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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re; "The" Buzzcocks |
| Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:53:22 -0700 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Stewart Mason <flamingo@t...> wrote:
> At 11:14 AM 9/3/2003 -0700, Michael Coxe wrote:
> >The Buzzcocks don't begin with "The"? Hmmm....
>
> Officially, the group is just called Buzzcocks (check all the album
> covers), but I don't think I know anyone who doesn't unconsciously stick a
> definite article in front of that in casual conversation, and quite often
> in writing. It just sounds better.
>
> S
Interesting how this works. Many bands who prefer not to have a "The"
attached to their name nevertheless can't seem to have it stricken from the
record, probably because it seems uncomfortable or awkward for their fans to
delete it.
Some examples of bands who have been known to emphatically stage, "we're not
'The So-and-So', we're just 'So and So"'
"The" Shoes
"The" Bangles
"The" Raspberries
I called Shoes "The Shoes" from the time I discovered them in 1978 until
about 1990, when I read somewhere that they preferred to be called "Shoes".
In that case I found that I didn't have a problem dropping the "The" at all,
perhaps because I'm used to calling the footwear, "shoes". However, when I
read similar complaints registered by "Bangles" and "Raspberries" and tried
to delete the "The" when saying their names, even in my head, I cringed
every time. In the case of the Raspberries it may just be that I'd been
calling them The Raspberries for more than 20 years, and just couldn't find
a comfort level with merely "Raspberries", and with the Bangles I guess it's
just so sonically close to The Beatles that I feel compelled to leave the
"The" there.
Anyone else have similar experiences with these or other bands?
--
Pop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David (n.p. The The...who have never been known to state that they prefer to
be called simply "The".)
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