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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Getting so many songs by the wrong artist.

I had headstrong_linkinpark.

I could never find it on their albums.

Years later find out its by Trapt instead haha

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Fuck Trapt

Can't think of a one hit wonder band with a more bigoted piece of shit as the front man. Dimly lite souls, the entire lot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

teenage_wasteland_the_who.mp3

Different problem, same vibe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I thought "Bittersweet Symphony" was an Oasis song for years thanks to Limewire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

House of the Rising Sun by Pink Floyd. Turns out it was a cover ny Frijid Pink.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure the biggest victims of this were Rockapella (who apparently did every a cappella song) and Weird Al (who apparently recorded every comedy song).

Here’s how cool Al Yankovic is though: for years he maintained a list on his website of every comedy song falsely attributed to him and all the actual artists who made them. I don’t think it’s up anymore, there can’t be much need for it these days, but Al was very cool for doing that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It wasn't entirely altruistic on Weird Al's part; he was also upset about getting associated with comedy songs that had profane lyrics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think I had crimson and clover by “Pink Floyd”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Rage Against The Machine - DX Theme

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That Zelda song from some Flash video labeled as System of a Down.

Crawling_(9-11_Remix).mp3 (bonus points if it's spelled Crawlin')

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. I once downloaded a Stroke9 greatest hits album, and it included the song "Story of a girl". When it came on, I thought "huh, I didn't know they did this song. Cool." Then for more than 10 years I thought it was their song.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't Worry Be Happy by Bob Marley was the one I remember. It was not by Bob Marley at all. It was by Bobby McFarren and came out years after Marley died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did everyone just think that the song was made by Bob Marley?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think it was because it sounded like reggae and most people only know of one reggae singer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hehe : "AC/DC - Born to be wild"

Also "AC/DC - Jailbreak" which I later found was not ACDC... And later found it actually was.

(and yes, ac/dc because why not)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Legend_of_Zelda_-_System_of_a_down.mp3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If anyone was wondering, it was Rabbit Joint that did the Zelda cover

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Had one that was labeled as "Metallica + Trans-Siberian Orchestra". Took me years to find out it was actually Savatage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had Green Day - Story of a girl

In fact if you go to https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/green_day you will see Story of a Girl listed as #5 of their top 5 songs.

The song is by Nine Days.