Post by IhateMana on Apr 2, 2020 0:48:47 GMT
Thomas Edward Yorke (7 October 1968)
Member Of: On a Friday (1985 - 1991), Radiohead (1991 - Present), Headless Chickens (1988 or 89), The Venus in Furs (1998), Atoms for Peace (2009 - 2013, 2018), The Smile (2021 - Present)
Vocal Range: E2 - B5
{Vocal Summary}Soon...
Significant High Notes
B5 ("Rattlesnake")
B♭5 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill")
G♯5 ("Pop Is Dead" Live 1994)
F5 ("Anyone Can Play Guitar" Live in Bristol 1995, "The Drunkk Machine")
E5 ("Keep Strong", "Life With the Big F", "To Be a Brilliant Light")
E♭5 ("Bitter-Sweet", "Fat Girl", "Mr B")
D5 ("Bones", "Go to Sleep. (Little Man being Erased.)", "The Headmaster Ritual" Live Webcast 09/11/2007, "Mirror")
C♯5 ("All for the Best", "Atoms for Peace", "Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill", "Ful Stop", "Give It Up", "The Mother Lode", "Nude", "Keep Strong")
C5 ("Airbag" Early rehearsal MD112, "Analyse", "Bitter-Sweet", "Bodysnatchers" Scotch Mist version, "Cymbal Rush", "Daydreaming", "Default" Instrumental Edit, "Down Is the New Up", "Electioneering", "Free in the Knowledge", "Gazzillion Ear" Thom Yorke remix, "House of Cards", "Idioteque", "Interference", "Judge, Jury and Executioner", "Just", "Killer Cars", "Lotus Flower", "Paranoid Android", "Pearly*", "Present Tense" Jonny, Thom & a CR78, "Reverse Running", "Sinking Ship", "Twist", "We suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)")
B4 ("Airbag" MD 1-3, "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", "Banana Co.", "Bangers + Mash", "Black Star", "Climbing Up the Walls", "The Clock", "Creep", "Default", "The Eraser", "Fragile Friend", "Give Up the Ghost", "Happy Song", "Impossible Knots", "In the Breeze", "Inside My Head" Pablo Honey Collectors Edition live performance, "Jigsaw Falling into Place", "Karma Police", "Maquiladora", "Maybe", "Million Dollar Question", "Mirror", "The Mother Lode", "Nose Grows Some", "Not the News", "Nude", "The Numbers", "The Opposite", "Optimistic", "A Punchup at a Wedding (No no no no no no no no.)", "Rattlesnake", "Reckoner", "Skip Divided", "The Smoke", "Stop Whispering" Live @ The Astoria, London 27/05/1994, "Stuck Together Pieces", "Sulk", "Suspirium", "Swing" Live in Oxford 1991, "There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)", "Thin Thing", "To Be a Brilliant Light", "Traffic", "Vegetable" Pablo Honey Collectors Edition live performance, "Waving a White Flag", "A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)", "Worrywort", "You", "You and Whose Army?")
B♭4 ("15 Step", "2 + 2 = 5. (The Lukewarm.)", "Amok", "And it Rained All Night", "Atoms for Peace", "The Butcher", "A Choir of One", "Daily Battles", "Dropped", "Electric Candyman", "Free in the Knowledge", "Gazzillion Ear" Thom Yorke remix, "Give It Up", "Go to Sleep. (Little Man being Erased.)", "Has Ended", "The Hollow Earth", "I Might Be Wrong", "Ill Wind", "Impossible Knots", "Ingenue", "Morning Mr. Magpie" Radiohead Webcast December 2002, "Mr B", "My New Clothes" 2-1, "Paranoid Android", "Soft Pain" Thom solo 3-4, "Staircase", "Traffic", "Twist", "We suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)", "The White Flash")
A4 ("4 Minute Warning", "After the Goldrush" Live Bridge School Benefit 2002, "Attenzione!" Portland Soundcheck 25/03/1996, "Beautiful People", "The Bends", "Bishop's Robes", "Bloom", "Bodysnatchers", "Bones", "A Brain in a Bottle", "Burn the Witch", "Burning Bush", "The Butcher", "Climbing Up the Walls", "Codex", "Creep", "Cuttooth", "The Daily Mail", "Default", "Dollars & Cents", "Down Is the New Up", "The Drunkk Machine", "Everybody Knows", "Faithless the Wonderboy" Live in Hollywood, USA 1993, "Fake Plastic Trees" "Fast-Track", "Feral", "Girl Club" 2-1, "Give Up the Ghost", "The Gloaming. (Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.)", "Go Slowly", "A Hairdryer", "How Can You Be Sure?", "How Do You?", "How to Disappear Completely", "I Am a Wicked Child", "I Don't Want to Go to Woodstock", "I Might Be Wrong", "I Promise", "I Want None of This", "I Will. (No Man's Land.)", "Iluvya", "India Rubber", "Ingenue", "Judge, Jury and Executioner", "Just", "Keep Strong", "Kid A" Live in Belfort, France 2003, "Let Down", "Life With the Big F", "Lotus Flower", "Lozenge of Love", "Man of War", "Messy Jams" Untitled jam session MD113, "Million Dollar Question", "Morning Bell", "Morning Bell/Amnesiac", "The Mother Lode", "Motion Picture Soundtrack" Early Rehearsal 2-1, "The National Anthem", "(Nice Dream)", "Not the News", "Nothing Touches Me", "Open Again", "Open the Floodgates", "The Opposite", "Optimistic", "Palo Alto", "Pana-vision", "Phillipa Chicken", "Planet Telex", "Pop Is Dead", "Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)", "Prove Yourself" BBC One Session 22/06/1992, "A Punchup at a Wedding. (No no no no no no no no.)", "Ripcord", "Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.)", "Separator", "Shipwreck", "Skrting on the Surface", "The Smoke", "Spectre", "Stop Whispering", "Sulk", "Swing" Live in Oxford 1991, "There Is No Ice (For My Drink)", "There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)", "The Tourist", "Unmade", "We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings", "Where Bluebirds Fly", "Winter Wonderland, " Inside Out webcast 2002, "Worrywort")
G♯4 ("$ Island", "15 Step", "2 + 2 = 5. (The Lukewarm.)", "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", "Amok", "Annoying Neighbours" 2-3, "Blow Out" Acoustic version, "Bittersweet", "Codex", "Cut a Hole" Live in Miami 2012, "Cymbal Rush", "Dropped", "Ego", "El President", "Give It Up", "Guess Again!", "A Hairdryer", "High And Dry", "I Promise" Live in Toronto 06/04/1996, MD 1-4, "Identikit", "I Will. (No Man's Land.)", "Ill Wind", "Keep Strong", "Lift", "Like Spinning Plates", "Maquiladora", "Morning Mr. Magpie", "My New Clothes" 2-1, "Nose Grows Some", "Nude", "Planet Telex", "Present Tense", "Pyramid Song", "Reverse Running", "Ride a Pony", "Risk of Suffocation", "Sinking Ship", "Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.)", "Speech Bubbles", "Suspirium", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief", "Umbilical", "Vegetable", "We suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)", "What Is That You See?", "Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.)", "YouWouldn'tLikeMeWhenI'mAngry")
G4 ("All I Need", "Anyone Can Play Guitar", "The Axe", "Backdrifts. (Honeymoon Is Over.)", "Banana Co.", "Beautiful Feeling", "Before Your Very Eyes…", "The Bends", "Black Star", "Blow Out", "Bodysnatchers", "Bones", "A Brain in a Bottle", "Bullet Proof … I Wish I Was", "Climbing Up the Walls", "Cut a Hole" Live in Miami 2012, "Decks Dark", "Dollars & Cents", "The Eraser", "Everybody Knows", "Exit Music (For a Film)", "Ful Stop", "Fragile Friend", "Girl (In the Purple Dress)", "Give Up the Ghost", "Go to Sleep. (Little Man being Erased.)", "The Greatest Shindig (Of the World)", "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", "Has Ended", "The Hollow Earth", "I Am a Very Rude Person", "I Am a Wicked Child", "I Can't", "I Want None of This", "In Limbo", "In the Breeze", "Inside My Head", "Jetstream", "Just", "Karma Police", "Kid A" Live in Belfort, France 2003, "Killer Cars", "Knives Out", "Last Flowers", "Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)", "Lemming Trail", "Lewis (Mistreated)", "Lozenge of Love", "Lucky", "Lull", "Lurgee", "Maybe", "Molasses", "Morning Bell", "Morning Bell/Amnesiac", "Morning Mr. Magpie", "Motion Picture Soundtrack", "My Iron Lung", "My New Clothes" 2-1, "The National Anthem", "New Generation", "Not the News", "The Numbers", "One Line", "Pana-vision", "Paranoid Android", "Pearly*", "Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)", "Prove Yourself", "Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong", "A Punchup at a Wedding (No no no no no no no no.)", "A Reminder", "The Rip" Backstage at St. Louis, "Ripcord", "Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.)", "Separator", "Shipwreck", "Skip Divided", "Skrting on the Surface", "Soft Pain" Thom solo 3-4, "Stupid Car", "Sulk", "Supercollider", "There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)", "Thinking About You", "This", "This Mess We're In", "Traffic", "Trans-Atlantic Drawl", "The Trickster", "True Love Waits", "Up on the Ladder", "Upside Down", "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", "Wish You Were Here", "A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)", "You Will Never Work in Television Again")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("Anyone Can Play Guitar", "Beautiful Feeling", "Black Swan", "Bones", "Codex", "The Daily Mail", "Dawn Chorus", "Decks Dark", "Dollars & Cents", "E-Bow the Letter" Live Tibetan Freedom Concert 1998, "The Eraser", "Everybody Knows", "Faithless the Wonderboy", "Fast-Track", "Fog", "Follow Me Around", "Get Together #2", "A Hairdryer", "I Am a Wicked Child", "Jigsaw Falling into Place", "Judge, Jury and Executioner", "Lock the Door", "Melatonin", "Motion Picture Soundtrack", "My Iron Lung", "Myxomytosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.)", "Open Again", "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box", "Palo Alto", "Ripcord", "Somebody", "Sulk", "Swing" Live in Oxford 1991, "To Be a Brilliant Light", "Trans-Atlantic Drawl", "The Universe Is Indifferent", "Waving a White Flag", "What the Eyeballs Did", "You")
C♯3 ("The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", "Be Mine" from Falls to Climb, "Blow Out", "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses", "Guess Again!", "Harrowdown Hill", "How to Disappear Completely", "I Will. (No Man's Land.)", "I've Seen it All", "Lemming Trail", "Lifesaver", "Mr B", "Open Again", "Pop Is Dead", "Rabbit in Your Headlights", "A Rat's Nest", "Ride a Pony", "Risk of Suffocation", "Stop Whispering", "There Is No Ice (For My Drink)", "Truth Ray", "Umbilical", "A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)", "Yes I Am", "You and Whose Army?")
C3 ("All I Need", "Analyse", "The Axe", "Ceremony" Live Webcast 09/11/2007, "Cymbal Rush", "Glass Eyes", "I Am a Very Rude Person", "I'm Set Free" Live Los Angeles Benefit Concert 2002, "Just", "Karma Police", "Ladytron", "The Numbers", "Paranoid Android", "A Rat's Nest", "Reverse Running", "Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.)", "Up on the Ladder", "Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.)", "Winter Wonderland" Inside Out webcast 2002)
B2 ("$ Island", "2HB", "The Amazing Sounds of Orgy", "Annoying Neighbours" 2-3, "Black Star", "Climbing Up the Walls", "The Clock", "Creep", "Desert Island Disk", "Everyone Needs Someone to Hate", "Exit Music (For a Film)", "How Can You Be Sure?", "Inside My Head", "Jigsaw Falling into Place", "Lifesaver", "Lull", "S.A.D.", "There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)", "The Tourist", "Waving a White Flag", "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", "What Is That You See?", "Winter Wonderland" Inside Out webcast 2002, "Worrywort")
B♭2 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill", "Electric Candyman", "Hearing Damage", "Mirror", "No Surprises", "What the Eyeballs Did", "Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.)")
A2 ("4 Minute Warning", "Attenzione!" Portland Soundcheck 25/03/1996, "Beautiful Feeling", "Black Swan", "Bones", "A Brain in a Bottle", "Bullet Proof … I Wish I Was", "The Clock", "Cuttooth", "Down Is the New Up", "Judge, Jury and Executioner", "Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)", "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Unknown Atoms for Peace performance, "Morning Bell", "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box", "Poison" Early demo of "Exit Music (For a Film)" 3-1, "Rattlesnake", "Ride a Pony", "Trans-Atlantic Drawl", "Videotape", "We suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)", "A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)")
G♯2 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill", "Everyone Needs Someone to Hate", "I Will. (No Man's Land.)", "India Rubber", "Mountains (On the Move)", "Pearly*", "Poison" Early demo of "Exit Music (For a Film)" 3-1, "Runwayaway", "Unless", "Where Bluebirds Fly")
G2 ("Anyone Can Play Guitar", "Bangers + Mash", "The Drunkk Machine", "I've Seen it All", "Lewis (Mistreated)", "My Iron Lung", "A Punchup at a Wedding. (No no no no no no no no.)", "Skip Divided")
F♯2 ("India Rubber", "Jigsaw Falling into Place", "Karma Police" Live @ Lollapalooza 29/07/2016)
F2 ("Bitter-Sweet")
E2 ("Rattlesnake", "S.A.D.", "Skip Divided", "Winter Wonderland" Inside Out webcast 2002)
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Blue marks falsetto or Yorke 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.
{Questionable Notes}
G♯6 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill" [5])
E6 ("Just" [5] inhale)
D6 ("Keep Strong" [1])
C♯6 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill" [1][3])
B5 ("What Is That You See?" [1])
B♭5 ("Anyone Can Play Guitar" Live @ MTV Beach House 1993, "Keep Strong" [1])
G5 ("Electioneering" Live @ Pinkpop 1996, don't think I wasn't tempted)
E5 ("The Headmaster Ritual" Live Webcast 09/11/2007, [1, overshot D5])
D5 ("Electioneering" Early version MD 1-1, "Idioteque" Live @ Openair, St. Gallen 2016)
A4 ("No Surprises" [2 Ed?])
C3 ("Just" [5])
B2 ("Street Spirit (Fade Out)" [2])
B♭2 ("(Nice Dream)" [2])
G2 ("Creep" Acoustic version, [5 this note fucking sucks])
E2 ("Planet Telex" [1])
D2 ("Bitter-sweet" [5], "Rattlesnake" [5])
B1 ("Rattlesnake" [5])
"Dawn Chorus" spans a whopping D3 - E3 and is unironically one of his best performances
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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.
G♯6 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill" [5])
E6 ("Just" [5] inhale)
D6 ("Keep Strong" [1])
C♯6 ("Climbing Up a Bloody Great Hill" [1][3])
B5 ("What Is That You See?" [1])
B♭5 ("Anyone Can Play Guitar" Live @ MTV Beach House 1993, "Keep Strong" [1])
G5 ("Electioneering" Live @ Pinkpop 1996, don't think I wasn't tempted)
E5 ("The Headmaster Ritual" Live Webcast 09/11/2007, [1, overshot D5])
D5 ("Electioneering" Early version MD 1-1, "Idioteque" Live @ Openair, St. Gallen 2016)
A4 ("No Surprises" [2 Ed?])
C3 ("Just" [5])
B2 ("Street Spirit (Fade Out)" [2])
B♭2 ("(Nice Dream)" [2])
G2 ("Creep" Acoustic version, [5 this note fucking sucks])
E2 ("Planet Telex" [1])
D2 ("Bitter-sweet" [5], "Rattlesnake" [5])
B1 ("Rattlesnake" [5])
"Dawn Chorus" spans a whopping D3 - E3 and is unironically one of his best performances
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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.
{Album Ranges}
On a Friday
(1986) First Demo: G♯2 - B4 - E♭5
(1987) Medicinal Sounds: Unavailable
(1988) On a Friday: D3 - E5
(1990) Shindig Summer Demo Tape: E2 - B♭2 - C♯5 - B5
(1991) On a Friday: it's like, three songs
(1991) First Tapes: so not worth listing tbh
Radiohead
Studio Albums
(1993) Pablo Honey: G2 - B2 - B4
(1995) The Bends: G2 - B4 - C5 - D5 rebaru
(1997) OK Computer: B♭2 - A4 - C5
(2000) Kid A: A2 - G4 - C5
(2001) Amnesiac: A2 - G4 - A4 - B4
(2003) Hail to the Thief: G2 - G♯2 - B♭4 - B4 - D5
(2007) In Rainbows: F♯2 - B2 - A4 - C5 - C♯5
(2011) The King of Limbs: D3 - G4 - A4 - C5
(2016) A Moon Shaped Pool: B2 - C♯5
EPs
(1992) Drill: E3 - B4
(1994) Itch: dunno - don't care
(1994) My Iron Lung: G2 - G4 - A4
(1998) Airbag / How Am I Driving?: G♯2 - D3 - A4 - C5
(2004) Com Lag (2plus2isfive): G♯2 -
(2009) In Rainbows Disk 2: G2 - A2 - G4 - C5
Solo
Studio Albums
(2006) The Eraser: E2 - G4 - C♯5
(2014) Tomorrow's Modern Boxes: A2 - C♯3 - E4 probably i don't fucking know or care - C♯5
(2018) Suspiria: C♯3 - D3 - G♯4 - B♭4 - B4
(2019) Anima: G♯2 - G4 - B4 - C5 IhateMana
EPs
(2006) Spitting Feathers: G2 - A4 - C5 - F5
Atoms For Peace
(2013) Amok: G♯2 - C5
The Smile
(2022) A Light for Attracting Attention: B2 - A4 - C5
On a Friday
(1986) First Demo: G♯2 - B4 - E♭5
(1987) Medicinal Sounds: Unavailable
(1988) On a Friday: D3 - E5
(1990) Shindig Summer Demo Tape: E2 - B♭2 - C♯5 - B5
(1991) On a Friday: it's like, three songs
(1991) First Tapes: so not worth listing tbh
Radiohead
Studio Albums
(1993) Pablo Honey: G2 - B2 - B4
(1995) The Bends: G2 - B4 - C5 - D5 rebaru
(1997) OK Computer: B♭2 - A4 - C5
(2000) Kid A: A2 - G4 - C5
(2001) Amnesiac: A2 - G4 - A4 - B4
(2003) Hail to the Thief: G2 - G♯2 - B♭4 - B4 - D5
(2007) In Rainbows: F♯2 - B2 - A4 - C5 - C♯5
(2011) The King of Limbs: D3 - G4 - A4 - C5
(2016) A Moon Shaped Pool: B2 - C♯5
EPs
(1992) Drill: E3 - B4
(1994) Itch: dunno - don't care
(1994) My Iron Lung: G2 - G4 - A4
(1998) Airbag / How Am I Driving?: G♯2 - D3 - A4 - C5
(2004) Com Lag (2plus2isfive): G♯2 -
(2009) In Rainbows Disk 2: G2 - A2 - G4 - C5
Solo
Studio Albums
(2006) The Eraser: E2 - G4 - C♯5
(2014) Tomorrow's Modern Boxes: A2 - C♯3 - E4 probably i don't fucking know or care - C♯5
(2018) Suspiria: C♯3 - D3 - G♯4 - B♭4 - B4
(2019) Anima: G♯2 - G4 - B4 - C5 IhateMana
EPs
(2006) Spitting Feathers: G2 - A4 - C5 - F5
Atoms For Peace
(2013) Amok: G♯2 - C5
The Smile
(2022) A Light for Attracting Attention: B2 - A4 - C5
{Radiohead - Minidiscs (Hacked)}
Note: in the thread, the small font tags use labelling from the OK Minidisc shared doc. E.g. a version labelled 1-2 indicates that it is from the first minidisc (MD111) and that it is the 2nd version of that kind of song (i.e., is the 2nd band rehearsal of "I Promise") featured on that disc.
MD111: A2 - A4 - C5
MD112: G♯2 - A4 - C5
MD113: G♯2 - A4 - B4
Note: in the thread, the small font tags use labelling from the OK Minidisc shared doc. E.g. a version labelled 1-2 indicates that it is from the first minidisc (MD111) and that it is the 2nd version of that kind of song (i.e., is the 2nd band rehearsal of "I Promise") featured on that disc.
MD111: A2 - A4 - C5
MD112: G♯2 - A4 - C5
MD113: G♯2 - A4 - B4
{Bolds}
B4 ("Stop Whispering" Live @ The Astoria, London 27/05/1994, "Sulk", "Swing", "You")
A4 ("Creep", "Stop Whispering")
G♯4 ("Nude")
G4 ("The Bends", "In Limbo", "Prove Yourself")
D3 ("Faithless the Wonderboy")
C♯3 ("How to Disappear Completely")
B2 ("Exit Music (For a Film)")
G♯2 ("I Will. (No Man's Land.)")
F♯2 ("India Rubber")
F2 ("Bitter-Sweet")
B4 ("Stop Whispering" Live @ The Astoria, London 27/05/1994, "Sulk", "Swing", "You")
A4 ("Creep", "Stop Whispering")
G♯4 ("Nude")
G4 ("The Bends", "In Limbo", "Prove Yourself")
D3 ("Faithless the Wonderboy")
C♯3 ("How to Disappear Completely")
B2 ("Exit Music (For a Film)")
G♯2 ("I Will. (No Man's Land.)")
F♯2 ("India Rubber")
F2 ("Bitter-Sweet")
