People always talk about misheard lyrics, how about misheard bands?
I was in the car with a crappy radio station playing when the song Lido Shuffle, by Boz Skaggs, came on. Not my favorite, and I said so out loud. A passenger said, “ya, I know what you mean, and I normally like Elton John.”
That cracked me up.
I can almost hear what they were hearing. It has a little bit of a Philadelphia Freedom vibe, another song I dislike.
So, do you have any songs that you, for an unspecified length of time, thought was performed by someone else?
Or do you know of someone else’s error?
Any Bobby Squire song to my ears is Queen.
Billy Squier, see what I know.
Oleander and Nirvana.
I could never understand what Billy Hendrix was saying.
The soft rockers “America” famously got their start because many people thought “Horse with No Name” was really Neil Young.
I get mixed up when singers jump around to different bands. I don’t know which songs belong to which bands.
Ronnie James Dio
Sammy Haggar
Stevie Nicks
I always get wrong Brittany Spears, Justin Beiber, Madonna, Cher, Back Street Boys.., and 99/100 bands on the “top” list.
I always call them Shit.
@ Jethro ~ yeah, I get the same feeling
Edison Lighthouse, The Pipkins, White Plains & Brotherhood of Man all sound the same to me
… oh, wait ….
My favorite mangled band name is Stone Pimple Toilets.
Is is silly that I get songs by Meatloaf and Ozzy Osbourne confused? Bat out of Hell vs. bit the head off of a bat…I dunno. I always get their songs and album covers mixed up. I think they look alike too.
I knew who In Excess was for a long time before it clicked that it was Inxs (Inks).
I wasn’t big into music when I was 14. Too much cricket, rugby league and BMX going on for that!
I always think that The Things We Do For Love is a Queen song, not 10CC.
The Knickerbockers’ Lies is a great Beatles ripoff – fooled lots of people.
Daddy Cool and Elton John. One did Eagle Rock and the other Crocodile rock. I guess that’s what it was.
I used to confuse Dave Clark 5 with the Beatles
I always get Deep Purple, Bad Company and Rainbow mixed up as well as The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Counting Crows
Black Crowes
Black Keys
Black Sabbath
Loco: Black Flag
I bought an Orleans best of cd trying to track this song down – a fuzzy memory from driving the I-5 in LA in 78….thank God for the internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwgvRe8i84
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Like Roger Daltrey and singer Pete Townshend always told Obama:
“You’re not WHO, WE are”
Let’s move before they raise the Effing rent – It’s all right now . . .
Hey Fur, you got this stuff?
https://www.amazon.com/happytails-Canine-Spa-Line-Butter/dp/B00115F2D8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486522259&sr=8-1&keywords=Fur+Butter
I bought the Bangles crappy cd Everything convinced that Roam was their latest song….alas, it was the B52’s.
I remember that R.E.M. didn’t want their record label to list “Superman” on the album it was on.
They didn’t want fans to buy their shit just because of a radio hit.
What a serious bunch of leftist twats!
I sometimes get Otis Spann and McKinley Morganfield mixed up
I always confused Back Door Boys and Nude Kids on the Block. My girls were teenagers then, so sue me.
I was always confusing the lead singers for Jeff Beck and Faces with Rod Stewart.
First time I heard Van Morrison, I thought it was Mick Jagger singing.
Squeeze – If I Didn’t Love You sounded just like a great George Harrison I’d somehow never heard.
This band mesmerized me for weeks in 1990 – when a certain cable tv station shut off late at night they would play these guys first cd and the Go Go’s greatest hits. I made a cassette recording of it and played it for my friend at the local record shop in Orange – he was in a band called Too Many Joes…he said “that’s Lush….I said yeah that’s pretty lush….he said “no that’s the band Lush!!” lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCvhc2gRBM4
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I sometimes get Otis Redding and Otis My Man mixed up…
For a while, I was getting Michael Jackson and Diana Ross confused, especially during the time when Michael was actually trying to be Diana Ross
ZZ Top and Bay City Rollers sounds the same to me.
I haven’t mixed up groups that I can remember, but a friend recently tagged the song “Third-Rate Romance” as “Third-Grade Romance”.
I know the difference, but I hated when Tom Petty tried to sound like Bob Dylan.
The Brown Beaver Band beat that scrunt Brucie boy at his own game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVxlXx6MQA
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The Foundations confused with Grass Roots.
No dammit, im not that old. Screw you. Shut up you whippersnapper.
To this day I swear Mac Davis sang Lay Lady Lay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2jbER0wk0
In my research I found a cool VIDEO version of the song by Duran Duran – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZD_oYpPyBs (NSFW)
Used to think Baby Come Back by Player was a Hall and Oats song.
Rockwell and Michael Jackson (see “Somebody’s Watching Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY)
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Ass Ponys and REM
Any Seattle area 90s grunge band any Seattle area 90s grunge band
1967, ‘In my Own Time’ by the Bee Gees, sure sounded a lot like the Beatles ‘Taxman’
Pearl Jam & stone temple pilots -which one does which songs?
I thought “Rock me Gently” by Andy Kim was a Neil Diamond song.
HA. I thought Gallery’s “So Nice To Be With You” was Neil Diamond!
I once thought ELO was EYellow
When I heard “All By Myself” for the first time on the radio I thought it was a chick. Eric Carmen looks like one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzoazPPC7b8
listening to the background radio, the checkout clerk said “that’s the only rod stewart song i like, usually can’t stand that guy”…..he was really happy when i told him “roxanne” was not by rod stewart………….
I always confuse Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Franz Joseph Haydn.
Neil Diamond may have written those songs.
He wrote Deep Purple’s Kentucky Woman.
The Clash and my toilet overflowing.
Randy Houser and Ronnie Dunn.
The Sex Pistols and a vacuum cleaner getting clogged up.