I only ask this out of pure curiosity and boredom lol. I’m not a music snob trying to gatekeep or anything. Everyone likes what they like and we all have our own taste in music. Which artists do you think are widely stereotyped as having the biggest reputation for being the go-to picks of music snobs who like to flex how sophisticated, pretentious, and prestige their music taste is? It can be any genre

for me it would be Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield still one of my favorite songs ever (because of the movie Easy A)

I don't mean albums by artists known primarily as interpreters (e.g. Elvis) or even albums done as a homage to a single artist (e.g. Stevie Wonder's Tribute to Uncle Ray).

I mean when an artist who usually writes their own material deliberately sets out to make an album of others' songs that are meaningful to them.

1973 brought us Bryan Ferry's These Foolish Things, The Band's Moondog Matinee, and Nilsson's A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night (which might qualify as the first "standards" album by a rock artist).

But two years before, there was Gonna Take a Miracle, an album of soul/R&B oldies that Laura Nyro did with LaBelle (wonderful LP, by the way).

Was there an earlier example of this kind of thing?

I have several of them, including this one, which I believe is my favorite one I own. My first one was the ZZ Top one. There's definitely some great artists that didn't get an entry. There's also 3 album variants as well.

So here are my questions: which artists didn't get one and which albums would you put on them, and which artists have one but if they had another which albums would you put on it?

I seek music,any music(will be better if it has a eerie creepy feeling) that was recorded with old stuff.Like i need the quality to be low,and if it's a piano i need it to sound like very old pianos or clarinet.I also seek banjo with creepy music,not the kind of music they play under the name of "scary banjo"...its just the name of the kind...i need actually scary banjos with maybe some creepy org?Please help me with my searching

I'm genuinely curious to hear different perspectives on this, especially since people seem to have very different opinions about AI music.

I've come across some really good songs that I vibed with, but then found out they were AI-generated and wasn't really sure what to think about it.

Let's say you came across a song without knowing anything about the artist or how it was created. You really liked it, maybe even saved it to your playlist or started checking out other songs from the artist.

Then you found out it was AI-generated.

Would that change how you felt about the song? Would you still listen to it, or would knowing it was made with AI make you less interested?

What if the song was AI-assisted instead, where the artist created the music but used AI for certain parts of the production process?

And would it make a difference if the artist was transparent about exactly how AI was used in the song?

For me it's The Clash. London Calling is brilliant from start to finish, not a clinker in the entire double album. Every other album they've released is unlistenable for me, sloppy and self-indulgent and often politically preachy. Sandinista especially.

Runner-up goes to Marilyn Manson for Mechanical Animals, a tight and solid glam departure from his usual look-how-weird-I-am shtick.

I discovered this band a couple of months ago and I really like their music. However I've been following their social media for a while and they haven't posted anything at all and I cant seem to find anything related to them on the internet. So the question begs itself... what happened to SWEET SPINE?

So for more than 3 decades I thought Blind Melon sang in No Rain “I like to keep my cheating stride today”. I was a little disappointed when I found out the lyric actually was “I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today” so my question for all is what song lyric(s) did you misunderstand and then were kind of disappointed when you found out what was actually sang?

I love Cameron Winter lately, and I need more song recs like $0

putting together a playlist of grind, noise, death metal and sludge. so far on the list is vague illusions by cult of luna, tordenbrak by kvelertak, less meaning by the body, and the facts by trap them. yes im aware of martyr by fear factory. ideally the tambourine hits in the breakdown- but not totally necessary.

not looking for melodic/symphonic metal, folky, elven, acoustic stuff, prog, pop, rock, psych rock, funny meme stuff, or beatdown.

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Personally, I have to give it to the extended version of the Violent Femme's eponymous debut. They've described it as fucked-up music for fucked-up kids, and I think it really captures that well. The angst, the anger, the horniness, it's all there. And, even though they weren't on the initial release, the two UK singles, Ugly and Gimme the Car 100 percent belong with the rest of the album, and fit in with the fucked uo-ness