Songs/bands fact thread

[RedStratocas]

Do you know something interesting about a band or song? Maybe something ironic? Well post it here. Ill start:

- Nirvana's original name was "skid row" when david grohl (now foo fighters singer) was the singer. They changed it to nirvana. Durring late 80's and early 90's, a different band with the name Skid Row became very popular, but started to lose popularity after Nirvana came out with nevermind.

- REM's "losing my religion" was writen in response to "Every move you make" by sting

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- Nirvana's original name was "skid row" when david grohl (now foo fighters singer) was the singer. They changed it to nirvana. Durring late 80's and early 90's, a different band with the name Skid Row became very popular, but started to lose popularity after Nirvana came out with nevermind.


Nirvana had loads of names before coming up with the final name :P. Quite crude ones too.

- November Rain is the longest #1 in US history. [8:57 mins]

- Van Halen did the guitar to the hit "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.

- Dimebag Darrel of 2004 was killed by a clinically insane ex-marine whilst playing in concert in 2004.

- Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne) joined Guns n' Roses temporarily to play alongside Slash when Gibly (Rhythm guitarist) left.

- A man called "El Douche" claimed that Courtney Love offered to pay him a large amount of money to kill Cobain in 1994. El Douche was killed a few months later. His accident report read "Train accident". Suspicious to say the least.

- If you play Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney backwards, it sounds like "Sleep with me, I'm not too young."

- Axl Rose has spent $24 million on the new GnR album which is yet to appear.

- Cobain tuned Van Halen down when he requested to jam on-stage with him as he was wasted. (Owned hahaha)

- Appetite for Destruction (GnR, 1987) was the biggest selling album of the 80's. Use Your Illusion I & II were released at the same time (1992). They both took up the #1 and #2 in the album chart within the first week.

Sorry if there only facts based on my favourite bands but heh.

[Loui]

Well...

- The Cure were called Easy Cure until they shortened it
- Robert Smith (the Cure) is afraid of flying
- Brandon Flowers (the Killers) is a mormon
- Chris Martin's friend had a band named 'Coldplay' but he gave the band name to Chris as he found the name 'Coldplay' too depressing
- David Bowie's real name is David Jones, yet around the time he started releasing songs he changed it as there already was a Davy Jones in the Monkees and he wanted to avoid confusion
- Kaiser Chiefs always have a short part of their songs where Ricky Wilson starts shouting 'Aaaaah' around four times.

[RedStratocas]

- Dimebag Darrel of 2004 was killed by a clinically insane ex-marine whilst playing in concert in 2004.



Yeh, what was funny was the simmilarities between that and John Lennon. They were shot on the same day I think, both in front of their producers, both by an ex-marine, and both by someone who admired their work. :P There are probably more online, Ill look it up later.

- The band called "The Band" was discovered by Bob Dylan, under the name "The Hawks". Bob Dylan didnt like the name, but they couldnt they couldnt think of another one. They signed themselves as "The Band"

-Soundgarden got their name from a sculpture in seattle.

-Soundgarden's "Badmotorfinger" was the song expected to break out grunge and alternative rock, but was overshadowed by Nirvana's "Smells like teen spirit" which was released just a few days before.

-Jason Everman, an unknown guitarest, played with soundgarden, nirvana, and pearl jam, but left all three before they became popular.

-Here's a well known one: AC/DC's name came from the positive (AC) and negetive (DC) electric charge, thus creating the lightening bult in between.

-David Grohl played all the instruments on the Foo Fighters debute album, but tried to keep it low while looking for band members to make the "s" in Foo Fighters make more sense. :P

- Audioslave, just last year became the first ever american band to put on a concert in cuba.

[Loui]

Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Chester Bennington of Linkin Park are both bisexual.

Gary Powell of The Libertines is distantly related to Colin Powell, and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park is distantly related to Tchaikovsky

[kaut]

Do you know something interesting about a band or song? Maybe something ironic? Well post it here. Ill start:

- Nirvana's original name was "skid row" when david grohl (now foo fighters singer) was the singer. They changed it to nirvana. Durring late 80's and early 90's, a different band with the name Skid Row became very popular, but started to lose popularity after Nirvana came out with nevermind.

- REM's "losing my religion" was writen in response to "Every move you make" by sting


Grohl didn't come on til 90'. And Jason Everman was fired even though he's the one that provided the $500 that paid for Nirvana's debut album "Bleach"... he never got his money back.

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Yeh, what was funny was the simmilarities between that and John Lennon. They were shot on the same day I think, both in front of their producers, both by an ex-marine, and both by someone who admired their work.

o.O Didn't know that. Interesting. It's quite annoying knowing you'll never see such great guitarists play again, especially when it was down to a freak accident. Guys like: Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, Dimebag and Randy Rhoads.

[Loui]

o.O Didn't know that. Interesting. It's quite annoying knowing you'll never see such great guitarists play again, especially when it was down to a freak accident. Guys like: Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, Dimebag and Randy Rhoads.

Humm, yuss. I see what you mean, same goes for other great musicians such as Lennon, Edwards, Curtis, Cobain, Buckley and tonnes more.

[RedStratocas]

Grohl didn't come on til 90'. And Jason Everman was fired even though he's the one that provided the $500 that paid for Nirvana's debut album "Bleach"... he never got his money back.

Hmm, it was something like that then... hmmm...

I just looked it up, you were right. I thought it was him, then they got rid of him for jason everman, then got him back again. They had so many names. :rolleyes:

And thrilled, Im trying to look up the site that showed the similarities between them, all I could get was they were both shot on the same day 24 years apart.

[:dallsgreen]

Not everyone may listen to them but the band the snake, the cross, the crown got there name because the singer when he was younger was ignored by his father alot. His dad spent most of his time working on his car and on the car there was a picture of a snake a cross and a crown. Thats where they got the name.

[kaut]

I just looked it up, you were right. I thought it was him, then they got rid of him for jason everman, then got him back again. They had so many names. :rolleyes:

Huh? They never replaced him. You're probably thinking of their original drummer Chad Channing. Jason Everman played guitar for about a year before he was sacked because Kurt didn't like the way he head banged while playing guitar... even though Cobain himself would do something similar himself.

[Not-Thrilled]

Yeah, Cobain felt Everman was stealing his fire and basically making him feel obselete. James was a superior player at that point in time.

[RedStratocas]

Lol, dont laugh at me, I got a little mixed up :rolleyes:

I learned this yesterday:

Rival schools (Song sample in my sig) were named after a sega video game. Even their one and only album "United By Fate" was the subtitle to the game :P

[kaut]

Lol, dont laugh at me, I got a little mixed up :rolleyes:

I learned this yesterday:

Rival schools (Song sample in my sig) were named after a sega video game. Even their one and only album "United By Fate" was the subtitle to the game :P

lol... I thought you were talking about the game in your sig... never knew there was a band called that. Which probably means I'll hate them and then laugh at you for liking them :P

[RedStratocas]

lol... I thought you were talking about the game in your sig... never knew there was a band called that. Which probably means I'll hate them and then laugh at you for liking them :P

Lol, its a good band, even though they broke up after 1 album :rolleyes:

-They Might Be Giants have done theme songs for 2 shows, Malcom in The Middle, and The Daily Show

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- The popular Animals hit was not written by them, (the riff is theirs though) It was originally recorded in the 20's by Texas Alexander and later covered by Leadbelly, Charlie Byrd, Roy Acuff, Woody Guthrie, the Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary, Henry Mancini, Dolly Parton, David Allan Coe, John Fahey, Waylon Jennings, Tim Hardin, Buster Poindexter, Marianne Faithful, Tracy Chapman and Bob Dylan.

-Cobain admits to stealing the SMLTS riff from Boston's - More than a feeling.

- Muse stole the hysteria bassline from Faith No More's Epic :].

- Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley both predicted their deaths. Not too sure about Marley's, but Hendrix wrote a song between 13th and 18th September 1969, almost exactly a year before he was found dead (18th September 1970). It was more of a poem, in which he suggested he would die a year later. So was his death fate or carefully planned? Even though his death is believed to have been an accident.

- Jim Morrison (Doors), Janis Joplin (Greatest female vocalist in history), Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain all died at the age of 27.

-The genre emo is not new, it's been around since the late 80's. Bands like Jimmy Eat World made it popular/mainstream in the early 00's and since then, there's been a flood of these ****** bands incorporating screaming into their songs.

[RedStratocas]

-The genre emo is not new, it's been around since the late 80's. Bands like Jimmy Eat World made it popular/mainstream in the early 00's and since then, there's been a flood of these ****** bands incorporating screaming into their songs.

Well JEW has been around since the early 90's, just werent popular.

-Eric Clapton was born of a young and unmarried mother. To hide him from it, he grew up believing his grandparents were his parents, and his mother was his sister.

-"Dark side of the moon", the album by pink floyd, spent 741 weeks on the top billboard's hot 200 albums list. A recored yet to be even close to being broken

[Not-Thrilled]

Well JEW has been around since the early 90's, just werent popular.


Yeah, I have all 4 of their main albums (Static Prevails, Clarity, Bleed American and Futures). The first 2 weren't great. It was Bleed American that was a great sucess, released in 2001, it helped bring the genre 'emo' into the spotlight.

[RedStratocas]

Yeah, I have all 4 of their main albums (Static Prevails, Clarity, Bleed American and Futures). The first 2 weren't great. It was Bleed American that was a great sucess, released in 2001, it helped bring the genre 'emo' into the spotlight.

Yeh, bleed american was the best, I think. Jimmy eat world is one of the very few bands who know what emo is really, not just a style or a fast way of getting popular.
Im kinda tired of the bands who are trying to be original, ill take for example, "The Click 5". Originallity is great, with style or the music itself, but some bands try so hard to be original, that it isnt original. The Click 5 dress up in suits at their concerts ect, which is showing they are trying way to hard to be original, at something that doesnt matter much anyway. They are trying to be known for something, but I dont really think it counts when thats what you are trying to do, is to be known for something so specific like that. If you dont understand, heres what its like: Its like giving yourself a nickname, and telling everyone to call you that. :rolleyes: I dont know, it just kind of bothers me that bands are starting to get into looks more now than the actuall music they play.

-"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." - Decca Records Rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

-"Help" by the beatles was written by John Lennon in 15 minutes.