_Which group was the first to do without "The"? I suspect Them_You mean m? Love those guys
― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:12 (two years ago) link
Is this specifically for acts/places/things that once had a 'the' but then removed it? Or anything that feels like it should have a 'the' but doesn't?Lemonheads gave up on being mis-articled and added a The on their seventh album.
― beepy fridges (sic), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
Creation
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
The Guess Who? started as Guess Who?
They lost their question mark to the Mysterians along the way as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 1 April 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
Pentangle
― reassessing life after bookmarking a Will Smith thread (PBKR), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
ohio state university
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
Asda
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 1 April 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/AKUzfJ92iL4CmqY1r31RibL-jb8o5LRiZNWyZYEO3FI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:585/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY2MjM4/NzQtMTQ3OTE3ODQ2/Ni01Mjc5LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 1 April 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
what was the first rock 'n' roll band not to be called "the something(s)"?
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 1 April 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
Cure (c. Wish, for that four-letter alt-rock punch)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 1 April 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
^ 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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
the people I heard say "Jesus & The Mary Chain" were in Belgium/Flanders btw (xposts)
― StanM, Friday, 1 April 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
oh wait nvm lol
― brimstead, Friday, 1 April 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
Matt Johnson cornered the market?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
Heard “Jesus & The Mary Chain” loads in Australia.
― beepy fridges (sic), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
yeah me too, by people I was never friends with again
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
also Pixies never had a “the”
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
they neither had one nor seem like they should have
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
I do sir, and more! and more.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
“Baby, baby. .. where did our the go?”
― calstars, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
Ben Folds Five
― kinder, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:57 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
they neither had one nor seem like they should haveThey have a lower case one all over their Wikipedia page, unlike Buzzcocks.
― ledge, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
If there can be a newish band called Cults, can I start The Beetle?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
You have to read that title as, Death to "the". Pixies.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
In German feminine, Die Pixies.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
minority report
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
Who put the the in the bomp bah bomp bah bompWho put the the in the rama lama ding dongWho put the the in the bop shoo bop shoo bopWho put the the in the dip da dip da dipWho was that manI'd like to shake his handHe 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 (two years ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/-5WUhRDCvc6AJj3xupsbl7pthOOd3nKXgkU5hMxxLzo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ5NTMz/My0xMTIzMzYwODcw/LmpwZw.jpeg
― fetter, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:23 (two years ago) link
https://images.eil.com/large_image/ORANGE_JUICE_THE%2BTHIRD%2BALBUM%2B-%2BGATEFOLD%2BSLEEVE-152099.jpg
― fetter, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:25 (two years ago) link
Cocteau Twins
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
Swans
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 2 April 2022 09:00 (two years ago) link
oh don't you "the" medon't you "the" me no more
ohhhh baby, babywhere did our "the" go? ....
― sarahell, Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
Go ‘the’ Team, surely?
― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Madness.
didn't. did. didn't.
― mark e, Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.nl/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjdharSiPb2AhVw_HcKHZAOAtQYABAbGgJlZg&ae=2&sig=AOD64_1_mRMwEEhEpvOALAIMHp1oKGToOw&adurl&ctype=5&ved=0CAEQz7YHKA1qFwoTCJDLvNiI9vYCFQAAAAAdAAAAABADthe design thing predates new wavehappy to make a rock contribution. I have finally managed to un-niche myself!
― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
https://media.s-bol.com/2R7xlo5DE8lj/550x550.jpg
― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
Madness is even better because it’s half the band specifically saying “Madness split up, we are a completely new band called The Madness”
― beepy fridges (sic), Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
(similar: 3/4 of Talking Heads forming a band called The Heads)
like eagles and buggles these two go together:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Welcome_Plastics.jpeg
https://www.vinylnet.co.uk/_assets/_user/images/prods/721937219310_1.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.secondhandvinylrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Kursaal-Flyers-%E2%80%8E–-Golden-Mile-vinyl-record-side-A-label-scaled.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/uVZrDN0-qjr9bJKCgqkYKlHfZ1QQpNve74hVQsXWDqk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxODgy/MDQtMTM2NTUwMzM4/NC0xNDU1LmpwZWc.jpeg
― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
Golden Earring, formerly known as The Golden Earrings.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 April 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
The Gambia - officially The Republic of The Gambia - seems to be greedily hoarding the’s
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 2 April 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link