Lala - Music for all tastes

So far, I've spent about 3 hours on Lala - the first 1/2 hour was checking out the interface and user policies - which for the music industry are AMAZINGLY, rather generous!!!

My first impressions were positive as the interface is clean and very easy to use. As I began searching for the music I like (as I was initially disappointed to only see modern "crap" like Linkin Park on the main sections - Keep in mind, I am from the first MTV generation having ditched class on the opening day to see "the very first airing of "Video Killed the Radio Star". As I began to feed in group and artist names from my generation, I was increasingly impressed.

I was able to find larger selections of music from artists such as "Off Broadway" "Tracey Ullman" "Asia" than Yahoo Music and Rhapsody even offers. Additionally, I was able to listen to the complete song rather than a 30 second preview of a song that may or may not contain the melodic hook that inspires you to pay up and listen to the rest the song in its entirety.

As a fan of the "classic" era of Rock and Roll, Lala is now my preferred music source not only because of the great collection, which by the way is still growing, but also because of the completeness of the artist/band biographical data contained on the site. Not only is it current and up to date but in many cases, it is more complete than other music sites.

In all Lala offer the music connoisseur simple navigation, a wide selection of music, free full-song previews as well as a membership price that is reasonable. I hope to see the company carve a niche out and hope that other services such as iTunes, Yahoo Music and Rhapsody will take note and improve their lackluster services.

Thanks Bob for this internet treasure!