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=== [[Real Life]] ===
* [[The Agonist]]
* [[The Art of Noise]]▼
* [[The Band]] - best name ever
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] (They named themselves as such because they were huge Buddy Holly fans and Holly's band were known as The Crickets. Crickets and beetles are both insecty beings.)
* [[The Birthday Party]]▼
* [[The Blanks]] - An
* [[The Cars]]
* [[The Clash]]
* [[The Cranberries]]▼
* [[The Cure]] (though this has been changed/misspelled both as The Cures and Cure)
* [[The Doobie Brothers]] (since they were literally "doobie" "brothers", i.e. not flesh and blood brothers but "brothers", i.e. close friends, united... I don't have to explain further)▼
...and about a hundred thousand more.▼
* [[The Doors]]
* [[The
** Named because [[The Smiths]] albums list the members as 'Voice' 'Guitar' 'The Bass Guitar' 'The Drums'▼
* [[The Strokes]]▼
*** Though [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|coolly]], The Drums list themselves as 'The Singin' 'The Stringin' 'The Twangin' 'The Bangin'▼
* The Hives▼
* [[The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster]]▼
* The View▼
* [[The
* [[The
* [[The
* [[The Guess Who]]▼
** They sent a demo tape to a radio station labeled "Guess Who?" in the hopes they would be mistaken for a well-established band. Instead, the station decided their name was Guess Who.▼
*** Their name gave them some trouble reserving hotel rooms in cities where [[The Who]] had just toured and trashed ''their'' rooms.▼
▲* [[The Hives]]
* [[The Killers]]
* [[The Magic Nose Goblins]]▼
* [[The Mars Volta]]
* [[The Monkees (band)|The Monkees]]
* [[Moog Cookbook]] (no the), with an album named "The Moog Cookbook"▼
* [[The Melvins]]
** They tend to flip-flop between "The Melvins" and just "Melvins", seemingly for aesthetic reasons - typically the album cover will say "Melvins" but the disc itself will say "The Melvins". They kind of lampshaded this on the artwork to ''[[A Senile Animal]]'' by rendering their name as "(The) Melvins" and the album title as "(A) Senile Animal".▼
* [[The Mountain Goats]]
* The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, later shortened to ''[[Oingo Boingo]]'' and (briefly) to simply ''Boingo''.▼
* The Pipettes▼
* The [[Pink Floyd]] Sound (briefly, before they dropped the first and last words)▼
▲* [[The Pipettes]]
* [[The Police]]
* [[The Protomen]]
* [[The Rasmus]], Finnish rock band (they added the article to differentiate themselves from a Swedish DJ of the same name)▼
* [[The Residents]] (notable because that wasn't their original name, their initial demo got sent out accidentally unlabeled, so they took their new name when a record company sent the demo back marked as 'to: residents')▼
* [[The Rotted]]▼
* [[The Smiths]]
* [[The Specials]] (who started life as the Coventry Automatics, then became the Special AKA the Coventry Automatics, then the Special AKA and finally the Specials).▼
* [[The Stooges]]
▲* [[The Strokes]]
* [[The Texas Toad Lickers]] (together for only one album, though: the soundtrack to the film ''Vampires'')▼
* [[The The]]
** [[Attack of the The Eye Creatures|Eye Creatures?]]
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*** The rapper A+ was widely reported to have named himself thus ''precisely'' to make it a hard search term (specifically on [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|Napster]]).
*** And then there's [http://bash.org/?514353 this], of course...
* [[The
* [[The
* [[The
* [[The
* [[The
▲** They tend to flip-flop between "The Melvins" and just "Melvins", seemingly for aesthetic reasons - typically the album cover will say "Melvins" but the disc itself will say "The Melvins". They kind of lampshaded this on the artwork to ''[[A Senile Animal]]'' by rendering their name as "(The) Melvins" and the album title as "(A) Senile Animal".
▲** Named because [[The Smiths]] albums list the members as 'Voice' 'Guitar' 'The Bass Guitar' 'The Drums'
▲*** Though [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|coolly]], The Drums list themselves as 'The Singin' 'The Stringin' 'The Twangin' 'The Bangin'
▲* The Magic Nose Goblins
* The Winstons▼
▲* The Cranberries
▲* The Birthday Party
▲* The Texas Toad Lickers (together for only one album, though: the soundtrack to the film ''Vampires'')
▲* The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
▲* The Residents (notable because that wasn't their original name, their initial demo got sent out accidentally unlabeled, so they took their new name when a record company sent the demo back marked as 'to: residents')
▲* The Guess Who
▲** They sent a demo tape to a radio station labeled "Guess Who?" in the hopes they would be mistaken for a well-established band. Instead, the station decided their name was Guess Who.
▲*** Their name gave them some trouble reserving hotel rooms in cities where [[The Who]] had just toured and trashed ''their'' rooms.
▲* The Art of Noise
▲* [[The Police]]
* [[The Verve]] (who were originally called simply 'Verve' but changed the name due to potential copyright infringement)
* [[The
* [[The
* [[The White Stripes]]
▲* Moog Cookbook (no the), with an album named "The Moog Cookbook"
▲* [[The Winstons]]
▲* The Specials (who started life as the Coventry Automatics, then became the Special AKA the Coventry Automatics, then the Special AKA and finally the Specials).
▲* The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, later shortened to ''[[Oingo Boingo]]'' and (briefly) to simply ''Boingo''.
* [[The Word Alive]]
* [[The Wyrd Sisters]] (the [http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
* [[The xx]] (because nouns are for the weak, apparently...)▼
▲* The xx (because nouns are for the weak, apparently...)
▲* The Rotted
▲* The [[Pink Floyd]] Sound (briefly, before they dropped the first and last words)
▲* The Doobie Brothers (since they were literally "doobie" "brothers", i.e. not flesh and blood brothers but "brothers", i.e. close friends, united... I don't have to explain further)
▲...and about a hundred thousand more.
▲* [[The Rasmus]], Finnish rock band (they added the article to differentiate themselves from a Swedish DJ of the same name)
== X And The Ys ==
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