Dave Brockie (3,495 views)

[Platypus]

David Murray Brockie (alt. Oderus Urungus)
Associated Acts: Gwar, Dave Brockie Experience, Death Piggy
Vocal Range: C2 - B♭5


Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("Time For Death" live Pyramid Club 1989)
A5 ("Dinner In The Morning", "Time For Death)
G♯5 ("Rock & Roll Party Town")
G5 ("AEIOU")
F♯5 ("Slutman City" live Trenton 1988)
F5 (Unknown live performance)
E♭5 ("Music Is Like Beer", "School's Out")
D5 ("Horror of Yig")
C♯5 ("Baby Dick Fuck", "Calling Dr. Fong", "Gor-Gor", "Have You Seen Me?", "King Queen", "Poor Ole Tom", "War Toy")
C5 ("Gor-Gor", "Murderer's Muse", "Music Is Like Beer", "The Obliteration of Flab Quarv 7", "Sick of You")
B4 ("Death Pod", "King Queen", "Metal Metal Land", "Parting Shot", "Poor Ole Tom")
B♭4 ("Americanized" 2013 version, "Baby Dick Fuck", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 1: Zombies March!", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 4: Storm Is Coming", "Decay of Grandeur", "Destroyed", "Filthy Flow", "Gwarnography", "Hail Genocide!", "Ham on the Bone", "Horror of Yig", "Isn't This Disgusting", "KZ Necromancer", "Let Us Slay", "Lords and Masters", "Lust In Space", "Madness at the Core of Time", "Make a Child Cry", "Medieval Werewolf", "The Party's Over", "Rock & Roll Party Town", "Saddam a Go-Go", "Sick and Twisted", "Slips of Paper", "Tick-Tits", "The Uberklaw", "Whargoul", "Where Is Zog?", "You Are My Meat")
A4 ("Abyss of Woe", "Back In Crack", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 4: Storm Is Coming", "Have You Seen Me?", "Maggots", "Metal Metal Land", "Minute 2 Live", "Mr. Perfect", "Penis I See", "School's Out", "S.F.W.", "Too Much Stuff", "The Uberklaw", "You Want to Suck My Dick")
G♯4 ("40,000 Times", "Babyraper", "Beat Stall", "Beauteous Rot", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 1: Zombies March!", "Bloodbath", "Death Pod", "Decay of Grandeur", "Don's Bong Is Gone", "Drop Drawers", "Go To Hell", "Ham on the Bone", "Have You Seen Me?", "I Clean up Real Good", "If I Could Be That", "Jack The World", "Jagermonsta", "Knife In Yer Guts", "KZ Necromancer", "Lady Died", "Lords and Masters", "Love Surgery", "Madness at the Core of Time", "Mangoes & Goats", "The March Of The f***** Soldiers", "Mr. Perfect", "The Party's Over", "Penile Drip", "The Performer", "Raped at Birth", "The Reaganator", "Servant of Death's Head", "Shatilla", "Sick and Twisted", "Slips of Paper", "Slowpoke", "They Swallowed the Sun", "Tick-Tits", "Torture", "Triumph of the Pig Children", "War Is All We Know", "Where Is Zog?", "You Are My Meat")
G4 ("Americanized", "Anti-Anti Christ", "Blimey", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 3: A Gathering of Ghouls", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 4: Storm Is Coming", "Boner", "Eighth Lock", "Destroyed", "Don's Bong Is Gone", "GWAR Theme", "Je M' Appelle J. Cousteau", "Let's Blame the Lightman", "Nothing Left Alive", "Nympho", "Penguin", "Poor Ole Tom", "The Salaminizer", "Spatter Flick", "Stalin's Organs", "Time For Death", "Two Smart Guys Fight (About Michelangelo)", "The Uberklaw", "War Toy")
F♯4 ("Abyss of Woe", "Antarctican Drinking Song", "The Apes of Wrath", "Asian People", "Back In Crack", "Back to Iraq", "Bad Bad Men", "Bathtub In Space", "Battle Lust", "Beat Stall", "Beauteous Rot", "Billy Bad Ass", "Black and Huge", "Bloody Mary", "Bonesnapper (The Faces of the Slain)", "Bring Back the Bomb", "The Chinese Have No Cheese", "Crack In The Egg", "Damn That Money", "Damnation Under God", "Dinner In The Morning", "Dog Log", "Drop Drawers", "Eighth Lock", "Escape From the Moose Lodge", "f***** on Fire", "Far Beyond Metal", "Fat Man", "Filthy Flow", "First Rule Is", "Fly Now", "Go To Hell", "Great News!", "Ground "B" Sound", "Gwarnography", "Ham on the Bone", "Happy Death-Day", "Hey Buddy", "Horror of Yig", "I Love the Pigs", "I Suck on My Thumb", "I Wanna Be A Squirrel", "If I Could Be That", "Immortal Corrupter", "Isn't It Grand Boys", "The Issue of Tissue (Spacecake)", "Jack The World", "Jagermonsta", "Joey Died Today", "King Queen", "Krak Down", "Lady Died", "Let Us Slay", "Let's Blame the Lightman", "Lords and Masters", "Lust In Space", "Maggots", "Make Money Off Your Friends", "Martyr Dumb", "Medieval Werewolf", "Minute 2 Live", "Murderer's Muse", "No Prob, Dude", "Nudged", "The One That Will Not Be Named", "Parting Shot", "Penile Drip", "Penis I See", "Pepperoni", "The Performer", "Poet", "Preskool Prostitute", "Pure as the Arctic Snow", "Rock N Roll Never Felt So Good", "Rock & Roll Party Town", "Saddam a Go-Go", "Sammy", "School's Out", "Should The Ugly Girl Blow Me", "Showbiz", "Slap U Around", "Slutman City", "Sonderkommando", "Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend", "Tormentor", "Triumph of the Pig Children", "U Ain't Shit", "The Ultimate Bohab", "Vlad The Impaler", "War Is All We Know", "Washing Yourself", "We Kill Everything", "Whippin' Round The Bay", "The Years Without Light", "You Are My Meat", "You Can't Kill Terror")
F4 ("40,000 Times", "AEIOU", "Babyraper", "The Ballad of Vincent Bologlioni", "Biledriver", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 2: Come the Carnivore", "Captain Crunch", "Child", "Damn That Money", "Death Pod", "Endless Apocalypse", "Falling", "Fight", "Fishfuck", "Friend", "Fuckin' An Animal", "Gilded Lily", "Hail Genocide!", "I Clean up Real Good", "In Her Fear", "Iranian Masturbator", "Isn't This Disgusting", "Jiggle The Handle", "Krosstika", "Letter from the Scallop Boat", "Lost God", "Love Surgery", "Make Money Off Your Friends", "Martyr Dumb", "Meat Sandwhich", "The New Plague", "Nothing Left Alive", "Ollie North", "The Road Behind", "Sex Cow", "S.F.W.", "Sick and Twisted", "Sick of You", "Slap U Around", "Slowpoke", "They Swallowed the Sun", "War Party", "Whargoul", "The Wheel")
E4 ("Americanized", "Anti-Anti Christ", "Bone Meal", "Ceramic Butt", "The Chinese Have No Cheese", "Creeping Death", "The Dance of Europe", "Dog Log", "Far Beyond Metal", "Fat Man", "Fire in the Loins", "First Rule Is", "GWAR Theme", "I'm in Love (With a Dead Dog)", "The Issue of Tissue (Spacecake)", "Jack The World", "Je M' Appelle J. Cousteau", "Licksore", "Nitroburnin' Funny Bong", "No Prob, Dude", "None But The Brave", "Poet", "Pure as the Arctic Snow", "Ragnarok", "Rock & Roll Party Town", "Saddam a Go-Go", "The Salaminizer", "Slutman City", "Stalin's Organs", "Time For Death", "U Ain't Shit", "War Toy", "We Kill Everything", "World O Filth", "You Can't Kill Terror")
E♭4 ("Bad Bad Men", "Battle Lust", "Bloody Mary", "Bonesnapper (The Faces of the Slain)", "Bring Back the Bomb", "Church Mouse In The Snow", "Endless Apocalypse", "Filthy Flow", "Fistful of Teeth", "Friend", "Gilded Lily", "Gor-Gor", "Happy Death-Day", "Hard For A Tard", "Horror of Yig", "I Suck on My Thumb", "I Wanna Be A Squirrel", "Immortal Corrupter", "Iranian Masturbator", "Jiggle The Handle", "King Queen", "Knife In Yer Guts", "Krak Down", "Letter from the Scallop Boat", "The March Of The f***** Soldiers", "The Master Has A Butt", "Meat Sandwhich", "Mexican Prick Fish", "The Obliteration of Flab Quarv 7", "The One That Will Not Be Named", "Pants", "Pocket Pool", "Preskool Prostitute", "Rock N Roll Never Felt So Good", "Sammy", "Sex Cow", "Should The Ugly Girl Blow Me", "The Song of Words", "S.F.W.", "Sonderkommando", "The Wheel", "Womb With a View")

Significant Low Notes:
C♯3 ("40,000 Times", "Church Mouse In The Snow", "Drop Drawers", "Gonna Kill U", "Immortal Corrupter", "Intro (Battle Maximus)", "Letter from the Scallop Boat", "Medieval Werewolf", "None But The Brave", "Servant of Death's Head", "Sex Cow", "Stalin's Organs")
C3 ("Biledriver", "Bone Meal", "Escape From the Moose Lodge", "I Wanna Be A Squirrel", "Meat Sandwhich", "The One That Will Not Be Named", "Preskool Prostitute", "Sick of You")
B2 ("The Dance of Europe", "Dog Log", "Don't Need a Man", "Drop Drawers", "Ground "B" Sound", "He's Going Crazy", "I Saw Three Forms", "None But The Brave", "Release the Flies", "Saddam a Go-Go", "Should The Ugly Girl Blow Me", "Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend", "Whippin' Round The Bay", "You Want to Suck My Dick")
B♭2 ("The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 2: Come the Carnivore", "Decay of Grandeur", "Endless Apocalypse", "Hail Genocide!", "Helium Creed", "Meat Sandwhich", "Sammy", "Tick-Tits", "Tormentor", "War Party", "Whargoul", "You Are My Meat")
A2 ("Dinner In The Morning", "Don's Bong Is Gone", "Have You Seen Me?", "Poet", "Poor Ole Tom")
G♯2 ("Anti-Anti Christ", "Billy Bad Ass", "Calling Dr. Fong", "Church Mouse In The Snow", "Falling", "G-O-D Spells God", "I Love the Pigs", "The March Of The f***** Soldiers", "Martyr Dumb", "Meat Sandwhich", "Medieval Werewolf", "The Performer", "Pocket Pool", "Raped at Birth", "Servant of Death's Head", "Washing Yourself", "We Kill Everything")
G2 ("Have You Seen Me?", "King Queen", "Mangoes & Goats", "Slips of Paper")
F♯2 ("The Chinese Have No Cheese", "Gonna Kill U", "He's Going Crazy", "I Saw Three Forms", "Lady Died", "Letter from the Scallop Boat", "The Performer", "Servant of Death's Head", "Too Much Stuff")
F2 ("Abyss of Woe", "Baby Dick Fuck", "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 2: Come the Carnivore", "Decay of Grandeur", "Don's Bong Is Gone", "I Love the Pigs", "Isn't This Disgusting", "Preskool Prostitute", "Washing Yourself")
E2 ("Calling Dr. Fong", "Too Much Stuff", "You Want to Suck My Dick")
E♭2 ("Eighth Lock", "Falling", "Gonna Kill U", "Hard For A Tard", "Lady Died", "School's Out", "Slips of Paper", "Tormentor", "We Kill Everything", "You Are My Meat")
D2 ("Back In Crack")
C♯2 ("Hard For A Tard", "I Saw Three Forms", "The Road Behind", "You Are My Meat")
C2 ("Calling Dr. Fong", "We Kill Everything")


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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Green marks harsh, distorted notes
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

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{Questionable Notes}D6 ("Dinner In The Morning" ^[1])
C6 ("Dinner In The Morning" ^[5])
F♯5 ("Womb With a View" ^[1])
E5 ("Child" ^[1])

C2 ("Stalin's Organs" ^[5])
B1 ("Back In Crack" ^[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.

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{Album Ranges}with Gwar:
Hell-O (1988): C3-A5
Scumdogs of the Universe (1990): G2-D5
America Must Be Destroyed (1992): C♯2-C♯5
This Toilet Earth (1994): F2-C♯5
Ragnarök (1995): G♯2-B♭4
Carnivals of Chaos (1997): E♭2-G♯4
We Kill Everything (1999): C2-G♯4
Violence Has Arrived (2001): F2-A4
War Party (2004): F2-G♯4
Beyond Hell (2006): D2-E♭5
Lust In Space (2009): B2-B4
Bloody Pit of Horror (2010): C♯2-B♭4
Battle Maximus (2013): E♭2-B♭4

with Death Piggy:
Smile Or Die (1984/85): F♯2-A5

with (The) David Brockie Experience:
Songs for the Wrong (2003): C♯2-E♭5
Diarrhea of a Madman (2001): C2-C♯5

[Zedd Squared]

Shouldn't Oderus Urungus be listed somewhere in the OP? I'd almost lean towards having that be the name of the thread as it is what he was most known as for a time, but at least it should be listed somewhere as an AKA.

Quite a well balanced look thread btw. Do you have any favorite vocal performances by him?

[Platypus]

It's a bit strange to think of GWAR in terms of great vocal performances, but the ones that stick out to me (other than the hits) are "The Bloody Pit of Horror, Pt. 1: Zombies March" and "Madness at the Core of Time".

Also, damn, I keep forgetting how good his lows are