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

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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

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