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Came across this article which describes a Yahoo/Gracenote partnership to offer an online lyrics service. The article is pretty flimsy on details, but I’m still excited.

Showing his wry sense of humour, Ian Rogers, General Manager of Yahoo said:

“Finally, a free, legal and definitive way to settle a bet with the guy sitting next to you at the bar who is certain the Ramones’ most famous anthem declares, ‘I wanna piece of bacon’”

I just hope there’s an open API of course, so we can generate awesome thematic playlists. Just imagine some of the neat queries you could add to playlist generating tools like MusicIP or Pandora - “Give me 10 songs about lost love regained”. Or if it’s a cold night out, you could generate a playlist based on the concept of “fire” (and related terms like warmth). It’s a gold mine waiting to be tapped!

This might be old news to some people, but now the rest of us can play ;)