Post by IhateMana on Aug 28, 2020 0:43:43 GMT
Steven Morrissey
Member Of: The Smiths (1982 - 1987)
Vocal Range: F♯2 - F♯5
{Vocal Summary}As lead vocalist for The Smiths, Morrissey has come to be instantly recognisable for his sarcastic wit and his on the nose lyrics. A notorious trouble-maker and controversy stirrer, he has been a constant influential presense in the indie-rock scene since the 80s.
Generally considered a low-ish placed singer, Morrissey displays very little desire to ever push himself above D4 in his chest voice and almost exclusively uses his distinct, yodel-esque falsetto above F♯4. HOwever, I'm not quite so sure I agree with the assessment that Morrissey's voice is actually all that low. His timbre, especially on The Smiths and early solo records, coupled with his strikingly limited range displayed in his lower register and inability to project 2nd octave notes effectively in a live setting, suggest to me that in reality Morrissey is likely a higher placed singer with a limited upper range. In his more recent solo outings, his producers have him on a pretty steady diet of autotune to ensure his voice is as distracting as possible.
Generally considered a low-ish placed singer, Morrissey displays very little desire to ever push himself above D4 in his chest voice and almost exclusively uses his distinct, yodel-esque falsetto above F♯4. HOwever, I'm not quite so sure I agree with the assessment that Morrissey's voice is actually all that low. His timbre, especially on The Smiths and early solo records, coupled with his strikingly limited range displayed in his lower register and inability to project 2nd octave notes effectively in a live setting, suggest to me that in reality Morrissey is likely a higher placed singer with a limited upper range. In his more recent solo outings, his producers have him on a pretty steady diet of autotune to ensure his voice is as distracting as possible.
Significant High Notes
F♯5 ("Jeane", "This Charming Man")
E5 ("Alsatian Cousin", "Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice", "This Charming Man", "What Difference Does it Make?" Peel Session, "What's the World?" Live in Glasgow 1985)
E♭5 ("Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself")
D5 ("Miserable Lie", "Ouija Board, Ouija Board", "What Difference Does it Make?", "You've Got Everything Now")
C♯5 ("Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself")
B4 ("Bigmouth Strikes Again", "Dagenham Dave", "I Wish You Lonely", "In the Future When All's Well", "Sunny", "A Swallow on My Neck", "Wedding Bell Blues", "William, it was Really Nothing", "Wonderful Woman")
B♭4 ("Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore", "The Operation", "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils", "Tony the Pony")
A4 ("Art-Hounds", "Black-Eyed Susan", "Boxers", "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side", "Certain People I Know", "Cosmic Dancer" Live Utrecht, 01/05/91, "I Am Hated for Loving", "Interesting Drug", "It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small", "It's Over", "Maladjusted", "Michael's Bones", "Sing Your Life", "That's Entertainment", "Well I Wonder")
G♯4 ("Come Back to Camden", "He Knows I'd Love to See Him", "I Know it's Gonna Happen Someday", "I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero", "I'm Not a Man", "I'm OK By Myself", "Life is a Pigsty", "Pretty Girls Make Graves", "Used to Be a Sweet Boy", "You've Got Everything Now")
G4 ("America is Not the World", "Because of My Poor Education", "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side", "Drive-In Saturday" Live in Omaha, 11/05/07, "Friday Mourning", "Home is a Question Mark", "I Am Two People", "I Bury the Living", "I Have Forgiven Jesus", "I Like You", "If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look at Me", "It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small", "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore", "I Want the One I Can't Have", "Jeane", "Late Night, Maudlin Street", "The Last of the Famous International Playboys", "Lifeguard on Duty", "Meat is Murder", "My Love, I'd Do Anything For You", "My Love Life", "Oh Phoney", "One Day Goodbye Will be Farewell", "Rebels Without Applause", "Rusholme Ruffians", "Sing Your Life", "The Slum Mums", "Something is Squeezing My Skull", "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils", "Teenage Dad on His Estate", "Tony the Pony", "The Youngest Was the Most Loved")
F♯4 ("Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?", "The Boy Racer", "Christian Dior", "Death of a Disco Dancer", "Dial-a-Cliché", "Disappointed", "Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice", "The First of the Gang to Die", "I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero", "I'm OK By Myself", "Interesting Drug", "Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up on the Stage", "Journalists Who Lie", "Julie in the Weeds", "Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me", "Late Night, Maudlin Street", "Life is a Pigsty", "Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets", "Morning Starship", "The National Front Disco", "Never Again Will I Be a Twin", "Oh Phoney", "On the Streets I Ran", "Our Frank", "Piccadilly Palare", "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness", "Scandinavia", "Sorry Doesn't Help", "Striptease With a Difference", "Sweetie Pie", "We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Well I Wonder", "When You Open Your Legs", "Work is a Four-Letter Word", "You Know I Couldn't Last", "You'll Be Gone" live @ The Hammersmith)
F4 ("All the Lazy Dykes", "All You Need is Me", "Art-Hounds", "Asian Rut", "Best Friend on the Payroll", "Black Cloud", "Children in Pieces", "Christian Dior", "Dear God, Please Help Me", "Drive-In Saturday" Live in Omaha, 11/05/07, "The Edges are No Longer Parallel", "Ganglord", "Girl Least Likely To", "Hand In Glove", "He Cried", "I Bury the Living", "I Just Want to See the Boy Happy", "I Knew I Was Next", "I Know it's Gonna Happen Someday", "I Know it's Over", "I'm Not a Man", "(I'm) The End of the Family Line", "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore", "I've Changed My Plea to Guilty", "Kiss Me a Lot", "Knockabout World", "Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning", "Lucky Lisp", "Mute Witness", "Neal Cassady Drops Dead", "Oboe Concerto", "Rebels Without Applause", "Scandinavia", "The Secret of Music", "Shakespeare's Sister", "Shame is the Name", "Sister I'm a Poet", "Something is Squeezing My Skull", "Staircase at the University", "Sweet and Tender Hooligan", "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils", "That's How People Grow Up", "When You Open Your Legs", "Wide to Receive", "The World is Full of Crashing Bores", "World Peace is None of Your Business", "You Were Good In Your Time", "The Youngest Was the Most Loved")
E4 ("Alsatian Cousin", "Ambitious Outsiders", "America is Not the World", "Ammunition", "Art-Hounds", "Ask", "Back on the Chain Gaing", "Back to the Old House", "Because of My Poor Education", "The Bed Took Fire", "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "Billy Budd", "The Boy Racer", "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side", "Come Back to Camden", "Dear God, Please Help Me", "Death of a Disco Dancer", "Dial-a-Cliché", "Do Your Best and Don't Worry", "Forgive Someone", "Found Found Found", "Friday Mourning", "Ganglord", "The Girl from Tel-Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel", "Happy Lovers at Last United", "He Knows I'd Love to See Him", "The Headmaster Ritual", "Home is a Question Mark", "How Soon is Now?", "Human Being", "I Am Hated for Loving", "I Am Not a Dog on a Chain", "I Am Two People", "I Don't Mind if You Forget Me", "I Like You", "I Know it's Over", "In the Future When All's Well", "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", "I Will See You in Far-Off Places", "I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero", "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris", "Is it Really So Strange?", "Irish Blood, English Heart", "It's Over", "I've Changed My Plea to Guilty", "Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up on the Stage", "King Leer", "The Last of the Famous International Playboys", "Late Night, Maudlin Street", "Let Me Kiss You", "Lost", "Love Is on Its Way Out", "Lucky Lisp", "My Dearest Love", "My Love, I'd Do Anything For You", "My Love Life", "Never Had No One Ever", "No One Can Hold a Candle to You", "Nobody Loves Us", "Now My Heart is Full", "Oh Phoney", "On the Streets I Ran", "One Day Goodbye Will be Farewell", "Only a Pawn in Their Game", "Pashernate Love", "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness", "Pregnant for the Last Time", "The Queen is Dead", "Rebels Without Applause", "Redondo Beach" Live at Earls Court, 18/12/04, "Sheila Take a Bow", "Skin Storm", "The Slum Mums", "Sorry Doesn't Help", "Southpaw", "Still Ill", "Suedehead", "Sunny", "A Swallow on My Neck", "Sweet and Tender Hooligan", "There is a Light That Never Goes Out", "These Things Take Time", "This Charming Man", "Tomorrow", "Trouble Loves Me", "Vicar in a Tutu", "What She Said", "Who Will Protect Us from the Police?", "You Have Killed Me", "You're the One for Me, Fatty")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("America is Not the World", "Back to the Old House", "Dial-a-Cliché", "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow", "Drive-In Saturday" Live in Omaha, 11/05/07, "East and West", "Every Day is Like Sunday", "Ganglord", "Girl Afraid", "Girl Least Likely To", "Half a Person", "Hand In Glove", "Happy Lovers at Last United", "He Cried", "I Am Hated for Loving", "I Am Not a Dog on a Chain", "I Have Forgiven Jesus", "I Knew I Was Next", "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", "I Want the One I Can't Have", "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris", "Jack the Ripper", "Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me", "Lenny's Tune", "Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets", "Lost", "Morning Starship", "Nobody Loves Us", "Ouija Board, Ouija Board", "Paint a Vulgar Picture", "Panic", "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want", "Pretty Girls Make Graves", "The Public Image", "Rebels Without Applause", "A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours", "Rusholme Ruffians", "Satellite of Love", "Some Say I Got Devil", "Suedehead", "Teenage Dad on His Estate", "There Speaks a True Friend", "This Night Has Opened My Eyes", "This Song Doesn't End When it's Over", "Unhappy Birthday", "Unloveable", "Well I Wonder", "Whatever Happens, I Love You", "When You Open Your Legs", "World Peace is None of Your Business", "You Should Have Been Nice To Me")
C♯3 ("All the Lazy Dykes", "Barbarism Begins at Home", "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "Black-Eyed Susan", "Boxers", "By the Time I Get to Wherever I'm Going", "Children in Pieces", "Christian Dior", "Death at One's Elbow", "Driving Your Girlfriend Home", "The First of the Gang to Die", "Forgive Someone", "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", "The Girl from Tel-Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel", "Good Looking Man About Town", "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle", "Handsome Devil", "Have-a-Go Merchant", "He Knows I'd Love to See Him", "Hold On to Your Friends", "I Can Have Both", "I Wish You Lonely", "I'm Not Sorry", "I'm OK By Myself", "In Your Lap", "King Leer", "The Lazy Sunbathers", "Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets", "The Loop", "Mountjoy", "No One Can Hold a Candle to You", "Our Frank", "Reader Meet Author", "Satan Rejected My Soul", "Shoplifters of the World Unite", "Speedway", "Spring-Heeled Jim", "Still Ill", "Stretch Out and Wait", "A Swallow on My Neck", "Sweetie-Pie", "There is a Light That Never Goes Out", "There is a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends", "These Things Take Time", "This is Not Your Country", "To Me You Are a Work of Art", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Well I Wonder", "What's the World?" Live in Glasgow 1985, "William, it was Really Nothing", "You Must Please Remember", "You've Got Everything Now", "You've Had Her")
C3 ("All the Young People Must Fall In Love", "Asleep", "Bengali in Platforms", "Come Back to Camden", "Fantastic Bird", "Girl Afraid", "I Know it's Over", "I Know Very Well How I Got My Name", "I'd Love To", "I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero", "I'm Not a Man", "Interlude", "Israel", "The Never-Played Symphonies", "Nobody Loves Us", "Oboe Concerto", "Satellite of Love", "A Song from Under the Floorboards", "Sorrow Will Come in the End", "Staircase at the University", "This is Not Your Country", "When I Last Spoke to Carol", "You Know I Couldn't Last")
B2 ("Accept Yourself", "At Last I Am Born", "The Boy Racer", "Death of a Disco Dancer", "Drag the River", "Driving Your Girlfriend Home", "Half a Person", "He Knows I'd Love to See Him", "Girlfriend in a Coma", "Glamourous Glue", "Golden Lights", "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle", "The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye", "I Know Very Well How I Got My Name", "I Won't Share You", "Is it Really So Strange?", "Jack the Ripper", "Love Is on Its Way Out", "Lover-to-Be", "Margaret on the Guillotine", "Michael's Bones", "Miserable Lie", "Morning Starship", "Nowhere Fast", "Only a Pawn in Their Game", "Ouija Board, Ouija Board", "Paint a Vulgar Picture", "The Public Image", "Redondo Beach" Live at Earls Court, 18/12/04, "Safe, Warm Lancashire Home", "Seasick, Yet Still Docked", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", "Smiler With Knife", "Stretch Out and Wait", "Sunny", "That Joke isn't Funny Anymore", "We'll Let You Know", "What Difference Does it Make?", "What's the World?" Live in Glasgow 1985, "Wonderful Woman", "Work is a Four-Letter Word", "You Must Please Remember")
B♭2 ("Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?", "The Father Who Must Be Killed", "How Soon is Now?", "I Bury the Living", "I Want a Boy for My Birthday", "I'm Not a Man", "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore", "Life is a Pigsty", "Never Again Will I Be a Twin", "Sorrow Will Come in the End", "To Me You Are a Work of Art", "When You Close Your Eyes")
A2 ("All the Lazy Dykes", "Asleep", "Christian Dior", "Come Back to Camden", "Found Found Found", "I Have Forgiven Jesus", "I Like You", "I Know it's Over", "I'm OK By Myself", "(I'm) The End of the Family Line", "Irish Blood, English Heart", "Julie in the Weeds", "Lady Willpower", "Let the Right One Slip In", "Margaret on the Guillotine", "Meat is Murder", "Moon River", "Now My Heart is Full", "Oh Well, I'll Never Learn", "Only a Pawn in Their Game", "Reel Around the Fountain", "A Song from Under the Floorboards", "Suffer Little Children", "Suffer the Little Children", "Treat Me Like a Human Being", "When You Open Your Legs")
G♯2 ("Children in Pieces", "Paint a Vulgar Picture")
G2 ("All the Young People Must Fall In Love", "I Know it's Over", "When You Close Your Eyes")
F♯2 ("At Last I Am Born")
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Blue indicates soft, disconnected falsetto
Italics indicates non-melodic notes
Underlines indicate notes obscured in backing vocals, harmonies or otherwise difficult to hear
Boldface indicates notes that are particularly notable examples of this singers capabilities
{Questionable Notes}
A5 ("Barbarism Begins at Home")
G♯5 ("Handsome Devil", "Miserable Lie")
G5 ("Barbarism Begins at Home")
C5 ("The Headmaster Ritual", "I Know It's Over" There seems to be no consensus on whether this is indeed a C5 or a C4 with insane overtones)
A5 ("Barbarism Begins at Home")
G♯5 ("Handsome Devil", "Miserable Lie")
G5 ("Barbarism Begins at Home")
C5 ("The Headmaster Ritual", "I Know It's Over" There seems to be no consensus on whether this is indeed a C5 or a C4 with insane overtones)
{Discography}
The Smiths:
The Smiths - COMPLETED
Meat is Murder - COMPLETED
The Queen is Dead - COMPLETED
Strangeways Here We Come - COMPLETED
Solo:
Viva Hate - COMPLETED
Kill Uncle - COMPLETED
Your Arsenal - COMPLETED
Vauxall and I - COMPLETED
Southpaw Grammar - COMPLETED
Maladjusted - COMPLETED
You Are the Quarry - COMPLETED
Ringleader of the Tormenters - COMPLETED
Years of Refusal - COMPLETED
World Peace is None of Your Business - COMPLETED
Low In High School - COMPLETED
California Son - COMPLETED
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain - COMPLETED
The Smiths:
The Smiths - COMPLETED
Meat is Murder - COMPLETED
The Queen is Dead - COMPLETED
Strangeways Here We Come - COMPLETED
Solo:
Viva Hate - COMPLETED
Kill Uncle - COMPLETED
Your Arsenal - COMPLETED
Vauxall and I - COMPLETED
Southpaw Grammar - COMPLETED
Maladjusted - COMPLETED
You Are the Quarry - COMPLETED
Ringleader of the Tormenters - COMPLETED
Years of Refusal - COMPLETED
World Peace is None of Your Business - COMPLETED
Low In High School - COMPLETED
California Son - COMPLETED
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain - COMPLETED
