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

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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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ROCK FACTS
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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

770. Kinda true but kinda not, perhaps? LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge" is based off of Mikey Wild's "I Was Punk...", which James Murphy heard on WPRB. Princeton Record Exchange gets a namecheck but WPRB is only referred to as a "local radio station".

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

771. HTML mark-up code was invented by Tracy Chapman.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

772. The most common song at funerals in Portugal is "King of Kissingdom" by My Life Story.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

773. Although Buschwick Bill and Scarface stopped recording together as members of the Geto Boys during the mid 90s, they still worked together as a highly respected marketing agency, and are credited as coming up with the "Lambrini girls just wanna have fun" campaign.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

774. Jon King of Gang of Four has psychic powers. In 1982, Barry J. Marshall (2005's Nobel Prize winner for medicine) performed a breakthrough experiment proving that gastritis was caused by a certain species of bacteria rather than stress or similar causes. This was done by drinking a liquid with the relevant bacterial culture and subsequently developing gastritis; this event was prophecized a whole three years in advance by Gang of Four in the lines "He fills his head with culture / He gives himself an ulcer" off their Entertainment! album.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

775. Gary Coleman is again in the acting business, playing both of Michael Jacksons veil'd children

― sparko Mcwiggley, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

776. Greg Kihn originated the role of Ron Nasty in the Original Broadway Cast of Rutlemania!

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

777. Mike Patton was on the very first season of You Can't Do That On Televison. Really.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

778. When David Lee Roth (now working as paramedic in New York) gets bored, he causes minor accidents and resuscitates the victims with a live acoustic version of 'Panama.' When he gets really bored, he kills puppies.

― Lazy Guy, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The Human League actually took there name from a board game they used to play.

― Bass242@talk21.com, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

780. Noel and Liam from Oasis have changed their surnames by deed poll. The name Gallagher is a bastardisation of Galaga, the 1980s arcade classic, which both brothers are huge fans of. However, due to legal issues they were not allowed to use the name Galaga, and were forced to change to the similar-sounding alternative. Their original surname was Farquaha-Smythe.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

781. The southern hip-hop slang term "Whut it dew" originates from the practice of linking tracks on Houston-area mixtapes with clips from Malcolm In The Middle, mainly those featuring the wacky antics of Dewey.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

782. Keith Strickland from the B-52's has hands made entirely of Styrofoam. He lost his original hands in an horrific fretboard accident in 1985. It has actually improved his ability to play certain chords.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

783. The southern hip-hop slang term "mayne" originates from the great sadness that many southern rap artists felt when Manchester City left Maine Roade for the City of Manchester stadium. At a recent memorabilia auction, Bun B paid over $60,000 for a turnstile from the old Maine Roade entrance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

784. The southern hip-hop slang term "cakeboy" originates from the fact that college rockers Cake invented crunk on their 1997 album Fashion Nugget

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

785. Dick Valentine, lead vocalist with Electric Six is actually the second-born son of Queen front-man Freddy Mercury. If you turn the speakers up really loud at the end of the single version of Electric Six's cover version of Radio Gaga, you can actually hear Dick weeping gently over a copy of Queen's Greatest Hits.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

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