What's in a name?
The idiosyncracies of band naming are so annoying at times when you're trying to go for accuracy. I know, for example, that the correct writing of a certain LA band is "that dog." with no capitalization and a period at the end. Green Day is supposed to be pronounced with a little emphasis on the second word to describe what type of day it is, not that it's a special day like May Day or something. There must be a "the" before Smashing Pumpkins because they are pumpkins who are smashing, but there is no "the" before Pilfers because, as Coolie Ranx used to remind people, "pilfers" is a verb, not a noun.
I don't know what to do with Eels, though. Marie's reviewing E's memoir and has interviewed him for the HBC, and having to edit this is a little annoying by no fault of Marie's. I know that technically, it's Eels, not THE Eels, so that's not a problem. But the name is written three different ways: EELS, eels, and Eels. And E is sometimes also Mr. E or Mark Oliver Everett or Mark Everett. Make up your mind, man!! (I forgive him, though, because Electro-Shock Blues is damn good.)
I know this sounds like the sort of thing that I can just pick on and stick with, but having worked at a magazine where we had to write *NSYNC properly, this is the sort of thing I'm programmed to care about.
I don't know what to do with Eels, though. Marie's reviewing E's memoir and has interviewed him for the HBC, and having to edit this is a little annoying by no fault of Marie's. I know that technically, it's Eels, not THE Eels, so that's not a problem. But the name is written three different ways: EELS, eels, and Eels. And E is sometimes also Mr. E or Mark Oliver Everett or Mark Everett. Make up your mind, man!! (I forgive him, though, because Electro-Shock Blues is damn good.)
I know this sounds like the sort of thing that I can just pick on and stick with, but having worked at a magazine where we had to write *NSYNC properly, this is the sort of thing I'm programmed to care about.