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

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749. Contrary to its name, "Popular" by Nada Surf was in fact a very unpopular song, and is the only record in history to have achieved negative sales figures.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

750. 40% of the samples from "Entroducing" are taken from "Calling Elvis" by Dire Straits.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

751. "Popular" by Nada Surf completely rips off the chord sequence from "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear" by the Alan Price Set, and was thus the subject of a 1997 court case.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

752. Will Smith Killed Tupac

― Stafford Moore, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

753. Dom Passantino was the choreographer for 'The Passantinos', a short-lived Barnsley-based tribute band to 'The Pasadenas'.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

754. The Artic Monkeys already had a series of top 40 singles in the mid 90s, under their original name "Stretch N Vern"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

755. The Arcade Fire are all Mormon siblings.

756. Every single Depeche Mode song is composed by Andrew Fletcher entirely using keyboard presets.

757. Enya was the original bassist in U2, whose other members were all Clannad roadies.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

758. Every single DJ Green Lantern mixtape contains a cryptic reference to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's famous "one legged tarzan" routine.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

759. Lee Harvey, of guest rap on N*E*R*D's "Lapdance" fame, has spent all of his percentage from that song's release on a fruitless campaign to achieve independance for the town of Corby.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

760. Pusha T got his nickname based on his resemblance to Pusha Taylor, former bassist for late 90s indie no-hopers the Llama Farmers.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Morrisey didnt think his ass was a Vase............ he in fact ha a vaginna for thart purpose.

― Sam Purnell, Friday, 21 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Miller, Robert Wyatt Derek Bailey, Paul Westerberg, Kevin Shields, John Squire, Alastair Galbraith, Mark Smith, John Lydon, and Peter Blegvad are just a few of the 50-plus musicians who have entered Kraftwerk's revolving-door membership since founders Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider died in a low-speed car accident shortly after completing "Autobahn." Recent photos of Ralf and Florian are, in fact, stock images which have been doctored using photo-editing software designed by Westerberg during the six months in 1992 when he was a member. Bailey was reportedly fired in 1981 after serving in Kraftwerk for two and a half years (a record which remains unmatched) for calling Wyatt a cunt and tipping over his wheelchair.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

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ROCK FACTS
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― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Kelis washes her face in Lilt

― Dex, Saturday, 22 October 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Brandon Flowers invented polysterene, digital alarm clocks and Kentucky Fried Chicken. The rights for the last invention led to a prolonged fist fight between Flowers and Colonel Sanders, which only ended when Isaac Brock, confusing the Colonel for a bottle of Jack Daniels, attempted to "chug" him. Issac later described him as "tangy".

― PMT, Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

take that were actually made of play-do. their management couldn't afford the monthly fees and rolled the big ball up and sent it back. there was just enough left to make a small robbie - who is only 15inches tall

― neil g, Monday, 24 October 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

766. Ill Nino, The Colorblind James Experience, Racey, Markus Nikolai, The Datsuns, Fox, The Reynolds Girls, Cub, Cud, Lumidee and The Pale Fountains are all aliases of Joey Negro. Joey Negro is 74.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

767. Erick Sermon retired from the rap game in 2003, and now comes up with new product ideas for the Tesco Finest range.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

768. As a child, future techno icon Richard D. James disassembled his family's piano on their living room floor, but found himself unable to put it back together. Legend has it that he then said, "Fuck it," went to the nearest pawn shop, and bought a sequencer.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

769. "Like I Love You" was actually an N'Sync track, rather than a Timberlake solo effort. Prodution duties were handled by Lance Bass, and the purported Clipse rap at the end was actually performed by Joey Fatone. Indeed, the entirity of Clipse's "Lord Willin'" album was by Joey Fatone, and the two public faces of Clipse were just former catering assistants who worked on N'Sync's "No Strings Attached" tour.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

770. Kinda true but kinda not, perhaps? LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge" is based off of Mikey Wild's "I Was Punk...", which James Murphy heard on WPRB. Princeton Record Exchange gets a namecheck but WPRB is only referred to as a "local radio station".

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

771. HTML mark-up code was invented by Tracy Chapman.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

772. The most common song at funerals in Portugal is "King of Kissingdom" by My Life Story.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

773. Although Buschwick Bill and Scarface stopped recording together as members of the Geto Boys during the mid 90s, they still worked together as a highly respected marketing agency, and are credited as coming up with the "Lambrini girls just wanna have fun" campaign.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

774. Jon King of Gang of Four has psychic powers. In 1982, Barry J. Marshall (2005's Nobel Prize winner for medicine) performed a breakthrough experiment proving that gastritis was caused by a certain species of bacteria rather than stress or similar causes. This was done by drinking a liquid with the relevant bacterial culture and subsequently developing gastritis; this event was prophecized a whole three years in advance by Gang of Four in the lines "He fills his head with culture / He gives himself an ulcer" off their Entertainment! album.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

775. Gary Coleman is again in the acting business, playing both of Michael Jacksons veil'd children

― sparko Mcwiggley, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

776. Greg Kihn originated the role of Ron Nasty in the Original Broadway Cast of Rutlemania!

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

777. Mike Patton was on the very first season of You Can't Do That On Televison. Really.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

778. When David Lee Roth (now working as paramedic in New York) gets bored, he causes minor accidents and resuscitates the victims with a live acoustic version of 'Panama.' When he gets really bored, he kills puppies.

― Lazy Guy, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

The Human League actually took there name from a board game they used to play.

― [email protected], Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

780. Noel and Liam from Oasis have changed their surnames by deed poll. The name Gallagher is a bastardisation of Galaga, the 1980s arcade classic, which both brothers are huge fans of. However, due to legal issues they were not allowed to use the name Galaga, and were forced to change to the similar-sounding alternative. Their original surname was Farquaha-Smythe.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

781. The southern hip-hop slang term "Whut it dew" originates from the practice of linking tracks on Houston-area mixtapes with clips from Malcolm In The Middle, mainly those featuring the wacky antics of Dewey.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

782. Keith Strickland from the B-52's has hands made entirely of Styrofoam. He lost his original hands in an horrific fretboard accident in 1985. It has actually improved his ability to play certain chords.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

783. The southern hip-hop slang term "mayne" originates from the great sadness that many southern rap artists felt when Manchester City left Maine Roade for the City of Manchester stadium. At a recent memorabilia auction, Bun B paid over $60,000 for a turnstile from the old Maine Roade entrance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

784. The southern hip-hop slang term "cakeboy" originates from the fact that college rockers Cake invented crunk on their 1997 album Fashion Nugget

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

785. Dick Valentine, lead vocalist with Electric Six is actually the second-born son of Queen front-man Freddy Mercury. If you turn the speakers up really loud at the end of the single version of Electric Six's cover version of Radio Gaga, you can actually hear Dick weeping gently over a copy of Queen's Greatest Hits.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

786. The Shamen's 1992 number 1 hit single Ebeneezer Goode wasn't actually about drugs at all. It was just about a bloke Colin Angus met down Camden Market who tried to sell him some beaded car seat covers.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

787. Pop Will Eat Itself was actually one of Nostradamus' unpublished predictions for the year 1997.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

788. Bryan Ferry invented PlayDoh.

― Mark Prior (cosmicthing), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

789. Daihatsu have chosen 'Ride It' by Geri Halliwell to be their corporate anthem for the 2006-2007 financial year.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Blur's hit, "There's No Other Way" was originally going to be called "There Is Another Way", until the band got lost in a maze

― elgringo, Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

791. Mimi Rogers of Low is widely considered to be the top Alexander Pope scholar in the state of Minnesota.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

792. Rufus Wainwright always eats with his hands. He proudly hasn't used a fork in over eight years.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

793. Whitney Houston and Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys are actually the same person. Ad has had a penchant for blacking-up and dressing up in women's clothing since he was a child.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

794. Pete Doherty is a classically trained pianist.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

795. Emiliana Torrini is an Internet Service Provider in her native Iceland.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely no way does Furr look like KISS...no way I tell you

― Dave H, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

796. Lionel Richie's hit 'Dancing On The Ceiling' was written in the spirit of joy after Lionel was bitten by a radioactive spider and discovered he had many of the same powers as Spider-Man. His joy turned to crushing sadness, however, when his powers faded after being bitten on the knee by the lead singer of UB40.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

797. In 1986, Bono from U2, when asked if he would like a cup of tea by Andrew Ridgely from Wham, looked at the ground for a few minutes, sighed, and said: 'yeah... alright. No, wait - no.' Through various creative processes, this exchange ended up as Aqua's 1997 breakthrough album 'Aquarium'.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

798. 50 Cent is a keen collector of ladies' fashions, which he likes to arrange in dramatic poses resembling scenes from Henrik Ibsen's 'The Doll House', then sit back with an Ovaltine and cry himself to sleep.

― The Gentleman, Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

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