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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

Steely Dan/Steeley Span

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link

whoops, Steeleye Span

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

A vast error, Aja. Vast.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I always get Easyworld and Clearlake confused.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link

I know!!!

My grandma got them mixed up too!

Wow...

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link

xpost

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Mogwai and Slint.

SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.

― Leee O'Ironic (Leee), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― tessa, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

::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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link

::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 (fifteen years ago) link

...or Killer Joe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link

...or Killing Time

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I still do.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Hives and Vines. Them too.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I still do.

Wow.

I don't anymore.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

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

Neal Halstead and Neil Hagerty, for some reason.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

Califone and Calexico.

― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

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

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

Jawbox and Jawbreaker on more than one occasion.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Yes, they're a classic example.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Jawbox/Jawbreaker I mean.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Plastikman and Plasticman
Tricky and Tricky Disco and Trick Daddy

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Manet: Monet

― Artists I Mix Up, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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Erroll Garner and Mal Waldron, for some reason. They're both pianists/composers, but their names aren't similar, apart from r's and l's. I even listened to one of them today, as part of an Eric Dolphy box, and I can't remember which one.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 April 2015 03:31 (four years ago) link

Black Dice
Black Keys

This one confused me for quite a while. I couldn't reckon how the noisy and alienating band I once heard in person had managed to become so beloved and commercially successful

― Josefa, Saturday, 25 April 2015 03:46 (four years ago) link

That is exactly what happened to me. I saw Black Dice live and a little while later saw them being celebrated. I never gave Black Keys a proper listen thinking they were the noisy alienating band I saw.

― mintap, Saturday, 25 April 2015 05:09 (four years ago) link

Crystal Castles
Crystal Antlers
The Antlers

― alpine static, Saturday, 25 April 2015 05:10 (four years ago) link

Inquisition
Tribulation

― alpine static, Saturday, 25 April 2015 05:10 (four years ago) link

Bruce Springsteen
Buffalo Springfield

― Poliopolice, Saturday, 25 April 2015 13:31 (four years ago) link

The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslamp Killer

(just had to check to make sure I hadn't written a mix of each one's name)

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Sunday, 3 May 2015 16:07 (four years ago) link

The wideboys
The wiseguys

― the finest of display names? o rly (wins), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:29 (four years ago) link

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Fisher

― Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:49 (four years ago) link

the brian jonestown massacre
the jon spencer blues explosion

― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:50 (four years ago) link

Ceremony
Coliseum
Converge (to a lesser extent)

― alpine static, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:12 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

Faust and Feist

― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 August 2015 17:58 (four years ago) link

I remember someone confusing Isla StClair and Eyeless in Gaza once.

― Mark G, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:37 (four years ago) link

Dead Weather
Deafheaven

― how's life, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:38 (four years ago) link

As a kid I thought U2 was an abbreviation of 2 Unlimited, and they were the same band

(I've since sent an apology letter to 2 Unlimited)

― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:08 (four years ago) link

Not all that similar I guess but I used to always mix up Dirty Projectors/New Pornographers (both dirty and film related?)

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:12 (four years ago) link

four months pass...

Silverchair/Chairlift

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:00 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

Gary Burton / Burton Greene

― Wimmels, Monday, 7 March 2016 05:02 (three years ago) link

slint and sloan

― diana krallice (rushomancy), Monday, 7 March 2016 11:47 (three years ago) link

Momus/Matmos
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Michaelangelo Matos / Matmos

― Mark G, Monday, 7 March 2016 13:36 (three years ago) link

Wild Beasts/Wild Nothing
Wild Beasts/West Coast

(not West Coast/Wild Nothing tho)

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 7 March 2016 13:38 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

White Fence / White Denim
(probably mentioned upthread)

― Wimmels, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:33 (three years ago) link

Vic Mensa / Vince Staples

― MarkoP, Friday, 8 April 2016 17:47 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Cass McCombs and Connan Mockasin

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 17:58 (three years ago) link

Cass McCombs and Gaz Coombs

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:41 (three years ago) link

six months pass...

Peaches Geldof was *not* the musician Peaches? Well, that explains that.

― sbahnhof, Sunday, 11 December 2016 09:40 (three years ago) link

Besnard Lakes : Barenaked Ladies

Srsly how do you name your band "besnard lakes" unless you live under a rock

― calstars, Sunday, 11 December 2016 20:07 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

emptyset / emptiness

― Dinsdale, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:11 (three years ago) link

cLOUDDEAD/Cloud Nothings

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 23 January 2017 20:53 (three years ago) link

eleven months pass...

It just hit me that I'd been mistaking Japanese Breakfast for Half Japanese all this time.

― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:16 (two years ago) link

Superchunk / Supertramp

American Football / Modern Baseball

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:26 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

Rush / DJ Rush / Dasha Rush / Jana Rush / Dana Ruh

― ed.b, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 15:24 (seven months ago) link

Don't forget Ed Rush

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:36 (seven months ago) link

McCarthy / mclusky

― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:35 (seven months ago) link

Mac Miller/Mac DeMarco

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:00 (seven months ago) link

vini reilly / vic chesnutt

― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:31 (seven months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bill Evans and Gil Evans are both great, but it took me forever to work out which was which.

― enochroot, Friday, 2 August 2019 13:16 (six months ago) link

Alva Noto / Aldo Nova

― henry s, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:43 (six months ago) link

I kept getting Dua Lipa and Rita Ora absolutely mixed up for a while.

― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Friday, 2 August 2019 15:52 (six months ago) link

Nick Nicely / Nick Garrie

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:00 (six months ago) link

Rita Ora / Rita Indiana

― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:27 (six months ago) link

Steve Moore (of Zombi) / Steve Moore (of Earth, Sunn O>>> etc)

― crumhorn invasion (Matt #2), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:32 (six months ago) link

Charly Bliss / Charly Black

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:27 (six months ago) link

I sometimes think of Rita Lee from Os Mutantes when I see Rita Ora's name

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:28 (six months ago) link

The corniest songs of 1999 poll was won by LFO, who I always thought were a British bleep techno band from the 90's, so I'm thinking how corny could that song be, really?
I only just now learned that there are actually two LFO's, and one of them is an american boy band.

― enochroot, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:38 (six months ago) link

ONUKA / ODESZA.

Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...

(posted this on the general thread, but it belongs here)

― breastcrawl, Thursday, 8 August 2019 05:44 (six months ago) link

two months pass...

Sun Ra / Pharoah Sanders

― enochroot, Monday, 28 October 2019 11:58 (three months ago) link

Norma Winstone / Norma Waterson

― fetter, Monday, 28 October 2019 12:31 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

Randys Crawford and Newman, in the past, although I've got a pretty good handle on them now.