Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

Built by Voices? Guided to Spill?

Names are very different, but for some reason, I thought they were the same band.

My grandma got them mixed up too!

Wow...

SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.

Franz Stahl is way better!!!

Do the words "Jane's Addiction" and "Shins" sound even remotely similar? This isn't about their music, it's about how similar the respective names are.

It doesn't make any sense to confuse those two, and yet, it does.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), April 18th, 2004 11:09 AM.

Oh, like getting Killing Heidi and Killing Joke mixed up?

Wow.

I don't anymore.

That would be so sad. I'd laugh at them!!!

I think once I thought Bens Folds Five was Five For Fighting and I thought Five For Fighting were Tears For Fears. I think I've finally got it right though.

Oh, my mom has something from Rocket from the Tombs.

Also, the Von Bondies and the Dandy Warhols. It's all the same to me.

They're not fit to enjoy the benefits of oxygen.

Thrills, Chills and isn't there a band called The Kills too?

I do confuse Robert Palmer and Robert Plant when talking about either of them, though, which is dumb.

And I still don't know the difference between Corey Hart and John Waite.

Well, Corey wears sunglasses at night.

The last few years or so.

*sigh*

Replacements and Rembrandts, upon a time. I was aghast for a while that the 'Mats had reformed just to make the 'Friends' theme, before I realized my error.

Phil Collins/Peter Gabriel, because they're both overbearing ponces.

There's a band like Six By Seven that's Six From Seven or something, that I get mixed up with.

And because Pig Destroyer did a track called "Black Dice" every time I see something about Black Dice I have to take a second to remember that they're not Pig Destroyer. If you see what I mean.

Also the Vines and the Hives.

(I used to conflate Bill Callaghan and Will Oldham, but that was justifiable confusion given how bastard often Oldham changes his stagename. honest.)

It would probably help if I had any of these in my collection.

Same here, that's why I was amazed when Van Dyke Parks ended up working with Brian Wilson again. I was thinking, "but isn't he dead?"

it's the 'The St...s' thing I tell you. What's with all these bands with names that have similar shapes?

Modest Mouse and Mouse on Mars

Akercocke and Agalloch

And as a teenager I thought for a while that Chuck Dukowski from Black Flag had a side career writing gritty literature about drunks in LA. Did I have him confused with Bukowski, or Henry Rollins?

I know which one's which. Kaito's from Norwich and has gurls in it, and Cayto are mad Scottish types. But when they come up in conversation, it gets very confusing indeed.

and if you throw Cato into the conversation as well...

(just the airplane theme and the fact that I used to confuse their old bands - Jawbox and Jawbreaker as Aja mentioned)

For me it was always Built to Spill and Shudder to Think.

And I think there are about four different techno guys named Amon or Tobin who I always think are the same person, plus one in Cibo Matto, but I forget their names right now.

Also, Atlanta Rhythm Section/Amazing Rhythm Aces always confounded me.

And yeah Jawbox/Jawbreaker; I will third or fourth or fifth that one.

There are many more, which I may remember eventually.

And NOFX/Bouncing Souls

Lambchop/Lamb/Mountain Goats/a few other even toed hoofed mammals

I'll make it a trifecta by putting the Sun City Girls into this mix of name confusion...i get all three mixed up.

I think those are the right names.

oops, I left out Detox Darlings, or whatever they're called. They belong with these ones, too.

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.

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!!

sad really; my mind.

is that a genealogy?

Talk to me about The Beat though, and I know exactly who you're on about.

and actually, the guys i always mix up with amon tobin are timo maas and timo ellis.

boards of canada/of montreal/secretly canadian records

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.)

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.

I bet even the bands forgot which name they were.

SO OTM.

"Mystic Chords of Memory, you say? Afraid not! You're Artist #24830329 now and forevermore."

For a while I thought Jandek and Janeck Shaeffer were the same person, but I was disabused of that notion recently.

i dont know why i get them mixed up when their names aren't very similar. was whitney ever married to r kelly?

Billy Currington / Bucky Covington (just now realized these are two different guys)

Sugarcubes/Sugababes

Sugababes/SigurRoss

Bizarros/Rezillos
until last week i hadn't heard Bizarros. no longer mixed up

The Strawbs / Strawberry Alarm Clock
Nashville Pussy / Pussy Galore
David Sylvian / Peter Murphy
Schubert / Schumann / Clara Schumann / William Schuman
Wilhelm Reich / Steve Reich, especially when people just say "Reich".
The Flying Burrito Brothers / The Flying Lizards / The Flying Luttenbachers

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.

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

mink lungs / walt mink

Sepultura/Pantera

I've been mixing up Kid Cudi and Kid Creole a lot lately.

I confuse anyone named Peter with any other guy named Peter.

This year was really confusing until I realised that Florence and the Machine is not Flossie and the Unicorns.

I keep thinking that the Rentals are the Adverts, who in turn I apparently think are the Members.

EDB's post reminds me that I confuse Kid Creole and Kid Congo Powers, but not the other way round.

I used to get the Adverts and ATV mixed up a bit.

Donna Summer (the dj)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-ts-nOn6Y
&
Donna Summer (the singer)

Oh and Simple Minds & Simply Red

Lounge Lizards - Flying Lizards

Worst one for me is remembering which one of Swervedriver and Skrewdrive is the good shoegaze band and which is the presumably bad white supremacist band. Potential for awkward moments in that one now Swervedriver are gigging again!

Ha, I've mixed those two up in conversation before.

Anvil Bitch - Angel Witch

Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh

― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, August 1

hahaha

Monoton and Monolake

Unrest / Unwound

Performers with names that practically rhyme?

"Modest Mouse / Mouse On Mars"
absolutely! which was the electronic and which the indie rock band again? i don't care for either of them.

i confused the replacements with another group but have forgotten which one. it wasn't the residents.

Kid Creole / King Creosote

Fine Young Cannibals/Fun Lovin' Criminals

Roy Montgomery / Roy Buchanan

Neutral Milk Hotel / Three Mile Pilot
three word bands are just too much for my little brain...

Age of Chance/Art of Noise
Anthony Braxton/Toni Braxton

Stone Temple Pilots/Young Marble Giants

Joe Sun / Joe South

Momus/Matmos

June Christy/Chris Conner

If I hear one of them "blind" I always have give it a few seconds to figure out if its June or Chris

That's a good one. One minor thing: It's Connor.
Ron Affif/Roni Ben-Hur

dark lotus / flying lotus

Age of Chance/Art of Noise

even more confusing for some, given that they both covered Kiss.

Cardiacs / Cardigans

i confused the replacements with another group but have forgotten which one. it wasn't the residents.

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The Go-Betwewens?

Replacements/Descendents I bet

I was trying to remember which soundalike I confused with Flying Lotus. Turns out it was White Rainbow. Not sure where I'm coming from with that one.

i confused the replacements with another group but have forgotten which one. it wasn't the residents.

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The Go-Betwewens?

― Mark G, Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Replacements/Descendents I bet

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The Rembrandts?

The Refreshments!!!

edan / esham

Eddie Rabbit / Eddy Raven / Kenny Rankin / Trevor Rabin

for some reason.... Jobraith and Bohannon.....

laughing hands / flaming hands

Leigh Stephens / Leith Stevens

Five Blind Boys Of Alabama / Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi

Diamond Reo / Diamond Rio

AC Temple/AC Newman

John McLaughlin/Jon McLaughlin

Manitoba / Handsome Dick Manitoba, apparently.

I used to really mix up Marissa Nadler and Nina Nastasia... thought they were the same person!

Used to confuse Sensational Alex Harvey Band with Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel, who I also used to confuse with Cockney Rejects

Can't believe I'm first with this one:

School of Seven Bells
Voice of the Seven Woods/Thunders

+ Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

As has become evident on another thread somewhere up in here, I get the Pink bands confused: Pink Reason, Pink Noise, Pink I-Think-There's-a-Couple-More...

The Big Pink
Pink Swords

Ariel Pink

Flux of Pink Indiebands

Loose Ends / Loose Joints

Steve Khan / Steve Kuhn

Deerhhof and Deerhoof

Wolf Eyes Black Eyes Black Dice Wolf Parade AIDS Wolf Black Lips

And now Wolf People ffs.

Loose Ends / Loose Joints

Loose Lips Sink Ships

John Cale
JJ Cale
John Cage

unfortunate show experience on the weekend.

a friend and I have a tiresome running joke [via Obvious jokes/puns that people always make as though they were the first persons to think of them] about a sitcom where those three musicians rent a house together

the JJ cage?

Sly Stone and Sly Fox. Especially their music.

Steve Khan / Steve Kuhn

not artists, but i constantly forget "dream pop" is different than "sunshine pop" and am disappointed by the lack of buoyant fifth dimension & turtles songs

This includes band names and album names:
Soft Machine, The Soft Boys, The Soft Bulletin, The Soft Parade, The Soft Pink Truth, The Big Pink, Music From the Big Pink

Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis

Deadly Snakes and Detroit Cobras

Friendly Fires and Fleet Foxes

Orb/Orbital/William Orbit

All the bands with 'bear' in the name - panda bear, seabear, grizzly bear etc

Mouse bands, too, while I'm here - modest mouse, mouse on mars etc

Modest Mussorgski on Mars

ooof now you're really confusing me, Mark

Mojave 3, Spacemen 3, Secret Chiefs 3

Don Williams and Don Gibson

Beach House and Best Coast

David Lasley / David Lindley

A lot of these seem to be instances where the spelling or names are similar.

Not me (of course), but many people think Robert Palmer and Robert Plant are the same guy.
It's easy to get Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams mixed up because of the similar spelling.

Amerie, Ciara, Cassie, Toya, Kandi, Lil' Mo and Nivea are interchangeable artists in the same genre.
Allure, Xscape, Brownstone, Total and SWV were all similar and interchangeable and easy to mix up as well.

Don Felder / Don Fagen

Fairport Convention/Fairground Attraction

Beach House, Beach Fossils

like neither.

Dwight Twilley
Mink DeVille

yeah, I know it don't make no sense

Atlanta Rhythm Section
Amazing Rhythm Aces

makes more sense

also:

Lobo
Poco

Beach House / Best Coast

embrace, idlewild, athlete, starsailor, travis, keane,

I just realized that I never listened to Hauschka before and it's all Devotchka's fault.

bardo pond / bevis frond

woah, I didn't even realize until just now.

Arto Lindsay and David Lindley.

arto lindsay and lindsay lohan

zu/zs

deer(hoof/hunter)

David Lynch and whoever that other Lynch chick not a director is. Ok, I guess I can actually distinguish between them. It's just whenever I see the other Lynch the first image that pops up in my mind is David and then .00052 seconds later I realize it's a reference to the other.

Paul Young (Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics) and Paul Young ("Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back And Stay" and so on) tend to be mixed up a lot for obvious reasons. The latter was even mourned in various places when they former died.

Also tend to mix up Anthrax and Megadeth, probably for partly the same reasons why some have Built To Spill and Guided By Voices mixed up.

Vandenberg / Vanderhoof

Pete Yorn / David Yow

embarrassed myself the other week by mixing up Guy with Joe

tender trap/tiger trap/temper trap

Not similar names but: The National, Deerhunter and Menomena are basically all jumbled up in the same drawer in my brain.

Not like I mix'em up, but I still like this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1Frr4OcRc

:)

Deerhoof and Deerhunter mix me up the most. I even went to see a show that Deerhunter headlined and I still don't really remember who they are.

sun city girls/vivian girls/dum dum girls

when I was a kid I thought Tone Loc was a member of Tony! Toni! Tone! and was crushed when I found out I was wrong

Fantomas / Grupo Fantasma

sun city girls/vivian girls/dum dum girls

― gman59, Monday, 7 February 2011 23:28 (2 days ago) Bookmark

maybe you wanna add spice girls to that?

Unsane / Unrest

hate this ^:

there are multiple artists with this name:
1. An American indie rock band
2. A German heavy metal band
3. An American grindcore band
4. An American hardcore band
5. A Bulgarian crust band

Sun Araw / Sun Airway

Dirty Blondes / Dirty Beaches / Beach House

Nikka Costa and Nina Sky for some reason.

Baths/Braids

The Strokes / my bowel movements

I continue to confuse Rocket from the Crypt and Rocket from the Tombs.

I think I may occasionally get the 2 names confused when saying them, wrong last word coming out> but I certainly know which is which,
One of my fav tshirts is the red The Day The Earth Met The
or rather two of my, since I got sent a free tshirt when Jim Jones being ill delayed an order from the Ubu boutique.

Got several tracks from the lp on my walkman too.
Not heard much RFTCrypt.

Paul Young (Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics) and Paul Young ("Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back And Stay" and so on)

Those two and also John Paul Young ("Love Is In The Air")

Modest Mouse/Danger Mouse

Velvet Crush/Velvet Revolver (but never Velvet Underground)

The Hives, The Bees, The Bird and the Bee

Every band with the word "deer" in it's name.

'cept Deerhoof. I like Deerhoof.

Spiderbait/Nunbait/Christbait

Powederfinger/Powdermonkeys

I don't think I've ever actually heard Rocket from the Crypt, but I still manage to say the wrong name in conversation.

I've also frequently confused John Cale/John Peel in conversation, and once John Cale and Sterling Morrison, oy.

John Cale and John Cage, I got wrong once recently!

JJ Cale and John Cale, for me

John Cale and Kale

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/john_cale02.jpg http://www.skrewtips.com/img/inside_products_kale.jpg

That leaf looks like a Steven to me

cloud control / cloud nothings

naked on the vague / naked and famous

Angie B / B Angie B

The Flamin' Groovies/The Fabulous Poodles

Bill Laswell
Bill Nelson
Bill Caddick
Bill MacCormick

Best Coast
Beach House

Mandre / Mandrill / Cymande

Beach House
Best Coast

Black Kids, Black Lips, Black Keys.. To the point where I really don't know who does what anymore.

The Shadow Ring/In Gowan Ring

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/mikesg.jpg

Mike G / Mike G / MC Miker G

Timbaland / Justin Timberlake. For years I thought they were the same person.

Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club/Bruce Hornsby and the Range

The Kinks and the Knack
The Kinks and the Kooks

but NOT The Knack and the Kooks

Deceased/Decapitated

Beach Boys / Pet Shop Boys

Old Man Gloom / Old Man's Child

"Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club/Bruce Hornsby and the Range"

VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR...get a job

The Strokes/The Hives/The Sounds/etc. There were dozens of "The XXXs" bands in the early 00s, and it didn't help that they all sounded the same.

I guess I thought that maybe Bruce Hornsby used a RANGEfinder to make the video that killed the RS

sade
slade

As a kid, I didn't know there was a difference between Patti Smith and Patty Smyth. Now I love Patti Smith and I still have no idea what Patty Smyth has done.

she's done richard hell and john mcenroe. that much we know.

john mcenroe from tortoise, love that guy

Todd Edwards and Todd Terry
Klaatu and Kraan
Game Theory and Dream Syndicate

todd edwards/theo parrish

Ab Baars/The Art Bears

Chuck Berry/Chu Berry. I don't mix them up, but first time I saw the latter's name, I thought it was a typo.

But I forgot I already mentioned them three years ago on the sister thread: Performers with names that practiclly rhyme?

I get Chuck Berry and Chuck Barris mixed up all the time.

When I was a kid I inexplicably confused Kiss and Heart

neil hamburger
neil hagerty

Timbuk 3 and Tim Buckley

a ton, actually

firehose / firehouse
big stick / big chief
metabolist / metabolismus
junior senior / junior boys
monotrona / monotonix

but the worst ones are prob test dept. and the radio dept.

Heidi Julavits/Judith Shulevitz

Wait this is the wrong mixed up thread! Sorry.

In jazz:

Art Farmer / Art Pepper / Art Tatum
Elvin Jones / Elvin Bishop
Fred Anderson / David Murray (not sure why this is)

experimental:
John Hudak / Andrew Chalk (again, no rhyme or reason for this)

John Butcher / John Duncan (new issue of The Wire just reminded me of this)

I'm the only one who revives this thread I guess

John Edwards as well.

Black Keys / Black Crowes

beth gibbons / beth orton

MSTRKRFT and MNGMNT....

Brandon Flowers and Hothouse Flowers

I have to be careful with Snow Patrol and Ski Patrol, not that I have much cause to talk about Snow Patrol.

Fever Ray/Lana Del Rey

Have been confusing these two for years:

Bruce Haack
Ron Geesin

Neko Case
Nick Cave

Walking On Thin Ice by Annie Lennox / Walking On Broken Glass by Yoko

Ólöf Arnalds/Ólafur Arnalds

(they're cousins)

Sloan
Slade
Suede

Frankie Valli and Frankie Avalon

this mortal coil
these immortal souls

Lydia loveless/Lydia lunch. Potentially very bad consequences there.

Kenny Aaronson/Kenny Aronoff

Erasure
Eurythmics

P.F. Sloan / P. J. Proby
Wild Fang / White Lung

Bruno Mars/Jason Mraz/Olly Murs

Frankie Valli and Frankie Avalon

― Ex Slacker, Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This reminds me of a gag on Modern Family I liked, where the character thinks he's going to see Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons but is disappointed to discover it's Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

Huey Lewis and Bruce Springsteen

For the longest time, Gram Parsons and Graham Parker.

James Holden and Jon Hopkins, and i think a third modern electronic artist with a bland annglo name that starts with J.

Rodney Jerkins/Rodney Jenkees

Jex Thoth / James Toth (Wooden Wand)

Guster and Gomez

Jex Thoth / James Toth (Wooden Wand)

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were married; she kept the name

Billy Strayhorn / Billy Eckstine occasionally

cee lo and cedric the entertainer

chris whitley / keith whitley

harmonia / harmonium

incidentally I like all four of these artists

Swervedriver / Skrewdriver

I've my entire life thought Mick Turner and Mick Harvey were the same Australian musician and had the pleasure of being availed of this misconception in front of one of them (Harvey)

Never occurred to me that Swervedriver / Slowdive could cause some confusion until the person who wrote up the former's show for the Mpls paper referenced "Slowdrive."

Romare / Fort Romeau

I've my entire life thought Mick Turner and Mick Harvey were the same Australian musician and had the pleasure of being availed of this misconception in front of one of them (Harvey)

ouch :/

Wild Beasts
Wild Cub
Wild Nothing

Deerhunter
Deerhoof

Black Dice
Black Keys

Erroll Garner and Mal Waldron, for some reason. They're both pianists/composers, but their names aren't similar, apart from r's and l's. I even listened to one of them today, as part of an Eric Dolphy box, and I can't remember which one.

Black Dice
Black Keys

This one confused me for quite a while. I couldn't reckon how the noisy and alienating band I once heard in person had managed to become so beloved and commercially successful

That is exactly what happened to me. I saw Black Dice live and a little while later saw them being celebrated. I never gave Black Keys a proper listen thinking they were the noisy alienating band I saw.

Crystal Castles
Crystal Antlers
The Antlers

Inquisition
Tribulation

Bruce Springsteen
Buffalo Springfield

The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslamp Killer

(just had to check to make sure I hadn't written a mix of each one's name)

The wideboys
The wiseguys

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Fisher

the brian jonestown massacre
the jon spencer blues explosion

Ceremony
Coliseum
Converge (to a lesser extent)

Faust and Feist

I remember someone confusing Isla StClair and Eyeless in Gaza once.

Dead Weather
Deafheaven

As a kid I thought U2 was an abbreviation of 2 Unlimited, and they were the same band

(I've since sent an apology letter to 2 Unlimited)

Not all that similar I guess but I used to always mix up Dirty Projectors/New Pornographers (both dirty and film related?)

Silverchair/Chairlift

Gary Burton / Burton Greene

slint and sloan

Momus/Matmos

― mottdeterre, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Michaelangelo Matos / Matmos

Wild Beasts/Wild Nothing
Wild Beasts/West Coast

(not West Coast/Wild Nothing tho)

White Fence / White Denim
(probably mentioned upthread)

Vic Mensa / Vince Staples

Cass McCombs and Connan Mockasin

Cass McCombs and Gaz Coombs

Peaches Geldof was *not* the musician Peaches? Well, that explains that.

Besnard Lakes : Barenaked Ladies

Srsly how do you name your band "besnard lakes" unless you live under a rock

emptyset / emptiness

cLOUDDEAD/Cloud Nothings

It just hit me that I'd been mistaking Japanese Breakfast for Half Japanese all this time.

Superchunk / Supertramp

American Football / Modern Baseball

Rush / DJ Rush / Dasha Rush / Jana Rush / Dana Ruh

Don't forget Ed Rush

McCarthy / mclusky

Mac Miller/Mac DeMarco

vini reilly / vic chesnutt

Bill Evans and Gil Evans are both great, but it took me forever to work out which was which.

Alva Noto / Aldo Nova

I kept getting Dua Lipa and Rita Ora absolutely mixed up for a while.

Nick Nicely / Nick Garrie

Rita Ora / Rita Indiana

Steve Moore (of Zombi) / Steve Moore (of Earth, Sunn O>>> etc)

Charly Bliss / Charly Black

I sometimes think of Rita Lee from Os Mutantes when I see Rita Ora's name

The corniest songs of 1999 poll was won by LFO, who I always thought were a British bleep techno band from the 90's, so I'm thinking how corny could that song be, really?
I only just now learned that there are actually two LFO's, and one of them is an american boy band.

ONUKA / ODESZA.

Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...

(posted this on the general thread, but it belongs here)

Sun Ra / Pharoah Sanders

Norma Winstone / Norma Waterson

Randys Crawford and Newman, in the past, although I've got a pretty good handle on them now.

See also Steely Dan / Steeleye Span.

Antonio Carlos Jobim / Joao Gilberto / Gilberto Gil

Bennie Maupin / Bernie Taupin

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Bennie-maupin-1326016807.jpg/250px-Bennie-maupin-1326016807.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bernie_Taupin_2011_Shankbone.JPG/220px-Bernie_Taupin_2011_Shankbone.JPG

Hubert Laws and Herbie Mann. I should probably know better.

I'm always confusing Bob Weir with Bob Welch.

Mary J Blige
Billie Ray Martin

Faust and Feist

Easy: one is 'fist', the other is 'fat'.

Rick James / Rickie Lee Jones

Emma Ruth Rundle / Emma Jean Thackray

Jawbox/Jawbreaker

I saw one of these bands perform once. I *still* have no idea which one it was.

I distinctly remember struggling with the Go-Go's vs the Go-Betweens for a while as a child!

phil manzanera / ray manzarek

Dirty Projectors and New Pornographers, not remotely similar - I think it's something to do with a New Pornographers' album having a projector on the cover?

maybe your brain is inclined to link "dirty" with "porn"

A Dirty Pornographer might use a New Projector

I think I may at times have conflated Soul Coughing and Collapsed Lung. Amused at the logic there.

Diry Projectors / Fiery Furnaces / Magic Numbers - no idea what these are or what distinguishes them and herein revel in the ignorance. New Pornographers at least sound like they are multiple humans.

^Rolling Stones?

No, just sitting here thinking about more coffee.

It's not that I'm against non human things, just that I wouldn't confuse New Prnographers with the others, and also I happen to be more aware of what they do.

I gotcha - was just kidding around (I can see what you mean about the first two you named; I've never heard of Magic Numbers)

I was trying to think of the name of that highly influential African American civil rights proto-hip hop group and all I could come up with in my head was.... Lost Prophets :-( :-(

Ducks De Luxe
Bebop De Luxe

They spelt it Be-Bop Deluxe, though, if that helps.

Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith

temper trap
tender trap
tiger trap

Dengue Dengue Dengue
Dengue Fever

Win Butler / Will Butler
Liam Gallagher / Noel Gallagher
Aaron Dessner / Bryce Dessner
Kim Deal / Kelly Deal (kidding though)

Javiera Mena and Juana Molina (but I'll correct that this week)

Belle & Sebastian
Damon & Naomi

Skinny Puppy
Snarky Puppy

Aril Brikha
Amari Baraka

Only just realized the sunglasses at night guy wasn’t an 80s teen actor

Just put on some Bardo Pond expecting to hear The Bevis Frond

Lol!

Just realised I've been getting the names Ashley Beedle and Jeremy Healy mixed up for years

Also

KOKOKO!
Kokoroko

Wilton Felder
Victor Feldman

I'm always confusing Bob Weir with Bob Welch.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:18 PM (three years ago)

This happened to me over the weekend – only it was Joe Walsh and Bob Welsh.

*Welch (see??)

ladyhawke/ladytron

remain unconvinced that they are different acts tbh

Bob Welch (I) & Peter Green (really)

Bob Welch (II) & Dave Stewart (not really, but they were a formidable 1-2 punch for the 1990 Oakland A's)

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.

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

these arms are snakes
this bike is a pipe bomb

Weezer, Wheatus and Ween. Ridiculous, I know.

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

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

Khanate
Krallice

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

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

Hannah Peel
Hannah Wants
Hannah Diamond

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

Well I just learned those are different things too

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

Alida Valli
Ida Galli

^ those are actresses bc I forgot which thread this was

I mixed up Mother Mother and Moor Mother the other day

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

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)

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