Post by sylvia!! on May 1, 2022 11:03:22 GMT
Stephen Malkmus (born 30th May, 1966)
Associated Acts: Pavement (1989 - 1999, 2019 - Present), Silver Jews (1989 - 1995, 1998, 2005), Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (2000 - Present)
Vocal Range: E2 - F6
Vocal Type: What about the voice of Stephen Malkmus? Does he even try? I wonder if he sings like an ordinary guy...
Significant High Notes:
F6 ("Jenny & the Ess-Dog")
B5 ("1% Of One", "Cream of Gold", "Cut Your Hair" live 1993, "Slowly Typed")
B♭5 ("Jenny & the Ess-Dog", "Scattergories")
A5 ("1% Of One", "Cut Your Hair" live 1993, "Unfair", "Wanna Mess You Around")
G♯5 ("Birds In the Majic Industry")
G5 ("Baptist Blacktick", "False Skorpion", "Space Ghost Theme I", "Wanna Mess You Around")
F♯5 ("AT&T", "Brink of the Clouds", "Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar", "Old To Begin", "Recorder Grot", "Sheets", "Stereo", "We Are Underused", "Westie Can Drum")
F5 ("Camera", "Flux = Rad", "Grave Architecture", "Send In the Clouds", "Troubbble")
E5 ("1% Of One", "Birds In the Majic Industry", "Brain Gallop", "Brink of the Clouds", "Brinx Job", "Fillmore Jive", "Forever 28", "Hopscotch Willie", "Love the Door", "Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar" live at KRCW 1997)
E♭5 ("Best Friends Arm", "Chartjunk", "Dark Wave", "Houston Hades", "Price Yeah!", "Westie Can Drum")
D5 ("Black Book", "Cut Your Hair", "False Skorpion", "Fillmore Jive", "In the Mouth a Desert", "The Janitor Revealed", "Maybe Maybe", "Passat Dream", "Platform Blues", "Rushing the Acid Frat", "Tigers", "Water and a Seat")
C♯5 ("Baby C'Mon", "Be the Hook", "Easily Fooled", "Extradition", "Fin", "Jenny & the Ess-Dog", "Jojo's Jacket", "Kennel District", "No Life Singed Her", "Spazz", "Trigger Cut/Wounded at :17", "Westie Can Drum")
C5 ("Fame Throwa", "Grave Architecture", "Phantasies", "Range Life", "Scattergories")
B4 ("5-4 Vocal", "AT&T", "Baby C'Mon", "Billie", "Brain Gallop", "Brinx Job", "Cold Son", "Conduit For Sale!", "Difficulties - Let Them Eat Vowels", "Dragonfly Pie", "False Skorpion", "Father To a Sister of a Thought", "Flux = Rad", "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl", "Mama", "No Tan Lines", "Price Yeah!", "Rattled By the Rush", "Real Emotional Trash", "Recorder Grot", "Send In the Clouds", "Shadowbanned", "Shiggy", "Tigers", "Us", "Wanna Mess You Around")
B♭4 ("Chartjunk", "Dark Wave", "I've Hardly Been", "Long Hard Book", "Maybe Maybe", "No More Shoes", "Old To Begin", "Pueblo", "Saganaw", "Serpentine Pad", "Space Ghost Theme I", "Surreal Teenagers", "Troubbble", "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence", "Water and a Seat")
A4 ("1% Of One", "...And Carrot Rope", "Animal Midnight", "Baby C'Mon", "Black Out", "Brethren", "Camera", "Cast Off", "The Classical", "Craw Song", "Cut Your Hair", "(Do Not Feed The) Oyster", "Elevate Me Later", "Embassy Row", "Fillmore Jive", "Forever 28", "Gold Soundz", "Grave Architecture", "Harness Your Hopes", "In the Mouth a Desert", "Internal K-Dart", "It Kills", "The Janitor Revealed", "Lariat", "Loud Cloud Crowd", "Maybe Maybe", "Newark Wilder", "No Life Singed Her", "Our Singer", "Pencil Rot", "Phantasies", "Price Yeah!", "Range Life", "Recorder Grot", "Roll With the Wind", "Rushing the Acid Frat", "Senator", "Send In the Clouds", "She Believes", "Sheets", "Silence Kid", "Starlings of the Slipstream", "Stereo", "Stub Your Toe", "Tune Grief", "Type Slowly", "Vague Space", "Wanna Mess You Around", "You Are a Light")
G♯4 ("Best Friends Arm", "Billie", "Birds In the Majic Industry", "Chesley's Little Wrists", "Come Get Me", "Destroy Mater Dei", "Fin", "Forever 28", "Half a Canyon", "Houston Hades", "J Smoov", "No Tan Lines", "Roll With the Wind", "Rumble at the Rainbo", "Serpentine Pad", "Share the Red", "Spazz", "Stick Figures In Love", "Unfair", "We Are Underused")
G4 ("Bike Lane", "Cast Off", "Chartjunk", "Cream of Gold", "Elmo Delmo", "Extradition", "Fall Away", "Fame Throwa", "Father To a Sister of a Thought", "Gorgeous Georgie", "Hopscotch Willie", "In the Mouth a Desert", "It Kills", "Malediction", "Middle America", "Nail Clinic", "Newark Wilder", "Nigel", "No More Shoes", "Out of Reaches", "Perfect Depth", "Real Emotional Trash", "Rushing the Acid Frat", "Scattergories", "Share the Red", "Slowly Typed", "Spizzle Trunk", "Stop Breathin", "Stray Fire", "Summer Babe - Winter Version", "Tigers", "Two States", "Type Slowly", "Wicked Wanda", "Unfair", "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence", "Water and a Seat", "We Dance", "The Wild Kindness", "You're Killing Me")
F♯4 ("Animal Midnight", "Asking Price", "Baltimore", "Dragonfly Pie", "Fillmore Jive", "Freeze the Saints", "Going to Acapulco", "Gorgeous Georgie", "Grounded", "Gold Soundz", "Harness Your Hopes", "Houston Hades", "The Janitor Revealed", "Kennel District", "Mama", "Motion Suggests", "Planetary Motion", "Rumble at the Rainbo", "Senator", "Shady Lane", "Silence Kid", "Spit On a Stranger", "Summer Babe - Winter Version", "Surreal Teenagers", "Tigers", "We Are Underused", "You Are a Light")
Significant Low Notes:
C♯3 ("Amberjack", "Brain Gallop", "Church on White", "Discretion Groove", "Folk Jam", "Freeze the Saints", "Gold Soundz", "Jenny & the Ess-Dog", "Saganaw", "Transport Is Arranged", "Us", "We Are Underused", "What Kind Of Person")
C3 ("Bike Lane", "Black Out", "The Classical", "Fight This Generation", "Grave Architecture", "Hopscotch Willie", "Julifuckingette", "Lariat", "Long Hard Book", "Loretta's Scars", "Nigel", "Ramp Of Death", "Refute", "Scattergories", "Share the Red", "Sheets", "Stop Breathin", "Zurich Is Stained")
B2 ("ACC Kirtan", "All Over Gently", "Amberjack", "...And Carrot Rope", "Ann Don't Cry", "Asking Price", "AT&T", "Baltimore", "Be the Hook", "Blue Arrangement", "Cash Up", "Cataracts", "Cherry Area", "Cinnamon and Lesbians", "Cold Son", "Come Get Me", "Craw Song", "Cream of Gold", "Deado", "(Do Not Feed The) Oyster", "Destroy Mater Dei", "Easily Fooled", "Fall Away", "Federal Dust", "Forklift", "Folk Jam", "Fin", "Future Suite", "Gardenia", "Give It A Day", "Half a Canyon", "Heaven Is a Truck", "I Love Perth", "In the Mouth a Desert", "Independence Street", "The Janitor Revealed", "Jenny & the Ess-Dog", "Jojo's Jacket", "Julifuckingette", "Motion Suggests", "Newark Wilder", "No One Is (As I Are Be)", "No Tan Lines", "Ocean of Revenge", "Our Singer", "Perfume-V", "Platform Blues", "Post-Paint Boy", "Rattler", "Real Emotional Trash", "Rooftop Gambler", "Shady Lane", "Shadowbanned", "She Believes", "Shibboleth", "Spazz", "Speak, See Remember", "Stare", "Surreal Teenagers", "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence", "Vague Space", "Vanessa From Queens", "Viktor Borgia", "Witch Mountain Bridge", "Xian Man", "You Are a Light")
B♭2 ("Billie", "Birds In the Majic Industry", "Extradition", "Freeze the Saints", "The Hexx", "Jojo's Jacket", "Love the Door", "No Tan Lines", "Old To Begin", "Out of Reaches", "Pueblo", "Share the Red", "Stop Breathin", "Trojan Curfew", "Troubbble", "Westie Can Drum", "What Kind of Person")
A2 ("Animal Midnight", "Be the Hook", "Black Book", "Blue Hawaiian", "Brethren", "Craw Song", "Cut Your Hair", "Fight This Generation", "Fin", "Gorgeous Georgie", "Grounded", "Grown Nothing", "Harness Your Hopes", "Heaven Is a Truck", "Here", "Honk If You're Lonely", "The Hook", "It Kills", "Jam Kids", "Kite", "Loud Cloud Crowd", "Nail Clinic", "No One Is (As I Are Be", "Pencil Rot", "Phantasies", "Pink India", "Range Life", "Rattled By the Rush", "Senator", "Shadowbanned", "She Believes", "Sheets", "Smith & Jones Forever", "Spit On a Stranger", "Starlings of the Slipstream", "Stereo", "Summer Babe - Winter Version", "Tune Grief", "Us", "Vanessa From Queens", "Witch Mountain Bridge", "You Are a Light", "Zurich Is Stained")
G♯2 ("1% Of One", "Cash Up", "Church on White", "Decouvert de Soleil", "Difficulties - Let Them Eat Vowels", "Discretion Groove", "Freeze the Saints", "The Hexx", "Kite", "Major Leagues", "Malediction", "Shadowbanned", "Shibboleth", "Solid Silk", "Transport Is Arranged", "Vague Space", "Xian Man")
G2 ("Ann Don't Cry", "Animal Midnight", "Be the Hook", "Black Book", "Blue Hawaiian", "Boss Viscerate", "Brethren", "Buckingham Rabbit", "Dark Wave", "Deado", "Embassy Row", "Fall Away", "Forklift", "Heaven Is a Truck", "Hopscotch Willie", "Independence Street", "Like Like the the the Death", "Newark Wilder", "No More Shoes", "Ocean of Revenge", "Phantasies", "Pink India", "Platform Blues", "Rattled By the Rush", "Senator", "Send In the Clouds", "Shady Lane", "Signal Western", "Smith & Jones Forever", "Spit On a Stranger", "Stare", "Trojan Curfew", "The Wild Kindness", "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence")
F♯2 ("Coolin' By Sound", "Decouvert de Soleil", "Difficulties - Let Them Eat Vowels", "Flowin' Robes", "The Greatest Own In Legal History", "Major Leagues", "Shadowbanned", "Spazz")
F2 ("Stare")
E2 ("Brainwashed", "Buckingham Rabbit", "Hopscotch Willie", "Signal Western")
{Questionable Notes}G6 ("5-4 Vocal" [4][5])
E6 ("Dark Wave" [5])
D6 ("Brinx Job" [5])
C6 ("Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar" [5])
B5 ("Half a Canyon" [6])
A5 ("Embassy Row" [2], "Filmore Jive" [2], "Sheets" [1], "Shiggy" [1])
G5 ("It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" live at KRCW 1997 [5], "No Life Singed Her" [1], "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" [1])
F♯5 ("Be the Hook" [5], "Billie" [5], "Cold Son" [1], "Post-Paint Boy" [1], "Rattled By the Rush" [5], "Shadowbanned" [5])
E5 ("Conduit For Sale!" [5], "Dragonfly Pie" [5], "Tune Grief" [5], "Pencil Rot" [1])
E♭5 ("All Over Gently" [2], "I've Hardly Been" [1])
D5 ("Chesley's Little Wrists" [5], "No More Shoes" [1], "Price Yeah!" [5])
C♯5 ("Rumble at the Rainbo" [2])
A2 ("Type Slowly" [1][3])
G2 ("Black Out" [2], "Motion Suggests" [5], "My First Mine" [2], "Old To Begin" [5], "Out of Reaches" [5], "We Can't Help You" [5])
F♯2 ("Starlings of the Slipstream" [5])
F2 ("Stop Breathin" [5])
E2 ("Speak, See Remember" [5])
D2 ("You Are a Light" [3])
C♯2 ("Difficulties - Let Them Eat Vowels" [4])
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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 inhaled notes
E6 ("Dark Wave" [5])
D6 ("Brinx Job" [5])
C6 ("Neil Hagerty Meets Jon Spencer In a Non-Alcoholic Bar" [5])
B5 ("Half a Canyon" [6])
A5 ("Embassy Row" [2], "Filmore Jive" [2], "Sheets" [1], "Shiggy" [1])
G5 ("It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" live at KRCW 1997 [5], "No Life Singed Her" [1], "Unseen Power of the Picket Fence" [1])
F♯5 ("Be the Hook" [5], "Billie" [5], "Cold Son" [1], "Post-Paint Boy" [1], "Rattled By the Rush" [5], "Shadowbanned" [5])
E5 ("Conduit For Sale!" [5], "Dragonfly Pie" [5], "Tune Grief" [5], "Pencil Rot" [1])
E♭5 ("All Over Gently" [2], "I've Hardly Been" [1])
D5 ("Chesley's Little Wrists" [5], "No More Shoes" [1], "Price Yeah!" [5])
C♯5 ("Rumble at the Rainbo" [2])
A2 ("Type Slowly" [1][3])
G2 ("Black Out" [2], "Motion Suggests" [5], "My First Mine" [2], "Old To Begin" [5], "Out of Reaches" [5], "We Can't Help You" [5])
F♯2 ("Starlings of the Slipstream" [5])
F2 ("Stop Breathin" [5])
E2 ("Speak, See Remember" [5])
D2 ("You Are a Light" [3])
C♯2 ("Difficulties - Let Them Eat Vowels" [4])
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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 inhaled notes
{Discography}Pavement
Slanted and Enchanted (1992): A2 - C♯5 - D5
Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (1989 - 1993): G2 - G5
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994): G2 - A5
Wowee Zowee (1995): G2 - F♯5
Brighten the Corners (1997): G2 - F♯5
Terror Twighlight (1999): F♯2 - B4 - B5
Silver Jews
Starlite Walkers (1994):
American Water (1998): E2 - A4 - F5
Tanglewood Numbers (2005):
Stephen Malkmus (and the Jicks)
Stephen Malkmus (2001): G2 - B♭5 - F6
Pig Lib (2003): G2 - B♭4 - B5
Face the Truth (2005): G2 - B4 - C♯5
Real Emotional Trash (2008): E2 - B4 - E5
Mirror Traffic (2011): F♯2 - A4 - E5
Wigout At Jagbag's (2015): G2 - B♭5
Sparkle Hard (2018): F♯2 - B4
Groove Denied (2019): G2 - D5 - E5
Traditional Techniques (2020): E2 - B4
Italics mark EPs
Grey marks compilations
..................................................Slanted and Enchanted (1992): A2 - C♯5 - D5
Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (1989 - 1993): G2 - G5
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994): G2 - A5
Wowee Zowee (1995): G2 - F♯5
Brighten the Corners (1997): G2 - F♯5
Terror Twighlight (1999): F♯2 - B4 - B5
Silver Jews
Starlite Walkers (1994):
American Water (1998): E2 - A4 - F5
Tanglewood Numbers (2005):
Stephen Malkmus (and the Jicks)
Stephen Malkmus (2001): G2 - B♭5 - F6
Pig Lib (2003): G2 - B♭4 - B5
Face the Truth (2005): G2 - B4 - C♯5
Real Emotional Trash (2008): E2 - B4 - E5
Mirror Traffic (2011): F♯2 - A4 - E5
Wigout At Jagbag's (2015): G2 - B♭5
Sparkle Hard (2018): F♯2 - B4
Groove Denied (2019): G2 - D5 - E5
Traditional Techniques (2020): E2 - B4
Italics mark EPs
Grey marks compilations
• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle passages.
• Green denotes harshly distorted passages.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages.
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken passages.
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.