Here's where you can ask how to pronounce exotic band names

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (554 of them)

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)

he says "jicks" in 1% of 1

― mizzell, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

it's 100% definitley "Jicks"

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 02:29 (seventeen years ago)

Paavoharju?

― smothered under a rug (friendly ghost), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

Any old more CONE A

― RESPECTABLE SIR (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

it's MONO-tonix.

― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:21 (seventeen years ago)

And

Bone ee-VAIR

― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:23 (seventeen years ago)

it's mono-TONIX.

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:28 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

Sunn o)) anyone?

― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:05 (seventeen years ago)

◯△▢ = Maru Sankaku Shikaku?

― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:09 (seventeen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 249 for "pronounced simply sun"

― wilter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

6majik9 is just 'magic'

― wilter, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 06:14 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

How about 22 Pistepirrko?

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:54 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago)

http://991.com/newGallery/Prince-Love-Symbol---Dis-16035.jpg

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:37 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

Terre Thaemlitz is pronounced like "Terry Temlits"

― beavis, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:31 (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, 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago)

T'Pau?

― Pullman/Paxton Revolving Bills (Pillbox), Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:10 (sixteen years ago)

Skipping 454 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.