wouldn't stop playing it despite earlier promises to retire. so she changed her last name to Dido, adding an extra "d" which stood for "deceitful".

"Thank You" is actually about Pat Boone, who made significant efforts to kill heavy metal by recording In a Metal Mood

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link

former cure member laurence tolhurst, in a worldwide first, gained full copyright+licensing control over the abbreviation "lol" in the late 90s tech boom. every time someone somewhere uses the phrase, he gets paid roughly the same as when someone streams "let's go to bed."

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:48 (two months ago) link

Ronnie James Dio is the father of Dido

Dado

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 21:24 (two months ago) link

It’s pronounced Duncan Schick

― I Love Potatoes (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 20 April 2024 02:13 (two months ago) link

“Lay Lady Lay” was written about Dylan’s pet chicken, Gertrude. The “big brass bed” lyric was originally “big brown egg.”

― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 20 April 2024 19:00 (two months ago) link

Avril Lavigne's demo of 'Complicated' began with the word 'chillax' (note the near rhyme with 'lay back'!), but her label persuaded her to change it to the more familiar 'chill out', as 'chillax' was then almost exclusively used by Canadian skateboarders. the rest of the world eventually caught up, and she's been singing the 'chillax' version in concert since about 2005

― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:41 (one month ago) link

Avril Lavigne changed her name (from April Levine), to seem more exotically “Canadian” to US audiences.

― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:42 (one month ago) link

After seeing Avril in concert for the 14th time, superfan Richard D. James composed a piano piece to commemorate the occasion.

― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:50 (one month ago) link

Michelle Branch once attempted to eat Avril Lavigne

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 April 2024 04:12 (one month ago) link

April Lasagne

― Mark G, Sunday, 21 April 2024 07:58 (one month ago) link

Bovril Lebean

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 21 April 2024 11:56 (one month ago) link

Need a new anagrams for Kenny Loggins thread for Avril

― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 21 April 2024 12:54 (one month ago) link

Viva Allergin!

― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 21 April 2024 18:15 (one month ago) link

“Lay Lady Lay” was written about Dylan’s pet chicken, Gertrude. The “big brass bed” lyric was originally “big brown egg.”

― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, April 20, 2024 2:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I long to fry you in the morning light

― budo jeru, Sunday, 21 April 2024 19:13 (one month ago) link

the original screenplay for purple rain was a kung-fu beat'em up/rockstar success story hybrid meant ro compete with _the last dragon_ the revolution travels to gary indiana and battles the jackson 5 -and, by proxy, mj- for supremacy in the r+b world. it involved a purple-laser shooting guitar and moonwalking! so much moonwalking!

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 21 April 2024 19:44 (one month ago) link

anagrams for Avril Lavigne

― a hoy hoy, Monday, 22 April 2024 10:11 (one month ago) link

three weeks pass...

Anal Cunt was formed after Seth Putnam attended his first college class, Analyzing Country Music

― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link

Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s famous beef was actually instigated by an argument about Ben Stiller’s best film, with Lamar aghast at his former friend rating the Fockers family series that started with “Meet the Parents”.

― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:03 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

"technical death metal" actually does not refer to the complexity of the music, it's short for "technically, it's death metal...but..."

― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:18 (two days ago) link

In 1986, UK musician Nick Saloman was urged to abandon his new band name, "The Butt-Head Frond," as it was deemed distasteful. So he settled on a second choice – "The Butt-Head Fern." The project was nearly lost to history, but Saloman changed the name once more...

― Energy wrong, I log off (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 June 2024 22:27 (yesterday) link

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