I love music, just about all kinds of music (maybe excepting rap, most hip hop, and some jazz). I’ve had portable music players almost since they were invented, starting with a Sony Walkman, continuing through cd players, the iPod, and now my beloved iPhone. I’ve never “stolen” music; I’m happy to pay for my music. The advent of the iTunes store was fantastic. Now I could buy just the music I wanted without having to buy a whole album.

Unfortunately, that ability seems to be a significant reason for the decline of the whole music industry. They couldn’t figure out how to capitalize on this ability and instead began suing their best customers, definitely a strategy to fail.

Being able to make up my own playlists on iTunes an then seamlessly take them with me anywhere was a great move forward in technology. I further loved that Apple added to that the ability to rent or buy movies, and then TV shows. I don’t watch hardly any network TV and whenever I’m tempted, I download an episode of the program from iTunes, watch it, and am reminded once again why I don’t watch network TV.

Then came Pandora. I love Pandora. I wish there was a good way to pay Pandora so they definitely stay in business. Through Pandora I’ve discovered a whole lot of music that I would never have found otherwise.

One example is a group called Gaelic Storm. They’re a kind of a Los Angeles Celtic group. They got their break in the movie Titanic as the third-class-entertaining “steerage band” (a movie I’ve never seen). I heard their The Devil Down Below on Pandora and they went on my favorites list.

Another Pandora find was Leaves’ Eyes. Their Mot Fjerne Land is another piece of music that always makes me smile when I hear it.

Pandora is hands down my pick for “Best Music Find!”

Ta ta for now!