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

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155. It would take approximately sixteen years to listen non stop to every song posted on every MP3 blog in the last 12 minutes.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

156. Dr and the Medics were all actually firemen, but they couldn't come up with an appropriat name.

157. Mick Hucknell started the rumour about his amazing ability to attract women, in an attempt to be attractive to women.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

158. Andy Partridge is an uncredited collaborator on all of Richard Curtis' movie projects, including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Morvern Callar, Soul Plane, and Art School Sluts 2: Yoni's Revenge.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

159. Neil Young's legendary contempt for the CD format was actually a result of his having invested heavily in a rival technology, JVC's UltraDisc. The UltraDisc was a tiny 1.5 inch vinyl disc, designed to be played on portable turntables. Each disc was capable of holding exactly 1.5 inches of data, i.e. approximately 20 seconds of music.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

160. Due to a rare bone condition, Bootsy Collins is unable to float in water, and has not had a bath since 1967.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

161. The original version of Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'Love Child' was written by Ross herself, and was entitled 'Martha Reeves Doesn't Know Who Her Daddy Is'. Ross only performed the re-written version under heavy sedation.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

162. There are no less than three separate British Government departments solely devoted to ensuring that John Martyn never becomes popular.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

163. The Goombay Dance Band, who scored a UK number 1 with "Seven Tears" in 1982, featured a young Sizzla and Shabba Ranks on backing vocals.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

164. The Pet Shop Boys' song "Left to My Own Devices" features the lyric "Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat". Ironically, Guevara hated Debussy's music, describing it as "reactionary bourgeois indie shite". Debussy, on the other hand, was a huge disco fan, scoring the string arrangements for several classics including Odyssey's "Use It Up and Wear It Out".

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

165. Journalists who were originally "dissed" in Guns N Roses 1991 album track before time constraints led to a rewrite include Alan Coren, Polly Toynbee, and "Beano" editor Euan Kerr.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

165. Journalists who were originally "dissed" in Guns N Roses 1991 album track "Get In The Ring" before time constraints led to a rewrite include Alan Coren, Polly Toynbee, and "Beano" editor Euan Kerr.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

167. Brian Higgins, in an effort to feel more "real" as an artist, is secretly ghostwriting/producing the forthcoming comeback album by Nick Kamen.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

168. Swearing on rap records was first invented by Biz Markie on his 1988 b-side "Bloody Postman's Late Again". Record Industry bosses told him that bad language would never become popular.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

169. Richard O'Brian, writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, presenter of The Crystal Maze and occasional actor is only two degrees of seperation from every UK #1 hit since 1983.

On a side note, the "Mumsy" character was played by Carol Vordeman's mother.

― Magnakai (Magnakai), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

170. Jaco Pastorius was shot dead while attempting to knock a deer unconscious on a roadside. His killer was never caught.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

171. Koch Records recently released their own version of the boardgame Risk, with the continent of Australasia replaced by C-Murder.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

172. Three of Mayhem's songs are uncredited Orange Juice covers with different titles.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

173. A fateful meeting between Jimmy Saville and Michael Jackson in 1977 - which degenerated into a childish name-calling contest, during which the silver haired DJ lifted up his trouser leg for extra movement before stamping on Jackson's foot - inspired both the sock fetish and the famous cry of the King of Pop.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

174. 'Help The Aged' is actually a belated response record to 'Earth Song'.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

175. For their first 12 gigs, Sly & The Family Stone were called He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. Sly Stone only decided to change the name after falling over a coffee table at Crosby, Stills & Nash's house.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

175. Tom Jones was once mistakenly booked to open for a pre-fame Ramones at CBGB's. Jones, undaunted, launched into scorching rockabilly renditions of his greatest hits.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

176. The chorus of 1997's "Beetlebum" marks the first ever use of the chord C major in Blur's recorded output, as Graham Coxon had only recently overcome his irrational terror of it.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

177. Most people don't know that Koch records was founded by former NYC mayor Ed Koch.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

178. In addition to naming their outfit "The Beta Band" and disowning their debut artist album immediately before its release in 1999, the Scotland/Portsmouth quartet's legendary lack of self-confidence and poor judgment led them to run up a large debt with their record label by paying Radio 1 & 2 not to playlist any of their subsequent singles and visiting various therapists almost every day of each week for 5 years.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

180. Stevie Jackson of Belle & Sebastian is Clare Grogan's dad.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

181. Ghostface Killah has only actually killed one person.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

182. Alt-classical band Rachel's shortened their name from Rachel's Hair in disgust, after Jennifer Aniston restyled her mane in season six.

― alberto confetti, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

183. James ate Richey.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

184. Stevie Nicks.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

185. Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Nicola Roberts and Est'elle will perform 'Like A Virgin'/'Hollywood' at the 2006 Brit Awards. Est'elle will sport the most conservative outfit.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

186. Jesus Jones' original name? Jesus Juice.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

187. Roni Size and Shy FX are both secretly from the Canadian town of Barrie, Ontario.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

188. Barry Ontario is the real name of singer-songwriter David Gray.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

189. David Grey, Barry White, Jason Orange and Frank Black were part of a range of "Rock Tints" introduced by Dulux in its Autumn 2002 range.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

190. The b-side on the German release of Eminem's "Ass Like That" is a hip-hop cover of Smart E's rave classic "Sesame's Treat". Playing on the M&M/Smarties candy pun and Eminem's famous "nobody listens to techno" utterance, this rarely-heard track went to #4 in Germany, and is credited with inspiring the "ironic hip-hop" craze that has been wildly popular in Germany and Switzerland this summer.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

191. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl did not play on Nirvana's Nevermind. All of the backing tracks on Nevermind were created by carefully manipulating samples from a variety of sources, most notably Big Black's Songs About Fucking, Anthrax's State Of Euphoria, and Yaz's Upstairs At Eric's.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

192. The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" was originally titled "Ringo, He's No Joe Cocker, Ennit?"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

193. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel invented rave music with their 1973 song "Crazy Raver." It wasn't until years later, as a solo artist, that he invented drum machines, lights, ecstacy and dancing. Credit for glow sticks, baggy pants and pacifiers goes, of course, to Flava Flav.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Crass' Penny Rimbaud is actually a distant relative of Ray Kroc and an heir to the McDonald's fortune. Furious with his family's immoral business practices, he used his share of McDonald's to buy a house in the country, set up a record label, and promote vegetarianism to a generation of young people.

― mike a, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

195. Scooter are actually Einstürzende Neubaten.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

196. James Blount used to be the drummer in Stump.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

197. Monkee Mike Nesmith was rarely seen without his knit cap in the 1960s because he was being treated for a rare disorder that rendered his cranium transparent, thus giving him that "Brainiac look", even though it's Psimon, not Brainiac who has visible brain matter.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

198. The Righteous Brothers were neither.

― erb, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Decca actually offered the Beatles a contract, but rescinded it after Pete Best left the band.

― mike a, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

200. Elton John isn't actually gay, but perpetuates the myth to distract the public from his real preference - necrophilia.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

201. Roots Manuva has three locks on his bedroom door in case the Britannia Music Club come in the night to kidnap him and force him to host the Brit Awards.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

202. Through a connection with Leland Rogers' brother Kenny, George W. Bush briefly joined the Thirteenth Floor Elevators on bass. Roky Erickson later burned the master tapes, and they remain unheard. Rumor has it he also appeared on one of the Free-Form Freak-Outs on Red Krayola's _Parable of Arable Land_, and that he gave Roky the idea to play insane.

― mike a, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

203. Rapper Nelly's last name really is Furtado.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

204. Neil Peart is the drummer in Gay Dad.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

205. Joey C got his first big break as one of the midgets in the video for Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

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