
Pete Yorn (born July 27, 1974) is an American Singer-Songwriter hailing from New Jersey. He gained prominence with his critically acclaimed debut album musicforthemorningafter, which contained the hits "Life on a Chain" and "Strange Condition".
Discography
- 2001 - musicforthemorningafter
- 2003 - Day I Forgot
- 2006 - Nightcrawler
- 2009 - Back & Fourth
- 2009 - Break Up (with Scarlett Johansson)
- 2010 - Pete Yorn
- 2016 - ArrangingTime
- 2019 - Caretakers
- 2021 - Pete Yorn Sings the Classics
- 2022 - Hawaii
- 2024 - The Hard Way
Life on a Trope:
- Cover Version: Quite a few.
- Possibly the most well known example from him is the cover of Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love" made for the 2004 animated movie Shrek 2.
- His 2021 cover album Pete Yorn Sings the Classics, with covers from songs by the Pixies, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, The Beach Boys and The Stone Roses, among a few others.
- Deliberately Monochrome: the album covers musicforthemorningafter, Day I Forgot, Nightcrawler, his self-titled album, Caretakers, and his live albums; Live From New Jersey, Live at KCRW and Live at the Troubadour. musicforthemorningafter and Day I Forgot are mixed examples due to coloured text in their album cover.
- Music video-wise, the ones for "Someday, Someday" and "I Wanna Be the One".
- Either/Or Title: "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)", "Carlos (Don't Let It Go to Your Head)" and "Idols (We Don't Ever Have to Say Goodbye)".
- Face on the Cover: All of his albums qualify, with the exception of his self-titled album, Caretakers and Hawaii.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The first three albums have references to a time of the day in their titles.
- Location Song: "Halifax".
- Longest Song Goes Last: A weird example with "So Much Work" from Day I Forgot, in which clocks at 4:47, barely closer to the five minute mark but still longer than anything on the rest of the album.
- Ms. Fanservice: Model Charlotte McKinney in the music video for "I'm Not the One".
- One-Man Song: "Murray", "Carlos (Don't Let It Go to Your Head)".
- One-Woman Song: "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)" and "Miss Alien".
- Pop-Star Composer: A weird example, just prior to the release of his debut album, Yorn composed the score for the Farrelly Brothers movie Me, Myself & Irene with Lee Scott.
- Portmantitle: musicforthemorningafter and ArrangingTime
- Soprano and Gravel: Yorn and Johansson in the collaborative album Break Up.
- Title-Only Chorus: "'Cos it already is!"
- Vocal Evolution: Yorn's voice has gotten deeper over the years, and has become less prone to singing nasally.
- Yarling: Pretty frequent in early albums, especially in the debut.
