Post by Anacrusis on Dec 4, 2021 21:07:17 GMT
Brian Lane Bell
Years Active: 1991 - Present
Associated Acts: Weezer, The Relationship, Space Twins, Carnival Art
Recorded Range: F2 - F5
Voice Type: Sagittarius
{Vocal Summary}Since the band's ‘90s debut, Weezer guitarist Brian Bell has been there to provide plenty of catchy harmonies as well as many of their songs’ highest belts, even sometimes above lead singer Rivers Cuomo, a more natural tenor. And over time, Bell’s only grown stronger as a vocalist, as he now carries a robust, piercing tone up into the fifth octave for both studio and live performances. Unsurprisingly, Bell's solo work reveals that he is beyond capable as a lead singer as well. While fronting Space Twins and The Relationship, his side projects, Bell has displayed notable command over both ends of his range, complete with a clear, bright timbre and a charismatic, punk-inspired delivery.
Significant High Notes:
F5 ("Butterfly Collector", "El Scorcho" live Toronto 2009, "Endless Bummer", "No Show", "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" live Camden 2009)
E5 ("Get Right", "La Mancha Screwjob", "Prom Night", "Young Temptations")
E♭5 ("Any Friend of Diane’s", "Friend of a Friend", "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" live Spike Video Game Awards, "Jacked Up", "King of the World", "Playing My Piano" live Walt Disney Concert Hall, "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori", "Wind in Our Sail")
D5 ("American Gigolo", "The End of the Game" live Jimmy Kimmel Live!, "Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter", "Here Comes the Rain" live Walt Disney Concert Hall, "I Love the USA", "This Year’s Children")
C♯5 ("All My Favorite Songs", "All This Love", "Bird with a Broken Wing" live Walt Disney Concert Hall, "Do You Wanna Get High?", "Get Right", "The Girl Got Hot", "Here Comes the Rain", "King of the World", "L.A. Girlz", "Living in L.A.", "No Scrubs", "Playing My Piano" live Walt Disney Concert Hall, "Prom Night", "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori", "Susanne", "Suzy Don’t", "Sweet Mary", "Ugly Things", "You Rock My Heart")
C5 ("Aloo Gobi", "Buddy Holly", "California Kids", "December", "El Scorcho" live Toronto 2009, "The End of the Game" live Jimmy Kimmel Live!, "Endless Bummer", "Friend of a Friend", "Get Me Some", "(Girl We Got A) Good Thing", "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)", "Hawthorne", "I Don’t Want to Let You Go", "I’m a Believer", "L.A. Girlz", "La Mancha Screwjob", "Longtime Sunshine" live NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, "Playing My Piano" live Walt Disney Concert Hall, "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori", "Susanne", "Thank God for Girls", "This Year’s Children", "Turning Up the Radio", "TV, Music & Candy", "Wind in Our Sail")
B4 ("All My Favorite Songs", "Any Friend of Diane’s", "Brave New World", "The British Are Coming", "Cleopatra", "Cold Dark World", "Dreamin’", "Everybody Needs Salvation", "Feels Like Summer", "The Garden of Eden", "Grapes of Wrath", "Happy Together", "Hawthorne", "Here Comes the Rain", "I’m Your Daddy" live Late Show with David Letterman, "Jacked Up", "Love Is the Answer", "Mexican Fender", "My Name is Jonas", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "Patterns of Love", "Photograph", "Possibilities", "Prom Night", "Ruling Me", "Run Away", "Smart Girls", "Smile" The Relationship, "Stranded By the Sea", "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori", "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Thought I Knew" Weezer, "Tired of Sex", "Undone - The Sweater Song", "Unspoken", "Without Me", "Yellow Camaro", "You Rock My Heart")
B♭4 ("Ain’t Got Nobody", "All the Good Ones" live The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, "Aloo Gobi", "Blue Dream", "California Kids", "Cleopatra", "Do You Wanna Get High?" various live performances, "Dope Nose", "Eulogy for a Rock Band", "Everybody Get Dangerous", "Everybody Needs Salvation", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", "Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter", "The Futurescope Trilogy", "Getchoo", "(Girl We Got A) Good Thing", "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" live Spike Video Game Awards, "Happy Together", "Hate That I Love You", "Headache", "I Need Some of That" live iHeart Radio, "King of the World", "Louder Than Lies", "Numbers", "The Other Way", "Paranoid", "Patterns of Love", "Peace", "Pork and Beans", "The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World", "Ruling Me", "Rosanna", "Screens", "Something More", "Surf Wax America", "Sweet Mary", "Take On Me", "Tell Me What You Want", "Tripping Down The Freeway", "Why Bother?" live Japan 2005, "Wind in Our Sail", "You Won’t Get With Me Tonight" Full band rehearsal)
A4 ("180 Degrees", "All My Favorite Songs", "Amy Magazine", "Beach Boys", "Break Me Open", "Burndt Jamb", "Christmas Celebration", "Dark Enough to See the Stars", "December", "Dreamin’", "Falling for You", "Hate That I Love You", "Here Comes the Rain", "Hero", "I’ve Thrown It All Away", "Kids/Pokerface", "Mirror Image", "Mow the Lawn", "The Other Way", "Please Help Me", "Possibilities", "Put Me Back Together", "Represent (Rocked Out Mix)", "Rings of Saturn", "Rosanna", "Screens", "Smart Girls", "Space Rock", "Slave", "Stranded By the Sea", "Thank God for Girls", "This Is Such a Pity", "Too Many Thoughts in My Head", "Trampoline", "Ugly Days", "Ugly Things", "Undone - The Sweater Song" various live performances, "The Weight", "Where’s My Sex?")
G♯4 ("180 Degrees", "Ain’t Got Nobody", "All My Favorite Songs", "Aloo Gobi", "Any Friend of Diane’s", "Are You Gonna Be There For Me?", "Back to the Shack", "Blue Dream", "The British Are Coming", "Buddy Holly", "California Kids", "Da Vinci", "El Scorcho", "The End of the Game", "Endless Bummer", "Enter Sandman", "Feels Like Summer", "Friend of a Friend", "Get Right", "Getchoo", "(Girl We Got A) Good Thing", "Go Away", "The Good Life", "Grapes of Wrath", "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)", "Grimey Mitts", "Happy Hour", "Happy Together", "Hawthorne", "I Don’t Want to Let You Go", "I Need Some of That", "I Swear It’s True" Pinkerton Deluxe version, "I Want a Dog", "I’m Your Daddy", "In the Garage", "I’ve Had It Up to Here", "I’ve Thrown It All Away", "Keep Fishin’", "L.A. Girlz", "Living Without You", "Master Plan", "Memories", "Mexican Fender", "Mother Night", "Mow the Lawn", "Mykel and Carli", "No Scrubs", "Nothing for Love", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "Oh Allen", "Osaka Aquabus", "Photograph" live Richmond, VA 2014, "Please Help Me", "Running Out of Time", "Rust Colored Sun", "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" live Camden 2009, "Smile" The Relationship, "The Story of My Life", "Take On Me", "Tripping Down The Freeway", "Troublemaker", "Turning Up the Radio", "TV, Music & Candy", "Ugly Things", "Unspoken", "Vacation States", "Viva la Vida", "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", "Weekend Woman", "Why Bother?", "Working on Myself", "Yellow Camaro", "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly", "You Rock My Heart")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("180 Degrees", "Butterfly Collector", "Can’t You See?", "Clown Song", "Cold Dark World", "The First Noel", "Grimey Mitts", "Hand to Hold", "Happiness", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "Here Comes the Sun", "I’m a Believer", "Master Plan", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "Outta Here", "Please Help Me", "Smile" The Relationship, "Something More", "Take Control", "Trudy Truelove", "Ugly Days", "You Rock My Heart", "Young Temptations")
E♭3 ("180 Degrees", "Across the Sea", "A Brief History", "Buddy Holly", "Butterfly Collector", "Cleopatra", "El Scorcho" various live performances, "The End of the Game" live iHeart Radio, "Endless Bummer", "Get Right", "Goddess of Love", "Happy Days", "Hawthorne", "Heart Songs", "L.A. Girlz", "Master Plan", "Mother Night", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "Oh Allen", "Osaka Aquabus", "Pink Triangle", "Prom Night", "Ruling Me", "Rust Colored Sun", "Smile" The Relationship, "There’s Always Tomorrow", "This Year’s Children", "Together Tomorrow", "Tragic Girl", "Ugly Things", "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", "Why Bother?" live Japan 2005, "Will I Ever See Her Again?", "You Rock My Heart")
D3 ("Beach Boys", "Break Me Open", "Hand to Hold", "Happiness", "Hero", "I Love the USA", "I’m a Believer", "In Love with Love", "Losing My Mind", "Louder Than Lies", "Missing", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Put Me Back Together", "Rings of Saturn", "Silent Night", "Stranded By the Sea", "This Year’s Children", "Thought I Knew" Weezer, "Thoughts of Lust", "Without Me")
C♯3 ("Are You Gonna Be There For Me?", "A Brief History", "Casper", "Everybody Wants a Chance to Feel All Alone" Acoustic demo, "Goddess of Love", "Hawthorne", "Here Comes the Sun", "No Show", "Oh Allen", "Patterns of Love", "Silent Night", "Smile" The Relationship, "Take My Place", "There’s Always Tomorrow", "Ugly Things", "Weekend Woman", "Working on Myself")
C3 ("Clown Song", "In Love with Love", "Mow the Lawn", "My Love", "Vacation States")
B2 ("Amy Magazine", "Are You Gonna Be There For Me?", "The First Noel", "Hawthorne", "Missing", "Nico", "Osaka Aquabus", "Running Out of Time", "Smells Like...Hot Dogs", "Stranded By the Sea", "Suzy Don’t", "Thought I Knew" Weezer, "Thoughts of Lust", "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here", "Working on Myself")
B♭2 ("Headache", "Here Comes the Sun", "In Love with Love", "Mow the Lawn", "Rosanna", "Space Twins Theme", "Will I Ever See Her Again?")
A2 ("Mow the Lawn", "Silent Night")
G♯2 ("Running Out of Time", "Space Twins Theme", "Vacation States", "Working on Myself")
G2 ("My Love")
F♯2 ("Pork and Beans", "Will I Ever See Her Again?")
F2 ("Space Twins Theme")
{Questionable Notes}A5 ("Smart Girls" [2])
G♯5 ("The Sound of Drums" [2], "You Rock My Heart" [2])
F♯5 ("Get Me Some" [2], "Living in L.A." [2], "Smart Girls" [2], "Tired of Sex" [1])
F5 ("You Rock My Heart" [1])
E5 ("Byzantine" [2], "Piece of Cake" [2], "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" [2])
E♭5 ("Basketball" [2], "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep" [2], "Stand By Me" [2])
D5 ("Too Many Thoughts in My Head" [2])
C5 ("Mr. Blue Sky" [2], "The Opposite of Me" [2])
B4 ("Blue Like Jazz" [2])
B♭4 ("Devotion" [2] I can’t even confirm if Brian sang on this track.)
E♭3 ("The Sound of Drums" [2])
D3 ("Holiday" [2])
A2 ("Missing" [1])
G♯2 ("No Scrubs" [2])
G2 ("I’ve Had It Up to Here" [2], "Love Is the Answer" [2] I don’t know if this is humming or some drone instrument)
F2 ("Holiday" [2], "My Love" [3])
E2 ("Byzantine" [2])
E♭2 ("Space Twins Theme" [5] Unsupported fry note)
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1. Brief jumps into high or low range (eg. Yelps, trills, anacrusis, etc.).
2. Notes whose singer is unclear.
3. Non-melodic (ie. Spoken or off-key) notes that also lack a clear pitch.
4. Possibly pitch-shifted notes.
5. Notes that do not fit the labels above but whose quality is still unrepresentative of the singer's usual work (eg. excessively distorted screams or sustained, but non-projected vocal fry).
..................................................G♯5 ("The Sound of Drums" [2], "You Rock My Heart" [2])
F♯5 ("Get Me Some" [2], "Living in L.A." [2], "Smart Girls" [2], "Tired of Sex" [1])
F5 ("You Rock My Heart" [1])
E5 ("Byzantine" [2], "Piece of Cake" [2], "Too Many Thoughts in My Head" [2])
E♭5 ("Basketball" [2], "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep" [2], "Stand By Me" [2])
D5 ("Too Many Thoughts in My Head" [2])
C5 ("Mr. Blue Sky" [2], "The Opposite of Me" [2])
B4 ("Blue Like Jazz" [2])
B♭4 ("Devotion" [2] I can’t even confirm if Brian sang on this track.)
E♭3 ("The Sound of Drums" [2])
D3 ("Holiday" [2])
A2 ("Missing" [1])
G♯2 ("No Scrubs" [2])
G2 ("I’ve Had It Up to Here" [2], "Love Is the Answer" [2] I don’t know if this is humming or some drone instrument)
F2 ("Holiday" [2], "My Love" [3])
E2 ("Byzantine" [2])
E♭2 ("Space Twins Theme" [5] Unsupported fry note)
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1. Brief jumps into high or low range (eg. Yelps, trills, anacrusis, etc.).
2. Notes whose singer is unclear.
3. Non-melodic (ie. Spoken or off-key) notes that also lack a clear pitch.
4. Possibly pitch-shifted notes.
5. Notes that do not fit the labels above but whose quality is still unrepresentative of the singer's usual work (eg. excessively distorted screams or sustained, but non-projected vocal fry).
• Blue: Falsetto, head voice, and/or whistle register (projected mixed voice is kept in black).
• Bold: Some of the singer's arguably most impressive notes within a given register. Click on a bolded song title to hear audio of that note.
• Italics: Non-melodic notes (ie. Spoken or off-key).
• Underlines: Notes that are buried in the song's mix or which blend together with the other voice(s) in a harmony.
