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How do you pronounce Terre Thaemlitz?

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"

Also for some unanswered ones:

Hototogisu

Ho-TO-to-gee-soo

("gee" pronounced with a hard g, like "garden")

Axolotl

AX-uh-lot-uhl

Monotonix:

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

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

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

Someone told me it was pronounced Hicks, not with a j sound. Anyone?

lol.

bon iver?

the YICKS

just kidding. i don't know. but yicks would be funny.

he says "jicks" in 1% of 1

it's 100% definitley "Jicks"

Paavoharju?

Any old more CONE A

it's MONO-tonix.

And

Bone ee-VAIR

it's mono-TONIX.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Freurlogo.gif

Yes, we know how the band pronounces it. But how SHOULD it be pronounced?

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.

Sunn o)) anyone?

◯△▢ = Maru Sankaku Shikaku?

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6majik9 is just 'magic'

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.

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".

How about 22 Pistepirrko?

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?

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

Terre Thaemlitz is pronounced like "Terry Temlits"

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

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."

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?

T'Pau?

teh pow?

teh POW!!!

Whenever I see Sunn o)), my brain says "suNNNN-ohhh"

I'm aware that one is supposed to say "Sunn". But I often call them "Sunn - Oh" when speaking about them.

i call them 'sun' and then cackle inwardly at my own amazingness

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.

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

An Horse?

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?

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!!!!"

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XIU XIU anyone? I used to pronounce it as 'kseeu kseeu' but I've heard some people pronounce it as 'shoe shoe'.

xpost I think the band once explained it's only pronounced 'sun'.

yeah i always thought it was "shu shu."

i don't get that band.

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"?

always guessed it was pronounced "zhu zhu"

“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.”