Godforbid (1,651 views)

[Steve]

Vocal Type: Drunk Baritone
Vocal Range: B♭1 - C5

Christian Oppel, stage name Godforbid, is best known as the lead singer of That Handsome Devil, but he was also one of the three rappers who worked together as the hip hop group Alaskan Fishermen. The music of That Handsome Devil is eclectic, spanning across several different genres, creating a overall sound that could only be described as a highly experimental form of hip hop, if anything specific at all.

As a singer, he has a baritone voice, with a darkened, growly tone in his lower register almost like that of Tom Waits, and a relaxed, softer tone in his upper register. The darkened tone in his lower register, created from what can be assumed to be a low larynx, often leads to inconsistency in his lowest notes (B♭1 - A2), but it does lend quite well to properly delivering the subject matters often discussed in THD songs. However, he is also capable of crooning with a softer sound in the third and lower to mid-fourth octaves (C3 - G4), which he uses in the band's more swing-like songs. He rarely uses his falsetto, opting for belts / mixed voice for most of his highs, but it has been shown in a few songs, such as Reagan's Kids, It's a Man's Man's Man's World, and Twist The Knife.

Overall, he is actually a surprisingly great singer, even if his mannerisms in singing can be off-putting to many listeners.

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{Questionable Notes}F5 - ("Damn Door" yelped, "Twist The Knife" yelped)
A4 - ("Disco City" yelped, "Tree Food" possibly another singer)
G♯4 - ("The Cops" possibly another singer, "The Behind Your Back Dance" not sung)
F♯4 - ("Pills For Everything" not sung)
F4 - ("Miss America" possibly another singer)
E4 - ("Mexico" yelled)
D4 - ("Mexico" yelled)

Significant High Notes:

C5 - ("Reagan's Kids")
B4 - ("Chicken Claw")
B♭4 - ("It's a Man's Man's Man's World")
A4 - ("Chicken Claw")
G4 - ("Don't Go", "How To Get Money")
F♯4 - ("The Cops", "It's a Man's Man's Man's World")
F4 - ("Don't Go", "Reagan's Kids", "Twist The Knife")
E4 - ("70's Tuxedos", "Becky's New Car", "Charlie's Inferno", "Fake", "Fire", "I'm Too Sexy", "It's Trump", "Party Mom And Invisible Dad", "Standing Room In Heaven")
E♭4 - ("The Behind Your Back Dance", "Chinatown Bench", "Elephant Bones", "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", "Romance Is Dead")
D4 - ("$=Love", "70's Tuxedos", "Charlie's Inferno", "Dating Tips", "Don't Go", "Elephant Bones", "Fairytale Of New York", "How To Get Money", "It's Trump", "Junkies In Love", "Marilyn Loves Heroin", "Party's Dead", "Rob The Prez-O-Dent", "Twist The Knife")
C♯4 - ("Becky's New Car", "The Behind Your Back Dance", "Bored", "Bullet Math", "Chinatown Bench", "The Cops", "Eristocrats", "Fire", "I'm Too Sexy", "Party Mom And Invisible Dad", "Tree Food", "Viva Discordia")
C4 - ("Adapt", "Big Day For The Little People", "Charlie's Inferno", "A Drink To Death", "It's Trump", "Karaoke Burial", "Reagan's Kids", "Rob The Prez-O-Dent", "Romance Is Dead", "Standing Room In Heaven")

Significant Low Notes:

B2 - ("Adapt", "Bare", "Chinatown Bench", "Fire", "Goldfish Brain", "Hey White Boy", "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", "I'm Real", "I'm Too Sexy", "James Dean", "March", "Party's Dead", "Savages", "Throwing Up", "Time Machine", "Trust")
B♭2 - ("The Cops", "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", "Karaoke Burial", "Loving Parasite", "Marilyn Loves Heroin", "Miss America", "Stockholm Syndrome", "Wintergreen")
A2 - ("Black Elk", "Buyer's Remorse", "Charlie's Inferno", "Cry", "Dating Tips", "Disco City", "Don't Go", "Echo Chamber", "Emergency", "Fairytale Of New York", "Friends", "Junkies In Love", "Karmakaze", "No Roots", "One More Try", "Pendulumonium", "Pills For Everything", "Powderbomb", "Reagan's Kids", "Romance Is Dead", "Savages", "Smilin' With A Gun In Your Mouth", "Standing Room In Heaven", "Twist The Knife", "The U & I In Suicide", "Yada Yada")
G♯2 - ("Bedouin Dreams", "Bullet Math", "Chinatown Bench", "Elephant Bones", "Emergency", "The Face For It", "Fire", "Inside You", "Johnny Wouldn't Die", "Karaoke Burial", "Kiss The Cook", "Miss America", "My Pen Is A Shiv", "No Roots", "Viva Discordia")
G2 - ("$=Love", "70's Tuxedos", "Adapt", "Bare", "Bored", "Big Day For The Little People", "Cowboys", "Dating Tips", "Echo Chamber", "Fake", "Friends", "James Dean", "The Last Ones", "Mexico", "Mr. Grinch", "Party Mom And Invisible Dad", "Power Drunk", "Rob The Prez-O-Dent", "Stockholm Syndrome", "Throwing Up", "Tree Food", "Trust")
F♯2 - ("70's Tuxedos", "The Behind Your Back Dance", "Bullet Math", "Echo Chamber", "Loving Parasite", "March", "Party's Dead")
F2 - ("$=Love", "Bored", "Cowboys", "Damn Door", "Eristocrats", "Johnny Wouldn't Die", "Junkies In Love", "The Last Ones", "Mexico", "Miss America", "Viva Discordia")
E2 - ("Chicken Claw", "Destroyer Of All Things", "Goldfish Brain", "Karmakaze", "One More Try", "Reagan's Kids", "Rob The Prez-O-Dent")
E♭2 - ("Johnny Wouldn't Die", "Kiss The Cook", "No Roots", "Party Mom And Invisible Dad", "Wintergreen")
D2 - ("Bored", "Charlie's Inferno")
C♯2 - ("Bullet Math")
B♭1 - ("Viva Discordia")

*Blue marks soft falsetto notes
*Gray marks fried/growled notes
*Underlines mark background notes
*Italics mark non-melodic notes

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{Albums}That Handsome Devil:
That Handsome Devil EP (F2 - D4 - E♭4 - E4)
A City Dressed in Dynamite (B♭1 - E♭2 - E4 - C5)
Enlightenment's For Suckers (C♯2 - C♯4)
The Heart Goes to Heaven, The Head Goes to Hell (D2 - D4 - E4 - F4)
The Jungle Book (F♯2 - E4)
Drugs and Guns For Everyone (E♭2 - F♯4)
History Is A Suicide Note (F♯2 - E4)

Alaskan Fishermen:
Fire and Ice (not checked yet)

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