Comes With Music: Building a library Take That to Justin Timberlake
By Mike Browne on September 1,
 2009 at 00:00,

Comes With Music: Building a library That That to Justin Timberlake Comes With Music is part of Nokia Music's strategy for world music domination, offering an all-you-can-eat music download subscription service. With well over 6 million tracks to choose from it's on its way to being the best resource for digital music anywhere. All you need is a Nokia XpressMusic phone (we've got the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic) and a Comes With Music account. We've been using the service to build a music library like no other and have reached the Letter T - see how we've been getting on...

The Letter T has proved a treasure trove of music, find out what we've been downloading this week on Comes With Music.

Pre-teen girl of the house is first up and she’s decided to go all country on us, choosing Shania Twain as her first entry. With albums like Come On Over, Shania Twain, Up, Greatest Hits, The Women in Me and Final Beginnings, Shania is one of those sing-a-long artists my daughter seems to love.

Which is something also partly true of her second choice – Take That. The boys may be back for good this time but it’s the early stuff, such as Take That & Party, Nobody Else, Beautiful World, Everything Changes, Never Forget and Take That: Greatest Hits get added rather than the newer stuff. It seems Take That may have matured but their older stuff if still what the kids dig!

Someone else who has gone from boy-band to man-thing is Justin Timberlake – both my daughter and the lady of the house put him down on their lists. So, both FutureSex/LoveSounds and Justified get added to the list with much grumbling from the men-folk of the house and much dancing from the ladies.

Tiger Army have been at the forefront of the Psychobilly movement for over ten years and this West Coast band are a great outfit to see live, as they really rock. Sadly, it seems that Comes With Music hasn’t got to grips with Tiger Army yet, as aside from a couple of compilation entries, you won’t find anything on there, which is a real shame.

One band you most definitely will find on Comes With Music is Thin Lizzy. In fact, you’ll find the entire back catalogue of one of Britian’s most underrated and much missed rock bands. Albums like Chinatown, Johnny the Fox, Live and Dangerous, Bad Reputation and even Black Rose seem to have been forgotten by this latest generation of rock kids, which is a real shame as the twin guitar sound is the bed-rock of most modern rock bands!

The Twilight Singers is essentially the project of for Afghan Whigs singer Greg Dulli, who still wanted to explore the soul, rock but without the confines of a set band. Comes With Music has a couple of albums Powder Burns and She Loves You and while neither capture the souring glory of Black Love by the Afghan Whigs they’re worth checking out.

If power pop/punk is more you thing then try three-piece The Thermals signed to SubPop records. I was surprised to find they were on Comes With Music but then there is only the first album, More Parts Per Million and an EP called Live (at the Echoplex). In all honesty, check out More Parts Per Million and that’s pretty much the sound of youth covered.

One of the first ever gigs teenage boy ever went to was to see Trivium so it was only fitting the band are first up for his first stab at the Letter T. Ember to Inferno, The Crusade and Ascending swiftly get added without a thought that they may just sound a bit too much like Metallica than Metallic these days…

With School of Rock seeming on re-run heaven on Sky this month, Jack Black seems to be at the forefront of boy’s mind, so Tenacious D makes a fitting addition. Cock push-ups aside, there is some good stuff to be had on the eponymous Tenacious D and even The Pick of Destiny has its moments, so both get added.

Random Album: With no music category starting with the Letter T, we’ve plumped for an album from the Rediscover section of Comes With Music, which highlights bands and albums from the past that you may not have checked out or simply forgot about. The first T we come across is Television with their Marquee Moon album, which originally was released in 1977 along with a flurry of other punk/new wave albums.

Letter T: 28 albums downloaded

479 Comes With Music albums downloaded to date