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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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

sunno)))?

sun-oh?

just sun?

sunnoo?

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

just "sun".

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

gree gree

― henry s, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

they pronounce it "gree gree". total bros too.

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:18 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

I think playing the "Welsh card" is... is... CHEATING.

LLWYBR LLAETHOG anyone?

― factcheckr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

Hadouken!

― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

fantomas please!

― t0dd swiss, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know how to pronounce the band Noxagt?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

hadouken = ha doe oo ken
fantomas = fawn toe moz
noxagt = nox act

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:54 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

Por favor:

Merzbow
Hototogisu
Axolotl
The Anomoanon

― skr0nk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Merz-bow - rhymes with cow. (Play on German "Merzbau", you see.)

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

by the way: it is BUG-dahn RAH-chin-ski.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:44 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

Dungen = "DUNG-en" with a short U as in 'tsunami'

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

Nee-ko (That's how they said it on TV)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

How do you pronounce Terre Thaemlitz?

― mmmm, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 21:20 (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".

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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Monotonix:

MONO-tonix or Muh-NOT-oh-nix?

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:09 (seventeen years ago)

Well, since the thread's here, how do I pronounce Terveet Kädet?

― Vision, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:13 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

lol.

bon iver?

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:34 (seventeen years ago)

the YICKS

― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:40 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

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