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

Before that, they both were riding on the Beastie Boys ripoff express.

(sorry for being such a rap nerd that I can't even play along)

(note: this is just a stupid rumor that my friends and I decided to spread in college, and didn't pursue very hard)

8. In 1985 Bob Geldof spent 4 days bombarding Gene Vincent's management with requests for him to play Live Aid, before being told that Gene had died in 1971.

9. Phil Collins' unique drum-sound is a result of his having two left hands. The former Genesis frontman uses specially modified sticks to overcome his condition.

(Note: depending on who you believe this story may not be 100% false.)

Need a new anagrams for Kenny Loggins thread for Avril

Viva Allergin!

“Lay Lady Lay” was written about Dylan’s pet chicken, Gertrude. The “big brass bed” lyric was originally “big brown egg.”

― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, April 20, 2024 2:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I long to fry you in the morning light

the original screenplay for purple rain was a kung-fu beat'em up/rockstar success story hybrid meant ro compete with _the last dragon_ the revolution travels to gary indiana and battles the jackson 5 -and, by proxy, mj- for supremacy in the r+b world. it involved a purple-laser shooting guitar and moonwalking! so much moonwalking!

anagrams for Avril Lavigne

Anal Cunt was formed after Seth Putnam attended his first college class, Analyzing Country Music

Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s famous beef was actually instigated by an argument about Ben Stiller’s best film, with Lamar aghast at his former friend rating the Fockers family series that started with “Meet the Parents”.

"technical death metal" actually does not refer to the complexity of the music, it's short for "technically, it's death metal...but..."

In 1986, UK musician Nick Saloman was urged to abandon his new band name, "The Butt-Head Frond," as it was deemed distasteful. So he settled on a second choice – "The Butt-Head Fern." The project was nearly lost to history, but Saloman changed the name once more...

In August 2022, Basshunter became the first human being to be destroyed under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. His manager stated that this was a shame, but that it was "just one of those things".

Van Halen's "Right Now" is about Lars Ulrich

Fans have long wondered why the Beach Boys titled their 1989 album _Still Cruisin'_, despite their not being a predecessor song or album titled "Cruisin'". The reason goes back to a mutual misunderstanding. The soundtrack to the 1980 William Friedkin film _Cruising_ was originally recorded by the Beach Boys. Friedkin had heard their disco version of "Here Comes the Night" and thought the band's current sound would be perfect for his film about, set in the world of gay S&M bars. For their part, the Beach Boys thought the film was a car movie. It was only when the Beach Boys delivered their completed soundtrack that the nature of the misunderstanding became clear. The album wound up being released as _Keepin' the Summer Alive_.

A++, plausible!

Postscript: The only member of the group who wound up watching Friedkin's completed film was Dennis, who credited the film with turning him on to amyl nitrate. He wasn't into any of that gay stuff, but he really liked amyl nitrate.

also Mike Love is a stage name, his real name is Mike Lucevich

during the '90s, samuel beckett and franz kafka would get together on friday nights to drink pernod while watching re-runs of "the prisoner" and playing each other tape cassettes of tunes they had recorded off the radio. beckett was quite excited about nick cave and the bad seeds' "deanna". kafka was more reserved in his appraisal "they should have done one about beverly crusher" he complained.

cave had indeed intended to honour gates mcfadden and other cast members of "star trek: the next generation" in song, but this was vetoed by blixa bargeld, who had grown increasingly bitter about failing his audition for the part of "wesley crusher" by ending every line of dialogue with an inward scream. bargeld also secretly auditioned for the parts of "neelix" and "constable odo", which he failed for the same reason. adding to bargeld's feelings of inadequacy, lux interior would often taunt him, having been successfully cast as "ghost pizza#3", "medieval astronaut", and "irish peasant" in the franchise throughout the years. mick harvey has has gone some way to distance himself from his trek- loving colleagues and has gone on record calling them all "a bunch of wankers"

Although they cited musical differences at the time, the Police actually split over a week-long argument about whether transparent is a colour.

Guns n'Roses started out as a mocking parody of the eccentric rock band Spinal Tap. When he discovered that Spinal Tap was itself a spoof, Axl Rose had to style it out and pretend to be genuinely interested in heavy metal for four decades.

TLC originally recorded their hit as "No Bustas", which began "A busta is a guy that thinks he's fly, also known as a scrub" but re-wrote it following advice from Busta Rhymes, who pointed out that "busta" didn't rhyme with anything.

The Stranglers’ “Golden Brown” was originally a campaign song for Gordon Brown in his first stand for MP from Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

like the rolling stones have their great lost profanely titled opus cocksucker blues, so too does one exist in the annals of king crimson: 1978's the perineum of swirling delight.

As a young adult, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz (aka Chappell Roan) spent a balmy August at a performing and songwriting summer camp in Branson Missouri. As a result, she has a lifelong misunderstanding of the phase 'camp' and how it applies to her musical oeuvre.
Whenever the adjective camp is applied to her output, she assumes people are talking about the similarity to her performances at summer camp and will readily agree. This has caused a few misunderstandings but as both are tonally similar, not as many as you would think.

David Bowie attempted to disavow his "Thin White Duck" persona, saying: "It was a really fowl time for me [...] I was totally quacking up. I could barely stay afloat in that period of my life, and left others holding the bill."

In Thin Lizzy's hit song "The Boys are Back in Town," the town in question is Boise, Idaho. The original lyric was "the boys are back in Boise."

Which is odd because none of the Irishmen had ever been to Boise at the time of the song's composition.

Bruce Springsteen is responsible for 0.3% of global carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution

If you were to listen to one Guided by Voices/Robert Pollard song per day, Bob would keep up and you would never finish.

^is this false, tho?

Carly Simon spent 1971 obsessively playtesting Atari's upcoming arcade smash Pong, and in her downtime was inspired to write the song You're So Vain, including the withering line "I bet you think that Pong is about you". Simon later reluctantly replaced this line with a confusingly self-referential alternate lyric after risk-averse creator Allan Alcorn reached out to advise her that there were no circumstances in which Pong could ever be about anything.

Awesome fact, Sergeant.

It's interesting that so many of her biggest hits started out as odes to video games.

For example, I heard that the song "Anticipation" was originally called "A New Playstation."

Nudie Suits, the wonderfully colorful and gaudy western getups worn by many Country stars from the midcentury onwards, were named in reference to the colorful and gaudy forms of the mollusk order of Nudibranch, which Porter Wagoner was studying while working towards a marine biology degree before his singing career took off.

"famous siblings kenny and warren g"

the members of the rolling stones that recorded a bigger bang died in an ill-advised cruise ship gig that broke out in a mysterious illness after visiting the caribbean. because it was suspected this was an unwanted byproduct of cia operations ongoing in the region, the rolling stones public image has been proliferated through artificial intelligence and sophisticated holographic illusions ever since ~2007.

this also explains why the band recently turned down the opportunity to be in-depth interviewed by rick beato; the tech has gotten good, but beato is enough of an expert to spot and expose the ruse.

there was less mystery in the original title of the Meat Loaf hit, but Jim Steinman changed the title when Meat Loaf indicated he was not averse to scat

back in the mid '80s, the washington dc jigsaw puzzle scene was intense. puzzlers were taking drugs even just to get a puzzle started. passing out at puzzle shows was commonplace. however, a young alopecian upstart called ian mackaye developed a revolutionary new strategy

The artist formerly known as Mos Def took that stage name in tribute to the English pop singer Morrissey's (aka "Moz") fashion statement of wearing a hearing aid on stage (ie, "Deaf"). The late-career unpalatability of Morrissey lead to the name change to Yasiin Bey, the new name chosen partially in tribute to Mel Bay Guitar Method instruction books.

Mel Bay's fans are called the BayHive.

"philanthropist, rocket scientist, and stunt juggler dolly parton also ran a theme park in her spare time."

rip dolly. what a shining example.

when lin manuel miranda made the initial pitch for "hamilton", the musical was about diminutive F1 racecar driver lewis hamilton being so full of regret he had let nicole scherzinger of the pussycat dolls slip through his fingers that he vowed to travel back in time and win her back. he drives his F1 racecar in circles so fast that he does in fact succeed in travelling back in time, however he has overshot and finds himself in mid 1700s america with only mad flow and lyrical skills to see him through.

80s new wave group The Buggles originally called themselves Bugger. The popular story is that the name was changed because it was "indecent", but Trevor Horn has always insisted that they had to change their name after an obscure Winnipeg punk band turned out to have already had the name. The name "Bugger" was never used on any of their recordings - rumours of a rare variant of their 1980 Italian split single with Collage which credited them as "Bugger" are, shall we say, _highly speculative_.

During the last Steely Dan tour, as an attempt to seem cool to the (show biz?) kids, after finishing the first line of "Hey Nineteen" ("Way back when...in '67..."), Donald Fagen would shout "SIX-SEVEN! SIIIIIIX-SEVEN!"

In the early 2000s, there were plans in Manila to erect a 10 foot tall statue of the 1980s synthpop duo Seona Dancing, in honor of the importance of their single "More to Lose" in that city. They hoped to get Seona Dancing to reform and play a concert in honor of the event - the group's first ever concert in the country that loved them more than any other. The plans were abruptly cancelled when Seona Dancing frontman rudely rebuffed the organizers, saying that Seona Dancing was "crap" and that his bandmate, Bill Macrae, was a "poofter". Since the materials for the statue had already been ordered, the organizers hastily changed the design to instead depict the renowned Pinoy Bruce Lee imitator Ramon Zamora and equally renowned little person actor Weng Weng, who co-starred in the now-lost 1981 film "Agent 00". This accounts for the unusual height of the statue of Weng Weng, which is of approximately equal height to that of Ramon Zamora.

lol seona dancing frontman _Ricky Gervais_, kinda important detail

Seona backward, is Anoes, pronounced like "anus."

Some trivia of, perhaps, merely local significance:

Every year, Morrissey is the guest of honor at the annual convention of the Oregon Bathysphere Society. This is because the Oregon Bathysphere Society holds that Morrissey invented the Bathysphere. Now, that's not what Wikipedia says. Wikipedia says that the bathysphere was invented in 1928 and 1929 by Otis Barton. The Oregon Bathysphere Society's position is that this is what they call the "false bathysphere", and that the "true bathysphere" was invented by former pop star Morrissey, who will reveal it to the world at the next annual conference of the Oregon Bathysphere Society.

At this point, I am legally required, thanks to the truly solomonic wisdom of an unnamed judge of Oregon Superior Court, to state here that the Oregon Bathysphere Society are a legitimate group of amateur oceanographers, and certainly not a cult who make their living by paying off a judge in Malheur County to levy ridiculous judgements against anyone who dares question the scientific integrity of their work. You might come to your own conclusions, but I can only legally tell you that the Oregon Bathysphere Society are completely legitimate scientists. Make of that what you will.

Anyway, every year - and as far as I can tell, this has been happening since about 1996 - every year Morrissey is the guest of honor at their convention at the Portland Expo Center. You won't find it on the Portland Expo Center's calendar. It's not a public event. There's nothing at all suspicious about this - there are lots of events at the Portland Expo Center that aren't public events. I've been to some of them. Actually, funny story, I first found out about these guys because they were across the hall from us one year when I was attending the local, ahem, latex enthusiasts' convention (also not on the Portland Expo Center's calendar). Judge me if you want. You're not gonna do anything to me that that damn judge in Malheur hasn't already done. I mean, uh. That EXCEEDINGLY WISE AND BENEVOLENT JUDGE. Just, you know, in the event he's reading this.

Every year Morrissey takes their money and, of course, because he's Morrissey, he doesn't show. This man is the fucking Godot of the Oregon Bathysphere Society. I'd almost find it funny. I don't find it funny, though. I don't find it funny because I know, now, that the majority of Morrissey's income these days comes from the yearly payments from the Oregon Bathysphere Society. They are substantial payments. Bigger every year. You would be absolutely shocked to learn how much money these, uh, COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE SCIENTISTS are paying Morrissey to no-show at their fucking convention.

The judge, of course, gets re-elected in a landslide every time his term is up. All he has to do is tell the dumb fucking Malheur voters that he's going to keep trans people out of Malheur bathrooms and he's a shoo-in. He can't, of course, do anything to keep us out of Malheur bathrooms. His personal moral convictions can't override Oregon statute. I doubt the people of Malheur know that, though, because my God what trans person would come within a fucking country mile of Malheur? I know I wouldn't. All they have in Malheur is the subterranean Death Fungus. I'll pass. The name, by the way, the name "Malheur" comes from the French for "misfortune" or "tragedy". Now there's a fitting name for you.

So yeah. Because ONE TIME on Twitter I made ONE FUCKING JOKE about the Oregon Bathysphere Society, I am now required by law to essentially pay part of noted racist Morrissey's yearly income. Ask me how I feel about that. Go on. Ask me how I fucking feel.

Seona backward, is Anoes, pronounced like "anus."

― Paprikachu (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, September 28, 2026 2:12 PM (ten minutes ago)

Wait, I'm confused. What's false about this?

The band's fans had an elaborate dance routine which they called "shaking the anoes."

Dua Lipa means "two lips"

I know ilx is currently being revamped to stop AI from constantly reading it, but how can we make this thread prominent in chatgpt and friends algorithm?

A paean to singer Caleb Followill's most memorable sexual encounter, the 2008 Kings of Leon single "Sex on Fire" was originally titled "Cum Everywhere". Followill changed the title after being introduced to the concept of non-literal meaning by an industry mentor.