Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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I don't know how this started considering the names are only similar in the vaguest ways (so this may be cheating a little) but or some reason since I learned of the two groups I've consisently confused The Flaming Lips and The Legendary Pink Dots.
Got much better at distinguishing the two more recently but for a good long time whenever one was brought up I thought the other was being reffered to.

Lyarrah, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 18:19 (eleven months ago) link

Acid King and Acid Witch

so much so that Acid Witch was announced at Hell in the Harbor festival, and I'd been spending time with Acid KING'S new album and old albums over the last few months only to realize TODAY it's ACID WITCH, NOT KING

the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 May 2023 17:29 (eleven months ago) link

five months pass...

these arms are snakes
this bike is a pipe bomb

brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 19:31 (five months ago) link

Weezer, Wheatus and Ween. Ridiculous, I know.

JifMoose, Friday, 10 November 2023 18:57 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

Totally get Weezer and Ween, since I've never listened to either and they're both alt rock from the 90s.

I have just realized that Eddie Chacon is not Eddie Marcon

Nabozo, Saturday, 16 December 2023 11:33 (four months ago) link

Pitchfork's 2023 album list has both Yeule and Yaeji in the top 15
Even google's auto-correct gets those two mixed up.

enochroot, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:13 (four months ago) link

Khanate
Krallice

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 17 December 2023 14:06 (four months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Do you think this young band chose the name as a tribute? Or are they unaware (or just don’t care) about the precedent?:

https://teenjesusandthejeanteasers.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-you

Godzilla Minus Zero/No Limit (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 06:19 (three months ago) link

that seems like sufficiently obvious obnoxiousness that it could be discovered without awareness of precedent.

bendy, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 20:37 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

Hannah Peel
Hannah Wants
Hannah Diamond

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 14:18 (two months ago) link

Vanishing Twin
Twin Shadow
Vatican Shadow
probably about 5 others I never realize are different artists when I see them mentioned somewhere

silverfish, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 15:30 (two months ago) link

Well I just learned those are different things too

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 15:34 (two months ago) link

Hannah Georgas (musician)
Hannah Giorgis (writer for the Atlantic)

I don't get them mixed up I just have to run a mental subroutine to verify which Hannah I'm reading about

a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:14 (two months ago) link

Alida Valli
Ida Galli

Josefa, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:15 (two months ago) link

^ those are actresses bc I forgot which thread this was

Josefa, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:23 (two months ago) link

I mixed up Mother Mother and Moor Mother the other day

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:31 (two months ago) link

People are really bad at coming up with band names aren't they

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:37 (two months ago) link

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but for years I sorta ignored - very foolishly and to my detriment, it turns out - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, because I was confusing them with emo band Sleeptime Trio (who were pretty good as I recall, just not really my thing these days)

Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link

I realised today that, even though I should know better because they're all very much in my wheelhouse and they're all actually pretty different and based in different countries, I often conflate:

Sho Madjozi
Toya Delazy
Tkay Mdaiza

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link


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