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

I used to call them Spudfucker but I'm sure that's not how it was meant to be pronounced

Fennesz
Jan Jelinek
Luomo
Hakan Libdo

I had this problem with the word before the band was even around, but I never bothered to check. Actually, don't correct me, I like saying both, just like I like saying Georgy Borges just cos I'll never be able to pronounce it properly...

I can't say Baccaruda.

And has anybody heard their new album yet?

(and nearly tying up two parts of this thread!)

I always pronounce Labradford 'La Bradford' like the band "La Dusseldorf" except moved to just north of Leeds.

ps ending Autechre with Rah and not Er is just plain silly.

Doesn't everyone say Kraft-Verk? Although I tend to pronounce every W as V and every J as Y (ie Yan St Verner). Well, a lot of them, anyway, I wouldn't say Veen or Yoy Division. That would just be silly.

One thing I would like to know- Otomo Yoshihide. Is it YOSH-I- HEEDE? YO-SHI-HIDER? This is probably really easy, but I just want to check...

Emily, you know that's not what I meant re: Paris. But do you pronounce it the proper French way?

I don't know about the origins, but saying Krahft just makes me think of the Queen eating plastic cheese.

I guess what it also partly is, is that is your surname were Jones, then (aside from making rubbish music) you'd probably be a bit pissed off if some guy from Swedinia insisted you were Yones. So if there's some German or Swede or summat, I try to pronounce their name properly. Out of courtesy. And it became a habit.

Nobody complains about people saying Neu as Noy, do they? Why? Because it's the right way of saying it.

I think it's cute when Irish people come here and pronounce the 'th' in Streatham and Thames. But I guess that's a different issue. OK then, I like French people calling me Nicola.

I've never heard that story, Ethan. Moog rhymes with "rogue", right?

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.”

Stewart points out that he’s never found the inevitable mangling of his band’s name all that troubling, although he admits that one variation is a bit contentious. “I think the only pronunciation that we actually object to is ‘zoo zoo,’” he says, “just because it sounds like a bad hair-metal band.”

the X sound in mandarin is more of a "sy-" then "sh-" sound imo.

shiu-shiu wd be closest I'd think?

the X sound in mandarin is more of a "sy-" then "sh-" sound imo.

I feel like there's still a hint of a "sh" after the initial "sy."

But that's immaterial, since it's Jamie Stewart's band, and he sez "shu shu."

except he named them after the Joan Chen film in which they pronounce the lead girl's name correctly lol.

sh sound in mandarin = "sh-"
x sound in mandarin = "sy-"

imo

here are several ways of interpreting 秀秀 in roman letters approximating the mandarin pronunciation using all the most common romanization methods:

xiu xiu
hsiu hsiu
shiou shiou
shyou shyou
sheou sheou
shiow shiow

I was in china for a week before I learned how pronounce thank you correctly (xie xie). the xi sound is tough because it doesn't occur in english and the regional dialects will compound yr confusion. I kept mispronouncing it "water" so at restaurants I ended up getting another glass of water every time a dish was brought to the table.

also, ewa demarczyk

avuh de mar check?

my polish ancestors weep

Neither exotic nor a band but is it Phill NIH-block or Phill NYE-block? ("is" sound or "eye" sound?)

https://youtu.be/jL4Jt4Tc_i4?t=9

Remember kids, Dokken rhymes with Rockin'!

xp That settles that! Thanks. That's what I've always said but today for whatever reason it occurred to me that it might be 'nye-block'