Best Ever Albums

Re: Music Trivia

Romanelli — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:05:16 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 04/14/2013 19:05

ButterThumbz wrote:

The semaphore on the cover of Help! actually spells 'NUJV'... which is Welsh for walrus.

This, per Robert Freeman, who shot the Help! album cover:

"I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."

Re: Music Trivia

Cymro2011 — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:09:36 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 04/14/2013 18:09

The Velvet Underground - WL/WH was recorded in 3 days.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre song "Straight Up And Down" mimics both the "Woo-woo!" backing vocals from The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil," and the "La-la-la-la!" vocals from The Beatles song "Hey Jude."

The Album "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" again by The Brian Jonestown Massacre included all of these instruments:

acoustic guitar, sitar, clavs, mellotron, tambora, echoplex-feedback-generator, electric guitar, dumbek, tablas, flute, farfisa, recorder, tape loops, drums, acoustic bass, shinni, chanter, didgeridoo, vox jaguar, French horn, viola, tuba, SMS serge, 12-string electric guitar, harmonium, tambourines, cabasa, conga, jimbe, accordion, celeste, glockenspiel, bells, fish, piano, hammond, cello, wolf horn, maracas, weird-fucking-Chinese-shit, tyco drum, vibes, woodwinds and other top secret crap.

List taken from booklet included with album.

Re: Music Trivia

EyeKanFly — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:08:18 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 04/14/2013 18:08

Matt Bellamy, the singer/guitarist/songwriter for Muse is the son of George Bellamy, guitarist for The Tornados, the first British group to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, with their song "Telstar".

"Knights of Cydonia" is often seen as Matt's homage to "Telstar".

Re: Music Trivia

Cymro2011 — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:51:32 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 04/14/2013 17:51

ButterThumbz wrote:

The semaphore on the cover of Help! actually spells 'NUJV'... which is Welsh for walrus.

That's wrong...there isn't even a letter "V" in the welsh alphabet.

Re: Music Trivia

Norman Bates — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:15:01 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 04/14/2013 17:15

It would appear the whistling gimmick at the end of '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay' by Otis Redding is an accident. Otis didn't have the time to finish the track, and so he whistled the tune to the last verse to re-work it later. But he died before he could.

Not sure if the story's true, but it's interesting, if a bit morbid.

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:10:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 17:10

ButterThumbz wrote:

The semaphore on the cover of Help! actually spells 'NUJV'... which is Welsh for walrus.

Some people thought NUJV meant 'New Unknown John Vocalist.'

Re: Music Trivia

EyeKanFly — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:10:22 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 04/14/2013 17:10

The drummer/producer of Django Django is the brother of the keyboardist/DJ/sampler/cover artist of The Beta Band

David and John Maclean

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:39:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 16:39

Various Queen-related trivia:

At the time of its release, "A Night at the Opera" was the most expensive album ever made.

Bohemian Rhapsody took 3 weeks to record.

Freddie Mercury never learned how to drive (this one may just be a rumor, but I think I've heard it several times from fairly hardcore Queen fans).

Re: Music Trivia

ButterThumbz — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:35:56 GMT

Author: ButterThumbz

Posted: 04/14/2013 16:35

The semaphore on the cover of Help! actually spells 'NUJV'... which is Welsh for walrus.

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:53:08 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 15:53

Soma by Smashing Pumpkins has over 40 guitar tracks.

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:49:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 11:49

R.E.M. trivia - On Dead Letter Office, the song Voice of Harold uses the backing track as 7 Chinese Bros. from Reckoning and for the lyrics Michael sings the liner notes of the gospel album The Joy Of Knowing Jesus by The Revelaires.

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:43:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 11:43

The Jackson 5 has recorded 469 songs in six years at motown

Re: Music Trivia

SingingPeasant96 — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:25:23 GMT

Author: SingingPeasant96

Posted: 04/14/2013 11:25

Radiohead's b-side song 'Palo Alto's original name was OK Computer...

Jonny Greenwood joined band as Harmonica player at the first.

ect...

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:23:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 11:23

Ochurch25 wrote:

Is that actually true?

Yep

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8188475.stm

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:15:16 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 11:15

ButterThumbz wrote:

Abbey Road was originally going to be called Everest but, when it came to doing the cover shoot, the band couldn't be bothered flying out to Nepal and did it in the street outside instead.

Is that actually true?

Re: Music Trivia

Shadow23 — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:34:54 GMT

Author: Shadow23

Posted: 04/14/2013 10:34

In school, John Lennon was told by his English teacher that he would never become anything and that he was dumb. When he later heard that his old teacher analyzed his lyrics, he wrote a complete nonsense song just to annoy him. The song was 'I Am The Walrus'

Re: Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:33:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 10:33

ButterThumbz wrote:

Abbey Road was originally going to be called Everest but, when it came to doing the cover shoot, the band couldn't be bothered flying out to Nepal and instead did it in the street outside.

Darn, you stole mine.

Uhh... Sigur Ros paid for the the recording of their first album partly by helping paint the studio.

Re: Music Trivia

ButterThumbz — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:30:18 GMT

Author: ButterThumbz

Posted: 04/14/2013 10:30

Abbey Road was originally going to be called Everest but, when it came to doing the cover shoot, the band couldn't be bothered flying out to Nepal and did it in the street outside instead.

Music Trivia

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:14:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/14/2013 10:14

Everyone loves trivia, even the people who don't. In this thread you can list all the trivia you want.

I'll start off.

After Nirvana covered The Man Who Sold The World at Unplugged, David Bowie would perform it and get people saying 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.'