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

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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

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