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

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218. Just Blaze's weed man is Mike Vanportfleet from Lycia.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

219. Kenny Loggins now spends most of his time responding to "fan mail" from "Genny P. Flavia" about "Satisfy Her All Night Longpwt" and "What Is Wrong With Your Penisfv"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

220. George Harrison taught Ravi Shankar to play air on the G string while holding breath.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

221. Kurt Cobain's ashes were scattered over Jim Morrison's Paris gravesite.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

222. Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight" was based on guitarist K.K. Downing's experiences working nights in a meat-packing factory in Tipton.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

223. Early pressings of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" feature a slowed-down infrasonic recording of a young Rosie O'Donnell chanting "Congratulations, you beat the meat!" Rosie was soon removed from the release upon discovery that the word "meat" sounded at the resonant frequency of the human anal cavity, causing listeners to experience sustained pants-shitting.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

224. Iron Maiden's Eddie is Dick Clark's Dorian Gray portrait.

― the full truth, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

225. The Shona language of southern Africa has 34 words for Rockism. Bantu, however, has none.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

226. "Bah!", hissed Shankar, with contempt.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

227. Grunge-rocker Tad Doyle was a child actor who starred in the title role of the 1974 Broadway production of Oliver!

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

228. Beck Hansen played Cousin Oliver in the Brady Bunch TV series.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

229. Contrary to his drole moniker, Rob Zombie is actually a werewolf / mummy hybrid.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

230. "Autotune" is actually a myth put around by a cabal of Christian fundamentalists to discredit evolution.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

231. Jamie Lidell's planned last album, featuring a number of dirge like post-rock jams, broken loop pieces and a cover featuring the artist barefoot in a Melvins T-Shirt was ditched at the last minute when the Wire offered a cover feature.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

232. Melissa Auf Der Maur is employed by Sports Interactive to perform scouting duties on the MSL for the Football Manager games series.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

233. Exotic foodstuffs named after indie bands of the late 80s include pad thai, arrancini di riso, and Captain Crunch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

234. Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson once ate 53 boiled eggs.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

235. When the police raided the Rolling Stones' country house, they found Keith Richards extracting a Mars bar from Marianne Faithfull's handbag.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

235. Jamiroquai? Jamirogay.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

aside from that last one, this is quickly becoming quite the classic thread! however, huk-l, your one about Kenny Loggins has still got me in tears! haha

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

237. Of the Four Tops, two were actually bottoms.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

238. The Stroke's originally planned their second album to be a mind expanding marriage of acid glitch beats and Glenn Branca style guitar was ditched at the last minute when an NME insider told them that; "favours would be withdrawn". The band choose to record a number of songs they had previously discarded because they were a bit rubbish.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

239. Cam'ron won Est'elle's apostrophe off of her in a game of briscola.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

240. Former husband of suicidal UK TV nobody Gail Porter and former Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrove now claims never to have never have been in Toploader and insists he was actually in Ultrasound or The Montrose Avenue in a desperately misplaced lunge for indie cred.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

241. Global warming is an elaborate KLF prank.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

242. Sienna Miller was named for an early Chris DeBurgh demo, a song that evolved into "Lady in Red".

― satanzilla, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

243. Notorious B.I.G. wanted to use the moniker King Tubby before learning of the dub artist's existence.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

244. Synth-pop one-hit wonders Fiction Factory were so named after an unpatented invention of the vocalist's father: a vast mechanical computer housed in a shed, capable of hammering out passable romantic novellas and third-rate thrillers at the rate of one every three hours.

245. All but one of the Bangles blister badly if they're exposed to lager shandy; the weaker the mix, the greater the pustulation - if it's diet lemonade, they look like bubble wrap.

246. Saffron from Republica is serving three consecutive life sentences in an Angolan prison after "entering a box junction before [her] exit was clear" on the outskirts of Luanda during their "Mid-90s Fever!" co-headline tour with Babylon Zoo and Stiltskin; in the absence of defence counsel, Jaz Mann represented her in court.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

247. The so-called Sun Ra was actually nothing but a carefully planned cover-up operation for the US Star Wars program.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

248. Shed Seven were originally a seven-piece, but three members left the day before they were signed after finding out that Rick Witter had slept with all of their sisters (of which there were fourteen). The three departees would go on to form part of the original line-up of the Longpigs.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

249. When Eminem was runner-up in the Rap Olympics, the winning MC was in fact future EU Commissioner Romano Prodi.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

250. ...whose sister formed the Scissor Sisters.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

251. The so-called Star Wars program was nothing but a slightly ludicrous cover up for Saturn Records.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

250. The Wolfgang Press are actually a gang of wolves who run a newspaper.

251. Red House Painters are actually a firm of decorators with a limited colour palette.

252. Insides are actually...your insides.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

253. The real advice on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is actually given by Bloodhound Gang frontman Jimmy Pop Ali off-camera.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

254. Joanna Newsom said she thinks you'd be kinda cute if you did something with your hair.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

255. Microhouse doubles in density every eighteen months

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

258. Judge Jules is actually a heavily made-up Adrian Juste.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

259. Billy Corgan's true passion is breeding pitbulls.

― latebloomer: the Clonus Horror (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

260. Ralf Hutter can't program his VCR.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

261. Dead Prez once recorded a track for the Brie Marketing Board, entitled "Attitude of Melts"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

262. Before MOP, Billy Danze was a supply drama teacher in the Home Counties.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

263. The original personnel of Derek BBB & the Dominos featured bass Bill Brown (ex-The Dominoes), Syd Nathan (of King Records) and BB's cousin Bukka White. When the limelightly challenged moran Clapton suddenly invited himself into line-up, all the B's bumbled out faster than you could say Rimsky-Korsakoff!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

264. The Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact was bought at auction in 2002 by Devin Lima from the Lyte Funky Ones, who renamed it the Molotov-Ribbentropp-Lima Pact

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

265. Also, contrary to the lyrics of the song, Devin Lima in fact hated it when girls dropped by for the summer, due to a bad experience with stalker in the mid 90s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

266. Imani Coppola invented the wheelchair.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

267. Jefferson Airplane invented the armchair.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

268. t.A.T.u. invented Siberian Khatru.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

269. Since being lent a copy of Unknown Pleasures by Matt Dillon in late 2004, the actor Frankie Muniz has become obsessed with trying to prove to everyone he meets that he knows more about Joy Division than they do. He trapped the writer and broadcaster Paul Morley in conference room in Miami for six hours earlier this year in order to get him to watch a PowerPoint presentation about how Peter Hook is superior to Flea, Bernard Edwards and Flea and Bernard Edwards put together. Morley was only able to escape after repeatedly striking Muniz between the eyes with a tea tray. Later that week Muniz would be thrown from a second-floor balcony by Racing Stripes co-star Mandy Moore after choosing to open a press conference by declaring that "The Correct Use Of Soap is for shit."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

270. Dave Pirner wrote "Misery" based on an entry he stole from Greg Dulli's secret diary.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

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