A Good Name for a Rock Band: Difference between revisions

 

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== "The" Bands ==

The most timeless of band names, this style of band naming transcends genre and is enduringly popular. Probably because of The Beatles. You can't usually tell a lot about how a band will sound if its called The Whatever. Sometimes a joke will be made about someone being out of touch with modern music by having them add a "The" to a band name that does not usually take a "The," such as "The Led Zeppelins" or "The Alkaline Trio." (In a case of [[Truth in Television]], Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys, Scorpions, Ben Folds Five and others often suffer this. Inverted by [[The Prodigy]], as many people think the band name is Prodigy.<ref>The front cover of their most popular album, ''Fat of the Land'', and the subsequent ''[[Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned]]'' showed only the word "Prodigy." However, Liam Howlett stated that the band's name has always included the article.</ref>) Band names that follow the "The Plural Nouns" style are something of a [[Dead Horse Trope]] and more modern "The" band names tend to be more of a "The Abstract Noun" or "The Adjective" style. Talking Heads were aware of this, and went to great lengths not to be called 'the' Talking Heads, including naming an album, "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads".