The music solution

I want you, my loyal readers to know that I love Rhapsody. It is a subscription service, and it is the future. Yes, the Apple products are better, but Rhapsody's software is not significantly worse than iTunes. I have fully converted to my phone as my music player, bluetooth headphones and all, and I'm not looking back. iPhone is just about the coolest piece of hardware I have seen, but I won't be buying one. Apple, you are going to have to create a subscription service.

Back in the good old days, I bought all my music on allofmp3.com. It was great. I could download all the latest, and the site was pretty good at pointing you to new music. You could use iTunes to search and sample, then buy in Russia. Now that the Russian loophole has been closed, but Rhapsody is even better. I have been on this thing about a month, and have found so many great bands - Gym Class Heroes, The Roots, Sia, Tricky. Radiohead is the gateway drug to Electronica, and I am addicted.

Here is a question for you - name the best American rock and roll band in history. This question serves many purposes. First, it tells me something about you. If you said The Eagles, that's fine. Solid. Wilco? Interesting, but they need more time. REM? lots of good albums, some I connected with, some I did not. I can respect that choice. James Brown, Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, all advanced the cause, but rarely exhibited the genius of The Beatles or The Stones. So the other thing the question points out is that American Bands, by and large, stink. British bands are amazing. Why do so many good bands come from Britain? Its shocking if you think about it. In my lifelong attempt to answer this question to my own satisfaction, I even claimed Neil Young as the best American rocker. Yes, I know he is Canadian.