Comes With Music is Nokia’s own music subscription service that allows you to download as much music as you like for a year, or longer if you choose to extend the subscription. With over six million tracks to choose from it’s a great way to build your own music library, which is something we’re putting to the test. Check out what the Letter F has to offer on Comes With Music.
This is the third week of the family getting to grips with Comes With Music and while we’ve pretty much got the idea of getting as much music as possible for free down to an art form, Comes With Music still manages to throw some surprises into the mix.
Take The Flaming Stars for instance, never a big band and even on the Alternative Tentacles label they were never seen as hugely popular, so I wasn’t expecting much to be on Comes With Music. While all the albums aren’t on there, I manage to nab two Named and Shamed and Sunset & Void, which nicely fill a gap I had in my collection.
Someone I was expecting to find everything by on Comes With Music was The Flaming Lips. They’ve been massively popular for a few years now and as one of the most left-field acts on any major label, Warner Brothers, have proved difficult to ignore. True enough, all the main albums are there, including by far the best two: Transmissions from a Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic, as well as the more recent stuff. Sadly, no sight of any of The Flaming Lips more experimental stuff, like the five CD Zaireeka or Music For Drum Machines.
It’s amazing what bands will be rediscovered by the younger generation but with Faith No More coming out of retirement for one more series of arena gigs, it was only a matter of time before they were added to our list. Seems the only album Comes With Music hasn’t got is We Care A Lot, which is a shame. Now, I like Introduce Yourself and The Real Thing, but kind of lost interest after Angel Dust, while the boy has added to these with Album of the Year and even This Is It, a best of compilation.
Leaving the teenage boy to take over for the next leg of F, he quickly adds Funeral For A Friend to the list, a Welsh band with a penchant for album titles like Memory and Humanity, Hours, Tales Don’t Tell Themselves and Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation. Being the boy’s current favourite all these are quickly added and suddenly he sees the point of Comes With Music.
Fall Out Boy is one of those bands that work for teenage boy and young girl of the house, it’s all about the ‘life experience’ apparently but I think it has more to do with an obsession for eye-liner. Three out of four albums are on Comes With Music, so Take This To Your Grave, Infinity on High and From Under The Cork Tree are added but they give the live album that’s on there a miss.
Her indoors is away this week, so she’s lost out on getting a few more albums added to her collection on the ol’netbook, so we quickly pass on to the youngest member of the house. Now, aside from Fall Out Boy, she seems to have rather pop leaning, so we’re taking her word on the likes of Fergie and Nelly Furtado. Now, Loose is probably the best known of Nelly Furtado’s albums, so my daughter was a little surprised to find there were two earlier albums, Who, Nelly! and Folklore on either, neither with the same overt sexuality of her latest stuff!
Fergie seems to be another one of those acts who is only as good as her last single but that doesn’t stop her sole album, The Dutchess, to date quickly being picked up, as well as a couple of singles.
Random Album: After not having much look with Electronica the other day, we’ve decided to stay away from that end of the spectrum and found ourselves in the weird world of Folk. Now, apart from my daughter pointing out it seems to be nothing but old woman and men with beards, we play is safe with Fairport Convention and Rising For The Moon.
Letter F: 23 albums downloaded
149 Comes With Music albums downloaded to date