who has the worst name out of all the 'The ....' bands?

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no The works with Doves

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

The Music is a VERY misleading name

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

I'm for more The bands whose noun has no business being in a phrase with "The", like the Get Hustle

Totally. Or, rather, The Totally.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

Also, a thousand gold doubloons to the first "The" band who insists on spelling it "Teh". Bonus points for additionally insisting that their name be spelled in ALL CAPS ALL TEH TIME.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

The OTM

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

Teh R0X0R

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

The Fags

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

TEH U R ALL GAY

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Re: Absent "The"s

Screw them. Always reference them with the "the" at the start. We have the power, people.

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Also, a thousand gold doubloons to the first "The" band who insists on spelling it "Teh". Bonus points for additionally insisting that their name be spelled in ALL CAPS ALL TEH TIME.

from now on my new band is called TEH SLITHY TOVES.

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

I'd say The Music based purely on the lack of forethought with respect to prospective fans being able to Google "The Music" and actually find a page for the fucking band.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

The The are also guilty of this

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

I think "The Gay" is genius... as in "I hope I don't catch the Gay." Has anyone been called The Pot, as in "Have you been smoking the pot?"
Maybe that would be the worst one ever, actually.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

My mom would always cut out articles from the Washington Post when I was growing up and be like "Hey, Ben, I cut out an article about that band you like, The Fugazi." (which, of course, was the source of wild amusement for me).

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

These may belong in an entirely different category, but howbout those bands that can't even bother to spell "The" CORRECTLY? Like "Thee Headcoats" or "Th' Inbred?" That really infuriates me!
(Hey, remember that shoegaze-era joke about Th' Faith Healers having their letter 'e' stolen by Thee Hypnotics?)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link

With the presumable exception of ones that spell it "Teh", of course

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

Teh Toffensive

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

nice!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

The The had a good excuse though. Google wasn't around for most of their career.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

"Google wasn't around for most of their career."

Well, yeah. But regardless....

Thinking about it, it's a good way to avoid file-sharing piracy.

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

...or exposing file-sharers to your stuff and maybe increasing sales.

(Again though, The The, or any googleproof band name pre-1994 couldn't have predicted the whole search-engine phenomenon.)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

"Again though, The The, or any googleproof band name pre-1994 couldn't have predicted the whole search-engine phenomenon."

No no of course not, there was never any contest of that point.

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

to recap:
the thrills, the stills, the kills, the killers

― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

OMG Ben Boyer, my mom totally did stuff like that too! only it was TV-related, so she'd tell me stuff like "That Big Audio Dynamite was on CNN this morning" and sometimes she'd write it down to remember it. I love my mommy

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link

the las

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

the rasmus

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:09 (twenty years ago) link

When The Kills and The Stills played on the same bill round our way I thought it a high watermark for unimaginative shit. I didn't even go to see them

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago) link

The Soggy Bottom Band.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

I've won, haven't I?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago) link

Bands that sometimes use "the" and sometimes don't, such as (The) Smashing Pumpkins.

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

'The Kills' strikes me as a particularly empty and cliché name. They could be in an exploitation movie or something.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:51 (twenty years ago) link

The Coldplay?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago) link

The Slipknots, no doubt.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago) link

has anyone said the band yet?

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link

someone should name themselves 'the bands'. That would confuse people.

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

Unfortunately, I have friends in a band called The Rock & Roll Adventure Kids.

― cws (cws), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

cws, that sounds cute!

― Lil' Fancy Pants (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

The Saurus

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link

the cranberrysaurus

later shortened to the cranberries...eww

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:14 (twenty years ago) link

no "the" works good with Boredoms.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

"The Hoobastank"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

The Yards, who I saw last Friday supporting Love (see, no "The" there!), have such a terminally awful name that I forgot it seven times DURING THEIR GIG, even though I was holding one of their CDs in my hand at the time.

Their singer is Chris "I was in The Seahorses" Helme and their guitarist, if I'm not mistaken, is Paul Banks from Shed Seven. Nuff said, I think.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

The Yards is nearly as bad as The Stands...I mean do they expect people to remember that? ffs

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

The Marshall Tucker Band

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:09 (twenty years ago) link

The Primitives

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

The Passion of The Christ

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

Oops, I forgot some "!!!!"!!! Here they are:

!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

The Sweet

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

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