Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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For kinda obvious reasons.

― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 24 November 2022 08:16 (three years ago)

Alex Horne
Matthew Horne

― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 25 November 2022 08:03 (three years ago)

Dennis Smalley
Roger Smalley

― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:35 (three years ago)

keir dullea
udo keir

i mean i think i've just never bothered to distinguish them, i was going to make a joek abt the star child in 2001 and the freaky udo-baby in the kingdom but it very much depends on them being one person not two

― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:07 (three years ago)

It Ain't Me Babe
I Got You Babe

― peace, man, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 13:59 (three years ago)

The latter was a conscious re-write (rip-off) of the former!

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:19 (three years ago)

That would make sense. I just realized this morning that I'd been skipping over the Turtles' cover of Dylan's song because I assumed it was the Sonny & Cher one.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:24 (three years ago)

OMG

― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:32 (three years ago)

Unlike my other contributions to this thread, this pair (who will mean nothing to people outside the British Isles) have actually lived in my head as the same person, said head troubled only by the fact that they seem to have two very different faces. I'd put this down to one being a jokey avatar on social media that I didn't get.

Paul Lewis, financial journalist
Martin Lewis, financial journalist

― Alba, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:32 (three years ago)

In the mid 80s I was just learning about the world and the people in it, and was very confused about why two of the most famous people had almost the same name, even though they were completely different people.

Madonna
Maradona

Managed to remember which was which by the age of 8, so all worked out fine.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 14:53 (three years ago)

https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibaoff/4a4aec046a8a6373c57cf82984a991dc/h44-10915156.jpg

― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 15:19 (three years ago)

The Asphalt Jungle
Blackboard Jungle

― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 12 December 2022 13:46 (three years ago)

Wet Leg
Dry Cleaning

Not sure why exactly, but on seeing them both appear on the same end of year list I've realized that I mentally classified these two names as being the same band. Now I'm not sure if I've actually heard both of them.

― silverfish, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:46 (three years ago)

you’re not missing much

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:42 (three years ago)

Mint Condition
New Edition

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 16:57 (three years ago)

Tom Lehrer
Allan Sherman

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 23:10 (three years ago)

Steve Khan
Steve Kuhn

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:36 (three years ago)

Steve Kroon as well

― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 December 2022 18:34 (three years ago)

the roches
the mcgarrigles

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 02:03 (three years ago)

the roches
the mcgarrigles

I'll bet Loudon Wainwright gets them mixed up sometimes

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 04:18 (three years ago)

Oof!

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 04:32 (three years ago)

well, yeah

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 05:48 (three years ago)

Probably a song or two about it

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 08:07 (three years ago)

I Got Their Names Wrong Again

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 08:07 (three years ago)

Add the Nields

― Cirque de Soleil Moon Frye (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 13:43 (three years ago)

Don Bluth
Dom Deluise

― peace, man, Thursday, 22 December 2022 03:04 (three years ago)

Until recently:

Bill Callahan
Bill Orcutt

― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 23 December 2022 12:37 (three years ago)

reticent vs reluctance really has to stop

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:22 (three years ago)

How about nonparallel construction?

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:24 (three years ago)

Nonparallel
Nonpareil

― Kiss Me, Dudley (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2022 13:27 (three years ago)

I have this theory that The Beatles sing the word "nonpareil" with a weird accent in their version of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" but I stand kind of alone with this theory. Maybe someone else even presented it to me long ago, but they are not around to comment.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 December 2022 14:09 (three years ago)

Bruce Campbell
Kyle MacLachlan

― no jaki liebezeit required (Matt #2), Friday, 23 December 2022 14:29 (three years ago)

'80s chin men.

― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Saturday, 24 December 2022 01:54 (three years ago)

Elvis Costello albums I haven't heard:

Brutal Youth
When I Was Cruel

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 December 2022 15:15 (three years ago)

Fine Young Cannibals
10,000 Maniacs

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 2 January 2023 01:29 (three years ago)

Chutes Too Narrow
Oh, Inverted World

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 2 January 2023 03:10 (three years ago)

Trix
Kix
Nesquik
Tang

― Immodest Moose (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:35 (three years ago)

Millie Small
Little Eva

― Aw naw, no' an Antonioni wan oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 14:37 (three years ago)

Charlie Rich
Buddy Rich

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 15:39 (three years ago)

Anchises
Ascanius
Achates

(father, son and best buddy of Aeneas, respectively)

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 07:36 (three years ago)

The Pink Fairies
The Pretty Things

― this country's had enough of exports (Matt #2), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:19 (three years ago)

Puddle of Mudd
Mudvayne

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:44 (three years ago)

Puddle of Mudd
POD (Payable On Death?)

I thought both were "Christian Rock" but PoM's wiki doesn't mention it.

― nickn, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:09 (three years ago)

Nils Lofgren
Nels Cline

― New York Review of Wooks (swim), Thursday, 5 January 2023 19:43 (three years ago)

Sunny Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney

― peace, man, Friday, 6 January 2023 01:44 (three years ago)

the killing of a sacred deer
dragging a dead deer up a hill

― budo jeru, Monday, 9 January 2023 00:36 (three years ago)

Hoboken
Hackensack

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 02:01 (three years ago)

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2

― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 02:53 (three years ago)

Nels Cline
Nils Frahm

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 05:49 (three years ago)

Helen Andrews
Helen Lewis

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 January 2023 21:36 (three years ago)

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