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Old 22-05-2014, 16:30
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Question 'Greatest Vocalist' chart...

I've seen this list floating around the last couple of days and instantly wondered where our JDB would sit on it..?! Anyone know his highest and lowest recorded vocal notes? I reckon his highest is either Condemned to Rock'n'Roll, or Another Invented Disease (there is a really high wail pretty quiet in the mix over one of the last choruses that I reckon might be him..) Lowest? No Surface??

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Old 22-05-2014, 23:17
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There was a thread discussing James' voice.
Anyway, James seems to have a wide range, he mostly sings very high, especially when he was young, but Love of Richard Nixon seems to be the lowest of his vocals that I can think of. If we don't count demo recordings.

So, ehm, I dunno where he would be placed on that list also because I don't completely understand it. I dunno these "musical technicalities"... Just the most common (cultural) stuff, such as tenor, bass, barritone, alt, sopran, mezosopran. Stuff like these..... But you know what? Since I'm taking phonetics classes, I'd love to have James as my personal guinea pig for human and speech sound research.
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Old 23-05-2014, 10:33
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There was a thread discussing James' voice.
Anyway, James seems to have a wide range, he mostly sings very high, especially when he was young, but Love of Richard Nixon seems to be the lowest of his vocals that I can think of. If we don't count demo recordings.
Yep, I started a thread not long ago.
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What about Nicky? What's his highest recorded note?
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Old 23-05-2014, 12:54
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I honestly believe that Nicky doesn't have more than a one octave range.
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Old 23-05-2014, 20:41
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Nicky doesn't have any range, he can't sing.

James's lowest tone I ever heard is not from TLORN, he couldn't reach that low in 2004 as he can now, but from Rewind the Film live, when he hit F#2 which is great for tenor.
Highest tone I don't know, he screamed E5 in ME this year, I remember him hitting A5 in falsetto in Wattsville Blues live, anyway, where's the Khizar's thread?
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Nicky doesn't have any range, he can't sing.

James's lowest tone I ever heard is not from TLORN, he couldn't reach that low in 2004 as he can now, but from Rewind the Film live, when he hit F#2 which is great for tenor.
Highest tone I don't know, he screamed E5 in ME this year, I remember him hitting A5 in falsetto in Wattsville Blues live, anyway, where's the Khizar's thread?
Here you go

http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/for...ad.php?t=59966

The thread didn't really generate much discussion but I did some of my own analysis at around the same time and from what I can see, the highest full voice note hit by James (on record) at least is a Eb5 at the end of Drug Drug Druggy. Lowest, not sure but something on RTF would come close I think.
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Here you go

http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/for...ad.php?t=59966

The thread didn't really generate much discussion but I did some of my own analysis at around the same time and from what I can see, the highest full voice note hit by James (on record) at least is a Eb5 at the end of Drug Drug Druggy. Lowest, not sure but something on RTF would come close I think.
thanks, I've already found it.
I wouldn't be surprised if we found some very high tones in backing vocals he did on first albums. PCP contains D5 btw.

yes I rememebr RTF album contains some low tones, but I will never listen to this shit album again so I can't investigate, TSWH contains A2 numerous times. Shame he didn't sing RTF on the album!!!
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