Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Chad & Jeremy
Peter & Gordon ("A World Without Love")

^ this led me to ask myself, "did jan & dean ever make a psychedelic record?" sort of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Sound

xp

The other day a friend mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughan in a context that really confused me until I realized I was actually thinking of Steve Vai.

Also The Jesus Lizard and Half Japanese, apparently.

Uh. Yngwie Malmsteen and Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

Yeah I think I've been making the Stevie Ray Vaughn / Steve Vai mistake in my head for a long time

This is a wild one to me, but I was immersed in the world of guitar heroics as a youth.

greta gerwig
greta thunberg

Adam Mars-Jones
Andrew O'Hagan

Jan And Dean and Ben And Jerry. Obviously I know the difference but subconsciously they're the same , the association goes:

Jan and Dean -> Pearl and Dean -> going to "the cinemas" as a kid -> buying icecream in tubs -> Ben and Jerry

Stuart Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Tough on Rupert.

recently realised I've been confusing Jandek and Daniel Johnson for years.

Handel
Haydn

Labi Siffre
Salif keita
tthink I do know them apart but I seem to have Labi Siffre's name stuck in my head and can't think Salif keita

Schubert
Schumann

Dwight Twilley
Greg Kihn

madeline (ludwig bemelmans)
matilda (roald dahl)

Yes!

Stephen Graham - some fucken very melty history podcast type who talks a lot of shite.
Stephen Graham - scouse actor who I mistaken for ^^^ a few times despite him lacking a blue tick!

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Ray Harryhausen

I confess I had until this moment not separated Nate Cohn and Nate Silver in my mind.

Budd Dwyer
Larry "Bud" Melman

Dana Loesch
Dana Bash

embarrassing reveal of musical blind spots, but

Steam
Squeeze
Suede

as in, wait, that band that did "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" or wait, was it "Tempted," idg how they were britpop rivals of Blur and Oasis

I used to mix up Patrice Rushen and Patrick Moraz because one of the former’s early solo albums has proggy cover art so I thought “oh yeah, keyboardist from Relayer”

Blootered, waiting for the late night bus on a Friday night in George Square:

Faifley
Paisley

Reminded by a question on Pointless today: every time I try to think of the name of the US flagmaker Betsy Ross, I come up with the name of the actress Fannie Flagg, and cannot get any further than that. Not exactly "getting them mixed up", just an incredibly stupid quirk of my brain.

Marisa Tomei
Minnie Driver

Imogen Heap/Poots

Mackenzie Crook
Mackenzie Davis

Kit Harington (Jon Snow)
Christopher Abbott (Charlie from "Girls")

skinny puppy
snarky puppy

“Big” Don Abernathy
Dandy Don Weiner

conlon nancarrow
nuno canavarro

Mark Helprin
Mark Haddon

Graham Parker
Graham Bond

the latter is long gone and was an absolute headcase, it's ridic to get them mixed really but I do.

Thaddeus McCotter
Trey Gowdy
Tom Cotton

I start out vaguely aware that these are different guys with different career trajectories but then I remember I don't fucking care

Hal Ketchum (RIP yesterday)
Hal Needham (RIP 2013)

^
Hank Ketchum (RIP 2001)

Heinz Ketchup (long live)

Matthew Sweet
Matthew Dear

When I see them I'm easily able to identify them, but for some reason when I try to mentally picture which of them was in what movie, I often confuse Martin Landau and Frank Langella.

Like just this moment, when I checked to confirm my certainty that Langella played Lugosi in Ed Wood. Nope. They don't even look that much alike, ffs. I don't know what my problem is.

Maybe this?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTg3YmEwNjItZDdhYS00ODIzLTg5YzAtOGNhNTBhYWM0ZmEyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_UY1200_CR86,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

I used to get Raul Julia and Frank Langella mixed up, don't know if I ever posted that.

You guys forgot author Jack Ketchum.

Olivia Newton-John and Sheena Easton

turns out I've been mixing Scott Glenn and David Carradine up a lot.

Maxine Waters
Crystal Waters

The Sundays
The Runaways
The Go-Betweens
The Smithereens

George Plimpton
Bill Plympton