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

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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

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