John Rzeznik (3,841 views)

[Osmosis]

John Joseph Theodore Rzeznik (5 December 1965)
Member Of: Goo Goo Dolls (1985-Present)
Vocal Range: E2 - C♯5
Voice Type: BDDDDD

Significant High Notes
C♯5 (“Slide”)
C5 (“So Far Away”)
B4 (“Autumn Leaves”, “Long Way Down”, “String of Lies”, "Out of Sight")
B♭4 (“Day After Day”, “Girl Right Next to Me”, "No Way Out")
A4 (“A Million Miles Away”, “All Eyes on Me”, “American Girl" Live Madison Square Garden 2001, “Baby Love" Jay Leno Show 1999, "Black Balloon” The Rosie Show 1999, “Bullet Proof”, “Come to Me”, “Cuz You’re Gone”, "Cuz You're Gone/A Thousand Words" Live 1996, “Dancing In Your Blood" Demo , "Dizzy”, “Eyes Wide Open”, “Hate This Place”, “Hey”, “Feel the Silence”, “I Don’t Want to Know”, “Iris” Buffallo 2004/Dizzy Up The Girl, “Just the Way You Are”, “Keep the Car Running”, “Lazy Eye”, “Long Way Down”, “Lost”, “Name" Late Night with David Letterman 1995, "No Way Out", ”Runnin' Down a Dream" Live Hayden Home Ampitheatre 2022, "So Far Away", “Superstar”, “Think About Me”, “Think It Over”, “Torn Apart", "We Are the Normal”)
G♯4 (“Ain’t That Unusual”, “All I Want Is You”, “Black Balloon”, “Broadway”, “Can’t Let It Go”, ““Catch Me Now I’m Falling”, “Domino”, “Fallin' Down" The Olympic Medals Plaza 2002, "Hate This Place”, “Home”, “Indestructible”, “Naked”, “Not Broken”, “On the Lie”, “Over and Over”, “Over You”, “Slow It Down”, “Still Your Song”, “Sweetest Lie”, “There You Are”, “War”, “Who's Gonna Hear Their Wish?", “You Ain’t Getting Nothin’”, “You Are the Answer”)
G4 (“A Million Miles Away”, “All Eyes on Me”, “Always Know Where You Are”, “American Girl" Live Madison Square Garden 2001, "Before It's Too Late", "Big Machine”, “Bullet Proof”, “Catch Me Now I’m Falling”, “Come to Me”, “Day After Day”, “Dancin' In Your Blood" Demo, "Dizzy”, “Flood”, “Give a Little Bit”, “Going Crazy”, “I Don’t Want to Know”, “I Won't Back Down", "I'll Be There For You", "It’s Over”, “Last Hot Night”, “Lazy Eye”, “Let the Sun”, “Lucky One”, “Money, Fame & Fortune”, “Give A Little Bit", "More of You”, “Miracle Pill”, “Naked" Buffalo 2004, "Nothing is Real”, “Over and Over”, “Real", "Run All Night", "Shake Hands with Santa Claus”, “Slide”, “So Alive”, “So Far Away”, “Stay With You”, “String of Lies”, “Think About Me”, “Think It Over”, “Truth is a Whisper”, “Up Yours", "We Are the Normal”, “What a Scene”, “Yeah, I Like You”, “You Know What I Mean”, "You Should Be Happy")
F♯4 (“Ain’t That Unusual”, “All That You Are", "As I Am”, “Autumn Leaves", “Black Balloon”, “Broadway”, “Bulletproof Angel”, “Caught In the Storm”, “Catch Me Now I’m Falling”, “Cuz You’re Gone”, “Don't Beat My Ass (With a Baseball Bat)", "Don’t Worry”, “Eyes Wide Open”, “Fallin’ Down”, “Fearless”, “Feel the Silence”, “Flood”, “For Your Love", "Hey Ya”, “Hit or Miss", "Home”, “I’m Still Here”, “Indestructible”, “Iris”, “It’s Christmas”, “Just the Way You Are”, “Let Love In”, “Long Way Down”, “Long Way Home”, “Name" Live Fingerprints Long Beach California 2017, “Not Broken”, “Nothing Can Change You", “One Night”, “Only One”, “On the Lie”, “Postcards From Paradise”, “Real", "Rebel Beat”, “Reverse”, “Slow It Down”, “Something for the Rest of Us”, “Still Your Song”, “Stop the World”, “There You Are", “War”, “When the World Breaks Your Heart”, “Who's Gonna Hear Their Wish?", "Yeah, I Like You”, "You Should Be Happy")

Significant Low Notes
D3 (“Better Days”, “Bullet Proof”, “Caught In the Storm”, “Feel the Silence”, “Flood”, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “Hey Ya”, “Iris”, “It’s Christmas”, “James Dean", "Last Hot Night”, “Keep the Car Running”, “Lazy Eye”, “Let Love In”, “Let the Sun”, “Lost”, “Mad World" Cover on ELLE 2022, "Nothing Can Change You", "Once In a Lifetime”, “One Last Song About Christmas”, “Over You”, “Real", "Reverse”, ”Runnin' Down a Dream" Live Hayden Home Ampitheatre 2022, "Slide" Buffalo 2004, "Soul in the Machine”, “Stay With You”, “Think It Over”, “Walk Away”, “We’ll Be Here”, “Yeah, I Like You”, "You Should Be Happy")
C♯3 (“All That You Are", "Black Balloon”, “Feel the Silence”, “I’m Still Here”, “Iris" Live Milkuwalke 2022, "Long Way Home”, “One Last Song About Christmas”, “Slow It Down”, “So Alive”, “War”)
C3 (“Always Know Where You Are”, “Before It's Toot Late", "Come to Me”, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “Money", "Fame & Fortune”, “Iris" Demo, "I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”, “Let It Snow”, “Let the Sun”, “Over You”, “Stay with You”, “Superstar”, "Superstar" Cover on ELLE 2022, “The Pin”, “Without You Here”)
B2 (“Autumn Leaves”, “Beautiful Lie", "Bulletproof Angel”, “(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Fallin’ Down”, “Home”, “Indestructible”, “Let Love In”, “One Night”, “On the Lie”, “Rebel Beat”, “Soldier”)
B♭2 (“Day After Day”, “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”, “Let It Snow”, “Over and Over”, “Soldier”, "Sympathy")
A2 (“Autumn Leaves”, “Cuz You're Gone" Demo 1992, "Feel the Silence”, “Flood”, “I’m Still Here”, “It’s Over”, “Lights”, “Miracle Pill”, “Naked”, “Name" Buffalo 2004, "One Night”, “Save Me From Myself”, “Superstar”, "Torn Apart")
G♯2 (“Christmas All Over Again”, “Name" Acoustic, "Slide”)
G2 (“Acoustic ♯3”, “Autumn Leaves" Live Kalamazoo State Theatre Michigan 2019, "Day After Day”, “(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Feel the Silence" Acoustic, "I Don’t Want to Know”, "I'm Still Here" Live Tonight Show Jay Leno 2002, “Iris", "It’s Over”, “Let the Sun”, “More of You”, “Think It Over”, “What a Scene”)
F♯2 (“I Don’t Want to Know”, "Only One", "Superstar" Cover on ELLE 2022)
E2 (“I Don’t Want to Know”, “You Are the Answer”)

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{Questionable Notes}A4 ("Reverse" [1c])

D3 ("Dizzy"[1a])
A2 ("Boxes"[1a], "Let Love In"[1a])
G2 ("Last Hot Night"[1a])
F2 ("Torn Apart" [2a])
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[1] Questionable Quality
a. Anacrusis
b. Lacking sustain
c. Pitch shifted

[2] Questionable Legitimacy 
a. Spoken note with no musical context

Questionable notes are any notes with a questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) weak vocal fry, uncontrolled slides, very short notes, notes hit at an ambiguous pitch and notes where it is unclear who is singing.

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*Boldface marks notable passages and examples of the singer's capabilities.
*Blue marks notes sung in a soft falsetto.
*Italics mark non-melodic notes.
*Underlines mark notes in backing vocals or otherwise obscured.

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{Best Vocal Performances}

• War
• Autumn Leaves
• Black Balloon
• Naked
• So Far Away
• Iris
• Name

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{Album Ranges}Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls (1987): A2 - F♯4 - A4
Jed (1989): D3 - G4 - B4
Hold Me Up (1990): F♯3 - A4
Superstar Carwash (1993): B2 - C5
A Boy Named Goo (1995): F♯2 - B4
Dizzy Up the Girl (1998): G2 - A4 - C♯5
Gutterflower (2002): G2 - A4
Let Love In (2006): A2 - G♯4 - A4
Something for the Rest of Us (2010): A2 - B2 - G♯4
Magentic (2013): G2 - A4
Boxes (2016): A2 - G♯4
You Should Be Happy (EP) (2017): D3 - F♯4 - G4
Miracle Pill (2019): G2 - B4
It's Christmas All Over (2020): G♯2 - G♯4
Chaos In Bloom (2022): E2 - A2 - A4 - B♭4

[Osmosis]

I am unconvinced by the F4 section. I'm fully open to debate on whether it should be included or not. All his money notes are F#4 and up.

[Bink]

Dec 8, 2022 18:37:48 GMT Osmosis said:

I am unconvinced by the F4 section. I'm fully open to debate on whether it should be included or not. All his money notes are F#4 and up.

yeah doesn't really seem like he has many notes, let alone worthy ones to keep him at F4, I reckon remove it.

[Velsarie Vivardesque]

It doesn't align, F#4 is a better start for sure

[Subterranean Homesick Ålien]

“Voice Type: BDDDDD”

Even as a ‘Fake Musician’, i.e. a Singer & Drummer…
I got a good laugh from that.

Well played.

🙏