Rock'n'Roll Pronunciation

Open your textbooks, class...

"867-530 ni-EEE-ine"

"What I like about you, you keep me warm at niEEEEET"

"I had to run away-eee-ay, get down on my knees and pray-eee-ay
Still it begins-uh, needles and pins-uh" (Mark E Smith's biggest influence?)

"I can see clearly now the rain is gone/I can see all obSTICKles in my way"

"Angie...Eye-en-jee..."

"I'm coming off, so you better get this party starTED"

Professor Joey is in a class by himself, e.g. "She's the wu-on, she's the wu-on, she's the one...Yeah yeah, she's my gir-ir-irl...When I see her walkin down the stree-eet, she makes my heart skip a bee-eat..."



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And Spelling

Girlfriend - G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N

spelling? Please welcome guest instructors Slade:

Cum on Feel the Noize
Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Coz I Luv You
Look Wot You Dun
Take Me Bak 'Ome
Gudbuy T' Jane
Skweeze Me Pleeze Me

revved up like a douche, another runner in the night....

Reading that makes me laugh out loud, just like listening to the song.

Van Morrison's fixation:

"You know I just can't see you now
Enema, enema, enema, enema new world crystal ball." [[i]Street Choir[/i]]

"Come to me softly, come to me quiet. Know what I'm after- I'm gonna try it...
I wanna roo you, roo you tonight" [[i]I Wanna Roo You [Scottish Derivitive][/i]]

"Listen to the lion in sodomy, sodomy, sodomy, sodomy, sodomy, sodomy, sodomy, sodomy...." [[i]Listen To The Lion[/i]]

Yes. I have a problem.

another van one.
- caravan- turn up your radio- pronounced radeo

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Van Morrison

All you have to do is find a bar with a jukebox and play "Brown Eyed Girl" to hear a room full of drunks struggle mightily with the verses and chime in on the chorus like they had it all together the whole time. I'll paraphrase Eddie Murphy (comedian ... remember him?):

What the hell is Van sayin?

I dunno, but we gettin' paid. Just keep singin'.

Yeah-uh! Yeah-uh!

...

I think the TP has a bit about the singer from The Blow Monkeys having "pwo-nun-cee-aye-shun" issues. It might still be there in the "weeviews." You might also hold up Biz Markie as an exhibit. I guess speech impediments aren't really what this thread is about anyway.

Oh. Excuse me. That should read: The DIABOLICAL Biz Markie. Sorry. If I could make the font look all gothic and evil, this I would do.

I remember a song by The Leather Nun called "Pink Houses" where the guy's accent (Danish?) was really pronounced. Something like "Goad demn thee Peenk Howsses!"

Also have to doff the cap to Einar Orn. It's a dark, secret automobile game of mine to sing classic rock tunes with my best (worst?) Einar Orn impression. You can discard all notions about singing in tune or getting the words right or anything. S'fun. Even better than doing the same thing as Nico. Einar lacks her ... haughty disdain. He's gonzo. Totally gonzo.

He should consider it as a career move. If I can just kill "Freebird" in "Orn Mode," consider what sort of damage he could inflict! I'd throw down for a CD of him murdering classic rock tunes. Anyone know his e-mail address? I'll pitch the idea here anyway. What the hell?

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Chant the chorus to Nazereth's "Hair Of The Dog" as Einar. You can almost feel the icy-landic voodoo in your veins.

Scream out "Loooooove Huuuuuurts!" as Einar. Really scream it. It does hurt.

Any Guns 'N Roses tune would be fine. I lean towards "Paradise City." Just to hear Einar howling "Taaaaaaaake Meeeeeee Hoooooome!" It'd be worth the price of admission.

On the softer side, he could throw in "Babe" by Styx or maybe "Beth" by Kiss. I see from the news that Gene Simmons is always up for some pocket money ... throw the old fart some coin via royalties.

...

I'm forced to remember certain Laibach recordings. Maybe this has already been done? Maybe he could do it a cappella? I can see it now:

"Einar Orn - VH1 Storytellers"

OK. I'll stop. This. Here.



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"If I can just kill "Freebird" in "Orn Mode"

This is something you can unlock on Rock Band?

Guitar Hero - J. Mascis

He's no worse than any of the other cartoon characters.

Liam Gallagher always had quite a way with the word "sun- shi-yeeeeeen" (see "Cigarettes & Alcohol")

Elvis Costello pronouncing "counterfeit" as "counter-feet" (which for all I know may be right !), in "Love For Tender".

If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar

The Doors, LA Woman

Maybe it should be

If they say I never loved you
They're a bunch of friggin liars

Beh-bee, beh-bee, beh-bee -- got my eyes wide open -- Lou Reed, I Heard Her Call My Name.

This is a pretty terrible song, but it makes me laugh every time I hear it on the radio:

"I wanna cover you in ass bees and honey", from some Blue October hit

Ass bees? What the hell are ass bees? I keep getting a mental picture of a bunch of yellow-and-black striped bees with buttocks where their heads should be.

Lawd knows I can't chay yay yay yay yay yange!!!


Lynyrd Skynyrd, Freebird

Jonathan Richman, "Back In Your Life" - "I wanna be back in your life/Baybeh, baybeh, baybeh/I wanna be back in your life."

And of course, my own personal Great White Whale, from the title track of the hellbeast which must never be named:

"thu smayull uv cawuffay, aiggs un biekin/car wailz own uh grayuvul raowd"

As nosepail noted in another thread: "Arm-a-gid-e-on Time"

Speaking of Mark E. Smith's vocal patterns, have you ever wondered if James Hetfield is going for the same effect? He has that sort of "Ah!" at the end of a lot of his singing. Of course, he's shouting and barking.

And winning employee-of-the-month awards in alternate universes.