Friday, February 1, 2008

10 Interesting Tidbits

If you wanna look like a real music know-it-all, throw these random tidbits at your friends and watch their jaws drop in awe and jealousy.

****Jesse lacey started his musical career as the bassist for Taking Back Sunday
***Dashboard Confessional actually started as a side project of Chris Carrabba, who was the frontman of Further Seems Forever
**"Bettie Serveert" is NOT a singer songwriter one-woman act. It is in fact a Dutch band that is named Bettie Serveert, which means "Bettie serves", which was taken from instructional tennis books by Dutch tennis player Bettie Stove.
***Japanese pop artist Utada Hikaru was born in the United States and was raised in Japan.
****In "Nimrod" by Green Day, all the words scratched out in the booklet say "Delete This."
***Billie Joe Armstrong's nickname was "Two Dollar Bill" because he sold joints for two dollars.
**For a short time the band HIM was also known as HIM and HER.
***Bob Dylan became the oldest person to top the American album charts in 2006, with his album "Modern Times". At the time, he was 65 years old.
****Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is MTV's most-requested video ever.
***The title of Brand New's second album Deja Entendu, is French for "already heard". This highlight's Brand New's opinion that all modern music sounds the same.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haha, interesting concept! I like your fluency of writing, keep at it, those bastards in the music world are bound to notice you soon.