I use music a lot in my classes, especially with Beginning English Language Learners. When I search for lyrics on the Internet to songs I want to use, I can usually find them. However, most of these sites have incessant and obnoxious pop-up ads.
I’ve found a few sites that are less annoying and have placed links to them on my Teacher’s Page under Movies and Music For ESL.
There’s a new site added to that list. It’s called Lyrics Mode. It looks like they have a nice selection of lyrics — at least I was able to find ones to songs I like to use. It has the actual music to at least some, too. And it seems easy to use, with no annoying pop-ups.
This is just what I need, believe it or not — not for the classroom, but for my band (http://www.sofakingsrock.com) . I hate the pop-ups of other sites.
On this site, I just searched for a song that I want our band to learn (http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/paolo_nutini/new_shoes.html) and found it easily enough, with video, too. Nice.
Kevin