For Christmas, my sister gave me a CD of inspirational, and meaningful songs.  Copyright Nazis need not be alarmed as I’m not selling my gift.  Being a kid who grew-up in the 80’s and as a kid who exchanged personally selected songs copied onto tapes for friends, I thought, I should do something on my blog relating to music because I’m always listening to music.  A regular post meant that I would have venture out of my musical comfort zone.  My musical taste is eclectic as I love jazz, classical, rock, modern rock, big-band, some new-age, christian rock, a small bit off county, although I typically revert to my favorite genres, which are rock, modern rock and electric with a limited amount of pop mixed in.  Today for example, I began with listening to Audio Adrenaline, Billy Joel, Kutless, Tom Petty and U2.  But maybe in the next 30 seconds I’ll scrap that list and listen to Frank Sinatra for no particular reason as my musical choices moment to moment are dependent on nothing.

I found several music players, but I really like Songza as the concierge provides you with several ‘activities’ or ‘moods’ from which to choose and base its musical offerings upon.  For example, I selected ‘energy’ related music from a few rock choices and then further selected, ‘Eye of the Tiger: Confidence Mix’ and I’ll list a handful of the artists on the song-list: The Who, Guns ‘N’ Roses, AC/DC, (I’m seriously loving this list so-far) Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Def Leppard, (still loving this list) Duran Duran, Billy Idol and I’ll assume this playlist will continue being awesome because the preceding list of artists are all well… you get the idea.  I also utilized Pandora’s free music radio – choosing Classic Rock and I listened to another list of fantastic artists: Steve Miller Band, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Free, The Zombies and Bad Company, but I feel like after AC/DC the list sucked, although I stuck it out so you can see I’m being objective when I say that Songza offers a much better selection of activities or moods from which to choose and an improved list of artists.

http://songza.com/concierge/cocky-classic-rock/542db93ee352f80a4bc7fdc4/542dbb398b4818064490be8e/

I don’t want to mention by name a particular one of these per day keeps the doctor away electronics conglomerate that continues to create awesome toys under one product umbrella, along with the ability to save music collections under another umbrella, I’ll rename that song-saving portion Isongs – you know who I mean – and this resource has a fantastic system of saving music.  That system is dialed-in and I love my collection of music being so accessible.  Although, purchasing music under Isongs is much too expensive for my budget.  Several years ago, when my husband located a discounted music resource, I joked with him that it’s our little music mafia site.  Having said that, I’m not one of those who is against ‘The Man’ or anyone or company making money because Capitalism is a beautiful thing, but so is having more than one choice.  Not being able to afford them is not their problem, so then I go to resource number two, which is affordable.  I’m talking a song for 10 or 15 cents or $1.15 for a complete album, which is much more affordable.  The only negative thing is that maybe what I want is not available right now compared to the twenty songs that are which makes a single Isongs purchase more justifiable.  Here is the site where I find music for less…

http://mp3panda.com/

With this monthly post (perhaps, it could become weekly), I hope to find new music to share with you, but I thought I’d start with the music players before I start reviewing what’s new.

What online music player do you use?  What is your favorite type of music?

~Jenn