What about The Whitlams, The Verve, The Charlatans, The Cure, The Wallflowers and The Avalanches?
j_kat_251: I’m overwhelmed by your knowledgeable cynicism and wit.
Uh, you skip the “the” when alphabetizing, you know.
That means CDs by “The The” don’t even get included at all!
The Dandy Warhols most certainly do not suck. If you want to find a trend to bands that suck look to bands with numbers in their names. The exceptions being U2…that is all.
808 State isn’t bad.
You got that backwards. 311 doesn’t suck. U2 does suck. You can thank me later for clearing that up 
NO.
MC5, Spacemen 3, Kid 606, Deltron 3030 and Prefuse 73.
You can thank me later. 
Even though its members have referred to it with THE in front of it, every single release by the Eagles simply refers to them as Eagles.
Chris W
Good stuff – I also believe you’d be hard pressed to say that any of these bands suck: Mojave 3, 3 Mile Pilot, Dirty 3, Gang of 4, June of '44, 5ive Style, Jurassic 5, Ben Folds 5,
And 6 Finger Satellite and 7 seconds both put out about one or two decent albums, as well as a bunch of miserable ones.
When we went to see Weezer in San Antonio, we decided to visit my grandparents, who live near the venue. I had called a few days earlier to let them know we were coming, and had mentioned that we were going to see Weezer. Having raised my mother and her siblings through the “The” era of band naming (heself being of the “X and the y’s” era), when we were headed out the door to the concert, she expressed her sincere hope that we would enjoy watching “The Weezers”
The Dropkick Murphys can go either way regarding “the”. I usually put it in because it makes it sound underground and trendy.
Other good “The” bands that are kinda new:
The Breeders
The Dwarves
The Verve
The Offspring (debate me in another thread if ya hafta)
The Queers
Yes I was wondering what the OP was talking about. It seems thanks those untalented hacks “The Strokes”, we have a proliferation of ‘the’ bands nowadays. I can only pray this trend passes quickly.
The Haunted and The Crown are excellent bands. The former being a neo-thrash band in the likes of Slayer, while the latter chruns out some seriously groovy death-thrash-n-roll…
More fairly contemporary “The” bands I just thought of.
The Lemonheads
The La’s
The Jayhawks
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Cardigans
The Black Crowes
The Goo Goo Dolls
The New Radicals
you guys are also forgetting…
The Faint
The Black Heart Procession
The Delgados
The Cancer Conspiracy
The Donnas
The Used
It would be wrong to leave the “the” out, it’s part of their name. So you have to have them be “Offspring, The” or “Smithereens, The” which looks dumb in my spreadsheets.
RealityChuck said:
Pink Floyd started going downhill in 1968? Boy, it’s been one hell of a roller coaster ride, then. I don’t know if I could hold 1973’s legendary Dark Side of the Moon up to 1967’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn without laughing.
I always thought most of the early Syd Barrett stuff sounded like a fairly decent imitation of many 60s rock bands, except on way better acid. Barrett’s impending insanity made it all the more tripped-out.
Musically, though, I prefer the later stuff. Hell, I think 1994’s The Division Bell is a more enjoyable listen than Piper.
New & Improved Scott said:
Uh, did anyone in this thread even allude to a boyband or rapper? Everyone in this thread who didn’t like the bands you mention seems to be waxing nostalgic about older bands whose names started with “the.”
For the record, yes, those three bands do suck. Bad. Their lead singers are so annoyingly atrocious that you could put the good qualities of all three together and they still would sound infinitely worse than one raspy Bob Dylan.
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Coral
The Vines
The Hives
The Strokes
I’m surprised nobody remembers that in The Commitments a character says that all the best bands have a “the” in their name.