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Randy D

How quickly or easily do you pick up (memorize) all the lyrics to songs that you like? This is a poll.

 

1. It’s a snap for me, usually after hearing the song just a couple of times.

2. It’s not too difficult for me, I can learn all the lyrics by listening to songs several times.

3.  It depends on how tricky the words can be, I’ve sometimes found out weeks, months, or years later that I’ve misunderstood the lyrics.

4.  I can’t do it by listening alone, I have to see them written out to learn them well.

5. I don’t even try; I’m more into focusing on the music than the lyrics. 

6.  I have a terrible memory in general, but even more so when it comes to song lyrics.

7.  Two or more of the above. 

8.  None of the above/other answer. 


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Posted - October 17, 2020
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  • 10664

    1, (and occasionally a bit of 3). 

      October 17, 2020 9:38 AM MDT
    4

  • 44652
    8. Much of the music I have listened to the lyrics are indecipherable. I have memorized 95% of the Beatles and Motown music.
      October 17, 2020 12:02 PM MDT
    3

  • 5451
    1. It’s a snap for me, usually after hearing the song just a couple of times.
      October 17, 2020 12:25 PM MDT
    3

  • 34452
    1.  I usually pick up the words before I even realize I have heard the song.  I just notice I am singing with the song.  I often know the chorus while listening the first time.  This post was edited by my2cents at October 17, 2020 1:02 PM MDT
      October 17, 2020 12:31 PM MDT
    3

  • 7795
    5. I don’t even try; I’m more into focusing on the music than the lyrics. 

    and

    6.  I have a terrible memory in general, but even more so when it comes to song lyrics.
      October 17, 2020 12:33 PM MDT
    2

  • 8214
    4. Even with hearing aids, not all the words are understandable to me when I hear a song.  
    I look up the lyrics online.
      October 17, 2020 3:56 PM MDT
    2

  • 10052
    4. It's really something that I'm pretty much compelled to do if someone tells me to listen to a song, or if I hear a song I like, I automatically find the lyrics and read them while listening. 


      October 17, 2020 5:26 PM MDT
    2

  • 757
    I'll save the words to a note pad so I can print them out later and put the chords to them. 
      March 18, 2021 12:20 PM MDT
    1

  • 10052
    That's cool. I still want to learn to play guitar someday. 
      August 15, 2021 11:03 AM MDT
    2

  • 16838
    Either 1 or 3, depending on the clarity of the singer's diction. With some artists it's pointless even to try, case in point Australian Crawl's James Reyne - he drawls so badly that he needs subtitles.

    3 leads to some amusing mondegreens. "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" (Jimi Hendrix), "It doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not" (Bon Jovi), and all the ones that Peter Kay mentions here ...

      November 1, 2020 6:07 AM MST
    4

  • 757
    I learned the words to this song after listening to it three times. 

      March 16, 2021 10:59 PM MDT
    0

  • 44652
    Excellent guitars, but the lyrics are Greek to me. Russian cowboys?
      March 17, 2021 12:56 PM MDT
    1

  • 757
    That's Bingo, they're from Moscow, Russia. 
    I learned the words to this, мама говорила, or Mom said, in just listening to it three times.  And that's in their language. I gave yet to learn it in English. All I have to do is to have it translated from Russian to English, but it's much easier to learn it in the Russian language, which is actually 
    an East Slavic language native to the Russians in Eastern Europe.

    This post was edited by Wolfhound at March 18, 2021 7:19 AM MDT
      March 17, 2021 11:59 PM MDT
    1

  • 757
    I'm learning this song now, in Russian.
      March 18, 2021 12:11 AM MDT
    2

  • 44652
    Excellent. I studied Russian in college for a couple of semesters, but that was long ago and I only remember enough to get arrested.
      March 18, 2021 7:17 AM MDT
    2

  • 757
     It doesn't take much, does it. 
      March 18, 2021 12:16 PM MDT
    2

  • 44652
    Just say "Putin sucks." The next day you're in Siberia.
      March 18, 2021 2:41 PM MDT
    2

  • 16838
    "Yob tovoyu matj" will earn you a punch in the face. I can swear in sixteen languages.
      August 15, 2021 1:35 AM MDT
    0

  • 8214
    I like it!
      March 18, 2021 7:24 AM MDT
    3

  • 8214
    Catchy tune. 
      March 18, 2021 7:22 AM MDT
    3