Comes With Music is Nokia's all-you-can-eat music download service and with well over 6 million tracks to choose from, it's proving more than popular in our house. We've been putting it to the test of late using a Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, but we've also started using the Nokia 5800 Comes With Music. We've reached the Letter O - check out how we're doing as we build a music library using Comes With Music...
Our burgeoning Comes With Music collection really came into its own last week. The entire family went away and the netbook came with us, so we still had own music collection with us. After a week’s holiday, it’s good to be home and to be adding to the collection.
We’ve reached the Letter O in our rundown of getting the most from CWM. O doesn’t look like being the most popular letter for bands and artists but still we give it a good go. The girl of the house can only come up with one artist, Emily Osment, who just so happens to be a friend of Hannah Montana so will be known to millions on the Disney Channel.
Huge to the pre-teen TV audience she may be but when it comes to music on Comes With Music, it seems that only one song I Don’t Think About It has actually made it on there!
Teenage boy seems to have a better amount of luck, managing to bag for himself the Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Ozbourne. Starting with The Ozzman Cometh and adding Live at Budakan, he comes across a 26 all-in-one deal for three classic Ozzy albums – Bark at the Moon, The Ultimate Sin and Diary of a Madman – result!
His other choice stays in the metal vein with Opeth, who seem to have nine different albums on Comes With Music but am not sure if this is there full back catalogue. It certainly looks like it. Boy bags Still Life, Watershed and The Roundhouse Tapes before making a note to come back for the others later.
The lady of the house decides the only band she can think of beginning with O is Oasis and even then all she wants are the early tunes. However, it seems we’ve found another hole in the Comes With Music catalogue as is seems the dad rockers haven’t signed up to get their albums on the service, leaving a couple of tracks on compilations, such as She’s Electric on the Top Gear compilation album to suffice.
I’m hoping for a little more luck but as my two choices range from the obscure to the ancient, we’ll need a little luck on our side! O’Death are part of the nu-folk movement and so far have released two albums. Comes With Music helps deliver up the most recent, Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin, which is slightly more success than we were expecting.
My other choice is back to the old days of the early 1980s and Orangejuice. There was a resurgence in interest a couple of years ago with Domino Records re-releasing some of their earlier work. However, the only album that seems to have made it on to Comes With Music is The Glasgow School, a 23 track run through their highlights and assorted B-sides. Already owning this on CD I feel a bit beaten but download it any way.
There we have it, not a great haul for the Letter O. It’s partly the lack of acts beginning with the vowel but it seems Comes With Music has thrown up a few gaps that need filling.
Random Album: So, here we are looking for a new act or music genre beginning with O. There are no categories starting with the Letter O so we need an act to fill in. The obvious choice would be to go for Orbital, which we do as there are plenty of albums to choose from. We go for the new Best of – Orbital 20, largely as it seems the safest bet.
Letter O: 11 albums downloaded
349 Comes With Music albums downloaded to date