Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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Black Grape / Moby Grape
Minutemen / Meatmen

― alan r. banana (alanbanana), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I always get Built to Spill and Guided by Voices mixed up.

Built by Voices? Guided to Spill?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The fact that I think both bands are mind-crushingly dull doesn't help.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

it always takes me a second to remember who is petey pablo and who is pastor troy.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Steely Dan/Steeley Span

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops, Steeleye Span

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to get New Order and Depechemode mixed up.

Names are very different, but for some reason, I thought they were the same band.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

A vast error, Aja. Vast.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I always get Easyworld and Clearlake confused.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I know!!!

My grandma got them mixed up too!

Wow...

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai and Slint.

SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.

― Leee O'Ironic (Leee), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no way I'm getting Franz Ferdinan (or whatever) and Franz Stahl mixed up.

Franz Stahl is way better!!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to say Mindless Self Indulgence when I mean Stabbing Westward, go figure.

― tessa, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Once I got Jane's Addiction mixed up with the Shins and my mom yelled at me.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

::sigh::

Do the words "Jane's Addiction" and "Shins" sound even remotely similar? This isn't about their music, it's about how similar the respective names are.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wedding Present. / The Birthday Party.

It doesn't make any sense to confuse those two, and yet, it does.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i am ashamed to say that i always do a double take before referring to one of either terry or teddy riley

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it does make sense. Gedge named his band The Wedding Present as he was a fan of the Birthday Party (though you'd never know it from listening to their respective musics).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Gluecifer/Jucifer. I love Jucifer, never heard Gluecifer.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

::sigh::
Do the words "Jane's Addiction" and "Shins" sound even remotely similar? This isn't about their music, it's about how similar the respective names are.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), April 18th, 2004 11:09 AM.

Oh, like getting Killing Heidi and Killing Joke mixed up?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

...or Killer Joe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

...or Killing Time

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the Hives and the Vines. I almost did, but not quite

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I still do.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Hives and Vines. Them too.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I still do.

Wow.

I don't anymore.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Vines, Hives, Vives, Hines....all the same shit. The Hives are a better band, but it's not like they're particularly breaking any new ground or anything.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I continue to confuse Rocket from the Crypt and Rocket from the Tombs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

What if someone got New Found Glory and New Order mixed up?

That would be so sad. I'd laugh at them!!!

I think once I thought Bens Folds Five was Five For Fighting and I thought Five For Fighting were Tears For Fears. I think I've finally got it right though.

Oh, my mom has something from Rocket from the Tombs.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I get Rockets from the Tombs / Crypt confused, too, in a "flipping-through-CDs-and-going-'hey, what's that? / Oh, fuck, it's them again'" kind of way. Sometimes I get Toni and Anthony Braxton confused, but I take it in better spirits.

― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I mix up the Detroit Cobras and the Dirtbombs a lot.

Also, the Von Bondies and the Dandy Warhols. It's all the same to me.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't help matters when the Thrills insist upon pronouncing their name as the Trills.
Not that matters such as this matter much.

― non-u, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What if someone got New Found Glory and New Order mixed up?

They're not fit to enjoy the benefits of oxygen.

Thrills, Chills and isn't there a band called The Kills too?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a fan of Destroyer, Pig Destroyer, and Destroyer666. Can't say I ever confuse them though.

I do confuse Robert Palmer and Robert Plant when talking about either of them, though, which is dumb.

And I still don't know the difference between Corey Hart and John Waite.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

And I still don't know the difference between Corey Hart and John Waite.

Well, Corey wears sunglasses at night.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Rocket from the Crypt ought to be confused at every available opportunity.

― non-u, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Neal Halstead and Neil Hagerty, for some reason.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to get the Mekons and the Membranes confused, but don't seem to have that problem anymore.

The last few years or so.

*sigh*

― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Califone and Calexico.

― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

in spoken language !!! and Tok-Tok have caused embarassing misunderstandings, even sporadic fist violence.

― non-u, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Jawbox and Jawbreaker on more than one occasion.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony and Toni Braxton. That was confusing for about a week.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, they're a classic example.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Jawbox/Jawbreaker I mean.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Plastikman and Plasticman
Tricky and Tricky Disco and Trick Daddy

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Manet: Monet

― Artists I Mix Up, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wolf Eyes Black Eyes Black Dice Wolf Parade AIDS Wolf Black Lips

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

GBV and MBV, but only in acronym form. Makes for some very confusing posts.

Replacements and Rembrandts, upon a time. I was aghast for a while that the 'Mats had reformed just to make the 'Friends' theme, before I realized my error.

Phil Collins/Peter Gabriel, because they're both overbearing ponces.

There's a band like Six By Seven that's Six From Seven or something, that I get mixed up with.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to mix up Townes Van Zandt and Van Dyke Parks a lot. I mean, not the music, but those triple name things.

And because Pig Destroyer did a track called "Black Dice" every time I see something about Black Dice I have to take a second to remember that they're not Pig Destroyer. If you see what I mean.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 10 April 2025 17:04 (one year ago)

again:

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