Your Top 5 ‘The’ Bands

Music
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Radiohead - The Bands

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The Afghan Whigs
The Black Dog
The Midnight
The Horrors
The Auteurs

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The Fall
The Beach Boys
The National
The Pharcyde
The Beatles

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In that case it actually is The Smashing Pumpkins though. Seeing it written as Smashing Pumpkins by music journalists stresses me out.

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do you have a citation? in the Simpsons, Corgan himself introduces himself as ‘Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins’. the gag doesn’t work if Homer says ‘Homer Simpson, The Smiling Politely’

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Editors…Delays…definitely no the

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in any event i like how Smashing Pumpkins subtly changes the meaning/image

edit: it actually makes more sense, who has ever referred to a pumpkin as ‘smashing’?

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It’s a play on words by our clever King.

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This is now a The Smashing Pumpkins thread.

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Corgan has directly stated that ‘Smashing’ is a synonym for ‘Wonderful’ or ‘Marvelous’, hence the The.

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wouldn’t pass any heed of anything the Corg-dog says.

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This was long before he really, really lost it.

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My point in the other thread is being proven in real time.