Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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