I really like music, but can never understand what the singer or the band is saying. To make matters worse, I seem to be the only one in my household that suffers with this affliction. Luckily for me, Yahoo! has just launched an all new Lyrics Search feature as part of their Yahoo! Music offering. It works really well and the quality and accuracy of the results is very impressive. Aside from being both FREE and LEGAL, one of the best things about the search is the absence of tacky ads, annoying pop-ups and chances of picking up some kind of spyware.
Types of search could include looking for a particular band’s lyrics (eg Coldplay
), or lyrics from a particular song (eg The Killers Mr. Brightside divx beetle juice
The one thing that spoiled the site for me was how it displays in Firefox 2.0.0.3. The artist thumbnails near the bottom of the screen don’t line up and there are some funny diamond shapes near the search box that don’t appear in IE7.0.
Still, a great new addition to the Yahoo! Search family and hopefully I’ll be able to sing along to a few more tunes now…
I agree that it is hard to understand a lot of the singers out there. One song that had me fooled for the longest time was “She Drives Me Crazy” by The Fine Young Cannibals. I used to think they were saying “with long white hair,” but its actually “like no one else.” Apparently this is a fairly common misinterpretation, lol, even though common sense would prove that they sound nothing like one another.
Comment by Natalie — May 25, 2007 @ 8:37 am
That’s a good one!
I always thought TLC were saying “Don’t go Jason Waterfalls” on this song: Waterfalls
Anyone have any others?
Thanks for the comment!
–Steve
Comment by Steve Speirs — May 25, 2007 @ 8:50 am
As luck would have it, Chris just posted the video for Waterfalls over at the Wampago Music Videos web site.
Check out those lyrics and let me know what you think.
Comment by Steve Speirs — May 25, 2007 @ 9:35 am
See I can see into the future as well
Comment by Chris — May 25, 2007 @ 11:34 am
Regarding your comment on my blog, can you click the add to favorite again? something wasn’t right.
Thanks for dropping by.
Comment by Johnny Cash — May 25, 2007 @ 4:23 pm
Oh..that’s a handy pretty feature from Yahoo. I got the same problem when it comes to lyrics. I love to sing along with the radio when I’m driving in my car, but usually just make up my own lyrics LOL…
Comment by Sandra — May 25, 2007 @ 8:58 pm
I wanted to be a fan of you but i was not able to add you ? I don’t know i havent seen anywhere saying “fan”
Anyways my suggestion would be to write another article on technorati and favz
Comment by JuliaxXx — May 25, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
Hi there. Finally I got ur blogs! You’ve a nice skin too. And I agree with you that sometimes it’s really hard to understand a song. We might sing some words wrongly. Thx the service but not only from yahoo but googles as well. haha…
You’ve a nice blogs. keep it up!
Comment by curryegg — May 26, 2007 @ 11:48 am
Some of my favourite music is Vietnamese dating from the sixties. I speak the language very badly and certainly don’t understand all the words. If the words have a melody that blends in the meaning has little importance to me.
Mind I’m too old to listento anything written after 1975.
Regards,
vnrozier
Comment by Rose — May 26, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
I can never understand what they are saying either. Great post!
Comment by Gerri — May 26, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Hi Steve
Does this mean you now sing all round the house
, hold on I’ll get my guitar
Comment by Tara — May 29, 2007 @ 7:09 am
Only when I’m on my own (like now). My voice is terrible!
Comment by Steve Speirs — May 29, 2007 @ 7:16 am