"Official" lyrics wrong?

Jan · #1 04-25-2007, 09:15 AM

So, Yahoo/Gracenote created a database of legal song lyrics.
There are even some songs from UW there, namely Moaner, King of Snake and Underneath the Radar.

They claim that "The age-old confusion over song lyrics, a source of fascination to some and frustration to others, is about to be cleared up, thanks to the internet."

Funnily enough both the lyrics of Moaner and King of Snake are wrong! Of course I can't be 100% sure because I don't know the really official lyrics but to me it seems Sherlock Holmes Music just copy&pasted those lyrics from the next best illegal lyrics page and put "(C) Richard Smith/Karl Hyde publisher designee" below so that it appears "official".

Guess i expected too much from a site which classifies Beaucoup Fish as "Funky House".

edit: oops, forgot link: http://music.yahoo.com/Underworld/lyrics/267108

sanakan · #2 04-25-2007, 09:40 AM

there were never any "official" lyrics released (until the riverrun series, that is) with the only exception being "born slippy".

everything else most probably originated on these very boards here... but definitely aren't "official".

Jan · #3 04-25-2007, 09:49 AM

Yeah, that's exactly what i mean. But they claim that those lyrics are official and correct.

King of Snake · #4 04-25-2007, 10:08 AM

thus they are full off shit

ndrwrld · #5 04-25-2007, 10:47 AM

an eraser of doves !

lloyd · #6 04-25-2007, 12:24 PM

I'm rather sure that Sherlock Holmes Music is the publication vehicle underworld publishes their music/lyrics under.
As you can read here http://www.sherlockholmesmusic.co.uk/

mmm skyscraper · #7 04-25-2007, 12:29 PM

There are lyrics for Spoonman and Cowgirl on the videos for those songs. I would consider those to be official.

And the Cowgirl lyrics are in the Mmm...skyscraper book.

Where's the lyrics for Rez?

BufoBufo · #8 04-25-2007, 05:27 PM

I've heard that the official lyrics to Born Slippy got published, but I've never actually found the friggers. Anyone care to share a link?

My bid for brownie points: Underworld lyrics was the first ever thing I printed off the internet.

mmm skyscraper · #9 04-25-2007, 07:27 PM

the lyrics for born slippy are in the dubno booklet

not sure about the official one

BufoBufo · #10 04-25-2007, 08:39 PM

I've got the ones in the DubNo sleeve; I just thought the "official" ones had been properly transcribed from the song and given the OK by Karl. Ah well.

I'd like to see that Gracenote wossname have a stab at untangling Spikee