what bands/singers so you mistake for others?

“I Want to Know What Love Is” is a Foreigner track.

I think Steve Perry’s voice is quite distinctive - high, like an alto (?) - is that right?

Lou Gramm’s (Foreigner) voice is lower.

Now the REO Speedwagon guy… as others have noted, he’s pretty nasal. None of the aforementioned guys really fit that categorization.

No, that’s Foreigner :smiley:

Foreigner before MTV

Foreigner after MTV

REO Speedwagon before MTV

REO Speedwagon after MTV

You don’t wanna know how long I looked for which David Bowie album contained the song Never Met A Girl Like You Before.

(It was some guy named Edwyn Collins:smack:)

This also hurts me a lot, as a Tool fan. And honestly, Tool sounds 100% different from Korn and Disturbed, and I’m really not sure how anyone could mistake them.

Weird! For years (like, when I was eight years old, when the song came out), I thought “Sultans of Swing” was by Eric Clapton. Mark Knoeplfler’s guitar style is similar to Clapton’s (and his voice to some extent), especially the laid-back-American period Clapton was going through during the same late-'70’s times.

Oh my god, the one piece of knowledge I thought I had was all wrong! Clearly I was thinking of “I Can’t Fight this Feeling” when I said “I Want to Know What Love Is.”

Though I was digging “Riding the Storm Out.” Thanks for the link.

I was going to mention Coldplay sounds like U2.

I heard “Poker Face” on the radio and thought it was Madonna till a thread here was discussing song lyrics, so I looked up the words to what was being discussed and a video showed me it was that song and Lady Ga Ga.

The singer from Chevelle sounds sort of like Maynard, but that’s about it. They both do the loud-soft thing. Korn and Disturbed mostly scream.

I don’t think Disturbed is very screamy. (Fan of Tool and Disturbed.)