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seeing a picture of Mark Sandman was a pretty big surprise, considering I had thought he was a fat black man. Any notable times you were completely off?

[chinolofus]

the dead kennedys their music was so damn cool when i discovered them in 1991. i pictured a bunch of uber cool lookin punks. mohawks, tattoos, and leather. instead they looked like a bunch of nerds. jello looked kind cool though...just not the punk i envisioned. also im sure everyone who has heard but never seen mike watt is shocked when they finally see him. lumberjack isnt the image i get when i listen to him.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

I remember being four or five years old or something and seeing a picture of Freddie Mercury for the first time. I honestly would never have guessed that he had a mustache.

[chinolofus]

I remember being four or five years old or something and seeing a picture of Freddie Mercury for the first time. I honestly would never have guessed that he had a mustache.

or teeth that could eat an apple through a chain link fence.

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here's another one

[taste the waste]

here's another one

Right, right: how can such an ugly motherfucker make such pretty music?

Reminds me of Nietzsche's argument against Socrates: he's wrong cause he's ugly.

[avec]

I thought 50 Cent was white until i saw him on the cover of Vibe

[Hans Christian Anderson]

to be fair, that shot of elliott was around his peak of drug use/insanity/subsequent ugliness. dude wasn't that ugly, maybe a little weird lookin though.

when he was making good music and less crazy

[heinstein]

I definately thought M. Ward was an old black dude, but he's a young white dude.

[gwa]

Well, after the first few times of obsessing over "Checkin' It Out" -- by Lil' Chris, though I didn't know it at the time -- I thought it was some new lesbian grrrl band, not a bratty teenage boy.

[RabbiSchmoiley]

Proof that I've been living under a rock... until I saw the "I Still Remember" video on PF, I had no idea the lead singer of Bloc Party was black. I had a real Moe-ment ("Waaahh? Maya Angelou is black??!?")

[no magnets]

dean parrish - "tell her"


linda lyndell - "what a man"

these are just two examples where i was off - like, not even in the same time zone.

[Duff.]

In a related story, I was very surprised to find that this guy




sounds like Corrine Tucker.





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[velocity]

In a related story, I was very surprised to find that this guy




sounds like Corrine Tucker.

Haha, I just came here to post about Claudio.

[caley]

Proof that I've been living under a rock... until I saw the "I Still Remember" video on PF, I had no idea the lead singer of Bloc Party was black. I had a real Moe-ment ("Waaahh? Maya Angelou is black??!?")

Yup.

I initially found "Banquet" kind of grating in that "white guy trying to sound like a black guy" way. Then I saw a video and went "Oh, he is black, now I'm all turned around on the subject."

[Chronodiggity]

The first thing that comes to mind is Band of Horses:




Also learning Kele Okereke was black was a bit of a surprise.

[Bleep Blop]

I didn't think the guy from Tao of Steve was one of the singers for the Wrens until Intonation a couple years ago.

[bobfrombob]

I was surprised Craig Finn didn't look more like Henry Rollins or somebody

[mouthbreather]

I remember being four or five years old or something and seeing a picture of Freddie Mercury for the first time. I honestly would never have guessed that he had a mustache.

or teeth that could eat an apple through a chain link fence.

Can't wait to see how Johnny Depp looks fitted with overbite teeth in the biopic.

[Nick]

I just saw the pic of the lead singer for Deerhunter today on P4k. That was a little surprising.