While ‘Creep’ never hit the same heights as anything by Nirvana, it served as the final single from Stone Temple Pilots’ first record, and remains a beloved track by fans. After all, back in the day when seemingly every song parody was by “Weird Al” Yankovic, almost every ’90s grunge hit was similarly found to be credited to icons of the genre, Nirvana.Īs such, ‘Half The Man I Used To Be’ is one track that gets thrown around quite a lot as being by the Seattle rockers, when in fact, it’s slow, acoustified grungeness (that’s a real term, trust us) was in fact ‘Creep’ by California’s Stone Temple Pilots. This is one that can be chalked up to the days of Limewire. ‘Half The Man I Used To Be’ is not by Nirvana Maybe what this tells us is that Thomas Bangalter is the one that makes Daft Punk sound like, well… Daft Punk? Check out Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’: See, while Daft Punk consists of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Bangalter also popped up in Stardust, this time working with Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond. While many soon began to associate this track to fellow Frenchmen Daft Punk, it turns out that they weren’t too far off.
The track was titled ‘Music Sounds Better With You’, and mixed a Chaka Khan sample into a familiar-sounding house track to create the band’s only single to date. Months later though, a new song made its way onto the airwaves, with a sound not dissimilar to Daft Punk. Critically-beloved, the record spawned four singles with the last, ‘Revolution 909’, being released in February of 1998. ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ is not by Daft Punkīack in early 1997, French music legends Daft Punk burst onto the scene with their debut album, Homework. Throw Fountains Of Wayne and Bowing For Soup on that concert lineup and our heads will be spinning. Back in 2011, Weezer addressed this incident by covering ‘Teenage Dirtbag’, while Wheatus returned the favour by covering ‘My Name Is Jonas’, making the songs even more confusing. However, the whole situation is even more confusing these days. Thanks in part to Wheatus’ all-too-short brush with mainstream success and Weezer’s first album in five years being released the next year, it was a perfect storm of confusion. Yes, releasing ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ in July of 2000, New York’s Wheatus found their well-deserved success being credited to Weezer for quite some time. With a penchant for making what some folks described as “nerdy” rock music, it was just bad luck when a similarly-named group unleashed a track that wasn’t exactly dissimilar to Weezer’s sound. Check out Christopher Stopa’s ‘Sit Still’ that gets confused with Radiohead songs:īy 2000, California alt-rockers Weezer had been taking a few years off following the release of their second album, Pinkerton.
Let’s be fair though, Stopa probably sounds more like Radiohead ever could, making this one pretty successful troll. Rather, when the song’s discovery began to make headlines around the world, it brought Canadian musician Christopher Stopa out of the woodwork, who shared his own studio version of the track (which he had titled ‘Sit Still’), putting an end to the mystery. The only problem was that this was not even close to being written by Thom Yorke and co. Listening to the track, the story was believable, as it sounds almost exactly like tunes such as ‘Fake Plastic Trees’, and features the same sort of composition and chorus style that a Radiohead track would. Titled ‘Ketchup In The Fridge’, the track was supposedly written during recording sessions for The Bends and was subsequently left of the album. ‘Ketchup In The Fridge’ is not by Radioheadīack in 2011, an anonymous poster appeared on the online imageboard 4Chan to share an unreleased Radiohead track they had come into possession of. In fact, this track was written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan of Scottish band Stealers Wheel, and was written to depict a “music industry cocktail party” of sorts. However, it turned out that they were actually quite far off. With somewhat poetic lyrics and a folk-inspired delivery, most people began to naturally assume this tune was actually a continuation of Bob Dylan’s ’70s period. Released back in 1973, one of the first of many songs to be mis labeled was ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ which quickly became a soft-rock hit that could be heard on radio stations the world over. ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ is not by Bob Dylan
To combat this misinformation, we’ve decided to take a look back at a handful of songs that aren’t actually by the artists people claim they’re by. However, plenty of famous songs still get credited to the wrong artist to this day. As the years have gone by and technology has advanced, it’s become far less common for artists to have their songs misattributed to other musicians.
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