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bands you get mixed up

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by Brooner

similar names, or even if they're not all that similar.

i bring this up as i've just had this e-mail from my flatmate which has upset me greatly:

Oh my god! When I was 16, I used to have a real mental block when it came to Dashboard Confessional, At the Drive In and Death in Vegas (as in, I used to get their names continually confused). And once Tom took me to At the drive in gig and I was really confused.

I wish i saw ATD-I :(

Brooner | 08 Feb '08, 12:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

bands with

Wolf in the title.

See also bands with 'bear' in the title, and 'fuck' in the title


That's it!

I'm gonna go and start a band called 'Wolf Bear Fuck.' It should make for some pretty interesting gig posters to say the least.


i'm going to start a band called

Wolf! It's Bear-Fuck Time


yep, one of my faves

i'm being super serial!


Isn't there a Scottish band with a name stupidly similar to Q and not U?

Apart from that, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia. I couldn't figure out which one played with style and which one were British etc.


Q Without U

worst name ever.


Thats it

Always have to read it at least twice whenever I see it.
Happens to my mate as well who gets over excited.


a poster for their shows

is ALWAYS in front of me when i go to the loo. it's like they're haunting me :(


we are


MBICR were awesome...

the singer had the sexiest voice ever. Think they've split up now - but the tape I have of their Peel sessions is the one thing I'd grab in a fire.


Black rebel motorcycle club?

Don't remember them sounding sexy.


^

meanwhile back in communist russia


*worst voice ever

Seriously, they'd have been so so good if they were purely instrumental, but she made them unlistenable.
Hence why their Mesaplex project is very promising, while her Beaker thing have recorded probably the worst song in the history of humanity.

IMHO, obviously... ;-)


So she wasn't.

Hmmm... who did I mean then? :-s


totally

peter and the wolf
patrick wolf
argh! Well, its ok now, but it used to reeeally annoy me


huge difference, though...

Wolfmother
Peter & the wolf.
Not so many bands with 'Fuck' in the title, though....? Fuck buttons....err, anymore?


Holy Fuck


Fucked Up!

(who are the best of the three)


Here's 2

MGMT and a band I can't remember the name of that formed from DFA 1979


i have a neurological disorder

which means i call Radiohead "Razorlight" a lot, and it takes a few seconds to make sure "My Bloody Valentine" doesn't come out as "My Chemical Romance."


.

my mate once thought My Bloody Valentine was Bullet for my Valentine. i really should disown them


i always get them confused

only coz they have similar names

Bullet for my valentine are the good ones right? ...i am joking of course


good shoes

goodbooks


^ clearly this

I even own one of the band's albums (because I love Passchendaele) but I still don't know which one that is.


Hehe

I went to one of their gigs once, but I'm not sure which one it was.


Snap and C&C Music Factory

#oh snap,
who stole it from me?
C & C Music factory
but I like it, I like it,
your stuff is good,
Yo Fellas! Welcome to the neighbourhood#


-----------------------

*The Vessels, Vessels
*Beirut, Bearsuit
*Fields, Field Music
*All the bear bands get confusing, except Minus The Bear because I like them.


Not really anythign to do with the names

but I always get these bunch of shit new bands mixed up. Scouting for Girls, Hoosiers, Jack Penate, Jack Johnson, The Wombats, The Enemy. They are all the same band I think.


*Fieldy


ryan adams and bryan adams

not really

byran adams is far superior


Battles

Battle


black

black lips, black kids, black mountain, ETC


Racist

^ Ban user ^


and black acid.

these all confuse me also


Friendly Fires and Fiery Furnaces

It's much worse when you're trying to listen to lots of new music and the names just sound the same to my poor brain.


The House Martins

and The Beautiful South for some reason.


I always get

Youthmovies, Foals, and Johnny Foreigner cornfused.


this ain't vegas

death in vegas


I don't get them confused but almost all my friends seem to...

My Bloody Valentine - My Chemical Romance - Bullet For My Valentine.


^

minus MCR.


glasvegas


cabaret voltaire and campag velocet

retarded, i know


I always mix up

The Wedding Present and The Birthday Party.

Literally every time I mean to say one, I say the other.


this^^

.


my girlfriend

gets doves and elbow mixed up when we're listening to them. I don't know how she does it!


.

tokyo police club
hot club de paris
bombay bicycle club
new young pony club...


i wanna reiterate the bear one

so many its ridiculous


The Seal Cub Clubbing Club?

I'm pretty sure I haven't made that up


no i saw them at leeds fest 06

the most bizarre name ever!


the long blondes

and the young knives


two rubbish ska punk bands

but both ones with the only two ska-punk songs i like.

Reel Big Fish
Less Than Jake

throws me every time


Which out of

Skrewdriver and Swervedriver is the neo-nazi one and which is the poor band that always gets confused with the neo-nazi one?


Besnard Lakes

Barenaked Ladies.

Seriously


me too


Depressingly, as a fan of both bands

The Mountain Goats and The Magnetic Fields always have me in a muddle. Only in a conversation context mind - I can tell the difference between a song by one and the other, but mistakes get made.


.

Duran Duran and Duran Duran Duran
Donna Summer (singer) and Donna Summer (band)
Die! Die! Die! and The The
Pris_ and Pris
Foals and Mules
Cats And Cats And Cats and Cat Stevens
Them and The Others


Cardigans

Cranberries
Carpenters


The Proclaimers

The Pretenders


edinburgh bands

wounded knee and withered hand

don't know why
ones gid, ones no. i can never remember which way round it is


Bear vs Shark

And Jets vs Sharks. Everyone gangs up on the sharks. :(


I actually met an ex girlfriend because of this mistake

In a record shop, she bought a Jets vs Sharks cd thinking it was Bear vs Shark, I fell in love with her either way.


I would have too

Henceforth I will watch record racks keenly for such romantic errors.


Any of

The Kooks
The Stills
The Stands
The Twang
The Veils
The Rakes
The Fray

...bascially anything that's The followed by one syllable. The only reason The Shins and The Kills don't get lumped in with that lot is 'cos they're ace.


Deerhoof and Deerhunter

Not musicially but they do have similar names


me to

also

Blood Red Shoes and Blonde Redhead


same ^

made this mistake for a long time


^THIS^

Basically any band from the last 5 years that's called The-(something) and is a bunch of skinny boys with pointy shoes.


....

Today a friend of mine started doing a Kings of Leon impression, when I brought up Queens Of The Stone Age. Boy, was his face red...!


For no apparent reason:

Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine.


I used to get Wheatus to Weezer mixed up

It made me resent Weezer for years.

I was so annoyed when I found out they were different, as it meant i had wasted years of potential Weezer fanboyishness.


The Concretes

That's the joke.


.

Littl'ans
and The Little Ones.

Went to 1234 festival expecting to see The Little Ones. Horribly mistaken.


Wait...

They're DIFFERENT bands?


!

I know, right?


i always get

the dirty projectors, paranthetical girls and casiotone for the painfully alone mixed up... not too sure why really


*cringe*

I always manage to get the TERRIBLE 'scouting for girls' mixed up with the WONDERFUL 'i was a cub scout'


yeah me too

im always totally confused when people with decent music taste tell me they like i was a cub scout


Jens Lekman

Seth Lakeman

'Apple' Bands.

Duffy/uffy/robyn.


.

deer tick, deer hoof,deer hunter


..

Good Shoes and Good Books. Used to be the same with the Maccabees and Larrikin Love. No idea why.


from first to last

from autumn to ashes


Prodigy and The Prodigy

Now there's a confusing one.


30 seconds to mars

we sound like dog shit


Broken

Social Scene and Broken Family Band - used to get them mixed up all the time (with non-hilarious results)


.

not really inkeeping eith the topic but antigravity by the art goblins always manages to morph into your country by gogol bordello in my head.


There are two Peter & The Wolf's,

which leads to all sorts of upset.

I saw that they were billed to play at Liverpool music week last year and was besides myself with excitement. Only to do a little bit of research and find out that it was the rubbish local Peter & The Wolf, rather than the devastatingly lovely-sounding Red Hunter Peter & The Wolf. :(

The lousy ones should clearly be forced to change their name, irrespective of whether or not they had it first.


When I was about 10

I used to think Bob Dylan was Eric Clapton and vice versa, and that The Beach Boys were The Byrds and vice versa.


i get nearly

every band on radio one mixed up.

fratellis/wombats/hoosiers/the feeling..

all the same to me.