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* 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.
* [[Korn (Music)|Korn]] is the name of a [[Nu Metal]] band. It's also the name of a Japanese pop artist known for his appearances on [[Iron Chef]].
* Engelbert Humperdinck was a turn-of-the-century German composer best known for his opera ''[[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]]''. In the '60s a British pop singer named Arnold Dorsey [[Shout
* 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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* The BBC once announced that their Record Library's catalogue included over 400(!) different tracks called "Goodbye" -- although it's likely that a lot of them were cover versions of earlier ones. Those which were different from one another include those by Flanagan & Allen, by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, and by Mary Hopkin.
* There were two blues harp-blowers/singers in Chicago named Sonny Boy Williamson. The first was John Lee Williamson, who recorded in the 1930's and 40's. The second Sonny Boy's real name was Rice (or Aleck) Miller, and he recorded after the original Sonny Boy's death in 1948. To avoid confusion, the latter singer is often referred to as Sonny Boy Williamson II.
* There were two [[One
** In the late 90's/early 2000's, a one-track wonder also named Sylvia did a cover of Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You".
** Another Sylvia is a Swedish singer.
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* 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.
** And the latter Steve Martin is an accomplished bluegrass player, no less!
* There's The Avalanches, an electronic music group known for their extensive use of [[Sampling]], and The Avalanches, a 60's surf group whose gimmick was winter-themed song-titles and Christmas Song covers. The latter is much more obscure, but albums by both show up when you look up the name on itunes. Interestingly, the electronic Avalanches included a [[Shout
* A 50's R & B vocal group and a currently active indie rock band formed in the 90's share the name The Wrens. As with the Avalanches example, looking up the name on iTunes gets you albums by both.
* There are two bands called Solstice, one from the United Kingdom and one from the United States, and they play [[Doom Metal]] and [[Death Metal]] respectively. Same name, very different sounds.
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* [[Orbital (Music)|Orbital]] is a techno duo from the UK. [[Music/The Orb|The Orb]] is an ambient electronic duo from the UK. William Orbit is an electronic composer from the UK. All three of them were active in the 90s and afterwards, and all three of them released remixes of other people's songs labeled "Orbital Remix".
* 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
* Both [[Madonna]] and [[Avril Lavigne]] have songs called "Don't Tell Me."
* Believe it or not, but Led Zeppelin's quintessential hit was not the first song to be entitled "Stairway to Heaven". Eleven years earlier, in 1960, Neil Sedaka also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_k_Nt5kOk recorded a song with that title]. Interesting enough, Neil Sedaka's song managed to hit number nine on the Billboard charts -- while Led Zeppelin's song never even hit the charts, as it was never released as a single.
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* The [[Visual Kei]] band Versailles, when they learned there were other bands with the same name in America, extended their name to Versailles-Philharmonic Quintet.
* Heavenly: wait, do you mean the French [[Power Metal]] band or the now-disbanded British indie pop band?
* Jean-Philippe Rameau had the misfortune of writing two unrelated one-act operas titled ''Anacréon''. On Wikipedia, you can [
* "Heartbreaker" is the name of a multitude of unrelated songs. Two of the most popular are by [[Pat Benatar]] and [[Led Zeppelin]].
* [[U 2]] and [[Linkin Park]] share two song names (Numb and One Step Closer).
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