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As there are literally thousands of potential song-title examples, please [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|do not add any further ones]] unless (1) the songs really are different songs, not covers of the same song; (2) they really do have the same title, not just similar titles (e.g. Van Halen's "Jump" and the Pointer Sisters' "Jump (For My Love)" isn't an example); (3) they have something else in common apart from the name.
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* In the mid-90's, there was a surf rock band named The Havalinas, and an eclectic rock band named Havalina. The latter changed their name to [[Havalina Rail Co.]] to avoid confusion. But in 2002, following several personnel changes, and the disbanding of The Havalinas, HRC shortened their name back to Havalina. And now that they've broken up, there's another, completely unrelated rock band from Spain named Havalina.
* Norwegian metal group [[The Kovenant]] was once known simply as Covenant once, and even released their first two albums under the name. Trouble arose when an Industrial group also called [[Covenant]] sued them and forced them to change their name. Ironically, The Kovenant changed its musical style to a more Industrial Metal style shortly afterwards, [[Your Mileage May Vary|opinions differ]] on whether this was [[Growing the Beard]] or [[Jumping the Shark]], depending on one's musical preferences.
** To add insult to injury, there's also a Dutch metal band named The Covenant.
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* In the '60s, two British rock and roll groups ([[The Rolling Stones]] and a much-lesser-known outfit called The Undertakers) had members named Brian Jones. ''One'' of those two guys played saxophone on [[The Beatles]]' "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)", but there have been conflicting claims over the years as to which one it was.
** [[Word of God|Word Of McCartney]] claims it was Brian Jones of [[The Rolling Stones]].
* Along with the [[Public Enemy
* There's the techno group [[The Prodigy]] and the rapper Prodigy. Particularly confusing because the former had a couple of albums where the front cover billed them as just Prodigy.
* The songs "Fuck You". One by Lily Allen, the other by Cee Lo Green.
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* Two different famous jazz musicians have the name Bill Evans. One was a pianist, the other is a saxophonist. Both of them have been sidemen for [[Miles Davis]].
* "Donna" is both a cheesy late-50s song by [[Ritchie Valens]] (later covered by [[Marty Wilde]]), and a deliberately-cheesy early-70s song by 10cc which sends up the genre of such songs.
* Alan Parsons produced the [[
** There are also unreleased tracks by [[Yes]] and [[Joe Satriani]] called "Time", and a 1987 rock musical called '''Time''', with a theme song sung by [[Queen|Freddie Mercury]].
** None of these is to be confused with [[Electric Light Orchestra]]'s album ''Time'', which thankfully does not have a song that shares its title.
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** There's also a country radio DJ out of Atlanta who goes by Moby.
* [[Depeche Mode]] recorded "It Doesn't Matter" for 1984's "Some Great Reward" and "It Doesn't Matter Two" for 1986's "Black Celebration."
** Neither of which is Sonic's theme in ''[[
*** The original ''[[
** Or a Wyclef Jean song.
* Howard Jones is the name of a British synth-pop musician and the American lead singer of [[Killswitch Engage]].
* [[
* [http://www.last.fm/music/Slipknot/+wiki There are three bands] by the name [[Slipknot]]: the well-known nine-man [[Nu-metal]] band today, a cross-over thrash band of the 80's with one third the membership of the last and an unknown jam-band from the 90's.
** Also, Paul Gray is the name of Slipknot's (the nu-metal band) former bass-player (R.I.P) and an English bassist known for playing in Eddie & The Hot Rods and [[The Damned]].
* Phil Coll'''en''' is the lead guitarist for Def Leppard. Phil Coll'''ins''' is the drummer for [[Genesis (
* There's Nancy Wilson, the jazz singer. And then there's Nancy Wilson, the singer/guitarist who with her sister Ann formed the rock band [[
* Everyone knows [[Ray Charles]], but there was another musical Ray Charles who headed up an easy-listening vocal group, the Ray Charles Singers, in the 1950s and '60s (and who was the male vocalist on the ''[[
* In 1978, a British group called The Beat was founded in Birmingham. One year later, an American band called The Beat was founded in Los Angeles. Upon becoming aware of each other, the former began billing itself as "The English Beat" in the U.S., whereas the American band is billed in Europe as "Paul Collins' Beat".
* There's Mike Mills the [[REM]] bassist, and Mike Mills the director and graphic designer. You wouldn't think there'd be a lot of room for confusion between the two, but the latter often directs music videos and designs album artwork, and he was even a member of the Cibo Matto side-project Butter 08.
* [[John Lennon]], [[Wilson Phillips]], [[Yes]], [[The Cars
* In the mid-80s, three different songs with the title "The Power of Love" were released: one by [[
** The most well known of the three, of course, is the Huey Lewis song.
** The versions by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Jennifer Rush were UK #1s within the space of a year (Huey Lewis's version wasn't). In 1976, two quite different songs called ''Forever and Ever'' (by Slik and by Demis Roussos), both topped the UK chart within six months.
* ''bôa'' is an English alternative rock band. ''[[
* In the 1975's, there was a folk-rock band named Jubal's Last Band, who shortened their name to Jubal. In 1975, they had a chance run-in with a country-rock band, also named Jubal, at a Maranatha Music Group meeting. Upon realizing the overlap, both bands immediately changed their names--the folk band became [[Daniel Amos]] and the country band became Gentle Faith.
* [[
* Engelbert Humperdinck was a turn-of-the-century German composer best known for his opera ''[[
* Randy Jackson: One of the Jacksons, or the session bassist who is now a judge on ''[[American Idol]]''?
* Aside from the post-grunge band, there are a few other bands called Fuel - the most prominent is a San Francisco punk band heavily influenced by Fugazi (enough so that they earned the nickname "Fuelgazi"). Once the album ''Monuments To Excess'' by the latter was reissued, some fans of the post-grunge band occasionally mistook it for some kind of collection of their early work and presumably thought there was some serious [[Early Installment Weirdness]] going on.
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* [[George Strait]] cut two different songs called "She'll Leave You with a Smile" five years apart and released the newer one as a single.
* Collin Raye did the same with two different songs both titled "If I Were You", but in his case the gap was only ''three'' years — and the latter came only one year before Terri Clark released a ''third'' song of the same name.
* Both [[
* Jimmy Rogers (pop pianist), Jimmy Rogers (Chicago bluesman), Jimmie Rodgers (early 20th century country singer known as the Singing Brakeman) or Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer known for his song "Honeycomb")?
* Exile: American country/rock band that used to be a pop band ("Kiss You All Over") or Japanese pop band with 14 members?
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*** [[Jethro Tull]] has a song called "Home" from the ''Stormwatch'' album, while "Home" is also a [[Pink Floyd|Roger Waters]] song from 1987's ''Radio KAOS''.
* There are also two unrelated country music songwriters named Anthony Smith. One was born Ralph Anthony Smith, and the other is typically credited as Anthony L. Smith to avoid confusion. The former usually writes with a marked rock influence, while the latter usually writes ballads (and is black). Interestingly, Montgomery Gentry's ''Carrying On'' album features songs co-written by both Anthony Smiths.
* Also in country music, there's Tim James (co-writer of [[
* "Thong Song". One is a song about the underwear recorded by Sisqo, with a pretty big [[Hatedom]]. Another is an awesome [[Kyuss]] song about the brand of shoes.
* There are two bands named Indica--[[Indica|one]] (the more famous one, relatively speaking) is a Finnish rock band associated with [[
* There are two bands by the name of '''Artful Dodger'''. One is a 70's rock band from the US, the other is a popular British R&B & UK garage band. Ask any music fan and most of them will only know about the latter.
* Steve Martin was the stage name of the lead singer of the [[Baroque Pop]] band The Left Banke in [[The Sixties]]. He later added "Caro" after [[Steve Martin|the comedian of the same name]] became well-known.
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* Confusingly enough, Thin Lizzy have two completely different songs called "Sarah": One was released in 1972 and is about Phil Lynott's grandmother, and the other was released in 1979 and is about his then newborn daughter.
* Jack Johnson, Guster, The Decemberists, Mark Sandman, and Bjork have all written a song called "Cocoon," and there are five bands with that name as well.
* There's an acoustic singer, an R&B singer, and an electropop singer all named Kelly Rose. The first appears to be of Hispanic descent, the second is a blonde from New Zealand, and the third is a brunette from Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The latter two both prominently use [[
* Samantha Cole did two different songs called "Obsession". The latter, which was never released to the public, was a cover of the Animotion song (which was [[Covered Up|itself]] a cover of a Michael Des Barres & Holly Knight song).
* For a while, there were two metal bands named Shaman, one from Finland and one from Brazil. The Finnish band changed their name to [[Korpiklaani]].
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* There were three groups called The Firm: one did "Radioactive," one did "Star Trekkin'," and one did "Firm Biz." The first one had Paul Rodgers & Jimmy Page (among others), and the last one had Nas & Foxy Brown (among others). The second one had nobody of note.
* The Wall of Sound either refers to a [[Phil Spector|lush studio recording technique]] or a [[Grateful Dead|precise live sound system]].
* Yaz (known as Yazoo in England) was an early 80's [[
* There are two Scandinavian bands called the Teddybears on iTunes. One's a Swedish electro-rock group; the other's a Norwegian garage-rock group. Neither of these is to be confused with the American doo-wop group of the same name from the 1950s.
* Bruce Dickinson is both [[Bruce Dickinson
* Jon Secada, [[Oingo Boingo]], and [[John Cena]] (yes, the [[WWE]] wrestler) have all recorded songs titled "Just Another Day." None of them are exactly what you would call happy tunes.
* The soundtrack to [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] has THREE songs entitled "Magic" on it, each of which were marked by one or more asterisks matched to the artists who originally performed them. (The songs were originally performed by [[
* [[Kamen Rider Double]]'s songs have this, but they're named after some Disney songs: ''Nobody's Perfect'' and ''Naturally''. The former song has two: One of a upbeat song sung by [[Hannah Montana]], the other is a gloomy one by Koji Kikkawa. The latter one: One's an upbeat song by [[Selena Gomez]] (and the Scene), the other sung by Wakana Sonozaki. Double ponts: It helps that Avex distributes The Walt Disney Records/Hollywood Records label in Japan, and Avex is the one making songs for the [[Kamen Rider]] Franchise since 2001, so the titles are (maybe) coincidence.
** Another [[Kamen Rider]] example comes from [[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'s song, "Circle Of Life". [[Lion King|No need to explain what this collides with]].
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* "It's Too Late": Bobby Goldsboro's 1965 tune, Carole King's 1971 cut from her album "Tapestry," or Robin Trower's progressive take from 1981.
* LIGHTS is either [[Lights|a Canadian electropop singer]], an Irish synthpop artist (Neil Dixon, aka LIGHTS DC), or a prog-rock band.
** And then there's the [[Journey (
* There was a band in the early 1990s called [[Courtney Love]], which confusingly appeared on the same compilation as [[Nirvana]].
* "Woman": Peter and Gordon's 1966 tune (written by Paul McCartney under the pseudonym Bernard Webb) and John Lennon's 1980 ballad to wife Yoko.
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* [[Keith Urban]] recorded two different songs titled "Without You". The first was when he was still a more pop-oriented singer in Australia in 1991, and the second was a number-one country hit in 2011.
* "Fuck the Millennium" was a song by 2K ([[The KLF]]), and later a [[Scooter]] song.
* [[
* Pirates of the Mississippi and John Anderson, two country music acts, released albums named ''Paradise'' only a few months apart (April 1995 and January 1996, respectively). While this would not typically be notable, both albums have the same song as their title track (although only Anderson's version was a single).
* Not ''exactly'' identical titles, but [[Cheap Trick]] have two different songs called "O Claire" and "O'''h''' Claire". "Oh Claire" was a very short bit of [[Album Filler]] on 1978's ''Heaven Tonight'', which was meant as a [[Shout-Out]] to their Japanese fans (the only lyrics being "oh, Konnichiwa"). "O Claire", on the other hand, was a full-fledged four minute song on their 2006 album ''Rockford''. The title of both would be a pun on the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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* [[Blue October]] is the name of both a British band and an American one.
* [[Taylor Swift]] and [[Selena Gomez]] both have songs called "The Way I Loved You" about pretty much the same thing. Gomez's is more mournful, though. Bonus points for coming out within a year of each other.
* Two of the biggest 90s [[Alternative Rock]] bands, [[Radiohead]] and [[My Bloody Valentine (
* Summercamp were an [[Alternative Rock]] band who released [[One-Book Author|one album]], ''Pure Juice'', in 1997, and had songs appear in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[
* Another case where punctuation makes all the difference: The Go! Team (a six-piece British band who were formed in 2000) and The Go Team (an American group from the 80's whose main members were [[Beat Happening]]'s Calvin Johnson and [[Bikini Kill]]'s Tobi Vail).
* The music industry has two guys named Jonathan Davis; one is the lead singer for [[Korn]], and the other is rapper Q-Tip's real name. Korn was on one of Q-Tip's songs, too.
* There is the Indie Pop band from Glasgow, Scotland named Camera Obscura, and then there is a synth-heavy Post-Hardcore band from San Diego also named Camera Obscura who only released one album.
* '''Sad, But True''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8BRbM52gpc a song by] [[
* In the early 90s, music journo Fred Dellar noted that he knew of twelve different actively gigging groups called Surrender Dorothy. There have been more since.
* There are a bewildering number of different groups called Crossfire. A few appear to be named for the literal concept of crossfire, but the bulk seems to be split about evenly between [[Christian Rock]] / gospel groups, and heavy metal bands with an anti-religious stance.
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* Jean-Philippe Rameau had the misfortune of writing two unrelated one-act operas titled ''Anacréon''. On Wikipedia, you can [[wikipedia:Anacr%C3%A9on (1754)|find]] [[wikipedia:Anacr%C3%A9on (1757)|both of them]] to solve the problem.
* "Heartbreaker" is the name of a multitude of unrelated songs. Two of the most popular are by [[Pat Benatar]] and [[Led Zeppelin]].
* [[
* Mono is the name of both a Japanese [[Post Rock]] group and a British trip hop duo (the latter broke up after releasing one album, ''Formica Blues'').
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