Janszoon

I am totally always going to refer to them as The Pixies from now on.

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Sneer

Precisly why i havent been able to change it

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Janszoon

Rainard, you should probably ask Black Francis and Kim Deal to stop referring to the band as "The Pixies" as well.

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Rainard Jalen

If you call a band "Pixies", there doesn't seem any more point in referring to them at The Pixies than there is in referring to Queen, Slayer or Metallica as "The Queen", "The Slayer" or "The Metallica".

Saying that, I understand why people do it: because, as a title noun in the plural, one is inclined to see it as referring to the band members. So, if each one of them is a Pixie, then together they are Pixies, and also, in the definite, The Pixies. So it's not totally nonsensical. Same deal with Arctic Monkeys. It seems that Arctic Monkeys is a reference to the band members: each one is an Arctic Monkey, so together they are The Arctic Monkeys.

But it only works if that was the intent behind the name. If "Pixies" was not supposed to refer to the band members but to actual Pixies, e.g. in the same way that Nirvana refers to a philosophical concept, then calling them The Pixies would be idiotic.

But if you are correct in saying that the band members themselves refer to the band as "The Pixies", then I suppose that shows their intent and leaves no further room for argument.

debaserr

Tl;dr

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Janszoon

Check the fifth paragraph at this link:

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Terrible Lizard

Goddammit Janszoon! That ****ing site gave me more pop-ups than a link site from mother****ing NEWGROUNDS!

It's Pixies! It's the name on the side of their ****ing cd's! For once I don't give a **** in a graveyard on what Thom Yorke and David Bowie consider to be the correct name for the band, or even that fat cracker Frank Black.
It's Pixies you demon rodent! PIXIES!

ARGEHEEHLKFHJISDOJVKL!!

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Janszoon

Funny, I got none. Do you have no pop-up blockers?

Yeah why would you care what Thom Yorke and David Bowie have to say on the subject? But like I said to Rainard, you should probably tell Frank Black he's calling his band by the wrong name. Kim Deal too. Apparently she had/has a habit of introducing them as "the Pixies" at shows.

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Rainard Jalen

the problem is, they shoulda just called themselves the pixies in the first place if that was their intent. intentionally omitting to have the "the", and it must have been intentional and with some particular reason in mind (because it is against what is conventionally done with plural noun band names), suggests that they wanted it to be called just that: "pixies", with a "the".

they probably shifted in their own referential use over time when it turned out that everybody else called them "THE pixies".

Piss Me Off

There's nothing wrong with calling them the Pixies but there is with The Pixies. There you go. See also: Ramones.

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