Lenny Kravitz. Name sounds like an obscure vaudevillian. Artist sounds like Curtis Mayfield, Prince, and Jimi Hendrix fell into a Cuisinart.
Job for a Cowboy sounds like a Country Band. Their first album was called Genesis, so probably Christian Country right?
Subsequent albums Ruination and Gloom and Black Discharge give the game away - they’re Death Metal.
**Vampire Weekend **sounds like they would be a goth band, not an African rhythm-influenced alt-pop band.
Iwrestledabearonce sounds like they should be opening for Mojo Nixon or some other humorous alt-country group. Nope - they play metalcore.
That’s a good one. I also avoided My Bloody Valentine for awhile because I assumed they were just another goth band.
Ten years ago I saw Death Cab for Cutie play with Dismemberment Plan as an opener. They called it the Death and Dismemberment Tour. The crowd consisted of people standing completely still in small groups three feet away from each other.
Wolfmother seems to me like they should be a hippie, Phish-like band with Native American influences.
Martha and the Muffins sound like they should be opening for Raffi.
Reverend Horton Heat
To extended the OP a bit, Amy Winehouse sure doesn’t look like the music she sings.
With Nine Inch Nails, I stand corrected. I’d only heard their song “Hurt”. I guess every Kiss has its Beth.
Going the other way, I’ll suggest Cream. We’re so used to associating the name with the act, we forget that the name really sounds more like Perry Como or ABBA type music rather than hard-hitting blooze.
I’ve never felt there was anything even slightly dildo-ish about Steely Dan’s music.
Cripple Mister Onion should be annoyingly smug college alt-rock along the lines of Weezer or Ben Folds and not awesome prog-metal. And Oasis sounds like the name for a Windham Hill elevator jazz act from 1987.
Really? I’d heard they were stuck up cunts.
Snerk. Best not to read too much into “Peg.”
Taking Back Sunday sounds like they should be a Christian rock band. Instead they are a typical pop-punk band.
Especially considering they got their name from a wind-driven public scuplture.
I don’t know exactly what kind of band Toad the Wet Sprocket sounds like they should be, but whatever it is, I don’t think they’re it.
Jethro Tull sounds like a country artist.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra sounds like a Russian classical group. I guess the ‘classical’ part is right, but heavy-metal classical and no Russians as far as I know.
With respect, I’d say Amy Winehouse hasn’t looked like much of anything for the last four years.