![]() ![]() ![]() “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something… or Hootie & The Blowfish? I’m starting to believe it doesn’t exist. But man, search around for ZZ Top’s so-called “cover” of the song and all you’ll come up with is the original War version. Even the infallible Wikipedia places ZZ Top at the end of a long list of artists that have covered the song. Well, there still is some room for confusion. Really though, this song does not sound like ZZ Top. YOU CAN’T FIT NO SISSYASS HORNS IN HERE THEIR BEARDS ARE SO BIG ![]() ZZ Top were not a tootin’ gootime horn band, OK? Don’t we all know this by now? They were a bunch of crazily bearded men who played poppy blues-rock like “La Grange” and “Legs” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’.” THEY USED GUITARS MAN NOT FUCKIN’ CORNY-POO HORNS. OK, now we’re dipping into silly territory. Citizen King were simply some one-hit-wonder Johnny-Come-Lately from the late 90’s that happened to sound kinda like them. So not only did Sublime not originally record this song, they never even covered it. In fact, by the time this song came out, Sublime lead singer Bradley Nowell had been dead for three years. See, I’d never heard of Sublime when “I’ve Seen Better Days” came out. Instead I find a bunch of videos with the song playing over a picture of Sublime, usually with the info saying something like “I thought this was Sublime, but it’s not, sorry!” The video I’ve been forced to link to is a sad example of this trend, to the point where the guy who posted it had to disable comments after waves upon waves of people claimed it was a Sublime song. I searched for this song on Youtube, thinking naively to myself, “Oh yeah, they’ll have that Citizen King video! The one with them in the mall! Everybody knows that video!”īut nope. “I’ve Seen Better Days” by Citizen King… or Sublime? They even call it “Dylanesque.” So there you go. Heck, their explanation of the song is so good that I didn’t bother to find a video of the actual band performing the song and just linked to that scene. The dude’s voice sounds a lot like Bob Dylan’s, but it’s a bit more tuneful and a bit less interesting, so it’s not that hard to tell that it ain’t good old Bob.Īn even easier de-bunking comes from Reservoir Dogs, where the song was played during the infamous “ear-cutting” scene. This song is by an early 70’s pop duo called Stealer’s Wheel. This is a pretty common misconception, but it’s easily debunked. “Stuck In The Middle With You” by Stealer’s Wheel… or Bob Dylan? As a lonely music nerd, it is one of the few things I am actually good at, and I feel it is my duty as an American to dispel the spread of misinformation at all costs. Just to make things 100% clear, I will link to a Youtube video for each song proving, without a doubt, that said artist did said song. Without further adieu, here are six songs that I see constantly mislabeled, along with the band that actually performed the song. I am here to clear the omnipresent fog, remove the confusion that has plagued you all for so long. Apparently I, an obnoxious music nerd, am the only person in the world that cares about labeling songs correctly! IS THAT SO WRONG?īut don’t you worry. Just the other day I had to tell my friend – as politely as possible – that “Black Hole Sun” was not, in fact, recorded by the Stone Temple Pilots. In the age of P2P networks and iTunes, rampant file sharing has made it all the easier to mislabel a song and spread that mistake like wildfire. “It’s the 2000s! The Information Age! We can look up any song lyrics we like in a matter of seconds! Surely this confusion must be extinct!” Man, I would like to believe that, but somehow the internet has just made things worse. Sure, it might sound all innocent and naive, but try to correct these people and they would defend – to the DEATH – that Poison did “Cherry Pie,” or that Neil Young did “A Horse With No Name.” Once someone stamps it into their head that so-and-so band did so-and-so song, it becomes very hard to tell them otherwise. ![]() If someone heard “Jack and Diane” over and over and over, they might just convince themselves that it was a new Springsteen song. Back in the old days, it was a common dilemma – listening to the radio, if someone heard a Badfinger song that sounded like the Beatles, they’d easily just assume it was the Beatles. Yet somehow, we tend to be slightly less infallible when it comes to correctly identifying who performed our favorite songs. We’re all human beings, right? We’re hardly infallible creatures. ![]()
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