a couple years back someone played me a song from Fever by Kylie Minogue and I asked if it was something from the new Saint Etienne.
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
Some time in about 1988 I was under the impression the Pixies had one female singer with a very strange voice. I guess I only heard "Gigantic" and a bunch of Black Francis' shriekier moments before I saw a photo. Boy was my face red!
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
Hanson totally own, though.
― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
I still don't know if Pat Place is a man or woman. The photos I've seen make him/her look very androgynous.
Also, I know Dave Brubeck is white, but I've never seen photos of the backing band. Are Paul Desmond and the rest of the group black or white?
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
Paul Desmond is white. If you're talking about Brubeck's group circa "Time Out", the bassist Eugene Wright is black and the drummer Joe Morello is white. The latter has the same last name as that Rage Against the Machine guitarist, don't know if they're related.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
When I first heard "Son of a Preacher Man", I thought Dusty Springfield was black.
Before I found out her name, I thought Tanita Tikaram was a man. And I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one.
I thought Company Flow was all-white, because they sounded like that.
When I first heard Slug, the Athmosphere rapper, featuring on an All Natural track, I thought he was black. Then I bought an Athmosphere LP, and changed my mind, I thought this dude has to be white. However, according to AMG he's mulatto.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link
― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
http://massimobernardi.blogs.it/Immagini/lewistaylor.jpg
Whoops.
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago) link
ask Larry David!
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link
wow, I thought Rick Astley was a large black man as well.
lol raceroll
― velko, Monday, 10 November 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
kimya dawson
― Kevin Keller, Monday, 10 November 2008 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
well, it wasn't a race or gender thing, but i could have sworn to god that Jana Hunter was a wispy woman with long, stringy hair, her eyes always sort of sleepy.
anyway... i also thought that about rick astley. perhaps because they always used to play the single close to Luther Vandross.
― the table is the table, Monday, 10 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
luther vandross is rather white himself
― Kevin Keller, Monday, 10 November 2008 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought david sedaris was an 80 year old woman
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought Steve Winwood (circa 60s) was black.
I'm not even going to say how old I was when I finally determined Tracy Chapman's gender.
― ILX MOD (musically), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I had no idea that Paul Wall was white for the first year that Still Tippin was on the radio.
― that song on a freebie compilation I got when I ordered a pizza. (Display Name), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The first time I heard "Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers I thought, "Oh, Tracy Chapman's got a comeback single!" Which is a nice yin to the yang of my -- and a lotta people's -- first Tracy Chapman exposure.
― V. sorry I killed Jimmy Carl Black (the Indian of the group) (staggerlee), Monday, 10 November 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
o_O
wau
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Geddy Lee for the win.
― ablaeser, Monday, 10 November 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
awhile ago i thought bobby caldwell was black
― Jordan, Monday, 10 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guyxp
― Kevin Keller, Monday, 10 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I was sure Ali Campbell of UB40 was black for a couple of years.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 10 November 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
even though the first time i heard the dude from death vessel i was watching him perform live, i was still convinced there was a woman backstage who was really singing.
― mizzell, Monday, 10 November 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i know him and he does!xxp
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― jaymc, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
jeff hanson owns this thread
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still not entirely convinced that Jermaine Stewart was a man.
I remember watching the video for "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off", trying to figure out if he was a man or a woman.
― snoball, Monday, 10 November 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Trina. I listened to Diamond Princess on repeat for a month and assumed she was white from the get go.
― Owen Pallett, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny, I always thought your violin was a flugelhorn...
― V. sorry I killed Jimmy Carl Black (the Indian of the group) (staggerlee), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait! also, I know! Brett Dennen! That dude is a chick, and I won't hear any different.
― V. sorry I killed Jimmy Carl Black (the Indian of the group) (staggerlee), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I also thought Boy George was a woman the first time I heard "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me," except in my case, I was watching the video. So I thought he was a particularly homely woman.
I may be dreaming, but I seem to remember some review of "Sign O the Times" where the reviewer didn't realize that Camille was Prince sped-up.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Monday, November 10, 2008 6:36 PM (Yesterday)
wow, that worked out rather nicely
― Kevin Keller, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:13 (fifteen years ago) link
When I first heard Andy Bell I didn't just think he was a she, I thought he was Allison Moyet. (I think this mistake hinges on the particular early-ish track I heard, but I don't remember which one it was.)
I did too. On the other hand, I first thought that Alison Moyet was a guy, so go figure... :)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link
The first time I heard Michael Jackson was "The Girl Is Mine", whose lyrics kind of made it obvious that he must indeed have been a guy. But I still found it a bit puzzling.. I mean, he just couldn't be...?
Listening to the "Grafitti Bridge" soundtrack by Prince I also thought this Tevin Campbell must be a girl. Of course, mixing him up was a bit more logical as, at 14, he did indeed sound like a woman although it wouldn't last. :)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 09:17 (fifteen years ago) link
When I heard Milli Vanilli's "Girl I'm gonna miss you" I thought it was a girl.
Years later, found out I was right!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
do you know how long fact checking cuz has been waiting for someone, anyone, to make that Geddy Lee joke???
― I CRIED (G00blar), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
tracy chapman yeah
― Funky Buddha Lounge (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
think I've seen fcc feedline before
― you made my mum eat Pick Only One (sic), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Keith Jarrett to thread
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link