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

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907. In the late 90s, Kevin Shields decided to experiment with R&B production, took on the alias "Sisqo", and hit pay dirt with "The Thong Song". He then retired from the hobby, leaving the Sisqo franchise to another in a Milli-Vanilli-type stunt.

― Euler, Sunday, 11 December 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan was once stabbed in the face with a Bowie knife at a Lionel Ritchie concert in Toronto. He survived after extensive surgery.

― jacobp, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

What does "Deep Tracks" even mean? Is it like the album tracks that never get played on singles-oriented radio?

-- o. nate (syne_wav...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 11:18 AM. (onate) (later) (link)

It's a double entendre, because the non-singles tracks also have deep meanings, and they were often favourites of railroad engineers.

-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 11:20 AM. (Huk-L) (later) (link)

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

909. The DFA Mix of Mareisa Sabriel's "Sunset".

― Franklin Trench (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

910. Jonas Berggren, from Ace of Base, is the only Swedish chess grandmaster of the past 60 years.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

911. As of December 2005, Axl Rose will resume work on the long-awaited Chinese Democracy album once catches up on his backlog of unwatched Passions tapes.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

912. 100,000 Bon Jovi fans can't be wrong.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

913. Vatican scholars believe that if Jesus returned to earth today, his favourite band would be Brakes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

914. All of the original members of X-Clan were in fact qualified bespoke tailors.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

915. HIM started their career off as a filter-disco act, only changing their style after a series of anonymous death threats they received in the aftermath of the 2000 Europewide top 10 single "Time 4 Love 2 U"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

916. Vatican scholars are excited by the recent Sugababes line-up changes because as prophesized in Revalation, all three members are now direct descendents of the three wise men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Modern gift equivalents to be used in an Emmanuel Level Event are thought to be Teflon, Heat Magazine and Ogg Vorbis extension audio files.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

917. Snoop Dogg has never actually smoked marijuana.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

918. Nobody listens to Girls Aloud other than 12 year old girls, raving homosexuals, and formerly-indie music critics.

Dom P told me that one, btw.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

919. The Smiths were supposed to be a Simple Minds cover band but Morrissey couldn't sing fast enough to cover "I Travel".

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

920. Sufjan Stevens has webbed feet.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

921. Trip-Hop was invented by the Youth wing of the East German Communist Party in 1982.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

922. As of March 2006, all branches of Subway in the Home Counties area will be issued with special napkins that play a medley of ATB hits upon being dampened.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

923. Anita Ward penned 'Ring My Bell' in the aftermath of a pick-up gone wrong - her use of the line on her unsuspecting amorata resulted in the uncomprehending man punching her in the face. To this day, she claims it "felt like a kiss".

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

924. WOMAD is just a front for Peter Gabriel's international money-laundering scheme.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

925. Bowling for Soup are the only American band to have ever had a top 40 album in Canada.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

926. CL Smooth once endorsed a now defunct brand of laxative. Stores were forced recall the product due to reported cases of blindness.

― Give me Sufjan or give me credibility (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

927. Due to a recent court case instigated by Bryan Adams, the artist known globally as Ryan Adams must release his albums in Canada under his real name, Corky Shelley.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 23 December 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Rita Marley was ordered to pay the creators the Banana Splits $850,000
due to Bob unlawfully using the melody of their theme song in 'Buffalo Soldier'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

929 There exists an elegant mathematical proof that there cannot be a band called "Simply Red"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

930 Although John Lennon was killed, his music lives on in the Jurassic-Oolitic Limestone layer of the Earth's crust

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

931 "Indie" music is so-called because of a scandal in the 1978 World Cup when a team's mascot was tragically killed by a falling crate of fruit. The expression has been with us ever since.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

930 The Simply Red proof can of course be undermind by appeal to the Miles Hunt paradox.

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

933. 'Molly's Chambers' by Kings Of Leon was in fact an elaborate diss of Gomez, after the Southport bluesmen turned down a night on the town with the Kings.

This in itself would not have been so bad had the Kings not conducted a relentless campaign of taunts for the previous six months, primarily via the flickr account 'ottewellfearsthepunani' (account since deleted), whereby the Kings put up photoshopped photos of Gomez singer Ben Ottewell looking at FHM covergirls with the caption "Me no likey."

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards. Gomez then seized the instruments and jammed for the next 90 minutes straight, to a rapturous reception from the Danish fans. The Kings Of Leon have not shown their faces in Scandinavia since.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

934. Black musicians have been banned from appearing on "Later With... Jools Holland" ever since a June 1998 incident where a drunken Jurassic 5 set fire to the drummer from Lodger before chasing Jools around with a shovel they'd stolen from the Gardeners' World studio.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

934 On the subject of beards, only three fully-bearded bands have ever topped the UK charts, and in each case they were knocked off the top spot by synth duos with malevolent features!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

935. It's not people who are strange – it is YOU.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

936. When at a loose end while touring, Alizee occupies her time by recreating the legendary rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna on her Scalextric Monte Carlo set, using additional pieces to accurately recreate the Grand Prix circuits of the late 80's and early 90's. As you might expect, her personal favourite is their collision at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1988.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards.

936. This bit is copied off the official online histories of Gomez and The Kings of Leon, both of which assert in addition that "nobody noticed".

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

937!!! dammit

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

938. But who is Alizee's favourite all-time Grand Prix driver? No, it's not Prost. It's Patrick Tambay.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

939. The other members of The Strokes insist that Nikolai Fraiture stand on the end in band photos in the hope that some dozy photo editor accidentally crops him out of the picture.

940. Bernard Butler left Suede due to Brett Anderson's incessant impersonation of Blakey from 'On the buses'.

941.No way is Madonna too old to be wearing that outfit and bending over in the 'Hung up' vid.

942. Fiddy Cent is producing his own line of hippie fashion outfits. He hopes to get rich tie dyin'.

943. Kate Moss was a last minute stand in for The White Stripes' 'I just don't know what to do with myself' vid after Jo Brand pulled a hammy warming up.

944. Ringo and Paul have a new album out mid 2006. Rumour has it it's drum'n'bass.

945. Bobby Brown new album is due for release. It's titled "Whitney Houston, we have a problem".

946. Chris Martin didn't read the 'permanent marker' warning on his texta.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

947. Early pressings of 'You're so Vain' are now worth over $600 due to the missprinted songwriting credit of 'Carly's Hymen'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

948. The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" was not actually about heroin, but rather was written by Hugh Cornwell as an homage to Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan. Cornwell became obsessed with Grogan when both the Stranglers and Altered Images appeared on the same episode of Top of the Pops in early 1980.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

949. The international B'nai Brith organization once denounced Elvis Costello as a "self-hating Jew" who has never acknowldged his Jewishness.

950. The common picnic table was invented by a drugged and drunken Hank Williams, Sr. out of necessity, after his wife once locked him out of the house just before dinnertime.

951. #s 100, #200, #300 etc. on this thread are all in fact true.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

952. Jandek is so called because he once "decked" Jan Leeming in a nightclub brawl.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

953. Bono has the link to this list in his Favourite Places, and checks it every day. Every time he sees it, he cries a little.

― Melissa Berrill (whateverkiddo), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

954. Dana severed all contact with the music industry on September 17th this year, symbolically marking the occasion by placing a bet of €100 on Nadine Coyle being the first member of Girls Aloud to leave the group, at odds of 6-1.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 25 December 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

955. The most powerful man in the music industry is Bunny Wailer.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

956. 'Chinese Democracy' will not be an album. Axl Rose is set up in Manchuria, individually trying to spread democratic rights and individual freedoms in China since 1996. He's doing this because he was told that Perry Farrel successfully democratized the Ukraine, which in fact is, untrue.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:16 (twenty years ago)

957. In his youth, Elvis Costello successfully held up a convenience store with a broken plastic comb.

― ohmyface (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

958. Ellen DeGeneres is Tom Petty's twin sister.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

959. Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt is the adopted son of actors Henry and (the late)Hoot Gibson, who were Hollywood's first married gay couple. They also invented the electric guitar.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

960. Rapper NAS got his stage name from the David Bowie lyric "He was the Nas, with god-given ass". His real name is Thelonius Fogerty.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

961. Those Reebok adverts where Jay-Z says "I got my MBA from the Marcy Projects" are a total lie. He actually graduated with a 2.1 in drama therapy from Herriot-Watt University.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

962. In March 2005, The Source magazine declared Leytonstone High Road Britain's "Most Hip Hop Train Station", narrowly beating Goodmayes and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

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