Heroes by the Wallflowers

redline248 said:

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I'm young, relative to the song, but I thought "Lunatic Fringe" was Pink Floyd until about last year.

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I'm not young relative to the song, but the was the first song that came to mind. I thought it was The Floyd talking about Syd Barrett for the longest time.

Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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redline248 said:

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I'm young, relative to the song, but I thought "Lunatic Fringe" was Pink Floyd until about last year.

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I'm certainly not young but I don't know that I heard this song until I was in college. I swore it was Pink Floyd until someone told me it was Red Rider. WTF is Red Rider?

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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Red Rider was a band fronted by Tom "Life Is a Highway" Cochrane.

Ocean Of Funk said:

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Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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redline248 said:

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I'm young, relative to the song, but I thought "Lunatic Fringe" was Pink Floyd until about last year.

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I'm certainly not young but I don't know that I heard this song until I was in college. I swore it was Pink Floyd until someone told me it was Red Rider. WTF is Red Rider?

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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Red Rider was a band fronted by Tom "Life Is a Highway" Cochrane.

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Both Red Rider and Tom Cochrane scored multiple hits - in Canada where they hail from - but hardly any crossed over to the US. Tom had a top 10 hit with Life is a Highway later redone by Rascal Flatts. Red Rider never had a top 40 hit in the US but a few like Lunatic Fringe were played on rock (AOR) stations. Lunatic Fringe picked up a lot of momentum and became a staple of classic rock based mostly on it's use in the movie Vision Quest which was several years after its release.

Not a song, but I thought Garth Brooks was a part of Brooks and Dunn until about 5 years ago.

redline248 said:

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Not so much a "wrong band" issue, but similar, every time I hear the beginning of Edge of Seventeen I think it's Eye of the Tiger. Then I get pissed when I realize it's not.

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God help us when you learn it's bootylicious that's playing.

I thought "Escape" by Rupert Holmes was a Jimmy Buffett song until Always Sunny set me straight.

I thought Squeeze Box by The Who was done by CCR.

CrottyKid said:

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Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies

I thought for 20 years it was CCR. Nope. A British rock band.

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Thought the same thing the first time I heard it. Think my dad corrected me when I asked.

In response to the OP, I thought Tomorrow by Silverchair was by Pearl Jam for the longest time

I used to constantly mistake Guns & Roses songs for AC/DC

Ocean Of Funk said:

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Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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redline248 said:

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I'm young, relative to the song, but I thought "Lunatic Fringe" was Pink Floyd until about last year.

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I'm certainly not young but I don't know that I heard this song until I was in college. I swore it was Pink Floyd until someone told me it was Red Rider. WTF is Red Rider?

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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Red Rider was a band fronted by Tom "Life Is a Highway" Cochrane.

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WOW, I am today years old finding out that Tom Cochrane was in Red Rider. The first concert I ever attended in my life was Pat Benatar with Red Rider opening up for her. I never knew it was Tom Cochrane signing Lunatic Fringe.

jokershady said:

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I used to constantly mistake Guns & Roses songs for AC/DC

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Really? They sound nothing alike.

TXAG 05 said:

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Aggie_Journalist said:

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I downloaded a bunch of music off Napster when I was in middle school and just getting into music, but something went wrong. Every song I downloaded, irregardless of who actually performed it, had the artist listed as, "Creedence Clearwater Revival."

It took me years to figure out CCR wasn't the most talented and versatile band of all time.

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Back in those days, there were tons of mislabeled songs.

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Stuck in the middle was commonly labeled as Bob Dylan.

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Yes. That and "Fightin Texas Aggie as REK instead of Dub Miller.

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When I was at A&M, everyone thought it was Roger Creager

beanbean said:

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Ocean Of Funk said:

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Fuzzy Dunlop said:

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redline248 said:

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I'm young, relative to the song, but I thought "Lunatic Fringe" was Pink Floyd until about last year.

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I'm certainly not young but I don't know that I heard this song until I was in college. I swore it was Pink Floyd until someone told me it was Red Rider. WTF is Red Rider?

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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Red Rider was a band fronted by Tom "Life Is a Highway" Cochrane.

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WOW, I am today years old finding out that Tom Cochrane was in Red Rider. The first concert I ever attended in my life was Pat Benatar with Red Rider opening up for her. I never knew it was Tom Cochrane signing Lunatic Fringe.

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^in sign language???? damn he is talented.

oh you meant singing.

jk

https://texags.com/forums/13/topics/3133412

I found out yesterday when we were discussing it and I looked it up on YouTube because I hadn't heard it in a while.

It wasn't until I watched the Cars get inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF when I found out that "Drive" was not sung by Ric Ocasek but bassist Benjamin Orr.

It just never dawned on me all this time that that wasn't Ocasek's voice. I just assumed it was because he was the lead singer.

Shared a bag of coke in the 90s with nick nolte in the bathroom at the chateau marmont. Only to find out years later it was Gary busey.

GiveEmHellBill said:

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It wasn't until I watched the Cars get inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF when I found out that "Drive" was not sung by Ric Ocasek but bassist Benjamin Orr.

It just never dawned on me all this time that that wasn't Ocasek's voice. I just assumed it was because he was the lead singer.

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Orr sang a lot of their best known songs: 'Let's Go', 'Just What I Needed', 'Moving in Stereo', 'Bye Bye Love', 'Candy-O' just to name a few.

A bunch of random songs that were misattributed to either 1) Bob Marley or 2) Curtis Mayfield during my illegal MP3 downloading days in undergrad.

I thought Lowrider was a ZZ Top song for many years.

Click Ckick Boom - Limp Bizkit
Bad Girlfriend - Nickleback

Not totally wrong but I thought Hungerstrike was a Soundgarden song

gggmann said:

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GiveEmHellBill said:

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It wasn't until I watched the Cars get inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF when I found out that "Drive" was not sung by Ric Ocasek but bassist Benjamin Orr.

It just never dawned on me all this time that that wasn't Ocasek's voice. I just assumed it was because he was the lead singer.

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Orr sang a lot of their best known songs: 'Let's Go', 'Just What I Needed', 'Moving in Stereo', 'Bye Bye Love', 'Candy-O' just to name a few.

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To be fair, the only reason most folks really remember Moving In Stereo is a certain Fast Times scene

I used to think "Since You've been Gone" by Rainbow had Paul Stanley on vocals.

"A Horse with No Name"... I thought for years it was a Neil Young song.

I've won bets off my friends on a few of these mentioned. Another one that I won was Turn the Page. I had a friend who was convinced that it was by Jimmy Page

I always thought Hurt was by NiN, but it turns out it was a Johnny Cash song.

Hurt was definitely written by Trent Reznor.

bagger05 said:

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Hurt was definitely written by Trent Reznor.

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Oh, you thought that was a serious post?

Hard to tell

I definitely always thought Hurt was written by Cash for a while, but it is originally NiN.

Children of the Sun by Billy Thorpe ( I know - who?) always thought it was Journey/Steve Perry.

Tanya 93 said:

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I thought Louisiana Saturday Night and Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On was by Alabama.

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I thought Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans on was George Strait forever.

The Debt said:

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I always thought Hurt was by NiN, but it turns out it was a Johnny Cash song.

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Well to be fair, Trent felt the same way