Pandora-monium!!!

I was working late last night and needed a music refresh in a bad way.  Since no one was around, my cube neighbor, Lance, had turned up his collection of hair metal up and we were jamming.  How did he have such a grand array of face melting rock?  Turns out he didn't own it - he was enjoing the tunes via Pandora.

I was intrigued.  Turns out that the Pandora site works like an online radio station - except you get to control the type of music that is played.  I needed to try this out right away!!  When you go to their site for the first time, you are invited to create a login and enter in an artist that signifies what genre of music you want to hear.  Just to try it out, I entered in one of my favorites:  Good Charlotte.  I must admit that I was puzzled at first when the first song played was not Good Charlotte, but instead, Blink 182.  Ooo, that song is good too!!!  Then came Good Charlotte, Foo Fighters, and Yellowcard.  This is awesome!!  I wanted to make sure I got some Green Day in there too, so I added them to my station selection, and up came Green Day and then The Ramones.  Heaven!!  

So far so good.  I thought I would mix it up a bit and created an additional, seperate station based on Erasure.  (Jean has influenced me over the years.)  After Erasure, I was treated to Depeche Mode, and then New Order.  

That is all I had time for last night so I look forward to listening all day long.  There doesn't seem to be an end to what you can come up with.  Create a station for any mood you are in, and you can switch on the fly.  The UI is good, clean, and easy to use.  Most of all, the music jams.  And if you are like me, and only buy stuff you really, really like, it can be a great way to hear some other stuff that you forgot about or haven't heard before.  Oh, and what if you don't like the song playing?  Give it a thumbs down and you won't hear it again!!