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

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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

786. The Shamen's 1992 number 1 hit single Ebeneezer Goode wasn't actually about drugs at all. It was just about a bloke Colin Angus met down Camden Market who tried to sell him some beaded car seat covers.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

787. Pop Will Eat Itself was actually one of Nostradamus' unpublished predictions for the year 1997.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

788. Bryan Ferry invented PlayDoh.

― Mark Prior (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

789. Daihatsu have chosen 'Ride It' by Geri Halliwell to be their corporate anthem for the 2006-2007 financial year.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Blur's hit, "There's No Other Way" was originally going to be called "There Is Another Way", until the band got lost in a maze

― elgringo, Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

791. Mimi Rogers of Low is widely considered to be the top Alexander Pope scholar in the state of Minnesota.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

792. Rufus Wainwright always eats with his hands. He proudly hasn't used a fork in over eight years.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link

793. Whitney Houston and Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys are actually the same person. Ad has had a penchant for blacking-up and dressing up in women's clothing since he was a child.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

794. Pete Doherty is a classically trained pianist.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

795. Emiliana Torrini is an Internet Service Provider in her native Iceland.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely no way does Furr look like KISS...no way I tell you

― Dave H, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

796. Lionel Richie's hit 'Dancing On The Ceiling' was written in the spirit of joy after Lionel was bitten by a radioactive spider and discovered he had many of the same powers as Spider-Man. His joy turned to crushing sadness, however, when his powers faded after being bitten on the knee by the lead singer of UB40.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

797. In 1986, Bono from U2, when asked if he would like a cup of tea by Andrew Ridgely from Wham, looked at the ground for a few minutes, sighed, and said: 'yeah... alright. No, wait - no.' Through various creative processes, this exchange ended up as Aqua's 1997 breakthrough album 'Aquarium'.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

798. 50 Cent is a keen collector of ladies' fashions, which he likes to arrange in dramatic poses resembling scenes from Henrik Ibsen's 'The Doll House', then sit back with an Ovaltine and cry himself to sleep.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

799. Avril Lavigne knows all the words to 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones, and can translate them instantly into eighteen world languages, including Swahili, Norwegian, Ancient Greek, and Welsh. But she still can't make crumpets without burning them, no matter how hard she tries.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

800. Bernard Sumner can create bees at will.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

801. Bronski Beat were an early Ministry Of Defense experiment in sonic weaponry. The experiment was deemed a failure on the grounds that it was 'a bit mainstream'.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Tony Iommi's nose was chopped off in duel with Richie Blackmore in the 70's. The argument was over which is the better song, War Pigs or Child in Time. He now has a metal thimble where his nose used to be.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

803. Singer/songwriter David Gray used to be a pneumatic drill tester, which explains his inherent wobbly headedness.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

804. Under The Bridge is about a game of pooh sticks Anthony Keidis and Flea once played.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

805. Meatloaf once played at fly half for Hull Kingston Rovers.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

806. The whistling in the Scorpions Wind Of Change was at exactly the right harmonic to loosen the bricks and eventually destroy the berlin wall.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

807. Mark Manning aka Zodiac Mindwarp now runs a ceramic figurines business out of his Cotswolds home.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

808. If Jack Black and Jack White ever appear in the same room at the same time, the universe will end.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

809. Popular Merseyside beat combo The Coral have never even heard The La's album.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

810. Former diminutive Take That pop heartthrob Mark Owen now works in software in the twee Victorian spa town of Harrogate, North Yorks.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

811. Lou Reed wrote the song Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) initially for the Berlin album.

― Sparky Dream (Sparkys Dream), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha! Number 806 is genius!

812. David Hasselhoff is unable to see the colour red, meaning he could see through everybody's swimwear on Baywatch, but couldn't tell when K.I.T.T. was winking at him.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

813. The next album by Eminem is based solely around variations on the theme from 'Airwolf'.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

814. mark hollis was a robot that has been since disassembled and rebuilt as a honda civic

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

815. On his deathbed, Ronal Reagan expressed a keen love of Joe Dolce's 'Shut Up-a Your Face', and asked that his entire former government sing it with him in a heart-breaking whisper. This they did, before a red-faced Reagan realised he'd actually meant 'Rooms On Fire' by Stevie Nicks.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

815. Stevie Nicks is the girl from 'The Exorcist'.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

816. KT Tunstall's Mercury Prize nominated album Eye To The Telescope was originally going to be a concept album regarding the life and times of Galileo Galilee. However, Relentless record bosses convinced her that it wasn't such a good idea, and hadn't she written anything a bit more accessible? In a fit of pique she smashed down the dividing wall in her hotel room, and discovered a hidden wall covered in lyrics and musical annotations, previously left there by Joan Jett and Bernard Sumner. This became the basis for her album; however she insisted upon keeping the original title, as dedication to the tireless work of the 16th/17th Century astonomer.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

817. Darius Danesh is not a ladyboy. Neither is he talentless, irritating, or a fromage-ridden embarrassment.

― The Gentleman (The Gentleman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

818. Both Marcella Detroit and Siobhan Fahey of Shakespear's Sister are genetic clones of the Bard of Avon. They were created in error as a by-product of trying to reproduce Shakespeare's writings under laboratory conditions. They escaped the labs because they were tired of writing sonnets and wanted to make pop music, yeah!

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

819. Scientists believe Mission of Burma's Clint Conley will be the first human ever to reproduce by binary fission; it is as yet unknown whether the second Conley will be allowed creative input into any further material the band records.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

820. Ronnie James Dio has a virulent, irrational hatred of horses and once smashed one to pieces with a hammer while on holiday in Italy. The cathartic bloodletting provided the inspiration for the song "Holy Diver(Destroy The Horse)", but all lyrical references to the killing of horses were subsequently altered for unknown reasons.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

821.

Morrissey Lambasts Morrissey In BBC Interview

"I'm really not a very good singer," offered former Smiths singer Morrissey in a candid interview with the BBC on Tuesday. "From a very young age, I planned my success around a moroseness and exaggerated melancholy that at the time, I was certain would capture a certain market. In retrospect, it seems rather silly, but somehow, it worked."

The statements came as a shock to rabid Smiths fans who after hearing the news ran shirtless into Manchester streets, denouncing the comments and throwing Molotov cocktails at cars and pedestrians.

"This is mad," stated an insurgent calling himself Kaiser, as he launched rocket-propelled grenades at an 18th century church. "Morrissey is a fookin' God. His self-effacement got England through the fookin' Thatcher era, fookin', fookin', misery is all we had then, isn't it?"

Another vigilante, Nancy Willoughby, shared Kaiser's outrage. "It just isn't right, I mean, who is this Morrissey fellow to be criticizing a legend, a groundbreaking musician who's a bleedin' cultural icon? You can't just fire off assaults like this in the tabloids and expect it all to be well and dandy." Willoughby's comments seemed to strike a chord with protestors, who cried "Death to Morrissey" as a large poster of the rock star went up in flames.

With no end to the destruction in sight, Manchester's Chief Minister of Urban Development has declared a state of emergency, while rioting and looting continue unabated. Manchester police are already estimating the damage caused by the celebrity's comments at £3.5 million.

At press time, Morrissey was absconding at an undisclosed location off the coast of South America, but remained unapologetic about his views on Morrissey. "No one is more shocked [about success] than me," he whispered from under a cardboard box in an abandoned warehouse. "I've never had much in the way of musical talent, really."

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

822. Jandek is really a Paul McCartney solo project

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

823. Before he got famous for his role in Home Alone, MacCauley Culkin managed the Beastie Boys

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

824. Contrary to popular belief, Eric Clapton was never a talentless drug addict.

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

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