Post by Steve on Feb 17, 2022 12:25:50 GMT
Nick Steven Oliveri (21 October 1971)
Associated Acts: Kyuss (1987 - 1988; 1991 - 1992), Dwarves (1993 - Present), Mondo Generator (1997 - Present), The Desert Sessions (1997 - 1999), Queens of the Stone Age (1998 - 2004), Kyuss Lives!/Vista Chino (2010 - 2012), Moistboyz (2013 - Present), BL'AST! (2013 - Present), Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable (2014 - ?), Svetlanas (2015 - Present), Bloodclot (2016 - 2019)
Vocal Range: G2 - G5
Significant High Notes:
G5 ("The Mob Rules", "Ode to Clarissa", "Quick and to the Pointless", "Six Shooter")
E5 ("Do the Headright", "F.Y. I'm Free")
E♭5 ("Open Up and Bleed for Me")
D5 ("Chains and Shackles", "The Dirt Beneath", "Do the Headright", "F.Y. I'm Free", "Hanging Low", "Here We Come", "I Never Sleep", "Lie Detector", "Like You Want", "Meth, I Hear You Callin'", "Nothing at All", "Quick and to the Pointless", "The Robot Man", "Smashed Apart", "Wastoid", "You Turn Me On")
C♯5 ("Anything That Moves", "Like a Bomb", "Night Calls", "Open Up and Bleed for Me")
C5 ("13th Floor", "All the Way Down", "Back to Dungaree High", "Bad Penny", "Bleed Alright", "Burn the Bridge", "Central Nervous System High School", "Chains and Shackles", "Czechoslovakia", "Come and You're Gone", "Country as Fuck", "Crashed Out and Burnt", "Creeper, the One Who Creeps", "Dead Silence", "Death Leads the Way", "Death Van Trip", "Disease With No Control", "Do It Again", "Endless Vacation", "Fuck You Up and Get High", "Hang 'em High", "Here We Come", "Human Cannonball Explodes", "Kyuss Dies!" Kyuss Lives! version, "Lie Detector", "Life of Sin", "Like a Bomb", "Like the Sky", "Luv Is Fiction", "The Mob Rules", "Nothing at All", "Nowhere Man", "Option Four", "People Suck", "The Robot Man", "Sam Hall", "Shawnette", "Simple Exploding Man", "Sleep the Lie Away", "Smashed Apart", "So High, So Low", "Speedfreak", "Tension Head", "TurboN*gro Must Be Destroyed", "Unless I Can Kill", "Up Against the Void", "Walk On", "Walk the Talk", "Wastoid", "The Way I Let You Down", "We Only Came to Get High", "Won't Let Go", "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire", "You Turn Me On")
B4 ("All Systems Go", "Another Love Song", "Basket Case", "Bite It You Scum", "Campfire Kyuss", "Cocaine Rodeo", "Come and You're Gone", "Death Leads the Way", "The Dirt Beneath", "Disease With No Control", "Dog Food", "Don't Believe", "Four Corners", "Fuck Em All", "Girl's Like Christ", "Going Home", "Heart Is Burning", "Hybrid Moments", "I'm Dead", "I Never Sleep", "It's You I Don't Believe", "John Lawman / Green Machine", "Jealous Again", "Jr. High Love", "Keep Me in the Loop", "The Last Train", "Life as One", "Like You Want", "Listening to the Daze", "Lockdown", "Me and You", "Medication", "Mental Hell", "Night Calls", "Ode to Clarissa", "Outlaw Scumfuc", "Quick and to the Pointless", "Revenge", "She Only Owns You", "Silver Tequila / 666 Miles Away", "Simple Exploding Man", "Six Shooter", "Skin Receiver", "Smashed Apart", "So High, So Low", "Sonic Slow Motion Trails", "S.V.E.T.L.A.N.A.S." Two Headed Dog version, "There She Goes Again", "This Isn't Love", "Time to Think/Surf&Destroy", "TurboN*gro Must Be Destroyed", "Turboner", "Unless I Can Kill", "U.S.A.", "Venomized", "The Void", "Wake Up Screaming", "We Only Came to Get High", "When Death Comes", "Won't Let Go")
B♭4 ("13th Floor", "Death Van Trip", "Endless Vacation", "Feel Good Hit of the Summer", "Get Lost (With Me)", "Hang 'em High", "Human Cannonball Explodes", "John Lawman / Green Machine", "Kyuss Dies!", "Mondo Generator", "R'N'R Outlaw", "Sleep the Lie Away", "A Song for the Deaf", "There's Nothing Wrong")
A4 ("All Systems Go", "All the Way Down", "Bloody Hammer", "Campfire Kyuss", "Cocaine Rodeo", "Do It Again", "Eccentric Man", "Hang 'em High", "Heart Is Burning", "Hybrid Moments", "I'm Dead", "I Never Sleep", "I Want You to Die", "Jealous Again", "Jr. High Love", "Lie Detector", "Lockdown", "Luv Is Fiction", "Mondo Generator", "Ode to Clarissa", "Paper Thin", "Shawnette", "Sleep the Lie Away", "So High, So Low", "S.V.E.T.L.A.N.A.S." Two Headed Dog version, "There She Goes Again", "Time to Think/Surf&Destroy")
G♯4 ("Bite It You Scum", "Burn the Bridge", "Campfire Kyuss", "Country as Fuck", "Endless Vacation", "Final Warning", "Get Lost (With Me)", "Head", "I'm Gonna Leave You" Death Acoustic version, "In the Butt", "John Lawman / Green Machine", "Luv Is Fiction", "Nowhere Man", "R'N'R Outlaw", "Speedfreak", "Wake Up Screaming")
G4 ("Back to Dungaree High", "Bad Penny", "Chiefs", "Cocaine Rodeo", "Eccentric Man", "Fuck Em All", "Hanging Low", "Hybrid Moments", "I'm Dead", "I Want You to Die", "Kyuss Dies!", "Life of Sin", "Like the Sky", "Love Has Passed Me By", "Mental Hell", "Ode to Clarissa", "Paper Thin", "Sleep the Lie Away", "So High, So Low", "A Song for the Deaf", "TurboN*gro Must Be Destroyed", "U.S.A.", "Wake Up Screaming", "When Death Comes")
Significant Low Notes:
F3 ("Detroit", "Mental Hell", "Ode to Clarissa")
E3 ("Auto Pilot", "Day I Die", "The Dirt Beneath", "Head", "I Love You to Death", "Paper Thin" Demolition Day version, "Silver Tequila / 666 Miles Away", "Take Me Away", "The Way I Let You Down" Shooters Bible version)
E♭3 ("Death Van Trip", "Jealous Again", "Sonic Slow Motion Trails", "Take Me Away")
D3 ("Auto Pilot", "Human Cannonball Explodes", "Hybrid Moments", "Outlaw Scumfuc", "The Void", "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory")
C♯3 ("Campfire Kyuss", "In the Butt")
C3 ("Dairy Queen", "Head", "Human Cannonball Explodes", "Lockdown", "Mondo Generator", "Nothing at All", "Option Four", "Simple Exploding Man", "Tension Head", "There's Nothing Wrong")
B2 ("Auto Pilot", "Death Leads the Way", "In the Butt", "Won't Let Me Go" Acoustic)
A2 ("Paper Thin" Demolition Day version)
G2 ("Outlaw Scumfuc")
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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.
Summary:
Nick Oliveri's music career started in 1987 when he joined the first incarnation of Kyuss as the band's rhythm guitarist, who were at that time called Katzenjammer. He left the following year, but returned in 1991, this time playing bass. The band then proceeded to change their name to Kyuss (a shortened version of their previous name, Sons of Kyuss). He contributed his bass playing to the band's first two albums, after which he again left in 1992. Shortly after he joined the band Dwarves as an on-off bassist. He then formed Mondo Generator in 1997, who have gone on to be one of his longest lasting projects, having released multiple albums with the band. The next year he joined Queens of the Stone Age, who he was a member of until 2004, during which time he was a core contributor to two of the band's albums, Rated R and Songs for the Deaf. Alongside that, he has contributed to and has been a part of many other bands and musical projects.
Oliveri's vocal style hasn't changed much at all over the years. Most of the time he uses an intense punk-style approach to his vocals, lots of high range with varying degrees of distortion. He uses melodic vocals somewhat less often, though they're still fairly prominent in his music. As a result of his vocal style, he spends the vast majority of his time in his high range, often reaching up to the border between the fourth and fifth octaves. His lower range is very underused, with the lower third octave being rare and the second octave even more so. Out of the multiple bands and projects he has been a part of, Queens of the Stone Age is with little doubt the one he will be best remembered for, though his many musical endeavours, among other things, mean that he has certainly solidified his reputation as a productive (and somewhat morally dubious) musician.
{Discography}Mondo Generator:
Cocaine Rodeo (2000): C3 - C5
A Drug Problem That Never Existed (2003): E3 - B4 - E5
Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails (2006): E♭3 - C5 - D5
Hell Comes to Your Heart (2012): E3 - D5
Fuck It (2020): C3 - C5
Shooters Bible (2020): E3 - B♭4 - C5 [1]
Queens of the Stone Age:
Rated R (2000): B2 - E4 - D5 - G5
Songs for the Deaf (2002): G♯3 - B4 - C5 - G5
Solo:
Demolition Day (2004): A2 - B2 - B4 [2]
Death Acoustic (2009): G2 - B4 [3]
Nick Oliveri Vs the Chuck Norris Experiment (2012): N/A [4]
Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable:
Leave Me Alone (2014): B2 - C3 - C5 - D5
[1] This album was recorded in 2010 and released in 2020. The vast majority of the songs on this album ended up being rerecorded for 2012's Hell Comes to Your Heart, which are the versions that are listed in the thread (unless stated otherwise).
[2] Tracks 4, 10, 11, 12 and 14 of the vinyl version of this album are unavailable.
[3] Tracks 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9 are unavailable.
[4] With the exception of the song "Heart Is Burning" this is album is unavailable.
Cocaine Rodeo (2000): C3 - C5
A Drug Problem That Never Existed (2003): E3 - B4 - E5
Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails (2006): E♭3 - C5 - D5
Hell Comes to Your Heart (2012): E3 - D5
Fuck It (2020): C3 - C5
Shooters Bible (2020): E3 - B♭4 - C5 [1]
Queens of the Stone Age:
Rated R (2000): B2 - E4 - D5 - G5
Songs for the Deaf (2002): G♯3 - B4 - C5 - G5
Solo:
Demolition Day (2004): A2 - B2 - B4 [2]
Death Acoustic (2009): G2 - B4 [3]
Nick Oliveri Vs the Chuck Norris Experiment (2012): N/A [4]
Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable:
Leave Me Alone (2014): B2 - C3 - C5 - D5
[1] This album was recorded in 2010 and released in 2020. The vast majority of the songs on this album ended up being rerecorded for 2012's Hell Comes to Your Heart, which are the versions that are listed in the thread (unless stated otherwise).
[2] Tracks 4, 10, 11, 12 and 14 of the vinyl version of this album are unavailable.
[3] Tracks 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9 are unavailable.
[4] With the exception of the song "Heart Is Burning" this is album is unavailable.
{Questionable Notes}B♭4 ("Fuck It" [2])
G♯4 ("A Song for the Deaf" [1])
D3 ("Cocaine Rodeo" [2])
C3 ("Hanging Low" [4])
B2 ("Hybrid Moments" [3])
G2 ("Detroit" [2], "Won't Let Me Go" Acoustic [3])
F♯2 ("Option Four" [5])
E2 ("Death Leads the Way" [3])
Plus multiple aimless falsetto "woos" that weren't worth listing here.
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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 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.
G♯4 ("A Song for the Deaf" [1])
D3 ("Cocaine Rodeo" [2])
C3 ("Hanging Low" [4])
B2 ("Hybrid Moments" [3])
G2 ("Detroit" [2], "Won't Let Me Go" Acoustic [3])
F♯2 ("Option Four" [5])
E2 ("Death Leads the Way" [3])
Plus multiple aimless falsetto "woos" that weren't worth listing here.
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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 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.
{Credits}Photo by Stefan Mueller
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