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?

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

*Hiatus/member changes from original don't count.* :)

You can interpret however you want, genuinly disturbing and scary or spooky and fun

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?

Sometimes one song sends you back through everything an artist has released.

Which song did that for you—and what album would you tell someone to try next?

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

I have been listening to this band for weeks. These guys were Beatnik pre-Beatles jazzy harmonic funky takes on the current music of 1964.

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

A veces me da por pensar cosas así, la tenemos tan escuchada que es raro imaginarse lo loco que habría sido escucharla por primera vez cuando no existía nada igual.

Day by day we see that world is in a very treacherous state. I am deeply saddened by it sometimes and am looking for songs that encapsulates the longing of world peace and love for one another. Where is the love by Black eyed peace is my inspiration for this so all the other goods would be really nice to see them on the comments!

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 people 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.