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

1394. Drumming for an English band in the 1990s meant there was a 12% chance your first name was Loz.

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.

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.

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

1397. Most of Jack Penate's songs were originally written as part of an effort to score every single MILFHunter.com episode.

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.

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.

Popular Irish lady Enya once broke her arm whilst stage diving at a Tad gig.

1400 Sherman Hemsley sank thousands into designing a room in his house to resemble the Gong track "Flying Teacups."

1401 The Beatles are planning an enormous reunion tour for 2009, with Spragga Benz replacing Lennon, and Tippa Irie standing in for Harrison.

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."

1403. On seven seperate occasions, David Lee Roth has unsuccessfully asked a member of the Donnas for a blowjob.

1404. Eighties pop princess Kim Wilde used to babysit for gravelly voiced rock god Antony Hegarty.

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.

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

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

ok wau @ that

1038. Former band members of The The and Mr. Mister planned a collaboration that they planned to call "The Mister"

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

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.

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."

1210. Patrick Wolf's Halo 3 handle is BillyJacquesSmoothie.

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.

1211. 'in rainbows' was originally intended as a concept album about rabies

botw

Okay, haha. I just figured out what "botw" meant after seeing it a bunch of times before.

baby on the way?

Ornette Coleman was able to achieve circular playing whilst holding a clothes peg over his nose by breathing through his eyes.

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.

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".

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.

1416. There is actually no direction called "up". It is an urban legend started by a 1968 Rolling Stone interview with Grace Slick.

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.

1418. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats was once videotaped sodomizing an endangered bobcat. The video was leaked to Youtube in 2007.

1419. Bob Lefsetz's music industry experience consists entirely of a two-week stint MCing a karaoke bar in Dayton in 1994.

1420. John Darnielle is secretly an actual mountain goat

lol at noodle vague's latest

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.

Classic material.

1422. dom passantino is the fifth beatle

1423. dom secretly thinks every entry on this thread is hilarious

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)

This thread contains a stunning amount of marvellous material: I salute those who have produced it.

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.

Holy shit - how many years since pinefox has posted here?!

About 16 hours, I think.

i see him on here often, no?

1426. Minnie Riperton only had a two-octave vocal range. The rest was done with a theremin.

1427. Def Leppard took their name from an obscure old Australian expression, "Wet enough to melt the antlers off a deaf leopard."

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.