Music mispronunciations you didn't realise

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:24 pm

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

i always pronounced !!! as "that fucking band that needs to get a real fucking name".

I just stay silent and raise my eyebrows in surprise 3 times in a row.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:33 pm

I pronounce OK Go as "those guys my wife can stand, so shut off the Scott Walker already."

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 6:38 pm

Jens Lekman is actually pronounced yens

like Japanese currency.

Danny Don't Rapp · **Joined:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:20 pm **Posts:** 1530

Finch Platte Wrote:

When I was a lot younger, I had been reading a lot about Bob Dylan, and had also heard he had a book out. I went into teh bookstore and asked where the books on Bob Dye-lan would be. :oops:

Didn't you have any friends growing up? Wasn't at least one of them named Dylan?

toots · **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 7:09 pm

there was a girl who worked at the local library here who was reshelving a dylan CD, and said it like "where does this...bob DYE-lan go?"

she wasn't really all that young either

fuse · **Posted:** Sun May 04, 2008 9:55 pm

On the Sound Opinions podcast, they interviewed Ray Davies and explained that he prefers his name to be pronounced "DAVIS."

I did not know that.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Danny Don't Rapp Wrote:

Finch Platte Wrote:

When I was a lot younger, I had been reading a lot about Bob Dylan, and had also heard he had a book out. I went into teh bookstore and asked where the books on Bob Dye-lan would be. :oops:

Didn't you have any friends growing up? Wasn't at least one of them named Dylan?

aww, danny is young.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:09 pm

Since she released an album with M. Ward, I can justify posting in this thread:

Zooey Deschanel is pronounced Zoe.

I always found it odd that her parents named her after the Salinger character Zooey Glass when Zooey in that instance was short for Zachary, but this might be even odder.

Promethium · **Posted:** Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:23 pm

You know there are people named Dylan that pronounce it "Dye-lawn". I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't actually met one here in Lincoln. Plus, I believe one of those douchey rappers on the first season of Making the band with Puffy pronounced his name that way.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:22 pm

How do you pronounce Bettie Serveert?

Zombeels · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:54 pm

alongwaltz Wrote:

How do you pronounce Bettie Serveert?

Fortunately I have never had to say her name out loud.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:58 pm

Einstürzende Neubauten

help?

Mr. Mister · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:04 pm

Dungen.
rightfully pronounced Dune- yin, as in dune like the crazy book yin rhyming with "in".
also, can someone help me with the right pronunciations for the following:
autechre
amon tobin

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:16 pm

Promethium Wrote:

You know there are people named Dylan that pronounce it "Dye-lawn". I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't actually met one here in Lincoln. Plus, I believe one of those douchey rappers on the first season of Making the band with Puffy pronounced his name that way.

"The 5 greatest rappers of all time are Dye-lawn......................Dye-lawn, Dye-lawn, Dye-lawn, and Dye-lawn."

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Mr. Mister Wrote:

can someone help me with the right pronunciations for the following:
autechre
amon tobin

awe te ker
ah min toe bin

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

PopTodd Wrote:

Einstürzende Neubauten

help?

I always wondered that but never bothered to google it, until now.

Results yield: ein-shturr-tzen-deh noy-bow-ten (?)

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:04 pm

Kit Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

Einstürzende Neubauten

help?

I always wondered that but never bothered to google it, until now.

Results yield: ein-shturr-tzen-deh noy-bow-ten (?)

Yup.

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:09 pm

Back when I was in Jr. Hi (yes, a lonnng time ago), I read about this guy named Bob Dylan. He had a book out & I went to the local bookstore to check it out. I couldn't find it, so I asked the clerk if they had any books by Bob Dye-lan. :oops:

Ha! Guess I'd better read the whole thread next time.

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:19 pm

Quote:

The name "Menomena" was chosen for "the way it rolls off the tongue, sexually, or something" and has no specific meaning, although it is often assumed to refer to the Piero Umiliani song "Mah Nà Mah Nà", a staple of The Muppet Show. In an audio clip from SpotDJ, Knopf sarcastically stated that the band name was a portmanteau of the words "Men" and "Phenomena".

this makes me like them less because i hate that song.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Rick Derris Wrote:

Promethium Wrote:

You know there are people named Dylan that pronounce it "Dye-lawn". I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't actually met one here in Lincoln. Plus, I believe one of those douchey rappers on the first season of Making the band with Puffy pronounced his name that way.

"The 5 greatest rappers of all time are Dye-lawn......................Dye-lawn, Dye-lawn, Dye-lawn, and Dye-lawn."

lol

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:27 pm

alongwaltz Wrote:

Jens Lekman is actually pronounced yens

like Japanese currency.

sure about that? because he says Jens in black cab.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:32 pm

Kingfish Wrote:

alongwaltz Wrote:

Jens Lekman is actually pronounced yens

like Japanese currency.

sure about that? because he says Jens in black cab.

Quote:

Something Lekman has frequently encountered -- even with certain interviewers who will remain unnamed -- is the mispronunciation of his name. But he takes it in stride. "I like how Americans pronounce my name," Lekman says. "I should spell it with a 'Y' so it's 'Yens', not Jens. I don't care."

http://www.splendidezine.com/features/lekman/

That's odd then.

toots · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:44 pm

i say Cigar Ross

fuck it...close enough

berliner · **Joined:** Fri May 09, 2008 7:00 pm **Posts:** 1516

Kit Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

Einstürzende Neubauten

help?

I always wondered that but never bothered to google it, until now.

Results yield: ein-shturr-tzen-deh noy-bow-ten (?)

it nails it almost but there is this one sound you just don't have. instead of u it's ü.
you have the sound of ö, would be fur or service, but the other is more french. as you know how the french pronounces plus ...

m.

toots · **Posted:** Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:40 am

pronounced kind of like a dry heave, right?

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