WhoDitty? My KittyDitty.
February 23, 2009
Here's a fun site for you: WhoDitty. Look up song names through fragments of lyrics, artist name, where you heard it, etc. It's heavily ad-laden and once the search has run, you have to click again to see the actual results (bummer, dude). It works quite well for the lyrics search particularly. I did a number of searches, like "when you slam down the hammer…" and the top hit was the right one ("Speedway" by Morrissey for those interested parties). The site provides direct links to buy the MP3 from either iTunes or Amazon (more ads).
I still recommend AllMusic.com for all information related to music and musicians. They have quite a database, with complete discographies, biographies, contributions to other recordings, and a ton more.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:58 am
I usually just use Google to find songs from partial lyrics.
For your example I’d write in: “when you slam down the hammer” lyrics – and, hey presto, the first page is all links to ‘Speedway’. I teach my library users the exact same trick, and tell them that the best possible thing they can do, when hearing a song on the radio they like, is to write down a few significant words (“I love you” probably won’t help).
February 24th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Very true. Sometimes, though, basic search engines just don’t do the trick. I guess I should have used a more obscure example