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• ...that Pearl Jam refused to release "Black" as a single, feeling that it was too emotional?

• ...that both R.E.M. and the Pixies chose their names at random from a dictionary?

• ...that bassist Kim Deal was credited as "Mrs. John Murphy" on the Pixies' Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa?

• ...that Dinosaur Jr's second album You're Living All Over Me was named after a phrase frontman J Mascis uttered while on tour with the band?

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1	...that Pearl Jam refused to release "Black" as a single, feeling that it was too emotional?
2	...that Nirvana recorded "You Know You're Right" in 1994, but didn't release it until 2002 due to legal entanglements with Courtney Love?
3	...that the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Nirvana's Nevermind were both released on September 24, 1991?
4	...that Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy was the original model for Maxell's "Blown Away Guy" ad campaign?
5	...that R.E.M. debuted the song "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" on Late Night with David Letterman before it even had a name?
6	...that Pearl Jam refused to release "Black" as a single, feeling that it was too emotional?
7	...that the Minutemen made Double Nickels on the Dime into a double album after learning Hüsker Dü were releasing their own double album, Zen Arcade?
8	...that both R.E.M. and the Pixies chose their names at random from a dictionary?
9	...that Pixies drummer David Lovering used to perform on stage as "The Scientific Phenomenalist"?
10	...that Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song "Crackity Jones" after a stay in Puerto Rico with a "weirdo, psycho, gay roommate" as a student?
11	...that Warner Bros. Records paid Wilco to record the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, gave them the rights to the album for free, and then bought the album back?
12	...that bassist Kim Deal was credited as "Mrs. John Murphy" on the Pixies' Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa?
13	...that Hüsker Dü guitarist and Sugar frontman Bob Mould once worked as a World Championship Wrestling scriptwriter?
14	...that Dinosaur Jr's second album You're Living All Over Me was named after a phrase frontman J Mascis uttered while on tour with the band?
15	...that Mudhoney's 1991 album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is named after a mnemonic used to recall the notes on the treble clef?
16	...that, when writing their breakthrough single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Nirvana's Kurt Cobain revealed he "was trying to rip of the Pixies"?
17	...that the recording of My Bloody Valentine's 1991 album Loveless was rumoured to have cost £250,000 and nearly bankrupted the band's label, Creation Records?
18	...that the cover of The Stone Roses' 1989 album The Stone Roses was inspired by the the Paris student riots of 1968?