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Bands That are "The" Something

Guess the bands who recorded these songs. All the band names start with "The".
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: December 16, 2017
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First submittedJuly 20, 2011
Times taken49,381
Average score50.0%
Rating4.15
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Year
Song
Band
1962
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Four Seasons
1964
My Girl
The Temptations
1965
(I Can't Get No)
Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones
1965
Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Byrds
1966
Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles
1967
Happy Together
The Turtles
1967
Light My Fire
The Doors
1969
Pinball Wizard
The Who
1969
The Night They Drove
Old Dixie Down
The Band
1970
American Woman
The Guess Who
1970
Lola
The Kinks
1970
ABC
The Jackson 5
1976
Anarchy in the U.K.
The Sex Pistols
1978
My Best Friend's Girl
The Cars
Year
Song
Band
1979
I Wanna Be Sedated
The Ramones
1979
Rappers Delight
The Sugarhill Gang
1982
Should I Stay or
Should I Go
The Clash
1983
Every Breath You Take
The Police
1986
Walk Like an Egyptian
The Bangles
1986
There is a Light That
Never Goes Out
The Smiths
1989
Love Shack
The B-52's
1992
Friday I'm In Love
The Cure
1994
Zombie
The Cranberries
1996
Lovefool
The Cardigans
2001
Last Nite
The Strokes
2003
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
2004
Mr. Brightside
The Killers
2009
I Gotta Feeling
The Black Eyed Peas
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Level 23
Jul 21, 2011
My age is showing with this quiz! I got all of the first column except The Sex Pistols and only The Police in the second column.
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Level 17
Oct 29, 2014
lol! i got almost equal for both sides, a bit more the on right side though.
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Level 75
Nov 20, 2014
Exactly the same for me, except I didn't get the Cars, either.
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Level 84
Aug 21, 2014
Nice mix! Can't believe I missed the Smiths!
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Level 37
Aug 21, 2014
I hate to be "that guy", but it's actually "Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons", so technically it doesn't begin with "the".
+13
Level 83
Aug 21, 2014
I hate to be "that guy", but it's Frankie Valli.
+1
Level 58
Aug 21, 2014
I think that name was used for the re-release, but not originally.
+4
Level 60
Aug 21, 2014
You're correct. The worst "that guys" are the wrong ones.
+2
Level 78
Aug 21, 2014
The Replacements? The Pixies? The Teenagers? The J. Geils Band? So many more to choose from...
+6
Level 86
Nov 10, 2014
Pixies don't have a "the" ;).
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Level 76
Jun 16, 2018
It's just a single quiz though
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Level 75
Jun 16, 2018
The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Animals, The Supremes, The Drifters, The Mamas and the Papas...
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Level 61
Jun 18, 2018
The Byrds are on there...unless this has been updated and they were added later?
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Level 72
Jun 18, 2018
In the two days between ander's comment and yours? Would be surprising...
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Level 83
Aug 21, 2014
I got half of them just by guessing "The" band names at random before even looking at the clues!
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Level 50
Aug 21, 2014
There is no such band as The Rolling Stones, it is simply Rolling Stones. Blasphemy!
+8
Level 74
Aug 22, 2014
Their official website calls them The Rolling Stones...
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Level 37
Aug 23, 2014
The cranberries! Zombie, come on man!
+3
Level ∞
Dec 16, 2017
Added that one. :)
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Level 37
Aug 24, 2014
The Smiths clue was pretty obscure, as Smiths songs go.
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Level 63
Feb 19, 2016
Not obscure at all, it's probably their most famous song, if you go by YouTube plays There is a Light That Never goes out has 16.72 million views, the next highest song (How Soon is Now) only has 8.96 million.
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Level 65
Mar 2, 2024
Like my girlfriend said to me the first time I dropped my trousers: ‘it’s a biggy’.
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Level 33
Aug 24, 2014
Three *big* errors. There are no "the"s in the names of these bands:

Rollling Stones

Ramones

Sex Pistols

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Level 88
Dec 17, 2017
Sex Pistols and Ramones are the correct terms.

The Wikipedia pages the Quizmaster references has their ‘proper’ names in the title of the pages, which are without the ‘The’.

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Level ∞
Dec 17, 2017
"My favorite bands are Ramones, Sex Pistols, and Rolling Stones". If that's right, I want to be wrong.
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Level 55
Jun 16, 2018
Every Ramones album simply says "Ramones" on the cover.

Not a single one has "The." That is definitive.

When I refer to the family that lives next door as "the Joneses," that doesn't mean that their last name is "The Joneses."

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Level 61
Jun 18, 2018
Fair point, jedgeco.
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Level 83
Apr 9, 2018
No one has ever said, "and here's the new single by Rolling Stones," or "I love that song by Ramones." It's always The Rolling Stones (or The Stones), The Ramones, etc.
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Level 72
Jun 18, 2018
You could say the same for Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls, yet they officially have no "The" in their band names.
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Level 72
Jun 18, 2018
And for the record, noboby ever says "My favorite The Beatles song is Let It Be." Doesn't mean the band's name is only "Beatles".
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2019
It definitely is just sex pistols. And officialy/originally ramones, though the ramones has become a common alternative.
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Level 76
Oct 16, 2014
The Seekers also made a big hit with Turn! Turn! Turn! Accept them also?
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Level 75
Jun 16, 2018
The Byrds did Turn, Turn, Turn first. I first remember The Seekers when they did Georgy Girl, and both bands could be on a second quiz.
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Level 66
Aug 15, 2017
Well I got 18, but I'm very disappointed that I missed The Smiths. "American Woman" is a very cool song but I never knew who sang it. Very ironic when you don't get an answer in a quiz which is 'Guess Who'.
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Level 82
Jun 16, 2018
The Bangles.... somehow I couldn't get "The Bojangles" out of my head... I knew it was something like that.
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Level 75
Jun 16, 2018
Sad that The Band is the least guessed. "If you pour some music on whatever's wrong it'll sure help out." RIP Levon Helm
+4
Level 61
Jun 16, 2018
lack of "The The" disappoints me.
+2
Level 36
Sep 14, 2018
What about The Eagles? Hotel California is so iconic
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Level 64
Mar 19, 2019
I was surprised to not see it
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Level 72
Jun 22, 2019
It's just "Eagles", no "The".
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Level 50
Feb 11, 2019
Big girls don't cry? They do when you take their food away from them
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2019
I know the quiz isnt inclusive. But the first thing that popped into my head for bands starting with "the" is the monkeys. (somehow the THE seem more significant than in other names)

Also, no beach boys? (and thought of beastie boys but apparently that is with the THE. And the Everly brothers, though I think that might be a bit too obscure. Then again there are many on here I have never head of)

ow and the iconic long train running by the dooby brothers, again one people might not guess, but all will recognise.

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Level 54
Aug 16, 2021
You mean "The Monkees"?
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Level 67
Jan 30, 2020
Got Cars
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Level 67
Jan 30, 2020
Love Sugarhill
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Level 43
Jan 30, 2020
The Beach Boys were a huge hit as well with Surfin' Safari and Surfin' USA
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Level 38
Sep 22, 2020
you need to be a big band not no garage band.

@getreelgirl

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Level 74
Sep 24, 2020
I speculate that Quizmaster listens to The Smiths, The Strokes, and The Killers.
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Level 73
Jan 28, 2023
Fun quiz, I scored 25/28. I guessed The Traveling Wilburys, no luck. Thanks!
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Level 76
Nov 22, 2023
"The Band", such an original name...
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Level 37
Jan 11, 2024
With these percentages, I don't think some of these people have any business taking this quiz.