Sad Steve Supports Super Simple Song Search

Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.

That’s called alliteration, people. Be impressed.

I’m a big fan of any site that makes it easier to find and listen to music on the Internet. A few of my favorites are We Are Hunted, thesixtyone, and Grooveshark, but there’s a new face on the scene of great music sites.

It’s called Sad Steve, and is a perfect addition to the list of websites with names that make no sense, but do a great job with music search.

What Sad Steve does is search the Internet to find songs of all types, in a way it claims is totally legal. It was created as a response to the record labels making their marketing decisions based on a band’s iTunes rankings, and is first and foremost a simple and easy way to find music online.

It doesn’t actually store any of the songs, thereby avoiding some legal snafus, but the music it’s finding may not always be perfectly legal. For you, though, the Sad Steve user, it’s legal for now – you can download any song you find, DRM-free, without Sad Steve ever even knowing or caring who you are. If you don’t want to download, most songs are easy to play right from within your browser.

In addition to the search engine, there are a few great features of Sad Steve that make it useful. There’s a section of playlists generated by Sad Steve users that has a ton of good music, most of which you’ve probably never heard of. There’s also a section, “Featured,” that has some of the best bands out there – there’s no rhyme or reason to who gets featured (right know it’s everything from Ben Kweller to Trey Songz), but it’s generally good stuff.

If you want to know what’s popular, there’s also the “Percolator,” which shows the most fresh and popular stuff in the world of music.

Sad Steve isn’t the prettiest web site out there, but it’s proving a point: simplicity works. Finding and listening to music is easy, as is creating playlists and sharing your favorites with the world.

A note: right now, the search on the site is down. You can still see the playlists and the like, but finding and playing music could be problematic. It sounds like it’ll be back shortly, so stay tuned – I’ll try and update here when it’s back.

Where do you do your music finding?

(Thanks for the tip, Depogirl!)

Photo: BL1961

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