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

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J Mascis and Evan Dando are currently halfway through a 40 year experiment to find out who's least motivated, but chances are this experiment will never be completed

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Monday, 28 November 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The song "Return the Gift" and Gang of Four's entire subsequent oeuvre are based upon Jon King's rage at being given an ugly pullover as a Christmas gift at age sixteen and not being able to exchange it at the shop

― malarkey, Monday, 28 November 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

897. The original title for famous 'Pet Sounds' was actually
'Cat Sounds' but because discussions between the members the final title was the all people know: 'Pet Sounds'. Many years after this, they resolve it with 'The M.I.U. Album'

― antonio, Monday, 28 November 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

898. Due to an adminstrative error The Neptunes regularly recieve royalty cheques for the track "March of the Gwladys Street Gladiators" on the 1996 album "Forever Everton: 22 Goodison Classics"

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

899. Upon entering heaven, Kurt Cobain was mortified to find out that rather than wanting him "for a sunbeam", Jesus flat out demanded that he become bass-tech for Noel Redding.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

900. Duff Mckagen has recently had to have excessively painful laser surgery to remove an animated tattoo showing the widescreen version of Point Break from his foreskin.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

901. Mark McGrath and Sugar Ray were a persona and a band created by Dave Navarro in the 1990s as a side project where he could create radio-friendly music when not touring with Jane's Addiction or the RHCP. He was able to transform himself into McGrath through cosmetic surgery and cutting-edge prosthetic masks. Navarro/McGrath appearances together are the result of modern CGI and imposters.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

sting lived in a flat above a chinese across from where i work in wallsend. nobody here likes him very much.

― thatll do, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

The one in ZZ Top without a beard is called Frank Beard.

(He's grown a beard now, the legend!)

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

904, the band ZZ Top are all anglophiles and get annoyed when their name is not pronounced Zed Zed Top

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

905, contrary to popular belief the only anglophile in ZZ Top is Billy F Gibbons. This has caused much disagreement within the band themselves over how their name should be pronounced, their best compromise to date being to pronounce one the the Zs as 'zed', the other as 'zee'.

Still, depending on who in the band you ask, their name is either "zee zed top" (Frank or Dusty) or "zed zee top" (Billy).

― mei (mei), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

906. RZA is a qualified Pilates instructor.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link

907. In the late 90s, Kevin Shields decided to experiment with R&B production, took on the alias "Sisqo", and hit pay dirt with "The Thong Song". He then retired from the hobby, leaving the Sisqo franchise to another in a Milli-Vanilli-type stunt.

― Euler, Sunday, 11 December 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan was once stabbed in the face with a Bowie knife at a Lionel Ritchie concert in Toronto. He survived after extensive surgery.

― jacobp, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

What does "Deep Tracks" even mean? Is it like the album tracks that never get played on singles-oriented radio?

-- o. nate (syne_wav...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 11:18 AM. (onate) (later) (link)

It's a double entendre, because the non-singles tracks also have deep meanings, and they were often favourites of railroad engineers.

-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 11:20 AM. (Huk-L) (later) (link)

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

909. The DFA Mix of Mareisa Sabriel's "Sunset".

― Franklin Trench (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

910. Jonas Berggren, from Ace of Base, is the only Swedish chess grandmaster of the past 60 years.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

911. As of December 2005, Axl Rose will resume work on the long-awaited Chinese Democracy album once catches up on his backlog of unwatched Passions tapes.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

912. 100,000 Bon Jovi fans can't be wrong.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

913. Vatican scholars believe that if Jesus returned to earth today, his favourite band would be Brakes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

914. All of the original members of X-Clan were in fact qualified bespoke tailors.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

915. HIM started their career off as a filter-disco act, only changing their style after a series of anonymous death threats they received in the aftermath of the 2000 Europewide top 10 single "Time 4 Love 2 U"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

916. Vatican scholars are excited by the recent Sugababes line-up changes because as prophesized in Revalation, all three members are now direct descendents of the three wise men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Modern gift equivalents to be used in an Emmanuel Level Event are thought to be Teflon, Heat Magazine and Ogg Vorbis extension audio files.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

917. Snoop Dogg has never actually smoked marijuana.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

918. Nobody listens to Girls Aloud other than 12 year old girls, raving homosexuals, and formerly-indie music critics.

Dom P told me that one, btw.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

919. The Smiths were supposed to be a Simple Minds cover band but Morrissey couldn't sing fast enough to cover "I Travel".

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

920. Sufjan Stevens has webbed feet.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

921. Trip-Hop was invented by the Youth wing of the East German Communist Party in 1982.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

922. As of March 2006, all branches of Subway in the Home Counties area will be issued with special napkins that play a medley of ATB hits upon being dampened.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

923. Anita Ward penned 'Ring My Bell' in the aftermath of a pick-up gone wrong - her use of the line on her unsuspecting amorata resulted in the uncomprehending man punching her in the face. To this day, she claims it "felt like a kiss".

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

924. WOMAD is just a front for Peter Gabriel's international money-laundering scheme.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

925. Bowling for Soup are the only American band to have ever had a top 40 album in Canada.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

926. CL Smooth once endorsed a now defunct brand of laxative. Stores were forced recall the product due to reported cases of blindness.

― Give me Sufjan or give me credibility (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

927. Due to a recent court case instigated by Bryan Adams, the artist known globally as Ryan Adams must release his albums in Canada under his real name, Corky Shelley.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Rita Marley was ordered to pay the creators the Banana Splits $850,000
due to Bob unlawfully using the melody of their theme song in 'Buffalo Soldier'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

929 There exists an elegant mathematical proof that there cannot be a band called "Simply Red"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

930 Although John Lennon was killed, his music lives on in the Jurassic-Oolitic Limestone layer of the Earth's crust

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

931 "Indie" music is so-called because of a scandal in the 1978 World Cup when a team's mascot was tragically killed by a falling crate of fruit. The expression has been with us ever since.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

930 The Simply Red proof can of course be undermind by appeal to the Miles Hunt paradox.

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

933. 'Molly's Chambers' by Kings Of Leon was in fact an elaborate diss of Gomez, after the Southport bluesmen turned down a night on the town with the Kings.

This in itself would not have been so bad had the Kings not conducted a relentless campaign of taunts for the previous six months, primarily via the flickr account 'ottewellfearsthepunani' (account since deleted), whereby the Kings put up photoshopped photos of Gomez singer Ben Ottewell looking at FHM covergirls with the caption "Me no likey."

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards. Gomez then seized the instruments and jammed for the next 90 minutes straight, to a rapturous reception from the Danish fans. The Kings Of Leon have not shown their faces in Scandinavia since.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

934. Black musicians have been banned from appearing on "Later With... Jools Holland" ever since a June 1998 incident where a drunken Jurassic 5 set fire to the drummer from Lodger before chasing Jools around with a shovel they'd stolen from the Gardeners' World studio.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

934 On the subject of beards, only three fully-bearded bands have ever topped the UK charts, and in each case they were knocked off the top spot by synth duos with malevolent features!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

935. It's not people who are strange – it is YOU.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

936. When at a loose end while touring, Alizee occupies her time by recreating the legendary rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna on her Scalextric Monte Carlo set, using additional pieces to accurately recreate the Grand Prix circuits of the late 80's and early 90's. As you might expect, her personal favourite is their collision at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1988.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards.

936. This bit is copied off the official online histories of Gomez and The Kings of Leon, both of which assert in addition that "nobody noticed".

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link

937!!! dammit

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

938. But who is Alizee's favourite all-time Grand Prix driver? No, it's not Prost. It's Patrick Tambay.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

939. The other members of The Strokes insist that Nikolai Fraiture stand on the end in band photos in the hope that some dozy photo editor accidentally crops him out of the picture.

940. Bernard Butler left Suede due to Brett Anderson's incessant impersonation of Blakey from 'On the buses'.

941.No way is Madonna too old to be wearing that outfit and bending over in the 'Hung up' vid.

942. Fiddy Cent is producing his own line of hippie fashion outfits. He hopes to get rich tie dyin'.

943. Kate Moss was a last minute stand in for The White Stripes' 'I just don't know what to do with myself' vid after Jo Brand pulled a hammy warming up.

944. Ringo and Paul have a new album out mid 2006. Rumour has it it's drum'n'bass.

945. Bobby Brown new album is due for release. It's titled "Whitney Houston, we have a problem".

946. Chris Martin didn't read the 'permanent marker' warning on his texta.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

947. Early pressings of 'You're so Vain' are now worth over $600 due to the missprinted songwriting credit of 'Carly's Hymen'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

948. The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" was not actually about heroin, but rather was written by Hugh Cornwell as an homage to Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan. Cornwell became obsessed with Grogan when both the Stranglers and Altered Images appeared on the same episode of Top of the Pops in early 1980.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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