Post by IhateMana on Feb 16, 2020 3:59:18 GMT
Associated Acts: They Might Be Giants
Vocal Range: C2 - G5
{Vocal Summary}John Linnell is one half of the unabashadley Brooklyn, New York based duo They Might Be Giants. Like other half John Flansburgh, Linnell is a multi-instrumentalist and composes a majority of the band's music. Yeah I just copy-pasted this first paragraph between them, fuck you.
Linnell possesses a heavy baritone voice. Considerably lower placed than Flansburgh, Linnell's upper register has a distinct push to it and his lows are much darker. Interestingly enough however, he appears to be less comfortable singing low than Flansburgh, who often takes the lower parts live and in general is more explorative in this register than Linnell. Perhaps related, Linnell has also begun singing much higher as his career has gone on. A trademark of Linnell's voice is his twang, which can be quite overwhelming to the uninitiated. While clearly possessing a falsetto register, it's seldom ever heard and is almost exclusively buried in backing vocals. Both Linnell and Flansburgh are talented impersonators and adopt various goofy affects in their voice across their catalogue.
Linnell possesses a heavy baritone voice. Considerably lower placed than Flansburgh, Linnell's upper register has a distinct push to it and his lows are much darker. Interestingly enough however, he appears to be less comfortable singing low than Flansburgh, who often takes the lower parts live and in general is more explorative in this register than Linnell. Perhaps related, Linnell has also begun singing much higher as his career has gone on. A trademark of Linnell's voice is his twang, which can be quite overwhelming to the uninitiated. While clearly possessing a falsetto register, it's seldom ever heard and is almost exclusively buried in backing vocals. Both Linnell and Flansburgh are talented impersonators and adopt various goofy affects in their voice across their catalogue.
Significant High Notes
G5 ("Become a Robot")
F5 ("Mr. Me")
E5 ("New Orleans" Live at the House of Blues 21/07/2004, "They Might Be Giants")
D5 ("They Might Be Giants")
C♯5 ("Turn Around")
C5 ("Figure Eight")
B4 ("Birds Fly", "Canajoharie", "Charlottesville", "Santa Cruz" Live at The Catalyst 15/08/2004, "Turn Around")
B♭4 ("He's Loco", "Mr. Klaw", "Spiraling Shape")
A4 ("Aaa", "Austin" Live at Stubb's 16/07/2004, "Canajoharie", "The Mesopotamians", "Microphone", "Pittsburgh", "Rat Patrol", "Rhythm Section Want Ad", "Shape Shifter", "Skullivan", "Spine")
G♯4 ("The Day", "My Man", "Prevenge", "Radio They Might Be Giants #1")
G4 ("Answer", "Can You Find It?", "Destination Moon", "Erase", "Even Numbers", "Finished With Lies", "Hate the Villanelle", "Here Come the 123s", "Leeds" Live at the Leeds Irish Centre 08/09/2004, "Lucky Ball & Chain", "Meet the Elements", "One Everything", "Push Back the Hands", "Put it to the Test", "The Shadow Government" Live at the German House Rochester NY 12/05/2007, "Snowball in Hell", "Solid Liquid Gas", "The Songs of the 50 States", "Spiraling Shape", "The Statue Got Me High", "They Might Be Giants", "Thunderbird", "Withered Hope")
F♯4 ("9 Secret Steps", "Asbury Park", "Become a Robot", "Bed Bed Bed", "Birdhouse in Your Soul" Live at the Kennedy Centre 2010, "Broke in Two", "Call You Mom", "Can You Find It?", "Canajoharie", "Charlottesville", "D & W", "ECNALUBMA", "Experimental Film", "Exquisite Dead Guy", "Havalina", "How Many Planets?", "I C U", "Icky", "Last Wave", "Let Your Hair Hang Down", "Let's Get This Over With", "Maine", "The Mesopotamians", "Montana", "My Brother the Ape", "My Evil Twin", "Narrow Your Eyes", "Now is Strange", "Put it to the Test", "Stand On Your Own Head", "Stone Cold Coup D'État", "Subliminal", "T-Shirt", "Take Out the Trash", "Turn Around", "Up the Junction", "Violin", "Walking My Cat Named Dog", "Wearing a Raincoat", "We're The Replacements")
F4 ("200 sbemails", "Aaa", "Anaheim", "Bangs", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Birds Fly", "Cells", "Circular Karate Chop", "Climbing the Walls", "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" Live at the Mercury Lounge NYC 18/12/1997, "Feast of Lights", "Figure Eight", "Fingertips (I Walk Along Darkened Corridors)" Live on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series, "Flying V", "Goatee", "He's Loco", "Houston" Live at the Meridian 20/07/2004, "I Am Alone", "I Made a Mess", "Icky", "I'm All You Can Think About", "Iowa", "Los Angeles", "Mr. Me", "My Man", "New Orleans" Live at the House of Blues 21/07/2004, "No One Knows My Plan", "Number Three", "One Everything", "Oregon", "Push Back the Hands", "Rolling O", "See the Constellation", "She's Actual Size", "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair", "Spine", "T-Shirt", "Take Out the Trash", "Till My Head Falls Off", "Up the Junction", "Utah", "What Did I Do to You?", "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)", "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)", "Why Must I Be Sad?")
E4 ("Apartment Four", "Bastard Wants to Hit Me", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "The Bloodmobile", "Broke in Two", "Brooklyn", "Cage & Aquarium", "Canajoharie", "Can't Keep Johnny Down", "The Cap'm", "Charlottesville", "Columbia" Live at the Blue Note 13/07/2004, "Contrecoup", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Dallas", "Dinner Bell", "Dollar for Dollar", "Don't Let's Start", "ECNALUBMA", "Eight Hundred and Thirteen Mile Car Trip", "End of the Rope", "Erase", "Everything Right is Wrong Again", "Experimental Film", "Exquisite Dead Guy", "Fake Believe" Type B, "Fingertips (All Alone, All by Myself)", "Fingertips (Hey Now Everybody)" various live performances, "Fingertips (I'm Having a Heart Attack)" Live on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series, "Finished With Lies", "Four of Two", "Great", "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal", "Hopeless Bleak Despair", "How Can I Sing Like a Girl?", "I Am Invisible", "I Can Help the Next in Line", "I Haven't Seen You in Forever", "I Left My Body", "I Love You For Psychological Reasons", "I Should Be Allowed to Think", "I'll Be Haunting You", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "It Said Something", "I've Got a Match", "Last Wave", "Leeds" Live at the Leeds Irish Centre 08/09/2004, "Let Your Hair Hang Down", "Let's Get This Over With", "London" Live at The Astoria 09/09/2004, "Lost My Mind", "Lullabye to Nightmares", "I Made a Mess", "Maine", "Mammal", "Man, It's So Loud in Here", "McCafferty's Bib", "Memo to Human Resources", "The Mesopotamians", "Metal Detector", "Microphone", "My Brother the Ape", "Nanobots", "Narrow Your Eyes", "New Hampshire", "New Haven" Live at Toad's Place 22/09/2004, "No!", "Now is Strange", "On Earth My Nina", "One Everything", "Or So I Have Read", "Out of Jail", "Prevenge", "Renew My Subscription", "Rhythm Section Want Ad", "San Francisco" Live at The Fillmore 14/08/2004, "Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love", "See the Constellation", "Sensurround", "Shape Shifter", "Skullivan", "Sleep", "Snail Shell", "Solid Liquid Gas", "Spoiler Alert", "Thermostat", "Thinking Machine", "Thunderbird", "Till My Head Falls", "Triops Has Three Eyes", "Trouble Awful Devil Evil", "Tuscon" Live at City Limits 20/08/2004, "Twisting", "Vancouver", "Walking My Cat Named Dog", "Waves", "Wearing a Raincoat", "We're The Replacements", "West Virginia", "When it Rains it Snows", "When the Lights Come On", "When Will You Die", "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" Live at the Town and Country Club, London 1990, "Your Own Worst Enemy", "You're on Fire", "Youth Culture Killed My Dog")
E♭4 ("Am I Awake?", "Bastard Wants to Hit Me", "Fingertips (Mysterious Whisper)", "I Am Alone", "I Love You For Psychological Reasons", "Kids Go!", "Lost My Mind", "Minneapolis" Live at First Avenue Stage 09/07/2004, "Monsters of Mud", "My Man", "Pictures of Panda's Painting", "Radio They Might Be Giants #3", "A Self Called Nowhere", "Siftin'", "Spiraling Shape", "Tuscon" Live at City Limits 20/08/2004, "Unpronounceable", "We've Got a World That Swings", "Why Did You Grow a Beard?")
D4 ("9 Secret Steps", "Aaa", "AKA Driver", "Ana Ng", "Answer", "Asbury Park", "Asheville", "Bangs", "Become a Robot", "Bed Bed Bed", "The Bloodmobile", "Brain Problem Situation", "By the Time You Get This", "Can You Find It?", "Can't Keep Johnny Down", "Cast Your Pod to the Wind", "Certain People I Could Name", "Climbing the Walls", "Columbia" Live at the Blue Note 13/07/2004, "Cowtown", "D & W", "D is for Drums", "Destination Moon", "Dollar for Dollar", "Don't Let's Start", "Even Numbers", "Everything Right is Wrong Again", "Experimental Film", "Fake Believe", "Fake Out in Buenos Aires", "Feast of Lights", "Figure Eight", "Fingertips (Everything is Catching on Fire)", "Fingertips (I Walk Along Darkened Corridors)", "Fingertips (Something Grabbed Ahold of My Hand)" various live performances, "Finished With Lies", "Flying V", "Four of Two", "Goatee", "Great", "Hate the Villanelle", "Hello Mrs. Wheelyke", "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal", "Hide Away Folk Family", "The House at the Top of the Tree", "Houston" Live at the Meridian 20/07/2004, "Hovering Sombrero", "I Am a Human Head", "I C U", "I Haven't Seen You in Forever", "I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die", "I Left My Body", "I Palindrome I", "Icky", "I'm All You Can Think About", "I'm Impressed", "It's Not My Birthday", "James K. Polk", "The Lady and the Tiger", "Last Wave", "London" Live at The Astoria 09/09/2004, "Los Angeles", "Lucky Ball & Chain", "Maine", "Meet the Elements", "Memphis" Live at The Lounge at Beale Gibson Street 22/07/2004, "The Mesopotamians", "Metal Detector", "Michigan", "Morgan in the Morning ID", "Mr. Me", "Mrs. Bluebeard", "Mrs. Train", "Museum of Idiots", "My Brother the Ape", "My Man", "New Orleans" Live at the House of Blues 21/07/2004, "Never Knew Love", "Nine Bowls of Soup", "Nonagon", "Now I Know", "O Tannenbaum", "On Earth My Nina", "One Two Three Four", "Or So I Have Read", "Oranges Testimonial", "Other Father's Song", "Out of Jail", "Pencil Rain", "Pittsburgh", "Purple Toupee", "Put it to the Test", "Rat Patrol", "Renew My Subscription", "Rest Awhile", "Rhythm Section Want Ad", "Sensurround", "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" Back to Skull version, "Sleep", "Snail Shell", "Snowball in Hell", "Solid Liquid Gas", "The Songs of the 50 States", "South Carolina", "Spoiler Alert", "The Statue Got Me High", "Stone Cold Coup D'État", "Subliminal", "T-Shirt", "Thermostat", "They'll Need a Crane", "Thinking Machine", "Thunderbird", "Towson" Live at the Recher Theatre 23/09/2004, "Tubthumping" Live on The Onion's AV Club 2011, "Turn Around", "Twisting", "Underwater Woman", "Vancouver", "Violin", "We Want a Rock", "Wearing a Raincoat", "Weep Day", "Welcome to the Jungle", "What Did I Do to You?", "What is a Shooting Star?", "When the Lights Come On", "Which Describes How You're Feeling", "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)", "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)", "Why Must I Be Sad?", "Withered Hope", "Women & Men", "You Probably Get That a Lot", "Your Racist Friend", "You're on Fire", "Z Y X")
Significant Low Notes
C3 ("200 sbemails", "32 Footsteps", "Asheville", "The Bee of the Bird of the Moth", "The Bells Are Ringing", "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Birds Fly", "Dinner Bell", "End of the Rope", "Farmingdale" Live at The Downtown 31/07/2004, "Feast of Lights", "Fingertips (All Alone, All by Myself)", "Fingertips (I Don't Understand You)", "Finished With Lies", "The House at the Top of the Tree", "I Am Alone", "Icky", "I'm All You Can Think About", "Impossible", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "James K. Polk", "Man, It's So Loud in Here", "Monsters of Mud", "My Man", "No One Knows My Plan", "Nonagon", "Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes", "Number Three", "O Tannenbaum", "Philadelphia" Live at the Theatre of the Living Arts 30/09/2004, "Santa Cruz" Live at The Catalyst 15/08/2004, "Seven", "Siftin'", "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair", "Stalk of Wheat", "This Ape's for You" Live 1998, "Till My Head Falls Off", "Towson" Live at the Recher Theatre 23/09/2004, "Underwater Woman", "Unrelated Thing", "We Want a Rock", "We've Got a World That Swings", "Where Your Eyes Don't Go", "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)", "Your Own Worst Enemy")
B2 ("2082", "Alphabet of Nations", "Am I Awake?", "Ana Ng", "Answer", "Apartment Four", "Apophenia", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)", "Bangs", "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Brain Problem Situation", "Canajoharie", "Certain People I Could Name", "Charleston" Live at The Music Farm 26/09/2004, "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Dead", "The End of the Tour", "Experimental Film", "Fingertips (I Found a New Friend Underneath My Pillow)" various live performances, "Fingertips (I'm Having a Heart Attack)", "Fingertips (What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?)", "Four of Two", "Hopeless Bleak Despair", "Hovering Sombrero", "I Love You For Psychological Reasons", "I'll Be Haunting You", "I'm Your Boyfriend Now", "Impossible", "It Said Something", "Kiss Me, Son of God", "Let Your Hair Hang Down", "London" Live at The Astoria 09/09/2004, "Lost My Mind", "Mammal", "McCafferty's Bib", "Meet the Elements", "Metal Detector", "Mrs. Train", "Nanobots", "Nightgown of the Sullen Moon", "Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes", "Now I Know", "Now is Strange", "Sensurround", "She's an Angel", "Sleepwalkers", "Spoiler Alert", "Stand On Your Own Head", "Tesla", "Thermostat", "Towson" Live at the Recher Theatre 23/09/2004, "Trouble Awful Devil Evil", "Tuscon" Live at City Limits 20/08/2004, "Upside Down Frown", "Waves", "Wearing a Raincoat", "Whirlpool", "You're on Fire", "Youth Culture Killed My Dog", "Z Y X")
B♭2 ("Broke in Two", "It's Not My Birthday", "Monsters of Mud", "No!", "A Self Called Nowhere", "Spiraling Shape", "Thermostat", "We've Got a World That Swings")
A2 ("9 Secret Steps", "Alphabet of Nations", "Anaheim", "Answer", "Atlanta" Live at Variety Playhouse 25/09/2004, "Au Contraire", "Bangs", "The Big Big Whoredom", "Contrecoup", "Dinner Bell", "ECNALUBMA", "The End of the Tour", "Everything Right is Wrong Again", "Fingertips (I Don't Understand You)", "Hello Mrs. Wheelyke", "I Can't Hide From My Mind", "I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die", "I'm Your Boyfriend Now", "Iowa", "It Was a Very Good Year", "The Lady and the Tiger", "Let's Get This Over With", "I Made a Mess", "Impossibly New", "Maine", "Memphis" Live at The Lounge at Beale Gibson Street 22/07/2004, "The Mesopotamians", "Microphone", "Mountain Flowers", "Mrs. Bluebeard", "Museum of Idiots", "Never Knew Love", "New Hampshire", "Nine Bowls of Soup", "No One Knows My Plan", "Older", "Particle Man", "Pencil Rain", "Put Your Hand on the Computer", "Rat Patrol", "Renew My Subscription", "Rolling O", "Replicant", "She Was a Hotel Detective" Back to Skull version, "Spider", "Stormy Pinkness", "Subliminal", "Tubthumping" Live on The Onion's AV Club 2011, "Weep Day", "Welcome to the Jungle", "West Virginia", "What Did I Do to You?", "What is a Shooting Star?", "Which Describes How You're Feeling", "Whistling in the Dark", "Why Must I Be Sad?", "Withered Hope", "You Don't Like Me")
G♯2 ("Am I Awake?", "Bastard Wants to Hit Me", "Dinner Bell", "Kiss Me, Son of God", "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" Back to Skull version, "(She Was A) Hotel Detective in the Future", "When it Rains it Snows")
G2 ("The Big Big Whoredom", "Cast Your Pod to the Wind", "Cells", "Counterfeit Faker", "Definition of Good", "Even Numbers", "Hate the Villanelle", "He's Loco", "I Am Not Your Broom", "I Can Help the Next in Line", "I Haven't Seen You in Forever", "Iowa", "I've Got a Fang", "Marty Beller Mask", "Minneapolis" Live at First Avenue Stage 09/07/2004, "Mr. Klaw", "Nevada", "Never Knew Love", "No!", "Oh You Did", "Put it to the Test", "Skullivan", "The Statue Got Me High", "Till My Head Falls", "Trouble Awful Devil Evil", "Violin", "We Want a Rock", "Where Your Eyes Don't Go", "Wicked Little Critta", "You Probably Get That a Lot", "Your Own Worst Enemy")
F♯2 ("Money for Dope", "One Two Three Four", "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" Live at the Town and Country Club, London 1990)
F2 ("Even Numbers", "Marty Beller Mask", "Mountain Flowers", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "I've Got a Fang", "Oregon", "Push Back the Hands", "A Self Called Nowhere", "(She Was A) Hotel Detective in the Future", "Stalk of Wheat")
E2 ("Arkansas", "Bed Bed Bed", "The Bloodmobile", "Idaho", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "Mr. Klaw", "Thinking Machine", "Tuscon" Live at City Limits 20/08/2004, "Up the Junction" Live on BBC Radio2 26/06/2010, "Whistling in the Dark")
E♭2 ("Exquisite Dead Guy", "He's Loco", "Which Describes How You're Feeling" 1985 demo)
D2 ("Birdhouse in Your Soul", "I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die", "Mr. Me", "My Man", "Oh You Did", "The Shadow Government", "Spider", "Unpronounceable")
C♯2 ("Fingertips (Aren't You the Guy Who Hit Me in the Eye?)", "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" Back to Skull version)
C2 ("They Might Be Giants")
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Blue indicates falsetto
Italics indicates non-melodic notes
Underlined indicates notes obscured in backing vocals or harmonies
Boldface indicates notes that are particularly notable examples of this singer's capabilities
{Questionable Notes}
B5 ("Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes" possibly the mightiest scream of all time)
D5 ("Where Your Eyes Don't Go" probably a keyboard)
A4 ("I Am Invisible" i'm deaf af and can't tell what's happening here, "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" probably a keyboard)
D2 ("Violin")
C♯2 ("The Bloodmobile" implied?, "Which Describes How You're Feeling" 1985 demo, unclear whether or not this note is actually reached)
B5 ("Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes" possibly the mightiest scream of all time)
D5 ("Where Your Eyes Don't Go" probably a keyboard)
A4 ("I Am Invisible" i'm deaf af and can't tell what's happening here, "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" probably a keyboard)
D2 ("Violin")
C♯2 ("The Bloodmobile" implied?, "Which Describes How You're Feeling" 1985 demo, unclear whether or not this note is actually reached)
{Discography}
They Might Be Giants
(1986) They Might Be Giants - (D2 - A4)
(1988) Lincoln - (D2 - F5)
(1990) Flood - (C2 - E5)
(1992) Apollo 18 - (C♯2 - C♯5)
(1994) John Henry - (F2 - G4)
(1996) Factory Showroom - (E♭2 - B♭4)
(1999) Long Tall Weekend - (G2 - A4)
(2001) Mink Car - (D2 - G♯4)
(2002) No! - (E2 - F♯4)
(2004) The Spine - (F2 - A4)
(2005) Venue Songs - (E2 - E5)
(2005) Here Comes the ABCs - (A2 - G4)
(2007) The Else - (D2 - A4)
(2007) Cast Your Pod to the Wind - (F2 - A4)
(2008) Here Comes the 123s - (F2 - C5)
(2009) Here Comes Science - (E2 - G4)
(2011) Join Us - (G2 - B4)
(2011) Album Raises New and Troubling Questions - (F2 - F♯4)
(2013) Nanobots - (A2 - F♯4)
(2015) Glean - (D2 - A4)
(2015) Why? - (D2 - F♯4)
(2016) Phone Power - (G2 - A4)
(2018) I Like Fun - (F2 - G4)
Solo
(1999) State Songs (E2 - G4)
They Might Be Giants
(1986) They Might Be Giants - (D2 - A4)
(1988) Lincoln - (D2 - F5)
(1990) Flood - (C2 - E5)
(1992) Apollo 18 - (C♯2 - C♯5)
(1994) John Henry - (F2 - G4)
(1996) Factory Showroom - (E♭2 - B♭4)
(1999) Long Tall Weekend - (G2 - A4)
(2001) Mink Car - (D2 - G♯4)
(2002) No! - (E2 - F♯4)
(2004) The Spine - (F2 - A4)
(2005) Venue Songs - (E2 - E5)
(2005) Here Comes the ABCs - (A2 - G4)
(2007) The Else - (D2 - A4)
(2007) Cast Your Pod to the Wind - (F2 - A4)
(2008) Here Comes the 123s - (F2 - C5)
(2009) Here Comes Science - (E2 - G4)
(2011) Join Us - (G2 - B4)
(2011) Album Raises New and Troubling Questions - (F2 - F♯4)
(2013) Nanobots - (A2 - F♯4)
(2015) Glean - (D2 - A4)
(2015) Why? - (D2 - F♯4)
(2016) Phone Power - (G2 - A4)
(2018) I Like Fun - (F2 - G4)
Solo
(1999) State Songs (E2 - G4)
{Bolds}
G♯4 ("The Day")
F♯4 ("Montana")
E4 ("The Cap'm", "I'll Be Haunting You")
E♭4 ("Fingertips (Mysterious Whisper)")
D4 ("Rest Awhile", "Rhythm Section Want Ad", "The Statue Got Me High", "Why Must I Be Sad?")
A2 ("Pencil Rain")
G2 ("Violin")
E2 ("Arkansas", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "Whistling in the Dark")
D2 ("Mr. Me", "Unpronounceable")
C2 ("They Might Be Giants")
G♯4 ("The Day")
F♯4 ("Montana")
E4 ("The Cap'm", "I'll Be Haunting You")
E♭4 ("Fingertips (Mysterious Whisper)")
D4 ("Rest Awhile", "Rhythm Section Want Ad", "The Statue Got Me High", "Why Must I Be Sad?")
A2 ("Pencil Rain")
G2 ("Violin")
E2 ("Arkansas", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "Whistling in the Dark")
D2 ("Mr. Me", "Unpronounceable")
C2 ("They Might Be Giants")
