Post by IhateMana on Feb 16, 2020 3:54:18 GMT
Associated Acts: Xiu Xiu, Former Ghosts, IBOPA, Korea Girl, Ten in the Swear Jar
Vocal Range: D2 - B5
{Vocal Summary}One of the underground's more musically obtuse residents, Jamie Stewart has been a member of various projects throughout his career, but is likely best recognised as the frontman for Xiu Xiu. The music of Xiu Xiu is confrontationally introspective, uncomfortable and frustrating, punctuated by sparse percussion and piercing electronics as well as the maudlin voice of Stewart. Their music occupies a market they themselves have well and truly cornered.
As a vocalist Stewart is one of the strangest you'll come across. Though his voice on non-Xiu Xiu projects tends to be standard indie-fare, his trademark style is a little more unique. Stewart performs as if constantly on the verge of bursting into tears, sporting a desperate upper register and a sombre lower register, all while perfoming in a faux-baritone low larynx style. At its core, Stewart's voice is relatively bright. His lower register is relatively warm and respectably strong, though doesn't possess an awful lot of weight.
As a vocalist Stewart is one of the strangest you'll come across. Though his voice on non-Xiu Xiu projects tends to be standard indie-fare, his trademark style is a little more unique. Stewart performs as if constantly on the verge of bursting into tears, sporting a desperate upper register and a sombre lower register, all while perfoming in a faux-baritone low larynx style. At its core, Stewart's voice is relatively bright. His lower register is relatively warm and respectably strong, though doesn't possess an awful lot of weight.
Significant High Notes
B5 ("I Love the Valley")
B♭5 ("Sita Deth")
G♯5 ("Leopard Coat")
G5 ("Ceremony", "A Knife in the Sun")
F♯5 ("Homunculus")
F5 ("You'd Be So Nice")
E♭5 ("Hated for Loving")
D5 ("Cinthya's Unisex")
C♯5 ("Jennifer Lopez", "San Jose Fight Song")
C5 ("Bog People", "Brooklyn Dodgers", "Ceremony", "Luber", "Muppet Face", "Vulture Piano", "White Nerd")
B4 ("Amargi ve Moo", "Apistat Commander", "Brooklyn Dodgers", "Don Diasco", "Gul Mudin", "Hi", "House Sparrow", "I Love the Valley", "Meat Lover's Smoothie", "Ode to Gaylene", "Pirate Jenny", "San Jose Fight Song")
B♭4 ("Chocolate Makes You Happy", "El Naco", "Girl with Basket of Fruit", "Guantanamo Canto", "Hated for Loving", "Homunculus", "Ian Curtis Wishlist", "Jenny GoGo", "A Knife in the Sun", "Prince Charming", "Rose of Sharon", "Sita Deth", "Under Pressure", "You'd Be So Nice")
A4 ("Cinthya's Unisex", "Daphny", "Dr. Troll", "Hives Hives" Xiu Xiu version, "House Quake II", "I Broke Up", "In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall", "It Comes Out as a Joke", "Jack the Ripper", "Leg Show", "Normal Love", "Queen of the Losers", "Sad Cory-o-Grapher", "San Jose Fight Song", "Stupid in the Dark", "Wondering")
G♯4 ("8 Bit Memories", "Born to Suffer", "Brooklyn Dodgers", "Ceremony", "Cinthya's Unisex", "Famine", "Gauntlet of Thor the Destroyer", "Gayle Lynn", "Get Up", "Girl with Basket of Fruit", "Hot Karl", "Into the Night", "King Earth", "Leopard Coat", "Little Panda McElroy", "Rose of Sharon", "See Line Woman", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Under Pressure", "Where Can I Go Without You", "White Nerd", "Yellow Raspberry")
G4 ("All We Ever Wanted Was Everything", "Amargi ve Moo", "Anne Dong", "Apistat Commander", "Apple for a Brain", "At Last, At Last", "Beauty Towne", "Boy Soprano", "Brian the Vampire", "Bunny Gamer", "The Call", "Chimney's Afire (Mickensian Suicide)", "Crank Heart", "Daphny", "Dear God, I Hate Myself", "Don Diasco", "Don't Smoke in Bed", "The Fabrizio Palumbo Retaliation", "Fabulous Muscles", "Faith, Torn Apart", "Falling", "Fleshettes", "Forget", "Four Women", "Going Straight", "Gul Mudin", "Hay Choco Bananas", "Hi", "Hives", "Hold On", "I Broke Up", "I Do What I Want, When I Want", "I Luv Abortion", "I Wave", "In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall", "Jack the Ripper", "Juno", "Kangaroo", "King Earth, King Earth", "Lonesome Valley", "Mean, Childish and Boring", "Muppet Face", "New Orleans", "Nieces Pieces", "Ode to Gaylene", "Over Over", "Pirate Jenny", "Save Me Save Me", "The Silver Platter", "This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy)", "Vulture Piano", "Wild is the Wind", "Worry Boy", "Yellow Raspberry")
F♯4 ("Black Drum Machine", "Blacks", "Clowne Towne", "Dreams", "Fast Car", "House Quake II", "It Comes Out as a Joke", "Joey's Song", "Josie's Past", "Normal Love", "Sad Cory-o-Grapher", "The Silver Platter", "Suha", "Sycamore Tree", "White Nerd", "You'd Be So Nice")
F4 ("Chocolate Makes You Happy", "Church in the Wildwood", "Clover", "Fabulous Muscles", "Falkland Rd.", "Falling", "Four Women", "Get Up", "Hi", "Honey-Suckle", "Juno", "King Earth, King Earth", "Leg Show", "Muppet Face", "The Oldness", "Only Girl (In the World)", "Stupid in the Dark", "Where Can I Go Without You")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("Black Dick", "Black Drum Machine", "Crank Heart", "Cumberland Gap", "Dr. Troll", "Forget", "Gray Death", "Gul Mudin", "Hives", "I Broke Up", "I Do What I Want, When I Want", "I Don't Play the Drumz", "Impossible Feeling", "Joey's Song", "Juno", "No Friend Oh!", "Normal Love", "Over Over", "Poe Poe", "Sad Girl", "White Nerd")
C♯3 ("Adult Friends", "Born to Suffer", "Dangerous You Shouldn't Be Here", "Factory Girl", "Homunculus", "Hot Karl", "House Quake II", "Ian Curtis Wishlist", "Josie's Past", "Rose of Sharon", "Sad Pony Guerilla Girl")
C3 ("20,000 Deaths for Eidelyn Gonzales, 20,000 Deaths for Jamie Peterson", "Ale", "Apistat Commander", "Apple for a Brain", "Asleep", "Blood of the Lamb", "Botanica de Los Angeles", "Brooklyn Dodgers", "Bunny Gamer", "Clover", "Falling", "Fleshettes", "Get Up", "Going Straight", "Guantanamo Canto", "Hated for Loving", "I'll Fly Away", "In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall", "Jenny GoGo", "King Earth", "A Knife in the Sun", "Lawrence Liquors", "The Leash", "Little Panda McElroy", "Mean, Childish and Boring", "Mousey Toy", "Muppet Face", "New Life Immigration", "Queen of the Losers", "Save Me Save Me", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Stupid in the Dark", "This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy)", "Tiki Fantasy", "Unclouded Sky", "Wondering", "Worry Boy", "The Wrong Thing", "Yellow Raspberry", "You Are Pregnant, You Are Dead")
B2 ("Adult Friends", "All Fo' You", "Archie's Fades", "Baby Captain", "Bishop, CA", "Black Dick", "Blacks", "Botanica de Los Angeles", "Bubble", "Child at Arms", "Clover", "Clowne Towne", "Cinthya's Unisex", "Don't Explain", "The Fox and the Rabbit", "F.T.W.", "House Sparrow", "I Wave", "In the Blue Trunks J.H.", "The Oldness", "The Pineapple vs. The Watermelon", "Sad Girl", "Sad Cory-o-Grapher", "Scisssssssors", "Sycamore Tree", "Vulture Piano")
B♭2 ("Born to Suffer", "Helsabot", "Josie's Past", "Lonesome Valley", "Ode to Gaylene", "Pirate Jenny", "Sad Pony Guerilla Girl", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Wild is the Wind")
A2 ("Black Keyboard", "Bubble", "The Call", "Child at Arms", "Don't Cha", "Don't Explain", "Don't Smoke in Bed", "Factory Girl", "Fast Car", "Four Women", "Get Up", "Going Straight", "Hyunhye's Theme", "I am the Centre of Your World", "Joey's Song", "Just As I Am", "Just Say I Love Him", "The Leash", "King Earth, King Earth", "Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head)", "Mike", "Mousey Toy", "No Friend Oh!", "Normal Love", "Over Over", "Petite", "The Pineapple vs. The Watermelon", "Queen of the Losers", "Wreck on the Highway", "Yellow Raspberry")
G♯2 ("Black Dick", "Buzz Saw", "Church in the Wildwood", "Famine", "Fast Car", "Flo Me La", "Gauntlet of Thor the Destroyer", "Gayle Lynn", "Girl with Basket of Fruit", "Leopard Coat", "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning", "San Jose Fight Song", "See Line Woman", "Tonite and Today (What chu' talkin' 'bout)", "Walnut House", "When You Write")
G2 ("Amargi ve Moo", "Anne Dong", "Asleep", "Bitter Melon", "Black Keyboard", "Blueberry Mine Shaft", "Brian the Vampire", "Don't Explain", "Don't Smoke in Bed", "Fleshettes", "Four Women", "Guantanamo Canto", "Gul Mudin", "I Broke Up", "I'll Fly Away", "I Love the Valley", "I Wave", "Impossible Feeling", "Kitten Revolution", "Leg Show", "Luber", "Petite", "PJ in the Streets…", "Red Croissant", "Smear the Queen", "Where Can I Go Without You", "Worry Boy")
F♯2 ("He Needs Me", "Hyunhye's Theme" Acoustic version, "I Do What I Want, When I Want", "Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head)", "The Other Woman", "Pirate Jenny", "Ten Thousand Times a Minute", "When You Write")
F2 ("Faith, Torn Apart", "Flo Me La", "Saturn", "When You Write" IBOPA version, , "Where Can I Go Without You", "The Wrong Thing")
E2 ("Bitter Melon", "The Other Woman", "Pink City")
E♭2 ("Girl with Basket of Fruit")
D2 ("Pink City")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
F6 ("Vulture Piano" uncontrolled screaming in poor recording definition)
C6 ("Jenny GoGo low quality screams, "Ian Curtis Wishlist" aimless scream, "Leopard Coat" Laughter)
B5 ("I Broke Up" Uncontrolled yelping)
B♭5 ("Adult Friends", "I Luv the Valley OH!" Xiu Xiu version, emphatic scream)
G5 ("Apple for a Brain" idk how to describe this it's just kinda nothing really… it's like, controlled melodic hiccuping or some shit, "Ode to Gaylene" oooooh!")
E♭5 ("Sex So Evil")
A4 ("I Luv Abortion" lol)
E♭2 ("Leopard Coat" shitfry)
C2 ("Anne Dong" Brief spoken note)
IBOPA
(1996) Squids: Obsession and Devotion - (unable to locate 2nd half of album)
(1997) Ballads for Benpadrone - ( - )
Ten in the Swear Jar
(2005) Accordion Solo! - (F♯2 - B5)
Xiu Xiu
(2002) Knife Play - (G2 - F♯5)
(2003) A Promise - (D2 - C5)
(2004) Fabulous Muscles - (G2 - G♯4)
(2005) La Forêt - (F2 - C5)
(2006) The Air Force - (G2 - C5)
(2008) Women as Lovers - (F♯2 - C5)
(2010) Dear God, I Hate Myself - (G2 - B4)
(2012) Always - (G2 - B4)
(2013) Nina - (E2 - F5)
(2014) Angel Guts: Red Classroom - (E2 - G5)
(2014) Unclouded Sky - (G2 - G4)
(2016) Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks - (B♭2 - G♯4)
(2017) FORGET - (F2 - B♭4)
(2019) Girl With Basket of Fruit - (E♭2 - B4)