Dieter Meier (3,493 views)

[Platypus]

Dieter Meier (04.03.1945 - )
Years Active: 1978 - present
Associated Acts: Yello
Vocal Range: E1 - B♭5


Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("No More Words")
E♭5 ("Pumping Velvet")
C♯5 ("Let Me Cry")
C5 ("Tied Up", "Pumping Velvet")
B4 ("No More Words")
B♭4 ("Bostich" 12" Version, "The Lorry")
A4 ("Bimbo", "Desire For Desire", "Happy New Year", "The Hook", "I.T. Splash", "La Habanera")
G♯4 ("Ballet Mecanique", "Bostich" 12" Version, "Cry For Fame", "Domingo", "Madman", "No Chance", "The Lorry")
G4 ("Assistant's Cry", "Bananas To The Beat", "Daily Disco", "Desire", "Fat Fly", "Jim For Tango", "The Race", "Resistor", "Rock Stop", "She's Got a Gun", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)")
F♯4 ("Ballet Mecanique", "Cry For Fame", "The Hook", "No Chance", "Pan Blue", "Smile on You", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)", "The Source")
F4 ("3rd of June", "Bimbo", "Of Course I'm Lying", "Rock Stop", "The Source")
E4 ("Blender", "Fat Fly", "Gluehead", "Lazy Night", "Loveblind", "Pumping Velvet", "Tied Up")
E♭4 ("Busy Going Nowhere", "Kong Fu Pogo")
D4 ("Bimbo", "Downtown Samba", "Gluehead" , "Jim For Tango", "Kiss In Blue")
C♯4 ("Desire For Desire")
C4 ("Downtown Samba", "Madman", "Night Flanger", "Paradise Game")

Significant Low Notes:
G2 ("Busy Going Nowhere", "Desire", "Distant Solution", "I Love You", "Lazy Night", "The Ritual", "Trackless Deep")
F♯2 ("Desert Inn", "Desire For Desire", "Downtown Samba", "Happy New Year", "Houdini", "Swing", "Who's Gone?")
F2 ("Bimbo", "Fat Cry", "The Lorry", "Resistor", "Trackless Deep")
E2 ("30000 Days", "Another Day", "Ballet Mecanique", "Croissant Bleu", Don Turbulento", "Get On, "Gluehead", "Hot Pan", "I Love You", "I... I'm In Love", "Out of Sight", "Paradise Game", "The Race", "The Ritual", "She's Got a Gun", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)", "Suite 909", "Tangier Blue")
E♭2 ("Burn This City Down", "Fat Cry")
D2 ("Ballet Mecanique", "Big Boy's Blues", "Dark Side", "Desire", "Get On", "Jungle Bill", "Let Me Cry", "Magnetic", "Nervous", "On Track", "The Race", "Shake and Shiver", "She's Got a Gun", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)", "Suite 909", "Swing", "Tiger Dust", "Time Freeze", "Unreal", "Vicious Games")
C♯2 ("Beyond Mirrors", "Bostich" 12" Version, "Desert Inn", "Goldrush", "Heavy Whispers", "I... I'm In Love", "Kiss In Blue", "Night Train", "No More Words", "Pinball Cha Cha", "Pumping Velvet", "Spinning My Mind")
C2 ("30000 Days", "Another Day", "Bubbling Under", "Desire", "Desire For Desire", "Don Turbulento", "How How", "Lazy Night", "Lost Again", "Move Dance Be Born", "Nervous", "Night Porter", "On Track", "Out of Dawn", "Paradise Game", "Planet Dada", "Rubberbandman", "Smile on You", "Soul On Ice", "Time Freeze", "Way Down", "Who's Gone?")
B1 ("Big Boy's Blues", "Bonjour Cherie", "Crash Dance", "Electrified II", "Goldrush", "Great Mission", "Heavy Whispers", "Jimmy", "La Habanera", "Limbo", "More", "A New Culture Is Born", "Night Train", "No More Words", "Pinball Cha Cha", "Prisoner of His Mind", "Spinning My Mind", "Squeeze Please", "Starlight Scene", "Tool of Love", "You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess")
B♭1 ("3rd of June", "Buffoon", "Busy Going Nowhere", "The Expert", "Fat Cry", "Hard Rain", "How I Do", "Liquid Lies", "Of Course I'm Lying", "Shake and Shiver", "Smile on You", "Solar Driftwood", "Soul On Ice", "The Vanishing of Peter Strong", "Way Down")
A1 ("Annabelle", "Blender", "Croissant Bleu", "Dark Side", "Dialectical Kid", "Do It", "Does Mani Matter", "Drive / Driven", "The Evening's Young", "Fat Fly", "Friday Smile", "Jungle Bill", "Ocean Club", "Out of Dawn", "Out of Sight", "Part Love", "Prisoner of His Mind", "The Race", "Rubberbandman", "Schüüfele", "Starlight Scene", "Tiger Dust", "Tool of Love", "Who's Gone?")
G♯1 ("Jimmy", "Limbo")
G1 ("3rd of June", "Blender", "Buffoon", "Dialectical Kid", "The Evening's Young", "Way Down")
E1 ("Friday Smile", "Hot Pan")


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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.

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{Questionable Notes}
C2 ("Resistor" ^[5])
G1 ("Squeeze Please" ^[4])
F♯1 ("The Expert" ^[1], "Part Love" ^[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}with Yello:
Solid Pleasure (1980): C♯2 - B♭4
Claro Que Si (1981): G1 - B♭4
You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (1983): B♭1 - C5 - B♭5
Stella (1985): C2 - C♯2 - C♯5
One Second (1987): B1 - A4
Flag (1988): G1 - C5
Baby (1991): A1 - E4
Zebra (1994): A1 - D3
Pocket Universe (1997): B♭1 - B1 - G4
Motion Picture (1999): A1 - F3
The Eye (2003): A1 - B2
Touch Yello (2009): E1 - D4
Toy (2016): G1 - F3
Point (2020): E1 - G♯3

Solo:
Out of Chaos (2013): G1 - G4

[Macca]

That bold B4 sounds like a C5 & that A5 sounds like it begins as a B♭5
Edit: also I'm hearing Drive / Driven getting down to E1
Edit 2: I just realized why is that C2 in the highs section? Do you mean C4?

[Macca]

Didn't this guy's lows start at A2?

[Homelander]

The album range for “You Got to Say Yes to Another Excess” still has A5 listed instead of the B-flat 5.