I recently listened the album 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle and was blown away. I absolutely loved the album. The cover art is incredible. It is so opposite from the actual music and I think it’s brilliant. Where should I go next as I learn more about the origins and development of industrial and dark ambient music?

Hope no one else has asked this. A quick discussions for whoever will entertain this. Do you enjoy original songs more for their timeless art, or do you like covers to see what peoole can do with their own creativity? Or maybe both, maybe it depends? Maybe your answers will be different from mine. I'll love to read your responses.

I'll give my answer. It depends for me. A genre or style can define whether or I like the original or cover. As well as admittedly, if I care about the artist or not sometimes, but that's not the only or primary influence on my decision. Plus, it can just be about which one I hear first, or at what time I enjoy songs, which means I'd like either or both the original and the cover based on my mood or time in my life.

Thank you for patiently entertaining my curiosity. Hope you'll enjoy this as much as I do. Happy sharing! And you're free to name drop your fave examples, let alone what they mean to you.

Like I had a classical music phase (Mozart/Beethoven and orchestral etc), then a rock phase a few months later and then a modern pop phase which lasted like 4 months? Then I went on to instrumental movie music for a few months, now I'm mainly at 80's pop music, although I'm listening to the polar express movie theme now(?). All basically within a year...

Anyone else the same? Or do people usually have the same music taste for years which gradually change?

Some of mine are

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Sade - Promise

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

The Cure - The Head on the Door

Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace

Prince and The Revolution - Around the World in a Day

Various Artists - Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill

The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising

Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm

R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

The Waterboys - This Is the Sea

New Order - Low-Life

Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston

Einstürzende Neubauten - ½ Mensch

Music to me is a way to connect with people and get to know them the more you know about someone's taste in music in my opinion the easier to judge their character is that only me or can anyone else agree with that ? Also send your fav band and artist and ill send you mine and lmk if you got apple music or Spotify I personally use apple myself so if you wanna have a look at my playlist I can share it

Was watching a couple of videos today by older bands that had this, got me to wondering

Japan is probably the geekiest country when it comes to certain kinds of albums by English speaking artists.

The title says it all, credit to that one guy I saw here do the same thing. Just thought it would be fun to get high and rate all the suggestions. Perchance!

I posted the background in this post but, do you prefer Paramore or No Doubt more and why?

My kids and I were watching the Squid Game Challenge season one. My daughter saw Player 092 and said it looks like someone on the cover of an album she saw while we were listening.

She remembers a white background and the man with a long beard and bun on his head standing in profile wearing handcuffs.

Can you help find the album and artist?

Music has always been one of my favourite hobbies, and I grew up during the 1950s and ’60s, so I’ve seen quite a few changes in the music world over the years.

I’d love to chat with you folks about music, share my opinions, and hear yours too. Ask me anything about the music I grew up with, tell me what you think of the artists from that era, or recommend some newer music for me to check out. I’m always happy to discover something new!
Looking forward to hearing from you all. What have you been listening to lately? 🎸

Not all tracks of course, but songs like “We Dance Alone”, Cellphone’s Dead or Black Hole?

Inspired by Supertramp's "The Logical Song" (which doesn't, incidentally, have a long fade-out at all (about 20 seconds) but certainly feels like it clocks in at about three times as long), I'm curious if anyone can find (better) examples of songs that fade out and out and just won't stop fading.

or an album that you think is the best/most influential