Music Facts you would like to share.

[psychocat]

I love music trivia and pop quizs.
Do you have any of your own ?

Group names interest me and I like to know the origins :
David Bowie took the surname Bowie even though he had already released records under the name of David Jones (his real name) it was because there was already a David Jones (The Monkees) that he changed it.

The first Group to have 3 consecutive No1's in the UK was Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1963 (The original singers of You'll Never Walk Alone (Liverpool FC anthem)) and this was not repeated till the 80s when Frankie goes to Hollywood did it.

Vincent Furnier is Alice Coopers real name.

http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/

[Big Calhoun]

I would just like to reiterate that Rap/Hip-Hop is in fact, music:

The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.

A musical composition.
The written or printed score for such a composition.
Such scores considered as a group: We keep our music in a stack near the piano.
A musical accompaniment.
A particular category or kind of music.
An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds: the music of the wind in the pines.

[Nochowderforyou]

Hip-hop music is def. music. Not my fav. anymore, but I used to spin on the turntables and I can tell you, it's not as easy as taking a shit. It takes great hand/eye coordination, and a quick thumb on the crossfade. It takes a lot more talent than everyone thinks.

Anyways.

Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" stayed on the charts for sales for a straight 700 weeks<------not a typo. :)

For the last 5 Slayer records, Kerry King played all of the guitar parts, even Jeffs parts, with Jeff's guitars, and set-up.

Pantera's Great Southern Trendkill album was the first heavy metal record to hit #1 for sales on the Billboard charts.

[rbg]

I always thought this was interesting:

The last words sung by the Grateful Dead's keyboardist in the 80's, Brent, were "I've got to go but my friends can stick around" (in "the weight") and he died ten years to the day after their previous keyboardist, Keith

[MistaPoleeseMan]

Its funny when I hear people say rap music is easy. Let me see your favorite rock artist write 16 bars with 80 percent of the words rhyming. Multis, metaphors, similies, basically every aspect of the english language is used.

Compare that with a simple ass rock song that has some guitars and a hook thats usually repeated 1000 times with maybe 2 8 bar verses, and even that is pushing it. But hell, I dont need to defend hip hop, why do you think it has reached every place in America? Everything is imitating hip hop right now.

I do respect rock or any truly "performed" music. It takes alot to have 5 people playing on the same page everytime they go out. But still, rap is literature. Go dl fruity loops and make me a beat and tell me its easy. We are seeing more actual strings, drums, and shit like that than we used to.

[lagstronaut]

Its funny when I hear people say rap music is easy. Let me see your favorite rock artist write 16 bars with 80 percent of the words rhyming. Multis, metaphors, similies, basically every aspect of the english language is used.

Compare that with a simple ass rock song that has some guitars and a hook thats usually repeated 1000 times with maybe 2 8 bar verses, and even that is pushing it. But hell, I dont need to defend hip hop, why do you think it has reached every place in America? Everything is imitating hip hop right now.

I do respect rock or any truly "performed" music. It takes alot to have 5 people playing on the same page everytime they go out. But still, rap is literature. Go dl fruity loops and make me a beat and tell me its easy. We are seeing more actual strings, drums, and shit like that than we used to.



I think the people who say rap sucks are the people who have only heard Puff Daddy and Mase, and have never heard of Immortal Technique or Jedi Mind Tricks. I thought rap was rich wannabe gangsters talking out of their ass for a long time too until I strayed away from what was just on the radio. Even Tupac's best lyrical triumphs never got a hint of airtime, talent doesn't pay the bills..it sure helps, but rapping/singing/playing to what is popular or fresh at the time certainly gets someone over more than similies and metaphors. Though I wish it wasn't that way


And yeah FruityLoops is hard shit man ;)

[mulltie]

im going to see daft punk musical fact :P cant wait

[amsterdammed]

i saw the presidents of the united states of america on friday they were fantastic.
musical fact, also

[psychocat]

Is that the best you can come up with?
And here was me thinking stoners might actualy want to use their brains,, ah well we all make mistakes.

[make it legal]

im seein rancid on tuesday

[GHoSToKeR]

In a scene during the original radio version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin hums 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' by Pink Floyd.

Douglas Adam's autobiography is called 'Wish You Were Here'.

He also played a couple of songs live with Floyd at a live concert.

I dunno if that's music facts or trivia or anything, but he's my favourite author and they're my favourite band, so I thought it was pretty cool. :)

[Papa Smurf]

i know of bunch of random ass music facts. but i doubt many of you guys listen to taht music.
heres some band name meanings-

1349 - thats the year the bubonic plague hit norway

children of bodom - there were some kids camping at lake bodom in finland. all of the kids died except for one, who was insane after it. that kid just got off of trial for that, im pretty sure they found him not guilty, not sure though i forgot.

amon amarth - its like a land/region or some shit in the lord of the rings

bathory - some crazy ass countess from the middle ages who would bathe in young virgins womens blood. she thought that it would keep her yonger

deicide - means the execution of jesus by crucifixion

krisiun - comes from the latin work Mare Crisium, which means sea of abomination. also one of the craters on the moon.

some random shit about bands.

the original guy who did vocals for the band mayhem shot himself in the head with a shot gun. this was later used as an album cover. It is said that all his suicide note said was excuse the mess. It is also said that one of the members of the band cooked up some of his brains and ate it. also that another one made a necklace out of his skull fragments. The member of the band who found the vocalist was later stabbed to death by another member of the band. One of the members of the band got his house raided by the police. They found a bunch of dynamite, i can't remember how much, and plans to blow up a church on some major religious holiday. If any of you know about all the church burnings that happend in Norway in the late 80's and 90's, members of this band were part of that.

Napalm death, who was a very big influence of starting the genre grindcore, was made up of 15 and 16 year olds. They have the world record for the shortest song. It's called You Suffer. Its 1.316 seconds long, and the lyrics for it are "You suffer, but why?"

The genre "Death Metal" was named after a song called that by possessed. Not named after the band Death, which many people think it was. Death was under a different name at the time, and possessed released their first album before death did.

[hempilation311]

Its funny when I hear people say rap music is easy. Let me see your favorite rock artist write 16 bars with 80 percent of the words rhyming. Multis, metaphors, similies, basically every aspect of the english language is used.

Compare that with a simple ass rock song that has some guitars and a hook thats usually repeated 1000 times with maybe 2 8 bar verses, and even that is pushing it. But hell, I dont need to defend hip hop, why do you think it has reached every place in America? Everything is imitating hip hop right now.

I do respect rock or any truly "performed" music. It takes alot to have 5 people playing on the same page everytime they go out. But still, rap is literature. Go dl fruity loops and make me a beat and tell me its easy. We are seeing more actual strings, drums, and shit like that than we used to.


it took me twelve weeks to write a beat i felt good about on fruity loops. it took me twelve years to play guitar like i do. i'm not saying hip hop doesn't take talent, but half the rhymes i hear are about the same thing. money and women. I know that there's lupe fiasco and he's different and that there have been different styles sprinkled through raps history, but the majority nowadays is the same.

[amsterdammed]

In a scene during the original radio version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Marvin hums 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' by Pink Floyd.

Douglas Adam's autobiography is called 'Wish You Were Here'.

He also played a couple of songs live with Floyd at a live concert.

I dunno if that's music facts or trivia or anything, but he's my favourite author and they're my favourite band, so I thought it was pretty cool. :)

slightly related

radiohead's 'paranoid android' was about marvin. there's someother radiohead/hitchhickers link but i can't remember it. it might be 'let down' anotherone for marvin:D

[BabyFacedAbortion]

The guy who raps in Fort Minor is in Linkin Park

p.s
good rap is also Atmosphere.

[yoda]

ben harper, who did burn one down, formed yellowcard

[chris420]

Uhm.. I can only remember this one now: Bob Dylan introduced the beatles to marijuana and we all know how that ended up...

[chris420]

slightly related

radiohead's 'paranoid android' was about marvin. there's someother radiohead/hitchhickers link but i can't remember it. it might be 'let down' anotherone for marvin:D

I didn't know that about paranoid android... the other one has to be subterranean homesick alien... OK Computer is such an amazing album

[amsterdammed]

here's a few real names for ya

alice cooper - vincent damon furnier
meatloaf - marvin lee aday
jon bon jovi - john francis BONGiovi
bono - paul david hewson
the edge - dave howell evens
slash - saul hudson

[amsterdammed]

I didn't know that about paranoid android... the other one has to be subterranean homesick alien... OK Computer is such an amazing album

i'm not sure coz he's an android not an alien, i thought let down coz he's always so depressed.
and yeah what an album, voted best album for a few years running.
my favourite radiohead album is 'the bends'

[amsterdammed]

no i got it you mean arther, good point

[The Figment]

I always thought this was interesting:

The last words sung by the Grateful Dead's keyboardist in the 80's, Brent, were "I've got to go but my friends can stick around" (in "the weight") and he died ten years to the day after their previous keyboardist, Keith

What was the last peice of music ever played at a Grateful Dead Show?




Jimi Hendricks "Star Spangled Banner" During the after show fireworks...Truly weird,one of the first popular psychedlic peices of electric music,was the last thing us Deadheads ever heard at a "Deadshow"

[Loathsome]

Chris Barnes is in Six Feet Under and Torture Killer... and he was in Cannibal Corpse before Corpsegrinder took over that position.

Six Feet Under released a German version of 'Bringer of Blood'

I don't know if that's really 'trivia-worthy' :)

[Nochowderforyou]

Marilyn Manson's real name is Brain Warner.<-----that one just came to me.

Now, about the discussion what is more talented, hip-hip or rock music. In my opinion, both take a great deal of talent, but in different ways. It could take you years before you learn how to cut a record on beat, but playing guitar isn't as easy as people say either. If you don't play guitar, go pick one up and play me a tune and see how easy it is.

Both genres of music take time, and patience to learn. Saying one thing is harder than another is just a cock sizing compitition, it has no point. ;)

[daima]

I always thought this was interesting:

The last words sung by the Grateful Dead's keyboardist in the 80's, Brent, were "I've got to go but my friends can stick around" (in "the weight") and he died ten years to the day after their previous keyboardist, Keith

It was just a few days ago that i helped Micky Harts Cousin, Makhal, carry some of her belongings into her new place, here in San Francisco.
She has a great collection of old 45's.

dai*ma:stoned: sfca

[fikusroot]

The Beatles first dropped acid at Harry Houdini's house in L.A, also where RHCP recorded blood sugar sex magic and were Slipknot recorded their new album that I can't remember the name of. Lot's of people say the house is haunted. The line in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (and don't let anyone kid you, it is about acid) "Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high" was an observation Ringo made while they were walking through a crowd into the house past a garden of flowers.

[Fengzi]

The Beatles song "A Day In The Life" was actually an unfinished Paul Song and an unfinished John song pieced together.

Along the same lines, most of the 2nd half of The Beatles "Abbey Road" was unfinished songs masterfully tossed together by their producer, George Martin.

The Beatles were so stoned during the filming of the movie "Help" that it almost didn't happen.

The guitar solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was actually played by Eric Clapton, not George Harrison

The Beatles song "Something" and the Eric Clapton song " Wonderful Tonight" have been called two of the most romantic songs in rock music. Ironically they are about the same woman- Pattie Boyd, first married to George Harrison and then to Eric Clapton.

[daima]

The Beatles song "A Day In The Life" was actually an unfinished Paul Song and an unfinished John song pieced together.

Along the same lines, most of the 2nd half of The Beatles "Abbey Road" was unfinished songs masterfully tossed together by their producer, George Martin.

The Beatles were so stoned during the filming of the movie "Help" that it almost didn't happen.

The guitar solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was actually played by Eric Clapton, not George Harrison

The Beatles song "Something" and the Eric Clapton song " Wonderful Tonight" have been called two of the most romantic songs in rock music. Ironically they are about the same woman- Pattie Boyd, first married to George Harrison and then to Eric Clapton.

I believe that George intimidated paul and john. Pattie knew where to go to get her toast buttered.

dai*ma:stoned: sfca

How do we step over
look over
look away from
a fallen
once erect
human being

Shivering awake
in the bitter night cold
coughing up
blood, hope, idependence

We see the forgotten
isolated
invisable even if seen

Like drops of rain
we fall through
the cracks of pavement
like torrents of rain always there
we bore into the bones
of humanity

Chilled to the core
and ignored
we either dry up
or rise up
like shoots of grass
in stone

Hollowed eyed
moving in apathy
sounds around but distant
never more than an hours fitful sleep
one eye open all the time
"keep moving"
strange voices shout
we move
carrying everything we own
on our backs

Dirt in every pore
where do we wash our skins
our pain
our guilt
as cold eyes treat us
as outcasts
or outlaws

We forage for food
our nurishment is from garbage cans
or dumpsters behind super markets

Complacent
moving skeletal frames
do we go on
not caring?
hitting "the bottoms"

We can only ascend
'cause we cant fall outta bed
if we're sleeping on the floor
a small spark
becomes the fire
warming
glowing
growing
shelter in purifications blaze

Give a hand to a brother or sister
mama or child
hold out your hand
'till it's empty too
give a blanket
a kind look
a care
a holy name
a floor or bed

Any crave for relief
is welcome
some medicine
a placebo
a divine panacea
will do

so please dont step over us
we could be you:confused:

[psychocat]

Rockstar names !

Pat Benatar - Patricia Andrejewski
Chuck Berry - Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Sonny Bono - Salvatore Philip Bono
Chubby Checker - Ernest Evans
Elvis Costello - Declan McManus
Dobie Gray - Leonard Victor Ainsworth
Huey Lewis - Hugh Anthony Cregg
Lulu - Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie
Iggy Pop - James Jewell Osterberg, Jr.
Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
Sid Vicious - John Simon Ritchie

[paperlunatic]

The founder of pink floyd has died.
syds dead
only fact i need to know, very sad. =[ but now im high and listening to floyd so i guess im not sad im just incedibly stoned

Syd Barrett - Roger kieth Barret, thought id add that cuz i noticed the post before mine was saying the rockstar's real names.:stoned:

[dejayou30]

fact: pantera is the greatest band ever

[Fengzi]

Although one of their most popular songs is "Sweet Home Alabama", Lynyrd Skynyrd is actually from Jacksonville, Florida

The name Lynyrd Skynyrd actually started as a joke intended to piss off their hated high school gym coach, Leonard Skinner. They hated the guy because he gave them a hard time about their long hair and being hippies. The name stuck.

[Justin Incredible]

I've got 1...........................


Kurt Cobain's DEAD!!!!!!!!!!