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

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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 years ago) link

hayguhl or hi gal obv

deh-rih-dah quickly

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

to rococo rot?
arvo part?

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

Cadillaca?

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

toe
roe
coe
coe

rote

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

air
vo

peart

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

AR Kane

is it EYYY ARRRR Kanr
or just ARRRRR Kane

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

one month passes...

Pere Ubu anybody?

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

peer ooboo is how i've always pronounced it.

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kelis

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

"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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Not where I live, buddy.

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

BETCH-er

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

Interesting.

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

Sha-ZAY

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

naw, pere ubu is named after the french play.

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

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 years ago) link

Eyes-lee

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

yeah? thanks

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

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 years ago) link

???

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

"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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

Ask the Scottish

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

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 years ago) link

Purl Jamm
Creeeeeeeed
nik ul back

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

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 years ago) link

Was Not Was

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

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

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