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

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364, that, obv.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

365. Quite apart from being an amusingly ironic addition to any music video, Gary Coleman is also a shit-hot session bassist.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

366. The main event of Wrestlemania XII originally featured Doink the Clown vs Jeff Lynne.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

367. Britney Spears has the world's largest collection of outsider art and is a silent partner in several well-known galleries.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

368. Before the record company pushed for "Axel F", Crazy Frog's debut single was going to be a cover of "Black Hole Sun"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

369. David Bowie holds the patent for popular 1980's game, 'Connect 4'.

― moley, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

370. The scream at the start of "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players is actually provided by reedy voiced TV finance expert Alvin Hall.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

371. Eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted that Alan Sugar's receptionist on The Apprentice UK was in fact Royce Da 5'9"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

372. The best selling album of all-time is "Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

373. Mogwai and Arab Strap signed a joint death pact in 1997, to be acted upon exactly ten years from that date, in 2007. Three weeks later, Aidan Moffat accidentally left the pact in an ex-girlfriend's bedroom. He has not been in contact with her since. Thus, the pact's whereabouts are currently unknown, and it is therefore nullified until it is found. The Arab Strap single "Love Detective" contains veiled references to this incident.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

374. "Hit 'Em Up" was co-written by Stephen Pastel.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

375. Since his retirement from production work, Sir George Martin has been working on a device that will finally be able to provide an objective analysis of what constitutes a 'good' melody.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

376. Shellac takes such along time to record their albums because of all the overdubbing

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

377. In 2003, Wire Magazine declared Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" to be the key song in the genesis of mathrock.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Murder City Devils vocalist Spencer Moody had a very small cameo in the first Revenge of the Nerds movie.

― Lemming Radio, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Due to poor craftsmanship, LL Cool J's nine was in truth nearly impossible to load.

― Well, Big Kyle Says This:, Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

380. Frat rock duo Ween is actually an ongoing side project of Tom Waits and Keiji Haino "just to goof around."

381. Lil' Jon is terribly, terribly agoraphobic.

382. Johnny Cash? Gay as a circus.

383. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had an enormous collection of pogo sticks, most of which had names.

384. The Beatles "Dr Robert" was actually written as an homage to John Lennon's childhood pet, Doctor Rabbit.

385. Morrissey wrote "Frankly Mr Shankly" not as a dig at Geoff Travis, but in fact as a slight directed at Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, Morrissey always having been more of a Newcastle United man himself.

386. When Ozzy left, the other members of Black Sabbath were really after Elton John to take his place. Though he was never officially a member, it was in fact he who wrote and sang "Sign of the Southern Cross," though it's always been credited to Ronnie James Dio.

387. Neil Young can ball, man. Neil Young got game.

388. Bone Crusher often cites shakuhachi player Kohachiro Miyata as "a major influence of mine, you know?"

― Well, Big Kyle Says This: (Well, Big Kyle Says This:), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

389. Right this very minute on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Johnny Depp just said he's wearing the same genie pants MC Hammer wore in the "U Can't Touch This" video.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

390. Oh, the Who's "Behind Blue Eyes"? It's about Sinatra.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

391. It is speculated that John Philip Sousa was a homosexual. Legend has it that "Under the Double Eagle" was named after an experience he had in a gay bathhouse.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

392. Donna Summer once said in an interview that AIDS was God's revenge on homosexuality.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

393. Bill Pullman was the first lead singer for Faith No More.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

394. When the English Beat went to film the video for "Mirror In The Bathroom" at Birmingham's Rum Runner nightclub, they ran into then-house band Duran Duran and, after drinking and discussing music for hours on end, they stumbled into a nearby recording studio and ended up recording one full album. The master reel to this album was snatched up by Rum Runner co-owner Michael Berrow, who then claimed he "lost them". He's just waiting for Duran to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame to magically "discover" the tape.

395. Spandau Ballet actually began as a four-piece outfit minus Tony Hadley. They were known as The Kemps and played Phil Spector-influenced '60s-style pop in small clubs in Utrecht. They only decided to change musical direction after seeing the glam-rock Japan on German TV in 1979 and listening to a copy of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Gary Kemp picked up from an outdoor music stall. They were inspired to move back to London, where they met Hadley at a Curtis Mayfield concert and subsequently formed the "classic" Spandau Ballet lineup.

396. David Bowie had a short-lived love affair with Visage's Steve Strange. It was kept quiet not because Strange didn't want the public to know but because Bowie thought of it more as a fling and only really slept with Strange to get close to Strange's then-friend Midge Ure, whom Bowie had a crush on. Ure, however, was an asexual who didn't want to get involved in relationships with anyone. This was Bowie's secret shame and a large part of why he suddenly decided to embrace heterosexuality, and why he didn't want anything to be said about the Strange affair.

397. Japan didn't break up because of Mick Karn's girlfriend, as the fans think. Japan broke up because they had grown tired with the secret they had been hiding -- that Rob Dean went missing, a la Richey from the Manic Street Preachers, sometime in early 1982. The band didn't want their fans to know about this, though, so they'd been quietly searching for Dean as Tin Drum became successful and they toured in support of the album. The burnout was what made Japan break up. Even now, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, and Mick Karn each try to scour the whole of Western Europe in search of Dean. (David Sylvian's too busy in America to help out, though he does give financially to the cause.)

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

398. David Byrne wrote the song "Animals" in response to his lethal allergy to pet dander.

― Bruce Bwned (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

399. Johnny Marr left the Smiths because Morrissey refused to have anything to do with Marr's concept for the band's fifth LP: a covers album consisting entirely of acoustic versions of songs originally recorded by Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream and Amon Duul II.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

400. Konishi Yasuharu, former Pizzicato Five mastermind, still lives with his parents. He is almost 40.

― BARMS, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

401. Meatloaf was presented with a custom Harley on Bat Out of Hell reaching 10 million sales. The bike's features include satellite TV, surface to air missiles, and an alarm that goes off whenever Wendy's is having a sale.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

401. after starting a thread, a fan (of music that she read about) started to suffer from fuckin' asshole-itis and poor imagination. gee-whiz, what happened next? well i'm sure she got a job with allmusic.com and pitchfork wrote an email asking for a review of MIA's new single or perhaps some "alternative hip-hop". and it was fuckin delightful. next thing you know momus gave her a fuckin meat-curtain-job [because her mom was asian] and then the rest was history when drag city called to ask her for a one off EP of willie nelson covers on thumb piano. her project was called "don't stand to clap when you have the clap because the dude from smog has the clap and i bought a peaches cd many years ago before i traded it for an acoustic guitar and a slight tiny tim influence [aka. will oldham knows my sisters roommate and they fucked her at a party in chicago about 2 1/2 years ago]. boy, was it fuckin delightful!

― tad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

and i'm referring to the fuckin snooze that started this ass fest, yes. good night, i think the curfew for the dorms is 9PM, no? get your rest cause college radio surely needs you tommorrow, ok? ha-ha-ha. well, alright...

ps - i heard that the pixies reunited, isn't that greattt?!?! whoa!

― tad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

402. In order to overcome the latent rage brought on by his microscopic penis, Tad Jackson makes barely comprehensible posts on random Internet message boards.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

403. Prince is a monster Basketball player and makes great pancakes.

404. Calvin Broadus wanted to call himself Snoop Doggy Cat, but was overruled.

405. By the same token, Sean Combs first (short lived) stage name was actually Yanoush Pohar and his Exciting Member!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 14 July 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

406. Genesis P. Orridge was ranked #17 in the shortlist for the position as Tom Cruise's new girlfriend but could not audition because of prior commitments touring in Bulgaria.

― Arnault (arc73hk), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

407. Godspeed You Black Emperor actually started out as sitcom.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

401. Meatloaf was presented with a custom Harley on Bat Out of Hell reaching 10 million sales. The bike's features include satellite TV, surface to air missiles, and an alarm that goes off whenever Wendy's is having a sale.

might be the best one yet.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

408. Simple Plan's Pierre Bouvier wrote "Welcome to My Life" in attempt to woo Avril Lavigne from Sum 41 lead singer Deryck Whibley. When he was consequently denied an invitation to the two's wedding, he wrote "Shut Up" as a snipe at both of them. At live shows he has been known to dedicate the song to "those two fucking has-beens".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

409. Queen Latifah is the real life queen of Uganda's Kolda region.

410. Ironically, Duke Ellington was only a Count in real life, whereas Count Basie was a commoner, having renounced his title in order to marry fried-chicken heiress Peggy "Dixie" Dean.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

411. Mark McGrath is actually Mark McGwire. (So is Alan Jackson.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

403. Prince is a monster Basketball player and makes great pancakes.

Um, but ain't this one true (esp. the 1st bit)?

― BARMS, Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

My Bloody Valentine's revolutionary sound was a result of Kevin Shields's stubborn insistence, after 1988, upon recording all tracks with a lone guitar, without even changing or replacing the dead strings. Thereafter, he broke an average of two strings a year until 1992, when he had none left intact. This accounts for the lack of new material released since then.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Akon is multi talented he can talk and piss you off the same time

― Alice Munn, Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

412. Eddie Stobart is planning to rename each of his fleet of vehicles with the names of the members of The Polyphonic Spree.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

413. In a November 2004 interview with Spin Magazine, Courtney Love and Dave Grohl revealed that their long-running feud was in fact just a publicity stunt to sell more records, and in fact they got married shortly after Cobain's death at a Vegas wedding chappel.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

When Mama Cass' autopsy was complete, they found out that she was made up of 39% ham sandwich.

― Alice Munn, Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

415. One of the oddest incidents in the promotion of The White Stripes' Elephant album was Jack White's one-off appearance as guest commentator on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. White insisted on talking solely in a terrible Irish accent, repeatedly referred to one fighter as having had "the shite knocked out o' him", and at one point leapt into the corner of a French-Canadian fighter and yelled "BOBBY, WHAT'S THE FRENCH FOR VA VA VOOM?" He was finally ejected after choosing to spend the opening round of the second match of the night singing an acapella version of 'Hey Joe' directly into co-commentator Joe Tessitore's face, despite the fact that he was note-perfect.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Will Smith has a degree in astrophysics.

― Alice Munn, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

417. If played backwards, Aphex Twin's masterpiece Selected Ambient Works, Vol 2 turns out to be made entirely of dialogue from the final episode of M*A*S*H*.

― latebloomer: occasionally OTM (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

418. Maximo Park's fathers formed the original line-up of Thunderclap Newman

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

419. Laila Ali was the original bassist for sHEDAISY.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

420. The shouting and screaming in the background of Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35" is by the then-Broadway cast of "South Pacific". It has always been Dylan's favourite musical.

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

421. As well as being a succesful recording artist, Lisa Loeb is also in charge of Tigerproofing all of the world's PGA standard golf courses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

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