I’m in the mood for a lightweight post – Misheard Bands – IOTW Report

I’m in the mood for a lightweight post – Misheard Bands

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?

50 Comments on I’m in the mood for a lightweight post – Misheard Bands

  1. 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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………….

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