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“On the Dark Side” by John Cafferty, not Bruce Springsteen
From the soundtrack to the movie Eddie and the Cruisers. About a ‘Springsteen-esque’ band. The movie is average but the soundtrack is good. All by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. If you like Cafferty but haven’t seen the movie, rent it sometime, (for the music, he’s not in it).
Footnote: the actor who plays the sax player in the movie is Cafferty’s real sax player Michael “Tunes” Antunes.
I thought Ruby Tuesday was by the Mamas and the Papas, not the Rolling Stones.
I was gonna say, “Chris Rea, the guy who sings ‘Lady In Red’ and ‘Don’t Pay The Ferryman,’ right? I don’t get it.” Then I realized that the tool I was thinking about was Chris de Burgh. :smack: Punchable guy.
Anyway, the only Rea song I know is “Fool If You Think It’s Over,” which doesn’t sound much like Knopfler to me, but maybe it’s his other songs?
I suffered for months trying to figure out who sang “Don’t You Evah” - I thought it was Beck and went through his entire catalog trying to figure out which song it was. To make matters worse a radio host here in town used the start of the song for bumper music. No lyrics, just the groove and some chatter. I don’t even remember how I came to learn that it was Spoon (from here in Austin).
I thought “Up All Night” by the Boomtown Rats was a Bowie song.
For any Britfunk fans out there, I thought “Starchild” by Level 42 was an Earth, Wind, and Fire song.
Early U2 and Simple Minds sound very similar. In fact, I think Simple Minds was the better band for a time. The Alarm also sound U2-ish.
You thought the vocal was Mick?
Any one think that Donovan’s “Catch the Wind” was Dylan?
I did.
Little GTO sounds like Jan and Dean except it’s Ronny and the Daytonas.
I thought Dire Straits “Walk of Life” was Bruce Springsteen.
In R&B, I thought Silk’s “Freak Me” was by Keith Sweat. I insisted to my then-girlfriend that it was. Nope. However, according to Wikipedia, “In 1992, Sweat discovered the group Silk, and helped craft their debut album” So I was kinda sorta less than fully wrong.
Sometimes when I catch Bowie’s “Fame” in the middle I think right away, “Pink Floyd. All right!” But alas, no. Great song though. Sounds a lot like my faves Floyd to me.
I thought “Eminence Front” was by Peter Gabriel, until I got XM Radio and discovered that it was The Who.
I’m a huge Who fan and I’ve heard that song described several times as sounding more like a Pete Townshend solo song than a Who song. I think it’s a fair description, not just because Townshend is doing the lead vocals (he normally took lead on a couple of songs per album) but because it just isn’t the Who’s usual musical style.
Thinking of Peter Gabriel, here’s one from my mother. I was talking to her a while back and she mentioned that the radio station she listens to in the car had been playing “Sledgehammer” a lot and she was getting sick of it. Then she said “I did find out it’s by Peter Gabriel though, because the DJ said so. I always thought it was by M.C. Hammer.”
I burst out laughing, and she said “What, did you think that to?”
When I regained my composure I said, “No, I’m laughing because NO ONE has ever thought that before.”
“Well, he sings about being a hammer! How was I supposed to know?”
I thought that “Lunatic Fringe” (actually by Red Ryder) was done by Pink Floyd.
I didn’t know who that song was by for a looong time, but I wouldn’t have guessed The Who.
Especially disappointing since our own aha (Mike Rabon, right?) was a member of The Five Americans and performed on that song.
Put me down as initially thinking Styx - Renegade was Billy Squire.
In that same vein, I always thought “Play that Funky Music, White Boy” was by the Average White Band. I lost a bet to an old boss a few years back when he gleefully told me the song was by Wild Cherry and then subjected me to 45 minutes of Wild Cherry’s place in the rock pantheon. I still want that time back.
I didn’t know that Gloria Estefan’s Turn the beat around was a cover of Vicki Sue Robinson. The songs are practically identical.
Bumping this because I just learned that It’s so nice to be with you was from a one-hit wonder band called Gallery and not Neil Diamond.
Try Road to Hell.
I didn’t know until last year that Lay Lady Lay was Bob Dylan. I had to look it up on Wiki just to verify because I thought I heard it wrong.
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