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

Well, well. I've heard it was made by Panasonic! :/

1130. The NME's yearly singles poll has been fixed for the past two years, where both times the legitimate winner was "The Weekend" by Michael Grey.

1131 The primary lyrical inspiration for Jay-Z's "I've got 99 problems but the bitches ain't one" was none other than Prefab Sprout's 1985 album track 'Desire As'. He's on record as a big fan, owning all their CDs up to and including last year's Paddy McAloon solo effort.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers single "Dani California" is reportedly based on one of bassist Flea's many 'babymamas.' Flea met this one on the set of Penelope Spheeris's 1984 classic film Suburbia, reportedly impregnating her just before the redneck guy runs over the child punk on the tricycle in the dramatic climax of the film. Flea also co-wrote the song "Give it Away" as a diss record towards the woman, who gave him an uncurable bout of AIDS.

1333. Amy Winehouse has an uncircumcised penis.

1334. Kate Bush's favourite Australian Rules Football team is the SANFL's South Adelaide. She doesn't follow the AFL but kinda likes Carlton.

1335. The Gorillaz are actually a front for the remarkable musical talents of one man: Zombie Kurt Cobain.

1336. Jerry Lee Lewis owns the world's largest collection of Clarice Cliff pottery.

1337. Director Jerry Zucker furiously lobbied Paramount Pictures to retain the original soundtrack of Ghost, written and performed by the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.

1338. Danzig's new backing band is Fugazi.

1339. the Strokes got their name from the band's ritual of rubbing each other's penises for good luck before each gig.

1340. Eazy-E's college roommate at University of Wisconsin at Madison was then-undiscovered Hollywood heartthrob Jeff Goldblum. The two hit it off immediately after they discovered their shared obsession with French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Later, when Eazy was fronting NWA, he asked Goldblum to provide a few bars for "One Less Bitch." Goldblum declined, citing that Ice Cube had once called him "a jew."

1341. If you play Wolfmother's self-titled album backwards, you will hear the band proclaiming John Howard to be Australia's greatest ever Prime Minister and that "the young guys and girls out there should vote John Howard in the next election because his new workplace reforms are fair and will keep the country's economy on track - which those dirty socialist union bullies want to ruin!"

1342. brad pitt was considered for the role of ian curtis in the hotly anticipated biopic of the troubled joy division singer, 'control', but was deemed too "pretty" to be able to pull it off convinvingly. he was also advised by spouse angelina jolie that to portray a husband in such an unstable domestic environment would undoubtedly affect negatively on the impressionable mindset of adopted son, maddox.

1343. Ice Cube's crime record is more like Roman Polanski, really.

1344. The first ever successful 50/50 grind in a professional skateboarding tournament was performed in 1990 by "Tennessee" Ernie Ford. He died the following year.

1345. W.A.S.P.'s "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" stole its tune note for note from an obscure Freddie and the Dreamers b-side called "What a Groovy Girl". Freddie Garrity successfully sued the band, and received a song-writing credit on the track.

1346. Seriously, nobody in the world gives a fuck about Jandek.

1347. If I ever meet Newton Faulkner I promise to kick his knackers up into his ribcage.

1348. Clifford the Big Red Dog was tapped to play the incendiary guitar solo that leads into Prince's "When Doves Cry," but canceled at the last minute because of side effects from a flea dip. Jazzman Olu Dara was calling in instead.

um, 'called'

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld played drums for an early incarnation of the Beastie Boys, but quit in frustration after Mike D refused to perform his contribution "What's the Deal With Lampshades" at concerts.

1346. Former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was reportedly the inspiration for the character Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical "Rent."

1345. John Lennon's controversial 1972 tune "Woman is the Nigger of the World" was originally titled "Nigger is the Nigger of the World," but was changed after Arista head Clive Davis protested that the title used the racially-charged epithet 'nigger' too many times. Lennon had, at various points, considered using the terms 'spic', 'faggot', 'kike', and 'camel jockey' but settled on 'woman' after he noticed his wife Yoko Ono wailing into a microphone at the studio during the recording session.

1345 (con't). Lennon was said to be pleased with the change, as he found the lyrics "more metaphorical, innit?"

1346. A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez) from TV's Saved by the Bell was the last person to see Kurt Cobain alive.

^ a+

1347. Lord of the Rings effects crew; Weta Digital placed a scale Bone Thugs n Harmony concert into the Battle of Helms Deep as a joke, however unbeknownst to them, it's mentioned in the original books as Tolkien was a fan.

1348. Morrissey's favourite film is "Nuns on the Run".

In addition to having a hook for a hand, Moulty also had a prosthetic face.

Before his music career took off, James Brown was actually invited to sponsor the baptism of a large edible flounder, an offer which was accepted. So it's not just a nickname, he really was the Godfather of Halibut.

groan.

DU U C WAT I DID DERE?

1351. "Ya Playin Yaself" by Jeru the Damaja was actually an attack on the then nascent "romo" genre, although heightened beef was caused when subliminals aimed at Dex Dexter frontman Xavior Roide were misinterpreted as a diss on the Bad Boy record label

1352. Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck is known better in academic circles as African-American scholar and social critic Cornell West.

1353. Thom Yorke invested the royalties from OK Computer in a buy-to-let empire of over 700 properties in Ashford, Kent. He employs Phil Selway, who earns nothing from his role in the band (this being a tax-avoidance scheme for Yorke's benefit), to manage the portfolio.

1354. Conor Oberst named his group after a line from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - "Turn around, bright eyes"

1355. Cameron Crowe first made out with his future wife Nancy Wilson of Heart while listening--at Ms. Wilson's request--to the first side of Led Zeppelin IV. Mr. Crowe would combine this event with some advice he overheard from two young men in a record store about how to listen to an unspecified Tom Petty LP while researching his book, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, resulting in a memorable moment in the film of said book.

1347. Lord of the Rings effects crew; Weta Digital placed a scale Bone Thugs n Harmony concert into the Battle of Helms Deep as a joke, however unbeknownst to them, it's mentioned in the original books as Tolkien was a fan.

-- Hamildan, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:39 (2 days ago) Link

ROFL

1356. As a show of support for his daughter, Lionel Richie is re-recording a new version of "Brick House", retitled "She's In The Big House"

[If Leno or somebody has already done essentially the same joke, I've never heard it. Still, my own fault for choosing an easy and obvious target.]