Lead Single From Seventh Album (The White Stripes)

Funny, I love all the albums after White Blood Cells.

I agree all their recent albums have been excellent, in their own unique ways.

I'd regard "Elephant" as their strongest to date overall, but each album is brilliant in its own way.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

Is it? I'm actually being serious.

Isn't their name "The White Stripes"? As opposed to just "White Stripes"? Therefore, "The White Stripes" would be a compound, collective noun and would have been written correctly. You could substitute it as so:

"New (insert noun here) songs recorded"
"New Weezer songs recorded"
"New Foo Fighters songs recorded"
"New The Red Hot Chili Peppers songs recorded"

Why'd I have to have an English exam today?

I suppose what we'd be looking for is "what happens to the definite article in a proper name when using an adjective"?

Have music stores been making a horrible, horrible mistake filing this band's CD's under 'W' all these years? No wonder nobody buys CD's anymore!

It is a sentence without a period, so there is a technical grammar error. Although I haven't seen to many headlines or subject titles with punctuation marks. But it's no different than saying New Nirvana songs recorded.

I have liked Get Behind Me Satan for the most part, the best of their recent albums in my opinion. But not even close to the initial shock of White Blood Cells.

So it's a compound, collective, proper noun with a definite article modifying it. The only question is whether the article is included in the noun or if it functions as an adjective. And yes, the additional adjective "New" really messes everything up. Sometimes when multiple adjectives are used to modify a noun, they can be separated by commas. So, theoretically we could say:

"New, the White Stripes songs recorded"

Of course the comma implies the word "and," and that doesn't really work either:

"New and the White Stripes recorded"

Therefore, I believe the proper grammar was used. Applying the article as an adjective doesn't work (based on the above examples), and therefore I stand by my hypothesis that "The" is actually a part of the noun. Unless of course the grammar error in question was the lack of a period all along, lol.

Now all that's left is for someone to come up with a dictionary definition to completely disprove everything I just said and make me look like a complete idiot.

*Waiting*

Articles are adjectives.

"It's a song."

"It's the song."

Two fairly insignificant statements, but with the addition of a modifier (adjective) the meaning changes. Fourth grade English class stuff.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner_(class)

Aha! Not an adjective.

Well that's incorrect anyway cause I think what you'd say is "The new White Stripes songs that were recorded have been destroyed."

Eh, I'll stand by what I learned in school over the years as opposed to a Wikipedia article.

I think there is a clear difference here. I was saying whether it was USED as an adjective, as it is in some cases, but not all. The article points out a couple counterexamples, and in those examples the use of "The" clearly makes no sense at all. Here it does, as I said before: The changing of the article changes the entire meaning. So yeah, I don't think it disproves anything. Nice try though.

And: "The new White Stripes songs that were recorded have been destroyed."

I was just playing dumb in reference to what you posted, yes I realize it made no sense

EDIT: And why do all the links on this site always end with an open parentheses?

Well, perhaps my statement "Articles are adjectives" was a bit inconsistent, or too general at least. I should've said "Articles can be used as adjectives."

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/01/

The above article (npi) states that an article is "basically" an adjective. Which is pretty much what I'm getting at here.

But seriously, just bear with me for a sec. Forget everything you learned in English. Does it really make sense to you? I mean, knowing what adjectives are almost always for, do articles really fit under there, logically? I really don't think they do.

I really don't see why they don't, sorry. They don't describe things very vividly, but they do describe. There's a big difference between "A band" and "The band." But like I said, my earlier statement was inaccurate.