After reading Rosies wonderful review on this site, and her urging me to go take a look see, I decided to venture over to the site and see what all the hoopla was about.
First Impressions
My first impressions of the site was that it was a pretty ordinary site, if not bare. You are met with the blue screen that only gives you four choices as to which way you are going to go.
Choice one - Search For Music Lyrics
When I clicked on this link it took me to a page that was titled Search info and Updates which had a letter printed from a Mike Giles asking people to donate to the red cross in light of the horrific tragedy of September 11. Then at the bottom of the page it offered me several links to choose from in regards to not only the Red Cross but also to pages such as a new Yahoo Club that is set up for Lyricsworld users.
On the side bar there were lyrics search, popular searches, submit a site, about us, contact us and a link to their privacy policy. So once again, I choose lyrics search. (Even though I must confess here and now, I do not know of many songs that have lyrics that one would find on this site as I listen to opera, classical and other instrumental types of music), but felt in all fairness I would try to dig up some so that I could write about them here. So off I went to raid a friend of mines CD collection!
What I found as I tried to search
This music may or may not be what is listened to today. I know a lot of it is old music, but wanted to give this a spin. (No pun intended.)
China Grove by the Doobie Brothers was the first one I entered in, well, actually I just entered China Grove and it went straight to the one by the Doobie Brothers.
It not only listed the lyrics for China Grove but also gave me the guitar cords that go with it.
Having had success with the first one, I decided to take a shot at another.
So, feeling rather nostalgic for my teenage years with the first one, I decided to go way back to when I was a kid of about sixteen and look up an artist that I enjoyed at the time, Alice Cooper.
I punched in I’ll Never Cry and it found me nine different links, the first one being the exact one I was searching for. This one only gave the lyrics, but hey, it was a nice trip down memory lane.
Having had success with these two, I decided to punch in one more. Wanting to make it a bit different I entered Dream of the Archer which was a song that I recorded back in 1986 (when I still did have a voice that was suitable for singing.) This selection was recorded by the group Heart way back when. Now this one drew a blank. So then I tried Knights in White Satin which also drew a blank.
So you get the drift. The site does have some lyrics to music that people might like to have so they can know what the artist is saying, but all in all, it really depends on what type of music you listen to.
Popular Search
When I entered this section of the site, the first thing I got was an apology from the site owner stating that the list was an old one, and they were working on the server. (Boy that rings a bell with me.)
The top ones included artists such as Britney Spears, Eminem, Thong Song, Kid Rock, Limp Buzkit, Nsync, Mariah Carey, and three for Real Slim Shady
Overall Feeling
My overall feeling of the site is that it is easy to navigate, and does contain lyrics to songs that people may want, but did not contain most of the ones I searched for. Again, it really depends on what type of music you listen to and how popular your favorite artists are.
It is an interesting site to browse around even if you no long listen to that type of music, memories that is what I found here more than anything.
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