Where Did Our ‘The’ Go?

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^ for the unfamiliar: for this album with a four-letter title, the band’s designers came up with a logo that used the same character in four different rotations

beepy fridges (sic), Friday, 1 April 2022 16:52 (four years ago)

As introduced by Robert Elms back in the day:

"From half-spoken shadows emerges a canvas. A kiss of light breaks to reveal a moment when all mirrors are redundant. Listen to the portrait of the dance of perfection: the Spandau Ballet."

Master of Treacle, Friday, 1 April 2022 16:53 (four years ago)

Not only The Pink Floyd, but The AMM:

https://i0.wp.com/recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_4183.jpeg

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 1 April 2022 17:01 (four years ago)

https://nr53.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/videokaf.jpg

I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Friday, 1 April 2022 17:02 (four years ago)

Bowery, depending on the situation. It started in the olden days as Bowery Lane. At some point it acquired a "the." Seems to be in transition now.

Letters sent to the Bronx are addressed "Bronx, NY."

Josefa, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:51 (four years ago)

the people I heard say "Jesus & The Mary Chain" were in Belgium/Flanders btw (xposts)

StanM, Friday, 1 April 2022 18:04 (four years ago)

American here but I don’t get the JAMC thing… I
thought the name was supposed to refer to a chain, not two people named Jesus and Mary Chain. It just sounds weird without the article.

brimstead, Friday, 1 April 2022 18:21 (four years ago)

oh wait nvm lol

brimstead, Friday, 1 April 2022 18:22 (four years ago)

Matt Johnson cornered the market?

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:26 (four years ago)

Heard “Jesus & The Mary Chain” loads in Australia.

beepy fridges (sic), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:39 (four years ago)

yeah me too, by people I was never friends with again

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 19:46 (four years ago)

also Pixies never had a “the”

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 19:49 (four years ago)

That is not necessary for their inclusion on this thread.

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 19:58 (four years ago)

they neither had one nor seem like they should have

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:30 (four years ago)

My kids and I always scratched our heads over "Winnie-ther-Pooh." Is this some kind of British in-joke?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:39 (four years ago)

they neither had one nor seem like they should have

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:41 (four years ago)

I do sir, and more! and more.

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:45 (four years ago)

“Baby, baby. .. where did our the go?”

calstars, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:49 (four years ago)

Ben Folds Five

kinder, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:57 (four years ago)

I've just googled it and I'm still not sure if Red Hot Chili Peppers are called the Red Hot Chili Peppers

kinder, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:00 (four years ago)

they neither had one nor seem like they should have

They have a lower case one all over their Wikipedia page, unlike Buzzcocks.

ledge, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:01 (four years ago)

If there can be a newish band called Cults, can I start The Beetle?

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:23 (four years ago)

I've just googled it and I'm still not sure if Red Hot Chili Peppers are called the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Good point but have you looked at the disambiguation at the top here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:34 (four years ago)

If there can be a newish band called Cults, can I start The Beetle?

Are you familiar with the Nick Lowe EP Bowi, if not The Rumour album Max, although I guess that is kind of a different thing.

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:36 (four years ago)

Feel like this may work for titles too. For example, the follow-up to The Heroic Trio is Executioners, as if things were so bleak they couldn’t afford or be arsed to put an article in there.

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:47 (four years ago)

I have never heard anyone call Pixies anything other than The Pixies irl

Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 1 April 2022 23:33 (four years ago)

“Baby, baby. .. where did our the go?”

“Baby, I need your the-ing/Got to have all your the-ing”

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 23:51 (four years ago)

I have never heard anyone call Pixies anything other than The Pixies irl

look they even labelled their own t-shirt and compilation Death to the Pixies, I realise it doesn't hold water

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:03 (four years ago)

You have to read that title as, Death to "the". Pixies.

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:07 (four years ago)

In German feminine, Die Pixies.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:26 (four years ago)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_und_Dixie

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:35 (four years ago)

minority report

in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:38 (four years ago)

Who put the the in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the the in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the the in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the the in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)

I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 07:38 (four years ago)

Cocteau Twins

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:39 (four years ago)

Swans

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 2 April 2022 09:00 (four years ago)

oh don't you "the" me
don't you "the" me no more

ohhhh baby, baby
where did our "the" go? ....

sarahell, Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:14 (four years ago)

Excellent work all around. Go Team!

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:33 (four years ago)

Go ‘the’ Team, surely?

I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:59 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSm6s--CYUQ

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:03 (four years ago)

Nits

Maresn3st, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:16 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/GoGos-Vacation.jpg

mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:16 (four years ago)

bangles is more controversial but i favour it

mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:20 (four years ago)

Tribalistas

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:22 (four years ago)

(been saving that one)

Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:22 (four years ago)

Grateful Dead

visiting, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:24 (four years ago)

Lebanon

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:24 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Metalpriestess.JPG

mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:25 (four years ago)


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