I felt really old when someone told me that “Radioactive” wasn’t the new Coldplay song like I thought it was, but by some band named Imagine Dragons.
I felt old because I was really proud that I knew some songs by a cool, newish band…but then learned that Coldplay is now considered “mom music.”
In the gender bender department -
Years ago I played the “Hell Freezes Over” laser disc for a friend who was baffled by the fact that a man (Timothy B Schmit) was singing “Love Will Keep Us Alive”.
She asked me, “I always thought that the Eagles had a female member”.
I replied, “Well, I heard Henley can be a prissy bitch, but I don’t think that qualifies”.
Wow - how cool is that? Thanks!
And I figured it was passion fanning the flames - which I found interesting, because I have always enjoyed the Hollies, but never invested enough to have a sense of *passion *about them. Maybe I should go back. But your apparent…frustration?..with Nash’s dismissing the Hollies comes through and makes sense. And you know how I feel about CSN 
BubbaDog - great crack about Henley. He is a prickly guy, isn’t he?
I am enjoying this thread - even though I haven’t contributed any misattributions myself, when I read examples like Caddyshack and see the mention of Fleetwood Mac, I kinda go “wow - you know; it kinda does!” so that has been interesting.
Easy mistake to make, I suppose. Billy Joel had a hit song called “Modern Woman” in the mid 80s.
That was a deliberate choice by the filmmakers. Since the movie was about a New Jersey bar band, they wanted the music to incorporate elements of BS&ESB.
I don’t hear the resemblance. As campp said, Mark Knopfler’s voice is more reminiscent of Bob Dylan.
It might be worse for you than you think.
When you mentioned Radioactive, my mind immediate went back to the 1980s band “The Firm” (a “supergroup” of various even-then old-school rockers like Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page), whose only two hits that I can immediately recall are “Radioactive” and “Satisfaction Guarenteed”). I saw them in concert, so this makes me a Middle Aged Fart.
I also like Coldplay, and also saw them in concert (decades later, of course), so that still makes me a Middle-Age fart (although I’m male, so I don’t get the Mom part).
So if you like Coldplay… 
Without pointing out any particular post, I already did that once and got hell for it, I can’t believe what bands and singers most people are mixing up. It’s like you’ve got audio prosopagnosia.
I heard "Junk Food Junkie" by Larry Groce. I assumed it was by “Jim” Croce of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” fame.
I wonder if they are related?
I would say not. “Croce” and “Groce” are two different names, despite having the last four letters in common. Besides, Jim Croce was born in Philadelphia and is of Italian descent and Larry Groce is from Dallas. Also, Croce’s name is pronounced “Crō-chee” and Groce’s name sounds like “Gross.”
In Canada we say “Crō-chay.” No kidding.
I didn’t know that until just now. :smack:
For the longest time, I thought Nick Gilder (“Hot Child in the City”) was a soulful black woman instead of a skinnny white guy. Even after seeing the video, I still thought he was a chick.
Even now, I confuse some Stone Temple Pilots songs with Alice in Chains, especially “Plush.”
Exkweeze me! I do know that Jim called himself “Crow-chee”.
Reminds me that I once worked with a Canadian geographer who called the Lambert Projection (it’s a map thing) “lahm-BERRH.”
Sure. Like the Colberrh Reporrrr, I imagine.
My mother and stepfather got into a debate over ‘A Horse with no Name’ at a restaurant once when as it played as background music. She claimed it was by the Eagles and he said she didn’t know anything about music because it was by some band I had never heard of. I waited a while to point out it is by America and they just looked at me like I said something dumb and went right back to arguing with each other.
First several times I heard Adele, I thought it was K.T. Tunstall.
Ah. Thanks for the education, then.
There was an ensign aboard my last submarine with the last name Croce. He acknowledged being a shirttail relation of Jim Croce, but he said his branch of the family pronounced it to rhyme with “Gross.”
Although one is being pedantic and the other is either clueless or pedantically obtuse. Lambert might’ve pronounced his name that way. If he were French. That his name is “Johann Heinrich” and Wikipedia has a contradicting pronunciation guide as well says otherwise.
I nearly came to blows with a guy in Warsaw who insisted that Country Joe McDonald’s “Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die” was an Arlo Guthrie song. First he bet me $50, then escalated to $500, nearly frothing at the mouth. Since nobody had a copy of the Woodstock album, it was a pointless bet. There was a lot of Jack Daniels involved.
I thought Peter Bjorn and John’s Young Folks was by Pete Yorn.
You mean it’s not? It’s even got the cheesy backing vocals! :eek: