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Unlikely bands to share the same name

Turns out there is a West Country Christian folk band called Why?

A friend got VERY excited the other day when he saw I had a spare Why? ticket. After much confusion it turned out we were talking at crossed purposes...

Any other examples?



  • "My friend" went watching

    British girlband Envy when he meant to go watching fantastic Japanese Screamo types Envy, it was a sad day.

  • .

    Ian Mackaye Embrace
    Other Embrace

    • ^ first thing i thought of

      • me too

        lol at the guardian not knowing the difference in their response to the mails emo panic

  • Theres a christian band

    from america called The Maccabees.

  • 2 x Nirvana

    Not really unlikely however...

  • Sade/Slade

    Ryan Adams/Bryan Adams

  • Felt

    Felt = the genius Lawrence Hayward - purveyor of melancholy, beautiful pop.

    Felt also = Steet-smart rap side-project by Murs and Slug.

  • Space.

  • apparently

    there is a "folk black metal" band called Lemuria

  • Nirvana (Kurt Cobain/Seattle/ Grunge)

    Nirvana (British/Prog/Hippy fuckers)

  • big black

    • The Shamen

      Classic sixties garage band. Apaprently there was another band of the same name in the early nineties.

      Also James / Jim Morrison.

      • Oh yes ...

        Mumm-Ra / Mum-Rah

      • Suede:

        the us country singer female who prevented Suede from being Suede over there.

        • Yoko Ono

          1. a teenage or twentysomething classical pianist playing Chopin.
          2. Beatle-marrying conceptual artist/screamer/singer.

    • who's the other Big Black?

  • Yes

    Septic Cunt
    Cliff Richard

  • Hefner

    Darren Hayman's bedsit gurus and a remix-friendly drum'n'bass outfit.

  • Some Girls - noise/thrash/punk band

    Some Girls - pop-rock band

    • poor guys

      after sharing American nightmare with some shit roots band too (and losing)

      • hahaha, yeah!

        Poor Wes, he doesn't have much luck with names. Still, XO Skeletons and Ye Olde Maids are pretty safe.

  • British boyband 5ive

    vs.

    Instrumental metal outfit 5ive.

    When I used to read Kerrang I found that hilarious

    • Didn't 5ive change their name to Five's Continuum Research Project?

      That was weird. Lucky the boy band pissed off really.

  • The Charlatans

    were an influential psychedelic rock band that played a pivotal role in the development of the San Francisco music scene in the 1960s. More akin to earlier jug band and blues influences than the later heavy psychedelia from the same scene, the Charlatans set the stage with their rebellious attitude and appearance. Their recorded output was small, and their first nationally distributed album (The Charlatans) was not released until 1969 (see 1969 in music), long after the band's heyday. This band was the first commercial appearance of Dan Hicks, later of Hot Licks fame

  • A bit obvious,

    but The Field, Fields, and Field Music.

    • and Fieldy

    • theres 2 bands called fields

      there was some psychedelic one in the 70s

  • At the end of the 90s

    there was a lot of talk in music circles about the possibilities of cyber-pop stars - not in the Gorillaz sense, but entirely computer generated models that would never age and you could do exciting virtual reality things with etc. Some big name labels and managers were behind various schemes, but none of them came to anything.

    One of the main contenders being discussed was a rapping robot voiced by Ricardo Da Force, who was on all the KLF singles, which would have been called Sonic Boom.

    • a rapping ROBOT is on the klf singles??

      wow. how did / does this robot manifest himself?

      • Nothing that exciting

        I meant Ricardo Da Force was the rapper on the KLF records.

        • "we came a long time ago

          992 but you did not know
          So if you think that the going gets tough
          Just remember...WHAT TIME IS LOOOOOOOVE!"

  • my mates band

    were forced to change their name from The Deadbeats to Ten Bears when they were sent a legal letter from some Scandinavian thrash metal band.

    The Grateful Dead tribute band in the US never bothered though. They were probably too stoned to go to the solicitor's.

  • Battles, Battle, The Battles

    And they all emerged pretty much at the same time as well.

    • they should have, y'know

      some kind of large scale brawl... a big fight... to sort this all out.

  • Beulah

    Elephant 6 band / piano stlye songstress

    I just about shat my pants in excitement when I saw Beulah was going to be playing at Bush Hall. I emailed the band to check if it was for real...I think they got in touch with their lawyers. Haven't heard much from songstress Beulah since.

    • Quite often on last.fm

      when i read the band bio, there always an equivilant band of teh same name somehwhere. like BORIS for expamle is also a dutch trance DJ, or some shit.

    • The Pharcyde and Farside

      90s hip hop vs 90s melodic hardcore

      • wasn't that Fireside?

        • No

          Farside, American band on Revelation. Fireside, I think, were Swedish.
          So, Pharcyde, Farside and Fireside.

    • I was going to say

      Beulah.

  • katatonia

    catatonia

  • q and not u

    q without u

    • Duffy (Stephen) The Lilac Time & Tin Tin

      Duffy(Aimee Anne)rubish welsh singer

  • Ladyhawke ... Ladyhawk

    Pretty blonde girl ... hairy hairy men

  • HEALTH vs health

    DiS favourites vs folk rock

    Justice vs Justice vs Justice: ed banger electro vs various hardcore/metal bands

  • An exclamation mark makes all the difference

    The Go Team - Calvin Johnson and Tobi Vail
    The Go! Team - excitable hip-hop Sonic Youth cheerleaders

  • Him

    Chicago-based post-rock / rubbish scandinavian goth-rock.

    Total: Matthew "Skullflower" Bower's noise/drone project / R&B girl band

    Sleep: Stoner rock titans / alt-hip hop MC

  • Architects (UK hardcore)

    Architect (German electro)
    The Architect (Dutch hardcore)
    The Architects (Canadian indie)
    Architects of a Broken Design (New York experimentalists)

    • And

      The Architechs, UK garage one hit wonders

    • Architects are not hardcore!

      • Still called Architects though aren't they

        yup

    • My architects

      "Post rock" (not really) band

  • Tomahawk

    one's an eclectic rock band fronted by Mr M. Patton the others a UK(?) Drum n' Bass act

  • Holy Shit

    Holy Shit - Ariel Pink/Matt Fishbeck/Christopher Owens
    Holy Shit - some Latvian metal band or something

    also theres a Holy Shit!

  • Rodan

    i saw they were playing recently but yeah...

  • suede

    there's an american lounge singer-esque guy called suede, thus why the band is known as "the london suede" in the states.

    also, the warlocks stole their name from the original name of the grateful dead!

  • Raconteurs -

    Shit Jack White spin-off & some Aussies.

  • Courtney Love

    and
    "Courtney Love" (the band)

    • like Kevin Shields and Kevin Shields?

    • my first thoughts when i read this thread's title.

  • The Japanese band Earth,

    sound nothing like the American band Earth.

    • oh that reminds me!

      Boris, there is a Dutch (I think he's Dutch anyway) singer who plays here a lot. If I could have a dollar for the amount of times I've seen people going to a Boris gig on Last.FM, who definitely don't look like fans of him, I'd be a rich man.

      I did actually contact one guy about it because he was from the Ukraine or somewhere similar.

  • "instru-prog-metal" Capricorns

    Casio-indie-pop Capricorns

  • Zombie Zombie

    dark and screamy synth, bass, and drums outfit from Colorado

    http://www.last.fm/music/Zombie+Zombie

    and

    the french one

    http://www.last.fm/music/Zombie+Zombie

  • Heavenly

    of the twee variety
    or
    Heavenly the power metal band.

    • Warlock(s)

      German female fronted HM band /neo psychedelic LA band

  • Avril / Avril Lavigne

    i guess

  • i have the other why? album.

    well, one of them. i really like it.

  • My mate's band were called...

    Linear. As were a ridiculously homoerotic band from the 80s. He found their CD once... beautiful.

    http://www.amazon.com/Linear/dp/B000008HR9

    http://www.myspace.com/linearuk

  • Mammal

    Good Noise(ish) Band
    Terrible Australian Grunge(ish) band

  • Battle

    Battles

    Annoying.

  • Mono

    Thanks to las.fm:

    The name is used by a Japanese post-rock band, a British trip-hop band, a Dutch post-rock band, a female Austrian reggae artist, a Swedish trance artist, a Korean pop ballad trio, a Polish hip-hop band and a new Danish indie rock band.

    And I believe there is/was another Rolo Tomassi, bus spelt with 2 L's.
    In fact there was, http://tinyurl.com/6gjzdq

  • a nice long list

    There's quite a lot listed here:

    http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/NotDuplicateArtists

    I was sure there'd be an equivalent list on wikipedia, but I can't find one.

    This tag could probably be used more often: http://www.last.fm/tag/two+bands+with+the+same+name