The recording industry has been very vocal as of late, in it's complaints of flagging sales due to music piracy.

I don't know about you, but in the heyday of Napster, I purchased more music than ever before, or ever since. Access to "free" music exposed me to so many different styles and genres, that I found myself compelled to go out and buy the albums of the artists I downloaded.

Maybe the industry is suffering now not because of piracy, but because of poor product. I might be a little biased toward the music of my youth, but I gotta say: pop music today just seems to suck out loud.

So with that, I give you one of my favorite ballads, "Drowning in Your Eyes" by Ephraim Lewis. It's nothing less than a wonderful, tearfully romantic masterpiece, and I think it puts to shame most of the music created today in the same genre.

The details of Mr. Lewis' death is readily available on the net, so I won't speak of it here. But if you must look into his passing, listen to this first. Or better yet, don't bother, and let this song be the last memory of him that you hold in your head.

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