Music follows me everywhere! It dictates mood and influences creativity. It accompanies me along my cooking adventures and allows me to get lost in emotion... There really are very few moments in my days when music is not present and I am always a little perplexed at people who seem to live without it for the most part... but hey, each to their own. This post will obviously not appeal to those individuals.

Yeah, I have my own music collection and digital playlists, but like with most things in life, I tend to go in the opposite direction to most completely unintentionally. I use Deezer, not Spotify - not that it really makes any damn difference - they are essentially the same service, and are pretty even steven when it comes to most aspects of comparison, just Deezer does not have the brand influence which spotify does. They do however have a bigger library of music and better sound quality for paid users - both of those things matter to me. Anyway, not my point... lol!

My point is yes, I have my playlists on Deezer - I have party playlists, rock, pop, lounge, country and several others. The reality though, is that we always gravitate to our own tastes and also, I find I get tired of listening to my personally selected tracks. I find that it becomes a little stagnant after some time. This is one of the reasons why I love doing the Track of the Week Contest every Friday. It is SUCH an awesome way to expand your own music library. I have countless favourites in my music library now compliments of that contest.

Having said that though, with the amount of hours in a day which I listen to music, even that weekly "expansion" is not quite enough... so about a year ago, I started listening to streaming radio stations. I cannot stand traditional radio stations because not only do they talk too much, but they also repeat the same crap day after day... endlessly. Streamed radio stations have made an awesome change in my music lifestyle and I now make use of them most of the time - only flipping to my personal library every once in a while... which makes it feel fresh again. Also, I get to add a lot of the new stuff I hear to my library in the process.

Anyhoooo, I thought it would be pretty cool to share some of my favourite streaming stations with all of you - and if you have any suggestions to add in the comments, that would be awesome too! To my knowledge, most of these can be accessed via browser too, so no need for Spotify, Deezer or any other paid app. So here goes...