Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

I get all of those old vocal groups mixed up - I usually recognise Platters songs as my dad played them a lot.

the thin red line
the thin blue line

The Spinners
The Weavers

who are in an entirely different genre but I still can never remember which is which

... aren't they in the same genre? There's another one:

The Peddlers

... a mystery of a band, nobody has ever listened to them since ca. 1972.

i used to have that with

the seekers
the searchers

and still have that problem sometimes with

the new lost city ramblers
the new christy minstrels

... aren't they in the same genre?

I meant The Detroit Spinners, who were called that in the UK to differentiate them from the folky Spinners. At least I think I meant them. I'm just confusing myself further with all this, I give up.

Midsommar
Midsomer Murders

Thank You for Smoking
I Love You Phillip Morris

Velvet Buzzsaw (movie)
Velvet Revolver (rock band)

(Things You Just Don't Care About Getting Mixed Up)

Velvet Goldmine (song and movie) conspicuously absent

Brian Dennehy and Charles Durning

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:55 AM

Brian Dennehy / every actor that looks like Brian Dennehy

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:34 PM

also i read an article in Premiere in about 1987 once about people getting Charles Durning and Brian Dennehy mixed up and have been doing it ever since.

― piscesx, Monday, February 7, 2011 12:07 PM

Just one more round, indulge me.

As posted on RIP thread:
Arnold Stang/Danny Goldman

Ha! I remember writing Dennehy in here but couldn't remember who I mixed him up with.

All I could think of was Charles Grodin, but thought that couldn't be right. (Too lazy to "show all" and search.)

Dennehy / Brian Cox (not that one)

Nora Ephron
Nora Roberts

Lynne Truss
Liz Truss

Brian Stableford
Brian Evenson

Beatrice Dillon
Beatrice Dalle

Cate Blanchett
Kate Winslet

Have never knowingly seen either in a movie tbf, just remember when both were peak famous at around the same time

That's impressive, they've both been in a ton of films.

gwen mcrae
gwen guthrie

^^^^

Jeff Chandler
Jeffey Hunter

... not very similar but both called Jeff and both died young.

... Jeffrey Hunter, of course.

unexpectedly sad when i discovered a couple of weeks ago gwen guthrie was no longer with us

(she died in 1999 so i've had ample time to discover this)

There's also Gwen Dickey, to add to the confusion.

everyone having different first names to help diminish mark and tom's befuddlement 2020 challenge

Indeed, when it comes to Jeff Chandler and Jeffrey Hunter, I always have to stop and ask myself which one was Jesus, and that would be Hunter - Chandler was too Jewish and looked like he'd wouldn't merely throw the money lenders out of the temple but give them a good doing in the process.

Finn Wittrock
Finn Wolfhard

Too Jewish to be Jeuus? xp

Worzel Gummidge
Catweazle

Probably because I never watched either of them when I was a kid, so they kind of blend into one in my non-memory of them.

(xp) Of course! Can't have a Jewish Jesus!

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf

This, on like a monthly basis.

Seeing Maj Sjöwall (R.I.P.) in the obituary thread gave rise to...

The Laughing Policeman
The Singing Detective

Might as well throw in "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith

This is very niche, in my world of underground electronic music, but:

Bassbear
Bearcat

Every single time.

Chaki
Lulu Gainsbourg

Frankie Valli / Frankie Avalon

Nathan Robinson
Nathan Fielder

This is a weird one but:

Amanda Palmer
Laura Palmer

I guess I only kind of barely know who Amanda Palmer is so whenever I see her name pop up somewhere I immediately think of Twin Peaks

The Eyes of Laura Palmer is one where I quickly shake my head and go, wait, that's not right.

Jeez, as if being brutally murdered and wrapped in plastic weren't bad enough

PPE
PPP

Daryl Hannah
Darrell Hammond

James Nesbitt
John Hannah

YES

My "who's that guy who's not John Hannah?" guy is Alan Cumming.

never even heard of John Hannah before, just thought James Nesbitt was in Four Weddings etc.

Yeah, and I've forever thought it was Hannah in Cold Feet.