Thom Yorke's vocal range (E2-G#6)

Here is an entirely subjective collection of notes which I think best reflect Thom Yorke's range. While Yorke himself is the first to admit that he's not the greatest technical singer in the world, he has shown impressive range in his work. His voice quality has suffered since the mid 1990s, but, back in the early days, when he was on form, he could belt it out. Yorke was ranked #67 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" in 2008.

Bass notes:

1) E2 from "Skip Divided".

2) F2 from "Bittersweet", Velvet Goldmine soundtrack.

3) G#2 from "I Will".

Now for some high notes:

4) Grand E4 from "Street Spirit".

5) G4 from "The Bends".

6) Epic A4 from a certain song...

7) Powerful live B4 from "Stop Whispering", Astoria London Live.

8) C5 from "Paranoid Android" (highest sustained falsetto note on a studio recording).

9) Effortless-sounding D5 from the full-length On a Friday demo.*

10) Live F5 from "Anyone Can Play Guitar", Sound City, Bristol, 19-4-95.

11) Campy A#5 "oooh" from the full-length On a Friday demo.

12) Not exactly an example of Yorke at his most beautiful: a scratchy, sustained F6 scream, peaking at G#6, again from the full-length On a Friday demo.

*There are multiple versions of this disc, some dated 1990 and some dated 1991, with the fourteen tracks in a different order and with different titles. They are widely torrented.

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