Eagles or The Eagles?

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  1. Tommy Withatee

    Tommy Withatee Forum Resident Thread Starter

    I was listening to an old Casey Kasem aircheck from 1972 & he identified this band as Eagles. It made me remember that is what I called them back then too. Somewhere along the line they started being referred to as "The" Eagles & it seems that is what I hear them regularly announced as & I've been calling them that too. On the website for the band, the only time "The" is used that I see is in an add on the homepage, which was probably done by someone without knowledge of the correct name. What does everyone think?
     
  2. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM

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    should've been a poll :winkgrin:

    it's just Eagles, officially.


    lotta bands/acts have this conundrum.
    Bangles come to mind.



    and how about this ? :laugh:
    I think it used to be a British thing to refer to them as "the Floyd".
    [​IMG]
    1970


    The apostrophe in Go-Go's

    .
     
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  3. JohnB

    JohnB Senior Member

    Eagles. I'm wondering about The The. Is it The The or The The The?
     
  4. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    the Eagles
     
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  5. jacksonwalker

    jacksonwalker Forum Resident

    "Batman". Or "The Batman".
     
  6. ivan_wemple

    ivan_wemple Senior Member

    It's just "The".
     
  7. musicfan37

    musicfan37 Senior Member

  8. ssmith3046

    ssmith3046 Forum Resident

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    There's an old thread on this very topic so I'll have to go back a see what I wrote then. Hang on.....
     
  9. Invisible Man

    Invisible Man Forum Resident

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    Pretty sure none of their LPs include "the" on the cover so I would guess it's just "Eagles," but I can't bring myself to say, "I put on a record by Eagles last night."
     
  10. Not to change the subject — but if there’s an Eagles of Death Metal… are there any other “Eagles of…” bands or groups, of musical genres other than “Death Metal”?

    Like is there an “Eagles of Mumble Rap”?
     
  11. Rich C

    Rich C Forum Resident

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    One can think anything they want, but there is no 'the' in Eagles.
     
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  12. Detroit Rock Citizen

    Detroit Rock Citizen RetroDawg Digital

    Truly a First World problem. I've called them the Eagles for the entirety of their career. I didn't find out till I was wrong until I was well into adulthood. It was too late to change. I think I've proven that I am a fan by my pocketbook if nothing else.
     
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  13. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    Eagle on vinyls. No to thes.
     
  14. Erick Haight

    Erick Haight We all float down here

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    Comedian Steve Martin cleared up the confusion in his book Born Standing Up when he wrote about a story that occurred at The Troubadour. "One night I was lingering at the bar and talking to Glenn Frey, who was just leaving his duo, Longbranch Pennywhistle. He said he was considering a name for his new five-man group. ‘What is it?’ I said. He said, ‘Eagles.’ I said, 'You mean, The Eagles?’ and he said, ‘No, Eagles.’"
     
  15. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    Eagles.
     
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  16. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

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    They are the Eagles not The Eagles
     
  17. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    Nah...

    Jefferson Airplane is not the Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd is not the Pink Floyd, Buffalo Springfield is not the...
     
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  18. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    The path was very clear
    But now I have to wonder what are we doing here?
     
  19. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    The Jolly Jethros -Ian Anderson
     
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  20. jimac51

    jimac51 A mythical beast.

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  21. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    ... also not "the." :D
     
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  22. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    This is so true on so many levels...
     
  23. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    Can you bring yourself to say, "I put on a record by Canned Heat (or Deep Purple, or...) last night?"
     
  24. I think it’s simply the The The.
     
  25. StephenGR12

    StephenGR12 Forum Resident

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    Plural noun band names sound more natural with a "the" ("The") in front. It's really that simple. A better comp would have been Pixies.

    It's officially Pixies, not The Pixies, but does anyone say "Pixies' best record was Doolittle"? Same for the Eagles, er, Eagles.

    If the (The) Beatles were officially Beatles, does anyone think we'd really write "Beatles' best record was Abbey Road?
     

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