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Paroles, Paroles, Paroles...

Sharcho — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:10:21 -0800

LyricsWiki is the place to find reliable lyrics without invasive ads. SongMeanings when you've been wondering what those lyrics mean. The Archive of Misheard Lyrics because sometimes your version is much better than the original.

By: I Am Not a Lobster

I Am Not a Lobster — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:16:22 -0800

They haven't worked out the whole alphabatizing thing on LyricsWiki--individuals are alpha by first name. But nit-picking aside, I could see this becoming a really useful site, until the RIAA goes after it and shuts it down.

By: Sharcho

Sharcho — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:20:46 -0800

I search for the lyrics simply by putting the artist name in the URL (will automatically convert spaces to underscores), e.g. http://lyricwiki.org/Janis_Joplin

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:22:44 -0800

This looks pretty nice. The ads at lyric sites are among the most obnoxious anywhere. I do wonder though whether they have a plan for dealing with the MPA.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:26:55 -0800

LyricsWiki is very handy, but SongMeanings is bloody useless, or, rather, the users are after searching for a few songs, I particularly enjoyed such detailed analyses as 'prince is gay. im not. but for some reason i like this song! ITS SO FUCKING GAY' and 'I love this song. So does my mom.'.

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:42:26 -0800

LyricsWiki looks like a good idea, and I hope it works out well. Having said that, I'm looking forward to the inevitable endless editing wars over the true lyrics to mumbled songs (Louie Louie, anyone?), along with a lot of "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" Wikicruft.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:47:06 -0800

I Am Not a Lobster's got it. Unless the RIAA developed a sense of humor while I wasn't looking, they will undoubtedly shut down this site too. Which is a real pity. User contribution lyric sites are nothing new (in fact, if I recall correctly, lyrics.ch tried using that as a defense against getting shut down: they didn't post any lyrics, their users did.) What is refreshing about this site, as the FPP indicates, is the lack of ads. Either way, I'll use it while it's here. Thanks Sharcho!

By: melissa may

melissa may — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:55:41 -0800

I have found Lirama to be by far the best ad-free lyrics site out there (and if you don't find what you want, you can request it). It's multi-language, highly accurate, and seems to be run by genuinely nice people.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:02:37 -0800

LyricsWiki is the place to find reliable lyrics without invasive ads. I didn't realize there was a search box when I first loaded the page, because it had been bumped down below AdSense in the sidebar. I'd say that's pretty fucking "invasive."

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:18:39 -0800

EvilLyrics is totally awesome. It automatically hooks into pretty much every popular music player app and downloads the lyrics with no frills for the song you are currently playing, and even has a kareoke mode! Also, one of the cool features of songmeanings is that gender is shown on comments with the blue/pink line.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:19:19 -0800

There's long been a need for a lyrics wiki -- but I don't think anyone's made a good one yet. The problem is that they all use MediaWiki (the Wikipedia software), and MediaWiki completely fucking sucks for lyrics, because that's not the problem it was designed to solve. Writing good wiki software to do this is one of my long-held-but-never-got-around-to projects.

By: Stunt

Stunt — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:16:46 -0800

Drat, for a moment I was all excited about your EvilLyrics link, Mach5. Then I found out it doesn't support my player (jetAudio). Oh well, some day.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:57:40 -0800

Actually I think it was the Harry Fox Agency that got the lyrics sites shut down, not the RIAA.

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:35:05 -0800

At first inspection, SongMeanings mainly seems to consist of links to pages with no content other than invasive adverts, and when you do find a page containing comments, they're the same juvenile rubbish that infests most of the rest of the internet. "This sucks!" "No you suck!" The other two sites look more promising, but need content.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:51:02 -0800

The truth is that after the Harry Fox Agency or the RIAA or David Letterman's mother or whatever shuts down these sites, other sites will rise up to be shut down by the enemies of free lyric sites without annoying ads. The Internet was designed to survive nuclear war. Litigation just causes it to reroute around the trivial crapola. They may turn us all into outlaws, but they can't stop progress. Best they can do is delay it for awhile. For some reason that helps me sleep a little better at night, knowing that tight-suit retards are banging their heads against an impenetrable wall of ...not so retarded... ness...

By: Pigpen

Pigpen — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:36:19 -0800

Mach5, thanks for that EvilLyrics link. Sweet.

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:45:00 -0800

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the Beach Boys were singing about a "little doo scoop". Although now I can't license the name to anybody who develops a new improved doggie pooper scooper.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:55:45 -0800

There's also WikiLyrics, now known as E-Lyrics, run by a Wikipedian (after great contention). IANALobster: The RIAA doesn't have jurisdiction over song lyrics, only over (surprise!) recordings. Song lyrics are in the hands of a variety of licensing agents of varying pugnaciousness, such as the Harry Fox Agency, who got a number of guitar tabs and lyrics sites shut down some years ago.

By: squidfartz

squidfartz — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:56:48 -0800

Reverend BlueJeans!

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:25:25 -0800

You guys that are referring to it as LyricsWiki should cut it out. lyricswiki.org appears to also be a lyrics site but it is chock full of ads and windows popping up out of nowhere. lyricwiki.org without the 's' is the site under discussion and I'm sure they'd rather not unnecessarily send traffic to the imposter site. With that aside, I really want to see an explanation of how this site expects to survive without ads. The web has been awash in lyrics site since the beginning, but they all came and went due to lawsuits or running out of funding. To step into in that sort of environment with a stated mission of not having ads seems foolish. The site appears to me to have zero ads whatsoever, but I can't really judge well as I block ads anyway, so if they have non-intrusive ads then I guess that's their business model.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:29:41 -0800

Thanks, Sharcho and all commenters who provided extra links. Ad-free lyrics sites, yeah!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:02:25 -0800

Seconding EvilLyrics. I've used it for years.