The stereotype of the tenor phenomenon holds not completely, but largely true at least in rock-related research so far. I'd say the ratio isn't quite as lopsided as I once thought, but still nonetheless there. Taking a loose framework of a singles-based approach of generally popular bands, there were some relatively easy finds, and ones that I thought of later, but sometimes a dig through album tracks (first of their most well-known, then if necessary other albums) was required to find a song that didn't slip into a more tenor range at least somewhere.
Add to that my format of no repeated artists within one book (and the unrelated task of trying to find something definitive to say about each song in a similar number of words) and the books can take a while to fill up. Also, as sometimes-noted in the books, I found a lot of rock (or metal) singers save their lower-pitched vocal performances almost exclusively for slow ballads or songs that aren't in their usual style, including KISS ("A World Without Heroes"), Black Sabbath ("Solitude") and Pantera ("Suicide Note Pt. 1").
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