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mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 2:03 am

Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me". I thought this was Aretha Franklin.

Gary Wright, "Love Is Alive". I thought this was Steve Winwood. Not just his voice, but the sounds were reminiscent of his Arc of a Diver album.

Lee Michaels, "Do You Know What I Mean". A much younger version of me thought he sounded a lot like Mick Jagger.

Musical Gym · Post by **Musical Gym** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:43 am

Surf City by Jan and Dean (co-written with Brian Wilson who also sang backup vocal) could just as easily have been a Beach Boys hit.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:37 am

I'm pretty sure when I was really young I thought "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and "Glad All Over" by the Dave Clark Five were Beatles songs.

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:13 am

I thought Smackdown by Thousand Foot Crutch was Chevelle.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:00 am

Got some tapes from a deck my brother bought second-hand. One of the recorded albums I thought was Tina Turner singing "Mercedes Benz", turned out to be Janis Joplin

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:27 am

First time I heard "One Bad Apple" by The Osmonds, I thought it was The Jackson 5's new song.

First time I heard "Toast And Marmalade For Tea" by Tin Tin, I thought it was The Bee Gees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1SenDxZAbA

Oddly, the record was produced by The Bee Gees.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:33 pm

First time I heard Genesis. I'd left my FM receiver on all night, and awoke to 'Entangled.' My first groggy thought was that it was Cat Stevens. Then the long prog outro, and I wasn't so sure. But Trick of the Tail became my first Genesis album. It's still my fave along with The Lamb Lies Down.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:37 pm

first time i heard solsbury hill i thought it was genesis.

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:45 pm

When I first heard it on the radio, I thought Sixty Eight Guns was a new single from The Clash.

I should have realised my mistake immediately. There's not a single shout of "caballeros!" anywhere in it.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:42 pm

Spiral Starecase, "More Today Than Yesterday". I think I knew a long time ago that it wasn't Stevie Wonder, but it sounds so much like something he would have done during his Motown days that it's hard not to hear it and think its Stevie.

AsPeeXXXVIII · Post by **AsPeeXXXVIII** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:45 pm

Pantera's "Walk" - upon first hearing it, I thought it was by Machine Head. I don't know how, because Robb Flynn doesn't sound anything like Phil Anselmo.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:45 pm

wagtunes wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:27 am First time I heard "Toast And Marmalade For Tea" by Tin Tin, I thought it was The Bee Gees.

Oddly, the record was produced by The Bee Gees.

I heard that and I thought of this:

https://youtu.be/cyWo6Y-i-U0

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:39 am

"Smoke From A Distant Fire" by Sanford-Townsend Band sounds a lot like Van Morrison.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:50 am

I'm surprised nobody posted "On the Dark Side" by John Cafferty and the E Street Beaver Brown Band.

PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:07 am

When Dire Straits first released their debut LP I thought it might be JJ cale.

Songs you thought were someone else