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

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

Stat Ohn

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

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

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

two weeks pass...

Drexciya

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

Cloth eared clod!

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

With a big yawn at the end.

Mean.

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

hegel? derrida?

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

donnacha costello is pronounced done-ahka...

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

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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-four years ago)

Sutekh?

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

hegel = hi gal! (pay attention ethan)

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

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*is* it loo-o-mo?

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

tom ze = tome zhaya

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

Yoy Division = tribute band available for barmitzvahs

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

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

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

50 Cent

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

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

Aceyalone?

Avey Tare?

Lene Lovich?

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

a c alone

im pretty sure

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

So. Akufen?

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

Avril Lavigne?

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

one month passes...

No, seriously

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

Haujobb?

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

Oh, and Bauhaus

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

LOO MOW???

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

AH-vrul Luh-VEEN

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

yay jbr (pronounced jibber)

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

So, anyways, Jesus Lizard or the Jesus Lizard?

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

How about Xiu Xiu?

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

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