Bands that have the same name.
 

There are at least 2 Nirvana , a lot of Big Black , New Order and The New Order , 2 Cherubs plus a band called The Cherub etc...
( this thread could be useful to avoid bad surprises when buying a record )

My Salamander:


The early 70s concept-prog Salamander, whose LP is worth a lot more money than any of ours:

mono?

i think there were 2, 1 being good (japan) & the other ass (eengland)

Dutch post-punk band Mecano:





Spanish synth-pop band Mecano:




I have only heard the Dutch Mecano, who are good (although I haven't listened to them in some time) and someone told me that the Spanish Mecano were awful (although I didn't not get the chance to verify this...)

Not really the same, but one of my friends wanted to buy an Earth album, but ended up getting an album by Skeletal Earth. Not quite the same thing...

Also, lots of bands called Resin, including one I did in highschool...

http://www.purevolume.com/resincp

M.I.A.:





MIA. (Germany):

 

Subhumans
The Mission

"awful" doesn't beginning to describe how stomach-churning, brain-hemmorhage (sp?) causing, ear tumor they fucking are, the worst cutesy, 1 point of iq retarded piece of shit music you can ever hear.

they are pretty much at the top of the worse things i've ever heard in a my life.

believe me, everyone here worships this good for nothing crap, one of the the assholes in the band even mama mia'd their songs (they made a musical).

do yourself a favor and avoid them.


contribution:

stimulators: there's the proto hardcore power pop band and a reggae band or something.

lambsbread: the improv noise rock band and a reggae band.

there's like five bands called om.

infernal: a death metal band and an electro pop band (haven't heard neither)

skid row: the semi-hair metal band and a blues hard rock band from the 70's

thor's hammer: nsbm band and thorr's hammer: the black doom band.

there was also an 80's hardcore band called m.i.a.

there's like 3 million bands called genocide.

smegma: the genius band and a crusty punk band.

Haha... Ok, that was a clear assessment. I am curious by nature but I can't say I'm really eager to inflict myself this even for a few seconds using Youtube or else now. We shall see: do I have enough time to lose to check every awful music there is just to see how awful it really is?

skid row... irish rockers a la thin lizzy and the american poodle wankery of riffdom.....

desecration...... irish death metal band, mates of mine, they are no longer rockin out..... finnish death metal band who invited them on a tour with them...... the tour was called the two desecrations of hell.... the irsh dececreation changed their name to the disgust of the poster printers... true story!

ohh yeah, the stains, both hardcore bands, both opened for flag when henry joined, one from la, one from austin. the austin stains soon changed their name to millions of dead cops.

there's also like a million bands called dissection.

dinosaur and the the dinosaurs.... the former added the jr postfix.

irish band blink..... they forced blink to change to blink 182!

Anyone else remember when Bush had to call themselves Bush X ?

....


Actually... does anyone even remember Bush?

kate or burning?

Wasn't there some California punk band called MIA too?

There's a lot of REMs, and I think there's two bands called the Chameleons (the one from England are called the Chameleons UK in the US), two bands called the Monks

regarding smegma: there's a punk band called "mega smegma", as well, which is close.

there is scrawl, le scrawl, and another band called scrawl.

two bands called switchhitter.

there is x and another band called x (japan).

i actually looked up cherubs on youtube and found that shitty band called cherubs instead of the noise rock band and i made fun of them.

unrelated, but: there's this comic book made by the guy who made buffy and i guess it's coming out soon but the band in is naped sugar shock. ripoff.

A year and a half ago, I was planning on trying out my band skills with a group mainly of people far younger than me who couldn't play called Czar, and I recall there were about 100 other bands and artists called Czar on myspace at the time. So there y'are.

I know 2 of the Scrawl , the indie american band and another one who are german and play some sort of grind-flamenco-easy-listening ( I'm not kidding )

There were two bands called 'Dinosaur'; ask King Buzzo about that though.


RAEIN. They were such a great emo band. But some local band named themselves Raein, and I saw it on the show listings and got excited, then found out it was a different band.

there is an australian band called x as well, or was..
also, mogwai, and i'm pretty sure there's an electronic band called moguai (same pronunciation) they might be australian too, not sure.

Slightly off topic, but I absolutely hate when people (the British press are the guiltiest) call Sonic Youth "the sonics" for short. Even though both bands are great and the latter influenced the former, it's like they don't even know the '60 garage gods existed!

I've actually run into this problem with my own group Dead Air Fresheners and people calling us DAF for short. There is a classic group called DAF and we don't wish to dis them by stealing their initials!

Cher & Cher UK
Always thought that one was funny.

The Coachmen

Free Beer

Seemingly there are more bands that are called Necronomicon, besides the 70s German one.
http://www.last.fm/music/Necronomicon?setlang=en

it appears there are also two Pylons and seven Polarises,,,

Polari

i know there's at least two bands called Ruins, although probably lots more than two..

excellent Japanese band
some Australian metal band (i think)

also, Slipknot (lol)

there was a hardcore band called Slipknot, late 80s I think

the aussie band are called ruiner, no? ive heard of a band called the ruins, i bought a cd by mistake thinking it was some jap ruins album i hadnt come accross because the cover had an old aztec statue on it... it wasnt the same band, type of music , nationality or even continent! it suckes major balls.......

I think you're right, they're probably called "the ruins".

there's a bunch of bands called "Ghost". again, the japanese one is the best in my eyes.

also, i know two bands called DNA...the no wave band, and also a trance group.

also, more than one "The Jam" or "Jam" ... the other "The Jam"/"Jam" is a 60s garage rock band

The most hilarious one to me is Japanese Boris vs. Dutch Boris (winner of Pop Idols TV show). I even had to save king_buzzo once from accidentally going to the second one.















Mecano from Spain had a hit some years ago with Hijo De La Luna, maybe you know it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3REPMDSCh4

there are two pagoda bands

wata is so hot. jesus.

anyway, there seems to be a lot of overlapping in death metal/gore grind/etc. lots of bands with VERY similiar names, such as "necrophagia" and "necrophagist"..

I've been told that there are two bands called Faust nowadays... although they're both different incarnations of what once was the same legendary band we all know.

In the same way there are now two different groups called Master Musicians of Jajouka, using different spelling. I think they're using "Jajouka" and "Joujouka", but don't pin me down on that.

Ha! Good call. I'm sure that Kingo isn't the only one to have that happen to him.
Imagine it happening the other way around. :D

There's also a French Boris (doing disco or techno - I don't remember but anyway it's crap).

already made the observation, started in las vegas but moved to oc at some point.


reminds me of suede, they go by "the london suede" in the u.s.


i know the australian metal band is called either ruins or the ruins.


kinda what happened to christian death, they have to clarify which recordings are with rozz williams and which aren't.

and your name kinda reminds me, besides the japanese, angelino and aussie x's, there's the ex who are phonetically alike.


tell me about it, there's nuclear assault and nuclear death, there's a band called diabolic and another called diabolical; i'm even confused by immolation and incantation, i get them mixed up.

there's also a band from spain called tape and a dutch band (i think) called .tape

The Go Team and The Go! Team. Thought the oddly placed exclamation mark was just them being cute.

Of course there's also the band Courtney Love, featuring Lois Maffeo and Pat Maley, that named themselves after the person in contempt of her brief stay in Olympia.