Daniel is SO under appreciated for his talents. Not just his vocals as he was also the main composer for many of their songs from beginning to end. So many bailed on Silverchair - and Daniel - when their sound changed, and “fans” couldn’t accept their growth as a positive. Truly masterful in music.
This band is so underrated it's honestly ridiculous. Daniel Johns is a legit creative genius and it's always bugged me how my fellow Americans never followed them beyond the song Tomorrow. Literally any song from this band is worth checking out. All of their albums are flawless....they didn't make a bad album. But Diorama is the essential one imo. And Daniel brought in Van Dyke Parks(yes that one) to orchestrate several songs. In a 'making of' doc on the Diorama album VDP said of Daniel...that he's the most musically gifted person he's ever worked with who isn't Brian Wilson. That says a lot....and he's not wrong. Daniel is someone I'll defend to my grave....the guy is a musical genius and more people need to go back and appreciate his work. The band itself is also insane....the 3 of them live is just bananas. Super powerful, so tight, so organic, and so in control of their craft....that they can easily go into weird freeform funky jams at the drop of a hat. Ben Gilles was an amazing dummer for Daniel to play off of. Can you tell I'm a fan? I'll stop now....I could gush forever about Silverchair.
@@avedicTHEYRE NOTTTT underrated, you probably weren’t alive at their peak of fame. Trust me, Daniel and his crew had enough fame for a dozen life times. And it traumatised him. I think he’s only happy that he is out of the spotlight now. Let him heal in peace from his past.
This band is so underrated it's honestly ridiculous. Daniel Johns is a legit creative genius and it's always bugged me how my fellow Americans never followed them beyond the song Tomorrow. Literally any song from this band is worth checking out. All of their albums are flawless....they didn't make a bad album. But Diorama is the essential one imo. And Daniel brought in Van Dyke Parks(yes that one) to orchestrate several songs. In a 'making of' doc on the Diorama album VDP said of Daniel...that he's the most musically gifted person he's ever worked with who isn't Brian Wilson. That says a lot....and he's not wrong. Daniel is someone I'll defend to my grave....the guy is a musical genius and more people need to go back and appreciate his work. The band itself is also insane....the 3 of them live is just bananas. Super powerful, so tight, so organic, and so in control of their craft....that they can easily go into weird freeform funky jams at the drop of a hat. Ben Gilles was an amazing dummer for Daniel to play off of. Can you tell I'm a fan? I'll stop now....I could gush forever about Silverchair.
Another comment. Thanks for covering him. He really does NOT get the due he’s been deserved for all these years. This guy was my de facto vocal instructor. Incredible musician, vocalist, lyricist, and writer. A league of his own. And throws theory to the wind in later work (like diorama) One of a kind.
He hasn't gotten _nearly_ the recognition he deserves. But hopefully there's more people doing a retrospective analysis of just how amazing him and his band truly was. They should go down as one of the best bands....ever. They really are that good. Which is why it always bugs me when people STILL think they were nothing but a bunch of kids aping Nirvana or something. Not...even...close. :P
@@stephanemelo the term gay here wasn't LITERAL genius. A lot of people say "That's gay." meaning corny, dumb and so on. You are the only person in a few decades I've ever had to explain this to. And if you think Rob Halford of Judas Priest is PoP music, you're even more lost.
Diorama is absolutely the best album ever recorded. No question. Daniel’s voice makes me weep it’s so beautiful and complex and full of emotion. When I showed my daughter his music she just opened her mouth and said “is he really singing is that real?” She loves him too.
I think daniel's growth is more evident and bigger than other singers because he started out at fifteen, and like most of us, he tried to sound like his idols, but not much later in his twenties, he found his own voice.
nah he learned when he was still a teenager. He was about 18 and 19 around writing and recording Neon Ballroom. The evolution is crazy. Whole different vocal style on Freakshow (so underrated) too.
I feel that being 15 creates a different sound after puberty the voice still evolves. I think it’s all beautiful. It changes as he 11:36 grows. I like Frogsong the best but that’s due to my personal connection to the album.
Daniel Johns has always been so incredibly underrated. It's heartbreaking to hear of the battle's he's endured. Music is so therapeutic. I hope that he finds the healing he needs. As a vocalist ' Tomorrow' was one of the first songs I covered. I recall one of my music teachers speaking about how well he was able to endure despite the birth of autotune and his disdain for it. Incredible individual. Musical genius. Profound amounts of blessings to him and all the Silverchair crew.
Good to see someone appreciate his growth and skill. DJ does not get the credit he deserves. Amazing singer and writer who continues to push the envelope in both his own skill and his art. Diorama was a masterpiece.
lots of people criticizes silverchair post diorama and current daniel works, but it has always been there, he even said on a late 90s interview that from neon ballroom they had the total freedom to make the kind of song they wanted, this is where is voice really started to evolve so fast
I think Daniel Johns is one of the most talented vocalists out there. And he was only 15-16 years old during the Frogstomp era. He also uses a whistle register in his later songs. Great analysis!
Daniel is a genius! I was blown away watching them grow up imitating their influences. Then breaking boundaries at the end. Fantastic! Thanks for doing this!
Daniel has his demons and I believe he channels it all into his songwriting and vocals. Truly a great musician who deserves far more accolades globally. Neon Ballroom and Diorama are unbelievably amazing and written by someone so young at the time
INSTANT sub!!! I'm from Aus, Daniel is my absolute FAVOURITE artist. Silverchair is my teens, especially since I learned guitar with many of his songs.... but Tuna in the Brine is my ALL. TIME. FAVOURITE. Tuna in the Brine's musical/vocal journey just instantly made sense to me the first time I ever heard it and the lyrics have been etched on my heart from the first listen. "The light in my darkest hour, is fear...." This told me something I never knew about myself when I absolutely needed to know it in my 20s, and has never left me. All I can say thank you thank you for doing this comparison! I was a grunge girl no question and love Daniels heavy stuff always but MAN was I ever blown away with diorama and forever it's been an absolute masterpiece and remains their best work today. Daniel has always been masterful with riffs both on guitars and special runs vocally. Beautiful 😍 He's just released a new solo album called FutureNever which also has a Van Dyke Parkes collab who helped do the orchestral arrangements on diorama 👌
My absolute favourite era of Daniel Johns has always been (and will always be) his Dissociatives album. It is just so out there and revolutionary to the alt rock genre!
The first big concert I saw was Silverchair in 1999, and I was blown away at Daniel's range. I'd never heard anyone do such powerful compression and instantly sail up into angelic falsetto/head voice. He used to flip between them that fast.
I'd have killed to see them back then. Or mostly....during the Diorama tours, after he got over his illness. Those shows were insane.... The Big Day Out show, the last one they did before Daniel got the arthritis, might be the most powerful show I've ever seen from them. I was lucky enough to see them during the YM tour in 2008 or so....in Atlanta....and it was such an incredible night. It was super cool to be surrounded by a bunch of fellow Americans who, like me, were obsessed with the genius of a band that barely any other Americans cared about....or even knew about.
I would have loved to see them then too!!!! I didn’t get to see them until Straight Lines. It was still epic and I had the biggest adrenaline rush EVER!!!
I went to the Diorama tour in Brisbane in 2003. Was absolutely incredible. The way they had 2 parts to the show, with an interval in between. The softer and more "musical" like songs were in the first half. In the second half, it was full on rock, mosh and jumping out of your seat performances. Will never forget it 😊
The pinnacle of Daniel Johns' vocal aggressiveness can be heard in Spawn and Anthem For The Year 2000. I don't think he ever screamed like that again. Some of the shows where Silverchair did "Spawn" were intense. He sounded like his soul was trying to climb out of him.
I always liked how he did “the lever”, “greatest view”, “the door” and “anthem for the year 2000” live with different vocal lines and way more aggressive.
Thoroughly enjoying FutureNever right now. Daniel's voice has once again evolved as he alternates between a wonderful rich "tenor" for some tracks and a lovely whispering thin head voice for others. Looking forward to seeing your analysis on that album.
oh my gosh, just when i thought i couldn't love your channel anymore, you go and do this... Daniel Johns.. one of my favorite vocalists and song writers ever.
Just loving this. I discovered DJ and Silverchair 4 months ago and I’ve been obsessed. Literally all I’ve been listening to. Thank you for this wonderful video.
I still consider Frogstomp a masterpiece, it ages so unbelievably well. It’s amazing how intuitively they put this together. The scope of the whole album is so imaginative and the sense of direction is bananas. It’s totally pure, something that cannot be recreated once success kicks in, and he was trapped in anxiety and depression from then on.
Dan you should be really proud of your new album . It’s absolutely beautiful. Blew me away. His vocals especially on Reclaim your heart 😱just f**ng whoa
When they released Neon Ballroom, they seemed to have matured really fast in their songwriting and arrangement capabilities. They had producers and whatnot but the actual songs themselves got really intense and they progressed a lot since Frogstomp.
Being a fan of Silverchair I was always mesmerized by the way Daniel sang in Neon Ballroom and the way he evolved in terms of vocal complexity a couple of years after that!
Same!! I just rediscovered them about 5 weeks ago and I've been saying "nice timing" to myself a few times, lol Daniel's new album too, and this video- i'm still in awe at how much his voice has changed over the years, and his musical style as well.
I read an interview in Circus or Hit Parade around 1996, and someone made a comment about Daniel's ability to create "harmonic distortion" with his voice. They described it as something that when his voice broke up a bit, there are overtones that add an essence of harmony even with his single voice track. I've never seen this referenced anywhere else but I think about it all the time and wonder if this is an actual term in vocal music?
one of the most special male vocalists in the rock and pop world alive today. It's a shame he doesn't get the credit and recognition outside of Australia as is deserved. Feel fortunate that i DID benefit from that however on the final Silverchair Young Modern tour in the US being basically a club tour and getting to see them in that environment at their peak of musicianship and ability as a band. Still in the top 2 live vocal performance's i've ever seen. Looking forward to your follow up video of his voice in the more modern era. there are few that have leveled up year by year than him.
Love this video. His new album shows another dimension to his range. More cabaret in some songs. Really like his new stuff. Good to see him being productive after many years of mental struggles.
I love nice surprises. His transition to a soloist is amazing. I'm sorry for all his strife through out the years. He seems like a genuinely good person.
Great video as usual. Such an epic voice, Neon Ballroom was a wildly good album too. Didn’t realize how thick those harmonies were in Tuna in the Brine… pretty inspiring stuff! Thanks Chris
Love this! His voice gives me so much comfort from my little 15 year old self until now. Still a huge fan and obsessed with his voice and music. As someone who is also battling addiction and demons, I hope he can find his way through! 💜💜
It broke my heart when he was unwell and his voice was slightly less strong. It was subtle but I think we all noticed it. Godspeed DPJ. You are such an intelligent, brilliant, talented gentleman.
Excellent video! More of this just helps us unlock things we all have in our voices! Always loved Daniels voice. Just wish they would have stayed on the path of Diorama. It was such a ground breaking sound!
very happy and very grateful Chris for this video. I made the suggestion a few months ago and you analyzed it with all the attention and affection. Thank you brother 🥺🥺🥺🥺🙌🙏💥🔥❤️
One more amazing analise, Chris! Awesome work. One more of my favorites musicians. Love the work who Daniel did on Silverchair. The evolution like musician and singer is incredible. Absolutily an inspiration to generation who is coming. Tks for your work. Hugs from Brazil!
Literally just checked out this channel 2 days ago to try to gain some vocal techniques after spending the last decade singing along to Silverchair as my only practice. Then this appears 😂
This brings back so many memories. Diorama is masterpiece, I mean, the orchestrations alone… 🙌 Thanks for your, always on point, analysis of another amazing vocalist! 🙏🏻 Ps. Still waiting on your take on Jimmy Gnecco’s 😉
Very cool to see his awesome vocals broken down like this! If you’re not already familiar with his Dissociatives album, check out Aaangry Megaphone Man, he utilizes a lot of his different vocal styles in that one song.
@@PunkOffice1 I feel like The Dissociatives album is pretty much what Silverchair would have sounded like had they kept going. Daniel was the essence of that band anyway, at least on their later 3 albums.
Amazing vocal transformation. You could definitely hear the difference in the changing tones and dynamics, which make all the difference in freedom and vocal experience.
I was waiting for this one! Thank you Chris! By the way, his voice kept changing. He released a new solo album last week and it's sounding very different from Diorama's Era. ps. please put Glenn Hughes on your list too, he's from another planet!
Right! Thought it would be timely to release a video on him :) I'm digging into his new album now and excited to do some commentary on it for the channel soon!
One of my favorite bands. I enjoy the way he wasn’t afraid to change and grow. It’s the band I go to when I need to be inspired to enjoy music when I am low.
Daniel isn't like other artists he is constantly evolving his artistic approach to every album . It's not that his voice changed its that he is constantly trying to get out of the box the world trys to fit him in . Every single album has a fresh new approach . The thing about Daniel is the world tries to compare and fit him into a box. Comparing him to nirvana has always been a NARROW perspective . There is more sabbath and zeppelin then anything but also pearl jam and Brian Wilson . He has his own formula to represent himself . He has never been a carbon copy of any comparison. I appreciate him as a artists and set him apart from the product they tried to manufacture him as .
That was such a great video! I really enjoyed that! Love the first four Silverchair albums, they mean so much to me! I would like to hear this done for Emotion Sickness 🫶🏾
Silverchair first went into this different musical direction when they made their song Untitled for the Godzilla soundtrack BTW. There were a few songs in Freak Show that hinted at things to come but Untitled is the first song they made that made it clear they were going in a very more elegant direction.
Chris!!!!!! This is exactly what I've been talking about, Daniel does that all the time especially in Tomorrow, why did I think that this technique was wrong? Now that I know how to jump in and out of it, it's been much easier to sing and navigate around more.
Daniel John's has a brilliant voice and talent that has always been WAY under-appreciated! So, I was very excited to see your vocal analysis. I hope he watches this (though he likely won't since he tries to stay away for his mental health). He needs to know there are people who understand his talents, skills, and what he brings to the world! You now have a new subscriber! Looking forward to seeing who else you analyze! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽😆😃
Always loved his voice! The vocal on Frogstomp were mesmerizing! The way he could open his throat yet at the same time do the lazy voice thing while keeping it on top of the lungs- sheer amazing talent. And as a fellow 16yr old kid the jealousy was almost shameful lol
Awesome analisys, Daniel Johns is my favourite singer since ever, I love and admire him a lot, and I've notice his voice's change. It would be cool if you used the song Cemetery or Shade, they're from Frogstomp and you can see some "beggining" from what would he become now! Good vídeo!
Wow. Thanks so much for this video. I'm only now discovering Daniel Johns even though I've always been intrigued. I haven't deep-dived his career before now. Triggered by the release of Chris & Ben's book, started exploring all the info out there.. and there's a lot. Its just so beyond obvious that Daniel is a profoundly gifted musical & artistic mind from a very young age. Its only as he's grown into adulthood and early wisdom that he's realised how different he is to the standard issue. No wonder he feels compelled to keep evolving, pushing, exploring, and challenging himself. He only has this life-time to pursue this as vehemently as he can. Doesn't surprise me at all that he has left many fans in his wake, but that's not where his life's work is...he can't stay that limited. Would be like caging him. Hence the anorexia and then reactive arthritis. Thank goodness he made his way through all that. Listening to his pure voice, his phrasing, his tone, his perfection with pitch, paired with his genius songwriting. I'm so spellbound its hard to do anything else at the moment. Just want more.
If you really want to compare and contrast Daniel John’s vocals check out his 2015 “Talk” album. There aren’t many post-grunge artists brave enough to make a guitar-less electronica album without their steady rock band to fall back on.
Daniel is probably the most underrated and underappreciated musical genius there ever was. Thank you for showing people what an incredible talent and gift he is.
I'm so glad to see something of this underrated talent that is Daniel Johns... I love your analysis and I recommend you another incredible and underrated singer TAKA of ONE OK ROCK.
Gosh I hate to admit but I'm definitely a DJ fanatic. Mostly cz of the way he embodies artistry and talent, it literally oozes out of the guy. His voice is absolutely beautiful.
Daniel for sure is one of my favourite singers. Silverchair's era is amazing, his songs perfectly describe the suffering and soul's cruching from grunge movement. Emotional sickness is the description of living with depression, and his voice in this song, the way he sings it, is what defines this feeling. So here we have Daniel John solo era and I see a lot of people saying horrible thinks just because he is ok now and tried to go away from that darkest past, but what he do with his voice in Aerial Love and Cool on Fire is pure art
I'd love to see a video Chris where you take a look at the Vocal Melody Layering in songs like "Reflections of a Sound". And even some stuff from Talk. I love your Videos Chris.
He found his first great-beautiful voice in "Neon Ballroom" and peaked that voice in "Diorama". Then he dared to go weird in "The Dissociatives", and by "Young Modern" he combined the beautiful-well-done-voice with his carefree fun loud voice. IMO we did get a best-of his voice in "Young Modern". Then, 8 years after, a brand new Daniel appeared in "Talk", loved it. And, even though he doesn't sound very good in "Future Never", his melodies are still otherworldly, better than he's ever been before.
I enjoyed your videos Chris, they remind me of a previous life I had when I was composing and taking music lessons, discovering my music language, recording stuff and having so much fun co-creating. Maybe one day I'll make music again.
Great video- thank you for sharing Dan’s evolution as a singer. TeamFuture X
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His PR team and brother.
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Much love to Dan! Hope he gets healthy soon. FutureNever didn’t disappoint.
Daniel is SO under appreciated for his talents. Not just his vocals as he was also the main composer for many of their songs from beginning to end. So many bailed on Silverchair - and Daniel - when their sound changed, and “fans” couldn’t accept their growth as a positive. Truly masterful in music.
This band is so underrated it's honestly ridiculous. Daniel Johns is a legit creative genius and it's always bugged me how my fellow Americans never followed them beyond the song Tomorrow. Literally any song from this band is worth checking out. All of their albums are flawless....they didn't make a bad album. But Diorama is the essential one imo. And Daniel brought in Van Dyke Parks(yes that one) to orchestrate several songs. In a 'making of' doc on the Diorama album VDP said of Daniel...that he's the most musically gifted person he's ever worked with who isn't Brian Wilson. That says a lot....and he's not wrong.
Daniel is someone I'll defend to my grave....the guy is a musical genius and more people need to go back and appreciate his work. The band itself is also insane....the 3 of them live is just bananas. Super powerful, so tight, so organic, and so in control of their craft....that they can easily go into weird freeform funky jams at the drop of a hat. Ben Gilles was an amazing dummer for Daniel to play off of.
Can you tell I'm a fan?
I'll stop now....I could gush forever about Silverchair.
@@avedic if you would have gushed more I’ve would have read it with pleasure.
I'm glad there are some of us who only grew to love him more! 🙌🏾
@@avedicTHEYRE NOTTTT underrated, you probably weren’t alive at their peak of fame. Trust me, Daniel and his crew had enough fame for a dozen life times. And it traumatised him. I think he’s only happy that he is out of the spotlight now. Let him heal in peace from his past.
This band is so underrated it's honestly ridiculous. Daniel Johns is a legit creative genius and it's always bugged me how my fellow Americans never followed them beyond the song Tomorrow. Literally any song from this band is worth checking out. All of their albums are flawless....they didn't make a bad album. But Diorama is the essential one imo. And Daniel brought in Van Dyke Parks(yes that one) to orchestrate several songs. In a 'making of' doc on the Diorama album VDP said of Daniel...that he's the most musically gifted person he's ever worked with who isn't Brian Wilson. That says a lot....and he's not wrong.
Daniel is someone I'll defend to my grave....the guy is a musical genius and more people need to go back and appreciate his work. The band itself is also insane....the 3 of them live is just bananas. Super powerful, so tight, so organic, and so in control of their craft....that they can easily go into weird freeform funky jams at the drop of a hat. Ben Gilles was an amazing dummer for Daniel to play off of.
Can you tell I'm a fan?
I'll stop now....I could gush forever about Silverchair.
Another comment. Thanks for covering him. He really does NOT get the due he’s been deserved for all these years. This guy was my de facto vocal instructor. Incredible musician, vocalist, lyricist, and writer. A league of his own.
And throws theory to the wind in later work (like diorama)
One of a kind.
Glad to see Daniel Johns getting the recognition he deserves.
He hasn't gotten _nearly_ the recognition he deserves.
But hopefully there's more people doing a retrospective analysis of just how amazing him and his band truly was. They should go down as one of the best bands....ever. They really are that good.
Which is why it always bugs me when people STILL think they were nothing but a bunch of kids aping Nirvana or something. Not...even...close. :P
@@avedic Agreed. But, hey, that's something.
He deserves to be better to his mates he grew with and made beautiful rock music with. Not gay pop.
@@mikeeclipse Well, Rob Halford being gay and Taylor Swift being straight, I'm not really sure "gay pop" is even a thing, but hey, ok.
@@stephanemelo the term gay here wasn't LITERAL genius. A lot of people say "That's gay." meaning corny, dumb and so on. You are the only person in a few decades I've ever had to explain this to. And if you think Rob Halford of Judas Priest is PoP music, you're even more lost.
Diorama is absolutely the best album ever recorded. No question. Daniel’s voice makes me weep it’s so beautiful and complex and full of emotion. When I showed my daughter his music she just opened her mouth and said “is he really singing is that real?” She loves him too.
I think daniel's growth is more evident and bigger than other singers because he started out at fifteen, and like most of us, he tried to sound like his idols, but not much later in his twenties, he found his own voice.
Good point. If he hadn't been discovered until his 20's, things would have been drastically different in many ways!
nah he learned when he was still a teenager. He was about 18 and 19 around writing and recording Neon Ballroom. The evolution is crazy. Whole different vocal style on Freakshow (so underrated) too.
@@joshforest304 totally agree
I feel that being 15 creates a different sound after puberty the voice still evolves. I think it’s all beautiful. It changes as he 11:36 grows. I like Frogsong the best but that’s due to my personal connection to the album.
Daniel Johns has always been so incredibly underrated. It's heartbreaking to hear of the battle's he's endured. Music is so therapeutic. I hope that he finds the healing he needs.
As a vocalist ' Tomorrow' was one of the first songs I covered. I recall one of my music teachers speaking about how well he was able to endure despite the birth of autotune and his disdain for it. Incredible individual. Musical genius. Profound amounts of blessings to him and all the Silverchair crew.
Daniel Johns has the most amazing voice and is so talented. I could listen to him sing forever. 😍
Good to see someone appreciate his growth and skill. DJ does not get the credit he deserves. Amazing singer and writer who continues to push the envelope in both his own skill and his art. Diorama was a masterpiece.
lots of people criticizes silverchair post diorama and current daniel works, but it has always been there, he even said on a late 90s interview that from neon ballroom they had the total freedom to make the kind of song they wanted, this is where is voice really started to evolve so fast
Tuna in the Brine is one of the greatest songs ever written
So true
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Much rather "without you"
I'd choose Across The Night but Tuna is up there
I think Daniel Johns is one of the most talented vocalists out there. And he was only 15-16 years old during the Frogstomp era.
He also uses a whistle register in his later songs. Great analysis!
He's one of my favourite singers ❣️ I honestly could listen to Daniel all day long. His voice is amazing!
One of the most under-appreciated bands, vocalists and song writers ever. Diorama is an absolute masterpiece and completely unique still to this day.
Daniel Johns is so good live too. I saw Silverchair around 2008 (?? maybe) and just, wow. 100% on point the entire show.
Daniel is a genius! I was blown away watching them grow up imitating their influences. Then breaking boundaries at the end. Fantastic! Thanks for doing this!
Daniel has his demons and I believe he channels it all into his songwriting and vocals. Truly a great musician who deserves far more accolades globally. Neon Ballroom and Diorama are unbelievably amazing and written by someone so young at the time
INSTANT sub!!! I'm from Aus, Daniel is my absolute FAVOURITE artist. Silverchair is my teens, especially since I learned guitar with many of his songs.... but Tuna in the Brine is my ALL. TIME. FAVOURITE. Tuna in the Brine's musical/vocal journey just instantly made sense to me the first time I ever heard it and the lyrics have been etched on my heart from the first listen. "The light in my darkest hour, is fear...." This told me something I never knew about myself when I absolutely needed to know it in my 20s, and has never left me.
All I can say thank you thank you for doing this comparison! I was a grunge girl no question and love Daniels heavy stuff always but MAN was I ever blown away with diorama and forever it's been an absolute masterpiece and remains their best work today. Daniel has always been masterful with riffs both on guitars and special runs vocally. Beautiful 😍
He's just released a new solo album called FutureNever which also has a Van Dyke Parkes collab who helped do the orchestral arrangements on diorama 👌
I’m loving FutureNever! Cool to know about that collab! Thanks for the sub!!
My absolute favourite era of Daniel Johns has always been (and will always be) his Dissociatives album. It is just so out there and revolutionary to the alt rock genre!
Love the Dissacosiatives too ❤❤❤
The first big concert I saw was Silverchair in 1999, and I was blown away at Daniel's range. I'd never heard anyone do such powerful compression and instantly sail up into angelic falsetto/head voice. He used to flip between them that fast.
I'd have killed to see them back then. Or mostly....during the Diorama tours, after he got over his illness.
Those shows were insane.... The Big Day Out show, the last one they did before Daniel got the arthritis, might be the most powerful show I've ever seen from them.
I was lucky enough to see them during the YM tour in 2008 or so....in Atlanta....and it was such an incredible night. It was super cool to be surrounded by a bunch of fellow Americans who, like me, were obsessed with the genius of a band that barely any other Americans cared about....or even knew about.
I would have loved to see them then too!!!! I didn’t get to see them until Straight Lines. It was still epic and I had the biggest adrenaline rush EVER!!!
I went to the Diorama tour in Brisbane in 2003. Was absolutely incredible. The way they had 2 parts to the show, with an interval in between. The softer and more "musical" like songs were in the first half. In the second half, it was full on rock, mosh and jumping out of your seat performances. Will never forget it 😊
The pinnacle of Daniel Johns' vocal aggressiveness can be heard in Spawn and Anthem For The Year 2000. I don't think he ever screamed like that again. Some of the shows where Silverchair did "Spawn" were intense. He sounded like his soul was trying to climb out of him.
ua-cam.com/video/8vM5Mtux-k8/v-deo.html Watch the end of this song. Debunks your comment
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I always liked how he did “the lever”, “greatest view”, “the door” and “anthem for the year 2000” live with different vocal lines and way more aggressive.
@@jules8159 “point of view” from that show is prob my fav Daniel johns live performance
Great video. Daniel Johns is one of the best vocalists of all time. It’s so beautiful
Thoroughly enjoying FutureNever right now. Daniel's voice has once again evolved as he alternates between a wonderful rich "tenor" for some tracks and a lovely whispering thin head voice for others. Looking forward to seeing your analysis on that album.
oh my gosh, just when i thought i couldn't love your channel anymore, you go and do this... Daniel Johns.. one of my favorite vocalists and song writers ever.
Just loving this. I discovered DJ and Silverchair 4 months ago and I’ve been obsessed. Literally all I’ve been listening to. Thank you for this wonderful video.
I still consider Frogstomp a masterpiece, it ages so unbelievably well. It’s amazing how intuitively they put this together. The scope of the whole album is so imaginative and the sense of direction is bananas. It’s totally pure, something that cannot be recreated once success kicks in, and he was trapped in anxiety and depression from then on.
Dan you should be really proud of your new album . It’s absolutely beautiful. Blew me away. His vocals especially on Reclaim your heart 😱just f**ng whoa
When they released Neon Ballroom, they seemed to have matured really fast in their songwriting and arrangement capabilities. They had producers and whatnot but the actual songs themselves got really intense and they progressed a lot since Frogstomp.
I agree, Neon Ballroom is where you can see the musical flavour change and resonate through the experiences Dan goes through.
Freak Show hinted at it on a few tracks - Petrol and Chlorine notably.
They were children when they made 🐸stomp. So everything was going to evolve as they got older.
The record company wanted another hard album, but they did Neon Ballroom instead lol.
Being a fan of Silverchair I was always mesmerized by the way Daniel sang in Neon Ballroom and the way he evolved in terms of vocal complexity a couple of years after that!
Recently rediscovered my love for Silverchair, so this video’s timing is nuts!
Nice :)
Same!! I just rediscovered them about 5 weeks ago and I've been saying "nice timing" to myself a few times, lol Daniel's new album too, and this video- i'm still in awe at how much his voice has changed over the years, and his musical style as well.
I read an interview in Circus or Hit Parade around 1996, and someone made a comment about Daniel's ability to create "harmonic distortion" with his voice. They described it as something that when his voice broke up a bit, there are overtones that add an essence of harmony even with his single voice track. I've never seen this referenced anywhere else but I think about it all the time and wonder if this is an actual term in vocal music?
Wow. That sounds very cool and accurate. Dan John's is a legend and his sound and music will stand the test of time
Great vid. Daniel Johns is super underrated I feel, especially in The Dissociatives era. Well done mate, you’ve got a great voice too, epic control.
one of the most special male vocalists in the rock and pop world alive today. It's a shame he doesn't get the credit and recognition outside of Australia as is deserved. Feel fortunate that i DID benefit from that however on the final Silverchair Young Modern tour in the US being basically a club tour and getting to see them in that environment at their peak of musicianship and ability as a band. Still in the top 2 live vocal performance's i've ever seen. Looking forward to your follow up video of his voice in the more modern era. there are few that have leveled up year by year than him.
Love this video. His new album shows another dimension to his range. More cabaret in some songs. Really like his new stuff. Good to see him being productive after many years of mental struggles.
I love nice surprises. His transition to a soloist is amazing. I'm sorry for all his strife through out the years. He seems like a genuinely good person.
Very underrated vocalist and song writer
Great video as usual. Such an epic voice, Neon Ballroom was a wildly good album too. Didn’t realize how thick those harmonies were in Tuna in the Brine… pretty inspiring stuff! Thanks Chris
Tuna in the Brine, such a beautiful song. I became a fan when Diorama came out. Wonderful album. Daniel Johns is an incredible talent.
Thank you so much for this my all time favorite musician!
Love this! His voice gives me so much comfort from my little 15 year old self until now. Still a huge fan and obsessed with his voice and music. As someone who is also battling addiction and demons, I hope he can find his way through! 💜💜
It broke my heart when he was unwell and his voice was slightly less strong. It was subtle but I think we all noticed it. Godspeed DPJ. You are such an intelligent, brilliant, talented gentleman.
My absolute favorite vocalist of all time. Fun watch, thanks!
Excellent video! More of this just helps us unlock things we all have in our voices! Always loved Daniels voice. Just wish they would have stayed on the path of Diorama. It was such a ground breaking sound!
very happy and very grateful Chris for this video. I made the suggestion a few months ago and you analyzed it with all the attention and affection. Thank you brother 🥺🥺🥺🥺🙌🙏💥🔥❤️
I could listen to Daniel’s isolated vocals all day. THE most underrated musician of all time.
One more amazing analise, Chris! Awesome work. One more of my favorites musicians. Love the work who Daniel did on Silverchair. The evolution like musician and singer is incredible. Absolutily an inspiration to generation who is coming.
Tks for your work. Hugs from Brazil!
Literally just checked out this channel 2 days ago to try to gain some vocal techniques after spending the last decade singing along to Silverchair as my only practice. Then this appears 😂
NICE :)
lmaoo happy for u gurl 😂
This brings back so many memories. Diorama is masterpiece, I mean, the orchestrations alone… 🙌
Thanks for your, always on point, analysis of another amazing vocalist! 🙏🏻
Ps. Still waiting on your take on Jimmy Gnecco’s 😉
Very cool to see his awesome vocals broken down like this! If you’re not already familiar with his Dissociatives album, check out Aaangry Megaphone Man, he utilizes a lot of his different vocal styles in that one song.
Such an underrated album!
The Dissociatives is an absolute masterpiece. Not a single bad song. I didn't care much about Daniel Johns until I heard this album
@@PunkOffice1 I feel like The Dissociatives album is pretty much what Silverchair would have sounded like had they kept going. Daniel was the essence of that band anyway, at least on their later 3 albums.
Great video! I love Daniel Johns! He's not only a great singer, but also a great songwriter! I love his music so much!
Amazing vocal transformation. You could definitely hear the difference in the changing tones and dynamics, which make all the difference in freedom and vocal experience.
Thanks Jamie!
My brain enjoys these vocal studies so much thank you!
You're very welcome :)
I was waiting for this one! Thank you Chris!
By the way, his voice kept changing. He released a new solo album last week and it's sounding very different from Diorama's Era.
ps. please put Glenn Hughes on your list too, he's from another planet!
Right! Thought it would be timely to release a video on him :) I'm digging into his new album now and excited to do some commentary on it for the channel soon!
HELL YES! THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS!!!
I've waited years for someone to properly analyse Daniels vocals and techniques
Great video Chris, first one of yours I've seen. Solid production, audio quality and passion for the subject. 10/10
One of my favorite bands. I enjoy the way he wasn’t afraid to change and grow. It’s the band I go to when I need to be inspired to enjoy music when I am low.
Daniel isn't like other artists he is constantly evolving his artistic approach to every album . It's not that his voice changed its that he is constantly trying to get out of the box the world trys to fit him in . Every single album has a fresh new approach . The thing about Daniel is the world tries to compare and fit him into a box. Comparing him to nirvana has always been a NARROW perspective . There is more sabbath and zeppelin then anything but also pearl jam and Brian Wilson . He has his own formula to represent himself . He has never been a carbon copy of any comparison. I appreciate him as a artists and set him apart from the product they tried to manufacture him as .
This is truly a treat for the fans who have long fallen in love with his vocal skill and tonal adventurousness.
I completely wrote Silverchair off back in the day. Guess I should check them out! Thanks!
Yay! I love Daniel’s voice!
Wow this is a great one!. So random. I've been obsessed with his vocals the past two years!
Straight lines is absolutely incredible!!!!!!!
I enjoyed this video so much Chris. I've always had such a great appreciation for Daniel Johns.
Daniel Johns is an inspiration as singer and songwriter.
Awesome comparison! Love this style of content. Seeing and hearing the progressions of different artists espeically with isolated tracks is great 👌👌👌
So good to hear some of these isolated tracks - nice to see Daniel and Silverchair getting some new traction at the moment
Dude I've learned more from you in a month than any other online vocal coach or in person vocal coach ever....amazing work
Surrender and future never has even more progression!! He's amazing! 💜💜💜 My favorite singer.
hey Chris I've been waiting for this review for a long time, thanks!!
Hope you like it!
That was such a great video! I really enjoyed that! Love the first four Silverchair albums, they mean so much to me! I would like to hear this done for Emotion Sickness 🫶🏾
Silverchair first went into this different musical direction when they made their song Untitled for the Godzilla soundtrack BTW. There were a few songs in Freak Show that hinted at things to come but Untitled is the first song they made that made it clear they were going in a very more elegant direction.
I absolutely love that song.
Okay this whole video is awesome, but the part where you combine his technique from the past and the future, so incredible and such a good idea.
Glad you liked it!
He has such beautiful tone and incredible range.
Chris!!!!!! This is exactly what I've been talking about, Daniel does that all the time especially in Tomorrow, why did I think that this technique was wrong? Now that I know how to jump in and out of it, it's been much easier to sing and navigate around more.
That lil' piece is my favourite too!!....wait till tomorrow oh ho ho'ohw!!greetz SpieCull.
Daniel John's has a brilliant voice and talent that has always been WAY under-appreciated! So, I was very excited to see your vocal analysis. I hope he watches this (though he likely won't since he tries to stay away for his mental health). He needs to know there are people who understand his talents, skills, and what he brings to the world! You now have a new subscriber! Looking forward to seeing who else you analyze! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽😆😃
Loved watching this! I adore Daniel’s voice it was interesting to hear an expert dissect it!!
Always loved his voice! The vocal on Frogstomp were mesmerizing! The way he could open his throat yet at the same time do the lazy voice thing while keeping it on top of the lungs- sheer amazing talent. And as a fellow 16yr old kid the jealousy was almost shameful lol
One of my first concerts at 16 in Seattle in 96? Love how you show his progression
Thanks for doing something on DJ. Probably one of the few vocal coaches to mention him!
Awesome analisys, Daniel Johns is my favourite singer since ever, I love and admire him a lot, and I've notice his voice's change. It would be cool if you used the song Cemetery or Shade, they're from Frogstomp and you can see some "beggining" from what would he become now!
Good vídeo!
Great video its cool seeing some love for silverchair in recent years
Wow. Thanks so much for this video. I'm only now discovering Daniel Johns even though I've always been intrigued. I haven't deep-dived his career before now. Triggered by the release of Chris & Ben's book, started exploring all the info out there.. and there's a lot. Its just so beyond obvious that Daniel is a profoundly gifted musical & artistic mind from a very young age. Its only as he's grown into adulthood and early wisdom that he's realised how different he is to the standard issue. No wonder he feels compelled to keep evolving, pushing, exploring, and challenging himself. He only has this life-time to pursue this as vehemently as he can. Doesn't surprise me at all that he has left many fans in his wake, but that's not where his life's work is...he can't stay that limited. Would be like caging him. Hence the anorexia and then reactive arthritis. Thank goodness he made his way through all that. Listening to his pure voice, his phrasing, his tone, his perfection with pitch, paired with his genius songwriting. I'm so spellbound its hard to do anything else at the moment. Just want more.
If you really want to compare and contrast Daniel John’s vocals check out his 2015 “Talk” album. There aren’t many post-grunge artists brave enough to make a guitar-less electronica album without their steady rock band to fall back on.
Daniel is probably the most underrated and underappreciated musical genius there ever was. Thank you for showing people what an incredible talent and gift he is.
I'm not much of a silver chair fan myself but I still realize they are good and you do a phenomenal job breaking it down
I'm so glad to see something of this underrated talent that is Daniel Johns... I love your analysis and I recommend you another incredible and underrated singer TAKA of ONE OK ROCK.
I've been so hoping you'd do a Daniel Johns video. I hope you do more
Gosh I hate to admit but I'm definitely a DJ fanatic. Mostly cz of the way he embodies artistry and talent, it literally oozes out of the guy. His voice is absolutely beautiful.
My favourite band
Been waiting for this one for years! Sweet
Daniel for sure is one of my favourite singers. Silverchair's era is amazing, his songs perfectly describe the suffering and soul's cruching from grunge movement. Emotional sickness is the description of living with depression, and his voice in this song, the way he sings it, is what defines this feeling.
So here we have Daniel John solo era and I see a lot of people saying horrible thinks just because he is ok now and tried to go away from that darkest past, but what he do with his voice in Aerial Love and Cool on Fire is pure art
I'd love to see a video Chris where you take a look at the Vocal Melody Layering in songs like "Reflections of a Sound". And even some stuff from Talk.
I love your Videos Chris.
What I love is that interview where he says he doesn't want to know how he did everything...
More Silverchair please. Emotion Sickness is a great vocal track!
He's a great singer, one of my favorites!!
He found his first great-beautiful voice in "Neon Ballroom" and peaked that voice in "Diorama". Then he dared to go weird in "The Dissociatives", and by "Young Modern" he combined the beautiful-well-done-voice with his carefree fun loud voice. IMO we did get a best-of his voice in "Young Modern". Then, 8 years after, a brand new Daniel appeared in "Talk", loved it. And, even though he doesn't sound very good in "Future Never", his melodies are still otherworldly, better than he's ever been before.
I enjoyed your videos Chris, they remind me of a previous life I had when I was composing and taking music lessons, discovering my music language, recording stuff and having so much fun co-creating. Maybe one day I'll make music again.
Daniel is a World class talent and ability.