Famous bands and their unknown twins

This thread is about famous bands who have twins of the same name that are not well known.

Let us begin with Genesis.

There was another band with exactly the same name who recorded one album in 1968. Also kind of prog with a 16min longtrack over whole side 2.
Only few guys will remember the " other" Genesis:




Another band. IRON MAIDEN.
They have a less known twin, another band called IRON MAIDEN, who made psychedelic heavy rock.
Here they are. Great album from 1969.

https://youtu.be/q8zdORt1joU


Now, do you know well known bands who had or have "twins"?

(Names needn't to be exactly same written. )

 

Oasis

 

Gypsy from Minneapolis Minnesota had a UK twin that went by the same name. For awhile the bands were unofficially known as American Gypsy and UK Gypsy.

American Gypsy....




UK Gypsy.....

https://youtu.be/nFLss6AV7CI

 

Yeah.. The 60s Nirvana with their crazy psychedelic stuff.

 

The other Slayer
S.A.Slayer - Wikipedia

 

Same name, same label, but not the band that gave us "My Sharona":

 

I am sure we've had this thread before.

Some other classics:

Two Wings
Two Heart

 

Same name and a title that could pass for the work of Morrissey, but different band from a different decade:

 

more than once!
Two Mike Love's ⬇︎


⬆︎ uncool Mike Love

⬆︎ cool Mike Love

 

'70's funk from a band called The Cult that had nothing to do with Ian Astbury:

 

This is definitely an improvement

 

WINGS was already mentioned by member @kwadguy, but he didn't post any of their music ...

Their great, one off self-titled album on DUNHILL/ABC in 1968. The band was led by Oz Bach who had just left Spanky & The Gang. According to Oz Bach's wife, Paul McCartney actually contacted Oz and asked to pay to use the bands name, even though they had broken up a few years prior to Paul's WINGS.

My personal favorite songs from this album are "Pretty Little Girl" and "Takin' It Lazy", but the entire album is really decent and has touches of The Mamas & The Papas and Spanky & The Gang harmonies.

 

Wings...from Indonesia I think.
Not my kind of music... The 3rd band with this name in this thread.

 

How 'bout the other R.E.M.?:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/210331-REM-2

 

THE ELECTRIC PRUNES .

Two completely different bands under the same roof.

First Version;


2nd version
https://youtu.be/gQMDo5zcZ7o

 

The Irish band Skid Row.

 

Here it is. Good that these REM are forgotten today..

 

Well before the UK boy band Blue with 3 #1 albums, you had this power pop outfit:

 

The Temptations, a white vocal group from New York, and their Top 40 hit "Barbara":

 

How about famous singers ...

Country Johnny Mathis

 

From 1959, here's an East Coast group called The Beach Boys with their only 45, "Bathing Beauty":

 

That 2nd pic looks like him in the early 70s

 

There was a British heavy metal band called Toad The Wet Sprocket in the Eighties that formed a few years before the alternative rock band of the same name, fronted by Glen Phillips. Look at the obvious difference