Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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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 years ago) link

Amon Duul/Amon Duul II

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

mzui, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:28 (twenty years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Butterglory/Bunnygrunt/Mollycuddle/Mommyheads

Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

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

xhuxk, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Sugarcubes/Sugababes

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Sugababes/SigurRoss

Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link

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

outdoor_miner, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link

mink lungs / walt mink

ian, Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Sepultura/Pantera

dlp9001, Saturday, 1 August 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

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

ANML_, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh and Simple Minds & Simply Red

ANML_, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Lounge Lizards - Flying Lizards

J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

two months pass...

Anvil Bitch - Angel Witch

xhuxk, Monday, 12 October 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, August 1

hahaha

meisenfek, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Monoton and Monolake

abanana, Monday, 12 October 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Unrest / Unwound

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

Performers with names that practically rhyme?

anagram, Monday, 12 October 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link

"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 (fourteen years ago) link

Kid Creole / King Creosote

young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 October 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Fine Young Cannibals/Fun Lovin' Criminals

Hey mighty brontosaurus! (Boxing Kangaroo), Monday, 12 October 2009 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Roy Montgomery / Roy Buchanan

a╓by's (╓abies), Monday, 12 October 2009 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link

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

alex in mainhattan, Monday, 12 October 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link

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

anagram, Monday, 12 October 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link

Stone Temple Pilots/Young Marble Giants

surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 12 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Joe Sun / Joe South

xhuxk, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Momus/Matmos

mottdeterre, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link

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

mottdeterre, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

dark lotus / flying lotus

Dinosauciers (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Age of Chance/Art of Noise

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

mark e, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Cardiacs / Cardigans

Monophonic Spree (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link

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, 12 January 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Replacements/Descendents I bet

Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link


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?

Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

The Refreshments!!!

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link


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