Isaac Brock (2,014 views)

[Seb]

Isaac Brock (July 9, 1975)
Vocal Range: A1 - B♭5
Associated Acts: Modest Mouse (1992 – present), Ugly Casanova (1997 – 2002, 2010)

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{Discography}Modest Mouse:
Tube-Fruit, All Smiles and Chocolate (1992, Demo): F♯2 - C5 - G5
Uncle Bunny Faces' Useless Anology Involving Distance, Freight Trains, and Half Ripe Limes (It Doesn't Matter, Limes Are Sour Either Way) (1993, Demo): C3 - C♯5 - F♯5
Sad Sappy Sucker Chokin on a Mouthful of Lost Thoughts (1994, Demo) [1]: F2 - B4 - D5 - B♭5
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About (1996): F♯2 - B4 - F♯5
Interstate 8 (1996, EP): G2 - G5
The Fruit That Ate Itself (1997, EP): G2 - B4
The Lonesome Crowded West (1997): G2 - C5
Night on the Sun (1999, EP): G2 - B4
The Moon & Antarctica (2000): D2 - B4 - E♭5
Sad Sappy Sucker (2001) [2]: F2 - G5 - B♭5
Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks (2001): E2 - B4 - D5
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004): E♭2 - E5
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007): D2 - D5 - E5
No One’s First And You’re Next (2009, EP): C2 - G5
Strangers to Ourselves (2015): A1 - D5
The Golden Casket (2021): B♭1 - B4 - C5
Ugly Casanova:
Sharpen Your Teeth (2002): E2 - A4 - F5 (C2 in 2015 re-release)

+ singles/compilations/other appearances
[1] Featured songs from the previous demo "Sad Sappy Sucker"
[2] Recorded in 1994, originally slated to be Modest Mouse's debut album and featuring tracks from their EP "Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect"

Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("Black Blood & New Agers" / "New Old Agers")
G5 ("Beach Side Property" (Interstate 8 version), "Black Blood & New Agers" / "New Old Agers", "Ignoring Each Other, Together for It", "King Rat", "Red Hand Case")
F♯5 ("20 Times To Exhale / Amanda's Birthday Song", "Tundra/Desert")
F5 ("Spilled Milk Factory")
E5 ("Bury Me with It", "Follow Through (Every Mom I Know Seems To Think It's 'Bout Them But It Ain't)", "Ignoring Each Other, Together for It", "March Into The Sea", "Red Hand Case", "The View")
E♭5 ("Spilled Milk Factory", "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes")
D5 ("All Night Diner", "Dance Hall", "Dashboard", "Education", "Float On", "Florida", "Fly Trapped In a Jar", "Head South", "Here It Comes", "Invisible", "Isaac's Dream", "Jawbreaker / Sweater Song", "King Rat", "Ocean Breathes Salty", "One Chance", "Parting Of The Sensory", "Playground For The Shotgun Kids", "Red Hand Case", "Satin In A Coffin", "Spitting Venom", "Sugar Boats", "The Cold Part", "The Stars Are Projectors", "The Tortoise And The Tourist", "The View", "Wicked Campaign")
C♯5 ("20 Times to Exhale / Amanda's Birthday Song", "A Song", "Alone Down There", "Beta Carotene" (live at Mercury Theatre, 9/9/1997), "Bury Me with It", "Four Leaf Clover")
C5 ("Beach Side Property", "BMX Crash", "Bukowski", "Buttons to Push the Buttons", "Florida", "Fly Trapped In a Jar", "Immigration Office Spelling Bee", "Isaac's Dream", "Leave A Light On", "Lounge (Closing Time)", "Ocean Breathes Salty", "Roads to Go to Roads to Go To...", "Secret Agent X-9", "The Best Room", "The Devil's Workday", "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "Things I Don't Remember", "Uninvited", "Whatever, Go Make Some Friends", "Wood Grain")
B4 ("20 Times To Exhale / Amanda's Birthday Song", "All Night Diner", "Alone Down There", "Be Brave", "Bee Sting", "Breakthrough", "Convenient Parking", "Crazy Gnome", "Dance Hall", "Dark Center Of The Universe" (Night on the Sun version), "Dashboard", "Dirty Fingernails", "Doin' The Cockroach", "Dyed Your Hair", "Edit the Sad Parts", "Exit Does Not Exist", "Four Leaf Clover", "Guilty Cocker Spaniels", "Head South", "I've Got It All (Most)", "Ionizes and Atomizes", "Less Thought Than Sleep", "Life Like Weeds", "March Into The Sea", "Ohio", "Perfect Disguise", "Poison The Well", "Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark", "Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright", "Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset", "The Fruit That Ate Itself", "The Stars Are Projectors", "Too Many Fiestas For Rueben", "Tundra/Desert", "What People Are Made Of", "Willful Suspension of Disbelief", "Wooden Soldiers", "Woodgrain")
B♭4 ("A Different City", "A Life Of Arctic Sounds", "Beta Carotene" (various live performances), "Bukowski", "Happy Little Ower", "In Like Roses" (Demo), "Lampshades On Fire", "Lounge", "King Rat", "Night On The Sun", "Piggy Tails Buries Corborador In The Desert", "Play Taps", "Sad Sorta Angry", "Satin In A Coffin", "Shit In Your Cut", "Shit Luck", "This is Real Life", "Toothache Splinter", "Uninvited", "Whatever, Go Make Some Friends", "Wicked Campaign", "You're The Good Things (It's Alright To Die)")
A4 ("A Life Of Arctic Sounds", "A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy", "A Song", "All Night Diner", "Alone Down There", "Ansel", "Babies Clean Conscience", "Be Brave", "Black Cadillacs", "Breakthrough", "Building Bricks", "Cowboy Dan", "Crazy Gnome", "Diamonds on the Face of Evil", "Dirty Fingernails", "Doin' The Cockroach", "Dukes Up", "Dyed Your Hair", "Edit the Sad Parts", "Education", "Exit Does Not Exist", "Fly Trapped In a Jar", From Point A To Point B", "Here It Comes", "Here's To Now", "Feelings", "Fire It Up", "Fly Trapped In a Jar", "I Came As a Rat", "I Say So", "Ionizes and Atomizes", "Immigration Office Spelling Bee", "In Like Roses" (Demo), "Interstate 8", "Invisible", "Jesus Christ Was An Only Child", "Life Like Weeds", "Little Motel", "Lounge (Closing Time)", "March Into The Sea", "Maybe Your Jokes Aren't Funny", "Might", "Nothing New", "Ocean Breathes Salty" studio/earlier live version, "One Chance", "Other People's Lives", "Parting Of The Sensory", "Path Of Least Defiance", "Perfect Disguise", "Perpetual Motion Machine", "Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)", "Playground For The Shotgun Kids", "Poison The Well", "Polar Opposites", "Pups to Dust", "Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark", "Reason, Vandetta and Problem", "Red Hand Case", "Shepards Pie", "Shit in Your Cut", "Shit Luck", "So Long to the Holidays", "Steam Engenius", "Secret Agent X-9", "Spitting Venom", "Storage Center For Kids", "Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright", "Sugar Boats", "Super Saver Day", "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine", "The Best Room", "The Cold Part", "The Fruit That Ate Itself", "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "The Gravity Involved In Climbing", "The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box", "The Railroad", The Tortoise And The Tourist", "Things I Don't Remember", "Think Long", "Too Many Fiestas For Rueben", "Tundra/Desert", "Walking And Running", "We've Got Everything", "What People Are Made Of", "Wooden Soldiers", "Wrong Decision (Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office)")
G♯4 ("20 Times To Exhale / Amanda's Birthday Song", "A Different City", "Bee Sting", "Beta Carotene" (various live performances), "Broke", "Building Bricks", "Bukowski", "Bury Me With It", "Clock Watchers", "Convenient Parking",  "Cowboy Dan", "Dark Center Of The Universe", "Election Day", "Gravity Rides Everything", "Head South", "Humpin' Pumpkin", "I've Got It All (Most)", "Leaflets Gabe", "Live at Sunburst M.T.", "Night On The Sun", "Ohio", "People As Places As People", "Satellite Skin", "Sin Gun Chaser", "Spilled Milk Factory", "Super Saver Day", "Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset", "Thinking Lead To Suspicion", "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes", "Truckers Atlas", "Ugly Cassanova", "Whatever, Go Make Some Friends", "Whenever You See Fit", "Willful Suspension of Disbelief", "You're The Good Things")
G4 ("3rd Planet", "Ansel", "Australopithecus", "Autumn Beds", "Beach Side Property", "Black Cadillacs", "Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect", "Bread", "Breakthrough", "Buttons to Push the Buttons", "Custom Concern", "Dance Hall", "Dashboard", "Diamonds on the Face of Evil", "Diggin Holes", "Dog Paddle", "Doin' The Cockroach", "Dramamine", "Dukes Up", "Dyed Your Hair", "Education", "Fire It Up", "Florida", "Four Fingered Fisherman", "From Point A To Point B", "Fuck Your Acid Trip", "God Is An Indian And You're An Asshole", "Guilty Cocker Spaniels", "History Sticks To Your Feet", "Hotcha Girls", "I Came As a Rat", "Ice on the Sheets", "Ignoring Each Other, Together For It", "Impossible", "Isaac's Dream", "Jawbreaker / Sweater Song", "Jesus Christ Was An Only Child", "Jumpsuit Or Jumpship", "Karma's Payment", "King Rat", "Lampshades on Fire", "Little Motel", "Livin Your Life In Two", "Lounge", "March Into The Sea", "Maybe Your Jokes Aren't Funny", "Might", "Nosaysisaysnoone", "Nothing New", "Novocain Stains", "Of Course We Know", "One Chance", "Other People's Lives", "Parasites", "Parting Of The Sensory", "Path Of Least Defiance", "Piggy Tails Buries Corborador In The Desert", "Poison The Well", "Roads to Go to Roads to Go To...", Rolloff", "Satin In A Coffin", "Shit in Your Cut", "Secret Agent X-9", "Spitting Venom", "Storage Shed For Kids", "Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright", "Sugar Boats", "Sunspots In The House Of The Late", "Teeth Mean Smiles", "The Devil's Workday", "The Gravity Involved In Climbing", "The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box", "The Best Room", "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" opening theme, "The Railroad", "The View", "The Waydown", "The Whale Song", "Think Long", "Tossing Your Weight", "What People Are Made Of", "Whenever You See Fit", "White Lies, Yellow Teeth", "Wicked Campaign", "Wooden Soldiers", "Wrong Decision (Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office)")

Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters", "A Life Of Arctic Sounds", "All Night Diner", "Baby Blue Sedan", "Barnacles", "Be Brave", "Beach Side Property", "Black Cadillacs", "Breakthrough", "Bulldozers On High", "Calculus Man", "Cat Faces", "Cowboy Dan", "Custom Concern", "Dark Center of the Universe' (The Moon & Antarctica version), "Dashboard", "Don't Know Direction", "Edit The Sad Parts", "Education", "Every Penny Fed Car", "Fire It Up", "Fly Trapped In a Jar", "Follow Through (Every Mom I Know Seems To Think It's 'Bout Them But It Ain't)", "Four Fingered Fisherman", "From Point A To Point B", "Go On, Come On, Carry Off", "Guilty Cocker Spaniels", "Happy Little Ower", "Heart Cooks Brain", "Highwayman", "History Sticks To Your Feet", "Interstate 8", "Jawbreaker / Sweater Song", "Jesus Christ Was An Only Child", "Lives", "Lounge (Closing Time)", "King Rat", "Medication", "Mice Eat Cheese", "Missed The Boat", "My Name On A Letter In The Mailbox", "Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly", "Nosaysisaysnoone", "Nothing New", "Novocain Stains", "Ocean Breathes Salty", "Other People's Lives", "Perpetual Motion Machine", "Playground For The Shotgun Kids", "Pups to Dust", "Roads to Go to Roads to Go To...", "Rolloff", "Slave Trade Definition Center", "Smoke Like Ribbons", "Storage Shed For Kids", "Strangers To Ourselves", "Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright", "Sugar Boats", "Sugar in My Coffeeo", "Teachers Fieldtrip To The Moon", "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine", "The Cold Part", "The Sun Hasn't Left", "The Trouble With",  "The Waydown", "Treat Me Like A Mammal", "Tundra/Desert", "We're Lucky", "Whatever, Go Make Some Friends", "Whenever You See Fit", "Wild Pack Of Family Dogs", "Wooden Soldiers", "Wrong Decision (Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office)")
C♯3 ("20 Times To Exhale / Amanda's Birthday Song", "Bury Me With It", "Election Day", "Measure My Sleep", "Pacifico", "Part Time Pastenseolinth", "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine", "Thinking Lead To Suspicion", "Truckers Atlas")
C3 ("AEIOU And Sometimes Why", "Babies Clean Conscience", "Beta Carotene", "Blame It On The Tetons", "Custom Concern", "Diggin Holes", "Feelings", "Go On, Come On, Carry Off", "Heart Cooks Brain", "Happy Face Goes To...", "History Sticks To Your Feet", "Hotcha Girls", "Jumpsuit Or Jumpship", "Lampshades on Fire", "Leave A Light On", "Little Motel", "Lounge (Closing Time)", "Make Everyone Happy", "Might", "Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly", "Ocean Breathes Salty", "Of Course We Know", "Out Of Gas", "Path Of Least Resistance", "Parting Of The Sensory", "Playground For The Shotguns Kids", "Reason, Vandetta and Problem", "Secret Agent X-9", "Sleepwalkin' (Couples Only Dance Prom Night)", "Smoke Like Ribbons", "So I've Got Alot Of Time On My Hands", "Spilled Milk Factory", "Swy", "That'll Be The Day", "The Best Room", "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack theme" opening theme, "The Sun Hasn't Left", "The View", "The Whale Song", "Think Long", "Tossing Your Weight", "Ugly Cassanova", "Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative)", "Wild Pack Of Family Dogs", "Wood Grain", "Wooden Soldiers")
B2 ("3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters", "A Life Of Arctic Sounds", "Alone Down There", "Barnacles", Bought Into", "Calculus Man", "Cat Faces", "Four Fingered Fisherman", "Fuck Your Acid Trip", "Highwayman", "Invisible", "Isaac's Dream", "Long Distance Drunk", "March Into The Sea", "Medication", "Missed The Boat", "My Fault", "My Name On A Letter In The Mailbox", "Ohio", "Pacifico", "People As Places As People", "Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)", "Roads to Go to Roads to Go To...", "Sin Gun Chaser", "Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright", "Swy", "The Cold Part", "The Stars Are Projectors", "Things I Don't Remember", "Trailer Trash", "Truckers Atlas", "Walking And Running", "We're Lucky", "Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In", "Sugar Boats", "Wild Pack Of Family Dogs", "Willful Suspension of Disbelief", "Woodgrain", "Workin' On Leavin' The Livin'", "You'll See")
B♭2 ("Autumn Beds", "Eviction Day For The Guilt", "Four Leaf Clover", "From Point A To Point B", "King Rat", "Lampshades on Fire", "Lounge (Closing Time)", "Night On The Sun", "Sad Sorta Angry", "Smoke Like Ribbons", "Strangers To Ourselves", Study To Use A Crayon", "The Devil's Workday", "The Neck / A Throne For Your Bad Ideas", "The Whale Song", "Thinking Lead To Suspicion", "Treat Like A Mammal", "Whenever You See Fit", "Wicked Campaign")
A2 ("A Life Of Arctic Sounds", "Alone Down There", "Ansel", "Babies Clean Conscience", Barnacles", "Bee Sting", "Bought Into", "Classy Plastic Lumber", "Cowboy Dan", "Diggin Holes", "Dyed Your Hair", "Feelings", "Fire It Up", "Fuck Your Acid Trip", "Guilty Cocker Spaniels", "Here It Comes", I Came As a Rat", "Ice Cream Party", "Jawbreaker / Sweater Song", "Lace Your Shoes", "Make Everyone Happy", "March Into The Sea", "Medication", "Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly", "Other People's Lives", "Out Of Gas", "Parting Of The Sensory", "Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)", "Pups to Dust", "Spitting Venom", "The Best Room", "The Fruit That Ate Itself", "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "The Tortoise And The Tourist", "The Trouble With", "Things I Don't Remember", "Tundra/Desert", "Walking And Running", "We're Lucky", "We've Got Everything")
G♯2 ("Four Leaf Clover", "From California to Houston", "Measure My Sleep", "Medication", "Satellite Skin", "You'll See")
G2 ("3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters", "Alone Down There", "Babies Clean Conscience", "Baby Blue Sedan", "Blame It On The Tetons", "Bought Into", "Bukowski", "Cat Faces", "Coyotes", "Dance Hall", "Diggin Holes", "Dirty Fingernails", "Election Day", "Every Penny Fed Car", "Head South", "Here It Comes", "Ice on the Sheets", "King Rat", "Life Like Weeds", "Little Motel", "Lives", "Make Everyone Happy", "Never Fuck A Spider On The Fly", "Of Course We Know", "Other People's Lives", "Paper Thin Walls", Parasites", "Sad Sorta Angry", "So Long to the Holidays", "Spitting Venom", "Sugar Boats", "That'll Be The Day", "The Best Room", "The Devil's Workday", "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" opening theme, "The Stars Are Projectors", "The View", "Trailer Trash", "Transmitting Receiving", "We've Got Everything", "Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative)", "Workin' On Leavin' The Livin'", "Wrong Decision (Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office)")
F♯2 ("All Night Diner", "Be Brave", "Invisible", "Lace Your Shoes", "Life Like Weeds", "March into the Sea", "Pups to Dust", "Sin Gun Chaser", "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes", "The Tortoise and the Tourist", "Tundra/Desert", "You'll See")
F2 ("Autumn Beds", "Bukowski", "Classy Plastic Lumber", "Of Course We Know", "Parting of the Sensory", "Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)", "Shit in Your Cut", "The Good Times Are Killing Me", "Study to Use a Crayon")
E2 ("3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters", "Baby Blue Sedan", "Barnacles", "Bee Sting", "Blame It On The Tetons", "Coyotes", "Dance Hall", "Fire It Up", "Highwayman", "History Sticks To Your Feet", "Hotcha Girls", "Isaac's Dream", "Missed The Boat", "Of Course We Know", "People As Places As People", "Spitting Venom", "The View", "Wrong Decision (Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office)")
E♭2 ("Bukowski", "Dig Your Own Grave", "Lampshades on Fire", "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes", "Transmitting Receiving")
D2 ("Ansel", "Be Brave", "Fuck Your Acid Trip", "Lace Your Shoes", "Guilty Cocker Spaniels", "Life Like Weeds", "Missed the Boat", "Shit in Your Cut", "The Tortoise and the Tourist", "Wicked Campaign")
C2 ("King Rat", "Things I Don't Remember")
B1 ("Ansel", "Be Brave")
B♭1 ("Transmitting Receiving")
A1 ("Ansel")
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Blue indicates falsetto
Green indicates harsh or distorted notes
Italics indicates non-melodic notes
Underlines indicate notes obscured in backing vocals or harmonies
Boldface indicates notes that are particularly representative of this vocalist's capabilities

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{Bolded Notes}D5 "Head South"
B4 "Four Leaf Clover"
B♭4 "Uninvited"
A4 "A Life Of Arctic Sounds", "Crazy Gnome", "The Fruit That Ate Itself"
G♯4 "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes"
G4 "The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box", "Wrong Decision (Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office)"

A2 "Fuck Your Acid Trip", "Things I Don't Remember"
G2 "3 Inch Horses, "Two Faced Monsters" (this includes backing vocals that continue in the outro), "King Rat", 
F♯2 "March Into The Sea", "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes"
E2 "Bee Sting", "Highwayman"
E♭2 "Transmitting Receiving"
D2 "Ansel" (backing vocals, lead D2 happens at 1:46), "Lace Your Shoes", "Wicked Campaign"
B1 "Be Brave"

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{Questionable Notes}C6 ("Red Hand Case" ^[1])
B5 ("Piggy Tails Buries Corborador In The Desert" ^[1])
E5 ("Guilty Cocker Spaniels ^[1],"Ice Cream Party" ^[2], "Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark" ^[5], "So Long to the Holidays" ^[2], "Steam Engenius" ^[1]
C♯5 ("A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy" ^[5]
B4 ("Building Bricks" ^[1], Custom Concern" ^[1], "We Are Between" ^[2])
G♯4 ("Pacifico" ^[2])
G4 (""Alone On The Shelf / The Doomsday Blimp Can't Play Ping Pong" ^[4])

A2 ("Back To The Middle" ^[4])
G♯2 ("Eviction Day For The Guilt" ^[3]
G2 ("Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In" ^[3])
F2 ("Happy Little Ower" ^[4])
E2 ("Diggin Holes" ^[2], "Workin' On Leavin' The Livin'" ^[1])
D2 ("Blame It On The Tetons" ^[2], "Sugar Boats" ^[1, "That'll Be The Day"^[3]) 
C2 ("Baby Blue Sedan" ^[2])
[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 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.

[Gilad]

Think that C6 is a C5

[Seb]

Jan 21, 2022 12:36:44 GMT Gilad said:

Think that C6 is a C5

Let's pretend that never happened