50 Music Fun-Facts You Won't Believe!
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Hey everybody! Thanks for watching this video of 50 Crazy Music Fun-Facts. I've wanted to do something casual like this for a little while. I love trivia, I love music, so this came naturally. Some of these are more well-known than others, but for the most part, they're 100% true! I did my best to fact check everything. There are a few technicalities in there, but whatever. Hope you like it!
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For those too lazy to check the Wikipedia article on Mayhem, the lead singer Dead committed suicide in 1991, and the guitarist Euronymous photographed his body to use as the cover art for their bootleg live album, Dawn of the Black Hearts. Euronymous took bits of Dead's skull and made necklaces for members of the black metal scene. Bassist Necrobutcher was disgusted and quit the band, and he was replaced by Varg Vikernes. Vikernes then stabbed Euronymous to death 2 years later.
the history of Black Metal is fucking wild
Of all the bassists, I would've thought Necrobutcher might be one to enjoy such an act
varg is also a devoted neo-nazi and lead singer of the band burzum
good lord
Ewan bunch of timid white
Johnny Cash was the first person outside of the USSR to know about Stalin's death
wait what how
commenting in case this is explained
Pyxidus same
Pyxidus yep
@@pyxidus_ yep lol
Eminem watching cartoons with his daughter instead of accepting an oscar is very on brand and the best thing i heard all week
Because he doesn’t deserve it, he sucks.
MightyZx why are you the way that you are? Even if you think he sucks you can’t deny that that is really sweet.
@@MrLump yea ok hes not the greatest rapper but your just so damn ignorant with that comment. Guess t i. Sucks as well because hes in the same level as eminem
@@thelegendkillersshittyduff1335 He's awesome, but he's not the best rapper of all time, his new stuff sucks, and i repeat, i like him a lot, but he's not as good as he used to
@@MrLump shut up clown
'Hey Jude' should have an 'Explicit' tag on Streaming services now
same with revolution 9
@@shayshayshayshayshayshayshay you seriously didn't watch the video to get the joke 🗿
@OutManoii george martin says bitch at the beginning of it
dont be a dam butthurt betty
I would definitely like it if this were to become a series
I second that.
I third that
i fourth that
I plead the fifth.
I sixth that
My fav not mentioned here... rapper Pusha T wrote the classic “I'm Lovin' It” jingle for McDonald's.
Brooooo, that fact is amazing
Barry Manilow wrote a bunch of famous jingles too, including the "I'm stuck on Band-Aid" jingle and "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there".
@@GeoffreyGentryMusic Speaking of Barry, a popular misconception is that he wrote I Write The Songs. Can't remember who wrote it, but it wasn't him (and he also didn't write his other 2 no. 1 hits--Mandy and Looks Like We Made It).
@@davidl570 You're correct. It was Bruce Johnston from The Beach Boys that wrote I Write the Songs.
@@GeoffreyGentryMusic That's right! I remember now. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
I don’t know why, but Jason Mraz supplying avocados to Chipotle makes sense for some reason.
It's the fedora
because Jason Mraz is the Chipotle Mexican Grill of music
Nothing about Ringo Starr being Thomas the Tank Engine? I am very disappointed.
I thought he was the narrator on Thomas the Tank Engine? Or is the narrator on Thomas the Tank Engine actually Thomas? Will we ever know?
It is his birthday after all
Holy shit how did I only just find this out now?? I grew up hearing Ringo's voice before I ever heard the Beatles.
@@lukeberrie3942 he is just the narator
He was the conductor.
Hey guys, he called blur “that woo-hoo band”
They're WAY more than that.
he also just called Kathleen hanna from bikini kill a friend
woo-hoo
I looked it up, I shit you not "the woo hoo band" is the name of an actaul band.
WOO HOO
The entire Norwegian Black Metal scene is INSANE
which makes it so good
Watch the movie "Lords of Choas" It's about tje band Mayham
Takk for den
Klas shoutout Norge
HenrikTheEpic t
The girl who graffitied Kurt smells like teen spirit on the wall was Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill
everyone knows that
damn I didn't know that, thanks bro
@@kyledaydreams2020 kyle
Kyle Daydreams shut up
Kyle
#51: The popular band “Tame Impala” is actually not a band at all, but just one guy named Kevin Parker.
Next you’re going to tell me that Sting and The Weeknd aren’t bands
Just like The Beatles is just Ringo moving really fast
#52: Frank Ocean raps on "Oldie"
The live band for shows is comprised of another Australian band. Pool or pond, i think is the name.
Just like Nine Inch Nails (up until a couple of years ago), LCD Soundsystem and Passion Pit.
"The Old Dope Peddler" sounds like a trap song before rapping went mainstream
lol it does
It's a lullaby because Tom Lehrer has a wonderfully dark sense of humor.
My favorite song of his is a love song called Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.
Phil Collins recorded 4 versions of the Tarzan sound track because he knew how heat that shit was: German French Spanish and English
The Mayhem Wikipedia page sounds like a creepy pasta wtf
And it’s all real. Which makes it even crazier
that's what makes them so fucking good, all of that energy resonates in their music
Justin Bennett Every black metal band sucks mate
@@thatoneguy7345 sounds like you just don't like black metal, get over yourself lol
@@thatoneguy7345 listen to storm of the light's bane by dissection
2 fun facts about the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
1. One of their most popular songs, Evil Woman, was a filler that was written in 15 minutes
2. They have the most top 40 hits in the US while not having a number 1 hit
And, evil woman was sampled for Daft punk - Face to face.
Mr. Blue Sky is the best song from ELO.
@@scratchsdivinecomedy love that song!
of COURSE Lana has a metaphysics degree
somthing to fall back on you could profit with, but still supported me when i did the opposite
Bon Jovi stepping into the music industry with a Star Wars-themed Christmas song was the one that made me laugh the most
Mayhem is legitimately insane
Alright Alfo, the Beatles releasing 6 albums in 3 years is nothing compared the 347 albums viper released in 2014 ;)
Wait till you see how many albums Buckethead released in one year...
@@lukebradford or Merzbow
How is that possible😳 maybe they've recorded those albums before and released them at once in the same year?
@Slim Jimmy but recording 300+ album in a year is literally impossible
@@utmostzen9602 yeah same. If there were singles, maybe but whole ass albums are impossible
Actually the friend that graffitied Kurt smells like teen spirit was none other than Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill
And that house is now and AirBnB in Olympia
Blur was also pretty well recieved in the us for the song Girls and boys
Flava flave having gone to culinary school makes sense considering his name
I wonder if he was frequently late for class, needed help with the time ....
Oh also on the Iommi fact, the reason guitars in metal is downtuned is because it was too painful for him to do typical tuning so he downtuned his guitar so it didn’t hurt as bad on his fingers. Now downtuning is a standard of metal as a result.
"downtuning is a standard" the irony
"Motörhead" by Hawkwind, was the first rock song to include the word "Paralellogram" in its lyrics.
and
"Motörhead" was the last song that Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind before getting kick out of the band. As well as "Motorhead" was the first song that Lemmy covered with his new band called Motörhead (the original name for the band was called "Bastards") for their debut album called Motörhead
(Badly forgot to add this in)
Before having Brian Johnson to front AC\DC prior to the death of Bon Scott, both of the Young brother first choice to replace Bon was Noddy Holder (Front-Man of Slade) but he declined
I can just imagine Noddy Holder singing Back in black. Similar, but different, and good.
Police fun fact that a lot of people might already know: In the beginning measures of Roxanne you can hear a weird bit of piano followed by laughter. Sting sat down on the piano thinking it was closed before playing those first bass notes.
Kurts friend was Kathleen Hannah from Bikini Kill and El Tigre, She’s also married to Ad Rock from the bestie boys.
the eminem one is honestly so wholesome
I'm kinda sad that you didn't mention that Ween's album The Mollusk was a big inspiration for Spongebob Squarepants.
I mean it's kind of obvious, they straight up use ocean man in the movie.
Fun fact: their country album “12 golden country greats” have only 10 songs and during the song ‘The Mollusk’ only one out of the three things that spur the mollusk from the sand are listed.
@@lix0347 .......................and the number is 12 because that's the number of musicians in the backing band on that album, if I'm not mistaken.
the sex pistols were a manufactured boy band put together by Malcolm McLaren based on what they looked like not their musical ability. Jimi Hendrix only had one song make it into the Billboard top 40 in the US making him (technically) a one hit wonder and it wasn't even one of his songs, it was a cover of Bob Dylan's all along the watchtower
Continuing with the “In-a-gadda-da-vida” facts, the song-well over 11 minutes-was originally supposed to be a short 60s rock song similar to the common length of music then, but while the band, Iron Butterfly, was in the studio messing around, one of the production assistants (I believe when the producer was out of the studio) started recording them because they thought it sounded really good, and then it became the entire “B” side of their album with the same name, as well as one of the most popular psychedelic rock songs of the 1960s.
One of a very few songs that stand the test of time.
I also read that the lead singer was drunk or high off drugs and the song was supposed to be called "In the garden of Eden" but he was high he accidently messed up
Dolly Parton wrote 2 songs in one day? Well Playboi Carti invented MUSIC in one day
Stfu
Carti wtf
facts.
smh ye made five beats a day for three summers
Ik this is a joke but what's the punchline?
I was just watching your "My 100 Favourite Songs of all time" when this video dropped.
Alfo Media: I will survive is the best disco song
Night Fever by Bee Gees: Hold my Beer
Great song but I prefer Night Birds by SHAKATAK
@Jovial Audio
Wow, that’s another classic. Love the bassline and soothing feeling in that song. Give me the night by George Benson is another absolute beast
the best disco is underground
@311 Jazzy
Agree. But nothin beats SHAKATAK. Awesome band
3:14 for this fact i heard that Paul McCartney was the one who said it after messing up a piano part
Addition to the smells like teen spirit part: the people who spray painted the phrase were Kurt’s Girlfriend at the time, Tobi Vail and her band mate, Kathleen Hanna. The band the women were in was Bikini Kill, the band that coined the rrr in riot grrrl and one of the most successful and popular bands in that genre.
First time seeing a 9:59 video
Everything about Ozzy Osborne’s live could be on this list.
Prince fun fact:
He mastered 27 instruments and played all of them on his first 5 albums
To complete the daft punk trivia, that band was called Darlin and it also featured Phoenix's very own Laurent 'Branco' Brancowitz.
7:10 EXTRA fun fact: The friend who wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" was actually Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of both riot grrrl bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre
Truth
Damn I caught an upload 8 seconds in
Edit: These were actually impressive. Wow.
Same
0:04 james holzhauer is a legend
Extra Trivia! Brian May from Queen built the guitar that he uses to this day when he was a teenager with his father. They carved the wood from an old mantle piece and used parts from an old motor bike in it. The whammy bar was one of his mother's knitting needles. Oh, and Brian also has a PhD in astrophysics and was one of the people who assisted NASA with getting a probe to Pluto as part of the New Horizons project.
More fun fact: Tom Lehrer reportedly invented the jello shot so he could sneak alcohol onto a military base he was stationed in.
Man was a living breathing legend.
The only fact here I know isn't technically right was John Lennon yelling about his headphones.
The "fucking hell" is still in there though
I dead ass can’t hear it do I need headphones are am I stupid
@@toasty9113 I heard it with headphones
@@toasty9113 on the 2015 remastered version, you can hear it quite good
He might be saying "take it out!"
The bassist of Blur, Alexander James, owns and runs a 200 acre artisan cheese farm
1:24 BONUS FUN FACT: One of the Weather Girls also sang on the the House hit "Ride on Time" by Blackbox but wasn't credited until fairly recently
Martha Wash of the Weather Girls is the one that sings "Everybody Dance Now" on C&C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat." She wasn't credited, and in the video they used a skinny young woman (Martha is overweight), so she sued and won, leading legislation to be passed regarding crediting singers for their appearances.
One of the rappers of 90s alternative hip hop trio Digable Planets ("Rebirth of Slick") is Lil Tracy's dad.
Also Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar who has worked closely with The Beatles' George Harrison is Norah Jones' dad.
Stevie Wonder played almost all the instruments on his albums, including drums despite being blind.
Sting sings background vocals on Dire Straits' "Money for nothing".
Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers played the bass line on Young MC's "Bust a move" and Kerry King from Slayer played the guitar solo on "No Sleep til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys.
Sinead O'Connors hit "Nothing Compares 2 U", the Bangles' "Manic Monday", Alicia Keys' "How come you don’t call me anymore" and Chaka Khan's "I feel for you" were all written by Prince.
Extra Trivia! The band ZZ Top got their start pretending the be the band The Zombies. The song Time of the Season had just become a massive hit in the US and people were wanting to hear them live. The thing is that The Zombies were an English band and had broken up so no tours. A promoter, realizing that there was money to be had, hired, not one but two groups to portray themselves as the Zombies to US crowds. He later tried the same thing with the Animals but the lead singer of that band went to a concert with a bunch of Hell's Angels and chased them off of the stage in the middle of a concert.
factoid actually means something that everyone thinks is a fact but isn't confirmed as one
prescriptivism is a bad look
true, but now it also has the connotation of being a small, insignificant fact
@@divergentclouds agreed
Flava Flave and Toto were complete surprises. Very cool channel, thanks for the work you put into this!
Thanks for throwing in a few for us metal fans. Much love. Love these vids from you on music!
Thank you for this excellent clip! I love that it's so 100% to the point. No five minute intro that is so common on UA-cam these days. Also liked the high speed of this wonderful, very interesting clip.
Extra Trivia! Lenny Kravitz wrote the song 'Johnny Cash'. The song contains odd lyrics if you don't know the story behind it. 'Hold me like Johnny Cash. Whisper in my ear like June Carter...' Lenny was driving when he received word that his mother had died. Not trusting himself to keep driving he stopped at a recording studio he was familiar with and broke down inside. Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter-Cash were leaving when they saw Lenny sobbing. After finding out what happened Johnny firmly embraced him and began praying. June was whispering encouraging things in his ear. They stayed with him for some time like this and Lenny has never forgotten the kindness they showed him in this moment.
I would LOVE a part 2 to this, this was soo interesting
This is pretty cool! Thank you for the effort you put in to this piece of work!
these were honestly super interesting :) would watch them all day if i could
The ZZ Top/Beard one is my favorite and I actually knew that already.
This was so much better than I thought it was going to be. Would love to see part 2.
Man, I arrive here 7 months after the video release...
*Just after Daft Punk's break up.*
I loved this format, please do more of those
Thought it was gonna be some rehashed stuff. Dude excellent stuff! Thank you. The Toto Thriller thing blow me away.
This is such a great video, PLEASE make more of these
No joke, Tom Lehrer is one of my favorite artists of all time.
3:15 I went to that song right away to hear it for myself and yep, I heard it. It’s faint but it’s there.
really?I couldn't hear it lol
Michel Gondry, the director of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (And some of the most importants videoclips ever: Around The World - Daft Punk, Star Guitar - Chemical Brothers...) plays the drums on Diamonds From Sierra Leone by Kanye
This should definitely be a series
4:49 srsly. You yanks are really missing out on blur. Go listen to The Universal, Coffee and TV, or Park Life if you want to understand British culture
moreover, Yankees would have probably never heard of Elastica if it hadn't been for Damon Albarn's limp dick. That was what Stutter was written about.
Lol people who still say "yanks" make me wonder if they've traveled through a time machine from 1740 or something.
@@keepinitkawaii you are in a completely dominant economic and political position and have been for the past 200 years. You've also made up an entire meme dedicated to making fun of the way we speak - I think we're allowed our inoffensive nickname
Hehe woo hoo band
So we just gonna ignore that this man just informed us of the musical prodigi that is flava flave
51. The explosion before the chorus of The Bee Gees song "Tragedy" was done by Barry Gibb's mouth and hands over a microphone because the studio did not have a sound effect machine.
Big Tom Lehr fan here. My mom who also recorded in the 50’s owned his albums. Some of my faves? Be Prepared, The Vatican Rag, I wanna go back to Dixie. Really impressive 2 embraced Tom’s mathematics in song as these days some of Tom’s lyrics could be considered politically incorrect. However, just like the novel Tom Sawyer, there are offenses there that need footnotes. Tom is a product of his time. Glad he’s still around.
4:28 MJ looks good - like a Brazilian footballer or something. If only someone could've convinced him to stop the alterations there.
If only someone told him, "You don't need no alterations. You're already Michael motherf'n Jackson!"
Please do more of these, this video was great!
Dude.just found your channel.i love trivia.i'm insanely good at it
I really liked this video. Hope you do more of these.
"Tartini's dream later became the inspiration for 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'. True story". - Barney Stinson
#31.5 - Though Blur may not have had a lot of success in the U.S., the front man went on to found The Gorillaz.
Correction: Dolly Parton had the two songs in the same tape for the span of one week. She told in an interview in GMA that she was not entirely sure, but they are in the same week in the same recording tape she used.
Actually, Foo Fighters first album wasn't made as Dave's way to cope because the album demos were done by in 1992-1993 before Kurt died. He actually listened to it and if my i remember correctly even said that they were pretty cool and he should record them. Then in 1994 after his death recording it may have indeed been a way for Dave to cope or to try to "move-on"
Tom was probably just so happy that someone actually asked to source his material. Alot of people have no respect when it comes to plagiarism
Actually Elvis did indeed have songwriting credits on a few of his songs. Technically cowriting, but still has the credits as a writer.
Mr Brightside has been on the UK top 100 every single year since it was released
I found an article that says that in 2019 Mr Brightside was 209 Times in the charts.....damn what a timeless hit
The Killers have been called "the best UK band to not come from the UK." Makes sense how popular that song is over there!
Dude this is exactly what I wanted
Fuck yeah I hope there's more
This is one of coolest music related videos
That 2 chains fact at the end was PRICELESS and made my mornimg..
The part about the dream is funny because it reminded me of the devil went down to Georgia
This was great! I’ll bring them up in my next family dinner!
Great video man. Very interesting and enjoyable. Maybe do another?
That 2Chainz "Ol Dope Peddler" story was the best!! 😂😅💗💯
26 - too funny! 27 - I always thought that sounded like Michael but didn't know he sang backup on that song.
Been wanting to get back into music since ive gotten my life and depression in check. And this is the channel ive been needing. Liked subbed and will do so for all vids I remember it on. Lol
Edit. Rip darrrell.
"Please give my regards to Mr. Chains, or may I call him 2?"
XD
despite my criticisms and being the "welllll ACTUALLY" guy, LOL, that was a lot of fun. Thanks for the upload. Liked and subscribed!
Amazing video, more pls!
Here's a couple for ya
Huey Lewis played harmonica with Thin Lizzy on their Live & Dangerous tour
Ritchie Blackmore was once licensed as a wandering minstrel in New York State
Please make this a series!
Late anecdote I have, but...
Another musician, as far as I'm aware, is living off of the royalties of one song. Patrick, a french musician, sang "Born to be Alive", a disco hit which still allows him to live confortably to this day due to his common usage
Patrick Hernandez is also known for having launched Madonna's career, as she was one of his dancers.
#39 is a really creative way of conducting QC
this is awesome!!