Music

I love music, almost any kind of music and I listen too as much as I am able to. From ABBA to Zappa, whether it's Blues,Country, Classical, Folk, Jazz,Soul, R & B, Funk,Rock, Pop, Opera, World, Latin, Reggae, Indian, and the subsections of those and on etc. you get my point? My favourite is Blues and Rock and to nail my colours firmly to the mast, the greatest band ever, no surprise, The Beatles.
 I use BBC Iplayer a lot and have regular programmes, that I listen to every week. As I write this I am listening to Brian Johnson's Rockers & Rollers broadcast on a Thursday night at 10pm. It is a recent series, in which he plays mostly rock and roll as the title would suggest, I enjoy the bands he features and Brian's naive, honest and humorous, delivery is refreshing.
I have been trawling the Rolling Stone Magazine, website http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/marvin-gaye-lets-get-it-on-19691231 and discovered their lists of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Of course, all list are subjective and not everyone will agree, with all the picks, wondering why some albums are not in there but that said it is a pretty definitive list (although I am only up to 165 working down to 1) It has enabled me to find some artists I did not know and remind of many that I did but had not listened to for a long time or ever.
There is a lot of music out there in the world, that it would be impossible to even scrape the surface in one lifetime. I love discovering new music and new genres, music from different parts of the world. The power of the internet has increased many peoples access to a multitude of  musical choice and opened up to a wider public, many artists who otherwise we may not have heard.
Another discovery, I made in the last two days, is an app. on Google Chrome http://www.earbits.com/play#station This give you a selection of different types of musical choice and plays music from new artists within that genre. I spent a pleasant  couple of hours listening to the Blues, from artists I have never heard of, some where good, some were very good and some were excellent. The site, in the main, provides a bio of the artist and gives details of the album that the track comes from and gives you the option to purchase if you want to.
I have one other web based music source I would like to recommend, Spotify https://www.spotify.com/uk/signup/open/?ref=Google_adwords&gclid=CPqWjJ-mxrICFYKMfAodNUIA0A
Once downloaded and installed, it provides a fantastic music player. allowing you to look up almost any music, build playlists (you can even transfer in, your ITunes tracks). It is free but the free version will interject advertisements every few tracks. There are two monthly upgrade subscriptions, which will eliminate the commercials and add more features. The music is held on their website and of course it can be purchased if you want it downloaded, so it is completely legal.
As I have paged through the Rolling Stone Magazine site and found an album of interest, I just click on to Spotify  and in almost all cases can find the music by that artist. Highlight, drag and drop, the tracks, into whichever playlist you want to put them.
My playlists are also available to others who are on Spotify, although that makes no difference to me.
I understand that not everyone maybe as keen on music as I am but if you are even an occasional listener, I heartily recommend looking at these sources. Whatever your musical "bag", you just never know what you may discover!!!!!