Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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Kevin Ayers / Coyne

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

clem snide / howie beck

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Gilbert O' Sullivan & Gilbert & Sullivan.....s'true

― mzui, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

English Beat / London Beat

Talk to me about The Beat though, and I know exactly who you're on about.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Emerson Lake & Palmer / Electric Light Orchestra

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to get The Grateful Dead and Dead Can Dance confused.

― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

redbone/leon redbone
lucinda williams/victoria williams/some other williams lady i forget
patty griffin/patty griffins

and actually, the guys i always mix up with amon tobin are timo maas and timo ellis.

― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

and oh yeah:

boards of canada/of montreal/secretly canadian records

― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, it's PATTY GRIFFITHS. (or one of them is, anyway)

― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Auteurs and Au Pairs
Le Mans and Trans Am
Ween and Weezer

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought my first Nick Drake album, after confusing him for Nick Cave. An enviable mistake.

― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I Mother Earth/Our Lady Peace

Symmetrically similar names aside, both bands were (are?) also fairly boring '90s grunge-progsters, both were from around Toronto, and both made music that was largely forgettable (altho OLP's minor hit "Superman's Dead" was enjoyably annoying.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I always think of someone else when I see David Sylvian's name, but I don't know who. (NOT Syl Sylvain, although that seems like it would be a reasonable slip.)

Actually, I do have trouble keeping apart some of the NY Dolls/Dead Boys guys, and remembering who was in which band... Arthur Kane vs. Cheetah Chrome, etc.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

superpitcher and squarepusher

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

There's some band called the Apex Theory whose name always makes me momentarily think that I'm reading about the Aphex Twin.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Duster vs. Guster vs. Guther vs. Ganger vs. Guv'ner

I bet even the bands forgot which name they were.

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the orb/orbit/orbital/william orbit

― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the orb/orbit/orbital/william orbit

SO OTM.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Amon Tobin / Tobin Sprout
Imperial Teen / Imperial Drag. Both appeared then disappeared around the same time, both ex members or side projects of bigger bands, I still can't remember which was which.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Amon Duul/Amon Duul II

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The lesson of this thread: Obviously, the idea that each and every band should be allowed to choose a name to express their individuality MUST BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY in favor of mandatory seriial numbers.

"Mystic Chords of Memory, you say? Afraid not! You're Artist #24830329 now and forevermore."

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Modest Mouse / Mouse On Mars

For a while I thought Jandek and Janeck Shaeffer were the same person, but I was disabused of that notion recently.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yea, fo got about my fIREHOSE/Firehouse myopia.

― mzui, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Zero Zero and Zero 7 (actually bought a Zero 7 CD thinking it was Zero Zero awhile back on a quick record shopping trip)
Party Of Helicopters and The Birthday Party (The Wedding Present one doesn't confuse me though)

― MattR, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

R Kelly and Bobby Brown.

i dont know why i get them mixed up when their names aren't very similar. was whitney ever married to r kelly?

― lid, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Butterglory/Bunnygrunt/Mollycuddle/Mommyheads

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Billy Currington / Bucky Covington (just now realized these are two different guys)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

Sugarcubes/Sugababes

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:47 (sixteen years ago)

Sugababes/SigurRoss

― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

Bizarros/Rezillos
until last week i hadn't heard Bizarros. no longer mixed up

― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

The Strawbs / Strawberry Alarm Clock
Nashville Pussy / Pussy Galore
David Sylvian / Peter Murphy
Schubert / Schumann / Clara Schumann / William Schuman
Wilhelm Reich / Steve Reich, especially when people just say "Reich".
The Flying Burrito Brothers / The Flying Lizards / The Flying Luttenbachers

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

Also, I thought there was an unknown German kraut rock band called Noy for at least a year, until I put it together that they had been talking about Neu!.

And though I don't get them confused, I always have a moment of hesitation whenever I have to speak the name of a composer with a non-intuitively pronounced name: Penderecki, Gorecki, Reich, Boulez, Xenakis.

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

mink lungs / walt mink

― ian, Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

Sepultura/Pantera

― dlp9001, Saturday, 1 August 2009 01:31 (sixteen years ago)

I've been mixing up Kid Cudi and Kid Creole a lot lately.

― Kommen sie bitte und listen to Kraftwerk (EDB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)

I confuse anyone named Peter with any other guy named Peter.

― Department of Energy Department (u s steel), Saturday, 1 August 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

This year was really confusing until I realised that Florence and the Machine is not Flossie and the Unicorns.

I keep thinking that the Rentals are the Adverts, who in turn I apparently think are the Members.

EDB's post reminds me that I confuse Kid Creole and Kid Congo Powers, but not the other way round.

― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

I used to get the Adverts and ATV mixed up a bit.

― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

Donna Summer (the dj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-ts-nOn6Y
&
Donna Summer (the singer)

― ANML_, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

Oh and Simple Minds & Simply Red

― ANML_, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

Lounge Lizards - Flying Lizards

― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

Worst one for me is remembering which one of Swervedriver and Skrewdrive is the good shoegaze band and which is the presumably bad white supremacist band. Potential for awkward moments in that one now Swervedriver are gigging again!

― eskimo kisses, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

Ha, I've mixed those two up in conversation before.

― Kommen sie bitte und listen to Kraftwerk (EDB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

Anvil Bitch - Angel Witch

― xhuxk, Monday, 12 October 2009 03:32 (sixteen years ago)

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, August 1

hahaha

― meisenfek, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:53 (sixteen years ago)

Monoton and Monolake

― abanana, Monday, 12 October 2009 06:36 (sixteen years ago)

Unrest / Unwound

― scarlettgalaxian.jpg (los blue jeans), Monday, 12 October 2009 06:57 (sixteen years ago)

Performers with names that practically rhyme?

― anagram, Monday, 12 October 2009 09:06 (sixteen years ago)

"Modest Mouse / Mouse On Mars"
absolutely! which was the electronic and which the indie rock band again? i don't care for either of them.

i confused the replacements with another group but have forgotten which one. it wasn't the residents.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:31 (sixteen years ago)

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