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...so that put upon store clerks don't have to mask their contempt, adding to their already stressful position.

― Curt, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not that anyone asked, but I thought Macha would be MAH-chah, Russian-like, but the singer said MAH-ka.

Les Savy Fav, anyone?

― Curt, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they helpfully pronounce it on the first album:

lay-sahvy-fov

autechre anyone?

― jess, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

aw-tek-er.

bogdan raczinski?

― ethan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, let's try lay-sahvy-fahv

― jess, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beulah, Les Rita Mitsouko, Cex?

(not that I would ask for a Beulah record, mind)

― Jeff W, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

caetano veloso?

― fritz, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

byoo-la. sex.

― ethan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i never knew the right pronunciation to kyuss.

― ernest, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Ethan, but is it AW-tek-er or aw-TEK-er?

― Clarke B., Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

accent on the tech, just like the thugs they are.

― ethan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Guesses based on the way I've heard 'em: Ka-TAH-no veh-LO-so. BOG-dan rah-ZINN-skee. lay REE-tuh mit-SOO-koh. KIE-uss. ("kie" as in "pie")

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd always heard AWE-te-cur. I like that better, even if it isn't right.

I expect we'll run into problems here because so many musicians are such atrocious spellers. They go around telling you to pronounce their band name a particular way when it's clear that if they had any understanding of phonetics (or the languages, usually French, whose phonetics they're appropriating) they wouldn't have spelled it the way they did. I.e. they knew what they wanted to be called but then they spelled it wrong, necessitating this giant game of make-believe where we pretend there's some deep meaning wrapped up in there.

On the other hand, I'm surprised people ask about Beulah so often. I mean, it's a pretty common name, right?

― Nitsuh, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i lived on beulah street for three years.

― ethan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brown & Boothe themselves pronounce it "Aw-TEK-er," but it does sound a bit clumsy.

― Mark, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The exotic Ms. Sarah DOW-er? DOE-er?DOFF-er?

― Curt, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My dorky Olympia friends say Sarah DOO-ger. Make of that what you will.

― adam, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ayy-ler or eye-ler? albert, that is.

― ennui, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kai-us

― Kris, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never even tried to pronounce Einsturzende Neubauten.

― Dave225, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ein-SHTUR-tsen-deh NOI-bow-ten

― Josh, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

beulah = bew la

authchere = ort cha

siguor ros?

― jel, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ein-SHTUR-tsen-deh NOI-bow-ten
Holy fucking yanni - what's the point?

authchere = ort cha = Horchata

― Dave225, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Donnacha Costello?

― Keiko, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ort cha"? um... well, how about Gastr Del Sol? Is it "Gaster" or something else?

― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know how to pronounce OOIOO (it's just "oh oh eye oh oh") but I hope I never have to. Same goes for !!!

Anybody want to take a stab at Schlammpeitziger? How about his albums Erdrauchharnschleck and Spacerockmountainrutschquatier (which are both great, by the way.)

― Mark, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sig your ross

― tyler, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

labradford?

on what syllable is the emphasis?

― cybele, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Raczynski is pronounced Rachinski.Schlammpeitziger = ShlamPIGHTsigger.

― Damian, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you pronounce The Strokes?

― Oliver Kneale, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

R-e-l-i-e-f.

Oh wait, that would be how do you SPELL The Strokes.

Damn.

And no, I wasn't being serious.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"ein-SHTUR-tsen-deh NOI-bow-ten"
Bugger it, my dad was right.

― DG, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

brecht .

― anthony, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OOIOO isn't a word, it's O-O-I-O-O (so, phonetically oh--oh-eye-oh- oh).

― david, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the 'au' in autechre and auteurs is surely pronounced 'oh'.

― david, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spdfgh (early 90s Sydney all-girl group)

I used to call them Spudfucker but I'm sure that's not how it was meant to be pronounced

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

!!! call themselves chick chick chick.

― Kris, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops; i see you knew that.

― Kris, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They're hardly exotic, but I used to refer to Mojave 3 as Moh-Jayve for a loooong time. Rather embarrassing.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anton. brecht = brekt.

me'shell ndegeocello

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Melbourne 80s post-punkers _?¨?ª^?¨ always intrigued me. Pronounced "Tsk-tsk-tsk" apparently.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that soooo didn't work. that should have been three arrows going right - up - right

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.corduroy.com.au/chapter/tchtlogogrey.jpg

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fritz, Caetano Veloso is pronounced as follows: 'kaiTAHnu' with the 'ai' pronounced as in eye; Veloso is 'veLAWzu'. Autechre was the one I had most probs with before this brilliant thread.

― Daniel, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure about these

Fennesz
Jan Jelinek
Luomo
Hakan Libdo

― Honda, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fennesz = fhen-ez?
Jan Jelinek = yan yhel-i-nehck?
Luomo = loo-o-mow?
Hakan Libdo = hah-kahn lib-doh?

― jess, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Umm, it's pretty bad, but I have a real problem with Plaid. I want them to release a box set called Plaid In Full, but I think maybe it should be Plaidyshack?

I had this problem with the word before the band was even around, but I never bothered to check. Actually, don't correct me, I like saying both, just like I like saying Georgy Borges just cos I'll never be able to pronounce it properly...

I can't say Baccaruda.

― emil.y, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

labradford...i ask again--on what syllable is the empasis placed on?

― cybele, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember a college basketball player called luh-BRAD-ferd Smith, only it was spelled LeBradford, IIRC. Maybe the band is named after him, like Lucius/Luscious Jackson. Anyway, how else would you say it? LUH-brad-ferd? luh-brad-FORD? Try them out at the record shop and see if they don't laugh hysterically.

― Curt, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to pronounce it LAB-rad-ford, but realised pretty quickly that was wrong. I think La-BRAD-ford is correct.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros.

― bnw, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NO-twist or NOT-wist?

And has anybody heard their new album yet?

― Curt, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fennesz = FENN-ezz
Jan Jelinek = yahn YELL-in-eck Does anyone know about Jetone? How about Cylob? Monolake?

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cibo matto? syd barrett (is it barrett as in beret?) moog (does it rhyme with vogue?)

― A Nairn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought Einsturzende Neubauten was: ein-SHTUR- tsend NEW-baw-ten (neu like in Neu!) and with a long 'a' not long 'o' in bau. Am I wrong?

― A Nairn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

see bo ma t to

― anthony, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Loren Mazzacane Connors? Lamonte Young?

― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neu is pronounced Noy. Though its rare for anybody to pronounce Kraftwerk in german (...verk) so maybe you get to be free and easy with it.

(and nearly tying up two parts of this thread!)

I always pronounce Labradford 'La Bradford' like the band "La Dusseldorf" except moved to just north of Leeds.

― Alexander Blair, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Funny, I've always pronounced Autechre "AW-tek-rah'

― Dare, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ow do u prononce catatonia. dunno wot happen to them decent band has she topped herself yet?

― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Notwist are pronounced No-Twist. What I have heard of their album on German radio is very very good. The album took them 15 months in the studio. They are already spoken of as one of the best rock albums in 2002!

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anton. and tracer hand: Brecht <> Brekt. "ch" does not sound as a hard k at all. It is soft. I think it exists also in Greek. The German "Milch" does not sound like "milk" either. It sounds like a "sch" (which sounds like "sh") without the "s". ;-)

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cibo matto? syd barrett (is it barrett as in beret?) moog (does it rhyme with vogue?)

I thought it was CHEEbo Matta
Barrett = barrett, like ferret or parrot
Moog => vogue, yeah.

I thought Labradford was like Labrador (but never really cared.)

― Dave225, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mego? And again, Ayler? John Tchicai?

ps ending Autechre with Rah and not Er is just plain silly.

― ennui, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Coming back to Kraftwerk, I have a German friend here in England who insists on pronouncing their name in the most British way imaginable: /Krahft-work/. That's ridiculous, I told him. That's like me going to Germany and saying /Ah-fex Tvin/ /Preemahl Scream/ (replete with gutteral german 'r' sound)' etc.

― Daniel, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, I say the NOT-wist. On the few occasions I say it at all, that is.

Doesn't everyone say Kraft-Verk? Although I tend to pronounce every W as V and every J as Y (ie Yan St Verner). Well, a lot of them, anyway, I wouldn't say Veen or Yoy Division. That would just be silly.

One thing I would like to know- Otomo Yoshihide. Is it YOSH-I- HEEDE? YO-SHI-HIDER? This is probably really easy, but I just want to check...

― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Further evidence of collapse of NME: last time they did an all-time top 100 album list ('92/93?) there was an artists' faves section - under Mercury Rev was listed "Isle of Sun Ra (in brackets - '60s jazz)." I worked out they probably said Ayler and Sun Ra, but everyone I've spoken to goes for the Isla (as in "St Clair") pronunciation. Richard Cook would never have made that mistake.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never known anyone to say anything but Krahft-work. Except northerners, who'll make the 'af' of Kraft rhyme with that of 'daffodil', obviously. Do you really say 'Kraftverk', emily? That's hilarious! Do you make the 's' in Paris silent too?

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jandek - 'yan' or 'jan'?

― Graham C, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick, what, just a silent 's', without pronouncing it Paree? Like, Parih? I might start. I take it that means not everyone says Verk, then? But it's more natural to do than force a W sound- Kraftverk kraftverk kraftverk. Kraft-work. Very stilted.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a funny story about the moog pronounciation thing but i'm sure i've told it before.

― ethan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on a second, do you really say Krahft?? I mean, I can understand glahse and bahth, but Krahft Cheese Slices?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ethan, I'm not in the moog.

Emily, you know that's not what I meant re: Paris. But do you pronounce it the proper French way?

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emily, isn't Kraft Australian originally? Their pronunciation of it is closer to my poofy southern ways than your hard vowels, isn't it? The Australian accent having originated from Cr-ahfty Cockerne Convicts and all..

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Yoyd Cole? (As in cabellero.)

― Dave225, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I don't pronounce it the French way. I do think that the Germanic preference has something to do with ease (rather than just the fact that I prefer, say, Mouse On Mars to Daft Punk)- it seems natural to me to drop the Js into Y sounds where appropriate, and the same goes for W/V (although I actually can't think of anyone aside from Kraftwerk who I would use that on). Things like changing the way of saying Paris seem a lot more affected...

I don't know about the origins, but saying Krahft just makes me think of the Queen eating plastic cheese.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You're not one of those people who says 'Yenga' are you?

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As in Jenga? Nooo- is it meant to be? If it's something that has become so ingrained in this country as an English pronounciation, I'm not going to be that awkward about it. I honestly thought most people do pronounce it Kraftverk.

I guess what it also partly is, is that is your surname were Jones, then (aside from making rubbish music) you'd probably be a bit pissed off if some guy from Swedinia insisted you were Yones. So if there's some German or Swede or summat, I try to pronounce their name properly. Out of courtesy. And it became a habit.

Nobody complains about people saying Neu as Noy, do they? Why? Because it's the right way of saying it.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No obvious way of pronouncing 'Neu' so people are happy to find out the proper way. Jenga is not really pronounced 'Yenga' (as far as I know - isn't it supposed to be some African word?) but I have known people to say it.

I think it's cute when Irish people come here and pronounce the 'th' in Streatham and Thames. But I guess that's a different issue. OK then, I like French people calling me Nicola.

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It says something about my friends that I've never had a conversation about Neu!, and did not know it was pronounced "Noy." It seems so much better to me if its pronounced "New." Is the "eu" always prounounced "oy" in German?

I've never heard that story, Ethan. Moog rhymes with "rogue", right?

― Mark, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well it's not a very good story, basically a few years ago my friend and i decided moog records were hilarious and went around saying 'fly me to the moog!' and 'in the moog for love!' all the time and we were doing this in this asheville record shop with a surly female clerk who nastily pointed out to us that it's pronounced like 'mogue' and we got really mock serious and said, oh, thanks so much for letting us in on that, and then left the store and laughed at her for her lame (and surely deflected) attempt at making fun of us. only months later did i woefully discover she was actually correct.

― ethan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I must say I would piss off Robert Moog- his machine is a MOOcowG. Not a MOWgrassG.

I actually don't mind that much people saying 'New', but it isn't the right way. I'm not sure if it is always said like that in German -I can't think of any other words with that arrangement of letters, frankly.

Now how do you say Cica?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just want to take this opportunity to bring up the best fact ILM has ever brought me; that Joy Division's second album is 'actually' pronounced 'clozer', as in that which closes.

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is the "eu" always prounounced "oy" in German?

Ja.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do Germans pronounce Jah Wobble 'Yah Wobble'? That would be funny har har har.

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No - better yet 'Yah Vobble' - how could I have missed that?

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Division's second album is 'actually' pronounced 'clozer', as in that which closes.

Is this from a trusted source? I have never heard that... But I don't want to say it as trivia at a party and then find out it's bullshit. So how do you know?

― Dave225, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My source. Admittedly, Alex, Ally and Mark.S don't rank alongside Whitaker's Almanac in terms of reference material standing, but hey, they're a lot more fun.

― N., Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Emily that it's only right to try to pronounce foreign names as the people would wish the to be pronounced. My Krahft-work anecdote was about a german anglicising a german name for my benefit, which I didn't really need. The question, for me, though, is how far do you go in front of your mates. Do you bother with the full-on French pron of Francoise Hardy, with proper back-of-the-throat r sounds? It sounds a mite strange in the middle of a sentence in English to suddenly go all pouty and shruggy just to pronounce one name! And do you pronounce Cornelius /cor-neary-arse/? I guess not.

― Daniel, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah doo-ger is correct (hard g)

Neu! and Swefn G Endlar?

― Graham, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Svefn G Englar is pronounced "sig your ross SEC-und AL-bum"

― Mark, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Svefn G Englar is pronounced "sig your ross SEC-und AL-bum"
I thought it was "fa-LOE up EE-PEE", since Agaetis Byrjum was actually their 2nd album already (3rd if you count the remix album). Woo boy, I am the life of the party.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neu is just "new" aren't they?...

― jel, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NEU! = "noy", not "noo".

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't Sigur Ros not any of the exotic "See-gure Roase" people come up with, just Sigger Ross?

― Graham, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neu! should be pronounced Noy. Kraftwerk should be pronounced Kraftverk

That is all.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Einsturzende Neubauten = EYEN-shtur-tsuhn-duh NOY-bow-tuhn. ("bow" rhymes with "cow") If someone can find me a webfont of IPA symbols, I will be eternally grateful.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"bow" rhymes with "cow"

...as in enivob nez

― Dave225, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once got corrected for pronouncing the Helvetica Neue typeface as "noy", not "noo". Is that what the extra "e" does?

― Curt, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In German, "Neue" would be pronounced "NOI-uh", not "NOO". So, no.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you pronounce The Strokes?
Sort of like Linda Blair in the Exorcist

― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, your German pronounciation is OTM. Where did you learn those pronounciation syllables from? They include stress (capitals), hyphenation (-) and sound, don't they?

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, doesn't Einsturzende Neubauten mean "the sound of new buildings falling apart?"

― nickn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, some of the international phonetic alphabet can be found by clicking insert then symbol on Word. I presume that's what you meant by IPA.

― Daniel, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nickn: yes. einstürzende neubauten rule!

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I say "Kraftverk" and I pronounce Francoise Hardy the French way, but I don't try to sound Japanese when talking about Cornelius.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but 'neu' means 'new' in english, right? I've seen it on candy bars. NEU!

― A Nairn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How 'bout Sukpatch? Is it "Sook" or "Suck"?

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Technically, Einsturzende Neubauten means "collapsing new buildings". Which is pretty much the same difference anyhow.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard "suck patch" from just about everybody, including bands that have played shows with those guys.

― Mark, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Gus Gus" or "Goos Goos"? (Not that I'm talking about them all the time or anything.)

― felicity, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Where did you learn those pronounciation syllables from?

They're the closest approximation I can come up with to a phonetic spelling you might find in a dictionary. (BTW, Daniel, thanks for the tip.)

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Gerogerigegege, anyone?

― Nate-o, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Googoogoogle to the rescue:
"Gerogerigegege is a Japanese onomatopoeia for vomiting and shitting diaharrea at the same time. 'gerogeri' refers to a rumbling/spewing colon and 'gegege' refers to the sound you make when you vomit..." (so you, um, figure it out)

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am betting Gerogerigegege is Noise, not J-Pop. Or maybe J-Poop? hah!

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always pronunced it with hard g's.

― Kris, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gerogerigegege
Geh-roh-geh-ree-geh-geh-geh. The r should actually be sort of between a rolling r (french r) and an l.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sigour Ros, translates to victory rose...but that sounds like some pub goth band.

― jel, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gerogerigegege is a Japanese onomatopoeia for vomiting and shitting diaharrea at the same time.

And I'll bet there's a web site devoted to it.

― nickn, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Candi Staton.

Is it "state-on", or more like Stanton Warriors without the "n"?

― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stat Ohn

― jel, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Moog rhymes with "rogue"
I think my brain just shattered.

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's actually aw-tek-er emphisis on nothing. or maybe Aww- tech-re depending on where your from.

― Fidel, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Drexciya

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 10 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how come no-one's mentioned Charalambides? I read in a magazine that it was something like shaar-a-lum-bee-daze ????
i say kraftverk (what's weird about that???) and it irritates me a little when people say kraftwork. also incidentally just in case you didn't know, it doesn't translate craftwork, it's powerstation.
another i'm confused on is Gillian Welch, because i've read that it's gill-(with the g like in girl)-ian and the ch in welch hard like in chew. but this seems odd. ? i'm also not 100% sure on borbetomagus.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as Kraftwerk, Die Krupps, and Einsturzende Neubauten go, I think it's better to go with the crowd, despite country of origin. Everyone I've ever talked to have pronounced them as, Die Krupps = Dee Kroops Einsturzende Neubauten= Ihne-Shtur-TSEN-duh NOY-bow-ten and Kraftwerk= Kraft-work....afterall, you wouldn't go into an bar and order a LER-ven-broy (Löwenbräu), you would order a Lowenbrau (LOW-en-brow)...no?.

― Kinsley, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Charalambides - shar-luhm-bih-deez. (Not really knowing phonetics rules.)

I had a friend who used to pronounce Unwound "Unwoond".

― doug, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i used to pronounce misled 'my-zuld' and i thought it was a whole new word as opposed to mis-led, even though they had the same meaning. it was years before i was enlightened...

a friend's sister pronounced penelope cruz as 'pena-lowp kruzz' for a significant period too.

anyway, i can confirm that cibo matto is pronounced cheebo matto. they say their name in their music, often. it's italian for food madness.

how do you say 'gorky's zygotic mynci'?

― minna, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you say 'gorky's zygotic mynci'?
With a big yawn at the end.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cloth eared clod!

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Apoptygma, as in Apoptygma Berzerk? I've been saying Uh- Pop-Teeg-Muh....that may be completely wrong..this is why I'm asking.

― Kinsley, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

With a big yawn at the end.

Mean.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hegel? derrida?

― ethan, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

donnacha costello is pronounced done-ahka...

― robin, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

mirah?

'autechre' is a combination of the words 'audio technical research', so i'd assume it would be pronounced like the respective parts of those words. in an interview, autechre themselves pronounced it aw-TEK-ah (imagine thick british accents)

― tim, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sutekh?

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Excellent thread..."mowg" shattered my brain, too. Gillian Welch does indeed come with a hard "g", but Ryan Adams seems to pronounce her last name "welsh"; just as well, since welching sounds like something you'd do in a public lavatory when nobody's watching (not ME, natch).

― Tim, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hegel = hi gal! (pay attention ethan)

― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I asked some of my Japanese friends how one pronounces Fushitsusha. A big ole ? appeared on their face.

― nathalie, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

*is* it loo-o-mo?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

tom ze = tome zhaya

― gygax!, Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yoy Division = tribute band available for barmitzvahs

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

what about charalambides? i've been saying it sharra-lawm-beeds.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mynci" I've heard pronounced as the midpoint between "monkey" and "minky" -- but I could be wrong.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

50 Cent

.. is that pronounced "Fifty Cent" or "fiddy se" ?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 January 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Aceyalone?

Avey Tare?

Lene Lovich?

― justswondering, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

a c alone

im pretty sure

― juiceboxxx, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

So. Akufen?

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Lene Lovich?

I've heard it pronounced "LEE-na" or "LAY-na." Last name is "LUH-vitch."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Laynah Luvvitch is correct. Man, you lot need German lessons.

Einstuerzende Neubauten has been explained more than enough. Neu! is, was and ever more shall be pronounced Noy, and Moog is indeed meant to rhyme with Vogue or rogue, although mass mispronunciation over the years has rendered the correct pronunciation pretty much obsolete.

ow do u prononce catatonia. dunno wot happen to them decent band has she topped herself yet?

I'd pronounce Catatonia dead...ha ha ha.

Mynci is indeed either monkey or minky depending on ehre you're from - the band say mernkee, Welsh as they are.

Autechre is Ortekra as far as I know - the band, as I recall, have traditionally left it up to the listener to make up their own minds.

I had a friend who used to pronounce Unwound "Unwoond".

your friend has the right idea.

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Laynah Luvvitch is correct. Man, you lot need German lessons.

I took German for a year. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Avril Lavigne?

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

No, seriously

― Ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 22 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Haujobb?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Bauhaus

― Ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 22 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

bow (what you do in front of the queen, if you're not a violinist)- house. accent on the bow.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, this isn't a pronunciation question, but I need to know: is "Jesus Lizard" or "the Jesus Lizard"? I've been typing the former, but it reads weird to me.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

LOO MOW???

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

AH-vrul Luh-VEEN

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe the "loo OH" sound in "Luomo" is dipthonged -- so it's more like "Lwoah" (one syllable, like "Bjork," WHICH IS NOT FUCKING PRONOUNCED "BEEEEE-YORK").

LWOAH-mo.

Italian for "the man."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yay jbr (pronounced jibber)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

So, anyways, Jesus Lizard or the Jesus Lizard?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

l'rally-zay d'new-day? lay rally-zes de-nudes? lez rall-eye-zes de-new-dess? lara lee da-noids?

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What a great thread. Here's one that I have no idea about and have to pronounce fairly regularly:

Sainkho Namtchylak

She's a tuva singer. Help!

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

John Tejada? Erlend Oye?

Autechre is pronounced Oh-Teck-ruh, emphasis on the 'chr' bit.. you

may simply by referring to them as " the 'chre ", pronounced

"The Kruh".

― Nik (Nik), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Tejada has got to be Tay Hah Dah (accent on the Hah). Unless you meant the John part.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 15 March 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Xiu Xiu?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Saturday, 15 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Shee-you Shee-you?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

How does one pronounce that Super Furry Animals album: Mwng

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay so unless anyone can convince me otherwise I'll keep saying it "HOW-yob"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

keiji haino = key-jee high-no?
borbetomagus = bor-bet-om-oh-gus?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs = lay-m-as-hell?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Noh, Kay-ee-gee (K E G)

i assume Borbetomagus is said like it's a dinosaur. bor-b'-TOM-uh-gus.

no one has any idea about Rallizes?!

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rallizes is hard because it's probably wrong no matter how you say it. but DENUDES is probably spoken just that way.

kAy-gee? Really? i always said KEE-ji. and HI-no not HAY-no. But you're probably right.

what about Nagisa Ni Te? na-gee-sa-ny-tay?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

poe-pull-voo
ah-mon-dool

it's like a Sumarian chant

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

NAH-geese-ah NEE-tay?

yr probably right about Rallizes. i'll stick with 'rally-zay' and be wrong but perfectly content.

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

right on. that's how i say it too, though french pronunciation doesn't make a lick of sense. what does it mean anyway? do you know?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't the foggiest. the name seems to have sprung from an etymological cul de sac. one of us needs to corner Mizutani and force full disclosure at knifepoint.

― summerslastsound, Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Keiji Haino = kuh-HEE-jub-buh-HOO-nie-o
Pink Floyd = puh-HINK uh-fluh-HIB-ble-bib-bul
Borbetomagus = bluh-HOR-ja-MA-ter-buh

― Simon H., Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i always pronounced "Mwng" like "schwing"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 16 March 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

xinlisupreme? how do you say it?

― xnelio, Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i was wondering that. is it like "ex inlee supreme" or "zinlee supreme"?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 30 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

my roomate tells me the chinese pronunciation would be "shinlee supreme", but these folks are japanese.

― xnelio, Sunday, 30 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of mine used to insist on pronouncing Siouxsie as "Sushi" and Bauhaus as "Boohooz,"....both of which irritated me greatly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 March 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's funny that N. thinks that pronouncing kraftwerk properly is funny.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Proper pronounciation of "Motley Crue" (imagine the umlat)?

― Dave Fischer, Monday, 31 March 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

gnocchi.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 31 March 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

NYO*-key

*one syllable, none of this "neeeeee - yooooo" business

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Keiji Haino = Keh-ih-jih High-noh, I think.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 31 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably not that exotic if you come from Mississippi, but...

Uncle TUPP-elo or Uncle Tup-EEE-lo?

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

TWO - pill - oh

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say TCHOO-pill-oh.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well there's a Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Thankyou. That's bugged me for ages (particularly as an Elvis fan).

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Too-pill-oh=Tupelo
Chop-eh-too-lis= Tchoupitoulas

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait then again the south mispronounces alot!
Listen to me say Calliope Housing project.....Kal-eee-ope!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Spdfgh (early 90s Sydney all-girl group)

Jim, it's said just like it's spelt. Spuhd-uh-fgh-ah-Hh. Which doesn't make much sense, as those sounds are quite difficult to render in English, but yeah.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i knew that, i just liked saying Spudfucker :)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Oookay. According to Moog himself, "Moog" may be correctly pronounced either way: mogue OR moooog. The story is that originally, it was pronounced as "Moooog." His wife was a teacher, and she was tired of her very young students making cow sounds whenever they would say her name. Therefore, she asked that it be pronounced "Mogue."

My source: http://www.imperialdrag.com/chatter/articles/kbm796.html

Today, Bob diplomatically says, "Either is correct."

My question to ILM: Ui? Is it YOU-ee, OOO-ee, or maybe even OOO-eye?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 31 May 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Cylob is pronounced 'sigh lob' because it's shitr for 'cybernetic lobster'

― mei (mei), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Tejada has got to be Tay Hah Dah (accent on the Hah). Unless you meant the John part.

*bzzzzzzzt!*

Wrong answer! You don't get the cookie. "Tejada" is pronounced Theh-heh-dah (if you're into correct pronunciation) or Teh-hay-dah (if you want to Anglicize it). No way in the world would I ever be able to accept the pronunciation of that last name with the first syllable sounding like "Tay".

Sorry. I just happen to be a bit picky about the only other language (i.e., the language aside from English) I know.

On the subject of Lene Lovich (or her first name, more precisely): It would indeed be pronounced Lay-nah. I've seen on some fansite how that's the correct pronunciation of that first name.

Can't think of anything exotic I would need pronunciation help with. Sorries.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Tatsuya Yoshida's(Ruins) band Koenjihyakkei, is it Ko-An-Jee-HAi-Key? or Ko-In-Juy-Heya-Key?
also the "Duul" part of Amon Duul, is it "Daal"?

― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Japanese words tend to be pronounced exactly as they're written, without syllabic emphasis, so it would be ko-en-ji-hya-kay. (The hya is written 'h(i)-ya', but you don't pronounce the 'i', and the 'a' is a short vowel, cut off by the 'k'.)

(And 'Les Rita Mitsouko' should be 'lay ree-ta mitso~ko', because the 'u' denotes a lengthening of the 'o' sound. But.)

I always (mentally) pronounced Labradford 'labradorford', but I think that was just because I read the word wrong.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

OK, I need help with... Le Tigre

Cheers

― lee, Monday, 16 June 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

luh TEE-greh

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Uz jsme doma?
The livedisc I have has a Canadian introducing them as "oos mé douma"

Alamaailman Vasarat? I can sort of imagine it, by just doing a really bad finnish immitation and saying it really quickly.

also the "Duul" part of Amon Duul, is it "Daal"?

Well, ü is usually pronounced like a Norwegian "y"(sorry)
So say it like Amon Dyyl (the y-sound being like the one that starts the word "yes")
Of course, I might be way off, I've never said the bandname out loud in my life.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Amon Duul is pronounced Ammon Dool (like pull).

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Alamaailman Vasarat? I can sort of imagine it, by just doing a really bad finnish immitation and saying it really quickly.

Uh-luh-muh-ee-l-muh-n wuh-suh-rut. The Finnish "a" is pronounced like the "u" in "hut" or "fun", and "i" like the "i" in "killer". The nouns are pretty much the same as in other Scandinavian languages.

Well, ü is usually pronounced like a Norwegian "y"(sorry)
So say it like Amon Dyyl (the y-sound being like the one that starts the word "yes")

Erm, I think you're wrong; "ü" is indeed pronounced like "y", but it isn't the y-sound of "sorry" or "yes". Ü/y sounds somewhat like the "u" in "duke" or "dune", but I'm not sure whether there is an exact English equivalent for that sound.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the AV pronounciation tip.
Damn, I feel like a dork for the Ü one now; no wonder I got crap grades in German class back in junior high.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Califone: cuh-LIF-oh-nee / cal-if-own
It always rhymed with "telephone" for me.

― adœm michâil, Sunday, 8 February 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hayguhl or hi gal obv

deh-rih-dah quickly

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

to rococo rot?
arvo part?

― zappi (joni), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Cadillaca?

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Monday, 9 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

toe
roe
coe
coe

rote

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

air
vo

peart

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

AR Kane

is it EYYY ARRRR Kanr
or just ARRRRR Kane

― justin (Justin M), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Pere Ubu anybody?

― gas coin, Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

peer ooboo is how i've always pronounced it.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew someone who pronounced Mogwai's name as "Mow-gwai". I was like, dude, have you ever fucking seen Gremlins?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say pair oboo, père being French for father,

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Avey Tare =
"Avey" sounds like "Davey"
"Tare" sounds like "tear" as in "tear that open"

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 11 March 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly "exotic", but: J.C. Chasez, anyone?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Kelis

Kuh-LEECE I think it is, but I'm not sure.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 12 March 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Since it has been a few years and more people know of them now:

Notwist:
NOT-wist or
NO-twist?

― Zach S (feedback), Friday, 12 March 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say pair oboo, père being French for father

I think you meant to type "pair OOboo" (and while pere does mean father, here it does not--it's a familiar way to refer to someone, like "Mr./Monsieur" but without the respect that implies)

― no opinion, Friday, 12 March 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I always feel vaguely stupid attempting to say Einsturzende Neubauten - usually I just pause in the conversation and someone else will fill in for me :-)

I get annoyed with Shellac Of North America emphasising the wrong syllable in Shellac.

Should Xymox be Zim-mox or Zie-mox?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

So what's the given pronunciation for "!!!" ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 March 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly "exotic", but: J.C. Chasez, anyone?

It's pronounced: Justin-wannabe

Mark, it's pronounced as chuk-chuk-chuk, if I remember correctly.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think chik chik chik. But I also heard once that they wanted people to pronounce it with any sound they felt good about.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Location Location Location."

I say "Note-vist", but I'm making fun of them when I do. It's "No Twist".

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Onimo, Einsturzende Neubauten was given upthread as:
ein-SHTUR-tsen-deh NOI-bow-ten
Which is almost right. Should be EIN-shtur-tsen-deh

― no opinion, Friday, 12 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Not where I live, buddy.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew someone who pronounced Mogwai's name as "Mow-gwai". I was like, dude, have you ever fucking seen Gremlins?

haha, was he chinese? "mo gwai" (roughly rhymes with "snow guy") means "monster" in cantonese.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, the second sylable in Einstürzende is more like Shtyoor than shtur -- hold your lips as if you were going to say "shtoor" but say "shteer" instead.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This has been bugging me for years now. How do you pronounce Curt Boettcher's last name?

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

BETCH-er

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting.

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Except not really -- the vowel sound is between "oh" and "ee" -- try saying ERT and then leaving out the R sound.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Please explain--where do you live? I thought stress was pretty much always on the first syllable in German.

― no opinion, Friday, 12 March 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I live in Frankfurt, dude. Emphasis on "ein" and "stürz" are pretty equal around here.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

okay so i'm a big amon tobin fan and am torn in regards to the pronouncing of his name.
all my friends call him aye-mon, but kid koala pronounced it ah-mon once - which is it¿

also kinder atom, is it kind-er or is it kin-der¿

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly "exotic", but: J.C. Chasez, anyone?

Sha-ZAY

― Lesley, Saturday, 13 March 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

naw, pere ubu is named after the french play.

― emma, Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a bit of an embarrassing one ... how do you say Isley (as in the Isley Brothers)?

is it eye-lee, or could it be (gr)izzly?

― tod (tod), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Eyes-lee

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah? thanks

― tod (tod), Saturday, 13 March 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I have noticed my that there is a misprint in the first word of my first name . It's Rose Mary .
Not Roase Mary .Please make the correction as it
won't allow me to do it .
Thank You .

― Rose Mary M . Connors, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

???

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Holger Czukay"? Rarely pronounced the same way twice at a multitude of record store counters.

― doug watson (solid air), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

T.Raumschmiere, anyone? I should be able to do this, what with my German degree an' all, but people keep correcting me...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Explain to me why Bruce Cockburn's surname seems to be pronounced "Coburn"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask the Scottish

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

T. Rowm-sch-mee-er

Hole-ger Zoo-kay

Pear oo Boo

Tujiko Noriko - Too-je-ko Noh-ri-ko

― Rob McD (Rob McD), Thursday, 10 June 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Purl Jamm
Creeeeeeeed
nik ul back

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 10 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think anyone seriously answered this waaay upthread so....
Gore-key's Zye-Goh-Tick Monkey=Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 10 June 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Not Was

Someone once told me it was WAZ NOT WAS, s'this true?

― mzui, Thursday, 10 June 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

SUNN O)))

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I would say "sun." The 0))) is silent.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Kemialliset Ystavat?
(is it Kim-ee-ALL-is-set EE-sta-vat?)

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't there be a bit more german aggression in Csukay? Like Hole-ger chuu-kie (pie)?

― strom (strom), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

KEH-me-ah-lih-set ÜH-stae-vaet. In Finnish words the emphasis is always on the first syllable. The Finnish y is prononounced like the German ü, there isn't a clear English equivalent for that. The Finnish ä (the real name of the band is Kemialliset Ystävät, it means "Chemical Friends") is pronounced like the letter a in the word cat.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Actually, you can pronounce the y like Inspector Clouseau pronounces the o's in the word "room".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I mangle the complexities of the Finnish language with my clusmy American tongue. The Germans on the Can DVD clearly pronounce it "shoo-kay."

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

so it's not "ZUE-kay"?

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Haven't heard the definitive answer for Kelis yet. I say Key-less, I've heard Kellis, & Snrub upthread says Kuh-leece. Let's make sure on this one, 'cause I'd hate to make a play and be all like "Hey, Key-less, I'm Brian."

― briania (briania), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago)

there's that one tune on her album where her man nas pronounces it for us:

keh-leece, but say it fast cuz time's wastin' and all

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)

what about Titonton Duvante?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 7 October 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

this thread is depressing. some of these questions could be easily solved by looking in a dictionary.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago)

How about Urusei Yatsura?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)

SUNN O)))
-- W i l l

I would say "sun." The 0))) is silent.
-- n/a

Since the O))) is a pictograph for the sun, perhaps it ought to be SUNN Sun...

― max davenport (axehead), Friday, 8 October 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago)

Ciara = Chara???

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago)

i should know this one, but the pronunciation has always eluded me: toto coelo. is it KOI-lo?

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:50 (twenty years ago)

I've heard it as co-AY-lo.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I thought the 0))) came from the logo for Sunn amplifiers. Like this:
http://www.fender.com.au/sunnamps/images/sunnlogo_sm.jpg
And I'm not sure that's supposed to be a sun, it looks more like an eye. But I guess a sun would make more sense.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago)

how about exotic album names? how do you pronounce aoxomoxoa?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Agaetis Byrjun?

I think "Ciara" is pronounced like "Sierra"--I'll listen more closely to the dialogue at the beginning of the "Goodies" vid next time.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I have always heard Deadheads pronounce it "Ow-zuh Muh-Zoh-Uh," with the accent on the first syllable, FCC.

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago)

fascinating. thanks taxi!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

How about Urusei Yatsura?

OOD-sayee yachts-da.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

whoa gygax, I just said that out loud and it came out in perfect japanese accent.
Good job on the phonetics there.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)

hehe, thanks! ^_^

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I thought I was possesed by Toshiro Mifune or somebody for a second.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

mego = may-go
keiji haino = KAYeejee HIGHeeno
Nagisa Ni Te = Na-gee-sa Nee Tay (

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago)

--Joao Gilberto
--Antonio Carlos Jobim

I know how to pronounce the Gilberto (the g is pronounced the same is it is in "gee, whiz" right?), but it's the Joao I'm not so sure about.

And I know how to pronounce the Antonio Carlos, but the Jobim throws me. "joe-BEAM"? "hoe-BEAM"?

― Lingbert, Friday, 8 October 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I still look at Ummagumma and think "uhm-MAG-yewm-ma"

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago)

I think Joao = Huwow?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago)

The Portuguese Gi is pronounced zhee (like Zha Zha Gabor, but with ee as the vowel) so it's Zheel-bair-toe, with accent on the bair. And it may be that J is pronounced the same, but is used in front of a, o, and u, so Zhobeem and Zhaow.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago)

I thank you.

― Lingbert, Friday, 8 October 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's right I forgot. "Zhaow" sounds right, I've heard that before.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

In portuguese, that would be "joh-OW"

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Laibach?

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 10 October 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Lie'-bahch

Sufjan?

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

SOOF-YON

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

SOOF-yan

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

how do you pronounce Fuck's name on the radio so the FCC doesn't arrest you?

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

François De Roubaix - the 'Roubaix' part, I've been saying "rue-bye"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Jürgen Paape - 'Jürgen' I know, but 'Paape'="Pop"?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

it's "roo-BAY", actually.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

how do you pronounce Fuck's name on the radio so the FCC doesn't arrest you?

i would never arrest you for that! as for the other fcc, you might just have to describe the name rather than say it, using such tender euphemisms as "making love" or "knocking boots."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

HAH

you don't use caps in YOUR name, f.c.c.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but i don't use caps in their name either!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago)

touche.

(pron. "toosh-AY")

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

ef you see kay

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)

a bit prosaic, but a solid option if you don't lisp.

or rhymes with "suck" or "luck"

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

uck-fay in piglatin. c'mon Thea, get creative!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago)

How about Urusei Yatsura?
OOD-sayee yachts-da.

Maybe in Scottish! In Japanese it's "Ooh-Ru-Say-Ee Ya-Tsu-Ra"--Just like it looks

― Good Dog, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Haha, good luck in Japan!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

"uck-fay in piglatin. c'mon Thea, get creative!"

uck-fay ou-yay, ax-gy-gaaaay!

...

ugh, i hate pressure to perform.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

so does Rafael Palmeiro.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago)

gygax, no need for luck. I speakee the Japanese.?@“ú–{‚É10”NŠÔ?Z‚ñ‚Å‚¢‚é‚æ

― Good Dog, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

"so does Rafael Palmeiro."

i have no idea who this is but i'm sure you've zung it again.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Tetsu Inoue?

― bill neil (inabillity), Monday, 25 October 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

"so does Rafael Palmeiro."
Baseball player, viagra pitch-man.

― briania (briania), Monday, 25 October 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Haven't heard the definitive answer for Kelis yet.

DeRogatis sez KAY-liss! I think me and Nas are on the same page.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Tetsu Inoue

First just like it looks, tet-soo. Then, in-oo-oh-ay.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 25 October 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago)

except that trailing "U"s are rarely given any emphasis (although i'm sure that Good Dog would disagree).

tets anew uh ay

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Ciara = Chara???

-- AaronHz

Ciara is normally pronounced 'KEER-ah', but it sounds like she pronounces it 'SEE-AR-ah'

― Graeme (Graeme), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago)

No Icelanders here, are there? I'll try:

Ágætis byrjun: I believe it's OW-gye-tis bür-yoonn, where
-- "gye" has a hard g and rhymes with "die";
-- the ü is the y-sound Tuomas describes repeatedly above;
-- the "yoonn" should be a short syllable

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago)

And emphasis on BÜR, btw.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago)

so, to clarify is sufjan really "soof-yawn"? Cus' that's
not nearly as much fun to say as "soof-gin". Dammit, this means ive been saying it wrong over the radio for a year now. why dotn you tell me these things!

― holysandalkcsc, Thursday, 28 October 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago)

gygax! I don't want to be a dick about this but nickn is right:

Tet-soo ee-no-ooh-ay

― Good Dog, Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

sufjan = soof-yawn

― the leglo (the leglo), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Merzbow?

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Mertz-bow (as in bow-wow)

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago)

... assuming it's pronounced the same as Merzbau of course

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago)

thought so

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Pete Doherty is Pete Dokkerty, right?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Depends where you come from

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard "St. Etienne" pronounced. Do people pronounce it in full-on French mode, or Anglicize the pronunciation?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I've always said "Saint eh-TYEN".
I might be wrong.

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago)

I think I say 'Saint' the English way.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I was questioning the pronunciation of Geogaddi the other day. I say jee-oh-GOD-ee, but I then realized it could also be pronounced jee-AH-gud-ee, as in "geography", or any number of different ways.

― bill neil (inabillity), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

MUM - the icelandic band? there's an accent on the U.
also, husker du, should be hoosker doo, shouldn't it? but everyone i know, myself included, has always pronounced it husker doo. anyone else?

― bg, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago)

If it's pronounced in Icelandic, the ú = a more rounded, and long, English "oo", or more precisely a German "u". So approx "moom"

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)

I once read that XTC is supposed to be pronounced "ecstasy." Does anyone actually do that?

Also, surely the Joao Gilberto pronunciation given above is incorrect?? It's "zho-an", since the -ao ending in Portugese is read as "-an" when the "a" has that squiggly line over it that I can't reproduce here. Like Sao Paulo, which is pronounced "San Pow-low."

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago)

And how do we stop this thread from being in bold type?

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago)

I knew someone at university called Joao, he just pronounced his name Jow.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure you've all heard this pronounced many times before, but I live in Singapore - please help me with Fugazi?

Foo-gah-zee? Or Foo-gaa-zee where gaa rhymes with sheep's baa?

― syntaxfree (syntaxfree), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Pete Doherty is Pete Dokkerty, right?

Depends where you come from

I take the view that it depends on where the artist in question is from. In this case, England. Therefore...?

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Well, it could be pronounced Doe-herty. Being as it is an Irish name, it should be pronounced DoCHerty (CH as in loch) but a lot of you non-Celts out there have a problem pronouncing that sound!

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Tiefschwarz = teef-schwartz?
Akufen = ack-yew-fenn? (and if so, where's the accent?)

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago)

emphasis on the first syllable in Akufen

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Bettie Serveert?

― Dutch College Rock, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic

Vital-ic?
Vit-alic?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Fursaxa?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 4 February 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Tiefschwarz = teef-schwartz?

Should be, as long as the "a" is pronounced as in "father", not as in "all".

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 4 February 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm!!!!!

I think I'll call my new Gabberfolk band Zykkxxzlyll Qjiuqreghptl, From New Cumnock!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 4 February 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

... Which incidentelly is New Cumnockian for "Ziggy's Quick Red Portal"!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 4 February 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Vybz Kartel?

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Sunday, 6 February 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

A year ago someone mentioned pronouncing the Notwist as "note-vist" in jest, but when I saw them live, that's how Mr. Archer pronounced it (with emphasis on the first syllable). Which ruined the bet between my friends and me, as we were also debating between not-wist and no-twist.

― Curt Warner, Sunday, 6 February 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Loleatta Holloway... not exactly exotic, but I'm still uncertain.

― babyalive (babyalive), Monday, 7 March 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Lolita Hollo-way

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

OK, how do you pronounce Ege Bamyasi?

And what about Sonny Sharrock? (SHARE-uck or Sha-ROCK)?

― Mila, Monday, 7 March 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Ay-gay Bahm-yah-see, I think.

What about Justus Kohncke? I get the vague impression that his first name should be something like "Eustace" before my pitiful grasp on German sounds gives out completely. And is his last name "Conk" or is there some rule of German that makes it sound completely different?

― Telephonething, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Justus: Something like "Yoostoos" rather, with both vowels short.
Köhncke: Approximately "Kernke" with non-pronunciation of the r.

What about [Marc] Ribot? Rib-EAU in the French manner or simply Ribbot?

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Ree-BOW, I think, but I could be (and probably am) completely and embarrassingly wrong.

― Telephonething, Friday, 8 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Sharrock: Shuh-ROCK

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 8 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

How about Urusei Yatsura?
OOD-sayee yachts-da.
Maybe in Scottish! In Japanese it's "Ooh-Ru-Say-Ee Ya-Tsu-Ra"--Just like it looks

-- Good Dog (feather...) (webmail), October 19th, 2004 4:09 PM.

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Haha, good luck in Japan!
-- gygax! (gygax0...) (webmail), October 19th, 2004 4:11 PM. (gygax!)

This is funny. I think gygax is close but if you say it the way good dog wrote it while using a lazy 'r' that comes close to sounding like a 'd' and while eliding the 'u's, you'll have it.

No one ever answered this upthread, ages ago, so I'll do it.

Les Rita Mitsouko = Lay Reeta Meetsuko

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 April 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

AC/DC : "Ach und Dich"

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 8 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Kitsune: Kitsoon? Kitsoonay? Kitchen?

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I've always just pronounced it kee-tsu-nay with no syllabic emphasis, like the Japanese word. I imagine the Francofied version would sound pretty similar, too, just with an emphasis on the final syllable (they write it with an acute accent, IIRC, or is it grave? whatever).

― Telephonething, Saturday, 9 April 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Charalambides is correctly pronounced "shar-uh-lam-bee-dez"

Dif Juz is a corruption of "diffuse"

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 9 April 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone ever clear up the Jandek "jan" or "yan" thing?

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

This is funny. I think gygax is close but if you say it the way good dog wrote it while using a lazy 'r' that comes close to sounding like a 'd' and while eliding the 'u's, you'll have it.

-- M. White (deir...), April 8th, 2005 12:40 PM. (Miguelito) (later)

In the west the lips get round for the "R" and the tongue is isolate; whereas in Japan I hear more of a brief tap of the tongue behind the front teeth with a "D"/"L" hybrid enunciation. The measured phonics (as MWhite and Good Dog suggest) I never seem to hear outside of gaijin-speak. Many of the middle and trailing "U"s in Japanese are so short they're barely audible... for example:

Kitsune: Kitsoon? Kitsoonay? Kitchen?

the hiragana for kitsune is:
‚« ki, pronounced "kee"
‚Â tsu, pronounced "tsoo"
‚Ë ne, prounounced "nay"

Speaking in measured phonics would sound like "kee-tsoo-nay" but what i hear in a typical japanese speaker tone is more like "keets-nay". YMMV.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

From an ignorant New Pornographers (and Destroyer) fan:
Dan Bejar = BAY har? Bee JAR?

― jedidiah (jedidiah), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I always just say "Sakamoto" to avoid that first name:

Ryuichi...

Ry-oo-chi?

Ry-oo-ee-chi?

I had a friend who just called him Ricki.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Bejar:
I have a friend with the same last name and he pronounces it Bee Har.

Ryuichi:
Leeoochee (to say it gracefully: evenly and quick, like 2.5 syllables).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

David Pajo: PADGE-o? PAY-yo? PAH-ho?

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

this isn't a band name, but how exactly does one say 'arular'?

― buzz fledderjon, Sunday, 12 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

How about these:
Dungen?
Dettinger?
L'usine?
Ulf Lohmann?

― Old No.7, Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I think Dungen is Done-yen

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

J Mascis' surname?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

"Mash-is," I think.

And I've just been saying "Are-u-lar" (long U, emphasis on the first syllable). Both may be horribly, tragically wrong, but I'm sticking with 'em, god dammit.

― Telephonething, Monday, 13 June 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I am forever clueless about how to pronounce ENNIO MORRICONE. is it ee-nee-oh more-ee-cone?

― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 10 July 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Eh-nee-oh more-ee-CO-neh, I'm pretty sure. LATIN CLASS DON'T FAIL ME NOW.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 10 July 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Screw African poverty. This is how the musicians should've spent a Saturday raising awareness.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 10 July 2005 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Lisa Kekaula?

― mentalist (mentalist), Sunday, 10 July 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Vybz Kartel?
-- whenuweremine (aretz...), February 6th, 2005.

Vybz Kartel = vibes cartel

― Hot Pants, Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

celtic frost:

SELL-tik or KELL-tik?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I say keltic.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Keltic, seconded.

I may be dumb, but as i got 14/1 on M.I.A. winning the mercury, can someone please tell me how to pronouce her name? is it maya? or EM.AYE.AI?

― bg (creamolafoam), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

thank you both.

as for MIA/maya, i've always taken it that MAYA is her birth name and EM AYE AY is her stage name and, therefore, you can pretty much use the pronunciations interchangeably.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ferenc?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've only heard "mass-kiss" for Mascis.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

M.I.A. = her initials, with Maya being her first name

― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ferenc = feh-rents, I think.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

[sheepishly]
Beyoncé, anyone?

― Myonga Von Bonehead (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

popular electrohouse artist chelonis r. jones: shell-on-is? chell-on-is? "other"??

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

30 years I've been saying "one-oh-one-ers", and the other night I heard a deejay say "one-hundred-one-ers". Pleas tell me he's wrong.

― brianiac (briania), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

siouxsie = ???

― shudder redduhs (shudder), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

susy

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

bee-YON-say

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

[i]susy
-- fe zaffe [/i]

it was that easy all along? damn!

― shudder redduhs (shudder), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

How do you pronounce the band name "Le Tigre"?
Is it like Lee Tig Ray

― hannah, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Luh Tee-gruh

― Rizz (Rizz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

isolée.

is it french-like: ee-zo-lay
or english-like: eye-so-lee

― shudder redduhs (shudder), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ee-zo-lay, accent on the last syllable...

And is it just me, or can anyone else not listen to "Easy Lee" anymore without mentally inserting "Isolée"?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

help me out my friends:

kreucht
fleucht

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 22 September 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

The dude in the record shop who used to play bass in my brother's band and who annoys me by acting like he knows more than he does (don't dispute Bark Psychosis minutiae with me, Graham Sutton's number is in my phone) pronounced Geogaddi "heothadgy" or something yesterday.

How do YOU say it?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

nmperign??? i say en-emm-pear-inn
tu m'???
Laddio bolocko? the goblin voice on the last track seems to say bo-low-ko, rather than BOLLOCK-O

And what about the Bevis Frond? I figure it must be Bevvis, but I so want it to be Beavis.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Róisín?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I've heard it pronounced "Roy-sheen." All, er, two times I've heard it said aloud.

Robag Wruhme? Because if his last name really is pronounced "vroom" then that is awesome.

― telephone thing, Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's German, right? In that case it's more like "vroomer" (in a non-rhotic dialect of English, ie the last r is silent).

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ro-sheen. "O" sound as in hot.

― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

It's not exotic, but I can't find it authoritatively: Is Laura Nyro's last name pronounced to rhyme with "Hero" or "Cairo"? Many many thanks in advance.

― Joe McCombs, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Nyro rhymes with hero
roisin = ro-sheen (o as in go not as in hot)

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

popular electrohouse artist chelonis r. jones: shell-on-is? chell-on-is? "other"??

-- haitch (big.jesus.trash.ca...), August 4th, 2005.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Salk Vacchin, anybody?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 27 April 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Omarion?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

I recall an interview with Mike Edwards where he claimed his band's name was pronounced "Hey-soos Jones"...I didn't believe him, either...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Sigur Ros is roughly SEE-oor Rohs (like roast without the "t"). The g is hardly pronounced, the r of Ros is rolled, and the o sound is very round. It's best to find a video of the band saying it... if you want to be a douche and pronounce it with 100% Icelandic-native accuracy. I've tried it and generally gotten looks of bewilderment even from those who know the band, so I'd say "SIG-oor Rohs" is the best bet.

Dave Gahan, lead singer of Depeche Mode? I've heard "Garn" is the legitimate pronunciation, but does anyone know for sure?

I also saw two contradictory versions of Fennez up there. Is it Finesse with a Z or FEN-ehz?

― Troupe Gammage (troupe), Monday, 15 January 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard people say Dif Juz is pronounced "diffuse" - but I have a Cocteaus bootleg where Liz thanks "Dif Jooz" before. Mind you who knows if she was right.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 January 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Dave Q asked this way upthread and I don't think anyone answered him - LaMonte Young? (obv his surname is not so much of a prob)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Beeing a swede it hurts when Håkan Lidbo is pronounced Hakan: use the umlaut people! (hakan means "The Chin" in swedish, its obviously not a name.)

and the german pronounciations.. learn some languages will you, S.O.D-bastards?

Håååååkan Liid-bo.

― jon person (jon person), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

They were always one of my faves in their day but I never knew for sure how to pronounce Rodan.

ro-DAN or RO-D'n ??

― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Not strictly a band name, but Blerwytirhwng a SFA song.

― Alan Bean (Alan Bean), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

How about todd Terje?

― mehlt, Sunday, 11 March 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

until I saw Christina Carter actually pronounce "Shar-uh-lam-bee-dayz" in a live concert, I always thought it was "Shar-a-lam-bydes".

― sleeve, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

um, that's "lahm" not "lam".

― sleeve, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:57 (eighteen years ago)

!!!

The preferred pronunciation is supposedly "chk-chk-chk", which always sounds stupid no matter how you try and say it.

― j-rock, Monday, 12 March 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

My Icelandic friend pronounces Sigur Ros "shi ur rosh"

..actually I'm not sure if he pronounces the g, but both the S's are definately sh.

And pretty sure he doesn't have a speech impediment.

― Drooone, Monday, 12 March 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

Husker Du?

― ablaeser, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

Pronounced in the original language (Norwegian), Husker Du would be pronounced something like "Hooske'r Doo, with the first oo a bit shorter than one would pronunce it in the English language and with the r sounding more like the r's in the Spanish language.

Btw. Urusei Yatsura anyone?

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

No tricks to Japanese: so far as I know, it's OOR-OO-SAY-EE YAT-SOO-RAH. (But the end of the first word would have that Japanese thing where despite there being two vowel sounds -- SAY-EE -- it elides together into just "SAY.")

― nabisco, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Röyksopp?

― zeus, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I usually pronounce !!! as "Triple Exclamation Mark," because when I say chk-chk-chk none of the rubes know who I'm goin on about.

― MC, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

i always pronounced it Un-Woond too. the other proncunciation never even occurred to me.

― circa1916, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Btw. Urusei Yatsura anyone?

Geir Hongro on Monday, March 12, 2007 6:56 AM (8 hours ago)

"oo loo say ya tsu la"

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 12 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

This one always stymies me:

Ellen Allien

The first name is obviously not too difficult.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

I generally say it, Ahl-Lee-Enn

I'm still curious about Todd Terje moreso because I haven't an idea what language Terje is is. I'd normally assume it to be one where you'd pronounce it Tare-Yay, but the not-so-european first name of Todd kind of throws me off.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

Les Rallizes Denudes?

― gypsysphinx, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

Röyksopp?

Ruiksop
(And note again that the "r" in Norwegian and Swedish (other than the occasional local accent) is pronounced like the Spanish "r" rather than then English/American one.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Not a mispronunciation per se, but non-Scandinavians' unfamiliarity with the letter å can lead to some unintentional hilarity. I often see the Einherjer demo "Leve Vikingånden!" ("long live the Viking spirit") referred to as "Leve Vikinganden!", which translates as "Long live the Viking Duck!".

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Similarly, the Mortiis album "Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør" ("the spirit which rebelled") also frequently is given an avian twist.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Nitzer Ebb?
Liasons Dangereuses?

― henry s, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

― onimo, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

NEET-zer EBB, isn't it?

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i'd say it's somefing like liason dawn-jer-errz

― Drooone, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

Luomo = LOO-o-moh, though the "u" sound is shorter than the "oo" in "loo", and the "o"'s are like the first "o" in "conventional". I'm not sure if you should pronounce it in a Finnish way though - it's not a proper Finnish word, but it is a Finnish pun.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

]Les Rallizes Denudes?

gypsysphinx on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:27 AM (Yesterday)

it's weird because in Japan they are known as Hakada No Rallizes = "ha ka da no la leee zoo", that's the only way I've heard their name pronounced.

I guess Les Rallizes Denudes = "ray la leee zoo de nu day" would work, or just go with the French.

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

sunno)))?

sun-oh?

just sun?

sunnoo?

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

just "sun".

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Gris Gris.

I actually don't know how the band pronounces it but some of the kids who work for me love them and pronounce it literally... which I hope is not correct.

― factcheckr, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

gree gree

― henry s, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

they pronounce it "gree gree". total bros too.

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Luomo = LOO-o-moh, though the "u" sound is shorter than the "oo" in "loo", and the "o"'s are like the first "o" in "conventional". I'm not sure if you should pronounce it in a Finnish way though - it's not a proper Finnish word, but it is a Finnish pun.

Isn't it just Italian for "man" without the apostrophe? As in, as in "L'oumo" or more specifically "L'oumo Vogue" the magazine?

Out of curiosity, what's the Finnish pun?

― William Selman, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still really curious as to whether !!!'s band name has anything at all to do with Stump's "Buffalo," which has a bit that goes:

Exclamation point, click click click
Exclamation point, click click click
Exclamation point, click click click

― nabisco, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for restoring my faith, if not in humanity, then in something pleasing, even if ever so much smaller

― factcheckr, Thursday, 15 March 2007 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

Re: Nitzer Ebb. A friend of mine who worked at Mute at the time pronounced the 1st syllable "nite".

― factcheckr, Saturday, 17 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I seem to remember Nitzer Ebb hosting MTV's 120 Minutes once, and pronouncing it nite-zer themselves. Pretty ruinous to their faux-teuton image that, I thought.

― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 17 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I also always thought Booka Shade were Boo-kah shade, yet i've heard it pronounced Book-ah Shade.

― mehlt, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

Xpost - the letter "i" is almost always pronounced "ee" in German, unless preceeded by an e, so it's probably correctly pronounced Neetzer Ebb.

― everything, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't it just Italian for "man" without the apostrophe? As in, as in "L'oumo" or more specifically "L'oumo Vogue" the magazine?

L'uomo does = The Man in italian and it's pronounced the same, but I don't know if that's what Luomo was going for when they made up the name.

― MaGoGo, Sunday, 18 March 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Blerwyttirhwng by the Super Furries is "ble rwyt ti rhwng" which means "where are you between".

Pronounce it Bleh-roo-it-tee-RHOONG

― Cymro, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think playing the "Welsh card" is... is... CHEATING.

LLWYBR LLAETHOG anyone?

― factcheckr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

thloober thlythawg. where the 'thl' is that aspirated H/L sound unique to Welsh; the 'oo' is soft ('book'); and the 'th' in Llaethog is hard (like in 'thick').

― Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

ayy-ler or eye-ler? albert, that is.

I think it's "eye-ler," he says it enough on his own discs, "hi, my name is Albert Ayler" etc.

what about these:

kalaparusha .... kalapaRUSHah (rush like in push)?
andrew cyrille .... si-RIL or seer-rall?
grachan moncur .... GRA-chin (german style) MON-kurr ?
amon düül .... aye-mon or ahh-mon? doool or du-uhl?

― certain, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

aah'mon. 'ü' is pronounced like the 'u' in 'luc' (so 'düül' is halfway between 'dool' and 'deal')

― fies, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Xpost - the letter "i" is almost always pronounced "ee" in German, unless preceeded by an e, so it's probably correctly pronounced Neetzer Ebb.

That was my point. Pronouncing themselves "Nightzer Ebb" was death to their projected idea of paneuropean synthfunk revolution.

(i cannot agree with "ee" though, that's a long vowel; should be short "i", like in "kitten")

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 22 March 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

I can't think of a single example in german of "i" sounding like "ee," many where it sounds like the i in "bit": nicht, vorsicht, bitte, wechselwirkungsquerschnitsbestimmung.

― certain, Sunday, 25 March 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Dungen? I've heard it pronounced "dungeon", and then with all sorts of variants using long and short u's, and hard and soft g's.

― Z S, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Hadouken!

― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

fantomas please!

― t0dd swiss, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone know how to pronounce the band Noxagt?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

hadouken = ha doe oo ken
fantomas = fawn toe moz
noxagt = nox act

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

have you seen noxagt? they are playing w/my friends' band in st. paul in april. i might go check it out.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Por favor:

Merzbow
Hototogisu
Axolotl
The Anomoanon

― skr0nk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Merz-bow - rhymes with cow. (Play on German "Merzbau", you see.)

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

by the way: it is BUG-dahn RAH-chin-ski.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Neko Case, please.

Nee-ko or Neh-ko?

and also Carla Bozulich.

boo-zuh-lich? boh-zuh-lich?

― Viz, Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

No one knows Dungen? Or is it so well known and obvious that to spend 5 seconds typing it out phonetically would be a complete waste of time?

Sorry, I'm inpatient tonight. I need answers!

― Z S, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

how to pronounce monkees?
with the two e's does that make it mon-kays?

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

Dungen: I've heard it as "DONE-yen," no idea if it's correct though.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

No-one's asking, but I'm telling anyway:

Tinariwen = tin-AH-ri-WEN.

Even Andy Kershaw pronounces it TEE-na-RI-wen, which is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Dungen = "DUNG-en" with a short U as in 'tsunami'

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

manuel gottsching: GOT-shing, GAIRT-shing or GOAT-shing??? also manu-AL or man-WELL???

― rio natsume, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Nee-ko (That's how they said it on TV)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Raccoo-oo-oon? I just say "Raccoon". Maybe this is wrong.

And is Xasthur really "eggs-ASS-thur"? 'Cuz I want it to just be "ZASS-thur".

― Pye Poudre, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

How do you pronounce Terre Thaemlitz?

― mmmm, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Raccoo-oo-oon? I just say "Raccoon". Maybe this is wrong.
And is Xasthur really "eggs-ASS-thur"? 'Cuz I want it to just be "ZASS-thur".

It's definitely pronounced "Rack-KOO-ooh-oon"

And i'm pretty sure it's "ZASS-thur"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

Also for some unanswered ones:

Hototogisu

Ho-TO-to-gee-soo

("gee" pronounced with a hard g, like "garden")

Axolotl

AX-uh-lot-uhl

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Monotonix:

MONO-tonix or Muh-NOT-oh-nix?

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago)

Well, since the thread's here, how do I pronounce Terveet Kädet?

― Vision, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

Someone told me it was pronounced Hicks, not with a j sound. Anyone?

― steampig67, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:25 (sixteen years ago)

lol.

bon iver?

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:34 (sixteen years ago)

the YICKS

― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

just kidding. i don't know. but yicks would be funny.

― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago)

he says "jicks" in 1% of 1

― mizzell, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago)

it's 100% definitley "Jicks"

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

Paavoharju?

― smothered under a rug (friendly ghost), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago)

Any old more CONE A

― RESPECTABLE SIR (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:44 (sixteen years ago)

it's MONO-tonix.

― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago)

And

Bone ee-VAIR

― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago)

it's mono-TONIX.

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Freurlogo.gif

Yes, we know how the band pronounces it. But how SHOULD it be pronounced?

― derelict, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago)

Paavoharju?
― smothered under a rug (friendly ghost), miércoles 22 de octubre de 2008 05:17 (1 hour ago)

I once asked a music store clerk in Helsinki and he told me it's pronounced as Pa-vo-yar-yu. I have no idea what is stands for.

― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

Sunn o)) anyone?

― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago)

◯△▢ = Maru Sankaku Shikaku?

― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 249 for "pronounced simply sun"

― wilter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago)

6majik9 is just 'magic'

― wilter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago)

I've heard Bjork pronounced by an Icelander, and I could get the vowel sound, which is kind of like Byerk. But the B isn't really an English B, and I couldn't even say it right.

― B'wana Beast, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:44 (sixteen years ago)

Paavoharju = P-aah-voh-hur-yu

I think it's some person's first and last name written together, as Paavo is a common Finnish male name, and Harju is a common surname. "Harju" also means "a ridge".

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 07:01 (sixteen years ago)

How about 22 Pistepirrko?

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago)

Sunn o))

I read once it was pronounced "sun" just like that big ball of fire in the sky, and the last part was just a visual.
Anybody else hear anything?

― steampig67, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:36 (sixteen years ago)

http://991.com/newGallery/Prince-Love-Symbol---Dis-16035.jpg

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Terre Thaemlitz is pronounced like "Terry Temlits"

― beavis, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

Sunn o))
I read once it was pronounced "sun" just like that big ball of fire in the sky, and the last part was just a visual.
Anybody else hear anything?
― steampig67, Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:36 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark

Yup, named after the amps they use:
http://www.orcoastmusic.com/amplifiers/sunn-sceptre.jpg

― oing oing oing (╓abies), Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

Prince is such a turd. I was so devastated when, after going through all the trouble of "coming out" by legally changing his name to the bisexual symbol, he then insisted it be "unspeakable" (starting that whole "artist formerly known as..." idiocity).... "Ok," I thought, "the unspeakability could be a critique on the invisibility/silence around pansexuality within dominant and queer cultures, or something profound..." *BUT* then he marches out on the Tonight Show with his new bride, who was one of those lingerie queens he keeps around, and she was totally silent like an accessory the whole interview while he was being a total macho prick - totally offensive to any critical notion of gender. I mean, that kind of macho super-hetero performance combined with silence about his name (totally refusing to answer questions about why or how to pronounce it, etc.) just showed how un-profound the whole thing was. It was that same month that Michael Jackson married Elvis' daughter... I was like, "The closet has gotten a lot more complicated."

― beavis, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

It dawns on me that I say "Royal Trucks" slightly differently than I say "Royal Trux." The second Trux comes out white-trashier or something. Does the band make a distinction?

― dlp9001, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

T'Pau?

― Pullman/Paxton Revolving Bills (Pillbox), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

teh pow?

― Pullman/Paxton Revolving Bills (Pillbox), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

teh POW!!!

― Pullman/Paxton Revolving Bills (Pillbox), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

Whenever I see Sunn o)), my brain says "suNNNN-ohhh"

― bendy, Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

I'm aware that one is supposed to say "Sunn". But I often call them "Sunn - Oh" when speaking about them.

― Duke, Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

i call them 'sun' and then cackle inwardly at my own amazingness

― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago)

Prince is such a turd. I was so devastated when, after going through all the trouble of "coming out" by legally changing his name to the bisexual symbol, he then insisted it be "unspeakable" (starting that whole "artist formerly known as..." idiocity).... "Ok," I thought, "the unspeakability could be a critique on the invisibility/silence around pansexuality within dominant and queer cultures, or something profound..." *BUT* then he marches out on the Tonight Show with his new bride, who was one of those lingerie queens he keeps around, and she was totally silent like an accessory the whole interview while he was being a total macho prick - totally offensive to any critical notion of gender. I mean, that kind of macho super-hetero performance combined with silence about his name (totally refusing to answer questions about why or how to pronounce it, etc.) just showed how un-profound the whole thing was. It was that same month that Michael Jackson married Elvis' daughter... I was like, "The closet has gotten a lot more complicated."
― beavis, Sunday, September 13, 2009 4:38 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Prolly the first mistakes a guy can make when Prince is doing something crazy is to think about it. Or if you really wanna analyze it, your conclusions need to be relegated from approval/disapproval on over to o_O. Prince is like legit crazy. What's that story of him calling Kevin Smith because he required a camel at 3 in the morning? Dude's a crazypants.

― oing oing oing (╓abies), Saturday, 12 September 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

re: prince
:) point taken! *phew* i feel better already.

now, what to do with those people blogging about michael jackson, saying twisted stuff like "i pray your children turn out to be just like you" ...scary

― beavis, Monday, 14 September 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

An Horse?

― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 4 December 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago)

Prince is such a turd. /.../
― beavis

Ay, you puzzled me there, beavis. The pronunciation of Prince is "such a turd"? Where's the accent then?

― t**t, Friday, 4 December 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

eight months pass...

SUNN O)))
― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, October 7, 2004 2:34 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I always think of it as "Sunnnn WHOAAAA!!!!"

― Mark G, Friday, 13 August 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago)

Sun O Bracket Bracket Bracket

― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 13 August 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago)

XIU XIU anyone? I used to pronounce it as 'kseeu kseeu' but I've heard some people pronounce it as 'shoe shoe'.

― Moka, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

xpost I think the band once explained it's only pronounced 'sun'.

― Moka, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i always thought it was "shu shu."

i don't get that band.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 13 August 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

a guy once told me King's X is pronounced "King's Cross". Is this true?

if I'm American do I have to say "CLEE-en-tell"?

― CharlieS, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

always guessed it was pronounced "zhu zhu"

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

“That’s how we pronounce it,” says Xiu Xiu frontman and songwriter Jamie Stewart approvingly after I fluke out and correctly identify the band as “shoe shoe.” “But we’ve been told by, like, nine million people that we pronounce it wrong, and those nine million people have told us nine million different ways to say it.”

― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

Stewart points out that he’s never found the inevitable mangling of his band’s name all that troubling, although he admits that one variation is a bit contentious. “I think the only pronunciation that we actually object to is ‘zoo zoo,’” he says, “just because it sounds like a bad hair-metal band.”

― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

the X sound in mandarin is more of a "sy-" then "sh-" sound imo.

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

shiu-shiu wd be closest I'd think?

― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 13 August 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

the X sound in mandarin is more of a "sy-" then "sh-" sound imo.

I feel like there's still a hint of a "sh" after the initial "sy."

― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

But that's immaterial, since it's Jamie Stewart's band, and he sez "shu shu."

― jaymc, Friday, 13 August 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

except he named them after the Joan Chen film in which they pronounce the lead girl's name correctly lol.

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

sh sound in mandarin = "sh-"
x sound in mandarin = "sy-"

imo

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

here are several ways of interpreting 秀秀 in roman letters approximating the mandarin pronunciation using all the most common romanization methods:

xiu xiu
hsiu hsiu
shiou shiou
shyou shyou
sheou sheou
shiow shiow

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 13 August 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

I was in china for a week before I learned how pronounce thank you correctly (xie xie). the xi sound is tough because it doesn't occur in english and the regional dialects will compound yr confusion. I kept mispronouncing it "water" so at restaurants I ended up getting another glass of water every time a dish was brought to the table.

― (e_3) (Edward III), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

also, ewa demarczyk

avuh de mar check?

my polish ancestors weep

― (e_3) (Edward III), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Neither exotic nor a band but is it Phill NIH-block or Phill NYE-block? ("is" sound or "eye" sound?)

― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:09 (five years ago)

https://youtu.be/jL4Jt4Tc_i4?t=9

― visiting, Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:15 (five years ago)

Remember kids, Dokken rhymes with Rockin'!

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:16 (five years ago)

xp That settles that! Thanks. That's what I've always said but today for whatever reason it occurred to me that it might be 'nye-block'

― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:17 (five years ago)

four years pass...

grachan moncur .... GRA-chin (german style) MON-kurr ?

I have been saying "gra-SHON mon-CURR," but I assume this is incorrect, because when I pronounce it this way it sounds like I am referring to a French delicacy. I need to know though, because I've been listening to him a lot

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 15 July 2024 12:41 (eleven months ago)

The latter sounds more likely than the latter tbh. Moncur is a Scottish name and is definitely pronounced mon-CURR.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 15 July 2024 12:50 (eleven months ago)

... Latter more likely than the former, that is.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 15 July 2024 12:52 (eleven months ago)

He pronounced his first name “Grayshin”

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 July 2024 12:54 (eleven months ago)

thank you!

This guy does not get his due, possibly because of his choice of instrument. But he wrote some terrific music! Been listening a lot to Jackie McLean's Destination...Out, on which Moncur composed all but one of the tunes, and it's great

― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 15 July 2024 13:00 (eleven months ago)

apparently he had a personality that kind of got in the way of success/wider recognition

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 July 2024 17:06 (eleven months ago)

It's KRONG-bin, right? I think you know who I am asking about.

― henry s, Monday, 15 July 2024 17:23 (eleven months ago)

just had two audiobooks back to back have Bert as "Yanch" - but apparently it really was a hard J?

― encino morricone (majorairbro), Sunday, 21 July 2024 09:04 (eleven months ago)

the only time i saw him play he was introduced at the start with a soft j & thanked after his performance with a hard j (think it is the latter, but i always forget when i actually say it!)

― no lime tangier, Sunday, 21 July 2024 11:01 (eleven months ago)

I think Bert's attitude was pronounce it how you like.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2024 11:09 (eleven months ago)

There are two people with the surname Jansch on Wikipedia... Bert and his ex-wife Heather.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2024 11:11 (eleven months ago)

four months pass...

Maybe I should've guessed this because of Alvvays, but I just learned today that Hovvdy is pronounced "howdy." I've been saying "huv-dee." But maybe I'm also influenced by the fact that I once knew someone with the surname Hovde, and that's how they pronounced their name.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 December 2024 23:49 (six months ago)

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