If people have parental-control software installed on their machines, shouldn't that filter out the bawdy stuff?

I guess I'd compare this site to a library. It's not a pornography site, but yet it does have many songs that may be less than totally wholesome - with music and literature, that's the way it is. You're sure to find the same in the "fiction" section of your library, unless you stay in the children's department.

Since you don't pay for the information you get at Mudcat, this is different from the reasoning behind having "explicit lyrics" labels on recordings. When my oldest son was nine years old, he bought a CD from a group called Loverboy. The CD came sealed - with no indication of what was inside, which turned out to be pretty raunchy. Well, record stores are usually reluctant to take unsealed merchandise back, but I did get a refund of my kid's fifteen bucks. Shortly afterward, Tipper Gore and others were able to convince the record companies to label the raunchy recordings. Now my kid is 28 and a punk rock musician, and the lyrics he writes would make Loverboy turn red.

And if we had an "explicit lyrics" label, that's what my kid would search for (and he probably would have done that at age 9, too).

There is one problem we have that should be fixed, and Max is working on it. If somebody chooses a song from the "titles" list, they should get that song. There are a few songs that are likely to be requested by children, that will bring up a bawdy song as the first choice if you click on the title (even though the bawdy song has a different title - there's a technical reason for that and it's hard to explain concisely).

-Joe Offer (author of the "explicit lyrics" warning in the FAQ)-