Eagles or The Eagles?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Tommy Withatee, Oct 24, 2021.

  1. AveryKG

    AveryKG Sultan of snacks

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    I would agree with these. You wouldn't say "I am going to see Eagles" or "I am going to see Rolling Stones". Unless you were Russian, of course. ;)
     
  2. thematinggame

    thematinggame Forum Resident

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    sorry - was meant to reply to invisible man's statement that you had quoted
     
  3. Latter Eagles. Cool name and it applies
     
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  4. thematinggame

    thematinggame Forum Resident

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    Agreed and I take back my earlier statement about bands with plural s needing a definite article when you say"I am going to listen to......"- another example would be Ozark Mountain Daredevils , I think one is more likely to say "I am going to listen Ozark Mountain Daredevils now" rather than".... the Ozark Mountain Daredevils" - this is a tricky problem, any linguists on the forum ?
    What about the beginning of a sentence ? It sounds ok to me to say "Carpenters are a fine band "
     
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  5. BluesOvertookMe

    BluesOvertookMe Forum Resident

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    Did anyone mention the Big Lebowski?

    Oh about 20 times so far? Cool.
     
  6. Wild Horse

    Wild Horse Forum Resident

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    Don Henley & The Salaried Employees.
     
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  7. Lownote30

    Lownote30 Bass Clef Addict

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    From the band themselves, and all royalty and metadata records, it is Eagles. That is the trademarked name of the band.
     
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  8. DiBosco

    DiBosco Forum Resident

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    If you're from my neck o' woods, it's Th'Eagles.







    ;)
     
  9. AC1

    AC1 Forum Resident

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    It's Carpenters, not The Carpenters, Tidal!
     
  10. Roland Stoves

    Roland Stoves 3.9% Neanderthal

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    Most if the time, but A&M wasn't consistent.
    [​IMG]
     
  11. JoeDea

    JoeDea Forum Resident

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    Frey said it was Eagles. That's the name on he debut album.
     
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  12. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    Eagles! Eagles! Eagles!
    Carpenters! Carpenters! Carpenters!
    Vinyl! Vinyl! Vinyl!
     
  13. DEAN OF ROCK

    DEAN OF ROCK Forum Resident

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    The Cream
     
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  14. CCrider92

    CCrider92 Senior Member

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    Eagles > Way back a Rhode Island record store had the card for the group's LP bin labeled Eagos.
     
  15. newelectricmuse

    newelectricmuse charm, strangeness and quark

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    Eagles.

    I know this, but I still call them The Eagles. They can sue me if they like.
     
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  16. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns

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    Because people parse it as verb - noun rather than adjective - noun. In other words, counting is something we're doing with respect to crows rather than it being crows who happen to be counting. So it doesn't read as if the band name is "Crows," just a particular type of crow. The band name reads as a verb phrase instead.

    The difference is the same as the difference between "We're sorting albums" and "We're the sorting albums." The latter only makes sense if you're saying that you're albums--specifically you're the albums that sort. If you're saying that you're performing an action on albums, you don't add "the" before that.
     
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  17. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    I have a handful of their albums and comps (7,) and not a single one has "The" or "the" in front of their name.
     
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  18. drad dog

    drad dog A Listener

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    I don't know about these new musical groups but I do know that to be correct you need to say "the laryngitis"
     
  19. Uncle Miles

    Uncle Miles Wafting in and out of Forum

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    I'll continue to think of them as the Eagles, the band that did that album called "Eagles"

    On the other hand, it was Carpenters who did "Carpenters"
     
  20. Timos

    Timos Forum resident

    Eagles. But I’d refer to them in conversation as the Eagles.

    If I label the band ‘The Eagles’ in my iTunes library, I don’t get the little picture representing the band on the artist list on my iPhone.

    :D
     
  21. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger

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    Here's one:

    Faces
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    All their albums say "Faces", no "The" (not counting compilations), starting with the 2 seen above, but everyone calls them "The Faces".

    Personally, I think The Faces is a better name.
     
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  22. Leugi

    Leugi Forum Resident

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    Either way file under “E”!!
     
  23. Dovetail7

    Dovetail7 Pragmatic Purist

    :angel:...so...not cool, eh?
     
  24. Thievius

    Thievius Blue Oyster Cult-ist

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    Nearly 5 pages of discussion over use of the word "The."

    Slow news day? :p
     
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  25. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    Twenty-five pages of babbling about the Alec Baldwin shooting incident awaits you in Visual Arts.
     

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