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

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99. Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes are mother and son.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

100. Motorhead's rider invariably contains a demand for 4 ounces of St Paulin, as Lemmy is a huge fan of the bland French cheese.

101. Perennial indie nobodies The Tompaulins actually took their name from a schoolfriend. They have never heard of the poet and critic Tom Paulin.

102. Visitors to his swish LA penthouse are unlikely to be allowed to use MC Ren's washing machine, as he controls the automatic.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

103. Sir Mix-a-Lot started out as a conscious rapper in the vein of KRS-One and Professor Griff. He changed the theme of his 1992 single promoting adult literacy, "Baby Got Book" ("I like Big Books and I cannot lie!") to "Baby Got Back" to cash in on the success of the 2 Live Crew. Ironically, Weird Al Yankovic then released a parody record called "Baby Got Book". It was shit.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

104. In private, Phil Lynott had a broad Jamaican accent. He adopted his trademark Irish brogue when Thin Lizzy first started gigging on the notoriously tough Showband circuit. They changed the title of their hit single "Whiskey an' Ting in the Jar" after a particularly brutal bar-fight in Bundoran, County Donegal.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

105. Technohead's 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' was made by UK comedians Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis as the basis for a sitcom on Radio 4. It was rejected because it had too much bass.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

106. Crazy Frog's "Alex F" hit record was actually made by Lions.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

107. Grindcore doesn't exist.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

108. Cliff Burton from Metallica didn't actually die in that fateful 1986 bus crash. he survived, secretly altering his appearance through reconstructive surgery. in 1989 he legally changed his name to gwyneth paltrow and moved to los angeles. of course he is now married to coldplay's chris martin, who has no idea 'she' is still a man. martin knows nothing of how babies are made, so when 'gwyneth' brought home a baby girl he just accepted her story that the 'stork' had come and delivered them a new bundle of joy. he is not aware that Cliff/Gwyneth is raising Apple to be the next bassist for Metallica's glorious return to form, entitled "St. Anger 2: Metallimucil". The only soul who knows about this is Kirk Hammet, and oddly, Charles Nelson Reilly.

109. The Empire never ended.

― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

The Chemical Brothers are really Peter Skellern and Richard Stilgoe.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Noted electronic dance music pioneer and one-time member of Ultravox, John Foxx, is the son of late actor/comedian Redd Foxx.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

112. Snoop Dogg remains absolutely convinced that Hall & Oates were actually called Hall Of Oats, and refuses to believe any suggestion to the contrary.

113. Aside from you and that Australian guy you met in Goa, absolutely no-one has heard of Manu Chao.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

114. That band you dreamt about last night? With the matching grey suits and the early Nick Cave collaborations? They do exist in real life. But they live in Mansfield, not in your garage.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Springsteen still doesnt realise that the girl he got up on stage is courtney cox. Whenever a repeat of friends comes on, he talks about how one of them is kinda familiar and the band just stare at the floor.

― danny boy, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

116. God is flattered, and even "a little humbled" that so many albums are dedicated to him.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

117. Jars of Clay were originally a swingbeat act.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

118. One of the more obscure examples of music industry beef is the ongoing rivalry between the remaining members of the Bobby Fuller Four and minor British rapper Doc Brown. Nobody knows why.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

119. Luke Haines is the heir to the throne of Latveria. He refuses to accept his rightful legacy on the basis that "something bad" might happen.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

120. Third Eye Blind only play musical instruments carved out of limes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Collectively all the MP3s in existence weigh almost as much as John Cale

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

121. John Cale is used as a standard measurement of weight in Wales.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

123. Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier was the voice of Tony Meo on "Snooker Loopy" by the Matchroom Mob Featuring Chas and Dave.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

124. The Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash also killed both members of Go West, who were providing on-flight entertainment.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

possibly not the most apposite kind of fake trivia to be posting at this precise moment...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

125. Far from being a Joker or indeed a Smoker Steve Miller in fact lives an acetic life, he is completely teetotal and only laughs knowingly at that sketch from BBC2's late '90s comedy sensation Goodness Gracious Me where two lad use the term “chuddies” to describe female mammary glands.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

126. Sensational '80s New Pop icon Belouis Some now lives in a compact and bijou apartment in London's desirable Thamesmead district, where he runs a painting and grouting business with his partner, TV's Tim Vincent.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

127. Graeme Garden's son plays keyboards in the Scissor Sisters.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

That one's sort of 100% true though, innit?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

127. In a disused warehouse on the outskirts of Hilversum, 75 people are still dancing to "Poing" by the Rotterdam Termination Squad.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Marcello - is it? I thought it had been properly debunked.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

128. In Russian, they don't even have a word for Grindcore.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I'll get my coat.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

129. The world's highest paid house DJ is Liam Lynch, who can charge up to $40,000 for a two hour set.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

130. The sax solo on "If You Love Somebody (Set Them Free)" by Sting was played by ITN's Katie Derham.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

131. Electrane's planned last album, featuring a number of uptempo Hi NRG disco pop numbers and a cover featuring the girls in fetching bikini's and heels was ditched at the last minute when the Wire offered a cover feature.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

132. Wolf Eye's planned last album, featuring a number of uptempo Hi NRG disco pop numbers and a cover featuring the boys in fetching bikini's and heels was ditched at the last minute when the Wire offered a cover feature.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

In a fit of psy-op pique, Republican strategist Lee Atwater infiltrated the sessions for Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy (1989), laying some twangy lines down on “Everything is Broken.” The duck-walker gained entry to the sessions after producer Daniel Lanois draped the studio in 250 square yards of gauzy muslin.

Atwater was killed in 1992 by a “brain tumor” named David Geffen.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

U2's era-defining 1987 classic The Joshua Tree album was originally to be produced by Derek Bailey. However, the lads took umbrage as Bailey brutally edited out all of their pseudo-Americana guitar/synth backdrops, replacing them with improvised electric slinky and sopranino bullroarer, played by Han Bennink and Anthony Braxton respectively. "Where the streets have no name? Where the song has no feckin tune more like!" quipped The Edge at the time.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

135. Musicians who made guest appearances on hit drama show Oz include Kim Lian, Abs, and the drummer from Electrasy.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

136. Marilyn Manson had two ribs removed so that he may self-fellate.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

137. Twiggy Ramirez was the first ever person to make it to $500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

138. Half Man Half Biscuit were due to be awarded the freedom of the city of Prague in June 1987, but the ceremony was postponed indefinitely owing to Nigel Blackwell's crippling stage fright.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

139. Pete Waterman was originally slated as producer of Radiohead's international chart-topping album Kid A but the band dispensed with his services after finding his approach "too extreme." "I found a Stockhausen record in Avid," quipped band frontman Thom Yorke. "It was called Roadblock and it was really funky. I wanted Radiohead to go down a more acid jazz route, sort of like Jamiroquai meets Nasty Rox Inc. Trust those disreputable rogues in the shop to switch the artist dividers around!" he chuckled.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

140. Brian Eno often cites the fact that he was sick in bed and unable to turn up the stereo as the inspiration for his ambient work. He was, in fact, strapped to the bed as he was at the height of his sexual compulsive phase and friends thought he was in danger of dying of exhaustion.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Suzanne and Alan Vega are identical twins.

TV critic Clive James's hobby of collecting powerful magnets and sellotaping them to his underclothes wrought disaster when he was invited to sit in on a Steely Dan mixing session in the late 70s; when Fagen and Becker realised the antipodean scribe had wiped their work by drunkenly slumping over the Studer 24-track, they sought and gained a court order to force him to recreate (with Jonathan Cohen and Tristan Fry) side B of Aja from memory, in his own time and at his own expense. CJ's long-running smirking-at-the-Japanese shows of the 80s were his way of covering studio costs. See also: Chris Tarrant, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles and Helium Outgassing Syndrome.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

142. The only reason the Killers got so popular is that the drummer's uncle is the well-connected Karl Rove.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

144. Since 2001, Eiffel 65 have been comparing every single song they hear to their own 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)', then giving it a score between -1 and -10 based on how much worse it is than 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'. Currently leading is Freeland's 'We Want Your Soul', with a score of -7.628.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

145. McDonalds' UK only burger the "Big Tasty" was created in order to celebrate "The Gentle Art Of Choking" by My Vitriol reaching the top 40, My Vitriol frontman Som Wijay-Wardner being a former four star worker at the company's Thannet town centre branch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

146. Though they're loath to admit it, Funeral For A Friend are actually really good at rugby union.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

147. "With A Little Bit of Luck" by DJ Luck and MC Neat is the official song of Jainism.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

The engineer and mixer of Napalm Death's 'From Enslavement to Obliteration' album is none other than Phil "Mixmaster" Harding, who was also mixing many of Stock Aitken and Waterman's classic hits at the time!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

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