Lyrics kvetch

[edg]

I 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.

Comments

[labyrinthman.livejournal.com]

Ever thought about building one?

[edg.livejournal.com]

Thought about it? Yes. Have the technical expertise or the webspace to do it? No...

[labyrinthman.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, building a wiki doesn't seem to take that much in the way of expertise.... and its very friendly to trial and error from what I've noticed.

The webspace though, thats a kicker.

[edg.livejournal.com]

Hm. I admit that I haven't ever looked into what it would take to build a Wiki, but I may look into it.

The trick with webspace is that I actually do have space - but it's far too small for a project of that scope.

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

I was astounded when the Lyrics server was taken down. The arguments used against it were flimsy and never truly explained how posting lyrics to songs was causing damage to artists.

[oyving.livejournal.com]

My additional gripe with the lyrics servers is that they're full of annoying and cluttering ads and being mind-boggingly slooooow.