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A thread where the collective ILM hive mind confirms or debunks rock apocrypha...

Brad were originally going to be called The Crash Test Dummies.
After this idea was nixed, they named themselves in honour of the already-in-existence band's singer, Brad, as a sort-of 'fuck you'..

― mzui, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:04 (twenty years ago)

I kind of remember Brad's "Shame" being pretty good... or am I utter wrong?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:08 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty good, with the grunge shields up of course.

― mzui, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago)

"The Day Brings" was by Brad, was it not? I quite liked that one.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I am not sure if I understand this thread, but I really like Brad's Shame. And I understood that they wanted to name the band Shame, but the guy who already had a copyright or whatever to the name was named Brad

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Magic City's otm.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago)

There was no Mars bar.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

The debunker debunked!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

There was no Mars bar.

which is really, really too bad. the world was a better place when it was possible to think that there was a mars bar.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

> I am not sure if I understand this thread

Well, its purpose is definitely not to discuss Brad, whoever they may be.

Q. My bud Scott, okay, he said that if you start playing Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz at the same time -
A. Bzzt. Go back to your bong and shut up. Pink Floyd are not and never have been in the business of providing alternate soundtracks to Judy Garland movies.

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago)

While it may not have been Floyd's intention, I'm told it works.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago)

i've done it and it does work. to an extent anyway. it would probably work with any number of albums and movies. i'm quite sure there was no intent whatsoever on pink floyd's part. but art in general is full of unintentional coincidences.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Someone just told me that The White Album works remarkably well with Disney's Robin Hood (never mind the fact that the former predates the latter by three years).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago)

> I'm told it works

Shit, man, I could listen to The Clones of Doctor Funkenstein while watching The Wizard of Oz and find parallel developments - if I thought about it hard enough, and was sufficiently lax in my logical reasoning.

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago)

If you hold the gatefold of the inner cover of Led Zeppelin IV up to a mirror you see a wolf.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

If you turn a rightside-up vinyl copy of Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding a quarter to the right, the album falls out.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago)

There is, in fact, a woman being strangled in the adjacent studio while the Ohio Players were in the bridge section of their recording of "Love Rollercoaster".

― Mr. Wydely Noan Shiter, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago)

If you hold the gatefold of the inner cover of Led Zeppelin IV up to a mirror you see a wolf.

also, the chances are pretty good that a lot of marijuana seeds will come tumbling out of the gatefold and land on your carpet.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Eno's Another Green World does feature Phil Collins. No, seriously. It does.

― Mr. Wydely Noan Shiter, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

If you say the name Candyman 5 times whilst looking in a mirror, Sammy Davis Jr. will appear.

And kill you with a big hook.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Kurt Cobain's head exploded after mixing Pop Rocks with Pepsi

― dave q, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

AC/DC stands for "Anti Christ Devil Child"

― Mr. Wydely Noan Shiter, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Nicks truly had cocaine enemas (or is that enemae?) applied for her during the Rumours recording sessions.

― Mr. Wydely Noan Shiter, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago)

If you play an R. Kelly album backwards... it sounds better.

(With thanks to Bill Hicks.)

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago)

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah a pint of semen blah blah blah including some from a dog blah blah blah

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Knights In Stand of Satan = KISS.

There is, in fact, a woman being strangled in the adjacent studio while the Ohio Players were in the bridge section of their recording of "Love Rollercoaster".

I had heard that the scream came from the naked girl on the glass coffeetable on the cover of the album because the table gave way and she broke through.

The original Paul McCartney is dead, though. No way that the same guy who wrote "All My Loving" also wrote "C Moon".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah a pint of semen blah blah blah including some from a dog blah blah blah

Ah, the old cum-in-the-belly bugaboo. Previous candidates have included:

Rod Stewart*
Elton John
Kurt Cobain
Donnie Wahlberg
Foxy Brown
Lil' Kim
Alanis Morrissette

*Rolling Stone actually asked Rod Stewart about this in an interview and his reply was basically "Yeah, I've heard that one. I don't know where that came from - I mean, I would've had to take on a whole football team, y'know?"

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)

In the British Isles, the jizz-guzzling protagonist of that particular legend was usually Marc Almond.

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago)

marilyn manson removed one of his ribs to fellate himself and become an ewok.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago)

So *that's* how the Ewoks became Ewoks.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Actually Marilyn Manson was on the Wonder Years.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago)

fred savage is an ewok.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

FULL CIRCLE

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

"The original Paul McCartney is dead, though. No way that the same guy who wrote "All My Loving" also wrote "C Moon"."

That's the end of *that* chapter.

― Krankenhaus, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago)

In the British Isles, the jizz-guzzling protagonist of that particular legend was usually Marc Almond

I've also heard Terry Hall being accused.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

bob holness isn't on 'baker street' by gerry raefferty
(stuart maconie started this in THRILLS in nme)

bob ezra really did tell a couple of kids that their mum was gone and might never come back for lou reed's the kids on BERLIN

keith never had a blood change

yoko never grassed up mccartney for the pot bust

there really were s+m harnesses, heroin dealers, orgies, fistfights and prostitutes on dm's devotional tour

stevie wonder can't smell anything

― piscesboy, Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

stevie wonder can't smell anything

neither can my mom, but she's not nearly as good a clavinet player as stevie is.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Please let the thing about Rick Wakeman physically throwing the Sex Pistols out onto the street be true...

stevie wonder can't see anything, either.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

N1l3 R0DG3RS & M4DONNA ARENT BUDS ANYMORE BECAUSE SHE AND SEAN THRASHED HIS APARTMENT.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I need to know this one: Does Ozzy Osbourne really appear on the Magic Lanterns' 1972 song "One Night Stand"? Obscure, yeah, but I love the song; and the esteemed oldies DJ Barry Scott claims this is so while Ozzy apparently denies it.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago)

'thrashed' his apartment? how?

― piscesboy, Friday, 10 September 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago)

The best stomach-pump rumour application was the Bros version surely.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I remember one at school that it was "the bloke out of Tight Fit".

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Surely it was Eddie Grant?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Add Jimmy Somerville to the bucket'o'spunk list.

Wasn't it John Peel who did the sax intro on Baker Street? :-P

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago)

He played the mandolin on "Maggie May"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago)

"You're So Vain" is about Ned Beatty.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

"My Name Is" by Eminem samples Chas and Dave. FACT.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 11 September 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago)

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