The producers of the “Ed Sullivan” show didn’t like the line “Girl we couldn’t get much higher” from “Light my Fire” because of the drugs references, so they asked Morrison not to sing it when they invited The Doors to the show. Morisson sang it anyway (of course) and The Doors were never again invited in the show (what a shame…).

Apoptygma’s track “Scyscraping” from their masterpiece album “Soli Deo Gloria“, contains samples from songs by Alice In Chains, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth and Ride, something really strange considering the non-industrial guitar-rock nature of these bands…

John Peel once auctioned a kidney stone for charity, minutes after passing it (!) while DJ-ing at a student party*

*taken from Wikipedia

Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” remained in the Billboard Top 200 chart for a record 741 weeks from 1974 till 1988!

From the album Surfer Rosa: the song Ana stands for “Anagram”. The first letter of each verse in the song combined spells “Surfer”.

Madrugada is a Spanish word used to describe the hour just before the sunrise when everything is pure black. The group is however Norwegian and their name surely describes their music…

The Pixies’ “In Heaven Everything is Fine” is also known as “The Lady In The Radiator” Song. This song is actually taken from the ‘Eraserhead’ movie, which was David Lynch’s first full movie. A returning theme in the film is ‘the lady in the radiator’ starting to sing these words.

Initially, Kurt Cobain wanted to name their third album “I hate myself and I want to die!” but the record company refused to release it with this name… The album was finally named “In Utero” and was released by Geffen in 1993. “I hate myself and I want to die” was Kurt’s response to people asking him how he was. Ironic isn’t it?