Post by Platypus on Sept 24, 2019 20:32:17 GMT
Eric Reed Boucher
Years Active: 1976 - present
Associated Acts: Dead Kennedys, Lard, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
Vocal Range: D2 - G♯5
{Vocal Summary}In the sea of mediocre punk vocalists, Jello Biafra stands out as someone who might actually be considered a competent singer. His cutting voice is one of the most recognizable in the 80s punk scene, and his often character based lyrics and theatrical delivery gives his songs a unique charm. With his bright belting tone, Jello can easily belt entire songs in the upper 4th/lower 5th octave, demonstrated by songs like "70s Rock Must Die". In his 40+ year career, Jello has shown remarkable consistency and even today he sounds pretty much exactly the same as he did in the 80s performing with the Dead Kennedys.
Written by Platypus .
Written by Platypus .
Significant High Notes:
G♯5 ("Caped Crusader", "I Spy", "Speed Demon")
G5 ("70s Rock Must Die", "Halloween", "John Dillinger", "The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism", "Rawhide", "They're Coming to Take Me Away", "Werewolves of Wall Street", "White People and the Damage Done", "Wish I Was In El Salvador")
F♯5 ("Buy My Snake Oil", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster", "Hollywood Goof Disease", "Land of 1000 Dances", "The Last Big Gulp", "Lessons in What Not to Become", "Panic Land", "Plethysmograph", "Satan's Combover", "The Sky Is Falling, and I Want My Mommy (Falling Space Junk)", "Speed Demon", "Werewolves of Wall Street", "Wholly Buy Bull", "Yuppie Cadillac")
F5 ("A Boring Day Is What I Need", "Can God Fill Teeth?", "Drug Raid At 4AM", "Generation Execute", "Mate Spawn and Die", "Miracle Penis Highway", "Ride the Flume", "They're Coming to Take Me Away", "Winnebago Warrior")
E5 ("70s Rock Must Die", "Bangkok", "Bruce's Diary", "Chew", "Crapture", "The Great Wall", "The Power of Lard", "Road Rage", "Sidewinder", "Victory Stinks", "White People and the Damage Done", "You're Beautiful" Audience participation on the song "Bangkok")
E♭5 ("Dead End", "Don't Mess With My Toot Toot", "Forkboy", "Holiday in Cambodia", "Satan's Combover", "Saturday Night Holocaust", "Sylvestre Matuschka")
D5 ("The Brown Lipstick Parade", "California Über Alles", "I Am the Owl", "I Won't Give Up", "Moths", "Riot", "Sharks in the Gene Pool", "Walking on Guilded Splinters", "Working in a Coal Mine", "Yuppie Cadillac")
C♯5 ("Barackstar O'Bummer", "Bruce's Diary", "Buy My Snake Oil", "The Cells That Will Not Die", "Cesspools In Eden", "Chemical Warfare", "Clean as a Thistle", "Drug Raid At 4AM", "Electronic Plantation", "Hollywood Goof Disease", "Humanoids from the Deep", "I Spy", "John Dillinger", "Lessons in What Not to Become", "Mangoat", "Mascot Mania", "Mid-East Peace Process", "Miracle Penis Highway", "Panic Land", "Peeling Back the Foreskin of Liberty", "Plethysmograph", "Potshot Heard Around The World", "Ride the Flume", "Speed Demon", "Taliban USA", "That's Progress", "This Could Be Anywhere", "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)", "Voted Off the Island", "War Pimp Renaissance", "Wholly Buy Bull")
C5 ("70s Rock Must Die", "Barackstar O'Bummer", "A Boring Day Is What I Need", "Bozo Skeleton", "Buzzbomb", "Crapture", "Dawn of the Locusts", "Dot Com Monte Carlo", "Fannie Mae", "Fleshdunce", "Forest Fire", "Forkboy", "Generation Execute", "Goons of Hazzard", "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch", "I Am Your Clock", "Invasion of the Mind Snatchers", "Islamic Bomb", "Life Sentence", "Mangoat", "Mate Spawn and Die", "McGruff the Crime Dog", "The Myth Is Real – Let's Eat", "No More Selfies", "Pineapple Face", "Plastic Jesus", "The Power of Lard", "Ride the Flume", "Sabotage Is Sex", "Sharks in the Gene Pool", "Shock-U-Py!", "Soup Is Good Food", "Stealing People's Mail", "The Terror of Tinytown", "They're Coming to Take Me Away", "Triumph of the Swill", "Trust Your Mechanic", "We Created Putin", "Werewolves of Wall Street")
B4 ("Attack of the Peacekeepers", "Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter", "Bleed for Me", "Bozo Skeleton", "The Brown Lipstick Parade", "Bruce's Diary", "Buy My Snake Oil", "Caped Crusader", "Cesspools In Eden", "Chickenshit Conformist", "Clean as a Thistle", "Dear Abby", "Dead End", "Do The Slag", "Dot Com Monte Carlo", "Faith Hope and Treachery", "Full Metal Jackoff", "The Ghost of Vince Lombardi", "Goons of Hazzard", "Government Flu", "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch", "Hellfudge", "Hellnation", "Hop With The Jet Set", "I Am the Owl", "I Won't Give Up", "Jesus Was a Terrorist", "John Dillinger", "Just a Little Bit", "Land of 1000 Dances", "Lie Detector", "The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism", "Love Me, I'm A Liberal", "Macho Insecurity", "Miracle Penis Highway", "Moral Majority", "New Feudalism", "Panic Land", "Peeling Back the Foreskin of Liberty", "People with Too Much Time on Their Hands", "Pets Eat Their Master", "Plethysmograph", "Power is Boring", "Rambozo the Clown", "Road Rage", "Satan's Combover", "The Sky Is Falling, and I Want My Mommy (Falling Space Junk)", "Speed Demon", "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", "Strength Thru Shopping", "Sylvestre Matuschka", "Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)", "Three Strikes", "Too Drunk to Fuck", "War Pimp Renaissance", "We Occupy", "Well Paid Scientist", "Werewolves of Wall Street", "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now", "White People and the Damage Done", "Will The Fetus Be Aborted?", "Yuppie Cadillac")
B♭4 ("Anarchy For Sale", "Barackstar O'Bummer", "A Boring Day Is What I Need", "Buy My Snake Oil", "The Cells That Will Not Die", "Cesspools In Eden", "Chew", "Drug Raid At 4AM", "Electronic Plantation", "Fannie Mae", "Forkboy", "Gone With My Wind", "Halloween", "I Am Your Clock", "Islamic Bomb", "Jock-O-Rama", "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round", "Mascot Mania", "MTV-Get Off the Air", "The Myth Is Real – Let's Eat", "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", "New Feudalism", "Police Truck", "The Power of Lard", "Rawhide", "Riot", "Saturday Night Holocaust", "Stealing People's Mail", "Take This Job and Shove It", "Terminal Preppie", "The Terror of Tinytown", "That's Progress", "Three Strikes", "Time to Melt", "Triumph of the Swill", "Victory Stinks", "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)", "Voted Off the Island", "War Pimp Renaissance", "Where Do Ya Draw the Line", "Wholly Buy Bull", "Wish I Was In El Salvador")
A4 ("Achey Rakey Heart", "Attack of the Peacekeepers", "Bad", "Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter", "Bangkok", "Bozo Skeleton", "The Brown Lipstick Parade", "Burgers of Wrath", "California Über Alles", "Chemical Warfare", "Chicken Farm", "Chickenshit Conformist", "A Child and His Lawnmower", "Crapture", "Dawn of the Locusts", "Dog Bite", "Drug Raid At 4AM", "Fleshdunce", "Full Metal Jackoff", "The Ghost of Vince Lombardi", "The Great Wall", "Halo of Flies", "Hellnation", "Holiday in Cambodia", "Hollywood Goof Disease", "Hop With The Jet Set", "House of the Rising Sun", "Hyperactive Child", "I Wanna Be a Drug-Sniffing Dog", "Jesus Was a Terrorist", "Jezebel", "John Dillinger", "Kepone Factory", "Kill the Poor", "The Last Big Gulp", "Lessons in What Not to Become", "Let's Go Stare at Blood Dead People", "Let's Lynch the Landlord", "Lie Detector", "Life Sentence", "The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism", "Macho Insecurity", "Mangoat", "Mate Spawn and Die", "McGruff the Crime Dog", "Meat Beat", "Moths", "The Myth Is Real – Let's Eat", "No More Selfies", "Ooh-Poo-Pah-Doo", "Panic Land", "People with Too Much Time on Their Hands", "Pineapple Face", "Plastic Jesus", "Plethysmograph", "Potshot Heard Around The World", "The Power of Lard", "Rambozo the Clown", "Ride the Flume", "Riot", "Road Rage", "Sabotage Is Sex", "Satan's Combover", "Saturday Night Holocaust", "Shrink", "Shock-U-Py!", "The Sky Is Falling, and I Want My Mommy (Falling Space Junk)", "Still Is Still Moving to Me", "Soup Is Good Food", "Speed Demon", "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", "Stealing People's Mail", "Strength Thru Shopping", "Take This Job and Shove It", "Taliban USA", "Tea Party Revenge Porn", "Terminal Preppie", "This Could Be Anywhere", "Three Strikes", "Victory Stinks", "Viva Las Vegas", "Walking on Guilded Splinters", "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "We Occupy", "Where Do Ya Draw the Line", "White People and the Damage Done")
G♯4 ("Atomic Power", "Buzzbomb", "California Über Alles", "Chicken Farm", "Chickenshit Conformist", "Convoy In The Sky", "Dead End", "Dear Abby", "Faith Hope and Treachery", "Forest Fire", "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch", "Hellfudge", "Ill in the Head", "Let's Go Burn Old Nashville Down", "Mid-East Peace Process", "Miracle Penis Highway", "Moths", "MTV-Get Off the Air", "Nostalgia For An Age That Never Existed", "Sidewinder", "Time to Melt", "Voted Off the Island", "We Created Putin", "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now", "Winnebago Warrior", "Wish I Was In El Salvador", "Your Emotions")
G4 ("Bad", "Barackstar O'Bummer", "Bleed for Me", "The Cells That Will Not Die", "Chew", "Do The Slag", "Don't Mess With My Toot Toot", "Electronic Plantation", "Enchanted Thoughtfist", "Forkboy", "Funland at the Beach", "Gone With My Wind", "Goons of Hazzard", "Government Flu", "Halloween", "Halo of Flies", "I Am Your Clock", "I Fought the Law", "I Kill Children", "I Spy", "Jock-O-Rama", "Judy in Disguise", "Kill the Poor", "Let's Go Stare at Blood Dead People", "Love Me, I'm A Liberal", "Macho Insecurity", "The Man With the Dogs", "Mascot Mania", "Meat Beat", "Moon Over Marin", "Moral Majority", "Mother in Law", "One Way Ticket to Pluto", "Pets Eat Their Master", "Plastic Jesus", "Power is Boring", "Pull My Strings", "Rawhide", "Short Songs", "Still Is Still Moving to Me", "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", "Straight A's", "Terminal Preppie", "The Terror of Tinytown", "That's Progress", "This Could Be Anywhere", "Time to Melt", "Triumph of the Swill", "Well Paid Scientist", "Where Are We Gonna Work (When The Trees Are Gone?)", "Wholly Buy Bull", "Working in a Coal Mine", "Yuppie Cadillac")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("Buy My Snake Oil", "Caped Crusader", "Clean as a Thistle", "Crapture", "Enchanted Thoughtfist", "Forward to Death", "Full Metal Jackoff", "Goons of Hazzard", "Government Flu", "Halo of Flies", "I Am the Owl", "Insight", "John Dillinger", "Lie Detector", "The Lighter Side of Global Terrorism", "Love Me, I'm A Liberal", "Macho Insecurity", "New Feudalism", "Nostalgia For An Age That Never Existed", "Ooh-Poo-Pah-Doo", "People with Too Much Time on Their Hands", "Police Truck", "Rambozo the Clown", "Rawhide", "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", "Take This Job and Shove It", "Taliban USA", "Viva Las Vegas", "When Ya Get Drafted")
E♭3 ("California Über Alles", "Hellfudge", "I Wanna Be a Drug-Sniffing Dog", "Islamic Bomb", "Jezebel", "Judy in Disguise")
D3 ("Bruce's Diary", "Chicken Farm", "Dead End", "Generation Execute", "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch", "I Am Your Clock", "Just a Little Bit", "Kill the Poor", "The Man With the Dogs", "McGruff the Crime Dog", "Metamorphosis Exploration on Deviation Street Jam", "That's Progress", "Those Dumb Punk Kids (Will Buy Anything)", "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)", "Walking on Guilded Splinters", "Will The Fetus Be Aborted?")
C♯3 ("Atomic Power", "The Cells That Will Not Die", "Chickenshit Conformist", "Convoy In The Sky", "Forest Fire", "Ill in the Head", "Miracle Penis Highway", "MTV-Get Off the Air", "No More Selfies", "Nostalgia For An Age That Never Existed", "Sidewinder", "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now")
C3 ("Chemical Warfare", "Don't Mess With My Toot Toot", "Jock-O-Rama", "Plastic Jesus", "Tea Party Revenge Porn", "They're Coming to Take Me Away", "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)", "Walking on Guilded Splinters", "Where Are We Gonna Work (When The Trees Are Gone?)", "Wish I Was In El Salvador")
B2 ("At My Job", "Buy My Snake Oil", "Caped Crusader", "Convoy In The Sky", "Dear Abby", "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch", "Hollywood Goof Disease", "Mascot Mania", "Speed Demon", "We Created Putin", "We Gotta Get Out of This Place")
B♭2 ("A Boring Day Is What I Need", "Generation Execute", "The Prey")
A2 ("At My Job", "California Über Alles", "Cesspools In Eden", "House of the Rising Sun", "Jock-O-Rama", "Peeling Back the Foreskin of Liberty", "Soup Is Good Food", "Trust Your Mechanic", "We Created Putin")
G♯2 ("Miracle Penis Highway")
G2 ("Barackstar O'Bummer", "Can God Fill Teeth?", "Chemical Warfare", "Humanoids from the Deep", "McGruff the Crime Dog", "Time to Melt")
F♯2 ("California Über Alles", "Dear Abby", "Generation Execute", "Jock-O-Rama", "Trapped in the Playground", "Walking on Guilded Splinters")
F2 ("D.M.S.O.", "Metamorphosis Exploration on Deviation Street Jam", "Mother in Law", "The Prey")
E2 ("Chew", "The Taser", "Just a Little Bit", "Time to Melt")
E♭2 ("Bruce's Diary")
D2 ("I Am Your Clock", "I Kill Children", "Let's Go Stare at Blood Dead People", "Sharks in the Gene Pool")
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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.
{Questionable Notes}
E7 ("Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round" [6])
D7 ("They're Coming to Take Me Away" [6])
G6 ("The Taser" [6])
E♭6 ("Holiday in Cambodia" [6])
C♯6 ("Bleed for Me" [6], "Soup Is Good Food" [6])
B♭5 ("Bozo Skeleton" [3], "Let's Go Burn Old Nashville Down" [6], "Life Sentence" [1], "Winnebago Warrior" [2])
G♯5 ("Satan's Combover" [1])
G5 ("Fleshdunce" [1])
F♯5 ("Cesspools In Eden" [1], "Rambozo the Clown" [1])
F5 ("Forest Fire" [5], "Gone With My Wind" [5], "The Man With the Dogs" [1])
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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.
[6] marks notes that are most likely produced via reverse phonation (inhaling).
E7 ("Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round" [6])
D7 ("They're Coming to Take Me Away" [6])
G6 ("The Taser" [6])
E♭6 ("Holiday in Cambodia" [6])
C♯6 ("Bleed for Me" [6], "Soup Is Good Food" [6])
B♭5 ("Bozo Skeleton" [3], "Let's Go Burn Old Nashville Down" [6], "Life Sentence" [1], "Winnebago Warrior" [2])
G♯5 ("Satan's Combover" [1])
G5 ("Fleshdunce" [1])
F♯5 ("Cesspools In Eden" [1], "Rambozo the Clown" [1])
F5 ("Forest Fire" [5], "Gone With My Wind" [5], "The Man With the Dogs" [1])
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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.
[6] marks notes that are most likely produced via reverse phonation (inhaling).
{Album Ranges}Dead Kennedys:
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (1980): D2 - F♯2 - E♭5
In God We Trust, Inc. (1981): C♯3 - B4 - G5
Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982): A2 - G5
Frankenchrist (1985): F♯2 - C♯5
Bedtime for Democracy (1986): F2 - F♯2 - C♯5 - G♯5
Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (1987): F2 - C5 - E♭5
Various collaborative efforts:
Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbors (1989): B2 - C♯5 - G5
The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy (1990): D2 - D3 - D5 - E5 - F♯5
Prairie Home Invasion (1994): B2 - C♯5 - F♯5
Never Breathe What You Can't See (2004): G2 - D5 - G♯5
Sieg Howdy! (2005): D3 - C♯5 - F♯5
Walk on Jindal's Splinters (2015): E2 - C5 - E5 - F♯5
Lard:
The Power of Lard (1989): E2 - C5 - E5
The Last Temptation Of Reid (1990): D2 - C3 - F5 - G5
Pure Chewing Satisfaction (1997): F♯2 - E5 - F5
70's Rock Must Die (2000): C3 - G5
The Witch Trials:
The Witch Trials (1981): E2 - F♯2 - A4 - C♯5
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine:
The Audacity of Hype (2009): E3 - D5 - F♯5
Enhanced Methods of Questioning (2011): F2 - C♯5 - F5
White People and the Damage Done (2013): B2 - E5 - F♯5 - G5
Tea Party Revenge Porn (2020): D2 - A2 - E♭5 - F♯5
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (1980): D2 - F♯2 - E♭5
In God We Trust, Inc. (1981): C♯3 - B4 - G5
Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982): A2 - G5
Frankenchrist (1985): F♯2 - C♯5
Bedtime for Democracy (1986): F2 - F♯2 - C♯5 - G♯5
Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (1987): F2 - C5 - E♭5
Various collaborative efforts:
Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbors (1989): B2 - C♯5 - G5
The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy (1990): D2 - D3 - D5 - E5 - F♯5
Prairie Home Invasion (1994): B2 - C♯5 - F♯5
Never Breathe What You Can't See (2004): G2 - D5 - G♯5
Sieg Howdy! (2005): D3 - C♯5 - F♯5
Walk on Jindal's Splinters (2015): E2 - C5 - E5 - F♯5
Lard:
The Power of Lard (1989): E2 - C5 - E5
The Last Temptation Of Reid (1990): D2 - C3 - F5 - G5
Pure Chewing Satisfaction (1997): F♯2 - E5 - F5
70's Rock Must Die (2000): C3 - G5
The Witch Trials:
The Witch Trials (1981): E2 - F♯2 - A4 - C♯5
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine:
The Audacity of Hype (2009): E3 - D5 - F♯5
Enhanced Methods of Questioning (2011): F2 - C♯5 - F5
White People and the Damage Done (2013): B2 - E5 - F♯5 - G5
Tea Party Revenge Porn (2020): D2 - A2 - E♭5 - F♯5