Performers with names that practiclly rhyme?

Lonnie Smith/ Lonnie Liston Smith
There was another Howlin' Wolf (Later traded as Funny Papa Smith)
There was another Joe Jones that wasn't Philly JJ ?

magma / exmagma

TS Larry Carlton vs Larry Coryell

Barry Harris/Harry Barris

Chuck Berry/Chu Berry

Cher/Michael Bolton

MC Search/Fred Hersch

Bob Harris, the guy who played keyboards for Frank Zappa
Bob Harris, the other guy who played keyboards for Frank Zappa

Art Farmer / Art Pepper

That's a good one.

Frank Zappa/Zap Mama

Miranda Sex Garden / Einstuerzende Neubauten

Listening to Orbital's remix of The Orb's "Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Center of the Ultraworld" didn't help.

It's more confusing than this: there is no such thing. Before the group Orbital came along, The Orb used to call the remixes they made for other people (and themselves) "Orbital Something Or Other Mix" and "Orbital Twee Nonsense Mix"

Brix Smith (of the Fall)
Brick Smith (of mid-80s Norwich synth duo Gee Mr Tracy)

This might ACTUALLY BE the WORST THREAD in ILX HISTORY.

― ian, Monday, December 17, 2007 1:37 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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I don't know if it belongs in this thread or not, but...

Someone once told me they found a Lambert, Hendrick and Ross CD filed under The Supremes at Tower Records.

Ha.

There's an obvious double jazz name too...Bill Evans, maybe?

WRONG DUDE

Some Motown related confusion

Johnny Griffith/Johnny Griffin
Joe Hunter/Ivory Joe Hunter
Jack Ashford/Nick Ashford

The Bill Evans confusion was mentioned upthread: the more famous Bill Evans was a pianist who played with Miles in the 50s, the other Bill Evans a saxophonist who played with Miles in the 80s.

GZA/RZA obv.

Hank Marvin/Marv Tarplin
Junior Marvin/Junior Murvin

Joe Hunter/Ivory Joe Hunter
I forgot Ivy Jo Hunter

Delroy Wilson / Denroy Morgan

Maureen Tucker / Corin Tucker

Ricky Nelson / Rick Nielsen

Keter Betts/Skeeter Best

Gram Parsons/Graham Parker

(Actually used to get them confused, when I first started listening to pub-rock type music)

Gram Parsons/Gene Parsons

Doug Dillard/Doug Gillard

Styx/Kix/the Fixx/Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks/The Dicks/Steve Malkmus & the Jicks

fIREHOSE/ Firehouse

Devo/Il Divo

Chuck Berry/Chu Berry

+ Buckcherry

Ha ha, so Buckcherry is an anagram of Chuck Berry ... I never knew there was any point to that name until now.

Jichael Mackson / Michael Jackson

I disagree with Ian, above, who suggested this was the worst thread in ILX history. It may not be ILX at it's most insightful, but there are some inspired moments. I don't know why it's so funny but I can't stop laughing at Tim Buckley/Timbuk 3.

This Mortal Coil/Coil
Fela Kuti/Femi Kuti (I know)

Killing Joke/Killer Joe
Stranglers/Strangelove
House of Love/House of Pain
Julian Cope/Citizen Cope

Ha ha, so Buckcherry is an anagram of Chuck Berry ... I never knew there was any point to that name until now.

It is, but they're named after an infamous L.A. drag queen.

....or so I read. I mean, who cares, really?

Steve Kuhn/Steve Kahn

Duran Duran/Duran Duran Duran

James Murphy the metal dude/James Murphy the postpunk dude

DJ Pierre the big early 90s Italian House DJ/DJ Pierre the big early 90s Chicago House DJ

Airscape/Airwave

Styx/Kix/the Fixx/Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks/The Dicks/Steve Malkmus & the Jicks

Harry Nilsson / Carnie Wilson

The Dead C/Deadsy
Opeth/Otep
Metallica/Megadeth

Once had a 'conversation' about music that quickly degenerated into such obtuse nonsense that I thought one(or both) of us were going insane. Turned out that the other guy thought I'd cited 'Counting Crows' at the beginning of the discussion, when I had really said 'Cannibal Corpse'

Coal Chamber/Cold Chisel
Poison/Boyzone
Def Leppard/Led Zeppelin

wire/high on fire
the mystics/stylistics

Elton John/Ethan Johns