Which 2 bands you find really similar?

ELO and ELP

 

Beatles
Stones

 

Nah....your GG Allin and Jackson Browne comparison was better.

 

STP: joke band taken very seriously by segment of members here.

 

Kansas and Styx.

 

OMD and Japan

Not really in sound exactly but more of experimenting with a genre that often gets piled on as sounding the same. They both were for a time doing things you wouldn't see, though the first band definitely had it going from the first record. They both have two albums in the genre that are said as essential for this reason "Dazzle Ships" and "Tin Drum".

 

It's hard to reach that pinnacle, no doubt, but there are some modern artists that remind me a bit of Joni. The Weather Station (the project of Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman) is very good and immediately reminiscent of early Joni Mitchell, a great voice and songs. Just one of a few, but don't disagree with you, there's only one Joni Mitchell.

 

Parliment and Funkadelic. Next-!

 

Genesis pg era, and marillion.

 

Winner.

 

The Beatles and The Knickerbockers

 

Gong and Ozric Tentacles; Syd Barrett and Robyn Hitchcock, sometimes

 

Blackfield and Prefab Sprout

 

Both are American folk rock bands of the same era, (mid to late sixties). Which I really like.
Both songs below fit in the same category, what do you guys think. I might be off.


The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

 

Not sure that one counts, since they have the same band members.

 

Maureen Tucker and Throwing Muses.

 

I'll check them out...
I do love Joni...her music has never failed to make me stop and think, "Holy F***".

 

That goes for the first two albums.
Afterwards the Queen influence increases and they kinda get their own sound.

 

This thread has become ridiculous.

 

They’re not a joke band.

I’m no huge fan and recognize they steal heavily from certain groups, but they have some good songs.

I don’t write off many bands unless they’re just flat horrible or don’t play music that moves me. STP has moments of near greatness.

 

The Four Tops and The Temptations. Same backing band (The Funk Bros.) different vocalists.

 

Carole King and Todd Rundgren

 

Boh very quintessential 70's and Prog-lite, I give you that, but that's where it ends for me.

 

Real Estate and Beach Fossils

 

Post-1975 Funkadelic, I would say...