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January 22, 2025

If you’re one of the more awesome people on the planet who love facts and music equally, you’re about to add a ton of awesomeness to your already heaping pile of awesomeness. Because as you’ll learn from this bitchin’ list of pop-music trivia, awesomeness breeds awesomeness.

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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire's interactive SUBURBS video For their 2010 song We Used to Wait, fans could plunk in their address on thewildernessdowntown.com and see Google Maps images of their house in the video for a personalized experience. CRACKED — Arcade Fire/YouTube
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Music on Veggies

An Austrian group plays music on instruments made from vegetables, and turns them into soup after the show. CRACKED.COM A pumpkin works very well on its own as a bass drum, and you can make all sorts of instruments-like flutes, recorders and xylophones-from carrots, says Jörg* Piringer, a musician in Austria's Vegetable Orchestra. — Bloomberg

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Frank Sinatra

CRACKED FRANK SINATRA HATED ELVIS PRESLEY AND ROCK 'N' ROLL. About Elvis' music, Sinatra said, It's the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression that has been my misfortune to hear. Presley called a press conference to defend himself and his music. — Telegraph / Billboard

37

Beastie Boys

THE BEASTIE BOYS' FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT WAS A JOKE. They wrote it as a gag song, making fun of annoying rock anthems. When the song was published, they released a video that was meant to be a parody. The irony was lost on fans and it was a big hit. CRACKED.COM http://www.npr.org/2011/05/06/136019762/the-fresh-air-interview-the-beastie-boys — Source

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Van Halen

Van Halen and Sammy Hagar. After their break up in 1996, Van Halen reunited with Hagar in 2004 and clashed immediately. Hagar even quit, but was legally forced to stay. The last show saw a drunk Eddie Van Halen smash his guitar, and yell You don't understand! to fans and storm off stage. CRACKED — Source

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Thriller

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED — Source

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Sampling

The sample is only six seconds long GRACKED.COM The most sampled song in music history-over 5000 times-is Amen, Brother by The Winstons. Recorded in 1969, drummer Gregory G.C. Coleman's 6 second drum break in the middle of the song became known as the Amen Break in the 198os. — Source

33

Punks

Punks wore I Hate Pink Floyd T-shirts. ees Ihati IHATE КГ The emerging punk rock movement of the 1970s was in part a reaction to the dominance progressive rock bands had over music, and Pink Floyd was considered one of the worst offenders. Ironically, many of the political ideas and grievances of punk would make their way onto 1977's Animals. — Source: Pitchfork

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Beastie Boys

CRACKED OSHKOSH Miller TE BEASTIE BOYS Originally a hardcore punk band called the Young Aborigines in the late '70s, they were still punk as The Beastie Boys until transitioning to hip hop in 1983. Their 1986 album Licensed to III became the first rap record to top the Billboard 200 chart. — God is in the TV Zine / Wired

31

Cream

Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of Cream. Bruce once played bass during Baker's drum solo, and Baker attacked him, claiming he had a knife and would kill him. Eric Clapton said they each played so loudly (in order to drown the other out), that Clapton would stop playing and they wouldn't even notice. Their 1969 album Goodbye was indeed their goodbye. CRACKED — Source

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Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love in ten minutes on a guitar despite only knowing a few chords. CRACKED COM — Source

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Lil’ Bow Wow

Lil' Bow Wow got his name from Dr. Dre Не makes an apperance in Snoop Dogg's Gin and Juice music video. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Beatles

Iconic by random chance The feedback in The Beatles' I Feel Fine John Lennon accidentally created a feedback sound when he leaned his electric-acoustic guitar against Paul McCartney's bass amp. They decided to keep it in for the song. CRACKED — The Beatles/YouTube
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NOFX

CRACKED.COM In 2017, punk band NOFX made an ill-advised joke about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. НА At least they were country fans and not punk rock fans, they said. They were immediately dropped as headliners from the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer and Music Festival, named after one of their own albums. — Source

26

Celine Dion

CRACKED.COM Celine Dion's 1998 Christmas album features the heartfelt ballad The Magic Of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone). The song was written by Twisted Sister frontman and hair metal icon Dee Snider. — Source

25

The Pop-Punk Connection

'90s Teen Rom-Coms The Pop-Punk Connection Not as good as grunge yet not as lame as nu metal, '90s teen rom-coms saw a bunch of pop and ska-punk bands rocking their proms. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were in Clueless, Letters to Cleo in 10 Things I Hate About You, and The Donnas in Drive Me Crazy. CRACKED.COM — More: 4 Straight-Up Lies Movies Tell Teens About High School

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Steven Tyler

CRACKED COM The iconic drum beats at the end of Livin' On The Edge by Aerosmith... were played on a bass drum that Steven Tyler stole from his high school after senior prom. — Source

23

Frankenstrat

GRACKED FRANKENSTRAT (EDDIE VAN HALEN) All modern guitar virtuosos can trace their lineage back to this iconic heavily modified Fender Stratocaster, which Eddie Van Halen constantly tweaked and modified throughout the 70s and 80s. Despite its legendary status, Van Halen reportedly treated the guitar like garbage. — Rollingstone

22

Foo Fighters

David Grohl was the only band member of Foo Fighters when recording the first album. CRACKED.COM Не wrote and recorded all vocal, guitar, bass, and drum tracks himself. Many know Grohl as a frontman, but he actually played per- cussion in a small indie band before Foo Fighters, called Nirvana. — Foo Archive

21

Paul McCartney

GRACKED HOFNER 500/1 BASS GUITAR (PAUL MCCARTNEY) The instantly recognisable bass has been with McCartney from The Beatles early days playing clubs in Germany to their final rooftop concert in London, and beyond, with it making several appearances throughout his solo career. — Guitar World

20

Bruce Springsteen

CRACKED Bruce Springsteen roasts Bob Dylan - Rock & Roll HoF While inducting Dylan into the Rock & Roll HoF, Springsteen said he first heard Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone in the car with his mother: She liked the music. She sat there for a minute, looked at me and said, 'That guy can't sing. 1988 — Youtube / Billboard

19

Dee Dee Ramone

UN-PUNK PUNK MOMENTS DEE DEE KING Standing Spotlight DEE DEE RAMONE QUIT THE RAMONES FOR A RAP CAREER On Rolling Stone's list of Worst Decisions in Music History, he released the rap album Standing in the Spotlight as Dee Dee King. A commercial and critical bomb, he returned to punk music, but never re-joined the Ramones. CRACKED — Bruce Alan Bennett/Shutterstock,
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18

Trigger

GRACKED TRIGGER (WILLIE NELSON) Country singer Willie Nelson went through a number of different models before settling on the nylon-string Martin N-20, which he affectionately dubbed 'Trigger.' The battle-damaged guitar has a regular maintenance regiment, and visits Nelson's longtime friend and luthier Mark Erlewine once a year. Callaway — Thalia Capos

17

Austin Powers

Austin Powers was created by Mike Myers as a persona for his faux 60s rock band, Ming Tea. CRACKED.COM Myers said that the movie and the character were inspired by the British films, music and comedy of the 1960s and 70s his father had introduced him to as a child. — Newsweek

16

Ryan Gosling

Actors trying to be musicians (and vice versa) Ryan Gosling, more like Ryan Gothling. Early in Gosling's career, he played guitar and piano while singing for goth rock band Dead Man's Bones. It wasn't terrible music, but it wasn't nearly as successful as his acting career. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vice
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15

Shake It Off

During the shooting of the music video of Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, heavy-metal music was played around the perimeter of the studio SO no-one cou

14

Metallica

Metallica's only Top 10 charting single was off Load. CRACKED.COM The '90s transition from thrash metal to hard rock didn't delight all of their fans, but Until It Sleeps, with its Soundgarden-like quality, was Metallica's first and (as of yet) only song to hit the top ten of the US Billboard charts. — Ultimate Classic Rock

13

Rock ‘n’ Roll

CRACKED.COM Rock 'n' roll is, actually, the devil's music. Rock makes heavy use of the Devil's Interval - a chord SO dissonant that the Church banned it in the Middle Ages. (On the other hand, it's not very likely that pearl clutchers are actually talking about chords and the history of music, is it?) — Source: 15 Creepy Random Facts for Spooky Season

12

Daft Punk

Daft Punk was based on a bad review of the pair's earlier project. The pair was originally named Darlin', and a critic called their work a daft punky thrash. CRACKED.COM — 20 Surprising Reasons Behind Musicians' Stage Names

11

Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan played in several rock bands. Before he got into wrestling, he spent 10 years in the rock scene (he played guitar and fretless bass). CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Eyebrow-Arching Early Jobs Of Celebs

10

The Offspring

Dexter Holland's Molecular Biology Doctorate CRACKED.COM Though many know The Offspring for goofy punk music, the lead singer was serious about his studies and research into HIV. — Source: Rolling Stone

9

The Hard Rock Cafe

The Hard Rock Café is entirely owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Carte Hard Rock CAFE HONGIKONS They bought it back in 2007 - and that also means they in turn own the world's biggest music memorabilia collection, since that's owned by Hard Rock. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Frank Zappa

1M WHEN MTV ASKED FRANK ZAPPA ABOUT WHETHER THE '80S ROCK N' ROLL MUSIC IS MORE FORMULA THAN IT WAS BACK IN THE DAYS... ZAPPA REPLIED, IMEAN YOU HERE

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Rappin’ Rodney Dangerfield

RODNEY DANGERFIELD Rappin' Rodney was an opportunity for Dangerfield to dust off old jokes and set them to Casio drum machine beats. His lyrics are suprisingly sympatico with hip-hop artists wailing about lack of a respect. CRACKED COM — YouTube

6

LFO

TWO-HIT WONDERS LFO had an another Billboard Top 10 song called Girl on TV. The music video featured Jennifer Love Hewitt, who Rich Cronin supposedl

5

Dogs and Music

Like humans, dogs have their own music preferences. Research shows that most dogs prefer listening to reggae and soft rock than to pop or classical mu

4

Joe Strummer

CRACKED c Joe Strummer, lead singer and rhythm guitar player of legendary punk band is, had to identify the body of his older brother, David, after he

3

The Drums

Marlon Brando was super into playing the drums. He actually patented several drum-related inventions. Brando was an avid drummer, and holds four diffe

2

The Horns

Every rocker knows about the devil horns sign. It's actually for protection. The devil horns hand gesture was first associated with metal music by Ron

1

Extreme Music

ying to calm that stress down with some claxing music? DONT BLAST SOME AWESOME METAL INSEAD Research has found that extreme music works better to de

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