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See also [[Refrain From Assuming]] and [[Covered Up]]. [[All Animation Is Disney]] for a similar trope in a different medium (and both are subtropes of [[Small Reference Pools]]).
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== Commonly Mistaken Artists ==
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* Yes, David Allen Coe has two albums entitled ''Nothing Sacred'' and ''Underground Album'' that feature songs with wonderful titles like "Cum Stains on the Pillow", "Fuck Anita Briant", "Nigger Fucker", and "Fuckin' in the Butt". The racist songs "Nigger, Nigger," "In Coon Town," "Who Likes a Nigger?," "Nigger Hatin' Me," "Still Looking for a Handout," "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Smell That Way)," "Stay Away from Dixie," and "Move Them Niggers North" are all by an artist named [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rebel_(singer) Johnny Rebel]. Despite what you may think, these two classy guys have nothing to do with each other.
** Some of Rebel's songs are mistakenly attributed to famed country singer Johnny Horton or Johnny Cash due to similarities in the voices and both artists being in the same genre.
** There's something of a [[
* In a very understandable example, many remixes by The Orb are falsely attributed to Orbital. Not only do both bands have similar names and play similar styles of music, but early on in The Orb's career, they remixed songs and referred to them as the "Orbital Mix." They have since stopped doing this to try to minimize confusion, but it's still confusing when one realizes a majority of "Orbital mixes" have nothing to do with the group named Orbital.
* Happy Rhodes is a singer / songwriter / instrumentalist. She gets mistaken for [[Kate Bush (Music)|Kate Bush]]. And [[Eurythmics (Music)|Annie Lennox]]. And ''duets'' between Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. She has a four-octave vocal range!
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* Binary Finary's ''19XX''(originally 1998, then 1999) was remixed by Gouryella(Ferry Corsten and DJ Tiesto), not Veracocha(Ferry Corsten and Vincent de Moor). Some CD compilations actually mislabeled it this way.
* No, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bi5PBI4wuE&feature=related 99 Red Balloons]" was not covered by AFI. The version that you heard was actually covered by 7 Seconds (on the album "Walk Together"). The original, of course, was done by Nena (''not'' Nina Hagen)
* No, that ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''-inspired song ("Link, he come to town") was never performed by [[System of a Down]]. (It is not by Mr. Bungle either) That version is by Joe Pleiman and Jesse Spence, who were members of a musical duo named [http://www.myspace.com/therabbitjoint The Rabbit Joint]. The song appeared on an album ''also'' called [[Self
* No, "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" isn't by [[Music/Three Doors Down|Three Doors Down]], it's actually by the band Nine Days.
* No, "Addicted" was not by Three Doors Down, nor was it by Hinder. It was by Saving Abel.
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* No, [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]] never did a version of "Carol of The Bells". That was [[Trans Siberian Orchestra]]. And [[Refrain From Assuming|it wasn't called "Carol of The Bells", either]]. It was called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24]"
** That song isn't even by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but the progressive/power metal that spawned it, [[Savatage]].
* No, the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5umEUBDXfU0 Children's Orchestra fail]" going round the Internet has nothing to do with children, Swedish or otherwise. It was played by an orchestra, however: the Portsmouth Sinfonia, a crowning example of "[[So Bad
* No, [[Coldplay (Music)|Coldplay]] had nothing to do with "Closer To Love"; it's by Mat Kearney.
* No, "Closing Time" (not "[[Refrain From Assuming|Take Me Home]]") is not [[Green Day]] or Weezer. It's Semisonic.
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* "Super Freak" is by [[Rick James]]. NOT [[James Brown]]!
** Oh, and by the way, it's not by [[MC Hammer]] either. He just [[Sampled Up|Sampled it Up]].
* No, [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animation)|"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] was not sung by Boris Karloff. It was sung by Thurl "[[Hey
* No, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|"You're My Honeybunch"]] of YTMND fame was not sung by [[Strawberry Shortcake]]; it was sung by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Z6pWhM6TA Amy Castle].
** It also did not originate from DJ Cammy's "Celebrate the Summer". It was sampled for that song.
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