Post by IhateMana on Feb 16, 2020 4:02:26 GMT
Associated Acts: They Might Be Giants
Vocal Range: C♯2 - B♭5
{Vocal Summary}John Flansburgh is one half of the unabashadley Brooklyn, New York based duo They Might Be Giants. Like other half John Linnell, Flansburgh 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.
Along with Linnell, Flansburgh is a baritone with distinct twang, though is not as low-placed and is clearly more agile in his upper register. Despite being placed higher, Flansburgh also seems to be more comfortable in his lower register. Both Flansburgh and Linnell are talented impersonators and adopt various goofy affects in their voice across their catalogue.
Along with Linnell, Flansburgh is a baritone with distinct twang, though is not as low-placed and is clearly more agile in his upper register. Despite being placed higher, Flansburgh also seems to be more comfortable in his lower register. Both Flansburgh and Linnell are talented impersonators and adopt various goofy affects in their voice across their catalogue.
Significant High Notes
B♭5 ("(She Was A) Hotel Detective")
A5 ("Alienation's For the Rich", "Become a Robot", "(She Was A) Hotel Detective", "Twisting")
G♯5 ("Youth Culture Killed My Dog")
G5 ("Become a Robot", "L M N O", "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head", "Weep Day")
F♯5 ("I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die")
F5 ("Escape from the Planet of the Apes" Live 11/11/1997, "Photosynthesis")
E5 ("Anaheim", "Celebration", "D is for Drums", "Glasgow", "Philadelphia" Live at the Theatre of the Living Arts 30/09/2004, "(She Was A) Hotel Detective", "You'll Miss Me", "Your Mom's Alright")
E♭5 ("Alienation's For the Rich")
D5 ("Asbury Park", "Fingertips (Come on and Wreck My Car)" Live on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series, "Happy Doesn't Have to Have an Ending", "Hot Dog!", "I Can Add", "Photosynthesis", "Rat Patrol", "Spines", "We Just Go Nuts at Christmas Time", "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)")
C♯5 ("E Eats Everything", "Greasy Kid Stuff", "Mainstream U.S.A", "Now is Strange", "Spines")
C5 ("The Ballad of Timothy McSweeny", "Brain Problem Situation", "Cloisonné", "He's Loco", "Leeds" Live at the Leeds Irish Centre 08/09/2004, "Minimum Wage", "Omaha" Live at the Sokol Auditorium 11/07/2004, "Rat Patrol", "Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)", "Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire")
B4 ("Alphabet Lost and Found", "Call You Mom", "The Darlings of Lumberland", "Feign Amnesia", "Haunted Floating Eye", "Here Comes Science", "He's Loco", "John Lee Supertaster", "Letterbox", "Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2", "Now is Strange", "Prevenge", "Radio They Might Be Giants #2", "Science is Real", "So Crazy for Books", "Sold My Mind to the Kremlin", "Spines", "Taste the Fame")
B♭4 ("Alienation's For the Rich", "E Eats Everything", "Fingertips (The Day That Love Came to Play)", "Heart of the Band", "I Just Wanna Dance", "Toddler Hiway", "Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire", "Zeroes")
A4 ("Atlanta" Live at Variety Playhouse 25/09/2004, "Austin" Live at Stubb's 16/07/2004, "Become a Robot", "Call You Mom", "D is for Drums", "The Darlings of Lumberland", "Dig My Grave", "Eight Hundred and Thirteen Mile Car Trip", "For Science", "Happy Doesn't Have to Have an Ending", "Here in Higglytown", "Last Wave", "Leeds" Live at the Leeds Irish Centre 08/09/2004, "Long White Beard", "Never Knew Love", "Omnicorn", "One Everything", "Radio They Might Be Giants #2", "New Haven" Live at Toad's Place 22/09/2004, "Robert Lowell", "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head", "Solid Liquid Gas", "Then the Kids Took Over", "Tubthumping" Live on The Onion's AV Club 2011, "We Live in a Dump", "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)", "With the Dark", "Yeh Yeh", "You'll Miss Me")
G♯4 ("Beneath the Planet of the Apes" Live 21/10/1997, "The Cap'm", "Caroline, No", "The Day", "Disappointing Show" Live at Columbia University NYC, "Fake Out in Buenos Aires", "Go for G!", "Here in Higglytown", "I'm Sick (Of This American Life)", "Pictures of Panda's Painting", "Prevenge", "Roy G. Biv", "Santa Claus", "]Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)", "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head", "So Crazy for Books", "Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire", "Youth Culture Killed My Dog")
G4 ("All Time What", Another First Kiss", "Asbury Park", "Authenticity Trip", "Become a Robot", "Careful What You Pack", "Clap Your Hands", "Counterfeit Faker", "Cyclops Rock", "Dallas", "Damn Good Times", "Extra Savoir-Faire", "Glasgow", "Goatee", "Here Come the ABCs", "He's Loco", "Homunculus", "Hot Dog!", "Houston" Live at the Meridian 20/07/2004, "How Now Dark Cloud?", "I Can Add", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "It's Kickin' In", "Judy is Your Viet Nam", "Kendra McCormick", "L M N O", "Let Me Tell You About My Operation", "Los Angeles", "Man, It's So Loud in Here", "Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2", "Old Pine Box", "Ooh La! Ooh La!", "Oranges", "Out of a Tree", "Radio They Might Be Giants #3", "See the Constellation", "The Shadow Government", "Snail Shell", "The Spine Surfs Alone", "Spoiler Alert", "Take Out the Trash", "Taste the Fame", "They Might Be Giants", "Tick", "Tubthumping" Live on The Onion's AV Club 2011, "Yeh Yeh", "Your Mom's Alright", "Youth Culture Killed My Dog")
F♯4 ("The Bright Side", "Caroline, No", "Concrete and Clay", "Cowtown", "Destroy the Past", "Doctor Worm", "Fake Out in Buenos Aires", "Fingertips (Come On and Wreck My Car)", "Goodnight My Friends", "Greasy Kid Stuff", "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)", "Hearing Aid", "I Love You For Psychological Reasons", "I'm a Coward", "Impossibly New", "It Said Something", "John Lee Supertaster", "Letterbox", "Lincoln, Washington, and That Jefferson Guy", "London" Live at The Astoria 09/09/2004, "Madam, I Challenge You to a Duel", "Memphis" Live at The Lounge at Beale Gibson Street 22/07/2004, "Money for Dope", "Old Pine Box", "Pet Name", "Pirate Girls Nine", "Science is Real", "Sometimes a Lonely Way", "Space Suit", "St. Louis" Live at Mississippi Nights 14/07/2004, "Stone Cold Coup D'État", "Take Out the Trash", "They'll Need a Crane", "Too Tall Girl", "We Live in a Dump", "You're on Fire")
F4 ("About Me", "All the Lazy Boyfriends", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Birds Fly", "Damn Good Times", "Daylight", "The Fellowship of Hell", "Here Comes Science", "He's Loco", "I Can't Hide From My Mind", "I'm Sick (Of This American Life)", "Insect Hospital", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "Lake Monsters", "Last Wave", "Lazyhead and Sleepybones", "Lie Still, Little Bottle", "Maybe I Know", "Memo to Human Resources", "Minimum Wage", "Mink Car", "Mr. Me" Other Thing version, "Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2", "Number Three", "Oh You Did", "Out of a Tree", "Photosynthesis", "Protagonist", "Rabid Child", "Return to the Planet of the Apes" Live at the Mercury Lounge NYC 18/12/1997, "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head", "Snowball in Hell", "Then the Kids Took Over", "To a Forest", "Trouble Awful Devil Evil", "Up the Junction" Live on BBC Radio2 26/06/2010, "Vancouver", "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)", "The World's Address")
E4 ("Alphabet of Nations", "And Mom and Kid", "Another First Kiss", "Apophenia", "Atlanta" Live at Variety Playhouse 25/09/2004, "Authenticity Trip", "The Biggest One", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Boat of Car" Other Thing version, "Boss of Me", "Brooklyn", "Cage & Aquarium", "Careful What You Pack", "Careless Santa", "Celebration", "Chess Piece Face", "Counterfeit Faker", "Creepy", "D is for Drums", "Disappointing Show" Live at Columbia University NYC, "Drink!", "Eight Hundred and Thirteen Mile Car Trip", "Extra Savoir-Faire", "The Fellowship of Hell", "Fingertips (Please Pass the Milk)" various live performances, "Glasgow", "Go for G!", "The Greatest", "Houston" Live at the Meridian 20/07/2004, "Hypnotist of Ladies", "I Can Help the Next in Line", "I Just Want to Dance", "I Wasn't Listening", "I'll Sink Manhattan", "Impossibly New", "In Fact", "Kiss Me, Son of God", "Last Wave", "Let Your Hair Hang Down", "Lost My Mind", "Meet James Ensor", "Memo to Human Resources", "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme", "New York City", "Never Knew Love", "Now That I Have Everything", "Pet Name", "Piece of Dirt", "Planet of the Apes" Live at the Mercury Lounge NYC 18/12/1997, "Prevenge", "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head", "Q U", "Radio They Might Be Giants #1", "Roy G. Biv", "Santa Cruz" Live at The Catalyst 15/08/2004, "Santa's Beard", "Science is Real", "Scott Bower", "The Shadow Government", "(She Was A) Hotel Detective", "Sleeping in the Flowers", "Snail Shell", "The Spine Surfs Alone", "Spines", "Spy", "Taste the Fame", "Tesla", "This Microphone", "Three Might Be Duende", "Truth in Your Words", "Up the Junction" Live on BBC Radio2 26/06/2010, "Upside Down Frown", "Walking My Cat Named Dog", "Weep Day", "We're The Replacements", "Working Undercover for the Man", "The World Before Later On", "XTC vs. Adam Ant", "You Probably Get That a Lot", "Youth Culture Killed My Dog")
Significant Low Notes
C3 ("All the Lazy Boyfriends", "An Insult to the Fact Checkers", "Another First Kiss", "Careful What You Pack", "Circular Karate Chop", "Cloisonné", "Drink!", "Extra Savoir-Faire", "I Can't Hide From My Mind", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "Good to Be Alive", "Judy is Your Viet Nam", "Lake Monsters", "Let Me Tell You About My Operation", "Letter Shapes", "Memo to Human Resources", "Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2", "Nouns", "Omnicorn", "Ooh La! Ooh La!", "San Francisco" Live at The Fillmore 14/08/2004, "Taste the Fame", "To a Forest", "Women & Men", "They Might Be Giants", "Unforgotten")
B2 ("Absolutely Bill's Mood", "Albany", "All Time What", "Ant", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)", "Birds Fly", "Brain Problem Situation", "C is for Conifers", "Cage & Aquarium", "Down to the Bottom of the Sea", "Go for G!", "How Can I Sing Like a Girl?", "If I Wasn't Shy", "I'll Sink Manhattan", "Love is Eternity", "Madam, I Challenge You to a Duel", "Metal Detector", "Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees and Hares", "Moving to the Sun", "Nanobots", "Now That I Have Everything", "Piece of Dirt", "Protagonist", "Roy G. Biv", "Sapphire Bulletts of Pure Love", "Sketchy Galore", "Spoiler Alert", "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", "When it Rains it Snows", "Whirlpool", "The World Before Later On", "You'll Miss Me")
B♭2 ("Canada Haunts Me", "Hide Away Folk Family", "How Can I Sing Like a Girl?", "Lie Still, Little Bottle", "O, Do Not Forsake Me" Richard Reagan version, "With the Dark", "Zeroes")
A2 ("Ant", "The Army's Tired Now", "Cage & Aquarium", "Didn't Kill Me", "Fake Believe", "Here Comes Science", "I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die", "I Made a Mess", "In Fact", "John Lee Supertaster", "Lost My Mind", "Moving to the Sun", "Oranges", "Replicant", "Road Movie to Berlin", "Roy G. Biv", "Science is Real", "S-E-X-X-Y", "She's Actual Size", "Unforgotten", "What is a Shooting Star?", "Who Put the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order?", "Why Must I Be Sad?", "You'll Miss Me")
G♯2 ("Alienation's For the Rich", "The Darlings of Lumberland", "Disappointing Show" Live at Columbia University NYC, "Fake Believe", "Hide Away Folk Family", "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head" Mink Car version)
G2 ("Another First Kiss", "The Ballad of Timothy McSweeny", "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" Live 21/10/1997, "Cabbagetown", "Clap Your Hands", "Computer Assisted Design", "Cowtown", "Daylight", "I Like Fun", "Lake Monsters", "Let Me Tell You About My Operation", "Purple Toupee", "Reprehensible", "Thinking Machine", "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", "Token Back to Brooklyn", "With the Dark")
F♯2 ("Absolutely Bill's Mood", "Celebration", "The Darlings of Lumberland", "Who Put the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order?")
F2 ("Fingertips (I Hear the Wind Blow)" various live performances, "Got Getting Up So Down", "I Am Alone", "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", "John Lee Supertaster", "Mr. Me", "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head", "Sold My Mind to the Kremlin", "Toddler Hiway")
E2 ("Brooklyn", "Celebration", "Doom Doom", "Hot Cha", "Fingertips (Who's Knocking on the Wall)" various live performances, "In Fact", "Photosynthesis", "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)")
E♭2 ("Alienation's For the Rich", "It's Getting Late", "O, Do Not Forsake Me" Richard Reagan version, "Swing is a Word", "Three Might Be Duende")
D2 ("Computer Assisted Design", "Hot Cha", "L M N O", "Up the Junction", "The Vowel Family")
C♯2 ("The Darlings of Lumberland", "S-E-X-X-Y", "Swing is a Word")
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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}
C6 ("Spy" questionable identity and quality)
C5 ("Cyclops Rock" questionable identity)
D2 ("Ten Mississippi" Altered, just wanted to say Robin Goldwasser gets one hell of a C6 in this song, "The Secret Life of Six" Altered)
C♯2 ("Wake Up Call" unclear if pitch is altered or not)
C6 ("Spy" questionable identity and quality)
C5 ("Cyclops Rock" questionable identity)
D2 ("Ten Mississippi" Altered, just wanted to say Robin Goldwasser gets one hell of a C6 in this song, "The Secret Life of Six" Altered)
C♯2 ("Wake Up Call" unclear if pitch is altered or not)
{Discography}
They Might Be Giants
(1986) They Might Be Giants - (E♭2 - B♭5)
(1988) Lincoln - (F2 - E5)
(1990) Flood - (D2 - A5)
(1992) Apollo 18 - (A2 - B♭4)
(1994) John Henry - (A2 - G4)
(1996) Factory Showroom - (C♯2 - F♯4)
(1999) Long Tall Weekend - (G2 - G5)
(2001) Mink Car - (G2 - A4)
(2002) No! - (F2 - B4)
(2004) The Spine - (B2 - D5)
(2005) Venue Songs - (E2 - E5)
(2005) Here Comes the ABCs - (D2 - G5)
(2007) The Else - (B♭2 - B4)
(2007) Cast Your Pod to the Wind - (B2 - C5)
(2008) Here Comes the 123s - (E2 - D5)
(2009) Here Comes Science - (D2 - F5)
(2011) Join Us - (E♭2 - E5)
(2011) Album Raises New and Troubling Questions - (E2 - A4)
(2013) Nanobots - (C♯2 - B4)
(2015) Glean - (G2 - B4)
(2015) Why? - (G2 - B4)
(2016) Phone Power - (F2 - B4)
(2018) I Like Fun - (G2 - A4)
They Might Be Giants
(1986) They Might Be Giants - (E♭2 - B♭5)
(1988) Lincoln - (F2 - E5)
(1990) Flood - (D2 - A5)
(1992) Apollo 18 - (A2 - B♭4)
(1994) John Henry - (A2 - G4)
(1996) Factory Showroom - (C♯2 - F♯4)
(1999) Long Tall Weekend - (G2 - G5)
(2001) Mink Car - (G2 - A4)
(2002) No! - (F2 - B4)
(2004) The Spine - (B2 - D5)
(2005) Venue Songs - (E2 - E5)
(2005) Here Comes the ABCs - (D2 - G5)
(2007) The Else - (B♭2 - B4)
(2007) Cast Your Pod to the Wind - (B2 - C5)
(2008) Here Comes the 123s - (E2 - D5)
(2009) Here Comes Science - (D2 - F5)
(2011) Join Us - (E♭2 - E5)
(2011) Album Raises New and Troubling Questions - (E2 - A4)
(2013) Nanobots - (C♯2 - B4)
(2015) Glean - (G2 - B4)
(2015) Why? - (G2 - B4)
(2016) Phone Power - (F2 - B4)
(2018) I Like Fun - (G2 - A4)
