Dexter Holland (11,005 views)

[crack]

Vocal Range: F♯2 - F♯5
Associated Acts: The Offspring (1984-present)

SPOILER: Click to show

{QUESTIONABLE NOTES}
G♯5 ("Tehran" Demo '88)
G5 ("She’s Got Issues", "Smash it Up")
F♯5 ("The O.C. Life")
E5 ("Hypodermic")
E♭5 ("Tehran")
D5 ("Army of One")
C♯5 ("Baghdad")

High Notes:

F♯5 ("Americana")
F5 ("Session")
E5 ("Ballroom Blitz", "I Got a Right", "Me & My Old Lady", "Pay the Man", "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", "Sin City")
E♭5 ("Cool to Hate", "Let the Bad Times Roll", "Long Way Home", "The Worst Hangover Ever")
D5 ("Bad Habit", "Half-Truism", "Hammerhead", "I Choose", "Me & My Old Lady", "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", "Session", "Sin City")
C♯5 ("Ballroom Blitz", "Call It Religion", "Days Go By", "Don’t Pick It Up", "Elders", "Hammerhead", "Massacre", "Nitro", "She’s Got Issues", "The Kids Aren’t Alright", "Want You Bad")
C5 ("All Along", "Americana", "Bad Habit", "Beheaded", "D.U.I.", "Da Hui", "Elders", "Forever and a Day", "Get It Right", "Gone Away", "Half-Truism", "Hypodermic", "I Choose", "I Wanna Secret Family (With You)", "Living In Chaos", "Me & My Old Lady", "Next to You", "Original Prankster", "Pay the Man", "Session", "Spare Me the Details", "Special Delivery", "Staring at the Sun", "The Future Is Now", "Vultures", "Way Down the Line", "Why Don't You Get a Job", "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid")
B4 ("(Can't Get My) Head Around You", "A Lot Like Me", "A Thousand Days", "All Along", "Amazed", "Americana", "Amino Man", "Army of One", "Beheaded", "Breaking These Bones", "Burn It Up", "Come Out and Play", "Come Out Swinging", "Coming for You", "Cruising California (Bumpin' In My Trunk)", "D.U.I.", "Da Hui", "Days Go By", "Dirty Magic", "Don’t Pick It Up", "Fix You", "Genocide", "Gotta Get Away", "Have You Ever", "Hey Joe", "Hit That", "Huck It", "I Got a Right", "I'll Be Waiting", "Killboy Powerhead", "L.A.P.D", "Long Way Home", "Massacre", "Million Miles Away", "Next to You", "No Brakes", "No Hero", "Nothingtown", "Original Prankster", "Pay the Man", "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", "She's Got Issues", "So Alone". "Leave It Behind", "OC Guns", "Out on Patrol", "Special Delivery", "Stuff Is Messed Up", "Tehran", "The Blurb", "The End of the Line", "The Noose", "The Prayer Position", "Tonight I Do", "Vultures", "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid")
B♭4 ("All I Have Left Is You", "Conspiracy of One", "Cool to Hate", "Defy You", "Denial, Revisited", "Do What You Want", "Elders", "Forever and a Day", "Genocide", "God Called In Sick Today", "Gone Away", "Hassan Chop", "Hurting As One", "I Wanna Secret Family (With You)", "Killboy Powerhead", "Lightning Rod", "Living In Chaos", "Mota", "Neocon", "Never Gonna Find Me", "Nitro", "One Fine Day", "Self Esteem", "Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell", "Something to Believe In", "Spare Me the Details", "Special Delivery", "Staring at the Sun", "Stuff Is Messed Up", "Take It Like a Man", "The Blurb", "The Future Is Now", "The Kids Aren’t Alright", "The Meaning of Life", "The Opioid Diaries", "The Worst Hangover Ever", "Walla Walla")
A4 ("(Can't Get My) Head Around You", "80 Times", "A Lot Like Me", "A Thousand Days", "All Along", "All I Want", "Amazed", "Americana", "Amino Man", "Army of One", "Bad Habit", "Beheaded", "Behind Your Walls", "Bloodstains", "Burn It Up", "Can’t Repeat", "Change the World", "Come Out and Play", "Come Out Swinging", "Coming for You", "Conspiracy of One", "Crossroads", "Cruising California (Bumpin' In My Trunk)", "D.U.I.", "Days Go By", "Defy You", "Demons", "Denial, Revisited", "Dirty Magic", "Dividing By Zero", "Do What You Want", "Don’t Pick It Up", "Feelings", "Fix You", "Forever and a Day", "Gotta Get Away", "Halloween", "Have You Ever", "Hey Joe", "Hit That", "Huck It", "Hypodermic", "I Choose", "I Got a Right", "I'll Be Waiting", "It'll Be a Long Time", "I’m Not Alone", "Jennifer Lost the War", "Julio", "Kick Him When He’s Down", "Kill the President", "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?", "L.A.P.D", "Leave It Behind", "Let's Hear It for Rock Bottom", "Long Way Home", "Massacre", "Million Miles Away", "Mota", "Next to You", "No Brakes", "Not the One", "Nothing From Something", "Nothingtown", "OC Guns", "Original Prankster", "Race Against Myself", "Rise and Fall", "Salt Lake City", "Secrets from the Underground", "Self Esteem", "Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell", "Smash It Up", "Staring at the Sun", "Take It Like a Man", "Takes Me Nowhere", "Tehran", "The End of the Line", "The Meaning of Life", "The Noose", "This Is Not Utopia", "Tonight I Do", "Vultures", "Walla Walla", "Want You Bad", "Way Down the Line", "We Are One", "We Never Have Sex Anymore", "What Happened to You", "Why Don't You Get a Job", "You're Gonna Go Far Kid")

Low Notes:

E3 ("(Can't Get My) Head Around You", "Change the World", "Fix You", "Gone Away '21", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Pay the Man", "She’s Got Issues", "Sin City", "Smash It Up", "We Never Have Sex Anymore")
E♭3 ("All I Have Left Is You", "Lullaby")
D3 ("Original Prankster", "Pay the Man", "Sin City")
C♯3 ("Fix You", "Pay the Man" live)
C3 ("Amazed")
B2 ("A Lot Like Me", "Behind Your Walls", "Fix You")
A2 ("Amazed")
F♯2 ("A Lot Like Me")

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Underlines mark obscured notes
Blue marks falsetto notes

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Anybody else getting an F♯5 for the "Americana" high note? That's what I'm hearing now actually.

[Seb]

Apr 25, 2020 5:18:24 GMT Hennessy Macklemore III said:

Anybody else getting an F♯5 for the "Americana" high note? That's what I'm hearing now actually.

Same here

[crack]

I do not

[Gilad]

I do

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Not a particularly amazing note here by any means, but I'm hearing this spoken bit get as low as D2 on "quaTRO cinco cinco seis"...

Also I personally think the "She's Got Issues" G5 should still be counted as a non-questionable note (:))

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Yo crack, I dunno how actively you're updating this OP anymore or even coming on the forum, but mind if I notewatch Let the Bad Times Roll? I noticed the notes haven't been added to the OP yet.

[crack]

yeah sure thing. I actually remember that I checked out the album when it came out but it was so mediocre and I was so lazy that I completely forgot about notewatching it

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Alright, here's what I got:

• "This Is Not Utopia" - A4s
• "Let the Bad Times Roll" - B4s, B♭4s, E♭5
  
• "Behind Your Walls" - E3s, B2, C♯3, A4s
  
• "Army of One" - A4s, B4s, D5s from the sound of it?
  
• "Breaking These Bones" - B4s, A4s
  
• "Coming for You" - A4s, B4s
  
• "We Never Have Sex Anymore" - E3, A4s
  
• "In the Hall of the Mountain King" - instrumental
  
• "The Opioid Diaries" - B♭4s
  
• "Hassan Chop" - B♭4s
  
• "Gone Away '21" - E3s
  
• "Lullaby" - E♭3s

I actually thought the album was pretty decent and enjoyed it overall. Dexter's voice seems to be holding up pretty well for his mid fifties. You can hear that he's slightly shifted his tessitura to focus on the G4-A4 range a bit more instead of just busting out endless notes in the B4/C5 range like he used to, but he's making it work pretty well and clearly has enough high range left to still get the job done effectively. His signature tone/grit is still quite present in the higher belting parts on this album, and there are a lot of aspects of the writing/performances that still give it a lot of signature Offspring characteristics while not being completely derivative and unoriginal. My only major complaint is that they went a bit too heavy with the autotune on Dexter's vocals on certain songs - the worst offender of this is probably the re-recorded piano ballad version of "Gone Away", which is quite beautiful and really would've been an incredible piece otherwise. The amount of autotune doesn't quite ruin it for me, but I wish they would've laid off it a bit more, because those mildly robotized vocals really clash against the tender, haunting piano and string parts behind them. But hey, at least we got a handful of additional lows out of him on this album, including a new second octave note even!

[crack]

cheers, I added the notes. I feel like the D5s should be in the spoiler

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

They don't sound too different from the E5s from "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)", for what it's worth.

Also are we ready to discuss the possibility of un-spoilering the "She's Got Issues" G5 yet or nah

[Smitty.]

The shes got issues G5 is fine
the note if anyone else is wondering
Is any of his other spoiler notes like that?

[crack]

Dec 25, 2021 2:22:18 GMT Hennessy Macklemore III said:

They don't sound too different from the E5s from "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)", for what it's worth.

yeah but the E5s sound crystal clear that it's him. these D5s sound more vague and artifical so I dunno

Also are we ready to discuss the possibility of un-spoilering the "She's Got Issues" G5 yet or nah

ehh I listened to it again and it still doesn't sound too amazin. I think it's textbook questionable where the note isn't too garbage to be completely ignored but also not good enough to be significant, unless the standards got lower and I'm alone here

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

If a note isn't too garbage to be ignored, that's not a textbook questionable lol. It's just an underwhelming note. Which I get isn't always the most exciting thing to include, but calling something questionable just because it's underwhelming is a bit too harsh I'd say.

[crack]

I meant that if the note isn't good, and it's not like he's consistently pumping G5s here and there, does it really make sense to include it in his "significant vocal range"? my argument is basically that it falls under the section of "mark notes that are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range"

If your argument is that well it's not complete garbage it's just garbage therefore it should be counted then Idk if I agree with that, unless I'm not getting you right. or if there's a general consensus that the note is fine I don't mind changing it cos I get it that it can be subjective to an extent

[rob]

I think that if a note is just underwhelming that doesn't make it not countable. Honestly the 5th category for questionable notes always felt super arbitrary to me. It always seems up to the individuals perception on what is high enough quality to count.

[Homelander]

That is the smallest low notes section I have ever seen. (At least compared to the size of the high notes section)

[crack]

yeah dexter doesn't like low notes

[Hennessy Macklemore III]

Sept 25, 2023 21:47:09 GMT Homelander said:

That is the smallest low notes section I have ever seen. (At least compared to the size of the high notes section)

therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/2036/cam-pipes
therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/1539/michael-anthony
therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/1295/blackie-lawless
therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/1732/rob-rock
therangeplanet.proboards.com/thread/2007/dave-constantino

Not even in the top 5 smallest low notes sections compared to high note sections on the forum. Lots of rock singers just suck at using their low ranges in general.

[avi]

Speaking of low notes! New single "Make It All Right" has some backing Bb2s. Nothing else to include though, lead vocal tops out at G#4 lmao

[roehoer]

Doesn't OC Guns top at B4, rather than Bb4?

Also, you should check the entries of "Denial, Revisited". Something got messed up with the comma in the title there :)

[Homelander]

Dec 24, 2021 7:54:20 GMT Hennessy Macklemore III said:

You can hear that he's slightly shifted his tessitura to focus on the G4-A4 range a bit more instead of just busting out endless notes in the B4/C5 range like he used to

This is why I think it's always a good idea to place the high threshold for these high note-oriented singers two or three notes below what's necessary in their prime, just to account for when their high singing inevitably declines. Just so a massive portion of their discography isn't excluded.

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

The F5 on Session accidentally has two quotation marks and looks like """Session"

[crack]

how do you guys even pick up those little things it's insane lol

Jul 16, 2024 23:56:06 GMT Homelander said:

a massive portion of their discography isn't excluded

that's not true in this case becos almost every Offspring song Dexter goes for A4+ so what you would get if I were to do it is just a bunch of useless replicas. for what it's worth this thread is fairly old and I'm kinda inactive so if someone wants to yoink this thread be my guest I guess

[Homelander]

Jul 17, 2024 16:11:44 GMT crack said:

how do you guys even pick up those little things it's insane lol

Jul 16, 2024 23:56:06 GMT Homelander said:

a massive portion of their discography isn't excluded

for what it's worth this thread is fairly old and I'm kinda inactive so if someone wants to yoink this thread be my guest I guess

Sure thing. Should be a fairly short project.