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The idea of uploading song lyrics has been popular and utilised on various other websites and is nothing original, but why not make PA an accurate source for song lyrics as well?

I just had this idea, that there would be a special amount of people who would listen to music while reading the lyrics and either type them up when they are in the booklet, or finding them on the internet and checking them to make sure every little nuance is precisely correct.

For example, today I searched for In The Woods...'s I am Your Flesh lyrics and all of the links I found had totally incorrect lyrics except for this one - http://www.lyricsdir.com/in-the-woods-i-am-your-flesh-lyrics.html If we had just implemented this feature on PA, there would be no such problems, and perhaps some people would even come here to read the lyrics.

So, how about it?

 -- Ivan

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Trickster F. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: February 10 2006 Location: Belize Status: Offline Points: 5308	Topic: Lyrics in ProgArchives. Posted: June 08 2006 at 01:16
	The idea of uploading song lyrics has been popular and utilised on various other websites and is nothing original, but why not make PA an accurate source for song lyrics as well? I just had this idea, that there would be a special amount of people who would listen to music while reading the lyrics and either type them up when they are in the booklet, or finding them on the internet and checking them to make sure every little nuance is precisely correct. For example, today I searched for In The Woods...'s I am Your Flesh lyrics and all of the links I found had totally incorrect lyrics except for this one - http://www.lyricsdir.com/in-the-woods-i-am-your-flesh-lyrics.html If we had just implemented this feature on PA, there would be no such problems, and perhaps some people would even come here to read the lyrics. So, how about it? -- Ivan
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Sean Trane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19667	Posted: June 08 2006 at 02:46
	If I may answer this as the writer of this site's legal notice (but not the owner's opinion either), lyrics are intellectual properties and it would request the owner's approval. Something rather hard to achieve and risky for legal reasons and if they are under an electronic form, it is likely to be on the band's site. If not prtesent on their own site, we can therefore safely assume that they haveno wish to (or lack the dive to) have them printed
	let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword

Eetu Pellonpaa Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 17 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 4828	Posted: June 11 2006 at 01:56
	How about providing links to other pages with lyrics? For example, I would like to share this, but I'm not sure which would be a proper forum. http://www.geocities.com/piotrt.geo/lyrics/haikara.html There's HAIKARA's 1st album's lyrics translated to English! Edited by Eetu Pellonpää - June 11 2006 at 01:56

Viajero Astral Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 16 2006 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 3118	Posted: June 14 2006 at 01:37
	its a good idea, but dificult to show all the lyrics of all the bands listened in PA


BaldFriede Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10261	Posted: June 14 2006 at 04:46
	Also sometimes lyrics are pretty hard to understand, and sometimes the lyrics are not even accurate on the band's official homepage. E.g.: The lyrics to "High Rise" on the homepage of Hawkwind; there is a line given as "caged-up rage, swarming all the time", but Robert Calvert clearly sings "caged-up rage, swarming hornet hive". He had an obsession with insect swarms, especially hornets; references to them appear in many of his songs. The homepage does not seem to be maintenanced by the band itsellf; the lyrics to the song "The War I Survived" are, for example, missing. Trying to look up these lyrics leads to very interesting results, as there seems to be a lot of guesswork what Brock is actually singing on this track; the first few verses are usually marked "???", and about the only thing everyone agrees about are the words "Slaughterhouse 5" (a reference to the novel by Kurt Vonnegut).
	BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

Sean Trane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19667	Posted: June 14 2006 at 04:53
	http://perso.club-internet.fr/calyx/ This site can take care of a lot of group's Lear Ricks
	let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword