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Today I bought another two CDs by bands whose names begin with 'The'.

"But Elizabeth," you cry. "Lots of bands have names beginning with 'The'. Where's the harm?"

However, I mean two of those bands. The ones that all sound like that.

It's the beginning of a slippery slope...

Current Music: The Libertines - Up The Bracket

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Speaking from the vast experience of having heard one song (Don't Mug Yourself) by The Streets, I'd say they were awful. Not just bad, but almost unlistenable.

The other was The Datsuns' album (rather unimaginatively title The Datsuns). They appear to be New Zealand's contribution to the 'The' scene. I have some vague memory of having heard something by them and being really impressed, but now I can't remember what it was. I haven't listened to the CD yet, though.

I wouldn't have lumped Sum 41 in with the rest of them, they sound a bit different... I also encountered The White Stripes slightly before all the others, and regard them as slightly separate, but I realise I'm on dodgier ground there. I might try and put a case for them being the most talented of the bunch.

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No, I wouldn't lump Sum 41 in either, I just thought that the "The Sums" joke was relevant to the subject. Sum 41 are officially lumped with Green Day, The Offspring and Blink 182.

I heard a Datsuns song that was alright. Research suggests it's called "In Love". The riff is grand.

I'm reserving judgement on the Streets until I hear some more stuff. I thought "Don't Mug Yourself" was OK as a novelty song. The only other track of theirs I've heard was also OK as a novelty song, but somewhat less OK. This is not a good sign. However, they are terribly trendy.

I think that slightly more is made of all these bands sounding the same than is really justified. The similarity is that they're all lo-fi guitar bands, and they're all the right age to think that New York punk was dead cool, without actually having been around to hear it at the time. Other than that, they play varying styles of rock/indie/pop.