"Under the Milky Way is such a great song. Echo and the Bunnymen deserved a bigger fanbase."

I'm sure there's a thread just like this somewhere, I just couldn't find it.

Any personal favorites of this kind of band confusion?

This reminds me of a sentence from a student essay I graded: "Did Charles Dickens think 'No one's going to want to buy a book about a big whale'? No. He wrote Moby Dick because he wanted to."

(he also got the author wrong, I'm assuming)

Being a fan of neither, I mistook Bright Eyes for The Decemberists whilst at a friend's house the other day. Realise it's not strictly in the spirit of this thread, but can that be excused?

"This is a shithouse Frente cover" - some sneery babygoth, on hearing New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" at a club one night.

awesome

There was a passage in a Robert Bork book where he called Nine Inch Nails a gangsta rap group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TpHUNNiMl0

Tribute to Alien Sex Fiend, with a Bauhaus song playing. Lame excuse in the comments once it's pointed out

abangthebeat (2 years ago)
Just curious...how come a Bauhaus song (In The Night) is being used. I love ASF and Bauhaus alike, though.
MacabrevRessurected (2 years ago) Reply
It'd be, in my opinion, a little cheesy to use their own song for a tribute of the band. I don't know how much sense it may make in your opinion, but I thought it'd be an appriopriate for this video.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs230.snc1/7717_249293180087_668025087_8757629_6227879_n.jpg

hahah

Limewire was and maybe still is convinced that Ballroom Blitz was by Blue Oyster Cult.

I did just this last night even though I know full well that "Under the Milky Way" isn't Echo it's an easy mistake to make. Some commericial is using some god awful cover version of UtMW btw.

I'm Facebook friends with the person who made that t-shirt (I think) so have now looked at it several dozen times without being any closer to understanding it

I guess maybe ppl confuse Hendrix with Bob Marley?

Peter Hook's Mom called him to say she heard the new single on the radio and loved it. Unfortunately, it was Pure by The Lightning Seeds.

He then took the opportunity to sell her Ian Curtis's autograph.

where can i buy the hendrix/marley shirt

http://africanapparel.bigcartel.com/product/john-marley-t-shirt

holy lolz at their other shirt

I approve of your choices, African Apparel

The Flash Gordon backdrop on their logo = quality.

If that wasn't a 20 pound shirt, I would buy it.

OH GOD I WANT THE FREDDIE SHIRT!

A heavy shirt to bear xpost

kinda want that jimi/bob shirt just for the random people that will try and point out that it's wrong or something.

YES!

or

I am more curious about the people who wont figure it out but should know better. Cue all ___ people look the same to ____ madness...

all ___ people look the same to ____ madness...

all madness look the same to me

http://alanadale.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/madness9.jpg

on the actual thread topic, for a long time i thought i really liked one blink 182 song, but every blink 182 song i listened to wasn't the one i really liked. i eventually and with an embarrassing amount of half-remembered-lyrics googling realized it was "the middle" by jimmy eat world. so now i know i really like one jimmy eat world song.

I was flipping through a record price guide, and under Television was a note: "guitarist Richard Lloyd also records under the name Richard Hell". I see what they did there.

"JOHN Marley"?! That's hilarious, intentional or not. It's like some Jackie Harvey next-level wrongness.

Weird Al Yankovic is so funny! I love "Which Backstreet Boy's gay?"

http://beta.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/list/the-25-most-shocking-moments-in-movie-history/14.-the-godfather/574400-1-eng-US/14.-The-Godfather_imagelarge.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/30cpue0.jpg

The untrained eye may not at first detect what Freddie is looking at.

http://dmr.ath.cx/pix/reznor.jpg

O rly.

I used to work at a record store that sold shirts, too. Two women came in one day, threw a Hendrix shirt (with no writing on it) on the counter, just beaming and excitedly talking about what a perfect wedding gift this was going to be for a new daughter-in-law. "She's Jamaican!!", they kept saying. Luckily for everyone, they spent like ten minutes changing their minds about the size, and I (who'd long become desensitized to customers' incomprehensible ideas about things (it was in a large mall)) finally figured out they thought it was a Bob Marley shirt. DJ Mencap's friend isn't the only one!

Co-worker: "I just LOVED Oprah in Purple Rain".

HAHA

Dave Edmunds had a lot of people asking him why in concerts he would always play "that Juicy Newton song"

x-post

Same co-worker went to Hawaii to see the "hunchback whales". She was like a rejected Anna Faris character.

Ha, I actually heard Psychedelic Furs' "Heartbreak Beat" the other day and thought it might have been Echo and the Bunnymen. (I'd heard the song before, I just never knew who it was by.)

Every time I hear the first 30 seconds or so of "Taking Care of Business" I think it's the Rolling Stones.

The memory of the saxophone in that tune still makes me ill.

When I first heard Strapping Young Lad's cover of Cop Shoot Cop's Room 429, I thought it was an awesome Foetus song I hadn't gotten round to hearing yet. I actually came onto ILX in order to post this until realising in the nick of time how wrong I was. But, shit, it's SO Foetus. It would work so well as a Thirlwell album-closer!

when helmet's "unsung" came out, everyone thought it was ozzy

where can i buy the hendrix/marley shirt

― cutty, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 6:00 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

no shit dude that was the quickest $38.43 i spent all year

what i mean is i didnt hesitate

i thought "long cool woman in a black dress" by hollies was CCR when i was a kid...but for good reason i guess.

I still think that sometimes!

That's because the song shamelessly rips off CCR's "Green River"

ah, i now c you see noticed that as well in your original post.

This kind of thing was very prevalent back in the early 00's filesharing glory days ("Neil Young - Horse With No Name" and so on). Some of it was bedroom nobodies trying to pass off their stuff as Aphex Twin/Boards of Canada though.

I am listening to David Soul "Sometimes When We Touch" and am kind of emotional.

People who think Blondie did "I Touch Myself"

"Hard Luck Woman is such a great song. Rod Stewart deserved a better fan base."

Results 1–10 of about 72 000 for "woo hoo" blur.

Results 1 - 10 of about 60,700 for "woo hoo" oasis.

I once met Elizabeth Fraser backstage at a Cocteau Twins gig and asked her how she found working with Autechre. Er...

Morgan Fisher has often been asked about the solo on "Whiter shade of Pale" (Matthew fisher)...

A lot of people mix up Brooks & Dunn with Garth Brooks. But I always felt that that was almost intentional--like the record company sort of hoped that people would think that B&D was a new duo with Garth and another guy.

I once met Elizabeth Fraser backstage at a Cocteau Twins gig and asked her how she found working with Autechre. Er...

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 11:55 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

dude this is a vision

Yeah, she didn't seem very keen though. Rather than realising my error I just kept battering away, "Are you sure? I mean, I definitely read it somewhere...some remixes or something? Or was it Robin?" When the Seefeel collab came out I went around telling people that I'd planted the idea in her head before it slowly dawned on me that I hadn't mentioned them at all...

Ryan Adams is still not amused whenever somebody asks him about how come he never plays "Summer Of '69" at his gigs anymore.

It's his own fault: It's not his name anyway!

Do Animal Collective ever play Never Gonna Give You Up?

X-Post: Plus he should just be happy it isn't this guy he is being mixed up with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKjEOl74F4

Mmm...somewhere in the archives is a Portishead thread in which I praise their vocalist "Beth Orton"

I once met Elizabeth Fraser backstage at a Cocteau Twins gig and asked her how she found working with Autechre. Er...

Hhaha so who *were* you thinking of if it wasnt Seefeel?

Future Sound of London, I figure.