1. Julian Priester / Judas Priest
Others?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
2. Steeleye Span / Steely Dan
which completely annoys me eventhough there's no relation between the two of them.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 08:38 (sixteen years ago) link
3. John Cage / John Cale
― StanM, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 08:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Hasil Adkins/Hazel Dickens - both from West Virginia coal country!
― dad a, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
5. Paul Simon / Paul Simonon
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
phil collen/phil collins
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
AIDS Wolf Guitar Wolf Howlin' Wolf Leatherwolf Michael Talbot & the Wolfkings Organ Wolf Patrick Wolf Peanut Butter Wolf Peter Wolf Super Wolf Teen Wolf We Are Wolves White Wolf Wolf Wolf & Cub Wolf Colonel Wolf Eyes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfmother Wolf Parade Wolfram The Wolfs Wolfsheim
― stephen, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't even know if 'rhyme' is the word you're looking for here?
perhaps, you just mean to say performers with names that are practically the same
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Joe Beck/Jeff Beck
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
(B)Ryan Adams
― onimo, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Mark E Smith / Marc E Smith (The Fall / Patty Hurst Shifter)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Eyeless in Gaza / Isla St Clair
Patti Smith / Patty Smyth
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
... and in a similar vein
The Byrds / The Birds
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
-- kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 08:59 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
My copy of "London Calling" has "Guns of Brixton" as written by Paul Simon!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Sandy Denny / Sandy Dennis
... I know the latter is an actress but they still get melded together in my head
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Shakin' Surfin Stevens!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Bill Evans.
― dad a, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Both of whom played with Miles, to add to the confusion.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Tim Buckley / Timbuk 3
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Paul Simon / Paul Simonon There goes Rhyminon' Simonon!
― dad a, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
A couple more namesakes:
James Taylor / James Taylor
Dave Matthews / Dave Matthews
(I took me a while to realize that the Dave Matthews of the endless ILX thread isn't the one I thought he is; at first I was like, "Why does a jazz arranger provoke so much hate?".)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Norman Blake / Norman Blake
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't even know if 'rhyme' is the word you're looking for here? perhaps, you just mean to say performers with names that are practically the same
Right, right. Stupid thread idea; or decent idea poorly explained at best. I was thinking more of overall sonic similarity, not necessarily precise rhymes. Stuff like this:
Twisted Sister / Mr. Mister Starsailor / Art Taylor Bo Diddley / Bob Dylan Bonnie Raitt / Johnny Ray
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
elvis costello / elton motello
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
the eagles / the beagles
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm trying to think of this in terms of acts who I actually thought were the SAME act for a while, until I realized otherwise. So that would discount, say, Suede/Slade or The Kings/The Kinks or Jon Anderson/John Anderson or Trace Adkins/Rodney Atkins, but would not discount Ricky Van Shelton/Blake Shelton, who I conflated for years before realizing the error of my ways. There are others, I'm sure; maybe they'll come to mind. (Usually a certain proximity to each other genre-wise is necessary for this to happen properly.)
Oh yeah, a great one:
The Orb/Orbital
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
The two Paul Deans (X-Ray Spex and Loverboy) and two Mick Joneses (Foreigner and the Clash) don't really count, either.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Nor Prodigy/The Prodigy
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
But there are a couple famous blues names and jazz names where more than one guy (a decade or two apart maybe) has the same name, and those always confuse me. They're not coming to me right now, though.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
actually it's a trinity - The Orb/William Orbit/Orbital
― ledge, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Then add Davis' arranger Gil Evans into the mix and you are screwed.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Pigbag/Rip, Rig and Panic (and maybe Pigbros?) Ja Rule/Jah Cure both Dr. Dre's (NWA and Ed Lover) both Sean Pauls (dancehall and Youngbloodz) Suspyre/Susperia (two metal bands whose CDs came in the mail within a couple weeks of each other this summer)
If album covers count, I'd include (from my teen years)
Fragile / Not Fragile
Love Gun / Sex Pistols
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
new models / new model army
(this probably only matters to people from boston)
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
merle travis / merle haggard
(for when i was a young'un, it didn't seem possible there were two different people named merle. really!)
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, yes, I remember totally confusing these three in 1994.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoops. Up until this moment I assumed they were all the same person/artist.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Gregg Ginn / Greg Kihn
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Bennie Maupin / Bernie Taupin
― dad a, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Gregg Ginn/Gregg Gillis
― stephen, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
More Ginn ... http://bandtoband.com/images/covers/108/9140.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Gonn-SingleCover.jpg
― dad a, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Teddy Riley/Terry Riley
― dad a, Monday, 17 December 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
John Cale/JJ Cale Sandy Denny/Sandi Patti
― mike a, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Elmore James/Elton John
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
there are a couple famous blues names and jazz names where more than one guy (a decade or two apart maybe) has the same name, and those always confuse me.
Sonny Boy Williamson/Sonny Boy Williamson
There's an obvious double jazz name too...Bill Evans, maybe? But I don't think that's even the best one.
And yeah, John Cale and JJ Cale is a great one.
― xhuxk, Monday, 17 December 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Deke Leonard/Def Leppard/Led Zeppelin
― xhuxk, Monday, 17 December 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Geddy Lee/Kenny G (who get extra points for also looking exactly alike)
― xhuxk, Monday, 17 December 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
This might ACTUALLY BE the WORST THREAD in ILX HISTORY.
― ian, Monday, 17 December 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
rocket from the TOMBS/rocket from the CRYPT
― xhuxk, Monday, 17 December 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Maureen Tucker / Corin Tucker
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Ricky Nelson / Rick Nielsen
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Keter Betts/Skeeter Best
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 April 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Gram Parsons/Graham Parker
(Actually used to get them confused, when I first started listening to pub-rock type music)
― xhuxk, Friday, 10 April 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Gram Parsons/Gene Parsons
― late adopter, Saturday, 11 April 2009 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Doug Dillard/Doug Gillard
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Styx/Kix/the Fixx/Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks/The Dicks/Steve Malkmus & the Jicks
― Julio Afrokeluchie, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
fIREHOSE/ Firehouse
― Julio Afrokeluchie, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Devo/Il Divo
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Chuck Berry/Chu Berry
+ Buckcherry
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha ha, so Buckcherry is an anagram of Chuck Berry ... I never knew there was any point to that name until now.
― dad a, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Jichael Mackson / Michael Jackson
― Moka, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 08:01 (fourteen years ago) link
This Mortal Coil/CoilFela Kuti/Femi Kuti (I know)
― anagram, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Killing Joke/Killer JoeStranglers/StrangeloveHouse of Love/House of PainJulian Cope/Citizen Cope
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
It is, but they're named after an infamous L.A. drag queen.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
....or so I read. I mean, who cares, really?
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Steve Kuhn/Steve Kahn
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 July 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Duran Duran/Duran Duran Duran
― Siegbran, Saturday, 18 July 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
James Murphy the metal dude/James Murphy the postpunk dude
― Siegbran, Saturday, 18 July 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
DJ Pierre the big early 90s Italian House DJ/DJ Pierre the big early 90s Chicago House DJ
― Siegbran, Saturday, 18 July 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Airscape/Airwave
― Siegbran, Saturday, 18 July 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
― Siegbran, Saturday, 18 July 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Harry Nilsson / Carnie Wilson
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 18 July 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The Dead C/DeadsyOpeth/OtepMetallica/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'
― Julio Afrokeluchie, Sunday, 19 July 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Coal Chamber/Cold ChiselPoison/BoyzoneDef Leppard/Led Zeppelin
― Julio Afrokeluchie, Sunday, 19 July 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
wire/high on firethe mystics/stylistics
― outdoor_miner, Sunday, 19 July 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Elton John/Ethan Johns
― anagram, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Anthony Braxton / Toni Braxton
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
slaps forehead Why didn't I – probably the biggest Anthony Braxton fan on ILM – think of that one???
Ah well, I'll just have to have Tyondai Braxton/Toni Braxton instead, then.
― anagram, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric Gale/Eddie Gale
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Hawkwind / Bob Lind
Motorhead / That Ted
Cud / Mud
Radiohead / Jowe Head
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael Jackson - Jackson Browne - James Brown - Richard D. James - Cliff Richard - Jimmy Cliff - Jamiroquai - Rockwilder - Billy Wilder - Billie Jean - Jean Grae - Graham Coxon - Get your rocks off, get your rocks off honey, shake it now now, get 'em off downtown!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8TJYl4uc3lQ/SNxI0Cl92dI/AAAAAAAAAX8/tTV7Hixeijw/s400/card2.jpg
― m0stlyClean, Sunday, 23 August 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Jandek, Inspectah Deck.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 23 August 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Everlast / Evan Mast
(aka E*Vax)
― the who cares (okamax), Sunday, 23 August 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Steve Harley/Steve Holley
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Denny Laine/"Penny Lane"
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Art of Noise/Age of Chance
― anagram, Thursday, 27 August 2009 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link
That Dark Angel/Death Angel confusion reminds of 1987/88 when I was in Dr. Disc, visiting with friends who worked there, and this 35-ish metalhead comes in wanting to return this album by (the Canadian) Slaughter... http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4506/908313170x170mc8.jpg ...which he'd bought by mistake, thinking it was Slayer.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 27 August 2009 08:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Marc Almond / Mark-Almond
Engelbert Humperdinck x 2 (though the latter named himself after the former)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 27 August 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Lalo Schifrin/Labi Siffre
Oh, the confusion!
― A Ball of Twine, Friday, 28 August 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Eddie Holland/Eddie Holman
― Borinquen C (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
dan aykroyd / dananananakroyd
― abanana, Sunday, 6 December 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
David Cross (King Crimson/Comedian)
― C.T. Dalton (Daruton), Sunday, 6 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
X/The XX/xex
― mike a, Monday, 7 December 2009 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
JJ Cage would be a good band name.
― Mark, Monday, 7 December 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Killer Joe / Killing Joke
Strangelove / Stranglers
Deerhoof/Deerhunter
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 7 December 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Johnny Paycheck/Johnny Pacheco
― Stranded In the Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 February 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
Skinnay Ennis/Skinny Dennis
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link