― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
And NOFX/Bouncing Souls
― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
Lambchop/Lamb/Mountain Goats/a few other even toed hoofed mammals
― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
I'll make it a trifecta by putting the Sun City Girls into this mix of name confusion...i get all three mixed up.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
I think those are the right names.
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
oops, I left out Detox Darlings, or whatever they're called. They belong with these ones, too.
― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
Verve and Verve Pipe.
Stereolab and Stereophonics. Which shits me.
Baby Animals and Baby John Burgess
Van Halen and Sid Heylen.
David Byrne and David Boone.
Alice Cooper and Dr Harry Cooper.
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Monday, 19 April 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link
I have no patience, however, for people who confused Rocket From the Tombs with Rocket From the Crypt. That makes no sense to me at all!!
― chuck, Monday, 19 April 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
sad really; my mind.
― non-u, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
is that a genealogy?
― non-u, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
― mzui, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
Talk to me about The Beat though, and I know exactly who you're on about.
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
and actually, the guys i always mix up with amon tobin are timo maas and timo ellis.
― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
boards of canada/of montreal/secretly canadian records
― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
Symmetrically similar names aside, both bands were (are?) also fairly boring '90s grunge-progsters, both were from around Toronto, and both made music that was largely forgettable (altho OLP's minor hit "Superman's Dead" was enjoyably annoying.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
Actually, I do have trouble keeping apart some of the NY Dolls/Dead Boys guys, and remembering who was in which band... Arthur Kane vs. Cheetah Chrome, etc.
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
I bet even the bands forgot which name they were.
― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
SO OTM.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
"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
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
― mzui, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
― MattR, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
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 ClockNashville Pussy / Pussy GaloreDavid Sylvian / Peter MurphySchubert / Schumann / Clara Schumann / William SchumanWilhelm 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