― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
Names are very different, but for some reason, I thought they were the same band.
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
My grandma got them mixed up too!
Wow...
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.
― Leee O'Ironic (Leee), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
Franz Stahl is way better!!!
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
― tessa, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
It doesn't make any sense to confuse those two, and yet, it does.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), April 18th, 2004 11:09 AM.
Oh, like getting Killing Heidi and Killing Joke mixed up?
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
Wow.
I don't anymore.
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
Also, the Von Bondies and the Dandy Warhols. It's all the same to me.
― stephen morris (stephen morris), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― non-u, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
They're not fit to enjoy the benefits of oxygen.
Thrills, Chills and isn't there a band called The Kills too?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
Well, Corey wears sunglasses at night.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― non-u, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
The last few years or so.
*sigh*
― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
― non-u, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Artists I Mix Up, Sunday, 18 April 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link
― don (don), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Legitimate Interest (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
^Rolling Stones?
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
No, just sitting here thinking about more coffee.
― Legitimate Interest (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― Legitimate Interest (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
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)
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
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 :-( :-(
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Ducks De LuxeBebop De Luxe
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
They spelt it Be-Bop Deluxe, though, if that helps.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
Lonnie SmithLonnie Liston Smith
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 18 October 2021 09:17 (two years ago) link
temper traptender traptiger trap
― maelin, Monday, 9 May 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
Dengue Dengue DengueDengue Fever
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Monday, 9 May 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link
Win Butler / Will ButlerLiam Gallagher / Noel GallagherAaron Dessner / Bryce DessnerKim Deal / Kelly Deal (kidding though)
― raven, Monday, 9 May 2022 06:49 (one year ago) link
Javiera Mena and Juana Molina (but I'll correct that this week)
― Nabozo, Monday, 9 May 2022 07:04 (one year ago) link
Belle & SebastianDamon & Naomi
― atonar, Monday, 9 May 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Skinny PuppySnarky Puppy
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 10 June 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
Aril BrikhaAmari Baraka
― henry s, Friday, 10 June 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
Only just realized the sunglasses at night guy wasn’t an 80s teen actor
― brimstead, Monday, 11 July 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Just put on some Bardo Pond expecting to hear The Bevis Frond
― enochroot, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
Lol!
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
Just realised I've been getting the names Ashley Beedle and Jeremy Healy mixed up for years
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 09:56 (one year ago) link
Also
KOKOKO!Kokoroko
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 09:57 (one year ago) link
Wilton FelderVictor Feldman
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:06 (eleven months ago) link
*Welch (see??)
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:07 (eleven months ago) link
ladyhawke/ladytron
remain unconvinced that they are different acts tbh
― in_solar, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 09:52 (eleven months ago) link
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)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:56 (eleven months ago) link
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
these arms are snakesthis 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
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 15Even google's auto-correct gets those two mixed up.
― enochroot, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:13 (four months ago) link
KhanateKrallice
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 17 December 2023 14:06 (four months ago) link
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 (four 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 (four months ago) link
Hannah PeelHannah WantsHannah Diamond
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 14:18 (two months ago) link
Vanishing TwinTwin ShadowVatican Shadowprobably 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 ValliIda 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 MadjoziToya DelazyTkay Mdaiza
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link