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

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1038. Former band members of The The and Mr. Mister planned a collaboration that they planned to call "The Mister"

1039. members of the the, the cult, the jam, and lisa lisa and the cult jam planned a collaboration they planned to call lisa lisa and the the cult cult jam jam

1040. An Australian band named The The was forced to change its moniker after legal action from the UK act of the same name. The case was termed 'The The The vs The The case' by the press. The Australian band subsequently retitled themselves The Australian The The.

The numbering's gone a bit out of whack, hasn't it? But at a guess, we should now be on...

1209. Despite it being the title of hits for Kylie, Steps and Sonia, Pete Waterman still has no idea what the phrase "Better The Devil You Know" actually means. In an interview in 1998, he claimed it was "one of those Jewish things, you know, like that Ingmar Bergman feller does."

1210. Patrick Wolf's Halo 3 handle is BillyJacquesSmoothie.

1394. Drumming for an English band in the 1990s meant there was a 12% chance your first name was Loz. name was attached to crypto-racist, reactionary news articles.

1211. 'in rainbows' was originally intended as a concept album about rabies

botw

Okay, haha. I just figured out what "botw" meant after seeing it a bunch of times before.

baby on the way?

Ornette Coleman was able to achieve circular playing whilst holding a clothes peg over his nose by breathing through his eyes.

1413. Neil Young inadvertently invented Ambient music in 1972 with a 17-minute recording of "The Needle and the Damage Done". The synth-backed track was meant to be featured on an album that was provisionally titled "Harvest: The Chillout Sessions" but that album that was later scrapped.

1414. Tone Loc got his break in the music industry as a roadie for Mike Oldfield on the latter's Crises tour. Loc originally wrote "Funky Cold Medina" over a break from "Moonlight Shadow".

1415. The entire oevure of indie-folk band The Mountain Goats is in fact the result of the labors of one remarkably talented artist: Zombie Kurt Cobain.

1416. There is actually no direction called "up". It is an urban legend started by a 1968 Rolling Stone interview with Grace Slick.

1417. Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from Leonard Skinner, a disciplinarian gym teacher at the band members' former school, but they chose their unique spelling so that he would be unable to Google himself and discover this mocking tribute.

1418. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats was once videotaped sodomizing an endangered bobcat. The video was leaked to Youtube in 2007.

1419. Bob Lefsetz's music industry experience consists entirely of a two-week stint MCing a karaoke bar in Dayton in 1994.

1420. John Darnielle is secretly an actual mountain goat

lol at noodle vague's latest

1421. Most of us know, by now, about Brendan Canning's performance as "stoned dude #2" on Len's ubiquitous 1999 hit "Steal My Sunshine", but no one talks about fellow Broken Social Scenesters Leslie Feist and Andrew Whiteman and thier orange jumpsuited appearance in the video for Bran Van 3000's "Drinking in LA" video despite not performing on the song itself.

Classic material.

1422. dom passantino is the fifth beatle

1423. dom secretly thinks every entry on this thread is hilarious

1424. In the original draft of Ray Bradbury's "a Sound of Thunder", a time traveler goes back to 1985 and accidentally kills Justine Frischmann & Kate Radley. Upon returning to the present he finds that popular culture has changed in subtle but noticeable ways.
(this could possibly be a thread in its own right)

This thread contains a stunning amount of marvellous material: I salute those who have produced it.

1425. The Stars of the Lid track "Dopamine Clouds over Craven Cottage" was titled after an (abortive) plan by Mohamed Al-Fayed to cremate the body of his son Dodi in the centre circle at half time during Fulham's opening game of the season.

Holy shit - how many years since pinefox has posted here?!

About 16 hours, I think.

i see him on here often, no?

1426. Minnie Riperton only had a two-octave vocal range. The rest was done with a theremin.

1427. Def Leppard took their name from an obscure old Australian expression, "Wet enough to melt the antlers off a deaf leopard."

1428. Although Hype Williams is credited, the music video for Busta Rhymes' smash hit "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" was actually ghost-directed by then Williams intern David Gordon Green, who silently filled in while Williams was being treated for a rare case of motor neurons disease.

1429. Every Daft Punk album since Discovery begins with a different vocal sample from southern rapper Silkk the Shocker's No Limit Records debut "Physical Graffiti".

1430. Three of the four members of Interpol worked as speechwriters for Kentucky governor Brereton Jones prior to releasing their debut album. Their most celebrated work, an uplifting speech delivered during a potentially devastating energy shortage was titled "Turn On The Bright Lights".

1431. Mos Def is allergic to metal. When performing live, he uses a special microphone made of whole grain wheat.

1432. Hyped BBC favourites Florence and the Machine recently signed a 10-tour sponsorship deal with Wrights Pies.

1433. Former ILX Controversialist Esteban Buttez owns Australia's largest collection of Sal Solo memorabilia. Nothing by Classix Nouveaux though because he thinks they're shit.

1434. I kissed a girl and received a restraining order.

1435. Michelle Obama and her cousin, Beverly, performed in the backing band in the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense concert.

The movie Gremlins was based loosely on screenwriter Michael Polino's experiences hanging out with the band Lynyrd Skynyrd in the mid-1970s. The Gremlin ringleader Stripe, in particular, was modeled on the antics of Ronnie Van Zant, while the general visual appearance of the Gremlins was modeled on Polino's vision of what the band might have looked like after the fiery plane crash that killed many of the band's members in 1977. At the time of the movie's release, Lynyrd Skynyrd spokespeople and fans called the move tasteless, an opinion that seems to have softened somewhat over time.

that was 1436, btw.

1437. Vampire Weekend is going to have a very long and fruitful career.

Bruce Springsteen admits that most of the material for 2009's "Working On A Dream" was written as he scanned the posts on fmylife.com with his guitar in his lap and his computer on his desk. He'd spend forty-five seconds trying to put an fmylife entry to music and if he thought it worked he'd turn on the tape recorder and save it for later.

^ 1438

1439. The first "promo video" wasn't a video at all! In 1830 Felix Mendelssohn commisioned a series of Magic Lantern slides of his recent holiday in Scotland, to be shown at concert performances of The Hebrides overture when he was too wasted to attend in person.

1440. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" contains a sample of George Formby saying "Eh Oop Missus".

1441. That singer out of Twisted Sister was a bloke. Hairy bollocks and everything.

1442. Before it was a film, a live musical or even an album, Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" was actually a sandwich.