Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

Sugababes/SigurRoss

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

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

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.

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

mink lungs / walt mink

Sepultura/Pantera

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

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

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.

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

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

Oh and Simple Minds & Simply Red

Lounge Lizards - Flying Lizards

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!

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

Anvil Bitch - Angel Witch

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, August 1

hahaha

Monoton and Monolake

Unrest / Unwound

Performers with names that practically rhyme?

"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.

Kid Creole / King Creosote

Fine Young Cannibals/Fun Lovin' Criminals

Roy Montgomery / Roy Buchanan

Neutral Milk Hotel / Three Mile Pilot
three word bands are just too much for my little brain...

Age of Chance/Art of Noise
Anthony Braxton/Toni Braxton

Stone Temple Pilots/Young Marble Giants

Joe Sun / Joe South

Momus/Matmos

June Christy/Chris Conner

If I hear one of them "blind" I always have give it a few seconds to figure out if its June or Chris

That's a good one. One minor thing: It's Connor.
Ron Affif/Roni Ben-Hur

dark lotus / flying lotus

Age of Chance/Art of Noise

even more confusing for some, given that they both covered Kiss.

Cardiacs / Cardigans

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 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Go-Betwewens?

Replacements/Descendents I bet

I was trying to remember which soundalike I confused with Flying Lotus. Turns out it was White Rainbow. Not sure where I'm coming from with that one.

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 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Go-Betwewens?

― Mark G, Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Replacements/Descendents I bet

― Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:54 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Rembrandts?

The Refreshments!!!

edan / esham

Eddie Rabbit / Eddy Raven / Kenny Rankin / Trevor Rabin

for some reason.... Jobraith and Bohannon.....

laughing hands / flaming hands

Leigh Stephens / Leith Stevens

Five Blind Boys Of Alabama / Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi

Diamond Reo / Diamond Rio

AC Temple/AC Newman

John McLaughlin/Jon McLaughlin

Manitoba / Handsome Dick Manitoba, apparently.

I used to really mix up Marissa Nadler and Nina Nastasia... thought they were the same person!