# Band names easily confused for one another **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977 "2009-09-29T15:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/41 "2009-09-29T20:54:06Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > And, from that same era, The Call. And don’t forget The Fall. ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/42 "2009-09-29T20:55:35Z")
I’m not sure if this fits, because their musical styles are different, but I get Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) confused with Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN). If I hear a song by one of the two, I have to stop and think before I know which group it is. Three names, first name begins with CR, three initials, early 70’s (before I was aware of music) … that’s enough to confuse me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/43 "2009-09-29T21:00:14Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > This happened a lot in the '80s. “Wham!” was briefly known by the awkward “Wham! UK” and “The Beat” was known as “The English Beat,” which is actually a cooler name. OK, so that’s not a lot of examples, but I vaguely recall there were many others. Or more recently, the British band [Bush](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_(band)) had to call themselves “Bush X” in Canada for a couple of years, because someone else had dibs on [Bush](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_(Canadian_band)) at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/44 "2009-09-29T21:02:55Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > For someone not really into music, 1997 is like 2000, and 2000 is like 2003, but there’s no way 2003 is like 1997. Was 1973 like 1967, musically? 1983 and 1977? 1993 and 1987? That’s exactly what I was getting at. Not to mention Three Days Grace sound nothing like 3 Doors Down or Third Eye Blind (who, I’ll grant, do sound a lot alike). ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/45 "2009-09-29T21:07:36Z")
There’s Beck and Jeff Beck ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/46 "2009-09-29T21:24:09Z")
I have a song from a rap contest by a guy who calls himself “Skeem”. I’d love to hear more of his work. Unfortunately there’s about eight hundred thousand crappy amateur rappers who also call themselves “Skeem”. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/47 "2009-09-30T02:33:49Z")
I used to confuse ColdPlay and Snow Patrol both for their names and their sound. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/48 "2009-09-30T02:46:56Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > This happened a lot in the '80s. “Wham!” was briefly known by the awkward “Wham! UK” and “The Beat” was known as “The English Beat,” which is actually a cooler name. OK, so that’s not a lot of examples, but I vaguely recall there were many others. Also, Squeeze were known as “UK Squeeze” when their first album came out. I used to resist the “English” in The Beat - but it’s easier to sort my iTunes with “English Beat.” Otherwise I get “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” playing alongside “Stand Down Margaret.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SawEverythingTwice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SawEverythingTwice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SawEverythingTwice)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/49 "2009-09-30T03:42:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > For someone not really into music, 1997 is like 2000, and 2000 is like 2003, but there’s no way 2003 is like 1997. Was 1973 like 1967, musically? 1983 and 1977? 1993 and 1987? Depends on what kind of music you’re into. Assuming you stay in the same genre, in the whole grand scheme of things almost any 10 year period in music history is going to produce music that is theoretically very very similar. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/50 "2009-09-30T07:56:37Z")
Pandera (Africanesque melodic trancy pop/reggae) and Pantera (angry thrash metal). The former which I discovered via Pump It Up, the latter via Guitar Hero. Damn, I love this modern age. 🙂 As for name addendums, I nominate, of course, Puffy Amiyumi. Simply “Puffy” in their homeland, a certain well-known rapper necessitated a slight modification once they became pouplar in America. On a related note, can anyone tell me why Smile had to add the “.DK”? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/51 "2009-09-30T11:01:41Z")
I get confused by Harvey Danger and Marcy Playground. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/52 "2009-09-30T13:52:52Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > Pandera (Africanesque melodic trancy pop/reggae) and Pantera (angry thrash metal). > > The former which I discovered via Pump It Up, the latter via Guitar Hero. Damn, I love this modern age. 🙂 Too bad you didn’t find them through Pandora! ---
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/53 "2009-09-30T15:01:33Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I get confused by Harvey Danger and Marcy Playground. Yes! Also, though obviously not for their sound, my brain switches up Puddle of Mudd and Jars of Clay (inanimate objects maybe?) and to a lesser degree, Mustard Plug vs Skankin Pickle (ska bands and condiments?) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/54 "2009-09-30T16:26:27Z")
Army of Me Army of Lovers Army of Robots Army of Freshmen Army of One… I’m only vaguely familiar with any of them, so I can never tell them apart. I don’t understand the proliferation of military names: besides the above there’s also Army Navy, New Model Army, Tiger Army…Tigers are pretty popular too, actually: Tiger Baby, Tiger Trap, Kissing Tigers, Faster Tiger, The Republic Tigers, The Papertiger Sound… Is there more than one band named Atmosphere, or one just really eclectic band? I’ve heard 3 songs by “Atmosphere,” two hip-hop, one electronica. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/55 "2009-10-01T03:57:19Z")
Is Dusty Buffalo Springfield still around? Is she stll married to that Rick guy? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/56 "2009-10-01T04:42:40Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > My favorites in this category are _Three Days Grace_, _Three Doors Down_ and _Third Eye Blind_. Similar styles, although not identical. They also all became popular at roughly the same time. Don’t forget Three Colors Red. > [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > The Who and The Guess Who In my ignorant youth I would have sworn that the latter morphed into the former (as the Cult did in the 80’s, dropping “Southern” and then “Death” from their name in succession). > [@BKReporter](#): > > The Verve and the Verve Pipe, even though their music styles are very different. The latter group actually annoyed me, as I was a fairly big fan of the former, and then these upstart Pipe guys came along during a hiatus in the Verve’s output and in my mind kind of stole their thunder, if not part of their name, a bit. _Urban Hymns_ kind of switched that back around. Checking Wikipedia I now see that the latter was founded a mere year after the former-still bugs me tho. Don’t grok why they didn’t change the name once the British group got lots of visibility with their debut c. 1994-wouldn’t have been the first fledgling band to do so (c.f. the Beatles, or Joy Division). > [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > Or more recently, the British band [Bush](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_(band)) had to call themselves “Bush X” in Canada for a couple of years, because someone else had dibs on [Bush](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_(Canadian_band)) at the time. Can’t forget about Kate… > [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > Is Dusty Buffalo Springfield still around? Is she stll married to that Rick guy? Even now I have to think about which one is who there for a second or two. After all Buffalos often leave the plains all dusty with their passage. The band should have hired the girl to sing for them during a one-off concert or something (they were both folk rock after all). Lush & Luna is my original contribution. Even now without consulting an online reference I don’t know which one has the cute Asian blonde lead singer (the band I favored back in their collective heyday). Oh, and Nelly NoLastName, and Nelly Furtado. Underwent a similar back and forth ebb and flow popularity duel as the Ververs did. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/57 "2009-10-01T05:33:22Z")
First one that came to mind is Rocket from the Tombs and Rocket from the Crypt. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/58 "2009-10-01T07:19:09Z")
There’s always [Tilt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_%28band%29), [Tilt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_%28Polish_punk_band%29), and [Tilt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_%28producers%29). I used to get Schoolyard Heroes mixed up with another band, but I can’t remember who. It wasn’t Marcy Playground, but someone with a word similar/opposite to either schoolyard or heroes- something like playground or bully. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/59 "2009-10-01T07:55:19Z")
The Bangles and The Buggles. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977/60 "2009-10-01T13:35:55Z")
> [@Leiko](#): > > I used to get Schoolyard Heroes mixed up with another band, but I can’t remember who. It wasn’t Marcy Playground, but someone with a word similar/opposite to either schoolyard or heroes- something like playground or bully. Is it [Gym Class Heroes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gym_Class_Heroes), perchance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-easily-confused-for-one-another/511977.md?page=4)