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In German, "Neue" would be pronounced "NOI-uh", not "NOO". So, no.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How do you pronounce The Strokes?
Sort of like Linda Blair in the Exorcist

― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan, your German pronounciation is OTM. Where did you learn those pronounciation syllables from? They include stress (capitals), hyphenation (-) and sound, don't they?

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Also, doesn't Einsturzende Neubauten mean "the sound of new buildings falling apart?"

― nickn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan, some of the international phonetic alphabet can be found by clicking insert then symbol on Word. I presume that's what you meant by IPA.

― Daniel, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nickn: yes. einstürzende neubauten rule!

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I say "Kraftverk" and I pronounce Francoise Hardy the French way, but I don't try to sound Japanese when talking about Cornelius.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

but 'neu' means 'new' in english, right? I've seen it on candy bars. NEU!

― A Nairn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How 'bout Sukpatch? Is it "Sook" or "Suck"?

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Technically, Einsturzende Neubauten means "collapsing new buildings". Which is pretty much the same difference anyhow.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've heard "suck patch" from just about everybody, including bands that have played shows with those guys.

― Mark, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Gus Gus" or "Goos Goos"? (Not that I'm talking about them all the time or anything.)

― felicity, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Where did you learn those pronounciation syllables from?

They're the closest approximation I can come up with to a phonetic spelling you might find in a dictionary. (BTW, Daniel, thanks for the tip.)

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Gerogerigegege, anyone?

― Nate-o, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Googoogoogle to the rescue:
"Gerogerigegege is a Japanese onomatopoeia for vomiting and shitting diaharrea at the same time. 'gerogeri' refers to a rumbling/spewing colon and 'gegege' refers to the sound you make when you vomit..." (so you, um, figure it out)

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am betting Gerogerigegege is Noise, not J-Pop. Or maybe J-Poop? hah!

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've always pronunced it with hard g's.

― Kris, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gerogerigegege
Geh-roh-geh-ree-geh-geh-geh. The r should actually be sort of between a rolling r (french r) and an l.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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

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

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-two years ago) link

Candi Staton.

Is it "state-on", or more like Stanton Warriors without the "n"?

― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stat Ohn

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

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

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

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-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Drexciya

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

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-two years ago) link

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-two years ago) link

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-two years ago) link

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-two years ago) link

how do you say 'gorky's zygotic mynci'?
With a big yawn at the end.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cloth eared clod!

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

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-two years ago) link

With a big yawn at the end.

Mean.

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

hegel? derrida?

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

donnacha costello is pronounced done-ahka...

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

one month passes...

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-two years ago) link

Sutekh?

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

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-two years ago) link

hegel = hi gal! (pay attention ethan)

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

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-two years ago) link

eight months pass...

*is* it loo-o-mo?

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

tom ze = tome zhaya

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

Yoy Division = tribute band available for barmitzvahs

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

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

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

"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-one years ago) link

50 Cent

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

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

Aceyalone?

Avey Tare?

Lene Lovich?

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

a c alone

im pretty sure

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

So. Akufen?

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

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-one years ago) link

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