Your favorite mp3s mistaggings

A Kingsman "Louie Louie" attributed to Chuck Berry.

Smoke Two Joints by Sublime being attributed to Bob Marley. Actually, it seems like anything that has upstrokes in it somehow gets attributed to Bob Marley.

Anything "hard rock" from the seventies gets attributed to BOC.

Smoke Two Joints by Sublime being attributed to Bob Marley. Actually, it seems like anything that has upstrokes in it somehow gets attributed to Bob Marley.

This is your own fault for SoulSeeking Sublime songs.

Wikipedia: The Toyes are an American reggae band based in Oregon. Their style has been described as a "cross between Bob Marley and Barenaked Ladies." [1] They are perhaps most famous as the original songwriters and recorders of the song "Smoke Two Joints," [2]. It was originally recorded in 1983, and was re-released on their 1993 debut album The Toyes. An influential version was recorded by the band Sublime; the song has since been mistakenly attributed to them or to Bob Marley. The Toyes also wrote and performed a song called "Monster Hash", a parody of Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash".

My AMM 'Newfoundland' mp3 is tagged as Jimmy Buffett 'License to Chill'

A friend of mine was in an improv comedy group that for some reason decided to call itself "Steely Tan," except apparently no one in the group had ever actually heard Steely Dan, so when it came time for them to choose their entrance music, someone just went onto LimeWire or whatever and downloaded the first Steely Dan song he found. They came out on stage to "Stuck in the Middle with You."

At a party in college, I misheard the Venga Boys' "We're Going to Ibiza" as "We're Going to Eat Pizza." Then when I searched for it on Napster, I typed in as "we're going to eat pizza" and got plenty of hits, so clearly I wasn't the only person who heard it that way. True story.

Savage Garden - "Jesus Christ Pose"

anything even remotely funny, no matter how low-fi/unfunny/patently offensive - weird al yankovic

anything vaguely ska sounding - mighty mighty bosstones

the entire discography of me first and the gimme gimmes - green day

College kids are the worst people on earth.

Sadly I was searching Bob Marley. The majority of hits were either 311 or Sublime songs mislabeled.

"Your The Best Around (Theme from Karate Kid)" by Joe Piscopo.

as seen on audiogalaxy yrs. ago;

"Every Time I See You Falling (I Get Down On My Knees And Play)" - BLT

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This thread makes me furious.

The worst thing about these is that in some cases you think you've stumbled upon some incredibly obscure bootleg cut, like The Clash doing Tainted Love, and you just end up getting the regular Soft Cell version. There is a version of the Clash doing it though, isn't there?

anything even remotely funny, no matter how low-fi/unfunny/patently offensive - weird al yankovic

YES!

My own contribution being the famous "Jimi Hendrix + The Beatles 'Day Tripper'" song.

"Wooo Hoooo!" by Blur. Still lots of it out there.

Long time ago, there was a very strange 'remix' of "Loser" supposedly by Fatboy Slim, it sounded more like the prodigy, but was doubtless neither.

"Dream On" -Led Zeppelin (got into a fight with a girl at a party who swore it wasn't an Aerosmith song. I realize now that arguments like these are part of why I had trouble getting laid in college)

"Livin' On a Prayer"- Van Halen ("but my ipod says it's van halen")

bizarre, i was thinking of creating this thread yesterday when:

Le Tigre - Cars That Go Boom came up

"Dream On" -Led Zeppelin (got into a fight with a girl at a party who swore it wasn't an Aerosmith song. I realize now that arguments like these are part of why I had trouble getting laid in college)

Ah, the:

"Hah! I sure showed how her who the neighborhood pop music obsessive is. I look so cool right about now, showing her up on Beatles trivia and telling her all about those obscure bands and who they influenced...now let's see if that Dave Matthews Band fratboy she's talking to now and is leaving the party with is as smart and knowledgeable as I am when it comes to music! He surely isn't.

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Wait, why am I alone?? Damn you, pop music nerd self. Damn you to hell."

monologue

something like that. I still feel morally unscrupulous when I engage in the opposite tactic of gently nodding when a girl tells me that her favorite band is Third Eye Blind. It gets much better results, of course.

A few months ago, something screwy happened with my computer, and suddenly my whole collection was credited to Betty Wright. I had to manually retag everything, which turned out not to be quite the pain in the ass I was expecting.