Songs you thought were by other artists? -

[OvercookedBacon]

Example, until a few years I used to think Heroes by David Bowie was a U2 song. Who knows.

Anybody else have similar misunderstandings?

 

[Massa's Little Buckie]

That old Zelda song that sounds like System of a Down but it isn't them.

 

[Ascendancy0]

I thought this was a Michael Jackson song.

 

[Crankenstein]

I used to think Dream On was by Led Zepplin instead of Aerosmith. And that song Forsaken, I'm still not sure if it's by disturbed or korn. I don't really care enough to check.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

I thought Voltaire did that "If I Only Were a Goth" song parody. Turns out it was by ThouShaltNot

I thought Enya recorded Adiemus for a long time as well.

 

[sasazuka]

I used to wonder why "Soley, Soley" was never on any ABBA Greatest Hits albums until I found out that it was a song performed (in English) by Middle of the Road. (The French version, "Soleil Soleil", is more famous, originally recorded by Nana Mouskouri and then a couple of decades later by Lara Fabian.)

Spoiler: Middle of the Road - Soley, Soley

When I was a kid, I thought "Happy Together", by the Turtles. was a Beatles song. I think I only knew about four white bands with male vocalists from the 1960s, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and the Beach Boys, so white-sounding songs from the 1960s obviously had to be from one of those four bands or maybe Elvis Presley.

 

[SSF2T Old User]

I thought "Somebody's Watching Me" was strictly a Michael Jackson song. Only when I was in my 20's thanks to the power of the internet did I learn that it was a Rockwell song that only featured MJ doing the chorus

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I only recently found out "Lonely is the Night" was by Billy Squire and not Led Zeppelin.

 

[StreetGangsta]

i thought this was really a 2pac song till i saw the comments on the vid

 

[Max Doof]

I thought this was gwen stefani singing when I first watched KB vol 2.

 

[Billy "the Bot" Bobson]

I can't believe it's not Creedence! Featuring The Hollies and The Band
The intro is also similar to this song

 

[Lady of the House]

I thought this was a Depeche Mode song for a bit.

 

[NadahFingah]

For some reason I thought Eye in the Sky was a Doobie Brothers song until I looked it up and found out it was by The Alan Parsons Project.

 

[stonersunshine]

I had no idea Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution" was Pearl Jam for quite a while when I was a young teen, since to me it never sounded like any of their other stuff. Then I realized that I actually had no idea whose it was. Didn't sound like it belonged to any of the big name "90s grunge" bands. Curiosity lead me to the truth and I felt dumb.

 

[CrystalRoserade]

For a time, I thought Mr. Wonderful by Smile.DK wasn't, y'know, a Smile.DK song. Pretty sure I thought it was by Bambee?

 

[OvercookedBacon]

Used to think this was Tina Turner until I saw the video:

 

[GHTD]

I legitimately thought "Lucid Dreams" by Juice WRLD was a Post Malone song when I first heard it somewhere.