German Music Database

List of Artists and Songs: A to Z
Other music sites
How to contribute?
General ideas -- I need more!

Caveat: This project is mine and mine only, songs here are for use in classrooms, they are online to
save teachers time
by not having to retype songs that others have already transcribed.
Copyright Questions?

As they are for teaching, any hints as to how to use the songs would be greatly appreciated by the maintainer and users of this site.

The site will continue to grow as you add to it.

• I have one page with all the artists and their songs listed. I have them all on one page to allow for easy browsing, and as it is text only, loading should be quick. To find any artist or song, use the find function of your browser. (If you use Netscape and the button does not show at the top of your screen, go to the Options menu with your mouse and pull it down, highlight Show Toolbar, and let go.) If a song is not listed, I don't have it, nor do I know how to get it other than going to sites on my Other Music Sites page. Please do not ask me to find a song for you.

  If an artist has a page, it includes all their songs I have on my site, reviews, fan pages, and sites with more of their lyrics available as I run across them and as you send them to me. For some artists I have no songs, but I have found sites where you can get lyrics, and if you find any song from elsewhere useful, I would appreciate your telling me! If you have songs or reviews to add to this site, please see "Contributing."

• If you would like to search for more songs, I recommend Alta Vista as it allows for Boolean operators and it has a robot that goes out to find new sites, or Hotbot for the most complete -- overcomplete? search engine I've seen. For even more searching, try the Allonesearch page.

  As people send me uses for the songs, I will include the songs directly on my site, with the instructions on the song's page.

• When you've found a song you want to use, first click in the frame, then either hit the print button on your browser to use it as is, or (in Netscape) go up to the Edit menu with your mouse, Select All, Copy, and then paste into your word processing program where you may manipulate the song to create a cloze text for modal verbs, etc. You can even email yourself a copy of the song using Netscape's mail document feature from the File menu.
  

• On my Other Music Sites page I have included several places on the Web where you can order cds, some German music magazines, more Lyrics databases, etc. Miscellaneous things.

• I would love to be able to have sound files for entire songs in this database, but I certainly don't have that much space on my server, and I don't intend to compete with the music industry. Some fan pages I have found do include sound samples, and I encourage you to tell me if you find more!

• If you have questions about the legality of this site, I refer you to my Copyright Questions? page. My final statement is that I do not provide sound bites, so anyone wanting to make use of these texts either already has the music or must buy it. This site, from another perspective, is free advertising for the music companies. But the UWP site got shut down so I might too. If you find a song you want, take it while you can!

• As people ask questions, I will include answers on this page. I hope you find my site useful: please, if you find mistakes, bad links, texts to add, if my site just is blah without graphics and you're willing to wait a bit longer for things to load, etc., Email me! The domain is cory.de, put something creative before the @ and I'll get it. DO NOT email me with requests for help in finding songs, cds, videos, random stuff. Read the hints in the lower frame.

Site online since: May 15, 1996

If you can't find something, try my Other Music Sites, or google.com: enter a phrase from the song you want, something without umlauts or ß. Put quotes around it too to search for the exact phrase.
Sorry about the Popup windows that come -- they're from my free server and I can't stop them. Please use a popup-blocker -- Opera and Netscape (6? 7?) have them, and the Google toolbar for Internet Explorer has it too.

Maybe some of you reading this are native English speakers like me who live in some German-speaking country. If you live in Munich, you might be interested in a web forum I participate in with a guide to all kinds of topics that Expats in Germany find fascinating -- like where to get British and American foods in Germany / Munich, what's fun to do if you don't speak German or where you don't have to speak German to enjoy it. Where to see English language movies or get English language books, that kind of thing. It's called Toytown Munich - Munich's native English speaking crowd! If you're moving to Munich it's full of how to find an apartment and where are people meeting up. Many people in a foreign country get tired of having people practice their English on them -- at Toytown, it won't happen. All kinds of events and Stammtisches are listed here, classified ads for people moving to and from Munich, jobs wanted and offered, where to get good Mexican food in Munich, where to get a hot curry in Munich (Sitar!), etc. BTW, the site uses Invision Power Board and Movable Type. Androv Dessous is a German online lingerie shop run by a friend of mine. Specializing in bras for larger ladies..