Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Marc Bolan
Tommy Bolin

Alma Colgan
Ruby Murray

no-one goes out for an alma

Which one did the "dreamboat" song though? which one was on panel shows in the mid 60s and chummy with the beatles? which one died tragically early from cancer? I can find out these things, I cannot retain them.

I can identify them in the context of their respective work but if they were part of a lineup I'm not sure I could tell the difference between Russell Hitchcock and Leo Sayer and John Panozzo and Ron Palillo and Richard Simmons and Slim Goodbody.

(Their '70s/'80s iterations, obvs.)

galt macdermot
mort garson

Aldi
Lidl

Hans Sloane
John Soane

Aldi
Lidl

Oh man. This is one that's so ingrained in me, I didn't even realize I was mixing the two up.

Yeah they are both new to my area and I haven't been to either one.

I vaguely know that one of them has hilariously on-point mimic packaging for its store-brand knockoffs. Like Mr. Pepper soda and Ireo cookies and Kepler Gnome cookies - I just can never remember which one that is.

Aldi used to sell biscuits called Disco Biscuits, but they have sadly been renamed.

They have been renamed Groovy Biscuits.
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/bogof/aldi-down-on-disco-biscuits/230835.article

Karen Allen
Karen Black

Matthew Williams
Matthew Williamson

Karen Allen
Karen Black

kimchi
kombucha
chimichurri

did anyone say chuchichäschtli?

The Dream Academy
The Dream Syndicate

Jazz critic Stanley Crouch
Jazz pianist Stanley Cowell

Sanjaya, from American Idol
Zandaya, from Dancing with the Stars

her name is Z*e*ndaya, if it helps

Jan & Dean and Chad & Jeremy

Chad & Jeremy
Peter & Gordon ("A World Without Love")

^ this led me to ask myself, "did jan & dean ever make a psychedelic record?" sort of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Sound

xp

The other day a friend mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughan in a context that really confused me until I realized I was actually thinking of Steve Vai.

Also The Jesus Lizard and Half Japanese, apparently.

Uh. Yngwie Malmsteen and Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

Yeah I think I've been making the Stevie Ray Vaughn / Steve Vai mistake in my head for a long time

This is a wild one to me, but I was immersed in the world of guitar heroics as a youth.

greta gerwig
greta thunberg

Adam Mars-Jones
Andrew O'Hagan

Jan And Dean and Ben And Jerry. Obviously I know the difference but subconsciously they're the same , the association goes:

Jan and Dean -> Pearl and Dean -> going to "the cinemas" as a kid -> buying icecream in tubs -> Ben and Jerry

Stuart Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Tough on Rupert.

recently realised I've been confusing Jandek and Daniel Johnson for years.

Handel
Haydn

Labi Siffre
Salif keita
tthink I do know them apart but I seem to have Labi Siffre's name stuck in my head and can't think Salif keita

Schubert
Schumann

Dwight Twilley
Greg Kihn

madeline (ludwig bemelmans)
matilda (roald dahl)

Yes!

Stephen Graham - some fucken very melty history podcast type who talks a lot of shite.
Stephen Graham - scouse actor who I mistaken for ^^^ a few times despite him lacking a blue tick!

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Ray Harryhausen

I confess I had until this moment not separated Nate Cohn and Nate Silver in my mind.

Budd Dwyer
Larry "Bud" Melman

Dana Loesch
Dana Bash

embarrassing reveal of musical blind spots, but

Steam
Squeeze
Suede

as in, wait, that band that did "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" or wait, was it "Tempted," idg how they were britpop rivals of Blur and Oasis

I used to mix up Patrice Rushen and Patrick Moraz because one of the former’s early solo albums has proggy cover art so I thought “oh yeah, keyboardist from Relayer”

Blootered, waiting for the late night bus on a Friday night in George Square:

Faifley
Paisley

Reminded by a question on Pointless today: every time I try to think of the name of the US flagmaker Betsy Ross, I come up with the name of the actress Fannie Flagg, and cannot get any further than that. Not exactly "getting them mixed up", just an incredibly stupid quirk of my brain.