Einstürzende Neubauten (??? noy-baw-ten??) hell if i know.
Who's an artist that you're a fan of but whose name you're not sure how to pronounce?
I remember when Sufjan Stevens was starting out I heard several pronunciations of his name and almost every article about him tried to clarify it, but it wasn't until I saw him and he said "Hi, I'm Sufjan Stevens" that I was sure how to pronounce it.
Bon Iver, Rae Sremmurd, Sigur Ros, and the Notwist have been other artists over the years who I haven't been sure how to pronounce.
Who are some artists whose names you haven't been sure how to pronounce?
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I love the ways you'd hear "Bowie" pronounced, back in the Seventies. . My girlfriend, who turned me on to the guy, pretentiously pronounced the first syllable in Bowie like the bow of a ship. My buddies who hated him because he dressed as far as possible from the way their beloved San Francisco hippie bands did, pronounced his name "boooowie," the way Old West knife guy Jim Bowie's name was pronounced in the TV series' theme song. |
Yes, I like Rautavaara too, but I would not dare try to utter his first name. The same goes for the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. Even the names of his works can be a bit daunting (not to mention the length and complexity of most of his works. I particularly like his piano piece "Opus Clavicembalisticum" but I can never listen to it completely in one sitting (over four hours long). |
@deadhead1000 - pronunciation guide: "Yor-ma" "Cow-Ke-nun" 😁 |
I own all Sorabji pieces... Try the 100 transcendental studies...Buy Ullen version... Amazingly out if this world... Madness allied to genius... My deepest respect to you...
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I was once told by a guy who supposedly knew Hungarian that "Nyiregyhazi" was pronounced near-uh-JAHZ-ee. BTW, I prize myself for being able to properly pronounce most of the world's languages I come across. But I was pretty much a failure when I traveled to Hungary. And yeah, I have Ervin's double LP of Liszt-ian meanderings. |
@dekay Nice, you win. The artist formerly known as Prince, The Purple One, The Artist. Or none of the above.
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@lowrider57 @dekay - The artist, formerly known as, the artist formerly known as Prince... |
I met Prince 2-3 times in the mid 90’s on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood outside Book Soup (super book store - with an adjacent great magazine kiosk). Didn’t recognize him @ first as he had short/natural hair, but figured it out fairly quickly once we started talking about where we were both raised (Des Moines for me) plus other stuff. I was waiting for my wife shopping @ BS and Tower Records was across the street. Think we first talked about how I ended up attending more MN concerts once Interstate I35 was completed (easy/timely access to MN/SP when I was in high school) and we also talked about those concerts in detail. When we went over to Tower he spent most of his time in the classical section. When I complained about parking he said that he walked, so assume that he had a place close by. We always went there on Saturday or Sunday afternoon (pretty much weekly) as my wife worked nights M-F and I had Saturday or Sunday afternoons off on a regular basis. Met a lot of celeb’s in the 45 years I’ve lived here, but he was probably the most normal/relaxing one I’ve spent brief time with.
DeKay
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