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Joshua Michael Homme (17 May 1973)
Associated Acts: Kyuss (1987 - 1996), Queens of the Stone Age (1996 - Present), The Desert Sessions (1997 - 2003; 2019 - Present), Mondo Generator (1997 - 2002), Eagles of Death Metal (1998 - Present), Fififf Teeners (2000 - ?), Arctic Monkeys (2008 - ?), Them Crooked Vultures (2009 - ?), Iggy Pop (2016 - ?)
Vocal Range: B1 - F♯5
{Vocal Summary By Susilupus}Josh Homme is most well known as the frontman for Queens of the Stone Age. His musical career started at the age of 14 with the formation of Kyuss, who would go on to become one of the leading names in the stoner rock scene over the course of less than a decade. After the band's dissolution Homme briefly abandoned his music career, but through chance met some old friends which led to him joining Screaming Trees as a touring guitarist for a while. After he grew tired of the band's constant conflict he formed Queens of the Stone Age in 1996, with whom he has since released multiple albums. He has started and joined many different projects since then, such as The Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal and Them Crooked Vultures, as well as collaborating with multiple artists over the years.
Homme's vocals have changed somewhat since the start of his career. Perhaps the most noticeable differences are his increase in vocal confidence since the inception of Queens of the Stone Age and his upper register getting steadily stronger as time has gone on. He sings most often in his mid and upper range, with more usage of the latter over time. His high range is dominated by his falsetto, which he has used up to the lower fifth octave at highest, though he tends to stick to the fourth octave most of the time. Any singing using a more weighty or full sound is more rare, and usually caps around G4, with any "full" notes above that being extremely few and far between. His lower range is somewhat more rare, though he has proven that it is plenty strong enough when he does use it, as evidenced by his surprisingly strong E2s in a live cover of "Dark as a Dungeon". Homme has been a part of and has worked with multiple influential acts over the course of his career so far, not least Queens of the Stone Age. Even if you ignored everything else he has done, fronting arguably one of the biggest rock bands of the last couple of decades is more than enough to ensure his position as a part of music history.
Homme's vocals have changed somewhat since the start of his career. Perhaps the most noticeable differences are his increase in vocal confidence since the inception of Queens of the Stone Age and his upper register getting steadily stronger as time has gone on. He sings most often in his mid and upper range, with more usage of the latter over time. His high range is dominated by his falsetto, which he has used up to the lower fifth octave at highest, though he tends to stick to the fourth octave most of the time. Any singing using a more weighty or full sound is more rare, and usually caps around G4, with any "full" notes above that being extremely few and far between. His lower range is somewhat more rare, though he has proven that it is plenty strong enough when he does use it, as evidenced by his surprisingly strong E2s in a live cover of "Dark as a Dungeon". Homme has been a part of and has worked with multiple influential acts over the course of his career so far, not least Queens of the Stone Age. Even if you ignored everything else he has done, fronting arguably one of the biggest rock bands of the last couple of decades is more than enough to ensure his position as a part of music history.
{Album Ranges}With Queens Of The Stone Age:
Queens Of The Stone Age (1998): D2 - G4 - C5
Rated R (2000): G♯2 - A4 - B4
Song For The Deaf (2002): A2 - B♭2 - B♭4 - C♯5
Lullabies To Paralyze (2005): G2 - A2 - E♭5
Era Vulgaris (2007): G2 - B4 - D5
...Like Clockwork (2013): D2 - C5 - F♯5
Villains (2017): B1 - B4 - E5
In Times New Roman... (2023): D2 - G♯4 - C5 - E♭5
With Them Crooked Vultures:
Them Crooked Vultures (2009): G2 - A4 - D5
Queens Of The Stone Age (1998): D2 - G4 - C5
Rated R (2000): G♯2 - A4 - B4
Song For The Deaf (2002): A2 - B♭2 - B♭4 - C♯5
Lullabies To Paralyze (2005): G2 - A2 - E♭5
Era Vulgaris (2007): G2 - B4 - D5
...Like Clockwork (2013): D2 - C5 - F♯5
Villains (2017): B1 - B4 - E5
In Times New Roman... (2023): D2 - G♯4 - C5 - E♭5
With Them Crooked Vultures:
Them Crooked Vultures (2009): G2 - A4 - D5
Significant High Notes:
F♯5 ("The Deuce", "Smooth Sailing")
E5 ("The Evil Has Landed", "Reggie Makes Music " Live Reggie Makes Music - Josh Homme 2014)
E♭5 ("Negative Space", "Skin On Skin")
D5 ("The Evil Has Landed", "Gunman", "No One Loves Me & Neither Do I", "One For The Road", "Run, Pig, Run", "Spinning In Daffodils" Live BBC 1 Radio 2010 & Fuji Rock Festival 2010, "Straight Jacket Fitting", "The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore", "You Got A Killer Scene There Man…")
C♯5 ("Don't Drink Poison", "Emotion Sickness", "Sicily", "Smooth Sailing", "Song For The Dead", "Train In Vain (Stand By Me)")
C5 ("Carnavoyeur", "Emperor", "The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died", "God Is In The Radio", "Head Like A Haunted House", "It", "Kalopsia", "Mexicola", "Noses In Roses, Forever", "Straight Jacket Fitting", "The Vampyre Of Time And Memory")
B4 ("I Appear Missing", "All The Same", "Burn The Witch", "The Blood Is Love", "Christian Brothers", "Domesticated Animals", "Detroit", "Feet Don't Fail Me", "Fortress", "Gonna Leave You", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "In My Head", "Into The Hollow", "In The Fade", "In The Lobby", "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "Long Slow Goodbye", "Like A Drug", "Leg Of Lamb", "My God Is The Sun", "Needles In A Camel's Eye". "Negative Space", "I Never Came", "New Fang", "One For The Road", "Paper Machete", "Polly Wants A Crack Rock", "River In The Road", "Rickshaw", "Restless", "Run Pig, Run", "I Sat By The Ocean", "Skin On Skin", "Straight Jacket Fitting", "Subcutaneous Phat", "Suture Up Your Future", "Un-Reborn Again", "Villains Of Circumstance", "The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore", "You Got A Killer Scene There Man…")
B♭4 ("Break Into Your Heart", "Don't Drink Poison", "Do It Again", "Everybody Knows That You're Insane", "Era Vulgaris", "God Is In The Radio", "In The Fade", "Like A Drug" The Desert Sessions version", "Mosquito Song", "Medication", "Nobody To Love", "Pulling The Pin", "Song For The Dead", "I Sat By The Ocean", "The Sky Is Fallin'", "So Easy", "The Way You Used To Do")
A4 ("18 A.D", "Avon" The Desert Sessions version", "American Valhalla", "The Blood Is Love", "Broken Box", "Bandoliers", "Battery Acid", "The Bronze", "Caligulove", "Colony Of Birchmen", "The Deuce", "Detroit", "Dead End Friends","Easier Said Than Done", "Emotion Sickness", "Emperor", "The Evil Has Landed", "Fairweather Friends", "The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died", "God Is In The Radio", "Gardenia", "Head Like A Haunted House", "Hideaway", "If I Had A Tail", "If Only" Gamma Ray Version, "Interlude With Ludes", "It", "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "Like A Drug", "Leg Of Lamb", "Lavatory Lil", "My God Is The Sun", "Misfit Love", "Making A Cross", "Monsters In The Parasol", "Mind Eraser, No Chaser", "Minnie The Moocher" Live @ Teragram Ballroom 2016, "I Never Came", "No One Love Me & Neither Do I", "Obscenery", "Outlaw Blues", "Polly Wants A Crack Rock", "Pulling The Pin", "Run, Pig, Run", "Reptiles", "San Berdoo Sunburn", "Save A Prayer", "Scumbag Blues", "Skin On Skin", "Smooth Sailing", "Someone's In The Wolf", "Spinning In Daffodils", "Stone Cold Crazy", "Stuck In The Metal", "Time & Place", "Un-Reborn Again", "White Wedding", "The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore", "The Vampyre Of Time And Memory", "Villains Of Circumstance", "What the Peephole Say")
G♯4 ("I Appear Missing", "Broken Box", "Do It Again", "Everybody Knows That You're Insane", "First It Giveth", "Gonna Leave You", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "If I Had A Tail", "In My Head", "In The Fade", "If Only", "I'm Here For Your Daughter", "Kalopsia", "...Like Clockwork", "Medication", "Mind Eraser, No Chaser", "Misfit Love", "Needles In A Camel's Eye", "Negative Space", "Nobody To Love", "Noses In Roses, Forever", "Paper Machete", "Restless", "Sicily", "I Sat By The Ocean", "The Sky Is Fallin'", "Tangled Up In Plaid", "Turnin On The Screw")
G4 ("Avon", "All The Same", "Burn The Witch", "The Blood Is Love", "The Bronze", "Bring It Back Gentle", "Blurred Lines" Live @ The Lounge 2013, "Better Living Through Chemistry", "Caligulove", "Carnavoyeur", "Christian Brothers", "Chocolate Drops", "Crawl Home", "Do It Again", "Domesticated Animals", "Detroit", "Era Vulgaris", "Elephants", "The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died", "Fairweather Friends", "Feet Don't Fail Me", "Fortress", "Gonna Leave You", "Give The Mule What He Wants", "Gardenia", "German Days", "Gunman", "How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat)", "HWY!" Live @ The Hordern Pavilion 2010, "Hand Of Doom" Live Chris Cornell Tribute 2019, "Head Like A Haunted House", "Hideaway", "Infinity", "Into The Hollow", "Interlude With Ludes", "Johnny The Boy", "Jackson" Live MTV Unplugged 2012, "Knee Socks", "...Like Clockwork", "Long Slow Goodbye", "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret", "My God Is The Sun", "Monsters In The Parasol" & "Monsters In The Parsol" Gamma Ray Version, "Mexicola", "Minnie The Moocher" Live @ Teragram Ballroom 2016, "Make It Wit Chu", "No One Knows", "Nobody To Love", "I Never Came", "Noses In Roses, Forever", "Obscenery", "Outlaw Blues", "Regular John", "River In The Road", "Rickshaw", "Song For The Dead", "Song For The Deaf", "Skin On Skin", "Sick, Sick, Sick", "Suture Up Your Future", "Save A Prayer" "She", "Skin Tight Boogie", "Subcutaneous Phat" "Safe In Mind (Please Get This Gun Out Of My Face)", "Spinning In Daffodils" & "Spinning In Daffodils" Live Fuji Rock Festival 2010, "Tangled Up In Plaid", "I Think I Lost My Headache", "Turnin On The Screw", "Un-Reborn Again", "The Way You Used To Do", "White Wedding", "Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up", "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding", "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire" Live From The Basement 2007, "You're So Vague")
F♯4 ("All My Own Stunts", "I Appear Missing", "American Valhalla", "Burn The Witch", "Break Into Your Heart", "Broken Box", "Christian Brothers", "Domesticated Animals", "Dead End Friends", "Emotion Sickness", "Everybody Knows That You're Insane", "First It Giveth", "Fortress", "Fairweather Friends", "Feet Don't Fail Me", "In My Head", "German Days", "Gardenia", "I'm Designer", "Kalopsia", "Knee Socks", "Made To Parade", "Misfit Love", "Mind Eraser, No Chaser", "Mosquito Song", "My God Is The Sun", "New Fang", "Paraguay", "Reptiles", "The Sky Is Fallin'", "Smooth Sailing", "Straight Jacket Fitting", "Stuck In The Metal", "Teen Lambchop", "Train In Vain (Stand By Me)", "Villains Of Circumstance", "What the Peephole Say", "Walkin On The Sidewalks", "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire" Live From The Basement 2007)
F4 ("3's & 7's", "Avon", "All The Same", "Broken Box", "Battery Acid", "Bandoliers", "Born To Hula", "Blurred Lines" Live @ The Lounge 2013, "Chocolate Drops", "The Deuce", "Everybody Knows That You're Insane", "Emperor", "Era Vulgaris", "First It Giveth", "The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died", "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer", "Go With The Flow", "Gunman", "Goin' Out West", "German Days", "How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat)", "Hideaway", "Infinity", "I'm Designer", "If Only", "In The Lobby", "Johnny The Boy", "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "...Like Clockwork", "Lavatory Lil", "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret", "Mosquito Song", "Medication", "Mexicola", "Monsters In The Parasol", "Minnie The Moocher" Live @ Teragram Ballroom 2016, "No One Knows", "Run, Pig, Run", "Regular John", "Running Joke", "Sicily", "Someone's In The Wolf", "Song For The Dead", "Spinning In Daffodils", "The Sky Is Fallin'", "Tangled Up In Plaid", "Turnin On The Screw", "This Lullaby" Over The Years And Through The Woods Version, "I Think I Lost My Headache", "The Vampyre Of Time And Memory", "The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore", "Walkin On The Sidewalks", "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding", "You Got A Killer Scene There Man…", "You Can't Quit Me Baby")
Significant Low Notes:
E♭3 ("A#1", "Another Love Song", "Battery Acid", "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy", "Hangin Tree" Live ITunes Festival 2003 & Lollapalooza 2013, "In The Fade'', "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "Ladder To The Moon", "Mosquito Song", "Monsters In The Parasol", "No One Knows" Live AOL Sessions 2002 + whatUwant 2003, "I Sat By The Ocean", "Song For The Deaf", "Teen Lambchop", "Un-Reborn Again", "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" Live @ The Lounge 2013)
D3 ("18 A.D", "The Blood Is Love", "Burn The Witch", "Broken Box", "Caligulove", "Cruel World", "Domesticated Animals", "The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died", "Goin' Out West", "Gunman", "Hideaway", "Into The Hallow", "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "Kalopsia", "Knee Socks", "Like A Drug", "Leg Of Lamb", "Lavatory Lil", "My God Is The Sun", "Make It Wit Chu", "I Never Came", "Never Say Never", "Noses In Roses, Forever", "Pulling The Pin", "River In The Road", "Reptiles", "Running Joke", "Spinning In Daffodils", "Someone's In The Wolf", "Scumbag Blues", "Stone Cold Crazy", "Time & Place", "This Lullaby" Over The Years And Through The Woods Version, "Un-Reborn Again", "The Vampyre Of Time And Memory", "Villains Of Circumstance", "Visionary Messenger", "I Was A Teenage Hand Model", "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding", "You Got A Killer Scene There Man...")
C♯3 ("I Appear Missing", "A#1", "Another Love Song", "Auto Pilot", "Bring It Back Gentle", "Dead End Friends", "Elephants", "I'm Designer", "In The Fade", "If Only", "Little Sister", "Misfit Love", "Negative Space", "Restless", "Safe In Mind (Please Get This Gun From Out Of My Face)", "Smooth Sailing", "Screamin Eagle", "This Lullaby" Over The Years And Through The Woods Version, "Turnin On The Screw")
C3 ("Another Love Song", "Battery Acid", "Blurred Lines" Live @ The Lounge 2013, "Better Living Through Chemistry", "Cruel World", "Centipede", "Do It Again", "Don't Drink Poison", "Era Vulgaris", "First It Giveth", "Goin' Out West", "Gunman", "Johnny The Boy", "Jackson" Live MTV Unplugged 2012, "Keep Your Eyes Peeled", "Leg Of Lamb", "Mosquito Song", "Misfit Love", "Nobody To Love", "Run, Pig, Run", "Rusty Cage" Live Chris Cornell Tribute 2019, "Silent Night", "Song For The Deaf", "Someone's In The Wolf", "White Wedding", "The Vampyre Of Time And Memory")
B2 ("I Appear Missing", "The Blood Is Love", "Chemical", "Dead In Love", "Dead End Friends", "Dark As A Dungeon" Live At Powell's Books 2005, "Emotion Sickness", "Fairweather Friends", "Head Like A Haunted House", "I'm Designer", "If I Had A Tail", "In The Fade" Live WDR 2017 & Rock Werchter 2018, "Misfit Love", "No One Knows" Live AOL Sessions 2002 + whatUwant 2003, "New Fang", "River In The Road", "Smooth Sailing", "Un-Reborn Again", "White Wedding", "The Vampyre Of Time And Memory", "Villains Of Circumstance", "Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up", "You Got A Killer Scene There Man....")
B♭2 ("The Blood Is Love", "Cruel World", "Don't Drink Poison", "First It Giveth", "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer", "If Only", "The Sky Is Fallin'", "Someone's In The Wolf", "Sick, Sick, Sick", "Safe In Mind (Please Get This Gun From Out Of My Face)", "You Would Know")
A2 ("Broken Box", "Bandoliers", "Battery Acid", "Domesticated Animals", "Feet Don't Fail Me", "God Is In The Radio", "I'm Designer", "Like A Drug", "Make It Wit Chu", "Noses In Roses, Forever", "New Fang", "Powdered Wig Machine", "Rusty Cage" Live Chris Cornell Tribute 2019, "Skin On Skin", "Time & Place", "White Wedding", "I Was A Teenage Hand Model", "Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up", "You Got A Killer Scene There Man…")
G♯2 ("Feel Good Hit Of The Summer", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Like A Drug" The Desert Sessions Version, "Ladder To The Moon", "Negative Space")
G2 ("Caligulove", "Dead In Love", "Elephants", "Interlude With Ludes", "Jackson" Live MTV Unplugged 2012, "Skin On Skin", "Sick, Sick, Sick", "Spinning In Daffodils", "The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore", "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" Live @ The Lounge 2013)
F♯2 ("Running Joke")
F2 ("Carnavoyeur", "I'm Designer" Live 3 voor 12 Acoustic Session, Desmet Studios, Amsterdam 2007, "Reggie Makes Music" Live Reggie Makes Music - Josh Homme 2014, "Sicily", "You Would Know")
E2 ("I Appear Missing", "Dark As A Dungeon" Live At Powell's Books 2005, "Don't Drink Poison", "Feet Don't Fail Me", "Made To Parade", "Straight Jacket Fitting")
E♭2 ("Sicily")
D2 ("Kalopsia", "Obscenery", "Straight Jacket Fitting", "Time & Place", "I Was A Teenage Hand Model")
B1 ("Domesticated Animals")
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Blue marks falsetto notes.
Underlines mark notes obscured in the mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Bold marks particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
Green marks distorted/screamed notes.
{Questionable Notes}A5 ("Mind Eraser, No Chaser" [1][3])
F♯5 "Turnin On The Screw" [2])
E5 ("Noses In Roses, Forever" [3])
C5 ("Hideaway" [2][4], "Interlude With Ludes" [4], "Mosquito Song" [4], "Striaght Jacket Fitting" [2])
B4 ("I'm Designer" [4])
G♯4 ("Another Love Song" [2])
G4 ("Never Say Never" [2], "Someone's In The Wolf" [4])
B2 ("Auto Pilot" [4], "Fortress" [1], "Into The Hollow" [1])
B♭2 ("Smooth Sailing" [3])
A2 ("Lavatory Lil" [2], "You Can't Quit Me Baby" [2])
G2 ("Broken Box" [3])
F2 ("Better Living Through Chemistry" [2], "...Like Clockwork" [1], "How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat)" [3])
E2 ("Burn The Witch" [5], "You Got A Killer Scene There Man…" [3][5])
D2 ("Skin On Skin" [5], "Spinning In Daffodils" [3])
C2 ("Interlude With Ludes" [3])
B1 ("Straight Jacket Fitting" [4])
B♭1 ("Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" [1][3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or insignificant 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.
F♯5 "Turnin On The Screw" [2])
E5 ("Noses In Roses, Forever" [3])
C5 ("Hideaway" [2][4], "Interlude With Ludes" [4], "Mosquito Song" [4], "Striaght Jacket Fitting" [2])
B4 ("I'm Designer" [4])
G♯4 ("Another Love Song" [2])
G4 ("Never Say Never" [2], "Someone's In The Wolf" [4])
B2 ("Auto Pilot" [4], "Fortress" [1], "Into The Hollow" [1])
B♭2 ("Smooth Sailing" [3])
A2 ("Lavatory Lil" [2], "You Can't Quit Me Baby" [2])
G2 ("Broken Box" [3])
F2 ("Better Living Through Chemistry" [2], "...Like Clockwork" [1], "How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat)" [3])
E2 ("Burn The Witch" [5], "You Got A Killer Scene There Man…" [3][5])
D2 ("Skin On Skin" [5], "Spinning In Daffodils" [3])
C2 ("Interlude With Ludes" [3])
B1 ("Straight Jacket Fitting" [4])
B♭1 ("Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" [1][3])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or insignificant 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.
