Music Facts you would like to share.

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/

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.

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.

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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 ;)

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

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

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.

im seein rancid on tuesday