Jack Black (22,264 views)

[Gilad]

Thomas Jacob Black
Also Known As: Jack Black, JB, Jables, Jablinski, Wonderboy
Associated Acts: Tenacious D
Vocal Range: G1 - B♭5

Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("Cone's Way" on Conan's Final Episode)
G♯5 ("I Think I Love You", "The One" live w/ Foo Fighters 2002, "Peaches", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" live Rock in Rio 2019, "Take a Chance on Me" live Sweden Rock Festival 2019, "Training Medley", "We Are Here Together")
G5 ("Bob Barker", "Improv Jamming" on We've Got Company with Marc Rebillet, "Rock Your Socks", Showing Off for Tony Hawk, "Tribute" live HBO version, "Viva Las Vegas" live Las Vegas 12/31/2022, "Woman Time")
F♯5 ("Back in Black" live on MTV 2002, "Deth Starr", "Explosivo", "Immigrant Song" live Los Angeles 2015, "Kickapoo", "Low Hangin' Fruit", "Master Exploder")
F5 ("Bob Barker", "Bumps Gonna Goose Ya!", "Car Chase City", "Daddy Ding Dong", "Don't Blow It, Kage", "Fat Albert Theme", "I Think I Love You", "Just What I Needed" live Festival Supreme 2013, "Sax-A-Boom" live Paris 2020, "The Thermos Song" live AFI Awards 2015, "When Doves Cry" live Rock Am Ring 2016)
E5 ("Auld Lang Syne" live Las Vegas 12/31/2022, "Break in-City (Storm the Gate!)", "Car Chase City", "City Hall" live House of Blues 1999, "Crazy Train" live with Dweezil Zappa, "Dude (I Totally Miss You)", "Everybody Polka", "Everything's Alright", "Get Lucky" live Paris 2020, "Immigrant Song" live Los Angeles 2015, "It's a Long Way to the Top", "Just What I Needed" live Festival Supreme 2013, "Love Lifted Me", "Master Exploder", "The Metal", "Ole Ole Polka", "Papagenu (He's My Sassafras)", "Polka Bubbles", "Rock Your Socks" Acoustic version, "School of Rock (Teacher's Pet)", "Señorita", "Simply Jazz" live at Cantina Jazz Club 2012, "They Fucked Our Asses", "Throw Down", "Training Medley", "You Never Give Me Your Money / The End", "You're the One That I Want")
E♭5 ("...Baby One More Time", "City Hall", "I Think I Love You", "Kosil Ojciec Siano", "Lee", "Legend of the Rent", "Let's Get It On", "Malaysia" Duet on HITZ, "Rappin' Polka", "War", "We Are Here Together", "Welcome to the Jungle" live LA Zoo Benefit 2007)
D5 ("Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)", "Bob Barker", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Los Angeles 2018, "Butt Baby", "Double Team" various live performances, "Fat Bottomed Girls" live American Idol 2011, "Fuck Her Gently", "Goodbye Song", "History", "Hot Blooded" live St. Louis 2001, "It's Not Unusual" live Las Vegas 12/31/2022, "Kiss from a Rose" live Kuala Lumpur 2014, "Krishna", "Kung Fu Fighting", "More Than a Feeling" live Boston 2001, "Quantum Leap", "Roadie", "Robot", "Rock Is Dead", "Sax Man", "School of Rock (Teacher's Pet)", "Señorita", "The Sound of Silence" live Montebello 2015, "The Story of Conan O'Brien", "Sunday Bloody D-Day", "Tom Sawyer" live Austin 2002, "Tribute" Demo version, "We All Wear Cloaks", "When Doves Cry" live Rock Am Ring 2016, "Woman Time", "Wonderboy")
C♯5 ("Aussie Medley", "City Hall", "The Cosmic Shame" live London 2002, "Happy Birthday", "Immigrant Song" live Los Angeles 2015, "Making Love", "Rize of the Fenix", "Simply Jazz", "Tenacious D's The Who Medley", "Time Warp")
C5 ("12 Days of Christmas" on Good Mythical Morning, "...Baby One More Time", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Los Angeles 2018, "Colors", "Destiny", "Explosivo", "Game of Thrones Theme Acapella", "I Think I Love You", "I'm Going to Keep On Loving You", "Inward Singing", "JB Jr. Rap", "Let's Get It On", "Malibu Nights Medley", "Motherlover" live Festival Supreme 2013, "Moving Pictures" at the Oscars 2015, "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy", "Rocket Sauce", "Simply Jazz", "SPACETIME CONTINUUM", "Star Trek Theme" on the Nerdist, "Taco Truck from Hell", "Take Us Into Space", "They Fucked Our Asses", "Throw Down", "Two Kings", "We All Wear Cloaks", "You Never Give Me Your Money / The End", "Zombie Michael Jackson")
B4 ("39", "Aussie Medley", "The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage", "Barracuda", "Bowie" live Comic Cabana 1997, "Break in-City (Storm the Gate!)", "Chad Gadya", "Classico", "Daddy Ding Dong", "Deth Starr", "Everybody's Working for the Weekend", "Everything's Alright", "Jesus Ranch", "Kong", "Kung Fu Fighting", "Love Lifted Me", "Master Exploder", "Quantum Leap", "Rappin' Polka", "The Road", "Roadie", "Sasquatch", "Squeeze Box" live VH1 Rock Honors 2008, "Taco Truck from Hell", "Time Warp", "To Be the Best", "Woman Time")
B♭4 ("...Baby One More Time", "Bear Trap Song", "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)", "Chandelier" live Chicago 2015, "Everybody Polka", "Friendship", "The Government Totally Sucks" singing In the Studio, "Hello I Love You" live on Conan 2015, "I'm Roasted", "Jack Sparrow" live Festival Supreme 2013, "Kickapoo", "Kielbasa", "Let's Get It On", "Low Hangin' Fruit", "Men in Tights" live Kennedy Center Honors 2009, "The Metal", "More Than Words", "The Osbournes", "Peaches", "Post-Apocalypto Theme", "Rats Rule", "Sax Man", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" live Rock in Rio 2019, "Things I Want", "War", "We Are Here Together")
A4 ("5 Needs", "Baby", "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)", "Bumps Gonna Goose Ya!", "Car Chase City", "Chandelier" live Chicago 2015, "City Hall", "Colors", "Cone's Way" on Conan's Final Episode, "Cosmic I", "The Cosmic Shame" live London 2002, "Crazy Train" live with Dweezil Zappa, "Destiny", "Deth Starr", "Different Strokes Theme" on Instagram, "Dio", "The Divide", "Don't Blow It, Kage", "Double Team", "Dream On" live Boston 2001, "Dude (I Totally Miss You)", "Everybody's Working for the Weekend", "Fat Bottomed Girls" live American Idol 2011, "Flash" various live performances, "Goodbye Song", "Heaven on Their Minds", "History", "Hope", "I'm Going to Keep On Loving You", "It's a Long Way to the Top", "It's Late", "JB Jr. Rap", "Jewish Demon", "Jumanji Jumanji", "Kickapoo", "Krishna", "Kyle Quit the Band", "Kyle Took a Bullet", "Land of the Lost Theme", "Lee", "Love Lifted Me", "Making Love", "Mary Jane's Last Dance" live House of Blues 2002, "Motherlover" live Festival Supreme 2013, "One" live Inglewood 2019, "Papagenu (He's My Sassafras)", "Pat Riley", "POD", "Quantum Leap", "Rivers of Brown", "Rize of the Fenix", "The Road", "Señorita", "Sensitive", "Shallow", "Spelling Bee", "Squeeze Box" live VH1 Rock Honors 2008, "Sunday Bloody D-Day", "Tenacious D's The Who Medley", "They Fucked Our Asses", "Time Has Come Today" live Los Angeles 2005, "To Be the Best", "Too Hot" singing on Hot Ones, "Tribute", "Video Games", "We All Wear Cloaks", "Wonderboy", "You're the One That I Want")
G♯4 ("Bohemian Rhapsody" live Los Angeles 2018, "Classico", "DECAPITATION", "Everybody Polka", "Get Off the Stage", "The Government Totally Sucks", "The Last in Line", "Leslie Fram Jam", "Malibu Nights Medley", "Moving Pictures" at the Oscars 2015, "My Hero" live w/ Foo Fighters 2002, "Opening Monologue (A Comedian at the Oscars)" live at the 79th Academy Awards, "Silent Night" on Good Mythical Morning, "Spoonman" live Inglewood 2019, "The Thermos Song" live AFI Awards 2015, "To Be an American", "Warning")
G4 ("39", "The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage", "Barracuda", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Born to Be Wild" live Best Time Ever 2015, "Break in-City (Storm the Gate!)", "Chad Gadya", "Classico", "Colors", "Daddy Ding Dong", "DECAPITATION", "Double Team", "Dude (I Totally Miss You)", "Fuck Yo-Yo Ma", "Holy Diver" live on Jimmy Fallon 2010, "I Am the Warlock", "I'm Roasted", "Kids Choice Awards Acapella", "Kielbasa", "Kong", "The Last in Line", "More Is My Love", "Oedipuss Not Oedipiss", "Ole Ole Polka", "Papagenu (He's My Sassafras)", "Pat Riley", "Polka Bubbles", "Rize of the Fenix", "Roadie", "Rock Your Socks", "Rocket Sauce", "Sax Man", "Seventy-Six Trombones", "Shallow", "Special Things", "The Star Spangled Banner" live at the 2011 Sparks Game, "Star Trek Theme" on the Nerdist, "The Story of Conan O'Brien", "Take Us Into Space", "Tribute")

Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("39", "5 Needs", "Bad" live Los Angeles 2003, "Barracuda", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Beezleboss (The Final Showdown)", "Born to Be Wild" live Best Time Ever 2015, "Chad Gadya", "Cosmic I", "Dio", "Dude (I Totally Miss You)", "Fat Bottomed Girls" live American Idol 2011, "Friend Song", "Fuck Her Gently", "Heaven on Their Minds", "History", "Hope", "It's Late", "It's Not Unusual" live Las Vegas 12/31/2022, "Jesus Ranch", "Kyle Took a Bullet", "Making Love", "The Metal", "Miala Baba Koguta", "More Than a Feeling" live Boston 2001, "Oh Hanukkah", "Old Joe Clark", "Polka Bubbles", "Rats Rule", "Rivers of Brown", "Rize of the Fenix", "Save the World", "The Story of Conan O'Brien", "Tiny Taste of the D", "To Be an American", "Video Games", "Viva Las Vegas" live Las Vegas 12/31/2022, "War Pigs" various live performances, "We Are Here Together", "When Doves Cry" live Rock Am Ring 2016, "Wonderboy", "Zombie Michael Jackson")
C♯3 ("5 Needs", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Colors", "Don't Blow It, Kage", "Friendship" various live performances, "Hebrew Prayer" on H3 Podcast, "Land of the Lost Theme")
C3 ("Bear Trap Song", "Cosmic I", "Everybody Polka", "Game of Thrones Theme Acapella", "Get Off the Stage", "Heaven on Their Minds", "I Think I Love You", "Jewish Demon", "Jumanji Jumanji", "Karate", "Kids Choice Awards Acapella", "Kielbasa", "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy", "Polly" on Instagram, "Rats Rule", "Rivers of Brown", "Sax Man", "Señorita", "Seventy-Six Trombones", "The Sound of Silence" live Montebello 2015, "Special Things", "The Star Spangled Banner" live at the 2011 Sparks Game, "Taco Truck from Hell", "Thank You So Much Jesus", "Throw Down", "You Never Give Me Your Money / The End")
B2 ("The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage", "Classico", "Daddy Ding Dong", "Deth Starr", "The Government Totally Sucks", "Hope", "I've Never Been in Love Before", "Jesus Ranch", "Kyle Quit the Band", "Low Hangin' Fruit", "Master Exploder", "Oedipuss Not Oedipiss", "Quantum Leap", "Rappin' Polka", "Rize of the Fenix", "Sasquatch", "Shallow", "Spoonman" live Inglewood 2019, "Sunday Bloody D-Day", "Taco Truck from Hell", "Wicked Game", "You Never Give Me Your Money / The End")
B♭2 ("Game of Thrones Theme Acapella", "I Think I Love You", "Just What I Needed" live Festival Supreme 2013, "Kevin Weatherly's Cubicle", "Legend of the Rent", "The Masterpiece", "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" live on Jimmy Fallon 2010, "Peaches", "Pennsylvania Polka", "Things I Want", "To Be an American")
A2 ("Candyman" live San Diego 2012, "City Hall", "Cone's Way" on Conan's Final Episode, "Fuck Her Gently", "Happy Birthday", "It's Late", "Kiss from a Rose" live Kuala Lumpur 2014, "Making Love", "March", "Oh Hanukkah", "Papagenu (He's My Sassafras)", "Simply Jazz", "Time Warp", "When Doves Cry" live Rock Am Ring 2016, "Wicked Game")
G♯2 ("Kyle Quit the Band", "Peaches", "Silent Night" live on Magic Radio, "Spiderman" MTV Awards)
G2 ("39" live Conan Summer Music Series, "Butt Baby", "The Government Totally Sucks", "Kingston's Rock", "Malaysia" Duet on HITZ, "Robot", "Star Trek Theme" on the Nerdist, "Where Am I?" on Yo Gabba Gabba!)
F♯2 ("Cantina Band" singing at Disneyland , "Different Strokes Theme" on Instagram, "Kingston's Rock", "Oedipuss Not Oedipiss", "Ramble On" live Dublin 2012, "Star Trek Theme" on the Nerdist, "Tribute")
F2 ("I Think I Love You", "Kevin Weatherly's Cubicle", "JB Jr. Rap", "Seven Nation Army" singing in the car)
E2 ("Explosivo", "March", "Quantum Leap", "Rize of the Fenix", "Tribute" Demo version)
E♭2 ("I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)", "This Is America" on JablinskiGames)
D2 ("Robot", Singing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, "Tribute" Last Call with Carson Daly 2002)
C♯2 (Rapping on Hot Ones)
C2 ("JB Jr. Rap" live Austin 2019, "Robot")
B♭1 ("The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage" live at SiriusXM 2022, "Chad Gadya", "Explosivo" live Ancienne Belgique 2015, "Rock Your Socks" Acoustic version)
A1 ("Pat Riley", "Simply Jazz")
G1 ("Pat Riley", "Simply Jazz")
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Blue marks soft falsetto or whistle notes.
Grey marks growled notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that will rock your fuckin' socks off!

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{Questionable Notes}B7 ("History" Demo version[5])
E7 ("History" Demo version[5])
G6 ("Double Team"[5])
C6 (Showing Mariah Carey Who's Boss on Jablinski Games)
B5 ("Baby"[1])
A5 ("Tom Sawyer" live Austin 2002[5])
G♯5 ("I Am the Warlock"[1][3])
G5 ("You Never Give Me Your Money / The End"[1])
F5 ("Everybody Polka"[1])
B4 ("The Government Totally Sucks"[1])

A2 ("Save the World"[1])
E2 ("Tribute"[1])
D2 ("Cosmic I"[1])
C2 ("...Baby One More Time"[4])
G1 ("Chad Gadya"[3])
F♯1 ("Simply Jazz"[5])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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{Album Ranges}Tenacious D
Tenacious D (2001): E2-A2-G5
The Pick of Destiny (2006): G2-F♯5
Rize of the Fenix (2012): E2-B2-F♯5
Post-Apocalypto (2018): C2-D5-G5

Solo
The Polka King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017): B♭2-B♭4-E5

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{Credits}Previous iterations of this thread by Platypus and SailorBlue

[Henny Macc]

Not hearing any G1s in the timestamp you linked for "Simply Jazz" - just a lot of A1s. Those notes are better than I remembered though; I could actually get on board with counting them as black notes, cause they're not too different from the type of approach someone like Billy Gibbons takes to his first octave notes (just more breathy). Listening through the whole passage, I'm also not really any point where he audibly switches into another register or anything for the A1s.

Could I get a link to the other G1s? This is the first I'm ever hearing of him having other notes below B♭1 besides those "Simply Jazz" ones.

[Gilad]

These are the G1s I'm hearing:
"It's an ancient jazz, it's an ancient kind of jazz. It's a sweet taste of jazz, all that sweet, delicious jazz"
Here's the G1 in Pat Riley: "does there come a duo with the power to change muSIC"
Here's the G1 in Chad Gadya, though it may be too breathy to count.

[Henny Macc]

Okay, for the note you pointed out in "Simply Jazz" on "it's the sweet taste of JAZZ", I think I actually am hearing G♯1 now that you point it out. The one on "all that sweet, delicious JAZZ" still sounds like an A1 to me though.

Nice find with those lows in "Pat Riley"! Definitely one of his stronger displays of that side of his voice as well. I'm hearing G♯1 on the lowest note there as well.

The note in "Chad Gadya" sounds countable to me, but I'm only getting B♭1 for that one.

[Gilad]

Imma need some more opinions

[Gilad]

Also there are these growls in the video of Rize of the Fenix that I'm struggling to pitch
youtu.be/ls3rD8VfiSY?t=30s

[Smitty.]

G1 i think for what gilad was struggling to pitch
as for the G1s he linked yeah i'd say they're G1s
the Chad Gadya one starts off at Bb but i hear it slide to G1
if gilad wants to count it its up to him

[Henny Macc]

Mar 30, 2021 20:25:47 GMT Smitty. said:

G1 i think for what gilad was struggling to pitch
as for the G1s he linked yeah i'd say they're G1s

Might want to be more specific about which ones of these are which 

[Gilad]

JB just got some range expansion

['S]

In my mind he will always be Ned Schneebly. B♭2, B♭4 and E5:

[IhateMana]

so, what I'm hearing:
"Pat Riley" doesn't actually sound like it genuinely hits G1, I don't think there's really much tone there when he goes below C#2, and that the "G1" is primarily an A1 with very little tone
"Chad Gadya" is only around A1/Bb1, but it's mostly a breathy trail-down that imo isn't really much of anything
"Simply Jazz" does hit G1, but it's nowhere near as strong or carrying as much tone as the A1s and I'd probably be iffy about counting it myself

also that Bb5 isn't really much of anything either

[Henny Macc]

The Conan note sounds like it's right between A5 and B♭5, so I'm not quite sure which it should be listed as, but whatever it is I see nothing wrong with counting it.

[Smitty.]

i hear Bb5 and as long as its italic i don't mind it being in the thread

[tim]

Big fan of JB, but that 'Bb5' note is pretty dire, seems well off pitch, but let's call it Bb for brevity. Sounds like a Bb4 fundamental pitch to me, the scream likely giving it plenty of first overtone (second harmonic) but I can't really hear the Bb5 that well with all the noise around it. Still recovering from illness so my ears may be dodgy, but if someone can stick a spectrum analyser on that scream it might give a better idea of what's really going on.

[Rodney Blazershorts]

Of all the things that might be considered questionable about that note, the octave is certainly not one of them.

[Baronessa]

Pretty clearly B♭5 to me, and I can't really figure out anything questionable about it for that matter.

For what it's worth, you might be hearing the fry undertone of a B♭4 since that's likely the technique he's using to create that tone.

[Platypus]

F5 here

[onemorelight17]

I found some interesting notes. I think I can find much more valuable material in the next few days (maybe an expansion on the high notes)


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[Goober]

youtu.be/qqatEoSd0Fo
37:40
Something new

[Henny Macc]

Jun 20, 2022 0:36:47 GMT Goober said:

youtu.be/qqatEoSd0Fo
37:40
Something new

Pretty solid G5 there!

[Goober]

youtu.be/b6s_Yk79aFQ holy moly jack black kills it on this song

[clem]

Aug 1, 2022 20:12:16 GMT Goober said:

youtu.be/b6s_Yk79aFQ holy moly jack black kills it on this song

He sounds great singing that number. He did a pretty strong "Heaven on Their Minds" too iirc. Maybe he should play Judas in a stage show, cos I think he'd do a great job. He's already played Herod, but he'd get to show off his pipes more as Judas.

[Goober]

I think he is one of the rare cases where he sounds the BEST in his 50s compared to any other age

[Goober]

I deserve 6 JBillion dollars if jack black hits a F1 in the mario movie.

[Goober]

youtu.be/L1R1Ch-2JBs 2:49 shocking discoveries! pretty nice G#5(?)