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40 Random Bits of Pop-Music Trivia That Dance the Night Away Up in Da Clurb

February 07, 2025

These hot and hoppin’ music facts got babysitters and are ready for a night on the town! They deserve it. Belting out their favorite songs on the way to work just isn’t cutting it anymore, and it’s time to dance the night away.

You’re fully welcome to join them on the dance floor, but you better be able to keep up!

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Hip-Hop Pioneers

SALT-N-PEPA & QUEEN LATIFAH CRACKED.COM Salt-N-Pepa's 1987 debut album Hot, Cool & Vicious became the first rap album by female act to go gold and platinum. In 1995, Salt-N-Pepa won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Group, and Queen Latifah won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, both becoming the first female hip hop acts to win Grammy Awards. — Source: dailyrapfacts/salt-n-pepa
dailyrapfacts/queen-latifah

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The Ramones

Johnny Ramone might have invented punk rock as we know it, but he wasn't into the rock 'n' roll lifestyle in the least. After concerts, when the rest

38

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

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The Sugarhill Gang

THE SUGARHILL GANG SugaHill SH-542-A 33 1/3 RPM OND 112RE-BW) 1977 Chie Music Inc. Music taben Good Times Sylvia Sea. Production others TIME: 11:00 RAPPER'S DELIGHT (Hemard Edwards-Nile Rodgers) CRACKED COM Released on March 25, 1979, King Tim III (Personality Jock) is cited as the first recorded hip hop song, but on Sept 16, 1979, The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight became the first hip hop single to reach the Billboard Top 40, reach #1 in Canada, and #2 all over Europe, bringing the genre to the mainstream. — Source: thesource

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311

311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. The guitarist got arrested for skinny dippinng, so they used the citation code as a band name. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terrible Predictions

50 THE BEATLES 5 FEBRUARY 1962 CRACKED.COM We don't like the sound. Guitar groups are on their way out. -Dick Rowe, head of artists and repertoire at Decca Records. The Beatles then went on to some success, as did rock music in general. — Source

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Harry Potter

The Harry Potter franchise is so popular it inspired a whole new genre of music called wizard rock. For starters, rock bands are named after HarRY Pot

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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

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Joan Jett

CRACKED.COM A girl can do what she wants to do And that's what I'm gonna do Joan Jett's BAD REPUTATION isn't simply an anthem for outcasts. It's about sexism in rock 'n' roll. Jett had been rejected by 23 record labels - according to her, due to her reputation as a former member of an all-female band. — Source

31

The Clash

The Clash Drummer Topper Headon wrote Rock the Casbah but was fired over his heroin addiction before it became their biggest hit. At the height of their fame, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, and Joe Strummer fought relentlessly over the direction of the band and broke up in 1986. CRACKED — Source

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Classic Rock and Country

People are listening to way more classic rock and country music. Streams of the Top 200 U.S. songs fell 28% between the weeks ending on March 16 and A — Source: The Guardian

29

Kanye

It took Kanye West only 15 minutes to write the lyrics for All Falls Down which went on to peak at #4 on the Billboard top R&B chart. CRACKED.COM — Source

28

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,
Sire, Warner Bros.
Rolling Stone Australia

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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

26

Nelly

CRACKED 2005 WAS LIKE THE EDGE OF A CLIFF FOR NELLY. From 2000 to 2004, Nelly was a mainstay in hip hop and pop music. His first 3 albums went multi platinum, and all hit #1 on Billboard. Then, because of experimental songs and oversaturation, his next 3 albums didn't even go gold, and he completely fell off. — Source

25

Crazy Town

CRACKED CRAZY TOWN'S BUTTERFLY WAS A TRUE ONE-HIT WONDER. This is their only song that ever appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was #1 for 2 weeks in 2001. Other rap/rock nu-metal bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park never hit #1, but had much longer, more successful careers. — Source

24

The Guess Who

THE GUESS WHO WROTE AMERICAN WOMAN ON THE SPOT AT A DIVE BAR. Guitarist Randy Bachman broke a guitar string during their set, and after he'd restrung it he was at the piano tuning his guitar. The audience started responding to the tuning sounds, so the band worked them into a song, right then and there. CRACKED.COM music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2013/2/Randy-Bachman-takes-us-behind-the-writing-of-American-Woman — Source

23

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
Far Out Magazine

22

Vanessa Carlton

CRACKED VANESSA CARLTON WAS THE QUEEN OF 2002. Her hit single A Thousand Miles and its music video made her world-famous. It remained in the Billboard Top Ten for 41 weeks, went double platinum and charted worldwide. No other song came close. — Nicki Swift / Insider

21

Amen Break

The sample transcends genres W CRACKED.COM Hip-Hop is certainly not the only genre that has made use of The Winstons' funky Amen Break. Soulful singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse slowed down the sample in her 2006 hit You Know I'm No Good, and masked-up heavy metal group Slipknot used a sped-up version in Eyeless. — Source

20

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

19

Gwen Stefani

CRACKED GWEN STEFANI Gwen Stefani started out in the 90s as one of the founders of the ska band No Doubt. They blended together reggae, punk, new-wave rock, and pop music. Which you might never guess if you listened only to her post-No Doubt solo stuff. C S — U Music / Allure

18

The Goo Goo Dolls

CRACKED ROBBY ТАКАС AND JOHNNY RZEZNIK Robby Takac and Johnny Rzeznik, founding members of the Goo Goo Dolls, used to be in a punk rock band called the Sex Maggots. We were kids playing punk rock at the corner punk rock bar, said Takac. — Post and Courier

17

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

16

Pat Smear

Pat Smear is punk rock royalty. CRACKED.COM Smear was a founding member of the legendary Los Angeles punk band Germs, which also featured Go Go's frontwoman Belinda Carlisle. — Stereo Gum / The Guardian

15

Anthrax

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker ANTHRAX CRACKED.COM The heavy metal guitarist said touring with Anthrax became mundane, and more like a job. So he quit the band to pursue his lifelong love of tinkering with timepieces. — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

14

Guns N’ Roses

CRACKED.COM GUNS N' R OSES Terminator 2 GNR vs. NIN Before production settled on Guns N' Roses' You Could be Mine, Robert Patrick suggested Nine Inch Nails' Head Like a Hole as the movie's tie-in song. The T-1000 actor lobbied for it because his brother, Richard Patrick, was NIN's touring guitarist. Cameron answered, no, Arnold prefers Guns N' Roses. — 98KUPD

13

Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley took their own hit song out of music stores. GRAGKED.COM The band removed their hit single 'Crazy' from stores in 2006 after it remained at the top of the British charts for 9 weeks, so peo- ple would remember the song fondly and not get sick of it. — Telegraph

12

Richard Gere

Richard Gere knows how to play multiple instruments, including the guitar, piano, and trumpet. And he composes. Gere would write the music for high- s

11

Hip Hop Makes Cheese Taste Better

A study says that hip hop makes cheese taste better. CRACKED.COM Researchers found that the music had an impact on the strength of the smell, taste, and flavor of the cheeses. A group of food professionals declared that the cheese ex- posed to A Tribe Called Quest tasted best. — ABC

10

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

9

The NYC Rap Tour

THE NYC RAP TOUR CRACKED.COM In 1982, some of hip hop's most popular figures, DJ Africa Bambaataa, The Rock Steady Crew, Fab 5 Freddy, and many more, brought the culture across the Atlantic to cities like Paris and London, becoming the very first international hip hop tour. — Source: beats-rhymes

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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

7

The Super Bowl Shuffle

CHICAGO BEARS Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best-selling music home video of all time. Want to guess which song is #2? Linebacker Gary Fencik was horrified at how successful was, one of the weirdest records to go gold in history. Grammy nominated? You bet. — Grantland

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

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

4

Billy Idol

prastien Before he found success as a solo artist, Billy ldol was in the classic punk band Generation X. Their 1978 self-titled album is pure punk roc

3

Green Day

CRACKEDGO Pop-punk paragons EKEENHY chose their name as tribute to their favorite plant, hoping to become the Cheech and Chong of punk rock.

2

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

1

Motorhead

MOTORHEAD oO MEANS SPEED FREAKA o Motorhead's founder, Lemmy, said that his aim was for the group to be the dirtiest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

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