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.
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 "
From the band themselves, and all royalty and metadata records, it is Eagles. That is the trademarked name of the band.
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.
I have a handful of their albums and comps (7,) and not a single one has "The" or "the" in front of their name.
I don't know about these new musical groups but I do know that to be correct you need to say "the laryngitis"
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"
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.
Here's one: Faces 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.