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

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711. To get "Courtney-Loved" or "Sid-Vicioused" only seem to mean something in Philadelphia and Picton county.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Bob Mould was a school teacher in Akron, OH before he fronted the Orange Crush-drinkin'-obsessed indie rock band Sisters With Voices with friend Toby Dammit

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Friday, 14 October 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

713. When Cher refused to allow her voice to be manipulated electronically on her hit single 'Believe', ex-Husker Du/Sugar member Bob Mould was drafted in to do vocoder overdubs. The result was an instant worldwide club smash, the royalities from which just about covered Mould's gym membership fees.

― M. Ellis Conroy, Friday, 14 October 2005 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

698. PJ Harvey is so called because she wore nothing but her pajamas up until the age of 16.

714. PJ Harvey, like Jamie Lee Curtis, has a XXY genotype. Her name is not actually Polly Jean; the nickname came about from a mishearing of "polygene".

― acb (acb), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Miller now runs a sucessful take-away shop and gym in Ohio - "Abrakebabra" and "Macho City"

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Friday, 14 October 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

716. Ralf Hutter is oblong.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link

"684. Maynard James Keenan of Tool became so obesessed with wearing wigs on stage that he had all his pubic hair laser removed, and owns a "pubic wig" collection of 87 pieces of varying lengths and colours."

that one doesn't seem so implausible...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

717. Johnny Marr's first ever appearance on Top of the Pops was not with the Smiths, but rather as a shirtless backing dancer during Rupert Holmes' 1980 performance of "Escape".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

718. Guns 'N' Roses started off as a post-C86 jangle-pop band.

719. As of mid-2005, Axl Rose's long-awaited Chinese Democracy album will be a reggaeton record.

― acb (acb), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Dom Passantino - 717 - Brilliant.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Friday, 14 October 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

720. Sinitta's time spent working in an abattoir provided the inspiration for her smash hit 'So Macho'. The song was originally entitled 'Those Poor Brutes', but underwent an eleventh hour re-write under pressure from record company executives who deemed the song "not sufficiently commercial".

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link

721. A typographical error has prevented Robin Williams, star of 'Mork & Mindy' and 'Good Morning Vietnam', from receiving due acclaim for his 1997 hit 'Angels'.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Freddie Mercury's butt babie is to head the upcoming Queen tour.

― Tyler Clerk., Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

723. Following the success of his one and only hit 'The One and Only', Chesney Hawkes retired to his native Warsaw where he became obsessed with the idea of creating a zoo. He convinced the local council that it was unneccessary for them to purchase any animals for this zoo, because he believed it was inherent within the nature of animals to seek out zoos themselves. "Build it and they will come," he predicted, but he was proved wrong.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

724. Sting is currently working on the pilot episode of a new Tyne-Tees programme called 'You Be The Judge' in which members of the public get the chance to spend a day presiding over developments at Hartlepool Magistrates Court.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

725. Crass' commune in rural UK was once known as Red Way Natural Farms but had its name officially changed to Dial House after the band unwittingly signed into an advertising agreement with the Dial soap and detergent corporation.

726. A strong advocate for legal self-reliance, Bushwick Bill always acts as his own attorney and drafts his own licensing contracts.

727. Chris Martin of Coldplay is frequently mistaken on the street as the main man behind American psych-rockers Kinski.

728. Madlib, MF Doom and Dangermouse all met in a landscape design class at Vassar.

729. Autechre is pronounced "RAW-bee"

730. Every time the NME refers to a musician by his first name and then the name of his band (ie. Richie Manic, Ross Futureheads) they submit an application for official name change with the county registrar.

731. Prussian Blue have asked Momus to produce their next single in the style of shibuya-pop

732. Jad Fair posts on I Love Music under the alias Marissa Marchant. We never him.

733. "Royksopp" run through Babblefish.com translates to "Typesetter"

734. Sly Stone recently left a sales clerk post at the Diesel store to manage the Paul Frank shop in downtown san francisco

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

735. Attempting to capitalise on the success of the early 90s cartoon series of both MC Hammer and Kid N Play, in 1993 Nickolodeon commissioned 24 episodes of animated adventures featuring the Frank & Walters. The project was put on hold indefinitely after frontman Paul Linehan described the proposed storyboards as "fucking shit".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

736. The first ever album review was written in 1986, when a scribe on the Bolton Chronicle wrote a short 30 word article about Big Audio Dynamite's "No 10 Upping Street"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

737. G.U.N. actually stood for "Guns? Uzis? Nice!"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

738. Fred Durst insists upon starting all his business meetings by leaping out of a cupboard while 'Rollin'' is blasted out of the internal PA system, before dropping a freestyle about how much of a slut the VP Marketing's wife is. This idiosyncratic strategy was apparently what convinced t.A.T.u to sign with Interscope.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

739. Kasabian refuse to play US-style eightball pool 'on principle'.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

740. The term 'wigga' was coined by The Connells on 'Baby (Get Off My Leg)', the b-side to '74-75'.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

741. The Mountain Goats' 2005 album "The Sunset Tree" is a concept album based around frontman John Darnielle's vociferous love of British red-top tabloids. "Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod" is in fact a thinly disguised retelling of the on-off "Gerrard to Chelsea" story, whilst "Dance Music" is a strict retelling of his lust for Michelle Marsh.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

742. Rahzel once lost a beatbox battle to Ronnie O'Sullivan.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

743. Girl Aloud Nadine Coyle is actually the inspiration for the hysterical "Pandora" cartoon that's been running in Kerrang for the past 27 years.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

744. Marcy Playground frontman John Wozniak completely missed the news all day on September 11th 2001, and in fact was totally unware that the World Trade Centre had been attacked until it was obliquely referenced in a Dilbert cartoon he read in July 2003.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

745. Just as Elijah Wood is suggested in playing Iggy Pop in a biopic, fellow Lord of the Rings characters are expected to follow suit. Ian McKellen is expected to play Neil Young in his old age, beating out Neil Young himself for the role. Viggo Mortesen is expected to conduct himself as John Lennon, opposite Orlando Bloom as McCartney, Billy Boid as Harrison and Andy Serkis as Ringo. For some reason, Cate Blanchett is expected to star as both members of the Proclaimers, despite both of them being male. John Rhys-Davies is set to be the sole voice actor for the original Sex Pistols line-up; the film will not be animated.

― Lazy Guy, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Josh Groban is apparently never photographed without long sleeve shirts or jackets on. It's because he's said to have arm-length tattoos depicting cartoon-like dogs having anal sex with cats and cows. (this is very loosely based on something i just heard two men saying about Mr. Rogers while walking to the subway in San Francisco.)

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

747. Phil Oakey of The Human League wrote the EastEnders theme.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

750. 40% of the samples from "Entroducing" are taken from "Calling Elvis" by Dire Straits.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

752. Will Smith Killed Tupac

― Stafford Moore, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

753. Dom Passantino was the choreographer for 'The Passantinos', a short-lived Barnsley-based tribute band to 'The Pasadenas'.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

754. The Artic Monkeys already had a series of top 40 singles in the mid 90s, under their original name "Stretch N Vern"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

755. The Arcade Fire are all Mormon siblings.

756. Every single Depeche Mode song is composed by Andrew Fletcher entirely using keyboard presets.

757. Enya was the original bassist in U2, whose other members were all Clannad roadies.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

758. Every single DJ Green Lantern mixtape contains a cryptic reference to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's famous "one legged tarzan" routine.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

759. Lee Harvey, of guest rap on N*E*R*D's "Lapdance" fame, has spent all of his percentage from that song's release on a fruitless campaign to achieve independance for the town of Corby.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

760. Pusha T got his nickname based on his resemblance to Pusha Taylor, former bassist for late 90s indie no-hopers the Llama Farmers.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Morrisey didnt think his ass was a Vase............ he in fact ha a vaginna for thart purpose.

― Sam Purnell, Friday, 21 October 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Daniel Miller, Robert Wyatt Derek Bailey, Paul Westerberg, Kevin Shields, John Squire, Alastair Galbraith, Mark Smith, John Lydon, and Peter Blegvad are just a few of the 50-plus musicians who have entered Kraftwerk's revolving-door membership since founders Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider died in a low-speed car accident shortly after completing "Autobahn." Recent photos of Ralf and Florian are, in fact, stock images which have been doctored using photo-editing software designed by Westerberg during the six months in 1992 when he was a member. Bailey was reportedly fired in 1981 after serving in Kraftwerk for two and a half years (a record which remains unmatched) for calling Wyatt a cunt and tipping over his wheelchair.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Kelis washes her face in Lilt

― Dex, Saturday, 22 October 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Brandon Flowers invented polysterene, digital alarm clocks and Kentucky Fried Chicken. The rights for the last invention led to a prolonged fist fight between Flowers and Colonel Sanders, which only ended when Isaac Brock, confusing the Colonel for a bottle of Jack Daniels, attempted to "chug" him. Issac later described him as "tangy".

― PMT, Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

take that were actually made of play-do. their management couldn't afford the monthly fees and rolled the big ball up and sent it back. there was just enough left to make a small robbie - who is only 15inches tall

― neil g, Monday, 24 October 2005 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link

766. Ill Nino, The Colorblind James Experience, Racey, Markus Nikolai, The Datsuns, Fox, The Reynolds Girls, Cub, Cud, Lumidee and The Pale Fountains are all aliases of Joey Negro. Joey Negro is 74.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

767. Erick Sermon retired from the rap game in 2003, and now comes up with new product ideas for the Tesco Finest range.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

768. As a child, future techno icon Richard D. James disassembled his family's piano on their living room floor, but found himself unable to put it back together. Legend has it that he then said, "Fuck it," went to the nearest pawn shop, and bought a sequencer.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

769. "Like I Love You" was actually an N'Sync track, rather than a Timberlake solo effort. Prodution duties were handled by Lance Bass, and the purported Clipse rap at the end was actually performed by Joey Fatone. Indeed, the entirity of Clipse's "Lord Willin'" album was by Joey Fatone, and the two public faces of Clipse were just former catering assistants who worked on N'Sync's "No Strings Attached" tour.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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