Listen to some songs from this video: Wheatus [Clean] amzn.to/2rRLW10 Stone Temple Pilots: Alive in the Windy City amzn.to/2sdDmKy Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel amzn.to/2sduUep
kanye only seems to cover things, like the one time i was like wtf happened to this daft punk song, and someone was like this is kanye, wow way to mess up a good song
I think it meant bands that recorded a cover of the song. weezer did the song live a couple times as a joke because of everyone thinking it was their song
This list had 3 types of songs: 1. Songs I knew well enough that I already knew who sang them. 2. Songs I didn’t know well enough to have a preconceived notion as to the singer and 3. Songs that made me go “what?? Who in the heck could think they did that song???”
The only one that got me was The Warrior because I think I have actually heard it attributed to Pat Benetar several times and not had much reason to question it.
@@rubygirl214 Unless you’re just not familiar with his history. I always assumed it was Bob Marley before I saw a sketch about Bobby McFerrin and Michael Winslow which led to me researching the two of them and needless to say, I was blown away. Also can’t deny the fact that search results and view counts speak to the fact that A LOT of people believe it was sung by Bob Marley.
*"Remember when my drunk friend was trying to remember who sung "the song" they are singing/thinking of before the internet, the list"* No we don't quite simply, my friends where musicians.
@Deniji2006: I'd go a step further. As I've been saying it all over the comments, but we older folks SHOULD be the ones who frequently mixed up song artists. We ingested a higher percentage of our music by hearing it on the radio and/or at public establishments. If we heard a song we liked, we didn't have Shazam to identify it. Radio jocks had to be reminded to credit the songs/artists when playing them - the "if you play it, say it" signs come to mind. Contrast that to today, when many radios and pretty much 100 percent of music players have a display that tells you what the song is. People get a higher percentage of their music through some digital means (including TH-cam itself), all of which tells you who you're listening to. To be honest, I actually envy the millennial crowd in this regard. But the whole "I was born after XX, so of course I don't know" argument, which appears up and down these comments, simply doesn't hold water.
I grew up in the 90's, and I don't recall anyone confusing these songs. They were all extremely well known. Not only by their name, but by the artist's voice. So, who were these people that were confused? It had to be kids that didn't grow up in the 90's. No one from my generation would ever confuse Scott Weiland with Kurt Cobain. No one.
Weezer have jokingly covered Wheatus' teenage dirtbag for years at live gigs. I saw them at Reading Festival in the UK in 2010 where they did it. They introduced it as "their biggest hit"
@@shannoncopeland4506 Yah some of these could have made some sense but others were just absurd. Like I had no idea anyone thought Stuck in the middle with you was by bob Dylan, its cleary not him. I also dont know how you mistake Rupert holmes with jimmy buffet. Im not a fan of either but I can tell they arent the same damn person at all.
The musical style and lyrics sound like something Weezer would make, but the vocals sound nothing like Rivers Cuomo. The vocals almost sound like they were sung by a woman.
Honestly, I thought it was a Female Vocalist when I heard Teenage Dirtbag. They Don't even sound anything like weezer. I knew they were wheatus when they said it on The Radio.
When Plush came out by Stone Temple Pilots, David Spade had a joke at the time that said " Stone Temple Pilots, oh yeah. I really like this group the first time, when they were called Pearl Jam.".
I was born in 2005 so I didn’t really know a whole about some of the bands around before me so I thought plush was made be Pearl Jam cuz of the “similar” vocal styles and sound instrumentally
Really though these two bands were out at the same time...both had debut albums in the VERY early 90’s, and they truly aren’t alike in my opinion. Maybe vocally, but that was grunge! ✌️
@@sugaredviolets2085 True, and with Pearl Jam coming out first('91), everyone got the joke at the time that the vocal on Plush('92) was kinda similar, but that was where the similarities ended.
I did when I heard it on the radio the other day. I just never listened to STP and the vocals are insanely similar to Cobain's. I was pretty sure it wasn't a nirvana song because I'd never heard it before but it just sounded so similar.
It sounds like Neil Young for a few bars, and that’s it. Anyone who was confused for a few seconds realized that they were wrong a few seconds later. It was a huge hit, like you say, everyone knew it was America.
1:02 - "Also if this miss credited artist worked on the song or covered it afterwards, like Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes" it won't be on this list either." 6:00 - "Weezer added to the confusion by also covering the song..." --- Why bother having rules? lol
Same too. And don't worry deeingalaplike and ChrisJ Fox, I already told my friends and know I won the game. Sounds like y'all are salty cuz you did fuck these up... hmmmm....
Tharen Callanan lol not salty in the slightest...I just happen to know of people that did. Not everyone is as immersed in certain types of music to know better
+Philip Gior I'm embarrassed to say when I was in my early 20's I thought Horse With No Name was by Neil Young and had to be corrected by a compassionate friend...
Here is another honorable mention. Ready For The World - "Oh Sheila" is the most Prince sounding song Prince had NOTHING to do with. While Prince wrote and produced gads of hits and albums for other artists, he had nothing to do with this Number one song from 1985 that has always been described as "In the style of Prince." And to add to the confusion, Prince's protege who was hot in 1985, Sheila E., was thought to be the inspiration for this "Prince" song.
I have a hard time thinking anyone would think Creep is Nirvana. Scott might be singing in a similar style as Kurt's norm, but the voices are too different to mistake that. R.I.P. Scott and Kurt. And Chris Cornell.
Never thought Nirvana sung Creep. I guess I was at a disadvantage. Cuz I was old enuff 2 remember the music video when the song 1st came out... Back when MTV used 2 stand 4 music television
Well, Weezer had no part in writing the song. Remember the part where they said if an band or artist helped make the song AND THEN covered it later, it wouldn't count?
Eh. They're both power-pop bands that do the quiet-loud Pixies song structures...But yeah, the lead singer sounds more like the guy from Coheed and Cambria.
If anyone doesn't know "don't worry be happy" isn't from Bob Marley... I'm amazed. I was born in north idaho in the early 80s and have known that since the early 90's!
For the most part I agree with you, with one exception. I was at trivia night at a local bar where part one of the rounds was to name the artist of the song being played. One night one of the songs was Creep by STP and the "correct" answer given by the guy doing the trivia was that is was by Nirvana. The entire bar went into an uproar. I couldn't believe it.
@Christopher Bingham Now way dude, STP sounds way more like Nirvana both guitar and vocals. Eddie Vedder mumbles half intelligible lyrics. STP you can sing along, like Nirvana unplugged, they do 2 Meat puppet songs, Everyone still thinks Curt wrote them, he even says " now we are going to do some Meat Puppet songs", but everyone ignored that.
"On the Darkside" - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band, NOT Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. The Clarence Clemons-esque sax solo had me fooled for years.
Hoff1282 yes, the action figure. There's a video called "Fabulous Secret Powers" that syncs clips from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe with a cover of the song.
This is my top 20 songs people think are by someone else 20: Be Bop A Lula by Gene Vincent, not Elvis Presley 19: Catch The Wind by Donovan, not Bob Dylan 18: Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheels, not Bob Dylan 17: This Old Heart of Mine by The Isley Brothers, not The Four Tops 16: Come A Little Bit Closer by Jay and The Americans, not Roy Orbison 15: Snoopy's Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen, not The Monkees 14: Beautiful In My Eyes by Joshua Kadison, not Elton John 13: Heaven by Bryan Adams, not Don Henley 12: Hey Little Cobra by The Rip Chords, not The Beach Boys 11: Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin, not Bob Marley 10: Sheila by Tommy Roe, not Buddy Holly 9: It's Only Make Believe by Conway Twitty, not Elvis Presley 8: Mississippi Queen by Mountain, not Creedence Clearwater Revivial 7: Little Honda by The Hondells, not The Beach Boys 6: Lies by The Knickerbockers, not The Beatles 5: I'm No Angel by Gregg Allman, not Bruce Springsteen 4: A Horse With No Name by America, not Neil Young 3: Rescue Me by Fontella Bass, not Aretha Franklin 2: The Rain, The Park and Other Things by The Cowsills, not The Mamas and The Papas 1: Suspicion by Terry Stafford, not Elvis Presley
No one has EVER mistaken Scott Weiland's singing for Kurt Cobain... unless you were on some seriously heavy drugs. His vocals are deeper and rougher than Kurt's.
Yes! When I saw that on the list, I was briefly confused. I never thought "Creep" was by Nirvana... sure the voices are slightly similar. I would understand if someone new to both bands made this kind of mistake, but if you had thoroughly gotten into each band, it's quite obvious that "Creep" is not by Nirvana.
Sadly, I once had a guy who became enraged when I told him STP sang "Creep" and not Nirvana. I figured ignorance was going to win. Had someone else tell me "Would?" by Alice in Chains was Nirvana. I guess Nirvana got several credits for songs by people who didn't listen to them.
?#%!? Seriously? I guess I do get a certain vocal resemblance, but if you want to hear a Robert Plant soundalike, listen to Lenny Wolf of Kingdom Come. And, by the way, Get it On was not their only good work. Actually, Do You Like It is a great song.
I thought that "Walking on a Dream" was by MGMT for 5 years. I also thought that Panic at the Disco, Falling in Reverse, and Fall Out Boy were the same band for a little while.
Yes. I would have thought Plush would be the song on that list. Everyone that it was Pearl Jam. I was pretty pissed as a teen to listen to that whole Ten album and then found out I had the wrong band!
LOL "tell us what songs do YOU think are by someone else" Well if I think it's by someone else, that means by default I'm not aware that I'm wrong no??
I thought these were going to be cover songs of which people didn't know who originally made the song. Not people being oblivious to who's singing the song in the first place.
Agreed, and the only song on here that people we hung out with mistook the artist for was Steelers wheel...and we did not think it was Dylan but the Beatles, when it was released we thought it was an unreleased lost track from the fab 4...
Same here. I was expecting to see things like"I Will Always Love You" being originally by Dolly Parton, despite the Whitney Houston cover being infinitely more famous.
Actually I did a long time ago and here's why: How they described it in the video was exactly why I mistook it at the time. I got into rock/grunge late. About 10 years later after it blew up on the scene, so as I was getting acclimated to it and discovering artists and songs for the first time, I came across the song mistitled, "Half the man I used to be" by Nirvana on an MP3 in the late 90's. For years I thought that's what it was. It wasn't until I started listening to STP albums about 10 years later when I discovered the mistake.
Who has ever thought Creep was not by STP? I’ll admit that when they first came in the scene, they reminded many of Pearl Jam, but that ended quickly when they became one of the most popular bands in the world.
One of my favorite songs of all time is "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin. Every single time I ask someone if they know who sings it they say Cat Stevens
To this day "Creep" is still labeled as "Half the man I used to be" by Nirvana on TH-cam and on the Internet. I was fooled by it too at first. In the songs it does kinda sound like Cobain
Much like the "Top Ten Songs Everyone Gets Wrong", the word "EVERYONE" apparently means: the guy that makes these vids and people that weren't born till after 2000 (and only listen to top 40 music)
Lmao thats gold because its crazy sad im 28 and when i see teens actually jammin and playin nirvana it makes me so happy that there are still real people keepin the music alive it really is depressin but theres hope
@@BananaRamaPartyTimeAllTheTime between you and me, my playlist for cooking dinner consists of Nirvana, Leadbelly, some twenty ∅ne pilots, and an Etta James song cause Nirvana gets me singing along and who doesn't like belting out "at last". Nirvana makes another appearance on my cleaning playlist along with sublime, violent femmes and Johnny Cash admitting all that makes me feel old for a second but then I realize I was still in elementary school when Kurt died so it's not like I'm THAT old. I still like some new music though. Prof, eazy Mac, migos, Billie Eillish, Joyner Lucas, lizzo, tech n9ne....btw one of my all time favorite songs is "anything,anything"
Yeah except there is people/kids born after 2000s that know this. I mean I'm born in '07 and I know all of this and I know a lot other people around my age that know all of this
That is as valid as stating that this video is a Top 10 Songs People Think Are By Someone Else. Or that Stuck in the Middle With You was originally performed by Stealers Wheel. There is no reason to state any of that unless the statement was meant to include a flaw which Watch Mojo did NOT do. So, sure, dirksketches comment is valid as is stating that dirt is dirty.
You forgot to add "The Man who Sold the World" by David Bowie. There's actually a story where a girl walked up to David after a concert and told him "I think it's cool that your covering Nirvana songs," to which he replied "fuck you." Nirvana's cover of that song often was mistaken as the original.
Thanks to idiots on Napster, I thought "A Horse With No Name" was by Cream, "Stuck in the Middle" was by The Grateful Dead, and "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" was by Barry Manilow.
Everybody born after the 60s think "Surf City" (by Jan @& Dean) is sung by The Beach Boys. And since this is such a famous song, it should have made the list.
WatchMojo probably didn't include "Surf City" because Beach Boy Brian Wilson co-wrote it (with Jan) then essentially gifted it to Jan & Dean. But you're right: even people who lived in the 60s get that one wrong, too. All in all, it makes more sense for older fans to mistake artists, or get the wrong titles, because they did a higher percentage of their listening through radio or clubs, which were less likely to credit the songs. ("If you play it, say it" was a common sticker in radio booths.) It's also probably why older listeners are worse at knowing the correct titles (think how many classic rock air jocks have heard someone ask "can you play that song 'Teenage Wasteland?'"). Ultimately, there is little to no excuse for younger people to misattribute an artist because a) the exhaustive amount of information available nowadays, and b) that most people obtain their music from some digital service (ranging from satellite radio to iTunes to TH-cam itself). These services always provide the song title, artist, label, writer, year, etc.
Way back in the day, I'm kinda old, when Stone Temple Pilots first were known, people mistaken them for Pearl Jam, not Nirvana?!?! Also yes I thought "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" was a Fallout Boy song, my daughter flipped out on me, cuz she loves her Panic! At The Disco!! Don't make their fans mad, geez! 😬
Scott Weiland sounded nothing like Kurt Cobain. Scott Weiland's voice was deeper, smoother, and he growled and roared. Scott Weiland sounded like a lion. Not Kurt Cobain.
BayviewFinch so far as I recall Radiohead did have a song called creep, however STP did have a song by the same name on their first album, before Radiohead were around
The super confusing thing about the "Stuck In The Middle" video, is that the singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty is not even in the video! The guy "singing" in the video is Joe Egan.
Listen to some songs from this video:
Wheatus [Clean] amzn.to/2rRLW10
Stone Temple Pilots: Alive in the Windy City amzn.to/2sdDmKy
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel amzn.to/2sduUep
Tina and Ike Turner covered it, which they said at the beginning that covers would not be included.
it's "proud Mary"
Most people also think it's call "rolling on a river." It's actually Proud Mary.
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I've never met anyone who confuses any of these songs.
Next your gonna tell me Elton John didn’t sing old town road
Then he’s gonna tell us that slipknot didn’t sing country roads
You mean Hatsune Maku didn’t sing Ziggy stardust
You mean Madonna didn't sing girls just wanna have fun
This sounds like a jojo reference
Elton John is too old to sing a stupid song like that, plus it's not even from the same genre of music.
Fun fact:
Bohemian rhapsody is not by Kanye west
wait? he didn't make beehemiahn rapcity?
@@tomlastname85 no bohemian rhapsody was by queen not yeezy
@@ericaburns8652 i know i was just making a joke
OMFG!
kanye only seems to cover things, like the one time i was like wtf happened to this daft punk song, and someone was like this is kanye, wow way to mess up a good song
"I Write Sins Not Tragedies" is about ten words too short for a Fall Out Boy song title.
They are actually similar bands honestly
“I Write Sins Not Tragedies is about ten words too short for a Fall Out Boy song title”- by Fall Out Boy.
IKR, Fall Out Boy has song named "Our Lawyers Made Us Change the Name of This Song so We Wouldn't Get sued", so yeah! who confuses the two.
But “Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off” could be by either if you aren’t well-versed in those bands.
That could be a FOB Song Title 😂
Let's not forget there were 3 songs called "Creep" in the top 40 at the same time.
i know radiohead and stone temple pilots, which was the 3rd?
@@cct4388 TLC
@@Diesel257 thanks
I personally liked Radiohead's the best even though I like more STP music overall.
@@jessietijerina2121 Me too but unfortunately it makes me think of my worst ex girlfriend which ruins it.😆
No one can deny that AC/DC sung ‘Don’t go breaking my heart’
LOL!
Haha!
I couldn't if I tried.
Nope not can people deny that Def Leppard sang Unchained Melody
Hahahaha
Next your gonna tell me that Under pressure wasn't done by Vanilla Ice.
No, but they stole the beat from Vanilla ice.
Nah, we let the courts do that
@Squre Lol, no they didn't, Under Pressure was originally by Queen. And then like tons or rap artists, he re-used it for his song "ice, Ice, Baby".
@@coolkidbradude7745 dude, you...
@@coolkidbradude7745 if you listen to it the beat is a little different, so it's not the same.
I mistakenly confused this list with something that was worth watching.
hahahahahahhaha
Ikr
You have to watch it first, before you decide if it is any good or not, it is a stupid list.
EVW 🤣🤣😂😂😂 you win.
hey Joe The Leaves
"We won't include bands that covered the song later"
"Weezer actually covered the song later..."
I think it meant bands that recorded a cover of the song. weezer did the song live a couple times as a joke because of everyone thinking it was their song
@@chrisstorms7511 WatchMojo consistently breaks the rules set up before the list.
Does Weezer do anything except as a joke anymore?
Did anyone not working for Mojo really think that sounds like Rivers Cuomo?
Missing from this list:
"Symphony No. 5 in C Minor" ~Ludwig van Beethoven NOT Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Huh? Walter Murphy made a fifth of Beethoven... who else?
Ssrrapper, You won inernet this week :D
Back to the Future theme by Alan Silvestri, NOT by John Williams.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone fuck that up, I'd be retired by now.
@ssrrapper OMG right??
I always thought "Don't worry be happy" was written and sung by the singing Fish, hanging on a wooden plate at the wall... 🤔
😂😂😂
Lol!
😂😂
Moron
You thought it was sung by a f@#$ing fish
Speaking of confusion of female rockers who sang the Warrior, it was NOT Patti "Smith"; it was Patty Smyth!
Scandal also had a minor hit with "Goodbye to You". Patty would also score a hit duet with Don Henley ("Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough")
@@Alsebra You're correct, you spelled it the way it's pronounced, a “long i” as in _I._ They pronounced it wrong in the vid.
This list had 3 types of songs: 1. Songs I knew well enough that I already knew who sang them. 2. Songs I didn’t know well enough to have a preconceived notion as to the singer and 3. Songs that made me go “what?? Who in the heck could think they did that song???”
Same for me.
I agree.
This entire list is a "WTF, who thinks THAT?!"
I mean, up until today i thought bitch was done by alanis morissette /shrug
I KNOW!!! I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS LIST!!
The number 10 was the only one I was like huh ok I didn’t know that.
The only one that got me was The Warrior because I think I have actually heard it attributed to Pat Benetar several times and not had much reason to question it.
Number 9 was me. 😂😂😂
"weezer and wheatus had similar vocal styles" yeah no
Weezer is actually good
They similarly share a “w” in their name that’s about it.
The person in-charge here of making the list has no knowledge at all about music. Nirvana confused as STP and yes Weezer and Wheatus? WTF!!!
@Nathan Lentine: But who said Wheatus was good? No one older _than_ a teenager should have any business listening to that song.
I thought Wheatus would have been confused for Blink-182 not Weezer
I thought they meant Creep as in Radiohead
same
Thought the same thing
Well, guess what? Radiohead did get sued for 'Creep', it used elements from 'The Air That I Breathe'.
I could see that more than Nirvana.
@@asaltofsomething yes but that song isnt called creep so
I've never met a single person who thinks Bob Marley sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
When u look it up it says that
I don't know how #1 ended up being the most ridiculous of them all, but it was. People know Bobby McPharen only for that song. SMH
Especially since Bob was dead for over a decade before DWBH was released
Bob Marley died in 1981... you’d have to be pretty dense to think he sang that 🤦🏻♀️
@@rubygirl214 Unless you’re just not familiar with his history. I always assumed it was Bob Marley before I saw a sketch about Bobby McFerrin and Michael Winslow which led to me researching the two of them and needless to say, I was blown away. Also can’t deny the fact that search results and view counts speak to the fact that A LOT of people believe it was sung by Bob Marley.
Apparently I'm too old for this list. I didn't confuse any of these.
Allison Ross no one does it's a shit list
*"Remember when my drunk friend was trying to remember who sung "the song" they are singing/thinking of before the internet, the list"*
No we don't quite simply, my friends where musicians.
Allison Ross I agree!!
@Deniji2006: I'd go a step further. As I've been saying it all over the comments, but we older folks SHOULD be the ones who frequently mixed up song artists. We ingested a higher percentage of our music by hearing it on the radio and/or at public establishments. If we heard a song we liked, we didn't have Shazam to identify it. Radio jocks had to be reminded to credit the songs/artists when playing them - the "if you play it, say it" signs come to mind.
Contrast that to today, when many radios and pretty much 100 percent of music players have a display that tells you what the song is. People get a higher percentage of their music through some digital means (including TH-cam itself), all of which tells you who you're listening to. To be honest, I actually envy the millennial crowd in this regard. But the whole "I was born after XX, so of course I don't know" argument, which appears up and down these comments, simply doesn't hold water.
You and me both. All this did was bug me.
People obviously think that bob Marley sang smells like teen spirit.
Wait... He didn't? Next you're going to tell me that Weezer didn't sing American Idiot.
Mark Palmer No, Smells like teen spirit was a collaboration of Bob Dylan, Amy Winehouse, They Might Be Giants, and John Lennon, idiot
Yea whatever, next thing you know you're gonna say Slipknot didn't do Nookie. Pfffft GTFO!
@@socialmedia4637 i loved it when they sang Break stuff.
So you're saying that Queen didn't sing gucci gang?
I grew up in the 90's, and I don't recall anyone confusing these songs. They were all extremely well known. Not only by their name, but by the artist's voice. So, who were these people that were confused? It had to be kids that didn't grow up in the 90's. No one from my generation would ever confuse Scott Weiland with Kurt Cobain. No one.
I probably would because I didn't listen to either of those talent less bands back then.
Any 90's teen worth their salt knows damned well the difference between Kurt and Scott!!!!, And All 4 One sounds nothing like Boyz||Men.
soulcrusher807 talentless? Surely you're on crack! Generation X baby!🤘😎🤘
I agree that people who grew up in the 90's knew the differences between Nirvana,STP, Boyz 2 Men,All 4 One, Weezer, & Wheatus.
soulcrusher807 and which of your talentless bands would you consider talented?
We forget that stacys mom was so heavily mistaken for a bowling for soup song that bowling for soup had to cover it
Considering that the theme songs for both Jimmy Neutron and Phineas And Ferb were performed by Bowling For Soup it’s easy to see why
Covering a song that is widely misattributed to you, especially when you were a more popular band to begin with, is a massive dick move.
Weezer have jokingly covered Wheatus' teenage dirtbag for years at live gigs. I saw them at Reading Festival in the UK in 2010 where they did it. They introduced it as "their biggest hit"
awesome
Its a good song, and it does sound like them. I'm sure they wish they'd wrote it. Dave Mustaine said he wished he had written Enter Sandman.
They were pretty much doing it to point out that Wheatus sounds nothing like Weezer.
Anyone else lose all faith in humanity while watching this?
Yep! If people actually think these things, they know NOTHING about music. NOTHING!!!!
try the best rock harmonies.... where they consistently call Layne Staley Layne Stanley. How horribly disrespectful.
@@shannoncopeland4506 Yah some of these could have made some sense but others were just absurd. Like I had no idea anyone thought Stuck in the middle with you was by bob Dylan, its cleary not him. I also dont know how you mistake Rupert holmes with jimmy buffet. Im not a fan of either but I can tell they arent the same damn person at all.
You just described every WatchMojo list
Absolutely NO-ONE thinks Stuck In The Middle is Bob Dylan ...
Maybe people who've had their ear cut off.
Badap-CHINGGG! I'm here all night folks.
it’s a parody of bob dylan’s music and how he kinda sold out by using electronic instruments or some shit
Maybe the Steve Miller Band but sure as hell not Bob Dylan...
I used to think it was Paul McCartney and wings for the longest time, never once thought it was Dylan.
"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am" - Bob Dylan
Hearing impairment is a family trait for me but i can hear the significant difference between the vocals between Scott and Kurt
I can't imagine ANYONE thinking Teenage Dirtbag was sung by Weezer.
I did lmao
I did
The musical style and lyrics sound like something Weezer would make, but the vocals sound nothing like Rivers Cuomo. The vocals almost sound like they were sung by a woman.
Limewire had us all thinking weird shit. My Own Worst Enemy was always marked as Blink 182.
Honestly, I thought it was a Female Vocalist when I heard Teenage Dirtbag. They Don't even sound anything like weezer. I knew they were wheatus when they said it on The Radio.
When Plush came out by Stone Temple Pilots, David Spade had a joke at the time that said " Stone Temple Pilots, oh yeah. I really like this group the first time, when they were called Pearl Jam.".
Michael Kline dude they sound exactly the same
I was born in 2005 so I didn’t really know a whole about some of the bands around before me so I thought plush was made be Pearl Jam cuz of the “similar” vocal styles and sound instrumentally
Really though these two bands were out at the same time...both had debut albums in the VERY early 90’s, and they truly aren’t alike in my opinion. Maybe vocally, but that was grunge! ✌️
@@sugaredviolets2085 True, and with Pearl Jam coming out first('91), everyone got the joke at the time that the vocal on Plush('92) was kinda similar, but that was where the similarities ended.
Except you can decipher Plush's vocals much easier.
I'm pretty sure just about no one thought Creep was done by Nirvana.
I know right
If so, they don't remember the 90s.
literally NO ONE lol
I did when I heard it on the radio the other day. I just never listened to STP and the vocals are insanely similar to Cobain's. I was pretty sure it wasn't a nirvana song because I'd never heard it before but it just sounded so similar.
If you are an STP fan or a Nirvana fan you never mixed it up
I’ve never heard of anyone mixing up America and Neil young
Plush by STP is more likely to be wrongly attributed to Pearl Jam, rather than Creep to Nirvana.
It sounds like Neil Young for a few bars, and that’s it. Anyone who was confused for a few seconds realized that they were wrong a few seconds later. It was a huge hit, like you say, everyone knew it was America.
I did.
I did too
i mixed them up
1:02 - "Also if this miss credited artist worked on the song or covered it afterwards, like Mott the Hoople "All the Young Dudes" it won't be on this list either."
6:00 - "Weezer added to the confusion by also covering the song..."
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Why bother having rules? lol
it wasn't an official released cover, it was only at the one concert
@@christopherdonahue2398, right on.
Did they say "official released cover"? Or just "....covered it afterwards....."
rules are meant to be bent sometimes
NEVER Confused ANY OF THESE
CONGRATS!!!! 😃 YOU WIN THE GAME!!
yeah, same. I don't know how people do. not once did the other artists come to mind when the songs played.
Same too. And don't worry deeingalaplike and ChrisJ Fox, I already told my friends and know I won the game. Sounds like y'all are salty cuz you did fuck these up... hmmmm....
Tharen Callanan lol not salty in the slightest...I just happen to know of people that did. Not everyone is as immersed in certain types of music to know better
"Which songs do you most often think are by someone else?"
Well, we wouldn't know, would we?
amydoesthings 😂😂😂
amydoesthings 👏🏻
Love it! Too effin' funny!
:D
amydoesthings is anything maybe im the one should be on this list bc everyone thinks its by nirvana but its by puddle of mudd
Seeing Robin Williams in that last clip made me cry. He was so amazing!
At least Harry Anderson is still alive!
Any song parody is automatically attributed to Weird Al Yankovic.
Or John Valby. Usually if it's dirty it's credited to Valby.
Living in a Amish paradises
@@Money_Shot-j8u or Bob Rivers
@@davincent98 true.
Like Enter Napster. I always thought it was Weird Al.
You guys ever heard Stealing Society by System of a Down? I could've sworn that was Ariana Grande.
Yeah Ariana does seem like the type of person to sing about crack pipes, needles, pcp and fast cars.
And when she gets to talking she never be wrong.
That’s funny because I always thought One Last Time was sung by Serj Tankian. Coincidence? 🤔
All of these should instead be song parodies mistakenly attributed to Weird Al.
What, aren't all song parodies written by Weird Al?
Pat Benatar is the inspiration behind one of my cats names... Cat Benatar! My other cat is Catsquatch
Never knew anyone who thought 'Horse With No Name' was by Neil Young.
And ditto for 'Stuck in the Middle With You'. Dylan? Get real.
+Philip Gior I'm embarrassed to say when I was in my early 20's I thought Horse With No Name was by Neil Young and had to be corrected by a compassionate friend...
That one was me. I totally thought it was Neil.
Hanging my head in shame...
I admit that I have actually always believed it was Neil Young. Gladly, that is the only one on this list I had completely wrong.
Here is another honorable mention. Ready For The World - "Oh Sheila" is the most Prince sounding song Prince had NOTHING to do with. While Prince wrote and produced gads of hits and albums for other artists, he had nothing to do with this Number one song from 1985 that has always been described as "In the style of Prince." And to add to the confusion, Prince's protege who was hot in 1985, Sheila E., was thought to be the inspiration for this "Prince" song.
George, careful, you're being more informative about the topic than this video was.
Actually, Oh Sheila would be a better pick for the #1 spot and drop the McFerrin/Marley BS off the list entirely.
What about Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean? Everyone confuses that with Black Sabbath
David Weber thank u!! That gave me a really big LOL!!! 😁
LOFL. You rule.
True story... When I first heard that Caribbean Queen was NOT a Sabbath song, I was shocked. They sound exactly the same.
Haha yup that's Ozzy hehe😂
I spit out my coffee when I read this.
"we're not going to include covers" *includes cover*
Exactly what I was thinking when I got to Wheatus
I have a hard time thinking anyone would think Creep is Nirvana. Scott might be singing in a similar style as Kurt's norm, but the voices are too different to mistake that. R.I.P. Scott and Kurt. And Chris Cornell.
T L S wait, Chris Cornell?! What happened to him??
He thought the noose was too pretty
Right? I can actually understand the words.
T L S I used to think Creep was by Nirvana when I downloaded it off Limewire when I was like 13 lolol
Never thought Nirvana sung Creep. I guess I was at a disadvantage. Cuz I was old enuff 2 remember the music video when the song 1st came out... Back when MTV used 2 stand 4 music television
Watch mojo: we wont be listing any bands that ended up covering the song.
Also watch mojo: weezer ended up covering the song teenage dirtbag...
I noticed this the first time I watched it and had to listen to the rules at the beginning again.
Well, Weezer had no part in writing the song. Remember the part where they said if an band or artist helped make the song AND THEN covered it later, it wouldn't count?
That's classic for this channel.
Jesus Christ.
They didn't list Weezer, they showed part of the reason they get confused with Wheatus.
Wheatus is the band listed.
@@InkAndPoet he said OR covered it later
Uh, STP was confused for Pearl Jam, not Nirvana! The song was Plush.
NeilHolmes72 that’s what remember too
I won’t lie. The first time I heard Plush, I thought it was Pearl Jam.
My friends punishment anytime he got in trouble was to learn a song by of his dad's choice and surprisingly plush was the hardest apparently
When I was younger I thought even flow was stone temple pilots
Nah Iduntolja the DeLeo Brothers used lots of jazz improv tricks in the crafting of the songs. It would be a more intermediate choice
Next you're gonna tell me Milli Vanilli didn’t sing ''Girl You Know It's True''
Im so done
🤣🤣
I f*ing hate you.
And what did they actually sing?
Wheatus really sounds exactly nothing like Weezer.
nah I totally confused them once but i was like 11
I confused them to lol
I can understand if people confused it for Simple Plan (kinda), but definitely not Weezer???
not gonna lie the chorus is pretty damn legit though, catchy.
Eh. They're both power-pop bands that do the quiet-loud Pixies song structures...But yeah, the lead singer sounds more like the guy from Coheed and Cambria.
who tf thought creep was by Nirvana
Elijha Jefferson people
i know right lol
NadiGotJokes I know, it's just weird to me because I've always known the difference
Elijha Jefferson 💀i never herd of them until now
NadiGotJokes classic band, I mean they have a song called interstate love song that you've probably heard
I think only the people at WatchMojo were confused , not everyone else.
This should have been called "10 Songs By Artists That Sort-Of Sound Like Other Artists"
Ben Plummer although a stretch the only one I could understand MAYBE was the America Neil Young one but thats only if you werent paying attention
Ben Plummer agreed
Which is normally the case with these clowns. I think half the time they just make it up as they go just to have content.
Completely agree. Not one of the songs had any significant similarities. Watch Mojo is just running out of TOP ten ideas!
If anyone doesn't know "don't worry be happy" isn't from Bob Marley... I'm amazed. I was born in north idaho in the early 80s and have known that since the early 90's!
I often confuse Rod Stewart's vocals with the sound of a dying badger being dragged down a gravel road. Or with Kim Carnes for that matter.
LMAO...fuck...I'm dead. That is a very accurate description.
cobain's voice is so iconic how did people mess this up
Caleb Buerger and Scott Weiland was a much better singer
Weiland was a singer, Cobain was a screamer!!!
Clearly you've never watched Unplugged. Weiland couldn't hold a candle to Cobain.
The Contingency Plan I've watched unplugged Kurt definitely a weaker singer
Caleb Buerger Yes Weiland is far better vocalist and the first 2 Stone Temple Pilots albums are way better than any Nirvana album.
Who the F thinks Marley sang Don't Worry Be Happy?
Evryone
Me :/
Me
🎵Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing
Cause every little thing's gonna be alright🎶
@@toyadiinae9800 not the same song...
Absolutely no one has confused any of these artists/songs.
For the most part I agree with you, with one exception. I was at trivia night at a local bar where part one of the rounds was to name the artist of the song being played. One night one of the songs was Creep by STP and the "correct" answer given by the guy doing the trivia was that is was by Nirvana. The entire bar went into an uproar. I couldn't believe it.
I have been guilty of several of them.
i have confused a few of them
Sometimes I forget that I hate stupid clickbait lists, but then a watchmojo top ten reminds me why
no shit...stupid.
Yep
who tf thought teenage dirtbag was by weezer that sounds literally nothing like them
Phoebe Mortensen I agree. People don't pay attention I guess.
i guess not haha. but ive been guilty of mixing up stuff like this so i guess if you dont know weezer at all you might.
I am a Weezer fan and i know that song by this list...
Phoebe Mortensen Wheetus!! one hit wonders
Phoebe Mortensen The instrumental sounds incredibly similar so yes it does.
Who in the hell confused STP for Nirvana?
Just the idiots at WatchMojo
SD5 obviously. 😂
Wasn't it Pearl Jam that SOME people would confuse them for?
@Christopher Bingham Now way dude, STP sounds way more like Nirvana both guitar and vocals. Eddie Vedder mumbles half intelligible lyrics. STP you can sing along, like Nirvana unplugged, they do 2 Meat puppet songs, Everyone still thinks Curt wrote them, he even says " now we are going to do some Meat Puppet songs", but everyone ignored that.
"On the Darkside" - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band, NOT Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. The Clarence Clemons-esque sax solo had me fooled for years.
John Cafferty got a lot of attention for this one when it came out because of the movie it was attached to
Absolutely one of the two songs I expected to be on this list but wasn't.
Number 11: What's Up - 4 Non Blondes (Not He-Man)
goat comment
4 non blondes?! Its not by 1 blonde man?
Who the fuck is He-Man? Besides a god damn action figure
Hoff1282 yes, the action figure. There's a video called "Fabulous Secret Powers" that syncs clips from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe with a cover of the song.
Yeah... no one thinks this.
I didn't realise anyone thought Creep was by Nirvana
Patrick Dudemaister Negative Creep is though
Slegendary Daddy's little girl ain't a girl no more
Thewise one We're talking about Creep by Stone Temple Pilots
Different "Creep". STP's "Creep" does sound a lot like Nirvana, to be honest.
I did at one point
Who the fuck thinks Teenage Dirtbag is by Weezer?
ya his voice is way to high pitched
I know right.
James Lyndon the only logical explanation is that their names start off sounding the same
nobody
Watch Mojo is notorious for desperate content generation. I knew better than to watch this but I'm a sucker ... Cobain thumbnail
This is my top 20 songs people think are by someone else
20: Be Bop A Lula by Gene Vincent, not Elvis Presley
19: Catch The Wind by Donovan, not Bob Dylan
18: Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheels, not Bob Dylan
17: This Old Heart of Mine by The Isley Brothers, not The Four Tops
16: Come A Little Bit Closer by Jay and The Americans, not Roy Orbison
15: Snoopy's Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen, not The Monkees
14: Beautiful In My Eyes by Joshua Kadison, not Elton John
13: Heaven by Bryan Adams, not Don Henley
12: Hey Little Cobra by The Rip Chords, not The Beach Boys
11: Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin, not Bob Marley
10: Sheila by Tommy Roe, not Buddy Holly
9: It's Only Make Believe by Conway Twitty, not Elvis Presley
8: Mississippi Queen by Mountain, not Creedence Clearwater Revivial
7: Little Honda by The Hondells, not The Beach Boys
6: Lies by The Knickerbockers, not The Beatles
5: I'm No Angel by Gregg Allman, not Bruce Springsteen
4: A Horse With No Name by America, not Neil Young
3: Rescue Me by Fontella Bass, not Aretha Franklin
2: The Rain, The Park and Other Things by The Cowsills, not The Mamas and The Papas
1: Suspicion by Terry Stafford, not Elvis Presley
Any Pat Benatar fan would never confuse her voice with any one else.
Summary of this video: Gangnam Style by Psy, NOT Eminem.
Kyle Dechau WAT i was like 90% sure Elvis sung that
Boi eminem don't sing dat shitty pop
Ever heard of something called "irony"...?
the diamond king blurp r/whoosh
Lmao, what a fucking idiot
No one has EVER mistaken Scott Weiland's singing for Kurt Cobain... unless you were on some seriously heavy drugs. His vocals are deeper and rougher than Kurt's.
Yes! When I saw that on the list, I was briefly confused. I never thought "Creep" was by Nirvana... sure the voices are slightly similar. I would understand if someone new to both bands made this kind of mistake, but if you had thoroughly gotten into each band, it's quite obvious that "Creep" is not by Nirvana.
Agreed. I like Scott's voice much more than Cobain's.
Sadly, I once had a guy who became enraged when I told him STP sang "Creep" and not Nirvana. I figured ignorance was going to win. Had someone else tell me "Would?" by Alice in Chains was Nirvana. I guess Nirvana got several credits for songs by people who didn't listen to them.
joyk727 It's easier than you think even without being under the influence. Somewhere out there are listeners who don't have your fine ear.
I've confused them. Easy. They all sound like dogshit.
"Lonely is the Night" I have thought for many years that this song was sung by Led Zeppelin
YES!!!
Same
No, that's Billy Squier.
?#%!? Seriously? I guess I do get a certain vocal resemblance, but if you want to hear a Robert Plant soundalike, listen to Lenny Wolf of Kingdom Come. And, by the way, Get it On was not their only good work. Actually, Do You Like It is a great song.
I thought everyone knew horse with no name was by America...
How do people get stuck in the middle wrong!!!
Me to
when i was young and heard horse with no name for the first time i thought it was Crosby Stills Nash and Young.....
What's sad is they must not know the band, so they're out there living their lives without Ventura Highway or Sister Golden Hair.
I thought Young was in America, at one point. Sure I read it too. At least I think I did. Not sure of anything anymore :'(
Who The Heck thinks *"I Write Sins Not Tragedies"* Is By FOB???
That Name Is Too Freaking Short To Be A Fall Out Boy Song--
Well "immortals" is a fall out boy song with a short title
@@animalfauna9350 Shush, Mortal.
kurt cobain in thumbnail is more clickbait than semi nude pictures
I agee
Seth but nirvana were one of the picks..
Agreed, the thumbnail gave me feels so I clicked.
same, couldnt resist. my brain said to me " dont click on this video, you dont care about the topic" but my fingers already clicked. its a reflex ;-;
Seth I agree
I thought that "Walking on a Dream" was by MGMT for 5 years. I also thought that Panic at the Disco, Falling in Reverse, and Fall Out Boy were the same band for a little while.
I thought it was MGMT until 2 months ago. Glad I’m not the only one!
I could see "Creep" being Alice in Chains, but not Nirvana in a thousand years.
Yes. I would have thought Plush would be the song on that list. Everyone that it was Pearl Jam. I was pretty pissed as a teen to listen to that whole Ten album and then found out I had the wrong band!
I agree, not too long ago i was looking everywhere for plush on my spotify and forgot it wasn't pearl jam, so I couldn't find it
When I first heard creep, totally thought it was Nirvana.
Yeah, Scott sounds absolutely nothing like Kurt, so I don't get this one. Really the entire list until 2 makes no sense to me
AllMusic's review of STP's first album Core referred to "Creep" as a song that works as anything from Alice In Chains' Sap EP.
LOL "tell us what songs do YOU think are by someone else" Well if I think it's by someone else, that means by default I'm not aware that I'm wrong no??
Excellent point. lol
Let me add one: "Long Cool Woman" by The Hollies sounds just like a Creedence Clearwater Revival song.
Yes! That should have been on the list
That should be #1. I thought it was ccr for years
I've read that comment a number of times. So true.
That should have been #1.
I was mistaken about this one for years.
The one that got me was Crazy Thing Called Love. When I was young as a child I always thought it was Elvis.
Same here. This should've been on this list
@@El_Bueno Freddy Mercury was an Elvis fan.That's why he made it sound like the King.
When I was young I used to think Come On Eileen was by Queen mostly because of the singer.
That Wheatus song sounds literally nothing like Weezer.
Their voices are nothing alike
Also, I thought that 'Happy' is singed by Cannibal Corpse
Enasxrististougoogle the only “Happy” worth hearing has Keith Richards singing lead.
Yeah. Everyone knows it was originally by Cradle of Filth.
Not Gorgoroth?
Hahahaha
Singed? The English teacher in me is just dying
I always thought The Rolling Stones sang Mmmmbop.
And I thought they sang "High-Fivin' M.F."
Okay, I lied. But I think they should cover it.
Are you serious?! Since when would Mick Jagger sing a teenybopper song? I even remember it, and I was 4!
@@kyliepollert8341 Girl, this guy is joking, and you know it.
@@DTD110865 I know you were!
Dude, stop it.
I used to think American pie was by Billy Joel because how similar it sounded to piano man
Who the hell mistakes Marley for McFerrin??? You'd have to be absolutely tone deaf, they aren't even remotely close.
You joking? WTF is wrong with your ears? 2 Jamaican guys with similar tone. Yeah ok, theyre a universe apart....or something.
LOL.
they are racist for that lol
People who don't listen to that genre...
No one. This guy is just trying to antagonize someone into bitch slapping him.
I thought these were going to be cover songs of which people didn't know who originally made the song. Not people being oblivious to who's singing the song in the first place.
PandaDares They have a different list for that (I'm not joking about how they always say that, they really do.)
PandaDares like hurt by nine inch nails but covered by Johnny Cash which happened to be more popular
Agreed, and the only song on here that people we hung out with mistook the artist for was Steelers wheel...and we did not think it was Dylan but the Beatles, when it was released we thought it was an unreleased lost track from the fab 4...
Same here. I was expecting to see things like"I Will Always Love You" being originally by Dolly Parton, despite the Whitney Houston cover being infinitely more famous.
PandaDares another example is Torn Natalie Imbruglia
I saw the Kurt cobain thumbnail and I was like "I'm clicking"
No one cares
Josh Fallon same bro n I'm black
***** and I dont care what you or anyone else thinks
I wanted to know where this Kurt Cobain mistake came from!
Jay Freeman Why the black reference. Does your race reference has something do with Kurt Cobain?
We all are humans after all :)
I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed but I knew every artist with every song. Guess I just like music. ☮️
If you thought Creep was Nirvana... drink Bleach. (pun intended)
Well played. Took me a second.
EQOAnostalgia What pun...?
Jah Rastafari you're obviously not a nirvana fan, but bleach was the name of their first album
still not really a pun
Actually I did a long time ago and here's why:
How they described it in the video was exactly why I mistook it at the time.
I got into rock/grunge late. About 10 years later after it blew up on the scene, so as I was getting acclimated to it and discovering artists and songs for the first time, I came across the song mistitled, "Half the man I used to be" by Nirvana on an MP3 in the late 90's. For years I thought that's what it was. It wasn't until I started listening to STP albums about 10 years later when I discovered the mistake.
If you're gonna put STP, it should be Plush as Pearl Jam.
Another one that I'd like to add is "Kiss me" by Sixpence None The Richer - NOT The Cranberries.
Probably easier to confuse them with the Corrs, to be fair.
Who has ever thought Creep was not by STP? I’ll admit that when they first came in the scene, they reminded many of Pearl Jam, but that ended quickly when they became one of the most popular bands in the world.
i did
One of my favorite songs of all time is "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin. Every single time I ask someone if they know who sings it they say Cat Stevens
This makes sense because it has "Cats" in the name so of course everyone things it's by *Cat* Stevens
@@thiccochet well I've never seen "cat scratch fever" being credited to Cat Stevens for that reason lol
Everybody knows it's a song from Ugly Kid Joe ;) (I know it's a remake)
@@martinperigny3434 And think it's a Guns n Roses song (like me in the past)
Adding to any confusion is the song Father & Son by Cat Stevens, which has a similar "conversation between a father and son" vibe.
WHAT??!! You have to be almost deaf to think that Creep is a Nirvana song. Scott voice sounds so different to Kurt's.
Scott?
* Scott's?
Seth Walton Scott weiland, stone temple pilots has a song called creep too
To this day "Creep" is still labeled as "Half the man I used to be" by Nirvana on TH-cam and on the Internet. I was fooled by it too at first. In the songs it does kinda sound like Cobain
Grungie Lucy EXACTLY THEY SOUND SO FUCKING DIFFERENT!
Stuck in the middle sounds more like George Harrison than Bob Dylan
I can see that.
I'm sorry if you can listen to wheatus and think that guy sounds anything like rivers cuomo, I just don't know what to say.
i know right.. Cuomo has such a better and more distinctive voice
and all the others too... bobby mc farin and marley'? no not at all
Right? LIke anybody could mistake a good singing voice for Weezer.
I always thought the lead singer of wheatus was a woman.
Much like the "Top Ten Songs Everyone Gets Wrong", the word "EVERYONE" apparently means: the guy that makes these vids and people that weren't born till after 2000 (and only listen to top 40 music)
Thank you. You just stole my heart.
You know I dont like Watchmojo but they don't make their lists they see popular demand
Lmao thats gold because its crazy sad im 28 and when i see teens actually jammin and playin nirvana it makes me so happy that there are still real people keepin the music alive it really is depressin but theres hope
@@BananaRamaPartyTimeAllTheTime between you and me, my playlist for cooking dinner consists of Nirvana, Leadbelly, some twenty ∅ne pilots, and an Etta James song cause Nirvana gets me singing along and who doesn't like belting out "at last". Nirvana makes another appearance on my cleaning playlist along with sublime, violent femmes and Johnny Cash admitting all that makes me feel old for a second but then I realize I was still in elementary school when Kurt died so it's not like I'm THAT old. I still like some new music though. Prof, eazy Mac, migos, Billie Eillish, Joyner Lucas, lizzo, tech n9ne....btw one of my all time favorite songs is "anything,anything"
Yeah except there is people/kids born after 2000s that know this. I mean I'm born in '07 and I know all of this and I know a lot other people around my age that know all of this
bowie wasnt covering mott the hoople, he gave them the song, he wrote it himself
He even sang backing vocals for them
That's not what they are saying, try listening again. They were very clear on their rules and exceptions.
Robert Scythe they were using it as an example of covers that wouldn’t be included, so dirksketches comment is valid.
That is as valid as stating that this video is a Top 10 Songs People Think Are By Someone Else. Or that Stuck in the Middle With You was originally performed by Stealers Wheel. There is no reason to state any of that unless the statement was meant to include a flaw which Watch Mojo did NOT do. So, sure, dirksketches comment is valid as is stating that dirt is dirty.
NO TAKE BACKS DUDE!
Love the thumbnail!
You forgot to add "The Man who Sold the World" by David Bowie. There's actually a story where a girl walked up to David after a concert and told him "I think it's cool that your covering Nirvana songs," to which he replied "fuck you." Nirvana's cover of that song often was mistaken as the original.
you had me at "fuck you ... "
It was a great cover but if they actually watched the Unplugged In New York special, Kurt actually says it was a Bowie song.
This isn't a list about covers though. They have a separate list for song that people don't know are covers.
This is list of bands or singers who sound like other artists. They got the STP/Nirvana one wrong. Everyone thought they were Pearl Jam
News flash for you, Bowies version is also a cover.
Thanks to idiots on Napster, I thought "A Horse With No Name" was by Cream, "Stuck in the Middle" was by The Grateful Dead, and "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" was by Barry Manilow.
Shorty Longstrokin LOL!!!! Thank you, I needed that laugh tonight. 😃
Thanks to Napster, for years I thought Paint It Black was by The Doors till I got older and started actually listening to The Doors music. 😂😂
DAMN!!! LMAO!!
I can't even confuse America for Cream. America were like an acoustic driven folk-rock band while Cream were proto-hard rock psychedelic blues rock.
Everybody born after the 60s think "Surf City" (by Jan @& Dean) is sung by The Beach Boys.
And since this is such a famous song, it should have made the list.
Albert van den Berg This is a better candidate than anything on the list.
WatchMojo probably didn't include "Surf City" because Beach Boy Brian Wilson co-wrote it (with Jan) then essentially gifted it to Jan & Dean. But you're right: even people who lived in the 60s get that one wrong, too.
All in all, it makes more sense for older fans to mistake artists, or get the wrong titles, because they did a higher percentage of their listening through radio or clubs, which were less likely to credit the songs. ("If you play it, say it" was a common sticker in radio booths.) It's also probably why older listeners are worse at knowing the correct titles (think how many classic rock air jocks have heard someone ask "can you play that song 'Teenage Wasteland?'").
Ultimately, there is little to no excuse for younger people to misattribute an artist because a) the exhaustive amount of information available nowadays, and b) that most people obtain their music from some digital service (ranging from satellite radio to iTunes to TH-cam itself). These services always provide the song title, artist, label, writer, year, etc.
Probably because no one born after the 80s really cares about "Surf City". I'm sure you could find some, but I doubt you could find many.
@EOF: haha yeah, very good point. Probably hard to find people who have even heard of it. As you said, some but not many.
Way back in the day, I'm kinda old, when Stone Temple Pilots first were known, people mistaken them for Pearl Jam, not Nirvana?!?!
Also yes I thought "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" was a Fallout Boy song, my daughter flipped out on me, cuz she loves her Panic! At The Disco!! Don't make their fans mad, geez! 😬
PLUSH by Stone Temple Pilots are way easier to confuse with a Pearl Jam band, instead of a Nirvana song
Yes! That's the only one I agree with and it wasn't even on this list!
Unglued sounds more Nirvana than Creep. Also check out Army Ants as a song that sounds very much like Pearl Jam.
RikardoSaul so true.....when TH-cam autoplays plush after pearl jam
I always get Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog confused. I'm really bad with names of songs and bands lol
It fucks everything up that Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) did backup vocals on a couple big Temple of the Dog songs
Scott Weiland sounded nothing like Kurt Cobain. Scott Weiland's voice was deeper, smoother, and he growled and roared. Scott Weiland sounded like a lion. Not Kurt Cobain.
Um nobody ever thought that "Creep" was a Nirvana song.
no......
...but they thought "Half the Man I Used to Be" was a Nirvana song, because they knew that Creep was by Radiohead.
BayviewFinch so far as I recall Radiohead did have a song called creep, however STP did have a song by the same name on their first album, before Radiohead were around
Nope. Actually the Radiohead song came out first, but a few weeks. And Radiohead had been around for awhile by that point.
I wouldn't put it by some people.
The super confusing thing about the "Stuck In The Middle" video, is that the singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty is not even in the video! The guy "singing" in the video is Joe Egan.