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 :(
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
*man bear pig
Best South Park ever!
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
can i get that in writing?
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... ;-)
she wasn't in Beaker
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#
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*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
"Cats And Cats And Cats and Cat Stevens "
lol
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
I'll second Deerhoof and Deerhunter
and add Deerpark
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.
editors and interpol
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.