Stanford Harmonics

Stanford Harmonics
Stanford Harmonics, February 2016
Background information
Origin Stanford, California, USA
Genres A cappella
Years active 1991–present
Website www.stanfordharmonics.com

The Stanford Harmonics are a co-ed a cappella group from Stanford University. Known for their alternative rock repertoire and award-winning recordings, the Harmonics have garnered international recognition for their performances and have been featured on BOCA, Sing, and Voices Only a cappella compilations. The Harmonics are one of the few collegiate a cappella groups that own their own wireless microphone equipment and have developed a live performance style that includes the use of electronic distortion and sound effects.

The group's third release, Insanity Laughs, was received as a "breakthrough album" for the unprecedented mixing of its drum-like vocal percussion.[1] In 2010, the Harmonics won the A Cappella Community Awards for Favorite Mixed Collegiate Group and Favorite Scholastic Album.[2] Their eighth studio album, Escape Velocity, was the winner of three Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards, including Best Mixed Collegiate Album,[3] and was selected as one of RARB's Picks of the Decade.[4]

Recordings

The Stanford Harmonics have released nine full-length albums, one "greatest hits" album, and one extended play.

The Greatest Hits of Pitchpipe (1995)

  1. The Only Hit of Pitch Pipe (Basket Case by Green Day)
  2. A Change in My Life (Rockapella)
  3. Seven Bridges Road (The Eagles)
  4. Heat of the Moment (Asia)
  5. Busy Tonight (The Nylons)
  6. It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday (Boyz II Men)
  7. Moondance (Van Morrison)
  8. Drift Away (Dobie Gray)
  9. Be With You (The Bangles)
  10. Little Darling (The Diamonds)
  11. The Longest Time (Billy Joel)
  12. Straight to My Heart (Sting)
  13. Everlasting Love (Gayden and Cason)
  14. Bad Connection (Yaz)
  15. In the Still of the Night (The 5 Satins)
  16. Don't You Want Me (The Human League)
  17. The Star Spangled Banner
  18. Why (Rockapella)
  19. Kyrie (Mr. Mister)

Escalator Music (1997)

  1. Down Under (Men at Work)
  2. Kiss From a Rose (Seal)
  3. Just a Girl (No Doubt)
  4. Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin)
  5. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word (Elton John)
  6. A Little Respect (Erasure)
  7. Got to Get You Into My Life (The Beatles)
  8. Winter (Tori Amos)
  9. Four Brothers (Manhattan Transfer)
  10. December, 1963 (The Four Seasons)
  11. Still the One (Orleans)
  12. Walking on Broken Glass (Annie Lennox)
  13. She's Always a Woman (Billy Joel)
  14. Sixty Minute Man (Rockapella)
  15. King of Pain (The Police)
  16. Rhythm of Love (Yes)
  17. Gone (House Jacks)

Insanity Laughs (1999)

  1. Push It (Garbage)
  2. Under Pressure (Queen/David Bowie)
  3. 32 Flavors (Alana Davis)
  4. Hoodoo Voodoo Doll (Brian Setzer)
  5. Uninvited (Alanis Morissette)
  6. Waterboy (Live)
  7. Goodbye (Save Ferris)
  8. Gone Till November (Wyclef Jean)
  9. Stay (Wastin' Time) (Dave Matthews Band)
  10. Criminal (Fiona Apple)
  11. Push (Matchbox 20)
  12. Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
  13. Snow on the Sahara (Anggun)
  14. Ray of Light (Madonna)
  15. One (U2)

Phonoshop (2001)

  1. Scream (Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson)
  2. Smooth (Santana)
  3. Beautiful (Joydrop)
  4. Thank You (Dido)
  5. We Are In Love (Harry Connick, Jr.)
  6. Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
  7. Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos)
  8. Touched (VAST)
  9. Kryptonite (3 Doors Down)
  10. Oh So Quiet (Björk)
  11. November Rain (Guns N' Roses)
  12. Right Now (Van Halen)

evolut10n (2002) - 10 Year Anniversary "Greatest Hits" Album

  1. Right Now (Van Halen)
  2. Why (Rockapella)
  3. Rhythm of Love (Yes)
  4. Criminal (Fiona Apple)
  5. Kyrie (Mr. Mister)
  6. Four Brothers (Manhattan Transfer)
  7. Thank You (Dido)
  8. Under Pressure (Queen/David Bowie)
  9. A Change in My Life (Rockapella)

Rock Beats Scissors (2003)

  1. Sadder Day (Fleming & John)
  2. Running Away (Hoobastank)
  3. Medicine (Guster)
  4. Bring Me To Life (Evanescence)
  5. Annie Waits (Ben Folds)
  6. Lady Marmalade (Patti LaBelle)
  7. I Wish (Stevie Wonder)
  8. Human Beings (Seal)
  9. I Hope You Dance (Lee Ann Womack)
  10. Acoustic #3 (Goo Goo Dolls)
  11. Paid My Dues (Anastacia)
  12. Drive (Incubus)
  13. Porcelain (Moby)

Shadowplay (2005)

  1. Labyrinth (Elisa)
  2. Headstrong (Trapt)
  3. Faster, Faster (Bree Sharp)
  4. Stop Crying Your Heart Out (Oasis)
  5. All the Things She Said (t.A.T.u.)
  6. Truce (Jars of Clay)
  7. Easier to Run (Linkin Park)
  8. Stuck (Stacie Orrico)
  9. Blurry (Puddle of Mudd)
  10. Radio (The Corrs)
  11. Sweetest Goodbye (Maroon 5)
  12. Breathe (Melissa Etheridge)
  13. Waiting for You (Seal)
  14. The Memory Remains (Metallica)

Escape Velocity (2008)

  1. Battle Without Honor or Humanity (Tomoyasu Hotei)
  2. Get Set (Taxiride)
  3. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd, The Scissor Sisters)
  4. Cells (The Servant)
  5. Dream for the Moment (Aerosmith, Eminem)
  6. Imagination (John Lennon, Gene Wilder, A Perfect Circle and Maroon 5)
  7. Soul Meets Body (Death Cab For Cutie)
  8. Can I Buy You a Drink (Hoobastank)
  9. I'm Alive (Disturbed)
  10. Rhapsody in Blue (George Gershwin)
  11. Whisper (Evanescence)
  12. The Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel)

Midnight Hour (2013)

  1. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
  2. Kings and Queens (Thirty Seconds to Mars)
  3. Madness (Muse)
  4. Call Me When You're Sober (Evanescence)
  5. Beggars and Hangers-On (Slash)
  6. You Know My Name (Chris Cornell)
  7. Lonely Boy (The Black Keys)
  8. Extreme Ways (Moby)
  9. Kids (MGMT)
  10. House of the Rising Sun
  11. Mad World (Tears for Fears)
  12. Slip to the Void (Alter Bridge)

The Messes of Men (2015) - EP

  1. Centuries (Fall Out Boy)
  2. Feeling Good (Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse)
  3. Can't Be Saved (Senses Fail)
  4. Bartholomew (The Silent Comedy)
  5. Decay (Mark Tremonti)

Fault of Imagination (2017)

  1. Raised by Wolves (U2)
  2. Renegades (X Ambassadors)
  3. Ripe and Ruin (Alt-J)
  4. This Place is a Prison (The Postal Service)
  5. Instant Crush (Daft Punk)
  6. Cabin Down Below (The Royal Concept)
  7. Resistance (Muse)
  8. When Doves Cry (Prince)
  9. Kings (Tribe Society)

Notable members

  • Singer/songwriter Vienna Teng
  • Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA) President Julia Hoffman and Board Member Ariel Glassman
  • Hookslide singers Jon Pilat and George Hoffman
  • Former Skritch lead Bryan Tan

See also

  • Stanford University vocal groups

References

  1. ↑ Mickey Rapkin. Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory. Retrieved 2018-01-04. The breakthrough album, he says, was the 1999 Stanford Harmonics disc, Insanity Laughs. 'That's when vocal percussion really started to sound more like a drum set than vocals,' Bill says.
  2. ↑ "CASA". 2010 A Cappella Community Award Winners. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  3. ↑ "2009 CARA Winners". 2009 A Cappella Recording Award Winners. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  4. ↑ "RARB". RARB Picks of the Decade. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
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