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

shortly before the release of Treasure, the Cocteau Twins got a court order forbidding writers from using the description "tedious New Age" in reviews. the music press was initially outraged at the censorship, but journalists soon got crafty and learned to write in code. it soon became common knowledge that whenever a reviewer wrote something like, "the song drifts off into an ethereal haze", what he really meant was "the song drifts off into a tedious New Age haze", etc.

1567. in her senile later years, protest singer Malvina Reynolds would often write the same song multiple times without even realizing it. she'd come to her publisher with a new song called "Teensy Boxes", and he'd have to tell her, "why Malvina, this is just a rewrite of 'Little Boxes'. you wrote this 15 years ago." but it was no use, and she only got worse over time. from December 31, 1975 until her death in 1978, she wrote over 1,000 songs and poems, but all of them were titled "Don't Lick that Envelope" and all of them began with the words

it's bad enough to pay your rent,
but the price of stamps just went up 3 cents
a postcard soon will cost ten dollars
but the postmaster's dog wears diamond collars
don't lick that enevelope, it's made of gold
don't lick that envelope, it's made of gold

to this day, nobody has ever recorded it.

1568. Eddie Vedder is such a fan of the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch that he tried to buy the vessel Cornelia Marie after Captain Phil Harris died. He was dissuaded by Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern, a Pearl Jam fan who did not wish to see the band torn apart by Vedder's crab-fishing dreams.

1569. "Kula Shaker" is the Sanskrit translation of popular internet meme, "hen fap".

1570. Lindsey Buckingham wrote the in-game music for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis futuristic driving title, "Out Run 2019". The Stage 3 music was based on "The Trip (Theme from Vacation)", the B-side to "Holiday Road".

1571. The pilot episode of 90s game show The Crystal Maze was hosted by Schoolly D.

1572. Celtic Frost was the winner of the Greyhound Derby in 1978.

1573. The trademark in the band name "Doctor Feelgood" is owned by the British Ministry of Defence. Lee Brilleaux sold it to a civil servant in 1983, when both were drunk in a hotel bar in Torbay and Brilleaux was desperate for £50. The original members have been engaged in an ongoing battle to buy the name back, and have vowed never to play under that band name until they do so.

1574. Harry Chapin recorded all 10 of his albums during a manic, coke-fueled, 96-hour-long recording session between October 14 and 18, 1971. he died in a car crash later that year. all of his releases were posthumous, and he still has about 100 albums' worth of material in the vaults (though the last 48 hours of tape is just Harry yelling "my boy was just like me" in various comedy voices (mostly wolves) while someone plucks a sitar in the background)

1575. Neutral Milk Hotel originally conceived In the Aeroplane Over the Sea as a concept album about Jeff Mangum's love for the 20-year-old Patty Hearst. The band politely sought Patty's approval by sending her a demo of the album, but all they got in response were libel threats from Patty's attorney. Intimidated, Jeff hurriedly rewrote many of his lyrics, replacing all the Patty Hearst references with Anne Frank references. an alleged demo version of "Frisco, 1974" has been widely circulated online.

1576. Deicide's shelved first attempt at a sophomore record consisted entirely of uncannily faithful covers of Edith Piaf songs.

1577. The Weeknd produced Godspeed! You Black Emperor's first demos.

1578. Sergei Prokofiev wrote "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers.

Stereophonics hit 2005 single "Dakota" was about Kelly Jones' ill-fated relationship with the daughter of professional wrestler Dustin "Goldust" Runnels.

On the chorus of Television's 1978 single "Foxhole", the band were actually singing "FUCK SOUL FUCK SOUL", the group's enmity for the genre stemming from an earlier incident where Ronnie Isley was witnessed to have laughed at one of the contours of Tom Verlaine's Jazzmaster.

On the chorus of Don Johnson's 1986 version of "Heartbeat", Johnson was actually singing "HARPY, LOOKING FOR A HARPY". CBS executives released the record under its original title without Johnson's knowledge, fearing that the Miami Vice star's longstanding preoccupation with the grotesque mythical creatures would be interpreted as misogynistic.

Bruno Mars is so named because he was conceived while his parents were playing Bruce Willis's The Return of Bruno.

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Bruno Mars is so named because he was conceived while his parents were playing Bruce Willis's The Return of Bruno.

― Trans-Europe Stopping Train (ithappens), Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought he chose the name for himself because of his infatuation with Bruno Ganz and his "warlike" musical style

1582. Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was quietly canonized by the Catholic Church less than a month after her death in 2009. she is the patron saint of turtlenecks and raw foodists.

(and jet plane passengers, obviously)

1583. Stephin Merritt does not know how to play guitar.

1584. deadmau5 is actually the sound project of george w. bush, who began fooling around on garage band during the final years of his presidency, anxious to find a hobby to fill his time in retirement.

The Doors' "Horse Latitudes" is the official song of the Kentucky Derby.

1586: Lou Reed eats breakfast every morning at "Pies and Thighs" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He orders chicken and waffles and they serve him an hour before the restaurant opens for the public.

1586. R&B singer Brandy's "The Boy is Mine" sounds exactly the same played backwards as forwards.
1587. As a followup to his 1978 smash hit single "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", Rod Stewart released "Tuck It Under the Mole". The single did not chart.

1588. The original series proposition for Man Vs Food was drawn up by Jonathan Richman, who passed it to his son Adam when he realised the show would interfere with his touring schedule.
1589. The idea came from Jonathan's habit of taking on an eating challenge in every town he plays.
1590. Jimmy Page is a fully qualified nursery nurse.

1591. before rebranding as "rod stewart", rod stewart achieved some notoriety as the inventor of Pringles brand potato-inspired chips.

1592. Elvis Presley was actually just his stage name, he was born Melvin Minkovsky in Yonkers, NY.

1593. "Pylon's" albums are just Blondie outtakes. There was never such a band as Pylon.

1594. conan o'brien plays drums on several of the songs on galaxie 500's debut album "today"

(i'm done writing these, sorry)

The bass sound on Sly's "Family Affair" comes from the amp got shot in the woofer cause of drugs.

i heard that sly recorded his vocals for that album laying in bed. is that true?

1596. "The Amp Got Shot in the Woofer Cause of Drugs" initially appeared as the B-side to Sly and the Family Stone's 1971 hit, "Family Affair". This edition of single was pulled within days of its October 16 release date, however, when the FDA discovered that the vinyl used contained dangerously high levels of several toxic ketone compounds. When the single was re-released on 6 November 1971, the new pressing was backed with "Luv n' Haight". "The Amp Got Shot in the Woofer Cause of Drugs" has not since been released or compiled, and the few known copies of the original single (the volatile toxic compounds having long ago evaporated) trade for upwards of $1,000.

lol.

damn dude, I was never sure before.

i always picture him like that when i listen to the album anyway. it's probably my favorite album ever.

fuck yeah. damn close anyway. and whether or not he did, he ought to have recorded it from bed. riot story i always heard (provenance dubious at best) is that the songs attains their softened, bleary-eyed vibe as the product of endless re-recordings on the same master. sly would bring a new girl into the studio "every night" and have her re-track this or that vocal part as part of some drug-fueled seduction routine. like check it baby, you're gonna be a star, see. stories...

so like 1596.5

lolling at "got shot in the woofer"

In the village of Kapkatet, Kenya in the late 1990′s, members of the Kipsigi tribe somehow came across a few records of Sinead O'Connor. Convinced that such strange sounds could not come from a human, the voice was attributed to a centaur-like spirit they called Chenedokona. This half-man half-antelope is honored in fertility rites where young Kipsigi maidens dance seductively to the Sinead O'Connor records, begging her to join them in a leaping dance in hopes that Chenedokona will jump completely out of her clothes.

^lol!

1598. you can make the http://i.imgur.com/s91yDLG.png symbol on Windows by holding down the Alt key and typing 1999.

1599. Due to a Warner Bros. vault fire, there are no surviving copies of The Pogues' debut album, "Red Roses For Me." In 1997, a fan discovered a copy at a Van Nuys pawn shop, but the LP contained no music, just 77 minutes of sampled police sirens.

1600. david bowie has no memory of recording station to station in los angeles, during the height of his coke addiction. (i know that bowie himself is the source for this but... come on. no way.)

my middle school music teacher tried to convince my class that Eric Clapton had virtually no memory of the 20 years of his life that coincided with his most serious drug abuse. 20 years!

If only his audience could be so lucky.

i wonder if eric clapton hates himself

It's okay, I can pitch in if he doesn't