Post by Alex61 on Oct 7, 2019 15:28:27 GMT
Billie Joe Armstrong
Vocal Range: D2 – B♭5
Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("Father of All.../Basket Case" live MTV EMA 2019)
A5 ("Brainstew" live HD Radio Sound Space 2019, "Broadway", "Classic Rock Medley" live Detroit 2010, "Fuck Time", "Makeout Party", "Right Hand-A-Rama", "She", "Soul Surrender", "Stop, Drop and Roll", "Stop When the Red Lights Flash", "Supermodel Robots")
G♯5 ("Private Ale", "She's a Saint, Not a Celebrity")
G5 ("Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" live Philadelphia 2024, "Jinx", "The Pedestrian")
E5 ("At the Library", "Dancing with Myself" live Roseland Ballroom 2000, "Father of All…", "Fire, Ready, Aim", "Highway 1", "Kill the DJ", "King for a Day/Shout" live Bullet in a Bible, "Makeout Party", "Meet Me on the Roof", "A Quick One, While He's Away", "Stab You in the Heart")
E♭5 ("Longview" live Berlin 2012, "Seether" live Los Angeles 2022)
D5 ("Chasing a Ghost", "The Last Time")
C♯5 ("Father of All...", "Let Yourself Go", "Letterbomb", "Longview" live Berlin 2012)
C5 ("99 Revolutions" Demolicious version, "Bang Bang", "Graffitia")
B4 ("Baby Eyes", "Bang Bang", "Classic Rock Medley" live Detroit 2010, "Father of All...", "Fire, Ready, Aim", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/Hey Jude" live Barclays Centre 2013, "Junkies on a High", "King for a Day/Shout" live Bullet in a Bible, "Meet Me on the Roof", "Ordinary World" live Conan, "A Quick One, While He's Away", "She's a Rebel" live St. James Theatre 2010, "The Simpsons Theme", "Stab You in the Heart", "We Are the Champions" live Reading Festival 2004)
B♭4 ("Degenerate", "Eye of the Tiger" live San Francisco 1997, "Graffitia", "Highway to Hell" live Toronto 2013, "Hitchin' a Ride" live Optimus Alive Festival 2013)
A4 ("99 Revolutions" Demolicious version, "Art of the Deal with the Devil", "Christian's Inferno", "Disappearing Boy", "Drama Queen", "Fuck Time", "Going to Pasalacqua", "Hybrid Moments", "I Run NY", "Jesus of Suburbia" live Bullet in a Bible, "Kill the DJ", "Lady Cobra", "The Last Time", "Lazy Bones", "Makeout Party", "Missing You", "A Quick One, While He's Away", "Seether" live Los Angeles 2022, "The Simpsons Theme", "Stop When the Red Lights Flash" live Pinkpop Festival 2013, "Take the Money and Crawl", "Taxi Driver", "We Are the Champions" live Reading Festival 2004)
G♯4 ("21st Century Breakdown", "American Eulogy", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" live Bullet in a Bible, "Classic Rock Medley" live Detroit 2010, "Clusterbomb", "Devil's Kind", "Fire, Ready, Aim", "Highway to Hell" live Toronto 2013, "Holiday" live Bullet in a Bible, "Jesus of Suburbia" live Awesome as Fuck, "King for a Day/Shout" live Bullet in a Bible, "Know Your Enemy", "A Little Boy Named Train", "Long Time Gone", "Meet Me on the Roof", "My Generation", "Nuclear Family", "Oh Love", "Rusty James", "Say Goodbye", "Still Breathing", "Teenagers from Mars", "Theory of Reality", "Too Dumb to Die", "Walk Away", "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?")
G4 ("21 Guns", "99 Revolutions", "American Eulogy", "American Idiot" live Bullet in a Bible, "At the Library", "Cult Hero", "Degenerate", "Dirty Rotten Bastards", "Disappearing Boy", "Drama Queen", "Dry Ice", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Forever Now", "Fuck Time", "Goodbye to Romance", "Graffitia", "Ha Ha You're Dead", "Homecoming", "Hybrid Moments", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/Hey Jude" live Barclays Centre 2013, "I Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely", "I Want to Be Alone", "I Was a Teenage Teenager", "I Was There", "Junkies on a High", "Knowledge", "The Last Time", "Let Yourself Go", "The One I Want","Outlaws", "Pieces of Truth", "A Quick One, While He's Away", "Rest", "Restless Heart Syndrome", "Road to Acceptance", "Sally", "Say Goodbye", "She's a Rebel" live St. James Theatre 2010, "Somewhere Now", "Stab You in the Heart", "Stop, Drop and Roll", "Sweet 16", "Troubled Times", "What About Today", "Whatsername")
F♯4 ("1,000 Hours", "16", "21st Century Breakdown", "80", "8th Avenue Serenade", "Alligator", "Amanda", "Amy", "Are We the Waiting", "The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink", "Before the Lobotomy", "Best Thing in Town", "Bouncing Off the Wall", "Brain Stew", "Brutal Love", "Carpe Diem", "Chasing a Ghost", "Christian's Inferno", "Christie Road", "Church on Sunday", "Disappearing Boy", "Don't Leave Me", "Don't Wanna Fall in Love", "Dry Ice", "Fentanyl", "Forever Now", "The Forgotten", "Fuck Time", "Going to Pasalacqua", "Green Day", "The Grouch", "Haushinka", "Hitchin' a Ride", "Highway 1", "Homecoming", "Horseshoes and Handgrenades", "Hybrid Moments", "Jesus of Suburbia", "Junkies on a High", "Kill Your Friends", "Knowledge", "I Want to Be Alone", "The Judge's Daughter", "Lady Cobra", "Last of the American Girls", "Last Night on Earth", "Lazy Bones", "Letterbomb", "A Little Boy Named Train", "Love Is for Losers", "Manic Monday", "Missing You", "Murder City", "My Generation", "Nuclear Family", "Oh Yeah!", "One of My Lies", "Peacemaker", "Private Hell", "Redundant", "Revolution Radio", "Rip This Joint" live Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, "Ruby Room", "Rusty James", "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", "See the Light", "She", "Somewhere Now", "Soul Surrender", "St. Jimmy", "The Static Age", "Stay the Night", "Still Breathing", "Stop, Drop and Roll", "Strangeland", "Stray Heart", "Sugar Youth", "Supermodel Robots", "Swan Song", "Sweet Children", "Take the Money and Crawl", "Teenage Lobotomy/Rockaway Beach/Blitzkrieg Bop" live Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2002, "Teenagers from Mars", "Theory of Reality", "Threat Level Midnight", "Too Dumb to Die", "Too Much Too Soon", "Transistors Gone Wild", "Troublemaker", "¡Viva la Gloria!", "Walk Away", "Walking Alone", "What About Today" , "When I Come Around", "Why Do You Want Him?", "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?", "Words I Might Have Ate", "Wow! That's Loud", "X-Kid")
Significant Low Notes:
F3 ("21 Guns", "27th Ave. Shuffle", "80", "Another State of Mind", "Armatage Shanks", "Back in the USA", "Barbara Allen", "Before the Lobotomy", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Burnout", "Christie Road", "Chump", "Coming Clean", "Do Da Da", "Devil's Kind", "Don't Wanna Fall in Love", "Favorite Son", "Happiness", "Holiday", "I Fought the Law", "Jerry Falwell's Pool Party", "Like a Rolling Stone", "Misery", "The One I Want", "Oh Love", "Outlaws", "Panic Song", "Pieces of Truth", "Rest", "Song of the Century", "Suffocate", "Theory of Reality", "¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)", "Waiting", "Westbound Sign")
E3 ("Alison" live Decades Rock Live!, "All the Time", "Ashley", "Bang Bang", "Big Yellow Taxi" live London 1998, "Blood, Sex and Booze", "Boys in the Bathroom Stall", "Castaway", "Chasing a Ghost", "Church on Sunday", "Clusterbomb", "Dark Side of Night", "Degenerate", "Dirty Rotten Bastards", "Down in the Willow Garden", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Extraordinary Girl", "Fell for You", "Fentanyl", "Forever Now", "Geek Stink Breath", "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", "Goodbye to Romance", "Governator", "Jackass", "Junkies on a High", "King for a Day", "Last Night on Earth", "The Last Time", "Lazy Bones", "Letterbomb", "Lightning Express", "Love Is for Losers", "Maria", "Missing You", "Nightlife", "Nice Guys Finish Last", "Nuclear Family", "Outsider", "The Pedestrian", "Popper Punk", "Prosthetic Head", "Redundant", "Revolution Radio", "Rotting", "The Saints Are Coming", "Sally", "Scattered", "Shoplifter", "State of Shock", "Stop When the Red Lights Flash", "Stray Heart", "Sugar Youth", "Take the Money and Crawl", "Teenage Lobotomy/Rockaway Beach/Blitzkrieg Bop" live Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2002, "Too Dumb to Die", "Troubled Times", "¡Viva la Gloria!", "Walk Away", "Walking Alone", "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?", "Wild One", "Worry Rock", "X-Kid")
E♭3 ("86", "Amy", "Armatage Shanks", "The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink", "Best Thing in Town", "Brutal Love", "Dancing with Myself" live Roseland Ballroom 2000, "F.O.D.", "Having a Blast", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/Hey Jude" live Barclays Centre 2013, "Long Time Gone", "Longview", "Macy's Day Parade", "My Generation", "No One Knows", "Oh So Many Years", "Pulling Teeth", "Put My Little Shoes Away", "A Quick One, While He's Away", "Rockin' Alone (In an Old Rockin' Chair)", "Rusty James", "Say Goodbye", "Stuck with Me", "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?", "X-Kid", "You Lied", "Youngblood")
D3 ("21 Guns", "409 in Your Coffeemaker", "8th Avenue Serenade", "Art of the Deal with the Devil", "Happiness", "Lightning Express", "Minnesota Girl", "Ordinary World", "A Quick One, While He's Away", "See You Tonight", "That's All Right", "Things I've Heard Today", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Walking the Dog", "Whatsername", "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?", "Working Class Hero")
C♯3 ("Alison" live Decades Rock Live!, "Give Me Novacaine", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/Hey Jude" live Barclays Centre 2013, "I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail", "J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva)", "Kentucky", "My Generation", "Oh So Many Years", "Roving Gambler", "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", "Silver Haired Daddy of Mine", "Stray Heart", "Still Breathing", "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?")
C3 ("Art of the Deal with the Devil", "Barbara Allen", "Fuck Time", "I Run NY", "Last Night on Earth" live St. James Theatre 2010, "No One Knows", "Rotting", "Stay the Night" Demolicious version, "Still Breathing")
B2 ("Nightlife", "Minnesota Girl", "Ordinary World", "That's All Right", "Whatsername", "Working Class Hero")
B♭2 ("Android", "Roving Gambler")
A2 ("Alison" live Decades Rock Live!, "Working Class Hero")
G2 ("That's All Right")
D2 ("Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" live Charlotte 2024
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• Blue marks falsetto notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
A vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, Billie Joe Armstrong found fame as the lead singer of rock group Green Day in the mid-'90s and early '00s. As frontman of arguably one of the most successful pop-punk bands of all time, Billie Joe contributed his vocals to some of pop punk's most iconic songs, including "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise" and "American Idiot". His songwriting struck a chord with many, writing lyrics about anxiety, drug use and just giving life a big middle finger. His voice, though, isn't much to write home about. While not an inherently bad singer, Billie Joe tends to sing solidly within his mid-range, with his upper register sounds unconfident beyond F♯4. Neither his upper nor his lower register are showcased often, though Billie Joe has demonstrated strengths in both, occasionally dipping comfortably down into the second octave ("Working Class Hero") and up into the fifth. Despite this, Billie Joe still remains one of the most recognisable voices in modern rock music, as his distinctive "no-fucks-given" delivery and slurry diction became synonymous with pop punk in the late '90s.
{A Few Examples of His Voice}
Solid lower notes and chesty belts up to G♯4.
Nice upper register demonstration.
Not the best cover, but a nice showcase of his warm lower register.
Solid lower notes and chesty belts up to G♯4.
Nice upper register demonstration.
Not the best cover, but a nice showcase of his warm lower register.
{Questionable Notes}
E6 ("Stab You in the Heart"[1])
A5 ("Barbara Allen"[2][3], "Sally"[3])
G♯5 ("Alligator"[3], "Blood, Sex and Booze"[2], "Highway 1"[2], "Walking the Dog"[2])
G5 ("Extraordinary Girl"[2][3])
F♯5 ("Horseshoes and Handgrenades"[1], "Hitchin' a Ride"[1])
E5 ("Wow! That's Loud"[2])
C5 ("99 Revolutions"[1])
C 3 ("Father of All..."[1])
A2 ("Transistors Gone Wild"[2])
G2 ("Pieces of Truth"[4], "Spike"[4])
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1. Questionable non-melodic scream.
2. Questionable identity.
3. Questionable short falsetto "woo"s.
4. Questionable spoken notes.
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Questionable notes are any notes of 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) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.
E6 ("Stab You in the Heart"[1])
A5 ("Barbara Allen"[2][3], "Sally"[3])
G♯5 ("Alligator"[3], "Blood, Sex and Booze"[2], "Highway 1"[2], "Walking the Dog"[2])
G5 ("Extraordinary Girl"[2][3])
F♯5 ("Horseshoes and Handgrenades"[1], "Hitchin' a Ride"[1])
E5 ("Wow! That's Loud"[2])
C5 ("99 Revolutions"[1])
C 3 ("Father of All..."[1])
A2 ("Transistors Gone Wild"[2])
G2 ("Pieces of Truth"[4], "Spike"[4])
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1. Questionable non-melodic scream.
2. Questionable identity.
3. Questionable short falsetto "woo"s.
4. Questionable spoken notes.
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Questionable notes are any notes of 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) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.
{Notewatching Credits & Other Info}
Alex61
Green Day:
39/Smooth (1990): F3 – E5
Kerplunk (1991): B♭2 – G♯5
Dookie (1994): E♭3 – A5
Insomniac (1995): E♭3 – F♯4
Nimrod (1997): E3 – F♯4 – G5
Warning (2000): E♭3 – F♯4
American Idiot (2004): B2 – C♯5
21st Century Breakdown (2009): D3 – A4
¡Uno! (2012): E♭3 – C♯5 – E5
¡Dos! (2012): B2 – G♯5 – A5
¡Tré! (2012): D3 – A4
Revolution Radio (2016): B2 – C5
Father of All Motherfuckers (2016): E3 – C♯5 – E5
Pinhead Gunpowder:
Goodbye Ellston Avenue (1997): F♯3 – F♯4
The Network:
Money Money 2020 (2003): F♯3 – A5
Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! C3 – B♭4
Foxboro Hot Tubs:
Stop Drop and Roll!!! (2008): E3 – G♯4 – A5
With Norah Jones:
Foreverly (2013): B♭2 – G♯4
The Longshot:
Love is for Losers (2018): D3 – A4 – E5
Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by Alex61. Original OP from previous forums completed by mrchonghead.
Alex61
Green Day:
39/Smooth (1990): F3 – E5
Kerplunk (1991): B♭2 – G♯5
Dookie (1994): E♭3 – A5
Insomniac (1995): E♭3 – F♯4
Nimrod (1997): E3 – F♯4 – G5
Warning (2000): E♭3 – F♯4
American Idiot (2004): B2 – C♯5
21st Century Breakdown (2009): D3 – A4
¡Uno! (2012): E♭3 – C♯5 – E5
¡Dos! (2012): B2 – G♯5 – A5
¡Tré! (2012): D3 – A4
Revolution Radio (2016): B2 – C5
Father of All Motherfuckers (2016): E3 – C♯5 – E5
Pinhead Gunpowder:
Goodbye Ellston Avenue (1997): F♯3 – F♯4
The Network:
Money Money 2020 (2003): F♯3 – A5
Money Money 2020 Part II: We Told Ya So! C3 – B♭4
Foxboro Hot Tubs:
Stop Drop and Roll!!! (2008): E3 – G♯4 – A5
With Norah Jones:
Foreverly (2013): B♭2 – G♯4
The Longshot:
Love is for Losers (2018): D3 – A4 – E5
Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by Alex61. Original OP from previous forums completed by mrchonghead.
