Performers with names that practiclly rhyme?

2. Steeleye Span / Steely Dan

which completely annoys me eventhough there's no relation between the two of them.

3. John Cage / John Cale

Hasil Adkins/Hazel Dickens - both from West Virginia coal country!

5. Paul Simon / Paul Simonon

phil collen/phil collins

AIDS Wolf
Guitar Wolf
Howlin' Wolf
Leatherwolf
Michael Talbot & the Wolfkings
Organ Wolf
Patrick Wolf
Peanut Butter Wolf
Peter Wolf
Super Wolf
Teen Wolf
We Are Wolves
White Wolf
Wolf
Wolf & Cub
Wolf Colonel
Wolf Eyes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfmother
Wolf Parade
Wolfram
The Wolfs
Wolfsheim

i don't even know if 'rhyme' is the word you're looking for here?

perhaps, you just mean to say performers with names that are practically the same

Joe Beck/Jeff Beck

(B)Ryan Adams

Mark E Smith / Marc E Smith (The Fall / Patty Hurst Shifter)

Eyeless in Gaza / Isla St Clair

Patti Smith / Patty Smyth

... and in a similar vein

The Byrds / The Birds

5. Paul Simon / Paul Simonon

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My copy of "London Calling" has "Guns of Brixton" as written by Paul Simon!

Sandy Denny / Sandy Dennis

... I know the latter is an actress but they still get melded together in my head

Shakin' Surfin Stevens!

Bill Evans.

Both of whom played with Miles, to add to the confusion.

Tim Buckley / Timbuk 3

Paul Simon / Paul Simonon

There goes Rhyminon' Simonon!

A couple more namesakes:

James Taylor / James Taylor

Dave Matthews / Dave Matthews

(I took me a while to realize that the Dave Matthews of the endless ILX thread isn't the one I thought he is; at first I was like, "Why does a jazz arranger provoke so much hate?".)

Norman Blake / Norman Blake

i don't even know if 'rhyme' is the word you're looking for here?
perhaps, you just mean to say performers with names that are practically the same

Right, right. Stupid thread idea; or decent idea poorly explained at best. I was thinking more of overall sonic similarity, not necessarily precise rhymes. Stuff like this:

Twisted Sister / Mr. Mister
Starsailor / Art Taylor
Bo Diddley / Bob Dylan
Bonnie Raitt / Johnny Ray

elvis costello / elton motello

the eagles / the beagles

I'm trying to think of this in terms of acts who I actually thought were the SAME act for a while, until I realized otherwise. So that would discount, say, Suede/Slade or The Kings/The Kinks or Jon Anderson/John Anderson or Trace Adkins/Rodney Atkins, but would not discount Ricky Van Shelton/Blake Shelton, who I conflated for years before realizing the error of my ways. There are others, I'm sure; maybe they'll come to mind. (Usually a certain proximity to each other genre-wise is necessary for this to happen properly.)

Oh yeah, a great one:

The Orb/Orbital

The two Paul Deans (X-Ray Spex and Loverboy) and two Mick Joneses (Foreigner and the Clash) don't really count, either.

Nor Prodigy/The Prodigy

But there are a couple famous blues names and jazz names where more than one guy (a decade or two apart maybe) has the same name, and those always confuse me. They're not coming to me right now, though.

actually it's a trinity - The Orb/William Orbit/Orbital

Both of whom played with Miles, to add to the confusion.

Then add Davis' arranger Gil Evans into the mix and you are screwed.

Pigbag/Rip, Rig and Panic (and maybe Pigbros?)
Ja Rule/Jah Cure
both Dr. Dre's (NWA and Ed Lover)
both Sean Pauls (dancehall and Youngbloodz)
Suspyre/Susperia (two metal bands whose CDs came in the mail within a couple weeks of each other this summer)

If album covers count, I'd include (from my teen years)

Fragile / Not Fragile

Love Gun / Sex Pistols

new models / new model army

(this probably only matters to people from boston)

merle travis / merle haggard

(for when i was a young'un, it didn't seem possible there were two different people named merle. really!)

actually it's a trinity - The Orb/William Orbit/Orbital

Haha, yes, I remember totally confusing these three in 1994.

Listening to Orbital's remix of The Orb's "Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Center of the Ultraworld" didn't help.

actually it's a trinity - The Orb/William Orbit/Orbital

Whoops. Up until this moment I assumed they were all the same person/artist.

Gregg Ginn / Greg Kihn

Bennie Maupin / Bernie Taupin

Gregg Ginn/Gregg Gillis

More Ginn ...
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Teddy Riley/Terry Riley

John Cale/JJ Cale
Sandy Denny/Sandi Patti

Elmore James/Elton John

there are a couple famous blues names and jazz names where more than one guy (a decade or two apart maybe) has the same name, and those always confuse me.

Sonny Boy Williamson/Sonny Boy Williamson

There's an obvious double jazz name too...Bill Evans, maybe? But I don't think that's even the best one.

And yeah, John Cale and JJ Cale is a great one.

Deke Leonard/Def Leppard/Led Zeppelin

Geddy Lee/Kenny G (who get extra points for also looking exactly alike)

This might ACTUALLY BE the WORST THREAD in ILX HISTORY.

rocket from the TOMBS/rocket from the CRYPT

Maureen Tucker / Corin Tucker

Ricky Nelson / Rick Nielsen

Keter Betts/Skeeter Best

Gram Parsons/Graham Parker

(Actually used to get them confused, when I first started listening to pub-rock type music)

Gram Parsons/Gene Parsons

Doug Dillard/Doug Gillard

Styx/Kix/the Fixx/Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks/The Dicks/Steve Malkmus & the Jicks

fIREHOSE/ Firehouse

Devo/Il Divo

Chuck Berry/Chu Berry

+ Buckcherry

Ha ha, so Buckcherry is an anagram of Chuck Berry ... I never knew there was any point to that name until now.

Jichael Mackson / Michael Jackson

I disagree with Ian, above, who suggested this was the worst thread in ILX history. It may not be ILX at it's most insightful, but there are some inspired moments. I don't know why it's so funny but I can't stop laughing at Tim Buckley/Timbuk 3.

This Mortal Coil/Coil
Fela Kuti/Femi Kuti (I know)

Killing Joke/Killer Joe
Stranglers/Strangelove
House of Love/House of Pain
Julian Cope/Citizen Cope

Ha ha, so Buckcherry is an anagram of Chuck Berry ... I never knew there was any point to that name until now.

It is, but they're named after an infamous L.A. drag queen.

....or so I read. I mean, who cares, really?

Steve Kuhn/Steve Kahn

Duran Duran/Duran Duran Duran

James Murphy the metal dude/James Murphy the postpunk dude

DJ Pierre the big early 90s Italian House DJ/DJ Pierre the big early 90s Chicago House DJ

Airscape/Airwave

Styx/Kix/the Fixx/Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks/The Dicks/Steve Malkmus & the Jicks

Harry Nilsson / Carnie Wilson

The Dead C/Deadsy
Opeth/Otep
Metallica/Megadeth

Once had a 'conversation' about music that quickly degenerated into such obtuse nonsense that I thought one(or both) of us were going insane. Turned out that the other guy thought I'd cited 'Counting Crows' at the beginning of the discussion, when I had really said 'Cannibal Corpse'

Coal Chamber/Cold Chisel
Poison/Boyzone
Def Leppard/Led Zeppelin

wire/high on fire
the mystics/stylistics

Elton John/Ethan Johns

Anthony Braxton / Toni Braxton

slaps forehead Why didn't I – probably the biggest Anthony Braxton fan on ILM – think of that one???

Ah well, I'll just have to have Tyondai Braxton/Toni Braxton instead, then.

Eric Gale/Eddie Gale

Hawkwind / Bob Lind

Motorhead / That Ted

Cud / Mud

Radiohead / Jowe Head

Michael Jackson - Jackson Browne - James Brown - Richard D. James - Cliff Richard - Jimmy Cliff - Jamiroquai - Rockwilder - Billy Wilder - Billie Jean - Jean Grae - Graham Coxon - Get your rocks off, get your rocks off honey, shake it now now, get 'em off downtown!

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Jandek, Inspectah Deck.

Everlast / Evan Mast

(aka E*Vax)

Steve Harley/Steve Holley

Denny Laine/"Penny Lane"

Art of Noise/Age of Chance

That Dark Angel/Death Angel confusion reminds of 1987/88 when I was in Dr. Disc, visiting with friends who worked there, and this 35-ish metalhead comes in wanting to return this album by (the Canadian) Slaughter... http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4506/908313170x170mc8.jpg ...which he'd bought by mistake, thinking it was Slayer.

Marc Almond / Mark-Almond

Engelbert Humperdinck x 2 (though the latter named himself after the former)

Lalo Schifrin/Labi Siffre

Oh, the confusion!

Eddie Holland/Eddie Holman

dan aykroyd / dananananakroyd

David Cross (King Crimson/Comedian)

X/The XX/xex

JJ Cage would be a good band name.

Killer Joe / Killing Joke

Strangelove / Stranglers

Deerhoof/Deerhunter

Johnny Paycheck/Johnny Pacheco

Skinnay Ennis/Skinny Dennis