How is the band name The Necros pronounced?

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Please settle a long running dispute between me and my friends. Is the Necros pronounced like Neh-cross or Neh-crows?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I always said Nee-crows

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Nek-rows.
Like, you know, dead.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

(I firgot American peeps might say the first bit Nee-. It's the second bit that matters.)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Nek-rows. Or at least that's how the band themselves used to pronounce it, back in Ann Arbor in the late '80s. (Even the ones who *didn't* work at Kinko's, I'm pretty sure.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 17 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Thanks everyone I feel that I have won my argument against DUMMIES, esp. w/xhuxk'x first hand experience on my side.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 17 October 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I stand corrected. I think one of the earliest times I ever saw mention of them was in an old spin article where kim gordon was interviewing LL Cool J. She was showing him some of the albums she'd made, including the Ciccone Youth record. The inside sleeve of the record included a picture of a teenage punk girl leaning against her flyer covered bedroom wall. A Necros flyer caught LL's and he asked why a band would call themselves the Negros. She clarified for him but I guess that Negros/Necros connection was permanently lodged in my head. My reading of this article took place, coincidentally, in Ann Arbor in the late '80s.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Fuck. Too many Ann Arborites, former or present.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

That's neck crows, and Albert's Copying not Kinko's

― Shaky Jake, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

We need DJ Chamberweed to settle this dispute.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.merchdirect.net/x2/detail_image.php?imageid=11172

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

The Niekros- you know, Phil and Joe.

― 'nanahammock, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Everyone in Maumee Oh, which is where they're from and I am too, pronounced it Nek-rows.

― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

It's short for necrophiliacs, so the pronunciation should be pretty clear after that...

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Unless you pronounce it "knee-crophiliac" of course...

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.freewebs.com/baseballautographs/philniekro1.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

(...not that I really give a damn about baseball, y'understand...)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

This can't be a serious question.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, if you were accustomed to reading band names in classical Greek, the "cross" pronunciation would make sense.

"Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism - at least it's an ethos!"

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

How DO you pronounce GYROS?

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Honest! It is a serious question. I would never ever have thought to pronounce it w/a -cross ending but this guy swore blind and he's usually knowledgable about this type of thing. He is a New Zealander which may explain something, pronunciation wise?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's short for Necrophile. I kinda would've thought that was obvious.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

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