Fix what’s wrong, but don’t rewrite what the artist wrote. Stick to the official released version — album booklet, label site, verified lyric video, etc. If you’re guessing, pause and double-check.
Respect the structure
Songs have rhythm. Pages do too. Leave line breaks where they belong. Don’t smash things together or add extra empty space just for looks.
Punctuation counts (but vibe-editing doesn’t)
Correct typos? Yes. Re-punctuating a whole verse because it ‘looks better’? Probably not. Keep capitalization and punctuation close to the official source.
Don’t mix versions
If you’re editing the explicit version, keep it explicit. If it’s the clean version, keep it clean. No mashups.
Let the lyrics be lyrics
This isn’t the place for interpretations, memories, stories, or trivia — that’s what comments are for. Keep metadata, translations, and bracketed stage directions out unless they’re officially part of the song.
Edit lightly
If two lines are wrong… fix the two lines. No need to bulldoze the whole page. Think ‘surgical,’ not ‘remix.’
When in doubt, ask the crowd
Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.
Great live jam that just keeps going and going and going.
Liner notes from the "Peel Slowly and See" box-set:
"The November '66 mono audience recording of 'Melody Laughter' in this collection (an excerpt from a longer performance recorded at Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio and first issued on a bootleg album in 1981) stands as a rare document of the VU's nightly flights of improv-daring, of what they were capable of achieving with just a handful of loosely agreed-on chords. (It is a song of sorts, enough so that the band gave it an actual title.) It is also a startling look at how the supposedly jarring contrasts on 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' were part of a very deliberate whole. You can hear the kind of pneumatic pulse that underscores 'All Tomorrow's Parties,' the come-hither heat cloaked in Nico's frosty, wordless aria, even lick fragments of what would eventually become 'Sister Ray' on 'White Light/White Heat'."
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Great live jam that just keeps going and going and going.
Liner notes from the "Peel Slowly and See" box-set:
"The November '66 mono audience recording of 'Melody Laughter' in this collection (an excerpt from a longer performance recorded at Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio and first issued on a bootleg album in 1981) stands as a rare document of the VU's nightly flights of improv-daring, of what they were capable of achieving with just a handful of loosely agreed-on chords. (It is a song of sorts, enough so that the band gave it an actual title.) It is also a startling look at how the supposedly jarring contrasts on 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' were part of a very deliberate whole. You can hear the kind of pneumatic pulse that underscores 'All Tomorrow's Parties,' the come-hither heat cloaked in Nico's frosty, wordless aria, even lick fragments of what would eventually become 'Sister Ray' on 'White Light/White Heat'."