Singer Index and Thread Moderation (207,762 views)

[Alex61]

This thread is for compiling all of the singer threads we have on the forum into one, easy-to-navigate index.

For singers who have been thoroughly researched enough, check in Range Stuff. The research here has been deemed substantial enough to be considered "complete", and while we make no guarantee of objectivity regarding vocals, this is where our most in-depth research will be. For singers who have been partially (but not fully) researched, check in Work-in-Progress Threads. The threads here are being worked on but should not be considered complete research yet.

Thread Claims
A claim is the term we use for placing your name on a singer you wish to research. If you are claiming a thread, it means you plan on researching that singer at some point in the near future.

Please note - while we do not have a limit on the number of claims you may have, if you accrue a fairly sizeable number of claims and/or have been working on some of your claims for a particularly long amount of time, you are expected to be slightly more liberal in allowing others to enquire about or take your claims. Some singers - even currently threadless ones - are very popular, and it would be rather unfair for one person to have their name on a lot of very popular singers, especially if their pace in researching isn't especially fast. Therefore, be mindful that while you can claim who you choose, all claims are - to an extent - negotiable. People can always ask you about your claims and you can always enquire about threads you're interested in.

We have gone into detail before about what you should do if you wish to claim a thread.

Starting a New Thread

If you want to claim a new singer, this is the thread you should go to. On claiming a new singer, you're saying that you plan on working on them in the not-too-distant future, so you should always be mindful of how many singers you're claiming.

Before you claim an entirely new thread, these are the steps you should take:

1. Search for the thread. Can you find it on the forum? If you've found it on the forum, you can't claim it here (unless it's particularly old and outdated, in which case take a read further down). If you haven't, you should still...
2. Double-check. Check the Google Sheets sheet of everyone below just to make sure.
3. Check if it's been claimed by someone else here. If it has, chances are they're working on it.
4. If it hasn't, you can claim the thread! Huzzah! Now get to work

Rebooting an Old Thread

However, sometimes you might want to restart an old, neglected thread, which you are entirely permitted to do under some circumstances. If the thread is particularly outdated and has been for some time, you can request to take it over. If there's only a few small things wrong with it, just leave a post and the original poster (OP) will respond accordingly. If you have posted suggested updates on the thread and they have been completely ignored for a long time (a few months, most likely), you can send a message to the OP to enquire about the state of the thread.

If you want to restart an old thread, this is what you should do:

• Send a message to the thread owner. Always, always, always do this. It doesn't matter how long they've been inactive or how poor their thread is, you should always message the original poster of the thread.
• Check the current thread owner's activity. If they were last online a long time ago, chances are they've forgotten about the thread. However, you should still send a message to them just to be sure.
• If the OP responds within two weeks of your message with their decision, you can follow it accordingly. If they don't respond within two weeks, you can assume the thread to be yours and should post here that you're taking it.
• If they decide to give you the thread, post here and let us know so we can update our document with your claim. If the thread owner denies your request but remains particularly nonresponsive/uncooperative, staff may still approve a takeover of the thread.
• Once you feel your remake is ready to be posted, post it to the Orphaned/Abandoned Thread Review thread or message staff with your research and we'll either approve it for posting or tell you what else needs to be done.

The Singer Index

Pro tip: CTRL+F will open the 'search' function on your browser. Keying the name you are looking for into the search function could save you a lot of time instead of trawling the lists manually.

Please note: Even though we're up and running, lots of people still have threads they're working on that are not yet listed on the Index. Hence, for the initial few weeks, we recommend you do not try to claim any new threads unless the original poster has given you explicit permission to do so.

Also note: If a thread is being given up for adoption by the current OP, priority should always go to who helped work on the thread with the OP or who the OP dictates they think should have the thread.

[Baronessa]

Yes hello, just dumping this unforgivably massive piece of work here.

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{Claims I Intend on Keeping}
Bryan Ferry
Busdriver
Chaka Khan
Chris Rea
Chrissie Hynde
Curt Kirkwood
Daryl Hall
Diana Krall
Emmylou Harris
Françoise Hardy
Gino Vannelli
Gladys Knight
Gregg Allman*
Huey Lewis
Ihsahn
Jarkko Martikainen
Jim Kerr
Joe Strummer
John Entwistle*
John Mellencamp
John Oates
Ken Tamplin
Lucinda Williams
Marianne Faithfull
Michael Monroe
Neil Hannon
Neil Tennant
Neko Case
Pelle Miljoona
Pete Townshend*
Roger Daltrey*
Rory Gallagher*
Rosanne Cash
Rosie Gaines
Roy Harper
Rufus Wainwright*
Russell Mael
Simon Le Bon
Sufjan Stevens*
Suzi Quatro
Terri Nunn
Vince Gill

For a better future, everyone.

[queenfan11]

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{Threads I Intend on Posting}
Jeff Mangum
Sam Harris
Jon Anderson
Sly Stone

[Deleted]

Gonna post my claims:

Josh Homme
Malukah
Vic Fuentes
Kellin Quinn
Mick Hucknall
Ji-In Cho
Mark Lanegan
Bill Kaulitz
Jay Kay
Josh Franceschi
Junior Wells
Kris Roe
Ryan Key
Tom Higgenson
Willie Dixon
Memphis Slim
Phil Guy
Miyavi
Andrew Wood
Mark Arm
Tom Smith

[clem]

Some of these threads I just need to fine tune the formatting on before I drop them on this incarnation of the forum, some I haven't started researching at all. And everything in between. Here are my claims.

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{Threads I'll Be Posting and Singers I'm Claiming)
Adèle Anderson
Austin Dickinson
Benji Webbe
Brian Warfield
CeeLo Green
Christy Moore
Anette Olzon
Becca MacIntyre
Billie Piper
Chris Robertson
David Balfour
Dean Friedman
Earl Okin
Greg Lake
Greg Puciato
Hindi Zahra
Jason Manford
Jealous of the Birds
Jered Threatin
Jermaine Stewart
Kyu Sakamoto
Luke Kelly
Mark Knopfler
Nick Drake
Oli Sykes
Plan B
Ricky Wilson
Rody Walker
Ronnie Radke
Tom Walker
Tony Kakko
Zaher Zorgati
Colin Hay
Derek Warfield
Dillie Keane
ForneverWorld
George Formby
Izora Armstead
Jonne Järvelä
Justin Hill
Mario Biondi
Martha Wash
Matt Drake
Mikael Stanne
M. Shadows
Noel Nagle
Oli Sykes
Owen McKenna
Paul Robeson
Robert Goulet
Ronnie Drew
Ted Neeley
The White Buffalo
Tomi Joutsen
Tommy Byrne
Vic Mignogna
Billy Eckstine
Gabbie Hanna
Jason Manford
Paris Hilton
Peter Kay
Rob Brydon
Steve Coogan

[falsetokaiba]

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{Old Threads I'm Relinquishing}Michael Starr and Ben E. King whom I had on TRP. Both threads need redoing, but if you want access to the old threads for any info you can message me.

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{Threads/Claims I'm Keeping/Will Be Posting/Will Be Working On}Fred Durst
Ivan Rebroff
John Harbinson
Mark Slaughter
Susan Boyle
Tarja Turunen (assuming Rodney Blazershorts has no complaints)
Midnight (from Platypus)

*Bold indicates claims I'd be willing to relinquish if somebody else felt they could do the threads more quickly.

Also I'm going to be collabing on Jorn Lande, Jon Oliva and Zak Stevens, with, I think, Zedd Squared, Gatr, BassSquared and @susilupus, and possibly also on Mark Boals and Mats Leven.

[onemorelight17]

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{Threads that I give for adoption}
Alejandro Picardi
Beto Cuevas
Devin Oliver
Laura Pausini
Marcelo Corvalan
Mario Ian
Matty Mullins
Ramiro Saavedra
Ricardo Mollo
Ricardo Montaner
Sandro

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{Threads that I plan to continue}Chris Motionless
Cristian Castro
Danny Worsnop
Denis Stoff
Matt Tuck
Matt Walst

[Tara]

Hello yes hello

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{Finished, seem to be up to standards, will tweak and post soon}Ben Gibbard (that I did with Cmen) (posted 09/10/19)
Blake Jenner (posted 01/10/19)
Kevin McHale (posted 27/09/19)
Melissa Benoist (posted 28/09/19)

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{Re-doing}Christofer Drew (posted 22/02/20)
Cory Monteith (posted 02/11/19)
Dianna Agron (posted 13/10/19)
Heather Morris (posted 17/11/19)
Jane Lynch (posted to threadless singers)
Jimmy Urine (posted 28/12/19)

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{Claims I had that I would like to keep please}Cavetown (posted 4/04/20)
Chris Colfer (posted 1/12/19)
Darren Criss (posted 5/02/20)
Jacob Artist (posted to threadless singers)
Mark Salling (posted 15/01/20)
Omar Montañez (posted 29/01/20)

Large thanks

update: all of these are now posted

[IhateMana]

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{Wherems't the Fuck are Mana's Threads???}


So, as you're all aware at this point, we've been put in a situation pretty much entirely out of our control. I was part of the 99.9% of us that were not involved in any kind of discussion at all and are now trying to set the forum up again from scratch. 

So, you might be asking, in fact I'm positive you are, "Mana, what do you do when self-important former administrators give you lemons?"

Well I'll tell you:

I throw them the fuck out cause I don't fucking use lemons for anything other than spaghetti aglio e olio, which, by the way, you should all learn how to make because it's super easy, super delicious and will impress any non-Italian date you bring home.

Got a little off message there, but basically, I guess I'm trying to make spaghetti aglio e olio. So, a lot of my older threads need a little fine tuning, some of them I want redone all together. Part of what I want to do is make the most out of this incredibly stupid situation and go whole hog on making sure our threads are all as uniformally the same standard as humanely possible and the easiest person to do that with for a start is myself. 

The thing is, it's gonna take a pretty long time for me to do that. While those involved might have decided this was as good a time as any to shaft the entire community, I personally am deep into my 3rd year of undergraduate university study and will be working full-time once I'm done with that. As you can imagine, this doesn't exactly give me ample time to engage in what is a fairly small but time consuming hobby.

I should clarify that I'm choosing of my own accord to remake a lot of these threads, quite a few of them were on the to do list at some point anyway, and that it is also my choice to not upload incomplete threads in the mean time. I guess if there are any you're super duper desperate to see the old version of, I can just dm you a copy for your own dirty pleasure.

Anyway, a whole bunch of them are coming pretty soon anyway, as a couple of them only need minor fine tuning (you'll see a couple up all ready), so here's the run down.

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{WHERE ARE THE FUCKING THREADS MANA}

Threads coming super soon I promise (no particular order)

Steven Wilson
Lights
Michael Jackson
Jamie Stewart
Peter Murphy
King Dude
Kristoffer Rygg / Garm
Enya
John Flansburgh
John Linnell
Jarvis Cocker
Dolores O'Riordan
Banks
Toby Driver
Weyes Blood
Shiina Ringo
Marc Almond
Kat Bjelland
David Tibet
Mark Kozelek
TK
Lisa Gerrard
Diamanda Galás
Gackt

Threads I'm keeping but are being redone from scratch I'm so sorry you poor children

Alessandro Moreschi
Atsushi Sakurai
Bilinda Butcher
Blixa Bargeld
Chelsea Wolfe
Damon Albarn
Kyo
Morrissey
Ryuichi Kawamura
Ryutaro Arimura
Sinéad O'Connor
Thom Yorke
Yomi

Threads that are yours for the taking if you ask nicely

The threads in this section are honestly never going to get done. For a lot of them, I honestly cannot be fucked re-researching all that material. I will be more than happy to collab with you on them, but jesus christ not by myself... not again. The bottom line is that most of these will just rot in N/I forever in my hands, as most of them already were on TRP3. My energy for this kind of stuff is not what it used to be and I'd rather other more interested parties had the opportunity to tackle these.

Bobby Womack
Grace Jones
Hyde
Ian Curtis
Kamijo
Jarboe
Joan Baez
Laure le Prunenec (I know he doesn't really wanted it, but if he ever shows up I want Kuyashii to have this one, though in all likeliness this is free game)
Mavis Staples
Michael Gira (Platypus )
Robert Smith
Sawao Yamanaka
Tatsurou

Claims I'm retaining (and some new ones)

If an old claim is not listed here, assume I've released it. Open to collabs on any of these except for the B-52's girls.

Benjamin Orr
Chuck Schuldiner
Cindy Wilson
Dave Dobbyn
Fred Schneider
George Clanton
Kate Pierson
Paul Simon
Ric Ocasek
Steve Burns (do not google who this is I promise it's gonna be fantastic)
Trent Reznor
Wayne Coyne
Yoko Ono

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[ama]

When (and if) I get my old account back, I'm claming all my old threads: Lykke Li, Billie Eilish, Finneas, Jorja Smith, Marina Kaye and Loïc Nottet.

[Gatr]

Hey, here's another group of lists :)

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{Threads I've Already Posted or Will Post Very Soon}
Adriana Figueroa
Andrew Huang
Bill Wurtz
Caleb Hyles
Casey Lee Williams
David Fremberg
Jack Douglass (Part-Time)
Johnny Gioeli
Kendrick Lamar
Kenny Rogers
Kmac2021
Malinda Kathleen Reese
Marvin Gaye
Matt Heafy
Neil Cicierega
PelleK
Randler
Smooth McGroove
Stevie Wonder
Ted Poley
Tony Harnell
Vinny

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{Threads I'm Tweaking/Remaking and Will Post Eventually}
Adam Chance
Geoff Castellucci
Joel Berghult
Justin Timberlake
Marc Hudson
Sarah Midori Perry
Tim Foust
Tsuko G.
ZP Theart

[Tara]

Sept 24, 2019 5:21:35 GMT ama said:

When (and if) I get my old account back, I'm claming all my old threads: Lykke Li, Billie Eilish, Finneas, Jorja Smith, Marina Kaye and Loïc Nottet.

Hi ama, I believe mod falsetokaiba backed up all your work for you. I'm not sure how you two can get in touch though. I can't compose messages, but I imagine staff can, so he should see this tag and be able to message you the documents soon. 

edit: I see Gatr answered this somewhere else. Go go team

[kuyashii]

Good [[insert current part of the day where you are everyone]]!

Even though I already admitted that I wouldn't be very active on the forum for a while due to a combination of both personal and professional/academic reasons, I'm here to kindly ask for a staff member to send my posted threads and the ones I claimed before the forum move. I also admit a lot of my threads weren't really up to the current standards of TRP before the move so it would be more apropriated for them being in the WIP sections. I don't have a particularly good memory to know everything I posted and claimed on the fly - so I'll probably sort them again in the proper way (the ones ready to post already, the ones that will go to WIP, the ones I'll give away, my claims and everything) once I have the proper list.

[kaji]

I'm claiming all my old threads back - David Phelps, Sam Robson, Cziesław Niemen and Von Smith.
How is it being done exactly? Are the mods/admins posting them from their own accounts or is the info being sent to us for us to post? 

[nilescrane]

I'd like to claim Ariel Pink (again)

[Siren]

Hopefully I'm doing this correctly...

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{Threads I'm about to post very soon (TRP3 threads)}
Attila Dorn
Daniel Heiman
Fabio Lione
Jan Thore Grefstad
Joakim Brodén
Olaf Hayer

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{Claims (Threads which I'm working on and will post in the future) - Open to collab on any one of those, just send me a message :)}
Alessandro Conti
Dario Di Matteo
Giacomo Voli
Henning Basse
Iuri Sanson
James Rivera
Jarmo Pääkkönen
Jonas Heidgert
Mikael Dahl
Morby
Peter "Peavy" Wagner
Piet Sielck
Roberto "Ramon" Messina
Roberto Tiranti
Urban breed

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{Claims I'm giving up}
Donna Burke
Troy Baker

[aliensweetheart]

I would like to retain my threads on Marc Martel, Merijn van Haren and Jasper Steverlinck.

[Holsety]

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{Posting}Billie Holiday
Bradford Cox
David Bowie
David Gilmour
George Harrison
John Lennon*
Laura Nyro
Leonard Cohen
Michael Stipe
Mick Jagger
Molly Rankin
Nico
Paul McCartney*
Robert Plant
Robin Pecknold
Roy Orbison

The asterisked names are threads I am in the process of re-doing. I'm willing to discuss claims for most of these names, but I don't anticipate it will be necessary until everyone gets their own threads posted. Any thread I had before that is not listed is a thread I am not intent on keeping. Please note that many of those names have been claimed already.

I'm leaving my list of claims empty for now.

[NJ]

Let's-a go again:

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{Threads that are coming soon}Adam Rupp
Earl Elkins, Jr.
Violeta Parra

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{Threads that need a remake}Ken Turner
Tim Duncan
Wes McKenzie

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{Giving away this one}Glenn Miller

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{My claims for now}Jorge González
Mike Kupris (probably for Part-Time Singers)
Vladimir Miller

[Alex61]

Alright, as a HEADS UP: If you've put your threads in the "threads that are coming soon" pile, there's a high chance I'll have slotted them into the Claims and Threadless Singers part of the Google Sheet for the time being (seeing as they are currently threadless). If you've posted any of them (or if any of your threads are at the moment in the wrong place), please post here a member of staff will like your post once it's been sorted. :thumb:

[Alex61]

Also, I shall lead by example and post what I hope others will post shortly.

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{Already Posted}
Ann Wilson
Björk
Jessie J
Kate Bush
Kate Miller-Heidke
Linda Perhacs

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{In Next Week's Episode...}
Agnetha Fältskog
Alicia Keys
Aretha Franklin
Bat for Lashes
Belinda Carlisle
Beth Gibbons
Billie Joe Armstrong
Chrissy Amphlett
Christine McVie
Damien Rice
Dolly Parton
Don McLean
Emilie Autumn
Erykah Badu
Eva Cassidy
Fiona Apple
Florence Welch
Geike Arnaert
Grimes
Happy Rhodes
Hayley Williams
Janelle Monáe
Jewel
Joni Mitchell
Joss Stone
Justin Hawkins
Karen Carpenter
Karen O
Kylie Minogue
Laura Stevenson
Lene Lovich
Maureen McGovern
Meryl Streep (to Part-Time Singers)
Nina Simone
Norah Jones
Pat Benatar
Regina Spektor
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Vaughan
Sia
Stevie Nicks
Susanna Hoffs
Tori Amos
Yma Sumac

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{In Development Hell}
Adele
Alanis Morissette
Alison Goldfrapp
Beyoncé
Carole King
Joanna Newsom
Julie Andrews
Minnie Riperton
PJ Harvey
Sara Bareilles
Sheryl Crow

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{Obtained the Rights To}
Adrianne Lenker
Alison Krauss
Alison Wheeler
Amanda Palmer
Andrew Vanwyngarden
Ani DiFranco
Briana Corrigan
Courtney Barnett
Dami Im
Dan Auerbach
Dave Hemingway
Donna Summer
Emeli Sandé
Harry Nilsson
Jacqui Abbott
Jade Bird
James Blunt
k.d. lang
Lauryn Hill
Lindsey Buckingham
Lisa Hannigan
Loreena McKennitt
Marie Fredriksson
Martika
Natalie Cole
Neil Diamond
Nina Persson
Paul Heaton
Roberta Flack
Robyn
Róisín Murphy
Steve Winwood
Tracy Chapman
Van Morrison

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{Selling to the Highest Bidder}
Gabrielle Aplin
Idina Menzel

[kuyashii]

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{Ready-to-go threads}Those are threads that are as up-to-date as possible and are ready to be in the main session.

Tommy Giles Rogers
Damnagoras
Einar Solberg
Mariusz Duda
Jónsi
Hinata
IX
Darroh Sudderth
Löic Rossetti
Mika Tauriainen
Ragnar Zolberg
Ross Jennings
Sophia Aslanides
Tim Charles
Kristoffer Gildenlöw

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{Incomplete/Outdated Threads}Those are threads that I can post already but are either incomplete or outdated. The asterisk marks threads I'm currently working on at the moment. All outdated threads are going to go through reresearch in the future.

Kobi Farhi*
Lime*
Julie Christmas*
Candice Clot
Davidavi Dolev
Fuki
Hiro
José Andrëa
Tsuzuku

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{Threads I'm giving away}
I can still post this one but I'm not particularly interested in reresearching it - or at least I'm open to colaborate on remaking it. Definitely not a fan of his recent output

Guilherme de Sá

[IhateMana]

wanna make a quick addendum, I literally just realised I very recently redid all of the Dead Can Dance albums so Lisa Gerrard is actually nearly finished so I'm keeping her

[Dylan]

Reclaiming these old threads:

Nathan Sharp

Matt Sallee

J.None

Luke Combs

Danny Gokey

Grey Oakes

I think that's everything? Also if any admins have access to the old thread data and would like to send it to me, that would be pretty neat.

[blazejecar]

I'd like to reclaim my old threads from TRP 3. I had Noora Louhimo, Adrienne Cowan and Yannis Papadoupolos. Where do I ask for the data? I can't PM for some reason

Also there are some singers I want to do that were claimed in the old forum but aren't listed here, like Tommy johansson, are those up for grabs now?