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So you've heard this song repeatedly, and you're utterly certain it's from Group A. You look all over Group A's discography trying to find it, but simply can't. And with good reason: the song was actually performed by someone else. Often shows up due to mis-tagged files on file-sharing services, a small-scale research mistake blossomed into widespread misinformation. Also, after some artists gain a measure of mainstream success in a niche genre or Signature Style, all songs done In the Style of that apparent artist or genre are often misattributed to them. Or it might just be an honest mistake, where the two lead singers sound like each other. Another common version of this trope is the case of songs being credited to a band which are actually solo or side-project recordings by one or more of the band's members (although the band at large might incorporate such songs into their concert performances if the solo artist is still with them), or where a member works with another band. Still, it guarantees an uphill battle against Fan Dumb for both bands. It's not surprising that most victims of this incident are one-hit wonders or artists with a song that doesn't sound like most or all of their early or later work. See also Refrain from Assuming and Covered Up. All Animation Is Disney for a similar trope in a different medium (and both are subtropes of Small Reference Pools). |
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A famous cover of "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" featuring Cass Elliott on lead vocals is often attributed to her group The Mamas & the Papas, but it was actually performed solo by Elliot. However, the song - regardless of it being a solo track - appeared on the band's final album, 1968's The Papas & The Mamas in addition to Elliot's solo debut album (released later that year) and many of the band's greatest hits records. | |
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There's a ton of songs circulating in P2P networks that have been attributed to Metallica. 99% of the time, they have nothing to do with Metallica, like in the case of (a cover of) the Imperial March. Similarly, the Rage Mix from an old video game Force Commander, is not by Rage Against the Machine as some may think. |
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Not every theme song from an 80s movie is by Kenny Loggins. It just seems that way. | |
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Descent 2 does not feature any Skinny Puppy songs, since they were disbanded during its production, but SP co-founder (Nivek) Ogre did contribute the songs "Glut", "Ratzez", and in the Vertigo expansion pack, "Rusty". | |
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"Something Just Like This", a collaboration between The Chainsmokers and Coldplay, suffered the same fate as the aforementioned "Magnets" when the EDM song was played on British alternative station Absolute Radio, who are unlikely to have even considered touching it if it weren't for the latter band's involvement. The song was even solely credited to Coldplay on the station! | |
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The Sonic The Hedgehog series has many of its vocal themes performed by the rock band Crush 40 (the group's guitarist, Jun Senoue, is one of the series' main composers). Because of this, some songs that are done by different performers (such as both versions of "It Doesn't Matter" or "Escape from the City") are sometimes mistakenly credited to them. "This Machine" from Sonic Heroes has also been credited to Crush 40, even though it doesn't sound anything like them. It's Julien-K. "Escape from the City" isn't sung by Phil Collins, either. It's sung by Tony Harnell. |
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Yes, David Allan Coe has two albums entitled Nothing Sacred and Underground Album that feature songs with wonderful titles like "Cum Stains on the Pillow", "Fuck Anita Briant", "Nigger Fucker", and "Fuckin' in the Butt". The racist songs "Nigger, Nigger," "In Coon Town," "Who Likes a Nigger?," "Nigger Hatin' Me," "Still Looking for a Handout," "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Smell That Way)", "Stay Away from Dixie," and "Move Them Niggers North" are all by an artist named Johnny Rebel. Despite what you may think, these two classy guys have nothing to do with each other. Some of Rebel's songs are mistakenly attributed to famed country singers Johnny Horton or Johnny Cash due to similarities in the voices and all three artists being in the same genre; in Horton's case, it's also due to one of his hits being called "Johnny Reb". There's something of a Poe's Law issue here. Coe has repeatedly written off his more racist songs as being tongue-in-cheek parodies. By all accounts Rebel's nastiest work was for real. P2P sites often label the racist song "Ship Those Niggers Back" as a Johnny Cash or Johnny Rebel song, when it was actually recorded by American Nazi Party band Odis Cochran & The Three Bigots. Neither Johnny is known to have made a version of it, although Rebel would be the far likelier candidate. |
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Delerium did not cover Madonna's "Justify My Love", that was Front Line Assembly, which Delerium is a side project of, featuring Kristy Thirsk, a regular featured vocalist with the latter project. | |
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Similarly, "Rush Rush" from Scarface (1983) and Grand Theft Auto III is not by Blondie, but Debbie Harry collaborating with Moroder. | |
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"Carte Blanche", though featured on Vincent de Moor's Moor album, is actually by Veracocha, a supergroup collaboration between VDM and Ferry Corsten. Likewise, "4 Elements" is not by Armin Van Buuren solo, but by Gaia, the supergroup of AVB and Rank 1 co-producer Benno de Goejj. | |
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The version of "It's A Sin to Tell A Lie" in Fallout: New Vegas was not performed by The Ink Spots as a group, but is the Bill Kenny solo version. | |
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"Bother" is another case of a song originally by a solo performer being absorbed into their band's catalog: It first appeared on the Spider-Man soundtrack credited solely to Corey Taylor, as he wrote and performed the song entirely by himself. However, the same version of the song was re-released on the Self-Titled Album by his band Stone Sour, and it was also released as a single under the Stone Sour name. It's also not uncommon for any of Stone Sour's songs to be misattributed to Taylor's more famous band. | |
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And they did not write "Teenage Dirtbag". That's by Wheatus. They just play it live sometimes. | |
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The song known as "Eiffel 65 - Discovery Channel" is actually a remix of The Bloodhound Gang's "Bad Touch"... by Eiffel 65. | |
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The famous Minuet in G Major and its minor counterpart (BWV Anh.114 and 115) are NOT by Bach. It is, in fact, by Christian Petzold, an obscure contemporary of Bach. The famous aria Bist Du bei mir (BWV 508) is not by Bach, but by his contemporary Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. These three works were listed in the BWV because they were found in the booklet of notes assembled by Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena for her private use. These are not the only works misattributed to Bach by musicologists who were unfamiliar with the works of his contemporaries, but too eager to attribute everything written in his or Anna Magdalena's hand to him. For instance, it eventually emerged that the cantata Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt (BWV 160) is completely by Georg Philipp Telemann, as is the opening chorale to Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen (BWV 145). Denn du wirst meine Seele (BWV 15), now more convincingly attributed to Johann Ludwig Bach, was not only once supposed to be J.S. Bach's first cantata, but was even used to argue for his authorship of the St. Luke Passion (BWV 246), a work that Bach demonstrably copied out and probably did perform but may not have written more than a minor part of. | |
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"Go Alone" is not by Avenged Sevenfold. It's by little-known band Hell or Highwater, but M. Shadows does provide vocals. | |
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"Latch" is officially a song by Disclosure, but it only became a hit in the U.S. because its vocals were provided by the fast-rising Sam Smith. As a result, the duo remains quite obscure there despite the song's success, which is more attributed to Smith. The funny thing is, "Latch" isn't even their most well-known song in their native UK (that honor goes to "White Noise"). | |
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Any song by Electronic is liable to be misattributed to Bernard Sumner's other, more famous group New Order, apart from "Disappointed" which is sung by guest vocalist Neil Tennant and therefore wrongly assumed to be by Pet Shop Boys. | |
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"Hell Isn't Good" was not done by Metallica, even though James Hetfield does sing on the track. That's DVDA you're hearing. | |
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Neither "Life's Been Good" nor "Rocky Mountain Way" are by the Eagles. They're both solo efforts by their guitarist and occasional lead singer Joe Walsh. ("Life's Been Good" does feature vocal and instrumental backing by the rest of the Eagles, however, and a live version was included on the Eagles Live album.) | |
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The rock remix of "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta Fuck Wit" is only by guitarist Tom Morello (who also played bass) and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. | |
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"Gravity of Love" is not by Olive, but by Enigma featuring Olive member Ruth-Ann Boyle. | |
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The Sparklehorse version of "Wish You Were Here" tends to be credited to them as well. However, there's a grain of truth to this - Yorke contributed some literally phoned-in backing vocals. | |
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The title song of Grease is not by The Bee Gees, but by Frankie Valli post-Four Seasons. It was, though, written and produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. | |
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Most notorious example of this is the song "Bad Boys" (of COPS fame), performed by Inner Circle. He died long before said song came out. However the song does mention Sheriff John Brown from Marley's song "I Shot The Sheriff" so at least the confusion is slightly justified. Another Inner Circle song that often gets mislabeled as Marley is "Sweat (A Lalala Long)". | |
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Not every bluegrass song is by Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, or Ralph Stanley. And if you hear a female vocal on a bluegrass song, it won't always be Alison Krauss & Union Station. | |
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None of the many Lutheran chorale melodies attributed to Bach were actually written by him; he merely wrote harmony and counterpoint. However, Alban Berg's use of the chorale Es ist genug at the end of his Violin Concerto does count as a Bach quotation since it uses Bach's harmonization of the chorale in the last movement of the cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (BWV 60). | |
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A lot of 90s hip hop is mistaken as being by 2 Live Crew. For example, "Shake That Ass Bitch" (Splack Pack), "Da Dip" (Freak Nasty), and "Too Much Booty in the Pants" (Soundmaster T). | |
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That vocal remix of a Touhou Project theme? Could be IOSYS, yes. Could also be Cool&Create, Innocent Key, Silver Forest, or any number of other Touhou doujin-music circles. | |
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Zara Larsson's music is often misattributed to Rihanna due to the similar vocal styles. For starters, Rihanna is black while Larsson is white. Likewise, MNEK, her collaborator on "Never Forget You", is often mistaken to be The Weeknd. | |
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Not every symphonic power metal band is Nightwish, Within Temptation, or Epica. Songs from the genre or similar sounding genres will often be mistaken for being by either three. | |
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The cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" by Jimmy Cliff which was recorded for Cool Runnings is sometimes misattributed to Marley, despite being released over a decade after his death. Cliff is, at least, a fellow Jamaican reggae musician. | |
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Rivers once claimed to be at his kid's piano recital when they called “Say It Ain’t So” a blink-182 song. Though whether this is a case of Misattributed Song or Refrain from Assuming is debatable, as they very well could have been referring to "All the Small Things" which actually is by blink-182 and whose chorus opens with the phrase. | |
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Not every Reggae song is by Bob Marley. This seems to be a problem on YouTube where songs are often accompanied by an image of Marley, regardless of who actually sang it. Most notorious example of this is the song "Bad Boys" (of COPS fame), performed by Inner Circle. He died long before said song came out. However the song does mention Sheriff John Brown from Marley's song "I Shot The Sheriff" so at least the confusion is slightly justified. Another Inner Circle song that often gets mislabeled as Marley is "Sweat (A Lalala Long)". "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is not by Bob Marley, either, but by the similarly-named Bobby McFerrin. This is especially egregious as Marley was dead when "Don't Worry" was recorded. Neither is the Hawaiian medley of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World." It's by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (though you are forgiven if you can't remember his name), who, like Marley, died very young. The song was released nearly a decade after Marley's death. The cover of "I Can See Clearly Now" by Jimmy Cliff which was recorded for Cool Runnings is sometimes misattributed to Marley, despite being released over a decade after his death. Cliff is, at least, a fellow Jamaican reggae musician. One band you would expect to know better is The Specials, but even they miscredited Bob Marley as the writer of their 1996 single "Hypocrite" rather than the actual writer Leroy Sibbles (of The Heptones), possibly because of a mix-up with Marley's similarly-titled "Hypocrites". |
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"Are "Friends" Electric?", "Down in the Park" and other songs by Tubeway Army are usually credited, even by radio stations, as solo recordings by frontman Gary Numan. This is somewhat correct, as Numan pretty much was Tubeway Army, writing and producing all the songs by himself. Additionally, Replicas, the parent album of both of the aforementioned songs, was later reisssued with a credit to "Gary Numan + Tubeway Army" and Tubeway Army technically still exist (or at least did for a time) as his backing band. | |
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"Caroline, No" is technically not a Beach Boys song: it was originally issued as a Brian Wilson solo single (no other Beach Boys appear on the single, but most of the group's regular backing session musicians do), and made the pop charts in 1966 properly credited to only him. However, after its single release, it appeared on the band's seminal Pet Sounds record (and the endless compilations released afterwards) credited to the band. Its come to the point where its now more often considered a Beach Boys song than a Wilson solo effort. | |
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Some of Rebel's songs are mistakenly attributed to famed country singers Johnny Horton or Johnny Cash due to similarities in the voices and all three artists being in the same genre; in Horton's case, it's also due to one of his hits being called "Johnny Reb". | |
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"The Ballad of Tom Jones" is not by Catatonia, but by Space. However, the female vocalist is indeed Catatonia frontwoman Cerys Matthews, who was even credited as "Cerys from Catatonia" on the original single, and the song is featured on both of the band's greatest hits albums. | |
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"Sex Drive" was not originally a Dead or Alive song, despite appearing on their Nukelopatra album; it was a collaboration between the Belgian Eurodance group Glam and DOA singer Pete Burns. | |
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They also never released a cover of "Video Killed the Radio Star;" that was The Presidents of the United States of America. | |
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As badly misattributed as "Uptown Funk" tends to be, it's nothing compared to "The Hanging Tree" from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. This song's official lead artist is film composer James Newton Howard who is almost completely obscure to the general public, whereas its featured vocalist is one of the most widely recognized personalities in the world. Even Billboard magazine themselves wrote an article about Jennifer Lawrence getting a top 40 hit and relegated James Newton Howard to a footnote (in contrast, they never tried to downplay Ronson to the same extent). | |
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Sepultura never recorded with Luciano Pavarotti. That cover was made by a parody band, JBO. | |
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The 2004 metal hit "Save Me" is not by Pantera but by Damageplan, the side band of Dimebag Darrell before he was killed on stage. | |
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"In a Broken Dream" is usually credited to Rod Stewart, when in reality it's by the obscure Australian band Python Lee Jackson. Stewart recorded the lead vocals because the band's lead singer, Dave Bentley, didn't feel like singing it. | |
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Rage Against the Machine: Subverted with "Snoop Bounce" by Snoop Dogg, which features everyone from the band except Zack de la Rocha. The rock remix of "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta Fuck Wit" is only by guitarist Tom Morello (who also played bass) and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. For decades, a rock remix of "B.O.B." by Outkast was believed to have been by them. In 2020, it was confirmed that the remix was by Zack de la Rocha… the lead singer of Rage Against the Machine. |
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Everybody knows Mick Jagger is the lead singer of The Rolling Stones, but "Just Another Night" is him going solo. | |
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"The Last Defeat" is not by Sunscreem, but by Solarstone featuring their lead singer, Lucia Holm. | |
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The disco cover of The Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You", featured in 54, was not by Diana Ross, though her former band The Supremes also covered it, or the Pointer Sisters, but by ex-Pointer Sisters member Bonnie Pointer. | |
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Christian Alvestam did not get back to Scar Symmetry. He formed a band called Solution .45 who's music happens to sound similar to theirs. It doesn't help that all the rest of his bands either don't sound like them or are so unknown nobody has heard their music. | |
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Not every R&B song from the 90s with male vocal harmonies is by Boyz II Men. | |
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Rammstein is not the artist of EVERY German Dance Metal song. Nor did they ever produce Dutch or Flemish numbers. Nor did they ever cover Aqua's 'Barbie Girl;' though this mostly came from the Napster/Limewire days where a Dutch parody by Ome Henk was regularly attributed on the services to the band themselves. |
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