From: tomster@wpi.WPI.EDU (God is Calling ....)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: Re: I need Depeche Mode Lyrics
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:25:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.TOMSTER.92Apr16102538
	<1992Apr14.132847.6564@newscan.canada.sun.com>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280

In article <1992Apr14.132847.6564@newscan.canada.sun.com> mario@theglove.Canada.Sun.Com (Mario Dorion # extra topping $1.75) writes:
*>   In article 10304@acsu.buffalo.edu, tung@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yuen K. Tung) writes:
*>   >	Thanks to all that have helped me to date. If anyone wants a copy of 
*>   >	my copilation, I will forward a uuencoded postscript version of it.
*>   >	However I will tell you that most of the stuff can be found at cs.uwp.edu.
*>   >	All I have done is string them together and added a few fonts to them.
*>   >	Again thanks for any help that you can give me!
*>
*>   I have just downloaded of few DM lyrics from this site. All I have to
*>   say is that they were either written by a fool or by someone with a
*>   twisted sense of humour.
*>
*>   There is a few songs for which I know the lyrics for fact (as I own an
*>   official DM songbook) and the lyrics on the server are total nonsense.
*>
*>   Here's few examples:
*>
*>   Leave in silence:
*>
*>	cs.uwp.edu                                    Actual
*>   I turned myself so many times before            I told myself so many times before
*>   But this time I think I mean it for sure        (this one's right)
*>   We have reached the full time                    ... reached a full stop
*>   Nothing is gonna save us from the big trouble    ... the big drop
*>   Wish I get to a conclusion                       Reached out natural conclusion
*>   A pretty illusion                                Outlived the illusion
*>   I hate being on disinctuaction                   ... in these situations
*>   Back over diplomatic relations                   That calls for diplomatic...
*>   If I only new the answer                         ... knew the answer
*>   Or I thought we had a change                     I thought we had a chance
*>   So I could stop this                             (ok)
*>   I would stop this                                (ok)
*>   Safe from spreading like a handshake             Thing from spreading like a cancer
*>
*>   It goes like this from song to song.
*>
*>   Some of the lyrics are funny ... some don't make sense ... but most
*>   don't have anything to do with depeche mode.
*>
   Mario Dorion - Sun Montreal


Mario seems to not understand much.
	1>  These lyrics were not copied from an official song-book.
	2>  These lyrics were never intended to be final, definative
		translations.
	3>  For the most part the lyrics at cs.uwp.edu are VERY close to fact
		(Depeche Mode lyrics *perhaps* excepted).

1 --->   The lyrics at cs.uwp were originally from a "lyric server", whatever
		that is.  They were written out, however, by ordinary people,
		like yourself.  Have you ever sat down (*without* your precious
		songbook) and written out the lyrics to a song, much less an
		album?  I really didn't think so, else you would have
		understood the quality of these lyrics right off.
2 --->   The idea here is that people will download the present lyrics, read
		along with the song, make a few changes, and upload the changed
		lyrics to the 'incoming' directory of cs.uwp.  Since you have
		such a distinct advantage on the rest of us, perhaps, instead
		of bitching about how the rest of the world can't transcribe
		a decent Depeche Mode lyric, you should correct the files and
		upload them again.
3 --->   This system has worked quite well for all the other lyrics I have seen
		from cs.uwp.  I downloaded the *entirety* of the Pink Floyd
		collection, checked and double-checked all the lyrics, and
		found that my lyrics (written before I had even heard of 
		cs.uwp) agreed with well over 90% of the lyrics there.  I am
		now in the process of bumping my appended lyrics back onto
		the original system, BTW.
Like I said, you are quite obviously missing the whole concept here.  Hope I
enlightenned you at least a little bit.

		---- tomster@wpi.wpi.edu

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