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

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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)

270. The Television Personalities know where Syd Barret lives.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

272. Michael Barrymore was the drummer for Totally Tropical.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

274. Jamie Stewart believes that Jessica Simpson's In This Skin is the most "emotionally honest" record made so far this decade. He dplans to cover "With You" on his next EP.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Upon hearing the Primtive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hands" for the first time, Brian Eno declared the song "the sound of the future"

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

276. All air-raid sirens on the United Kingdom mainland were reconfigured in 1986 to play Telstar. This was a present for then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 61st birthday from Gary Numan and the 1922 Committee.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

276. Jim Croce was a scriptwriter on the first series of "Till Death Us Do Part", coining Alf Garnett's "Silly moo" catchphrase based on an argument he once had with Patsy Cline.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

278. Ian Akkerman's (ex-Focus) mid-80s solo album Oil In The Family was a belated answer-record to Abba's The Visitors, the title track of which tells of the jaunty Swedes's misadventures while trying to build contacts with Siberia's future oil baron Hodorkovski.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

279. "Johnny Yen", as referred to in the lyrics of "Lust for Life", rather than being a person is actually rhyming slang for "zen", the song detailing Iggy Pop's achievement of totally relaxation.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

280. Willie's weed is actually weak and seedy, but nobody has the guts to tell him.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

281. Deep Blue Something's planned follow-up to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was titled "The African Queen" after the Audrey Hepburn film of the same name. When it was discovered that it was in fact Katherine Hepburn that starred in The African Queen, the single was pulled, just days before its release, dealing an unsurmountable blow to DBS's career.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

282. "America, Fuck Yeah!" from the Team America soundtrack was originally a Lene Marlin b-side.

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

283. Before becoming a country music legend, Hank Williams was a small-town pimp with a stable of 12 whores he liked to call the Dirty Dozen.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

284. Jenna Jameson's uncle is the dude with the eyepatch from Dr Hook

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

285. Madonna Ciccone's infatuation with New York City began when, at age 17, she hitched a ride on the van that transported Jimmy Hoffa's body from the Red Fox restaurant to the Meadowlands.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

286. Will Smith is a card-carrying member of the Black Panthers.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

287. Sheryl Crow's attraction to Lance Armstrong stems from the fact that she "just loves old jazz music."

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

288. Your copy of Loveless isn't meant to sound like that.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

289. Omarion is huge in Germany.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

290. The members of Slayer currently run a Boys and Girls Club in East Los Angeles.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

291. Since a two mile stretch of his left arm collapsed, The Edge has devoted much of his time to fighting coastal erosion.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

292. Puffy and NaS were slated to do an anthem for the short-lived XFL called "He Hate Me Now" but by the time the two got in the studio, the league had been dismantled.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

293. "Shondell" is a corruption of "gendelle", a French sexual slang term from Jean Genet's novel Querelle, which Tommy James learned from a tourist while working a summer job as a stable boy at Fort Michilimackinac.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

294. A CD factory in Germany produced nothing but Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music," 24-hours a day, for 7 years in the eighties.

― Jimmy_tango, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

295. The actual lyrics are, in fact, "'scuse me while I kiss this guy."

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

296. ILX was originally intended to be a message board for Christian teens.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

297. Bjork - the other white meat.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

298. "A Love Supreme" was originally titled "Struttin' with some prime rib"

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

299. Lene Lovich's sister was Dr. Jack Kervorkian's receptionist.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

300. The fact that "Defendant is a big fan of Third Eye Blind" was used as mitigating circumstances in 92.7% of all court cases in the UK in 2002.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Slash wears a wig.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

302. At a House Banquet in 1996, former US president Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky sang a karaoke version of "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus". Hillary Clinton's reaction to their performance is unknown.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

303. Benzino has appeared as a studio guest on "Loose Women" a record 14 times.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

304. Mark "Deep Throat" Felt was an uncredited backup singer on the Denim album Back in Denim.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

305. Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace was an uncredited backup singer on Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

306. Ikara Colt were a fiendish ploy devised by Mark E Smith to foist his new tunes on Britains indie kids, Smith rapidly discarded the group when he realised whether it was a bunch of art students or a speed raddled, toothless wiry ex docker the kids didn't give a shit.

― elwisty (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

307. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are considering changing unwieldy monkier. Amongst the currrent front runners are The Much Praised Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Pitchfork Faves Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! and Shine 5.

― elwisty (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

308. Shane MacGowan was once dangerously addicted to those green milkshakes McDonald's sells on St. Patrick's Day, once to the point of being declared legally dead for a full three minutes after a late '89 binge.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

309.None of the Jackson Five were actually brothers. In fact, Marlon was the only one related to any of the other four.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

310. Many people have wondered why we call rock concerts "concerts" when concerts involve music, and rock obviously is not music.

According to William Safire, back in the early days of the youth movement, whenever a hippie played his guitar or his drums or whatever, the racket was just so awful that he'd need a lot of drugs to make it bearable. So soon enough, any event with this so-called music would be called "a trip." In Canada, though, the acid was just not very potent. So instead of "taking a trip," Canadian hippies would say they were "going to a hotel" or, even more anti-climactically, "going to the concierge." Eventually the slang got imported back to the States (rumor has it by Skip Spence), where evidently someone got confused by the subtle "g" sound in the word and mistook "concierge" for "concert." Nobody saw fit to correct the fool, so this bit of mutilated language lives with us to this day.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

(I didn't invent that, though I wish I did.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

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