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Originally Posted by atari 2600

It also comes in pretty handy when you stumble across an artist with a completely unpronounceable name—like that of intensely emotional San Francisco-based band Xiu Xiu, whom, if this were a radio segment, would be right this minute correcting my almost-certainly-incorrect pronunciation of their name. So as a public service to Edmontonians who have been espousing their affection for “zoo zoo” or “tsu tsu,” Vue Weekly will now once and for all settle what has become the most frustrating conundrum for hipsters since the great !!! debate of 2003.

“That’s how we pronounce it,” says Xiu Xiu frontman and songwriter Jamie Stewart approvingly after I fluke out and correctly identify the band as “shoe shoe.” “But we’ve been told by, like, nine million people that we pronounce it wrong, and those nine million people have told us nine million different ways to say it.”

Stewart points out that he’s never found the inevitable mangling of his band’s name all that troubling, although he admits that one variation is a bit contentious. “I think the only pronunciation that we actually object to is ‘zoo zoo,’” he says, “just because it sounds like a bad hair-metal band.”

http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=2204

Well, I was kind of embarrassed too cause I tried to interview you after and I didn't realize there's all these PR things you gotta go through to set up these kinds of things. You made a list or something, and I sent it to my editor and nothing really came of that. So, yeah. About your sound in Xiu Xiu. "Shoe-Shoe," is that the correct pronunciation?

We usually say "Shoe-Shoe." Or "Shui-Shui" if we're getting really sleep-deprived. I think our only objection is "Zu-Zu." I don't know, we're not too particular about it.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/interviews/xiu_xiu.htm

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"Shui-Shui" is the pretty much the same thing as "Zwee Zwee." Personally, I think that sounds better than "Shoe-Shoe" which sounds like you are being bothered by flies or something (shoo fly shoo). Bye the bye, I was the first person to ever mention Xiu Xiu (that I know of) at the old board. It was in a thread about new music and I wrote about them, Pretty Girls Make Graves and Film School way back in 2002. Most of the rest of the replies in that topic of yore were about debating the relative merits of The White Stripes, The Hives, and The Strokes.

You probably were. I think I heard about them from you.

I sort of suspected that.

I just had a brainfart-variety thought that Xiu Xiu cleverly sort of pulled a R.E.M. (R.E.M. refused to show themselves clearly in their earliest videos and Stipe didn't sing the lyrics to their early songs all that clearly either) only Xiu Xiu did something similar concerning the "correct" pronunciation of their name. The moniker appears rather cryptic to begin with, but maybe they purposely didn't really put the correct pronunciation out there a whole bunch with the desired effect being a contribution to a sense of mystery about themselves.

Probably. I love them.

What I've heard of them I didn't think was that good.

I always and will always read it as: zoo zoo

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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

I should give them another listen... I don't hear what all the fuss is about.

Same here. I listened to them (not an entire CD, just a few songs) and I didn't care for them.
But lately they've been popping up everywhere it seems.

Listen to Knife Play, fucks.

hey e.n. ataris right, yr blogspot needs oscillating widely on here. good shit..

air force in my top 5 albums of the year, excellent record, excellent band. knife play still floats my boat the best tho especially the track hives hives. goosepimplemakinggemlikemagic.

The only song currently in wmp is entitled Pink City.

Pink City is just a noisier version of an old IBOPA track.

Try the following: Hives Hives, Over Over, Homonculus, Apistat Commander, Bunny Gamer.

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Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

Pink City is just a noisier version of an old IBOPA track.

Try the following: Hives Hives, Over Over, Homonculus, Apistat Commander, Bunny Gamer.

And I Broke Up!!!

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Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

hives hives. goosepimplemakinggemlikemagic.

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aaahh.. I just got shivers thinking about it.. fuck.

ALSO ADD TO "And I Broke Up!!!":
Ian Curtis Wishlist

Do You Love Me Jamie Stewart?

J(ane??) S.. I am... kidding! I'M JUST...KIDDING.

When you ask me everything...

I WILL

TAKE IT

TOOOOOOO FAR!

the twenty hundred private loops... making up my

AHHHH IAN CURTIS,

I CAN'T BELIEVE I SAID IT
WISHLIST.

Yes. I'm off to drive to Minneapolis right now to go to the show later. You're fucking jealous. Weep in your sleep.

It's alright. I give you permission to cry while being awake.

Bunny gamer, stand up, Bunny gamer.