Lyrics kvetch
Dec. 27th, 2004 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edgI miss lyrics.ch. (Was that it? Man, it's been so long I barely remember.)
Whenever I go looking for lyrics online, the sites I find are ones that only take user-submitted lyrics. (This is, I presume, to avoid the copyright problem.) Which is all well and good - the Wikipedia Effect ought to mean that the lyrics are more or less correct - except that the "update these lyrics" link is difficult to find in a lot of cases; even when you manage to find the link, the new lyrics need to be reviewed by an "editor" instead of just being posted correctly; and the "editors" take weeks, if not months, to get around to checking and uploading submissions. All of which combine to mean that the lyrics on these pages are often - possibly usually - wrong. (Quick tip: it's "love pleads", not "love pleases". The latter doesn't even scan.)
It'd be nice to have a lyrics repository that either made some effort to provide correct and/or official lyrics or operated on a real wiki model.
Whenever I go looking for lyrics online, the sites I find are ones that only take user-submitted lyrics. (This is, I presume, to avoid the copyright problem.) Which is all well and good - the Wikipedia Effect ought to mean that the lyrics are more or less correct - except that the "update these lyrics" link is difficult to find in a lot of cases; even when you manage to find the link, the new lyrics need to be reviewed by an "editor" instead of just being posted correctly; and the "editors" take weeks, if not months, to get around to checking and uploading submissions. All of which combine to mean that the lyrics on these pages are often - possibly usually - wrong. (Quick tip: it's "love pleads", not "love pleases". The latter doesn't even scan.)
It'd be nice to have a lyrics repository that either made some effort to provide correct and/or official lyrics or operated on a real wiki model.
