Conor Mason (20,551 views)

[mole55]

youtu.be/n_q7E_BBxhE

the acoustic version of Ban All The Music from the Urchin EP has some (at least for Conor) pretty good lows, going down to about a C#3.

[aphelion]

Lots of G5s in Life’s Coming In Slow!

[aritrp]

There are some low backing vocals in 2nd and 3rd chorus of the new song. You think it might be Conor? Sounds more like him to me, but I'm not sure really

[Gilad]

Any super consistent 2nd octave backing vocals on NBT are definitely not Conor, unless it's really clear.

[aritrp]

youtu.be/SzC_GDzZ-ZI
live from yesterday, amazing belted D5 at 2:00 in 'Miracle, Baby', also a D3 at 0:55 but it's already in the thread

[epicanova]

About Futureproof: I’m not sure I’d count those notes as C♯, he’s singing a blue note (technically C half-sharp). He does it for the entire song so it’s very much deliberate.

Also, Excuse Me II’s F5 is better than the original.

[mole55]

That lines up with something I read in an interview ages ago, that he only learn to do high falsetto around about the recording of the album, hence the original Excuse Me's falsetto not being that good. The Urchin EP was recorded later iirc, so he would've had time to work on it.

[Electric Mami]

I gotta be honest… I really don't hear the B2 in the Creep cover. It's supposed to be there, but I only hear Conor bottoming at the C3 that comes before the supposed B2. Edit : Yeah no there's no B2, only C3. But it's okay ! I see he has another one. What was it already ?

He also does the Ban All The Music D6 at Pukkelpop 2018 (https://youtu.be/Deg-XmOP9zM?t=2087 the C♯6 before that is really solid imo, maybe bold material), so maybe the mention in the thread can be changed to "Various Performances" instead of just Amsterdam 2018. There's also a BATM D6 at Sziget in 2018, but I would rather consider it as a questionable yelp : youtu.be/zHOHYz1l-0E?t=3001.

For other bold material, I can mention the B♭4 in that 2016 London performance of Ban All The Music : youtu.be/oGQ6Ykwha1E?t=204 (we can even hear him in a C5 at the very end, far from the mic)

[Electric Mami]

I would suggest putting the I'm Not Made By Design E5 as being part of multiple/various live performances, since it seems it was commonly performed half a step up in its early version. I would as well suggest bolding the B4 at 2:45 (the B♭4 in the studio version is amazing too), I think it's fairly impressive and representative of Conor's very conscious control.

Here's a pro recording by the way :

[epicanova]

youtu.be/h88KtVRkVk0?si=-Jz0ehSHU_T9rDcc

Bold as fuck G5s.

[Electric Mami]

Proposing one of these three photos for a newer thread pic, I think they look awesome (the third especially):

SPOILER: Click to show

Also a friend of mine saw NBT in Paris recently and I would say the A4 in this fancam she shot is strong bold material

[Discount Roger Taylor]

Feb 12, 2023 22:08:24 GMT Electric Mami said:

I would suggest putting the I'm Not Made By Design E5 as being part of multiple/various live performances, since it seems it was commonly performed half a step up in its early version. I would as well suggest bolding the B4 at 2:45 (the B♭4 in the studio version is amazing too), I think it's fairly impressive and representative of Conor's very conscious control.

Here's a pro recording by the way :

I agree with all of the above, especially the bold.

[Discount Roger Taylor]

Feb 9, 2024 0:52:07 GMT Electric Mami said:

Proposing one of these three photos for a newer thread pic, I think they look awesome (the third especially):

SPOILER: Click to show

Also a friend of mine saw NBT in Paris recently and I would say the A4 in this fancam she shot is strong bold material

That A4 is crazy wow