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* No, Sepultura never recorded with Luciano Pavarotti. That cover was made by a parody band, JBO.

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* No, Sepultura {{Sepultura}} never recorded with Luciano Pavarotti. That cover was made by a parody band, JBO.



* 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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* 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) [[StarWars the Imperial March.
March.]]
** Similarly, the Rage Mix from an old video game ''Force Commander'', is not by Rage Against the Machine RageAgainstTheMachine as some may think.



* No, "Bitch" was not sung by AlanisMorisette. That was Meredith Brooks.

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* No, "Bitch" was not sung by AlanisMorisette.AlanisMorissette. That was Meredith Brooks.



* No, Coldplay had nothing to do with "Closer To Love"; it's by Mat Kearney.
* No, "Closing Time" is not Green Day. It's Semisonic.

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* No, Coldplay {{Coldplay}} had nothing to do with "Closer To Love"; it's by Mat Kearney.
* No, "Closing Time" is not Green Day.GreenDay. It's Semisonic.



* On a related note, the acoustic version of the {{Radiohead}} song "Creep" is not by Muse. It's still Radiohead.

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* On a related note, the acoustic version of the {{Radiohead}} song "Creep" is not by Muse.Music/{{Muse}}. It's still Radiohead.



* No, "Lemon Tree" isn't by Oasis. It's by Fool's Garden.

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* No, "Lemon Tree" isn't by Oasis.{{Oasis}}. It's by Fool's Garden.



* No, "Tubthumping" is not by Smash Mouth, but Chumbawamba.

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* No, "Tubthumping" is not by Smash Mouth, SmashMouth, but Chumbawamba.



* No, Marilyn Manson didn't put out a song titled "Uprising". That's actually Muse.

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* No, Marilyn Manson MarilynManson didn't put out a song titled "Uprising". That's actually Muse.



* No, "Crossfire" is not by The Killers. It's a solo recording by Brandon Flowers, their lead singer.

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* No, "Crossfire" is not by The Killers.TheKillers. It's a solo recording by Brandon Flowers, their lead singer.
* No, KatyPerry isn't in Flo Rida's "Right Round". That's {{Kesha}}.
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* M.I.A. is not Mya is not Maya.

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* Some people think that the Beatles' "Let It Be" is a John Lennon solo song - but Lennon didn't even write the song!
** Not only that, but he didn't sing it, too. That was McCartney.

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* Some people think that the Beatles' "Let It Be" is a John Lennon solo song - but even though it's sung by [=Paul McCartney=]. Lennon didn't even write the song!
** Not only that, but he didn't sing
have a hand in writing it, too. That was McCartney.although he got a co-writer credit for contractual reasons.
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** It doesn't help that some people think that "The Rabbit Joint" is/are the artist/s.

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* No, "Her Diamonds" is not a matchbox twenty song; it's a solo piece by their lead singer Rob Thomas. (This raises the question, "Why make a solo album if all your songs are gonna sound the same as your band's songs?")

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* No, "Her Diamonds" is not a matchbox twenty song; it's a solo piece by their lead singer Rob Thomas. (This raises the question, "Why make a solo album if all your songs are gonna sound the same as your band's songs?") songs?")
** It's been said that radio stations had calls for "that new matchbox twenty song" when another solo recording by Thomas, "Lonely No More", received regular airplay.




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* No, "Crossfire" is not by The Killers. It's a solo recording by Brandon Flowers, their lead singer.
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** Of course if you know that the song [[RefrainFromAssuming really is called "Tubthumping"]], you might already know who really performed it.
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* No, "Hold the Line" (no, not [[RefrainFromAssuming "Love Isn't Always on Time"]] was not performed by Foreigner. That was Toto.

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* No, "Hold the Line" (no, not [[RefrainFromAssuming "Love Isn't Always on Time"]] Time"]]) was not performed by Foreigner. That was Toto.
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* No, "Hold the Line" was not performed by Foreigner. That was Toto.

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* No, "Hold the Line" (no, not [[RefrainFromAssuming "Love Isn't Always on Time"]] was not performed by Foreigner. That was Toto.
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*** ''Merely?!''
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** And they did not remix New Order's "True Faith". It was produced and remixed by Shep Pettibone, who also did some productions with PSB.

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** And they PSB did not remix New Order's "True Faith". It was produced and remixed by Shep Pettibone, who also did some productions with PSB.
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* No, "Send Me An Angel" is not by the Pet Shop Boys or Erasure, but by Real Life. Probably misattributed because the '89 remix resembles the PSB's style.

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* No, neither the PetShopBoys nor Erasure covered Real Life's "Send Me An Angel" is not by the Pet Shop Boys or Erasure, but by Real Life. an Angel". Probably misattributed because the '89 1989 remix resembles the PSB's style.
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* No, the vocalist of Chicane's "Autumn Tactics" was not Beth Orton, but Justine Suissa (singer of many Ocean Lab songs, and Armin van Buuren's "Burned With Desire).

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* No, the vocalist of Chicane's "Autumn Tactics" was not Beth Orton, but Justine Suissa (singer (main singer of many Ocean Lab songs, Lab, and Armin van Buuren's "Burned With Desire).Desire").
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* No, "Send Me An Angel" is not by the Pet Shop Boys, but by Real Life. The '89 remix resembles the PSB's style a bit, though.
** And they did not remix New Order's "True Faith". The Morning Sun remix was done by Shep Pettibone, who did do some productions with PSB, though.

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* No, "Send Me An Angel" is not by the Pet Shop Boys, Boys or Erasure, but by Real Life. The Probably misattributed because the '89 remix resembles the PSB's style a bit, though.
style.
** And they did not remix New Order's "True Faith". The Morning Sun remix It was done produced and remixed by Shep Pettibone, who also did do some productions with PSB, though.PSB.
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** Such as "Piece of Heaven" by Akira, which featured Manian and Yanou, but a different vocalist. And by the way, [[CoveredUp that was a remake]] of an older euro-trance song by A7.


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** Such as "Piece of Heaven" by Akira, which featured was co-produced by DJ Manian and Yanou, but had a different vocalist. And by the way, [[CoveredUp that was a remake]] of an older euro-trance song by A7.

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\n** Such as "Piece of Heaven" by Akira, which featured Manian and Yanou, but a different vocalist. And by the way, [[CoveredUp that was a remake]] of an older euro-trance song by A7.

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* No, Utada Hikaru never recorded an English version of her song "First Love". It's a cover by Jessa Zaragoza.

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* No, Utada Hikaru UtadaHikaru never recorded an English version of her song "First Love". It's a cover by Jessa Zaragoza.



* No, Utada Hikaru didn't sing "PrincessMononoke's Main Theme", either. Vocals are provided by Yoshikazu Mera (Japanese version) or Sasha Lezard (English version).

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* No, Utada Hikaru UtadaHikaru didn't sing "PrincessMononoke's Main Theme", either. Vocals are provided by Yoshikazu Mera (Japanese version) or Sasha Lezard (English version).



* No, Utada Hikaru did not sing the ''{{Bayonetta}}'' version of "Fly Me to the Moon", that was done by Belgian singer Helena Noguerra.

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* No, Utada Hikaru UtadaHikaru did not sing the ''{{Bayonetta}}'' version of "Fly Me to the Moon", that was done by Belgian singer Helena Noguerra.
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* No, BowlingForSoup did not wrote "Stacy's Mom". That would be Fountains of Wayne.
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* No, "Good Grief" (that rap-rock song starting with the line "Good morning Vietnam") was not by Rage Against The Machine. It's by Urban Dance Squad. Really. (And for that matter, UDS inspired RATM, not the other way around!)
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** Somewhat justified, or at least understandable, since BOM's most popular incarnation were often criticised for their similarity to ABBA - compare [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_%28song%29 Angelo]] to ''Fernando'', for example.
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* Tom Petty doesn't have a song called "Low" (or [[RefrainFromAssuming "Like Being Stoned"]] for that matter), that was Cracker. The confusion presumably stems from the song having sort of a similar rhythm to "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

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* Tom Petty doesn't have a song called "Low" (or [[RefrainFromAssuming "Like Being Stoned"]] for that matter), that was Cracker. The confusion presumably stems from the song having sort of a similar rhythm to "Mary Jane's Last Dance". The confusion has apparently become [[http://300songs.com/2010/08/10/24-low-cracker-musings-on-why-hits-are-written-fast-big-dipper-was-slow-kol-and-our-special-ops-pigeons/ a big pet peeve]] of Cracker vocalist David Lowery.
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I added that originally, but it goes better listed with the other Imperial March listing.


* No, the remix of the "Imperial March" from ''StarWars: Force Commander'' may be called the Rage Mix, but it's not by Rage Against The Machine, as many uploaders claim.
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** It also did not originate from DJ Cammy's ''Celebrate the Summer''. It was sampled for the song.

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** It also did not originate from DJ Cammy's ''Celebrate "Celebrate the Summer''. Summer". It was sampled for the that song.
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**It also did not originate from DJ Cammy's ''Celebrate the Summer''. It was sampled for the song.
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*Tom Petty doesn't have a song called "Low" (or [[RefrainFromAssuming "Like Being Stoned"]] for that matter), that was Cracker. The confusion presumably stems from the song having sort of a similar rhythm to "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

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* No, the vocalist of Chicane's "Autumn Tactics" was not Beth Orton, but Justine Suissa (singer of many Ocean Lab songs, and Armin van Buuren's "Burned With Desire).
* The vocalist on the bootleg mashup "True Love Never Dies on the Airwaves" by Rank 1 was not Kylie Minogue, but Claire from The Steps. The original singer of "True Love Never Dies" was Donna Williams.
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** Nor are any of them The Misfits.
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* Some people think that the Beatles' "Let It Be" is a John Lennon solo song - but Lennon didn't write the song!

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* Some people think that the Beatles' "Let It Be" is a John Lennon solo song - but Lennon didn't even write the song!

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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 the Imperial March.

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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.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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** Neither did LedZeppelin. This troper has encountered people who're rather adamant on this one.
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** Similarly, "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from TheBreakfastClub is not by Tears for Fears either... it's Simple Minds.

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