# What’s your preferred lyrics site?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 6, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-preferred-lyrics-site/545690 "2010-07-06T06:43:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-preferred-lyrics-site/545690/1 "2010-07-06T06:43:09Z")

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No, I do not want to buy a ringtone. No, I do not want to scroll all over the page looking for the lyrics. No, I do not want to look at a page designed with Geocities or MySpace tools. Harumph.

I pop lyrics into Google all the time, then wade through the various e-, i-, and metro- lyric sites to find what I’m looking for. Yahoo! lyrics seemed to hold promise, but it’s not as complete as I expected and, unless I’m missing some preferences, is a PITA to use (search for a song, then select that song, then select to expand the lyrics…).

If I’m looking for something in-depth, there’s always the band’s site (when they have lyrics) or the well-established fan sites for particular musicians.

But what about the general case? Anyone have a lyrics-site preference or recommendation?

Thanks,

Rhythm

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-preferred-lyrics-site/545690/2 "2010-07-06T06:51:42Z")

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I don’t have a fave site, but I have a recommendation: be careful; lyric sites seem to be hotbeds of infectious-ware.

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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-preferred-lyrics-site/545690/3 "2010-07-06T06:55:48Z")

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Thanks – that’s another reason I want to find a reliable one and not bother with the risk.

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**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-preferred-lyrics-site/545690/4 "2010-07-06T09:48:09Z")

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I’ve had luck with [http://www.azlyrics.com/](http://www.azlyrics.com/) They do have Get This Song as a Ringtone ads, but they are unobtrusive. I’ve never had a malware problem from there either, and I’ve been going for years. Buyer beware of course.

More recently I’ve been going to [http://www.lyriki.com](http://www.lyriki.com) which I stumbled upon through the SDMB. i’ve had adblock since I started using that site, but I don’t see any placeholders for where ads might be.