Are you pronouncing these band and artists names correctly? ( Vinyl Community )
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I spent some years before the internet came along mis-pronouncing a couple of band names. In this video, I give examples of some commonly mis-pronounced band and artist names, a couple songs titles, and even a record label. I'm sure you already knew the correct way to say them, but maybe it will amusing to you at least.
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When I was a child, I thought Sean was pronounced "seen" because I only knew a kid who spelled their name Shawn.
6:57 Never ceases to amaze me when I hear people pronouce it "dy-er straits." Thank you, Robert.
Love that gag. "This one goes straight in the trash".
american accent
I'd always mispronounced them "shite"! 😅
When I was a kid in the early 80s I went to see Adam Ant and saw a huge banner for the opening band. I asked my buddy who the hell "inks" was. INXS were absolutely amazing.
Cheers, Tom
You’re Slarday joke made me laugh!!! I mispronounced Neil Peart’s name in a video and was corrected. This led me to a funny skit video about that. Oops, you covered him too.
It's got a blade shaped like a bananner. Some folks call it a kaiser blade, I reckon I call it a sling blade, Mmph.
Sladé. Funny as in Funny-haha.
Lol love this channel. I always learn alot.
It's every bit as fun, as it is educational.
So Thank you very much..about it.
I gave him two good whacks.
I love Engima! I have all their albums but I didn't know I was saying Sadeness wrong. Learn something new everyday. Thanks Robert!
Enjoyed the hell out of this! I've got two more for you: Sufjan Stevens (German "j" imo, so SOOFyan) and the Zeppelin song "D'yer Mak'er" (like Jamaica, but with an "r" conjured out of thin air as the Brits and US northeasterners do, so jerMAKEer). The latter is from an old British joke, which, for any who haven't heard it, goes like this:
Person 1: My wife went on holiday
Person 2: D'yer mak'er (i.e. Jamaica)?
Person 1: No, she went of her own accord
Thanks!! I was going to do "D'yer Mak'er" up to right before the video, but I forgot. I've never heard that clean joke before. The one I always heard was similar, but more sexual with the outdated sex slang term "make". Same idea though.
My favorite is the two brothers who pronounce their last name different.
Carmine Appice (A peace)
Vinnie Appice (Aa pih see)
Forgot about those. Excellent examples.
Vinny’s pronunciation is correct. When Carmine was working with Rod Stewart, they decided to use the pronunciation that he uses .In Italian it would be pronounced ah-peach-a .
Let's not be FRITHIN around 🤣🤣
Sorry couldn't resist!! That's shit had me cracking up tho man ( fat guy fighting to breathe status 😄)
I'm surprised by some of these! Great video!
Samhain? "Sow-unn". Mwah. Love your videos.
Frenchman here. Your video helps a lot !! Thank you. I know i may mispronounce quite a bit as i just started a new YT channel using the English which is a challenge (English is my third language) thanks a lot !
I have a hard time remembering to pronounce Ray and Dave Davies’ surname correctly which is Davis.
Ray pronounces it Davis, but Dave pronounces it "Dave-ees." The correct way is Davis, but I guess Dave got sick of correcting people. Or it's part of their sibling rivalry, haha.
I always had a strong suspician that they were called "Shit". Thanks for confirming that for me. Ha ha ha. You always make me laugh Robert. Bless you x
Hello Robert. I truly enjoy your channel. I love your humor. I also like that you do not take things so seriously. I am a huge Elvis, Sam Cooke, Roy Orbison, Rickey Nelson, and the underrated Charlie Rich fan. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!! I appreciate it.
Enjoyed the video, very educational. One more artist to add to the list. Laura Nyro.(pronounced NEAR-oh).
You're right. I forgot about that one.
Love Laura Nyro. Good pick.
My Name Is..My Name Is... Slim Sade! 😉
One pronunciation of Ocasek I actually had never heard before I heard on a youtube channel. Dude said [Oka-sick], with no stress on any syllable, just [Oka-sick], like saying 1,2,3.
I've gotten to the point where I pronounce these things however the person I am talking to does. For example I was discussing Black Sabbath with my boss, who is a huge fan of rock and metal, and he pronounced Tony Iommi as "ē-ah'-mē". And God I HATE talking about Rush with anyone because you never know how they are going to pronounce Peart! If I say his name first I say "Pert, or Pērt" just to cover myself. ABBA and the members of ABBA are a nightmare for obvious reasons. Vinnie and Carmine Appice, I simply give up on them.
I know exactly what you mean.
Note for discogs folks:
the city of the *Columbia Records Record Pressing Plant, Terre Haute* is pronounced *TARE-uh HOAT* and folks who live in that town refer to themselves as "Hautians" (rhymes with "potions.") It's pretty fun to call your discs that were pressed there Hautians as well!
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Omg, thanks for finally being the one to address the Skynyrd thing! Drives me nuts to no end! It's right up there with people misspelling Zeppelin as "zepplin".
I read a story regarding Slade and Sade getting confused in Japan in the 80s. A bunch of Slade fans showed up at the airport thinking Slade was flying in, only to see Sade getting off. No joke, I swear I read it in a music magazine at like a Barnes & Noble. HUGE, Slade fan, by the way. I cringe at the Quiet Riot versions, haha.
This is an excellent topic. I was getting a few of these wrong. I actually knew how to pronounce Neu! of all things.
Haha, Dire Straits joke. We need to know how to pronounce Aja and Pet Sounds, too!
I thought you'd hit on Marty Balin, who has a short a in the first syllable of his last name. I mistakenly pronounced it with a long a until recently. Jorma's name gets garbled a lot as well. And since you mentioned Husker Du, I think there's a bit of a Bob Mould (moold vs mold) thing. I guess that applies to Colin Moulding of XTC as well. And the synth guy behind half of the Keith Emerson monophonic sound was Bob Moog, whose last name just has a long o sound, even if it sounds pretentious to say it that way. Good vid!
Thanks! I should have done Marty Balin, I hear different ways.
Hilarious.
I’ve always pronounced it “shaw-day” for Fithen. Great vid. A few today I learned moments.
If _Fithen_ were a town in the UK, you can bet it would be pronounced _fit-un!_
omg is that really how Bjork's name is pronounced? Mind blown! 🤯 I didn't know that about Sadenss, i just always thought it was sadness. 🎶🎵 great video robert friffthchen. 😆🤣
that is not really like Björk is pronounced, Try is with rolling the R real hard and shorten the vowel Ö. th-cam.com/video/Zn6AVLDTNMA/w-d-xo.html
This was a fun one ✌🏻👍🏻
I'm glad you did Neil Peart! It's amazing how many people get that wrong.
I personally have had a hard time remembering and saying Reprise the correct way :-) I kept hearing it said the correct way thinking those people didn't know what they were saying haha. It didn't take too long to learn I was the one that didn't know what I was saying...
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
I still like to pronounce it wrong. Have done it for 47 years, so why correct it now?
B.l.O.N.D.O.
How many times have you heard Chrysalis with a T in there somewhere?
Charles Frederick Turner
the bass player.
Sir, I did the same thing
but I know how to pronounce it
Reprise records.
Fistin? 😂 great video as always !
Loved this one!
Sladeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣just spat my lunch all over the keyboard
There was a girl in my high school class who had the deceptively simple yet quirky last name "Rowland." Pronounced Rau-land, not Row-land. She forcefully made this point at the start of freshman year. Thereafter, whenever she was referred to, a student would would say her first name in a normal voice and then add her last name in a very loud and protracted manner. It was funny at the time, but then we were very immature.
Sade said in a video that they pronounce her name with an R in England, but she doesn't pronounce it that way. In the states we put an accent on the E, while it sounds like she puts it on the A, but there is no R sound. I've always said it with an R and will continue to say it that way. I have wanted to do this for a while with names of designers and architects (many being foreign languages), because they are always being butchered, even by me. Great topic and well done Frithen.
I was going by what it said on the CD spine. I found out it's on the U.S. record label too.
@@RobertFithen I used to point out the same thing, but not too long ago saw her interview where she explains the different pronunciations. Very interesting topic.
8:50 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 excellent shout out!
Really enjoyed your video again Mr. Filthen... And you always look clean as a whistle. Even when you were eating hot sauce. I have trouble pronouncing very short words for some reason. Like R.E.M. Do you pronounce that like Rem or each letter after another like R..E..M?. Also the audio equipment company NAD. Is it pronounced Nad or N...A...D? I've heard that pronounced different ways. Also the cassette company TDK. How exactly do you pronounce that? A real tongue twister, that one... So much so, that I just ask for Maxell. Or is it Maxwell? There's this lawyer in my area named Figin. He has some kind of fear or fixation that he's losing out on people calling him, because they are putting an extra g in the middle of his name. It's Figin not Figgin, he says. In his TV ads, his compulsion or fear comes to full tilt, as he spells out his name with his fingers outstretched, and with each letter of his name that he vocalizes, he simutaneously tucks in one finger of his hand. After he says the last letter of his name, there are no more outstretched fingers left and his hand is a fist. "Remember" he says "Spell out my name with your fingers. If you have a fist and still have one letter left, you used one too many G's." His TV ads telling people that cost a lot of money; probably a fortune. I know a guy whose name is Nosmo King. It isn't clear if people are mispronouncing his name or not. It also is not clear why his parents had to think up a name for him so quick. They got his name from a sign; No Smoking. Parents can be cruel; maybe that's what happened? It's unbelievable how cruel they can be. Enjoyed the vid as always Sincerely, Larry M. Curly
You pronounce the letters of the first two you mentioned. That name at the end sounds like that old joke of someone naming their baby LeMonjello because, at the hospital, they had served the mother lemon Jello.
You're funny. I love your videos.
Thanks!!
The 1st time I heard of the band Samhain was when I approached someone wearing a T -shirt. I assumed he was Wiccan and it was referring to the holiday pronounced Sow-en. To this day I'm not sure what the correct pronunciation of the band is. Another common misspronounciation is the Davies brothers. Mazzy confirmed its pronounced "Davis". I had a friend in the 80's who pronounced The The with an E sound instead of the schwa sound. I've always pronounced the Lou Reed album "Transformer" with the accent on the 2nd syllable, but I've heard people accent the 1st, which could be correct because Lou was in his glam period.
I think that's the way they pronounced it in the theme song for the Transformers cartoon. lol
I think the Transformer thing is regional - like the way midwesterners and southerners pronounce insurance like it's the opposite of outsurance.
No need to get snooty Mr. Frithfien... lol
Now now, I clearly said I was guilty of mispronouncing names myself.
Hyperbolic by Isaac Hayes
from the album Hot Buttered
Soul.
Gee, the Dire Straits fans are sharpening their knives as I type this.......🤣Bjork's name sounds like throwing up, which is exactly what I feel like doing when hearing her🤮Diamanda Galas? Cheers from Australia (not Orstraya....) John D
Now Bjork fans are sharpening knives. lol
Great video Robert. Another to add to your fine list, BTO...Bachman Turner Overdrive. No not Turner. No not Overdrive. But Mr.Bachman. Randy Back-man is the proper pronunciation, hence it is Backman Turner Overdrive (though I always say BTO anyhow). I was listening to him on a local radio station many years ago, (Cjay92 in Calgary, Ab. Canada) and he jokingly said he and his brother just got tired of correcting Radio Dj's media folks et al, and went with the commonly mispronouncing. I get it. Likely due to the classical Sebastian Bach, but in fact their family pronounced their name "Back-man". I feel your pain as well. People are always call me Mike, Mick, Mork etc. etc. When in fact it is MARK! Lol! Cheers man! \m/ \m/
I did not know that. Thanks!
@@RobertFithen As I was unaware of the proper pronunciation of Dire Straits. 😉🤘🎶🤘
@@twangersturntable it´s very close the correct pronounciation, and it´s an english expression to be in dire straits
What an awesome topic! 😄👍 I get the same thing a lot with people mispronouncing and misspelling also *my* name, so I often end up telling them, "Just call me 'V'! 🙄" 😄 I've been living in NZ for the past 20 years but had grown up in Germany, so when my Big Bro had brought home Van Halen's debut album one day in '79, we all pronounced them the German way (and just like the Dutch), "Fun Hahlen" - It sounded sooo weird to my ears several years later when their 'Jump!' was a Hit and the radio DJ's pronounced them the American way 😳😅 And being originally German, band names like Queensrÿche and Mötley Crüe had thrown me off back in the day because of the Umlaute 😆 I've also heard 'Depeche Mode' and their lead singer's surname 'Gahan' mispronounced a lot over the years 😄 Bring on Pt.II ! 😁👍 *Edit:* And it was only a few hours ago that I'd heard someone pronounce Midge Ure's surname wrong! 😄
The umlaut usage in metal bands was getting ridiculous to the point where they were putting them over letters that didn't even really ever have umlauts. Not to mention the band names were never pronounced in the umlaut manner. For example, wouldn't it technically be "Mertly" instead of "Motley" with the umlaut over the "o".
@@RobertFithen - Yes, totally! 😄 And try to say 'crew' with your lower lip protruding like Shrek's, and it should sound a lot like 'Crüe' with actual Umlaut pronunciation 😄 (The same goes for Hüsker Dü 😁)
In the movie Seven, Brad Pitt’s character reads the name ‘Marquis de Sade’ as “Marquis de Shar-day.” I thought that was funny. Like his only frame of reference for it was a current-for-the-time popular singer. At least he pronounced it correctly.
That was pretty funny
Meet The Beagles!
England's Number 1 Pup Combo!
I noticed in the "Get Back" documentary that Lennon kept referring to The Beatles with different names like The Bottles, etc.
Really, that's funny!
Back in 1979 i got ramones leave home.I was calling them the raymones till my older cousin corrected me 😆
Loving the Dire Straits name. They actually have Chris Rea singing for them now, so they've changed the name to Dire Rea...One of my most hated bands ever btw.
LOL
@@RobertFithen Dire Straits are the Missionary Position of "Rock", whilst wearing beige socks & listening to Mike & The Mechanics. Total mediocrity for idiots !
Dur -oo - tti Column, I believe. Never heard it pronounced the other way..
A lot of folk in America seem to think that John Lennon named his band "The Beedles".
@Robert, can you help me with Pere Ubu, Tame Impala and the XX?
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We also drink wahdder, lol.
4:30 absolutely mind blowing Album! I wore the grooves out on that one!!
My mind was blown on some of these, Great video! In the UK, the Enigma one was released as "Sadness Part 1" 😁
I just saw that. I had not idea,
The Duruti Column name is a misspelling itself, it should be Durruti Column, from the column of the same name in the Spanish civil war. I know all these things 'cause I have no life.
On the album, Steppenwolf 7.
Reprise…and Arista and Chrysalis!
You missed one: AOXOMOXOA. Thought for sure I'd hear it with the dancing bears staring at me.
3:58 almost made me spit out my hot chocolate 😂
Wait.... are you sure it's Fithen?? Because I heard someone say it differently. Happy holidays! :)
That was written by Larry Byrom of Steppenwolf.
Goldy McJohn's real name
is John Raymond Goadsby.
Someone once pronounced the name of the band LA's as the L A. as in the city Los Angeles.
You did your best pronouncing Hüsker Dü. Close! 😄
Without the umlauts It's "Do you remember" in Norwegian.
Ace Furley - Mr Furley in Ace makeup.
And how did you forget Einstürzende Neubauten?
I took six years of German, so it was never an issue with me. lol
You mean it's not Fit Hen? 😀 And Ro-bear sounding very french? lol I am just BS'ing and I can pronounce your name properly! Cheers
As a poultry person I like Fit hen a lot! ❤
How about the Nirvana thing? They pronounce it, nirvana. In the south, we use softer a's so we always pronouced it, nirvana. Ha, ha. Here's an understandable pronunciation. Bill Aucoin (producer of Kiss records) "Aucoin" is a Cajun/Canadian French name pronouced: o-quan (with a silent n) Same thing with a small town in Illinois: Du Quoins pronouced du-quan (with a silent n). Cool video! I'd like to see more of these. Cheers!
Thanks ! I've gotten a few additions and probably make a follow-up at one point. I'm about 90 minutes from Du Quoin.
I swear anything French throws me for a loop because they don't say half the letters in their words. How the f**k do we know which letters to say and which are silent? I took German in school and I love it because they say everything in the word. None of this wondering if a letter is silent jazz. 🤪
While we are here... been watching your back catalogue and saw your one where you discussed your brothers book about album covers. I too am a nerd when it comes to album art. Any chance of a look at your favorite album covers at some point?
At some point. I'm always thinking of ones I don't want to leave out.
I'm taking about the group
Free.
The Kinks: Ray & Dave Davies, pronounced- Ray & Dave Davis
" Shit . Is how you prounance this bands name."
Couldn't agree more!
I don't get the joke on the Diré Straits' álbum
Double dog dare you to ask an Australian how to pronounce AC/DC. 🤣
OK. Now I’m curious. How do they pronounce it?
@@AntonXul- Something like Acca-Dacca. I've heard it several times from Australians, and here's Conan O'Brien with an Australian voice coach: th-cam.com/video/L94M4xQcPYk/w-d-xo.html
I call BS on Double, they need an accent grave over the E become I come on board with that prononciation.
There was a scene in David Fincher's Seven where Brad Pitt gets Sade and Marquis de Sade mixed up, I was reminded of that.
That's why I kind of called BS on it, too and said it with an air of nonsense sophistication.
i enjoyed this 😆👍
Ace FRAY-LEE
That's what I would think because he says it himself, that way. But others suggests he says it that way because of his New York accent.
I'm pretty sure there's a Creeque running behind the Skinyard.
There's another label
called Kama Sutra and on the pink label.
The Bipper is rolling on the floor. "Slah-day" lol... That's one of his favourite bands.... "Shit" for Dire Straits huh, that's nasty Robert, chuckle chuckle... The Reprise question was answered for me when I saw Frank Sinatra plugging a new Dean Martin record just after Dino came over to Reprise. I figured Frank knew how to pronounce the name correctly because he owned the label....
Really enjoyed this. Well done
Thanks!!
Bill Szymczyk might not like it but he's got a 100% Polish surname and it is pronounced as Shymtchyk. Not an easy task to say. :)
something about your explanations that make it difficult to stop watching
That MORGEN album is great. 😊
F I T H E N,i got your last name figured out!!
Yeah like "The Fithen Musician" that John Candy hosted on SCTV
@@Telstar62a Deep cut. Nice.
Roky Erickson ( Rocky )
Yeah, that would have been a good one. I forgot that one.
But mispronouncing it sounds so much better.
How about ZZ Top's "Deguello", and Ray Davies ("Davis")?
Ray Davies was a major one I forgot.
Innernate??? How do you pronounce Starship member Craig Chaquico?
Blinded by the light…
Yeah, I could make a whole other video on misunderstood lyrics.
I used to say Say-Dee instead of Sha-Day back in the day...but only to myself. I liked to preserve the Queens English.
I'll have to watch this one again to get all the things correct. Thanks fiver!
Lol.
Thank you. I love that thing you do,, yeah, just like the song from the movie by the band The Oneders. That's pronounced like Wonders, no the Oh-Need-ers.
That was the funniest part of that movie.
I’ve heard people say…Inks S
If I started to “change” the pronunciation of some of these..my friends woulda just kicked my arse..please,do a video on why you hate “sheit” so much..ha ha..not a big fan but I love making movies..
7:00 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Tarkio Road By Brewer &
Shipley
Husker Du!!!!!
It has ümlauts over the U's, so it's pronounced "who-sker Dooh" & means "Do you remember?" after a Scandinavian board game.
I hear people say 'ecstasy' for XTC. Weird.
Neil Shampoo. Lol.
It freaking amazes me how dense some people are that they mispronounce names that are obviously simple to pronounce....bugs the crap out of me. My last name is pronounced KObar... pronounced like CROWBAR. People would put the accent on the second syllable and say it sounds French (WTF??) or koBARE!!! Ughhhhh......
I know a Casey who constantly gets called Cassie. Irritates her to death.
David Bowie's name is pronounced Davy Jones!
Samhain is one I just realized I was saying wrong. What about Bron yr Aur and Bron y Aur stomp and why are they spelled differently. And Swlabr?
I forgot about D'Yer Ma'ker too. (Which is just Jamaica) . SWLABR, I think, is an abbreviation for “She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow.” I've also seen "Walks" instead of "Was" too.
normally names are to read as pronounced in original language or accent , double ,only have the single you showed , but it´s said to be with french accent(that i didn´t knew) ,i think it depends on the country ,in reality the band SHIT ,only started to be pronounced like that after the first two album´s ,when they were a diferent rock band ,mainly the reason david knofler left the band, because his brother mark wanted to make more mainstream music to win more money and it resulted with the third to the last album ,from a shit called band
Pretty sure Bon Iver is pronounced... Bone Ee-vehr. You got the 2nd part right, but missed on the Bone.
I've heard people butcher this guy's name. .. Joe Ely. I've heard it pronounced Joe Elie as in E lie... I've heard Steve forbert's name pronounced For bear wonderful video my friend
Thanks!!
M.A.N.D.R.I.L.L.
@@toneyisaiah3556 LoL
I thought it was E Lie, so how is it pronounced? L E?
@@agomodern ELee I've actually interviewed him, and he was a big part of our format when I lived in Texas
Too bad it's not Robert FILTHen, would make a great punk rocker name, like Johnny Rotten.