Compendium of tedious music-related anecdotes
Let's have this thread as a handy one-stop shop for pop stars' most boring and oft-repeated anecdotes, so that we'll never have to hear them ever again.
- Billy Bragg took John Peel a mushroom biriyani in order to get his demo played or something
- Everett True invented Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Or something
- Phil Oakey recruited those two women for The Human League after meeting them in a club. Possibly.
You get the idea.
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Simply red and all the other bands in the world ever were at
the front of some sex pistols gig or something and subsequently decided to write 'stars' as a result.
Bon Iver wrote his first album in a tent in the desert
Oh god
Any pretentious PR about how an album came about can go in here as well.
British Sea Power were particularly good at the 'we recorded this album at a naval base in Croatia whilst reading political pamphlets from the French Revolution backwards' just before releasing a album of pedestrian schmindie rock.
The guy from Girls
is an oh-so-sensitive junkie & desinted-to-be rock star with a damaged personality, who was raised in a leftfield Christian cult whose members' mothers whored themselves out to get new rercruits. He is now a modestly successful musician livin' rough in L.A, who is massively overrated by the 'alternative' music website 'Pitchfork Media' and its adherants.
This is my most cynical DiS post ever ^
mars volta wrote
- an album based on a ouija board they found whilst touring
- from a journal found left in the back of a car from a stranger
- when a member was in a coma
Alice Cooper once bit the head off a giraffe then puked down its neck hole
oh no he di'nt !
The White Stripes...
were a brother / sister or husband / wife combination.(depending on what you read back in the day)
Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan killed each other in '69
which is why they've both been shit for ages.
re: human league
So she wasn't working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when he met her?
The two guys in Idiot Pilot were actually the two guys who are in the band the Kinky Wizards from the film High Fidelity
Dani Filth is autistic
AND HE DOES NOT LIKE TO BE TOUCHED
dingus kahn forced titus bramble to kick a dog to death in kilburn
the fall nearly signed to motown
I got that from Grouchlands twitter last night
John Cale screamed at a potted plant until it died
John Cale decapitated a chicken onstage, prompting his band to quit
John Cale was detained at Heathrow and found to have Richard Gere up his arse
ONE OF THESE IS FALSE