Best way to deal with an artist masquerading as another artist?

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If you’re not aware of The Animals, they were a 60s group who had some big hits, split up in '66, but the lead singer formed a new band, Eric Burdon and The Animals, then the original members got back together again for a bit, and then they stopped again.

Anyway, one of the members of that interim …and The Animals version, Danny McCulloch, in the 90s decided to re-record some tracks originally by The Animals, throw in a couple of his own compositions, and release these as The Animals.

See here for some info.

Wikipedia also mentions a bit about this.

Here’s one of the albums mentioned, the K-Tel released “All Time Greatest Hits”. It’s credited to the original The Animals.

Allmusic says of this:

K-Tel’s All-Time Greatest Hits collects a mere ten of the Animals’ best-known songs, including “The House of the Rising Sun,” “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” and “San Franciscan Nights.” As if the sparse track listing wasn’t bad enough, over half of the collection, including the aforementioned songs, are inferior re-recordings that sound cold and over-produced. Of the original recordings, “Night Fighter,” “Frisco Queen,” and “Love Fire” aren’t exactly among the Animals’ brightest moments – as if any more reasons to avoid this collection are necessary.

I’m wondering if these releases should be moved to their own artist, or otherwise marked in some way, or just left as The Animals as they are now?

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ooh, that’s sneaky… those should probably be under a separate artist, with an annotation explaining this whole situation.

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I look at stuff like this and ask “what would a real fan put in their discography?” “Where would the fan file it?”

Copyright \ ownership arguments over the “Band Name” are always fascinating to record in some way. And the MB database usually has some relationships or other to link various entities. Can’t beat a good waffly annotation

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An interesting parallel might be the fate of 1970s glam rock band “Sweet”. When the band broke up, three members went on to form their own versions of “Sweet”:

A couple more recent examples might be Asia vs Asia Featuring John Payne and Yes vs Yes featuring ARW.

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Yes but these have distinct names, unlike The Animals. :wink:

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I think they say “AVOID” :smiley:

I’m leaning towards a new artist, though that might increase the chances of it the tracks being re-added under The Animals.

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