Post by Tara on Oct 9, 2019 10:05:18 GMT
Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard (11 August 1976 - present)
Years Active: 1994 - present
Member Of: Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, ¡All-Time Quarterback!, Pinwheel
Vocal Range: F♯2 - D5
Ben Gibbard is best known as the lead vocalist of American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, and previously, The Postal Service.
Significant High Notes:
D5 ("Something's Rattling (Cowpoke)")
C♯5 ("Little Bribes")
C5 ("Soul Meets Body", "Your Heart Is an Empty Room")
B4 ("Alcoholiday", "The Concept", "Idled Drivers", "Keep Yourself Warm", "Lowell, MA", "My Mirror Speaks", "Oh, Woe", "Portable Televisions", "Some Boys", "Stable Song", "Talking Like Turnstiles")
B♭4 ("Against All Odds", "Death of an Interior Decorator", "Farmer Chords", "Grapevine Fires", "A Lack of Color", "Little Bribes", "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone", "Something's Rattling (Cowpoke)")
A4 ("All Apologies" NPR concert, 2007, "Amputations", "Before the Bombs", "Bend to Squares", "Bixby Canyon Bridge", "Broken Yolk in Western Sky", "Cath…", "Crooked Teeth", "December", "Debate Exposes Doubt","Different Names for the Same Thing", "Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs", "Duncan, Where Have You Gone", "Gold Rush", "Guiding Star", "I Was Once a Loyal Lover", "The Ice Is Getting Thinner", "Keep Yourself Warm", "Lightness", "Long Division", "Lowell, MA", "Monday Morning", "My Mirror Speaks", "Northern Lights" Live from Home (Corona Session) 17/3/20, "Passenger Seat", "Pity and Fear", "Rockin' Chair", "Some Boys", "Soul Meets Body", "Suddenly Everything Has Changed", "A Tattered Line of String", "This Temporary Life", "We Laugh Indoors", "We Will Become Silhouettes", "What You Do to Me", "Why You’d Want to Live Here")
G♯4 ("Against All Odds", "Amputations", "Expo '86", "Home Is a Fire", "A Lack of Color" acoustic live on KEXP, "Little Bribes", "My Mirror Speaks", "The New Year", "Pet Rock", "Scientist Studies", "Sea Engines", "Stay Young Go Dancing", "To the Ground", "Two Cars", "World Shut Your Mouth")
G4 ("20th Century Towers", "All Is Full of Love", "Be Still My Heart", "Bixby Canyon Bridge", "Blacking Out the Friction", "Brand New Colony", "Carolina", "Codes and Keys", "Coney Island", "Couches in Alleys" NPR concert, 2007, "Death of an Interior Decorator", "A Diamond and a Tether", "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight 2013, "Doors Unlocked and Open", "Dream Scream", "Dream Song", "Duncan, Where Have You Gone", "Fake Frowns", "For What Reason", "Gold Rush", "Grapevine Fires", "Grow Old With Me", "Hindsight", "I Will Possess Your Heart", "The Ice Is Getting Thinner", "A Lack of Color", "Lady Adelaide", "Lightness", "Long Division", "Lowell, MA", "Marching Bands of Manhattan", "Million Dollar Loan", "Northern Lights", "Oh, Woe", "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone", "Phase Shifter", "Pity and Fear", "President of What?", "Rockin' Chair", "To Sing for You" NPR concert, 2007, "Sleep Spent", "Sleeping In", "Someday You Will Be Loved", "Stable Song", "Such Great Heights", "Talking Bird", "Teardrop Windows", "That’s Incentive", "This Place Is a Prison", "Tomorrow", "Turn Around", "Underneath the Sycamore", "What Sarah Said", "You Can Do Better Than Me", "Your New Twin Sized Bed")
F♯4 ("Alcoholiday", "All Is Full of Love", "All Apologies" NPR concert, 2007, "Autumn Love", "Before the Bombs", "Bend to Squares", "Cath…", "Champagne from a Paper Cup", "Crooked Teeth", "Company Calls", "Different Names for the Same Thing", "Do You Remember", "The Employment Pages", "Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)", "I Was Once a Loyal Lover", "I'm Building a Fire", "Is This Music?", "Keep Yourself Warm" Live from Home (Corona Session) 20/3/20, "Kids In '99", "A Lack of Color" NPR concert, 2007, "Metal Baby", "Monday Morning", "A Movie Script Ending", "No Joy in Mudville", "Pabst", "Passenger Seat", "Pet Rock", "Pictures in an Exhibition" demo, "Scientist Studies", "Shepherd's Bush Lullaby", "Some Boys", "St. Peter's Cathedral" Live from Home (Corona Session) 19/3/20, "Steadier Footing", "A Tattered Line of String", "This Temporary Life", "Tiny Vessels", "Underneath the Sycamore", "Unobstructed Views", "We Laugh Indoors", "We Looked Like Giants", "We Will Become Silhouettes", "World Shut Your Mouth", "You Are a Tourist", "Your Bruise")
F4 ("Against All Odds", "Bigger Than Love", "Brand New Colony", "Ceremony" Live from Home (Corona Session) 18/3/20, "Crooked Teeth", "Death of an Interior Decorator", "December", "El Dorado", "Empire State", "Gold Rush", "Home Is a Fire", "I Will Follow You Into the Dark", "Lily", "Man In Blue", "The New Year", "Oh, Woe", "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone", "Song for Kelly Huckaby", "St. Peter's Cathedral", "Such Great Heights", "Suddenly Everything Has Changed", "Talking Bird", "That’s Incentive", "Two Cars")
E4 ("20th Century Towers", "Bad Reputation", "Be Still My Heart", "Before the Bombs", "Blacking Out the Friction", "Breathe Our Iodine", "Broken Yolk in Western Sky", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "Clark Gable", "Cleveland", "Codes and Keys", "The Concept", "Coney Island", "Couches in Alleys", "December", "Debate Exposes Doubt", "A Diamond and a Tether", "Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs", "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight", "Doors Unlocked and Open", "The Employment Pages", "Everything’s a Ceiling", "The Face That Launched 1000 Sh**s", "Fake Frowns", "The Ghosts of Beverly Drive", "Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)", "Honey And Acetylene", "I Don't Know", "I Dreamt We Spoke Again", "I Was a Kaleidoscope", "The Ice Is Getting Thinner", "A Lack of Color" acoustic live on KEXP, ''Lightness'', Long Division", "Low Life Kingdom", "Marching Bands of Manhattan", "Me and Magdalena" Live from Home (Corona Session) 18/3/20, "A Movie Script Ending", "My Mirror Speaks", "No Room in Frame", "No Sunlight", "Pictures In an Exhibition", "Plans Get Complex", "Portable Television", "Prove My Hypothesis", "Sea Engines", "Sleeping In", "Suddenly Everything Has Changed", "Summer Skin", "Teardrop Windows", "These Roads Don't Move", "This Charming Man", "This Temporary Life", "Title and Registration", ''Transatlanticism", ''Tomorrow", "Turn Around", "TV Trays", ''Untitled", ''We Looked Like Giants", "When the Sun Goes Down on Your Street" Live from Home (Corona Session) 20/3/20, "Why You’d Want to Live Here", "You Can Do Better Than Me", "You Moved Away”, "You Remind Me of Home", "Your Heart Is an Empty Room")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("405", "All Is Full of Love", "Amputations", "Black Sun", "Champagne from a Paper Cup", "Clark Gable", "Coney Island", "Crooked Teeth", "December", "Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs", "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight", "El Dorado", "Expo '86", "Hold No Guns", "Information Travels Faster", "Ingenue", "I Was a Kaleidoscope", "Little Wanderer", "Me and Magdalena" Live from Home (Corona Session) 18/3/20, "Monday Morning", "My Mirror Speaks", "No Sunlight", "Northern Lights", "Photobooth", "President of What?", "State Street Residential", "Such Great Heights", "Summer Years", "These Roads Don't Move", "Tiny Vessels", "Transatlanticism", "TV Trays", "Wait", "When the Sun Goes Down on Your Street" Live from Home (Corona Session) 20/3/20, "When We Drive", "You Remind Me of Home", "Your Heart Is an Empty Room", "Your Hurricane", "You’ve Haunted Me All My Life")
E♭3 ("60 & Punk”, "Brothers On a Hotel Bed", "Dream Song", "Earth Angel", "Empire State", "Factory Direct", "Hold No Guns", "Home Is a Fire", "Natural Anthem", "Near/Far", "The New Year", "No Room in Frame", "Pictures in an Exhibition", "Steadier Footing", "To the Ground", "You Can Do Better Than Me", "Your Bruise", "Your New Twin Sized Bed")
D3 ("Alcoholiday", "All Apologies" NPR concert, 2007, "Bad Reputation", "Be Still My Heart", "Bigger Than Love", "Binary Sea", "Black Sun", "Broken Yolk in Western Sky", "California Zephyr", "Ceremony" Live from Home (Corona Session) 18/3/20, "Choir Vandals", "Codes and Keys", "Company Calls", "Company Calls Epilogue", "Coney Island", "A Diamond and a Tether", "Different Names for the Same Thing", "Everything’s a Ceiling", "Fake Frowns", "Grace Cathedral Hill" Live from Home (Corona Session) 19/3/20, "Hindsight", "I Don't Know", "Ingenue", "I Dreamt We Spoke Again", "I Will Possess Your Heart", "Information Travels Faster", "Kids In '99", "Lady Adelaide", "Life in Quarantine", "Lowell, MA", "Meet Me on the Equinox", "Metal Baby", "Oh, Woe", "Passenger Seat", "Portable Television", "Rockin' Chair", "Rules Broken", "Sidewinder", "Sleep Spent", "Sleeping In", "Sockhop", "Star Sign", "Styrofoam Plates", "Summer Years", "Talking Like Turnstiles", "A Tattered Line of String", "Teardrop Windows", "There's Never Enough Time", ''Underwater", ''Wait", ''We Laugh Indoors", "We Looked Like Giants", "We Will Become Silhouettes", "Why You’d Want to Live Here", "You Are a Tourist")
C♯3 ("The Employment Pages", "Guiding Star", "I Was a Kaleidoscope", "Line of Best Fit", "Little Wanderer", "A Movie Script Ending", "Natural Anthem", "Near/Far”, "No Room in Frame", "Plans Get Complex", "Prove My Hypothesis", "Send Packing", "The Sound of Settling", "Stay Young, Go Dancing", "Title and Registration", "When the Sun Goes Down on Your Street" Live from Home (Corona Session) 20/3/20, "When We Drive", "You Remind Me of Home")
C3 ("All In One", "Army Corps of Architects", "Be Still My Heart", "Binary Sea”, "Brand New Colony", "California Zephyr", "Carolina", "Cleveland", "Codes and Keys", "The Concept", "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight", "Doors Unlocked and Open", "Everything’s a Ceiling", "Farmer Chords","I Dreamt We Spoke Again", "I Will Follow You Into the Dark", "The Ice Is Getting Thinner", "A Lack of Color", "Life in Quarantine", "Lightness", "Lily", "To Sing for You" NPR concert, 2007, "Sleeping In", "Such Great Heights" NPR concert, 2007, "This Place Is a Prison", "Untitled", "The Void", "Your Heart Is an Empty Room", "You’ve Haunted Me All My Life")
B2 ("Bend to Squares", "Black Sun", "Company Calls", "Debate Exposes Doubt", "The Face that Launched 1000 Sh**s", "Guiding Star", "Kids In '99", "Little Fury Bugs", "No Joy in Mudville", "No Room in Frame" Corona Session 18/3/20, "Nothing Better", "Pet Rock", "Rules Broken", "Send Packing", "State Street Residential", "These Roads Don't Move", "We Looked Like Giants", "We Will Become Silhouettes", "Why You’d Want to Live Here", "You Are a Tourist")
B♭2 ("Bigger Than Love", "Death of an Interior Decorator", "El Dorado", "Farmer Chords", "A Lack of Color", "Recycled Air", "Something's Rattling (Cowpoke)", "The Sound of Settling", "Such Great Heights" NPR concert, 2007)
A2 ("Autumn Love", "Before the Bombs", "Cleveland", "Million Dollar Loan", "A Movie Script Ending", "No Joy in Mudville", "Rules Broken", "Soul Meets Body", "Suddenly Everything Has Changed", "This Place Is a Prison", "Title and Registration", "Title Track", "Train Song")
G♯2 ("The Face that Launched 1000 Sh**s", "Shepherd's Bush Lullaby", "Song for Kelly Huckaby")
G2 ("Sleeping In", "Soul Meets Body", "This Place Is a Prison", "Train Song")
F♯2 ("A Hard One to Know", "Shepherd's Bush Lullaby")
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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}B4 ("December" [2], "Pictures in an Exhibition" demo [2] - most likely Chris Walla)
A4 ("I Was a Kaleidoscope" [2] - possibly Chris Walla, "Phase Shifter" [5])
F♯4 ("This Charming Man" [5])
B2 ("Unobstructed Views" [1])
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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.
A4 ("I Was a Kaleidoscope" [2] - possibly Chris Walla, "Phase Shifter" [5])
F♯4 ("This Charming Man" [5])
B2 ("Unobstructed Views" [1])
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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 & Credits}Pinwheel
Pinwheel (1996): G3 - G4 - B4 Tara
Death Cab for Cutie
You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997): B2 - G4 - A4 Tara
Something About Airplanes (1998): G♯2 - G4 - A4 Tara
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000): A2 - G♯4 - B4 Tara
Forbidden Love (2000): G♯2 - F4 Tara
The Photo Album (2001): A2 - A4 Tara
Stability (2002): E3 - G4 Tara
Transatlanticism (2003): A2 - B♭2 - G♯4 - B♭4 Tara
Plans (2005): G2 - A4 - C5 Tara
Narrow Stairs (2008): C3 - A4 - B♭4 Tara _
The Open Door (2009): D3 - G♯4 - C♯5 Tara
Codes and Keys (2011): B2 - F♯4 - B4 Tara
Kintsugi (2015): B♭2 - F♯4 cmen
Thank You for Today (2018): A2 - G4 cmen
Blue (2019): A2 - E4 - A4 Tara
¡All-Time Quarterback!
¡All-Time Quarterback! (1999): A2 - E4 Tara
The Envelope Sessions (1999): A2 - E4 - A4 Tara
Solo
Home Volume V (2003):B♭2 - E4 - B♭4 Tara
Solo Concert (2007): B♭2 - G4 - A4 Tara
One Fast Move Or I'm Gone (2009 duet album with Jay Farrar): B2 - E4 - B♭4 Tara
Former Lives (2012): F♯2 - G4 - D5 Tara
Bandwagonesque (2017): B2 - G4 - B4 Tara
The Postal Service
Give Up (2003): G2 - B♭4 Tara
The original thread for Ben Gibbard was created by former TRP3 user Infernus2. This thread has been re-researched from scratch.
Pinwheel (1996): G3 - G4 - B4 Tara
Death Cab for Cutie
You Can Play These Songs with Chords (1997): B2 - G4 - A4 Tara
Something About Airplanes (1998): G♯2 - G4 - A4 Tara
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000): A2 - G♯4 - B4 Tara
Forbidden Love (2000): G♯2 - F4 Tara
The Photo Album (2001): A2 - A4 Tara
Stability (2002): E3 - G4 Tara
Transatlanticism (2003): A2 - B♭2 - G♯4 - B♭4 Tara
Plans (2005): G2 - A4 - C5 Tara
Narrow Stairs (2008): C3 - A4 - B♭4 Tara _
The Open Door (2009): D3 - G♯4 - C♯5 Tara
Codes and Keys (2011): B2 - F♯4 - B4 Tara
Kintsugi (2015): B♭2 - F♯4 cmen
Thank You for Today (2018): A2 - G4 cmen
Blue (2019): A2 - E4 - A4 Tara
¡All-Time Quarterback!
¡All-Time Quarterback! (1999): A2 - E4 Tara
The Envelope Sessions (1999): A2 - E4 - A4 Tara
Solo
Home Volume V (2003):B♭2 - E4 - B♭4 Tara
Solo Concert (2007): B♭2 - G4 - A4 Tara
One Fast Move Or I'm Gone (2009 duet album with Jay Farrar): B2 - E4 - B♭4 Tara
Former Lives (2012): F♯2 - G4 - D5 Tara
Bandwagonesque (2017): B2 - G4 - B4 Tara
The Postal Service
Give Up (2003): G2 - B♭4 Tara
The original thread for Ben Gibbard was created by former TRP3 user Infernus2. This thread has been re-researched from scratch.
