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

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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)

422. If you try and upload "Carrot Rope" by Pavement to your iPod, iTunes automatically replaces it with "I Got 5 On It" by Luniz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

423. Bluegrass/Byrds legend Clarence White sired both Jack and Meg White. So yes, they are brother and sister. And they were married. Clarence White was notorious for just not raising his kids right.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

424. Dischord House, home to Minor Threat and the Washington DC hardcore scene, has been owned and operated by the Sheraton Corporation since 1985.

― oh come now, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

425. Gilbert O'Sullivan had no hands.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

426. The key members of Ottowan were in 1983 revealed to be members of the notorious "Brigate Rosse" terrorist organisation. Three of the band are currently serving life sentences for their roles in the kidnap and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

427. Visionary musician Brian Eno regularly visits internet music sites using the alias "Mr. Snrub".

― now this one's true, Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

38. After his release from prison, Nelson Mandela thanked Darts for their 1978 single "Boy From New York City", a cassette of which was the only entertainment he was allowed during his incarceration.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005 12:04 AM. (later)
45. Luke Vibert stood as a candidate for Fianna Fail in the last Irish elections, missing out on a seat by just 42 votes.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005 12:17 AM. (later)
82. Haddaway is the majority shareholder in Yates' Wine Bars.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 12th, 2005 1:58 AM. (later)

Dom Passantino - I've just read the whole thread and you are the funniest person in the world.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

428. Musicians who agree that Dom Passantino is the funniest person in the world include Dan the Automator, Crazy Titch, and Les Gray from Mud.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

(and thank you, I try)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

429. In those hilarious Channel 4 adverts for The Ashes, WG Grace is actuually being played by a heavily made-up Phil Anselmo from Pantera.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

430. The first video ever played on MTV was for "Dune Buggy" by Presidents of the United States of America.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

431. The word 'video' was invented by William Shatner in 1992.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

432. In Forbes Magazine's list of the 400 Richest Americans, Prince Po came 137th, mainly due to profits made from his stable of Group 1 winning racehorses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

433. The opening credits to The Sopranos originally featured James Gandolfini dancing to "Nu Flow" by Big Brovaz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

434. Talib Kweli's cousin is Fat Duck restauranter Heston Blumenthal.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

435. When not collaborating with Wendy Richards on 'A Guide To The Phonology of Modern English', Eminem can be found surfing on E-Bay looking to add to his sizeable collection of second-hand Blue Peter badges.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

427. Visionary musician Brian Eno regularly visits internet music sites using the alias "Mr. Snrub".
-- now this one's true (o...) (webmail), July 14th, 2005 11:35 PM.

Oh, stop it you tease.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

435.5) Canadian mystery band Klaatu was actually a pseudonym for a super-secret supergroup merger of members from Mocedades and Boney M.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

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