Post by Platypus on Oct 4, 2019 19:22:36 GMT
Roger Osborne (25.03.1964 - )
Years Active: 1983 - present
Associated Acts: The Melvins, Fantômas
Vocal Range: F2 - G5
{Vocal Summary}Buzz Osborne is the easily recognizable frontman for influential sludge-metal band Melvins. Whilst mostly known for his disgustingly heavy guitar work, Osborne has also shown himself to be a fairly competent singer when he wants to be. Whilst not a particularly technical singer, Osbourne's belting is nothing short of ferocious, perfectly complimenting hard hitters like Sweet Willy Rollbar and The Bit. His head voice wailing is similarly quite fierce, albeit criminally underutilized.
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Significant High Notes:
G5 ("Antitoxidote" live Endless Residency, "Venus In Furs")
F♯5 ("Civilized Worm" live Bonnaroo 2010)
F5 ("Joan Of Arc" live Slovenia 1994, "Night Goat" live New York 1993)
E5 ("Adolescent Wet Dream", "Antitoxidote", "Boss Hoss", "Doctor Mule", "Hog Leg", "Joan Of Arc")
E♭5 ("At a Crawl" demo version, "Boss Hoss", "Green Honey", "Isabella", "Book 1: Page 6" live Millennium Monsterwork 2000, "I Can't Shake It", "Stop Moving to Florida")
D5 ("Adolescent Wet Dream", "Book 1: Page 2" live @ the Knitting Factory 2001, "Doctor Mule", "Heaviness of the Load", "Hog Leg", "Night Goat", "Sacrifice", "Shit Storm", "Sky Pup", "Stick'em Bitch")
C♯5 ("Anaconda", "Easy as It Was" demo version, "My Small Percent Shows Most", "Specimen")
C5 ("Boris", "Charmicarmicat", "Christ Hammer", "Dallas", "Echo Head / Don't Piece Me", "Evil New War God", "Flipper Blues", "Housing, Luxury, Energy", "Psychodelic Haze", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "Stick'em Bitch", "Wispy" live Endless Residency)
B4 ("04/10/05 Soul Sunday (Haitian Vodou) Feast of the Rivers and Seas (Egypt, Sumerian)", "Adolescent Wet Dream", "Black Heath", "Civilized Worm", "Electric Flower", "Exact Paperbacks", "Eye Flys", "Grinding Process" second demo version, "Influence of Atmosphere", "Jacksonville", "Limited Teeth", "Queen", "Sacrifice", "Spoonman", "Stop Moving to Florida", "Walking Crazy", "The Water Glass", "White Punks on Dope")
B♭4 ("❁", "Annalisa", "Boris", "Christ Hammer", "Cow", "Doctor Mule", "Flipper Blues", "God of Thunder", "In the Freaktose the Bugs are Dying", "Operation Blessing", "Prenup Butter", "Psychodelic Haze", "Rat Faced Granny", "Roadbull", "Roman Dog Bird", "Safety Third", "Smile", "Space Wizard", "Specimen", "Symptom of the Universe", "Tipping the Lion")
A4 ("99 Bottles of Beer", "Ambition", "At a Crawl" second demo version, "Attitude", "The Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Billy Fish", "Black Bock", "Boris", "The Brain Center at Whipples", "Breakfast on the Sly", "Charmicarmicat", "Dead Dressed", "Echo Head / Don't Piece Me", "Ever Since My Accident", "Excess Pool", "Flex With You", "Freak Puke", "GGIIBBYY", "Ghost on the Highway", "Goin' Blind", "Gravel", "Graveyard", "Hag Me", "The Hawk", "Hospital Up", "House of Gasoline", "It's Shoved", "Jerkin' Krokus", "Joan Of Arc", "J.R. Richard", "The Kicking Machine", "Leeech", "Leon vs. the Revolution", "Little Judas Chongo", "Lizzy", "Magic Pig Detective", "The Mechanical Bride", "Mock She", "Modern World", "My Small Percent Shows Most", "Pigskin", "Pig House", "Psychodelic Haze", "Repulsion", "Revulsion/We Reach", "Someday", "Spoonman", "Sweet Willy Rollbar", "Symptom of the Universe", "Tipping the Lion", "Tomorrow's Dream" live Seattle 1986, "Vile", "The Water Glass", "Way of the World", "White Punks on Dope", "You'll Be Taken Care Of", "Your Blessened", "Zodiac")
G♯4 ("Agonizer", "American Cow", "As It Was", "At a Crawl", "Attitude", "The Bit", "Boss Hoss", "Breakfast on the Sly", "The Bunk Up", "Cranky Messiah", "Creepy Smell", "Easy as It Was" demo version, "Exact Paperbacks", "Gluey Porch Treatments" demo version, "Grinding Process", "Hideous Women", "Hooch", "Hospital Up", "I Saw You Shine", "Isabella", "Jacksonville", "The Kicking Machine", "Kool Legged", "Let Me Roll It", "Now a Limo", "Onions Make the Milk Taste Bad", "Operation Blessing", "Oven", "Pink Bat", "Raise a Paw", "Roadbull", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "The Savage Hippy", "Skweetis", "The Smiling Cobra", "The Talking Horse", "We've Got Worries Here", "Wispy", "With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands", "Zodiac")
G4 ("✪", "❁", "Ambition", "Anaconda", "Antitoxidote", "As It Was", "At The Stake", "The Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Beer Hippie", "Big As a Mountain", "The Bit", "Black Heath", "The Blithering Idiot", "The Bunk Up", "Candy-O", "Captain Pungent", "Cardboa Negro", "Charmicarmicat", "Christ Hammer", "Clipping Roses", "Cow", "Creepy Smell", "Dogs and Cattle Prods", "Easy as It Was", "Electric Flower", "Euthanatia", "Female Trouble", "Flex With You", "Goin' Blind", "Graveyard", "Happy Grey or Black", "Heater Moves and Eyes", "Heaviness of the Load", "A History of Drunks", "Housing, Luxury, Energy", "If I Had an Exorcism", "I'm Dry", "Iron Man" live 1986, "It's Shoved", "Laid Back Walking", "Leeech", "Leon vs. the Revolution", "Let God Be Your Gardener", "Magic Pig Detective", "Now a Limo", "Nude With Boots", "Paraquat Plus", "Pigskin", "Pig House", "Prenup Butter", "Queen", "Rat Faced Granny", "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)", "Roman Dog Bird", "Sacrifice", "Show Off Your Red Hands" demo version, "Skin Horse", "Smile", "Someday", "Starve Already", "Tomorrow's Dream" live Seattle 1986, "Victoria", "Walking Crazy", "World Of Inconvenience")
F♯4 ("✏", "☘", "Anaconda", "At a Crawl", "Buck Owens", "Captain Comedown", "City Dump", "Copache", "Detroit Rock City", "Dime Lined Divide", "Disinvite", "Easy as It Was", "Euthanatia", "Ever Since My Accident", "Evil New War God", "Female Trouble", "Foaming", "Ghost on the Highway", "God of Thunder", "Grinding Process", "A Growing Disgust", "Heater Moves and Eyes", "A History of Drunks", "I Can't Shake It", "Jerkin' Krokus", "Kool Legged", "Let God Be Your Gardener", "Limited Teeth", "Modern World", "Nude With Boots", "Repulsion", "The Savage Hippy", "Show Off Your Red Hands", "Snake Appeal", "Steve Instant Newman")
F4 ("✪", "amazon", "American Cow", "The Anti-Vermin Seed", "Beer Hippie", "Black Betty", "Bitten Into Sympathy", "The Bloated Pope", "Blood Witch", "Brass Cupcake", "Bride of Crankenstein", "Claude", "The Decay of Lying", "Evil New War God", "Four Letter Woman", "Green Honey", "A Growing Disgust", "Hag Me", "The Hawk", "Honey Bucket", "Hot Fish", "I Saw You Shine", "Instrument of God", "Into The Void" live, "Jew Boy Flower Head", "Love Canal", "Manky", "Maybe I Am Amused", "Mobius Hibachi", "Night Goat", "Phylls Sillard", "Pink Bat", "Revolve", "The Ripping Driving", "The Smiling Cobra", "Sterilized", "Stop Moving to Florida", "Stump Farmer", "Sweet Willy Rollbar", "The Vulgar Joke", "Way of the World", "With Teeth", "With Yo' Heart, Not Yo' Hands", "Youth of America", "You've Never Been Right")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("Annum", "The Anti-Vermin Seed", "Attitude", "Baby, Won't You Weird Me Out", "The Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Berthas", "Billy Fish", "Brass Cupcake", "Butcher Town", "Carpe Diem", "Dead Canaries", "Excess Pool", "Foaming", "Gluey Porch Treatments" ElectroR** version, "Goose Freight Train", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)", "Grin", "I Don't Know", "I'm Dry", "Jew Boy Flower Head", "Lone Rose Holding Now", "Mary Lady Bobby Kins", "Matt-Alec", "Missing", "My Small Percent Shows Most" Making Love demo version, "Paraquat Plus", "Pearl Bomb", "Pigskin", "Promise Me", "The Real You", "Romance", "Shevil", "Snake Appeal", "The Spoiled Brat", "Starve Already", "Suicide in Progress", "They All Must Be Slaughtered", "Tie My Pecker", "Tipping the Lion", Untitled Hostile Ambient Takeover, "Useless King of the Punks", "Vaulting Over a Microphone")
E♭3 ("Beer Hippie", "In Every Dream Home a Heartache", "Maybe I Am Amused", "A Vast Filthy Prison")
D3 ("As It Was", "At The Stake", "Black Bock", "The Decay of Lying", "Dogs and Cattle Prods", "Goggles", "Hamburger Lady", "A History of Bad Men", "I Told You I Was Crazy", "Illegal Mona", "In the Army Now", "Joan Of Arc", "Lacrimosa", "Let It All Be", "Lovely Butterflies" ElectroR** version, "Paraquat Plus", "Pitfalls in Serving Warrants", "Queen", "The Ripping Driving", "Roadbull", "Sober-delic (acid only)", "Stop Moving to Florida", "Suicide", "They All Must Be Slaughtered", "Toy", "Vile", "We All Love JUDY")
C♯3 ("amazon", "Influence of Atmosphere", "Lacrimosa", "Tipping the Lion")
C3 ("AMAZON", "At The Stake", "The Bit", "Dark Brown Teeth", "Dogs and Cattle Prods", "Drunken Baby", "Goggles", "Harry Lauders Walking Stick Tree", "A History of Bad Men", "Housing, Luxury, Energy", "I Told You I Was Crazy", "Joan of Arc" live Austria 2006, "Little Judas Chongo", "Onions Make the Milk Taste Bad", "Pound the Giants", "Revolve" ElectroR** version, "I'm Glad I Could Help Out", "Revulsion/We Reach", "Safety Third", "Shaving Cream", "Skin Horse", "Sterilized", "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Tommy Goes Beserk", "World Of Inconvenience")
B2 ("The Bunk Up", "Creepy Smell" , "Echo Head / Don't Piece Me", "Eye Flys", "Goose Freight Train", "I Can't Shake It", "Lone Rose Holding Now", "Mary Lady Bobby Kins", "Pearl Bomb", "Roadbull", "Sober-delic (acid only)", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World", "Venus In Furs", "Wispy")
B♭2 ("Delayed Clarity", "Matt-Alec", "Revolve", "World Of Inconvenience")
A2 ("Black Santa", "Grin", "I'm Glad I Could Help Out", "Let It All Be", "Shaving Cream", "Science In Modern America", "Sky Pup", "Suicide", "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World")
G♯2 ("Creepy Smell")
G2 ("Delayed Clarity", "Foaming")
F2 ("Youth of America")
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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.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}
F♯5 ("Gluey Porch Treatments" [1], "Joan Of Arc" Demo version [5], "The Savage Hippy" [2])
E♭5 ("Bitten Into Sympathy" [5])
C♯5 ("Starve Already" [4])
C3 ("See How Pretty, See How Smart" [2])
B2 ("Steve Instant Newman" [1])
B♭2 ("In the Freaktose the Bugs are Dying" [2])
A2 ("My Generation" [2], "Psychodelic Haze" [2])
G♯2 ("Black Santa" [1], "If You Get Bored" [2])
G2 ("Manky" [2])
F2 ("The Bit" [2])
E2 ("Pig House" [2])
E♭2 ("Sacrifice" live Endless Residency [2])
B1 ("Creepy Smell" [5])
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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.
F♯5 ("Gluey Porch Treatments" [1], "Joan Of Arc" Demo version [5], "The Savage Hippy" [2])
E♭5 ("Bitten Into Sympathy" [5])
C♯5 ("Starve Already" [4])
C3 ("See How Pretty, See How Smart" [2])
B2 ("Steve Instant Newman" [1])
B♭2 ("In the Freaktose the Bugs are Dying" [2])
A2 ("My Generation" [2], "Psychodelic Haze" [2])
G♯2 ("Black Santa" [1], "If You Get Bored" [2])
G2 ("Manky" [2])
F2 ("The Bit" [2])
E2 ("Pig House" [2])
E♭2 ("Sacrifice" live Endless Residency [2])
B1 ("Creepy Smell" [5])
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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.
{Album Ranges}with Melvins:
Albums:
Gluey Porch Treatments (1987): B2 - D5
Ozma (1989): G♯2 - E♭5
Bullhead (1991): F♯3 - C♯5
Eggnog (1992): B2 - E5
Lysol (1992): E3 - D5
Houdini (1993): A2 - E5
Stoner Witch (1994): B♭2 - B4
Stag (1996): C3 - B♭4
Honky (1997): A2 - B♭4
The Maggot (1999): C3 - F4
The Bootlicker (1999): A2 - E4
The Crybaby (2000): N/A
ElectroR** (2001): F2 - D5
Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002): G2 - A4
Pigs Of The Roman Empire (2004): C3 - B♭4
(A) Senile Animal (2006): C3 - B4
Nude With Boots (2008): E3 - A4
The Bride Screamed Murder (2010): F3 - C5
Freak Puke (2012): C3 - A4
Everybody Loves Sausages (2013): E♭3 - A4
Tres Cabrones (2013): C3 - E5
Hold It In (2014): C3 - A4
Basses Loaded (2016): A2 - G♯4
Three Men and a Baby (2016): C3 - B4
A Walk With Love & Death (2017): B2 - C5
Pinkus Abortion Technician (2018): D3 - E♭5
Archival releases:
Mangled Demos From 1983 (1983): B♭2 - B♭4
26 Songs (1986): E3 - E♭5
The Making Love Demos (1987): D3 - B4
Singles 1-12 (1997): C3 - C♯5
Solo:
This Machine Kills Artists (2014): C3 - G4
Gift Of Sacrifice (2020): G2 - C5
Albums:
Gluey Porch Treatments (1987): B2 - D5
Ozma (1989): G♯2 - E♭5
Bullhead (1991): F♯3 - C♯5
Eggnog (1992): B2 - E5
Lysol (1992): E3 - D5
Houdini (1993): A2 - E5
Stoner Witch (1994): B♭2 - B4
Stag (1996): C3 - B♭4
Honky (1997): A2 - B♭4
The Maggot (1999): C3 - F4
The Bootlicker (1999): A2 - E4
The Crybaby (2000): N/A
ElectroR** (2001): F2 - D5
Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002): G2 - A4
Pigs Of The Roman Empire (2004): C3 - B♭4
(A) Senile Animal (2006): C3 - B4
Nude With Boots (2008): E3 - A4
The Bride Screamed Murder (2010): F3 - C5
Freak Puke (2012): C3 - A4
Everybody Loves Sausages (2013): E♭3 - A4
Tres Cabrones (2013): C3 - E5
Hold It In (2014): C3 - A4
Basses Loaded (2016): A2 - G♯4
Three Men and a Baby (2016): C3 - B4
A Walk With Love & Death (2017): B2 - C5
Pinkus Abortion Technician (2018): D3 - E♭5
Archival releases:
Mangled Demos From 1983 (1983): B♭2 - B♭4
26 Songs (1986): E3 - E♭5
The Making Love Demos (1987): D3 - B4
Singles 1-12 (1997): C3 - C♯5
Solo:
This Machine Kills Artists (2014): C3 - G4
Gift Of Sacrifice (2020): G2 - C5
