Comes With Music is Nokia’s own music subscription service that allows you to download as much music as you like for a year, or longer if you choose to extend the subscription.

With over six million tracks to choose from it’s a great way to build your own music library, which is something we’re putting to the test. Check out what the Letter D has to offer on Comes With Music.

There are four people in our house, and nearly twice as many guitars, so we like music. So Comes With Music is a great way to see if we can expand on our already rather large catalogue.

First up to see what Letter ‘D’ has to offer is the teenage boy of the house. His tastes run to metal, metal and very metal, so it was no surprise to find him checking out Dragonforce, Dir En Grey and Disturbed.

Starting with Dragonforce, we’re happy to report that all four albums are on Comes With Music, adding to the household collection of just one album with Ultra Beatdown, Sonic Firestorm and Valley of the Damned. With those downloading in the background it’s time to see what Dir En Grey have to offer. Funnily enough, all three albums are on there and have riff-tastic titles as Vulgar, The Marrow of a Bone and Uroboros.

Finally choice for the Baron of Doom’n’Gloom was Disturbed, choosing The Sickness, Believe and the live Music as a Weapon II, bringing the total haul for the boy of the house up to nine albums for the day. It seems that Comes With Music loves to rawk!!

Time to see if it can get to grips with the youngest member of the house. Now, Destiny’s Child may be one of the biggest girl acts of recent years but to a 12 year old, all they really warrant is a greatest hits choice, so Stand Up for Love #1s gets added but then they are quickly looked over in favour of Duffy.

Duffy had the most played sound of 2008 with the track ‘Mercy’ and the album Rockferry seems popular in our house, so that gets an early downloading. Alesha Dixon is a born-again celebrity thanks to her winning Strictly Come Dancing or some such nonsense. Anyway, she now has two solo albums under her ballgown, including the newly released The Boy Does Nothing. It’s on Comes With Music, along with The Alesha Show, so get a quick adding to the download list.

The lady of the house has gone all retro for D, choosing Depeche Mode and Duran Duran as her bands. With the line ‘The 80’s almost killed me/Let’s not recall ‘em quite so fondly!’ running around my head, we check out the age that synth pop should have forgot, to find that Arena, Rio and a quick Greatest Hits for Duran Duran is more than anyone really needs. Depeche Mode seem to have stood the test of time a little better, with Violator, Speak and Spell, and a Best Of… added to the cue list.

I’ve kind of taken a backseat in most of this music selection, as I seem to have most stuff I like. So, I’ve started looking for bands to test Comes With Music. The Dirtbombs aren’t exactly mainstream but am quietly surprised that Comes With Music offers both We Have You Surrounded and Ultraglide in Black, which I own both of already, as well as If you Don’t Already Have a Look, which is a stonking 52 tracks long!

Something a little more mainstream is Death Cab For Cutie, a band who seem to keep cropping up as incidental music on American TV Shows. They’ve been around for years, so it’s no surprise that Comes With Music manages to serve up seven albums, from both their years on Barsuk Records and the two latest on Columbia Records. Claiming Something About Airplanes and You Can Play These Songs, as well as last year’s Narrow Stairs, I’ve had my fill for now.

As part of the challenge we’ve also started to download an album from a musical style that doesn’t really register in our house. Top of that list has to be Jazz, still Miles Davis is the master of cool, so it’s time to check out whether the 1959 Kind of Blue, is as good as they say!

So Comes With Music is still proving a success in our house. Am not too sure some of this stuff will ever get played more than once but if we ver have a ‘Why I hated the 80s’ party then am sure Duran Duran will be first up against the wall!

Letter D: 26 albums downloaded
110 albums and an assortment of singles downloaded to date