Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Alex Horne
Matthew Horne

Dennis Smalley
Roger Smalley

keir dullea
udo keir

i mean i think i've just never bothered to distinguish them, i was going to make a joek abt the star child in 2001 and the freaky udo-baby in the kingdom but it very much depends on them being one person not two

It Ain't Me Babe
I Got You Babe

The latter was a conscious re-write (rip-off) of the former!

That would make sense. I just realized this morning that I'd been skipping over the Turtles' cover of Dylan's song because I assumed it was the Sonny & Cher one.

OMG

Unlike my other contributions to this thread, this pair (who will mean nothing to people outside the British Isles) have actually lived in my head as the same person, said head troubled only by the fact that they seem to have two very different faces. I'd put this down to one being a jokey avatar on social media that I didn't get.

Paul Lewis, financial journalist
Martin Lewis, financial journalist

In the mid 80s I was just learning about the world and the people in it, and was very confused about why two of the most famous people had almost the same name, even though they were completely different people.

Madonna
Maradona

Managed to remember which was which by the age of 8, so all worked out fine.

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The Asphalt Jungle
Blackboard Jungle

Wet Leg
Dry Cleaning

Not sure why exactly, but on seeing them both appear on the same end of year list I've realized that I mentally classified these two names as being the same band. Now I'm not sure if I've actually heard both of them.

you’re not missing much

Mint Condition
New Edition

Tom Lehrer
Allan Sherman

Steve Khan
Steve Kuhn

Steve Kroon as well

the roches
the mcgarrigles

the roches
the mcgarrigles

I'll bet Loudon Wainwright gets them mixed up sometimes

Oof!

well, yeah

Probably a song or two about it

I Got Their Names Wrong Again

Add the Nields

Don Bluth
Dom Deluise

Until recently:

Bill Callahan
Bill Orcutt

reticent vs reluctance really has to stop

How about nonparallel construction?

Nonparallel
Nonpareil

I have this theory that The Beatles sing the word "nonpareil" with a weird accent in their version of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" but I stand kind of alone with this theory. Maybe someone else even presented it to me long ago, but they are not around to comment.

Bruce Campbell
Kyle MacLachlan

'80s chin men.

Elvis Costello albums I haven't heard:

Brutal Youth
When I Was Cruel

Fine Young Cannibals
10,000 Maniacs

Chutes Too Narrow
Oh, Inverted World

Trix
Kix
Nesquik
Tang

Millie Small
Little Eva

Charlie Rich
Buddy Rich

Anchises
Ascanius
Achates

(father, son and best buddy of Aeneas, respectively)

The Pink Fairies
The Pretty Things

Puddle of Mudd
Mudvayne

Puddle of Mudd
POD (Payable On Death?)

I thought both were "Christian Rock" but PoM's wiki doesn't mention it.

Nils Lofgren
Nels Cline

Sunny Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney

the killing of a sacred deer
dragging a dead deer up a hill

Hoboken
Hackensack

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2

Nels Cline
Nils Frahm

Helen Andrews
Helen Lewis

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