Liner Notes: Lists of Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Bands, Songs, and Albums You Do

by Brian Boone

From Brian Boone, author of the bestselling music trivia collection “I Love Rock N’ Roll (Except When I Hate It)” and the stripped down follow-up “Rock Lists for Obsessive Music Connoisseurs, Zealots, and Junkies,” comes another hit-packed collection of fun, fascinating, and freaky facts about rock and pop music.

“Liner Lists of Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Bands, Songs, and Albums You Do” is full of trivia, context, and stories about the most popular and dominant bands, singers, stars, hits, and misses of the past 50 years. But, like, wryly stated and with opinions from a music geek. For

• The most baffling leadoff singles from classic albums
• The worst lyrics and silliest album titles of all time
• The dirtiest innocent pop songs
• Singers who went solo and who were surprisingly unsuccessful
• Bands that formed out of spite
• Two-time one-hit wonders
• The secret life of Toto
• Plus the wildest, weirdest, and curious chart accomplishments and milestones, silly quizzes, egregious music awards show decisions, and much, much more

119 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 26, 2022

About the author

Brian Boone has contributed material to Funny or Die, The Onion, Bunny Ears, Vulture, ClickHole, RiffTrax, CBC Comedy, The New Yorker, MAD, Weekly Humorist, Looper, Someecards, How Stuff Works, and many high profile podcasts. He's the author of many children's joke books, the music trivia title I Love Rock n' Roll (Except When I Hate It) and is a longtime contributor and editor for the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series. He lives in San Verguenza, California, with his family.

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick, entertaining collection of exactly what the cover promises. There are a couple of spots that could have used an editor (Boston's third album is Third Stage, not Third State), and some of the jokes come at the expense of odd or excessively easy targets, but on the whole, this should be a lot of fun for anyone who loves music and/or music trivia.