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

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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

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