Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

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do you mean Top of the Pop*s*?
or am I just adding to the mixing up now?

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link

Ugh, sorry, was typing too fast, yes, you are correct.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link

Top of the Pops = TOTP = BBC original
TopPop / Toppop = what the Dutch did with the concept

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celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link

Blew out my flipflop
Stepped on a TopPop

imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 19 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link

Lol

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link

Barefoot in the Park
The Panic in Needle Park

there's only so far you can go with a jazz tuba solo (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 08:45 (two years ago) link

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link

^good one!

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link

And the one before it too

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link

"alouette"
"frère jacques"

Oh hell right:

Traditional, famously variantizationized by Mozart: "Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman"
Haydn: Symphony #94 ("Paukenschlag"/"Surprise"), movement 2

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link

Less excusable:

Alt-J
Jlin

anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link

Mackenzie Davis
MacKenzie Scott
Mackenzie Crook

It seems my brain files names thinking Mackenzie is enough of an identifier and then I get confused when I see a headline about MacKenzie Scott giving $436m to charity and momentarily wonder how much money he made from The Detectorists.

Alba, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link

Add Ranald Slidell "Bad Hand" Mackenzie

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link

It pains me to say this, but:

John Hurt
William Hurt

― Sam Weller, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:46 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oof, had that last week too.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link

was the "pains me to say" part a pun or

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link

Velocipede, a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels
Velociraptor, a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur

the nwa list (Matt #2), Friday, 25 March 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link

xpost

Haha yes, but I've been mixing them up for decades.

Sam Weller, Friday, 25 March 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
Fun With Dick and Jane

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 March 2022 12:52 (two years ago) link

George Segal in both, I think.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link

No, Bob & Ted were Robert Culp and Elliott Gould.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 27 March 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link

Oh right, thanks. George Segal was in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, had to look up who played his wife though.

The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 March 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link

David Sancious
David Sanborn

Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 April 2022 00:46 (two years ago) link

That never got mentioned before?

Julian Assange
Edward Snowden

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 3 April 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link

Me and Bobby McGee
Ode to Billie Joe

... probably not helped by the latter being by Bobbie Gentry.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 08:13 (two years ago) link

Ode to Bobbie McGentry

Mark G, Thursday, 7 April 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link

...and Me

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 April 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link

Me Keep On Dancing.

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link

Tony Levin
Tony Levin

Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 April 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link

Lyle Lovett
Kyle MacLachlan

jel--, Thursday, 7 April 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link

Dave Chapelle / David Lachapelle

fetter, Thursday, 7 April 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link

Tim Hardin
Tim Buckley

nickn, Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link

...Tim Rose

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link

Chris Hedges/Hayes

papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link

Tim Buckley
Jeff Buckley

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 April 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link

house remixer edition

Mark Knight
Mark Kinchen

the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 7 April 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link

Having never had a great interest in Santana, I'm not sure I've actively processed before that these are entirely different covers they've made:

Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
Gypsy Woman

anatol_merklich, Friday, 8 April 2022 08:18 (two years ago) link

Sailin' Shoes
Flyin' Shoes

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link

Patricia Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood*

(*Who coincidentally I sometimes confuse with Patricia Roc and vice versa)

Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 April 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link

Joan Hackett
Jessica Walter

Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:01 (two years ago) link

Luke Wilson
Martin Henderson

in the film X only

Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link

Catherine Spaak (RIP)
Camilla Sparv

Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 12:48 (two years ago) link

Zapotek - Czech athlete
Zamenhof - Polish ophthamologist, invented Esperanto

Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link

Gordon Sumner, alias Sting
Gordon Shumway, alias ALF

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link

it's the classic 80s hairstyle that really makes this one confusing for me

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link

Tim Booth
Tim Burgess

Both frontmen of indie bands. Do I know the difference between them? No, I do not.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 21 April 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link

Tim Burgess
Mark Burgess

Charlatans, Chameleons. I see I mentioned this five years ago, the other way around.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 21 April 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link

Barclay James Harvest
Bachman Turner Overdrive

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 21 April 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link

BJH - went to Earth
BTO - took care of business

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 April 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link


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