I once bought a cd by a band called UFO! (probably the shittiest, most annoying thing I've ever listened to) because I thought it was UFO.

Also - Cake (the one that had that song "Short Skirt, Long Jacket", and Long Beach Cake, later the Lungpigs.

Incubus (3 bands)

Then there is a band called Karp, and two bands called Carp, one of which is my favorite local band.

heavenly (british twee)



heavenly (french metal)

there are three bands called "supercharger" ...maybe more

http://www.myspace.com/superchargerradiox - greg lowery's san francisco garage punk band (rip off records)

http://www.myspace.com/wearesupercharger - some danish 'glam rock' band

http://www.myspace.com/superchargerau - some australian 'metal' band

Slaughter, the shitty Canadian one, then the awesome one.

it's a webcomic and it's been out for a while
http://creative.myspace.com/groups/_...01/sshock.html

There's the 80's Dischord band Embrace, and the shite british band Embrace.

The Charlatans (US band) & The Charlatans (UK band) and known as The Charlatans UK in the USA.

Suede & The London Suede.

The Warlocks (The Grateful Dead's original name), The Warlocks (the band that made Jerry Garcia change their name) & The Warlocks (current band with Bobby Hecksher who was in The Brian Jonestown Massacre for a bit).

UK subhumans= serious fucking shit
Candada subhumans= dudes, give up the name already, all the youth wear uk subhumans patches, and they dont really give a shit about you cuz you suck in comparison.

There's in fact lots more Mono: the post-rock band from japan and the british duo you said, plus a dutch indie rock band, an austrian ragga artist, a korean ballad band, a trance artist from Sweden, a german heavy metal band, a polish hiphop band and a danish indie band (thanks Last.fm). Most of them sound shitty anyway.

There's also a harsh noise band called Monno, they're good

monosodic sometimes get called mono for short, and it's weird. at least i don't use that abbreviation.

Swedish metal band Koma (now titled Khoma)
"sounds like if Thom Yorke got lost and then stumbled into Deftones rehearsal room"

 

Spanish hardcore band


Russian hardcore band

There's also a late-70's punk band called The Ex.

isn't that the same band as everyneurotic refers to?


then there are bands (artists) who deliberately choose somebody else's name, like kevin shields and donna summer.

And out here we've also got Monsieur Mono as well

there's the 70's band circle and the 90's/00's circle.

There's two bands called Lotus Eaters:

An experimental/ambient metal project featuring Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), Khanate etc), James Plotkin and Aaron Turner (Isis); and a terrible 80s electro-pop band of the same name

Felt (Lawrence Hayward):



Felt (hip-hop - Murs & Slug):

there is also a swedish band called tape:
http://www.hapna.com/H25.html



i don't think i've come across that one before... but i must admit it's also very plausible that it did not make such a big impression on me at that time and i can't remember...

They were from Las Vegas.

This must take the cake for the biggest stylistic difference between bands with the same name.