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The most regional pronunciations in British rock
Posted by PaddyH on 4 December 2010 - 11:31pm.
Shack, of whom, most of us on Merseyside, always add the word 'lad'.
Any other hyperlocal pronunciations in rock?
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Maximo Park & The Futurheads
Messrs Smith and Hyde sing in broad North East accents.
The former Teesside, the latter Wearside.
Their success provoked a spate of copycat bands in the area singing with broad accents. A phenomenon expertly parodied on The Bulbs' 'Singing In An Accent'.
Actually, this is the most Scouse pronunciation ever
Cheers Paddy
That song is in my top ten songs ever ever recorded.....ever
It's been said here before
but Mick Head and Shack are truly undervalued, and HMS Fable is a stone cold classic of British pop. I know others prefer other records, but, I love Fable.
Great lyrics, great music and John Head's guitar playing is incredible.
They are also the only band to try and crack the top flight with an album influenced by Miles Davis and Gil Evans whose lead single used the melody from All Blues.
Couldn't agree more..
As much as I love HMS Fable though, I have to say Waterpistol is a beautiful album, all the more so when the circumstances of what both Head brothers were going through is known.
Criminal that they are so overlooked despite pretty decent critical aclaim.
Can you help...I had a single (wasn't on any album) that I borrowed to a mate and didn't get back. It had 'Uncle' in the title and no matter where I look I can't find it..any idea? I remember it as being particularly good.
"No matter where I look I can't find it"
I don't mean under the bed or in a drawer or something.
I mean the web and shops and ....Oh god it's late.
I will do my best
Email me from here and I will speak to some heads on Merseyside who may help.
Hmm
Was it Uncle Smaegel's Cardigan?
Uncle Delaney...
..is one of the tracks on one version of the Comedy CD single. I have it and I'm sure could get an MP3 of it to you somehow, if you'd like.
The Paleys
Apparently, when Mick Head was in the Pale Fountains, Virgin asked him to tone down his scouse accent.
Hard to tell really.
This always raises a few goosebumps....
Oh yes!
That's the back of my head there!
Ian Dury?
this one sums the thread up perfectly..
Still love the first album. The passion and wit of their lyrics was superb, until their (rather less controversial) 'Dylan' moment where they turned all electric.
Well it bothered me.
Arctic Monkeys
sing in a Sheffield accent. Here they are with Mardy Bum
'Mardy' is a localised Yorkshire word, meaning to sulk or be generally petulant and/or miserable.
It's not just the Monkeys
Sheffield folk are good at this - witness Richard Hawley, Jarvis, Little Man Tate (as was) etc.
When 'tongue' is pronounced to rhyme with 'long' you know where you are. Moreso when 'Mondeo' rhymes with 'say owt'.
Don't forget Sheffield's
Reverend & The Makers - "This Ain't Rock & Roll, This is Grenoside!"
How localised is that? ;-)
Fuck off McClure!
Fuck off McClure!
I remember reading that outburst
(possibly in The Word) but can't remember who said it. Please elucidate.
Wasn't it...
...Rob Fitzpatrick?
Rob Fitzpatrick
Chastising the Heavy Champion of the World hitmaker for his freetarded views.
's not just Sheffield.
One of my very best friends is from Humberside. I learned the word "mardy" from him. Although he's more likely to say that someone's "got a cob on".
Has he travelled?
'Cobs' are most usually 'got on' in Liverpool. Although 'got a' naturally becomes 'gorra'
In Sheffield of course, he would've 'got the face on'.
He is...
...resolutely untravelled.
Mardy
Frequently used in New Ollerton, North Notts, during my 70s school days, very often in describing me...
Then there's this...
And
the best use of the word 'famished' in a rock song.
Of course, it's pronounced 'fahmished'.
From Stroke City, hi
His cousin is apparently called Keyyevin.
The Derry accent is beautiful.
Flowered Up: For the Laahndaahn Massive
The band that made Madness seem like they were from Chorleywood or Surbiton
can see why they never made it
That was a steaming pile.
The Field Music
That Sunderland burr does rise to the surface once in a while
A-ha!
That was filmed at Boldon Colliery Club, pop pickers. The keen eyed amongst you will spot members of The Futureheads, Kenickie and Frankie & The Heartstrings.
Class.
Bloody hell, so it is!
The Big Club, as it's known here in snowy Boldon, is a shithole of the very worst kind. There's some right idiots get in the downstairs bar - they don't like outsiders. I'm surprised all those makem popsters got out of there alive!
Cheap beer though.
..but lets not forget the marrrrstersss of this arrrrt
Hundreds of children
Hundreds of children chanting 'I am a cider drinker'. Brilliant
Come in Norfolk!
The Singing Postman. This was Top 10 in 1966 and won the Ivor Novello Award for best novelty song of the year.
It knocked The Beatles from the top of the East Anglia hit parade and remained in the charts for nine weeks
They did things differently back then kids.
David Thomas Broughton
Some of you might like to hear more of this Yorkshireman. His 'Boating Disasters' EP of this year was very good. A bit Jake Thackray perhaps?
Duke Special
I let you dine
Messed you a rind
Dressed you with a frine
Some Celtic RRRolled ARRRRS
Catatonia:
SFA:
Danny Baker used to play
A Music For Pleasure type cover of Penny Lane which he claimed was sung by a young David Bowie which had the word "customer" (the barber shaves another customer) greatly exaggerated. I believe Bowie has denied it's him but if you hear it it couldn't really be anyone else. Anyway, for the purposes of the OP, not so much a regional accent as an attempt at an accent.
By the way, does anyone know why I can only see some of the you tube postings on my ipad? Some of them aren't there at all, some are there but are greyed out and some play ok. Without wanting to start an Apple vs PC debate they are fine and dandy on my Windows net book but not on my iPad.
Something to do with the encoding of the video I believe
Videos encoded using an older codec aren't supported on iPad. I think it only supports the newer (h.264?) codec? Normal .mov files play OK.
The whole video encoding world is a mystery to me though...
The occasional "Now and den"
aside, he tried pretty hard on the records, but in the flesh Paul Cleary was proper Dublin:
(The Blades, Ghost Of a Chance)
D'ya think this guy could be Irish?
I'd forgotten Damo
Good call.
GEORGE
All George's Beatle vocals are rich but the way he says "I really kerrrr" at the start of this is something I always really kerred for.
Deserted
And listen to him sing "deserted" in While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Watch out now
Take currr, bewurrr....
Has no-one mentioned
The Unthanks
Howay pet!
sickly sausage rolls
That reminds me
Three Newcastle United managers ago there was a rumour that Didier Deschamps was getting the job which prompted the dodgy headline "Frog On the Tyne". Now that Dutchman Jol is in the frame I suppose it will be "Clog On The Tyne"
and
If you saw ELP in Newcastle. Would it be "Prog on the Tyne" ?
and
if you add to this website from somewhere in Newcastle would that be "Blog on the Tyne"?
Cor Blimey !!!
Strike a Light,Wot ! No Chas and Dave