I can imagine an octopus grooving to some of the trippier Bjork songs.

Probably something with a lot of distortion and synth

These are good ideas, thanks! I was also thinking echoes and lots of use of stereo separation and panning and whatnot--maybe dub reggae.

(Can't make a second post right now.) Vote on your five favorite Motown songs out of a list of 100 or so. The top 50 will go on a 50th-anniversary compilation album to be released this year.

I went for 'Reflections,' 'Superstition,' 'Smiling Faces Sometimes,' 'Got to Give it Up' and 'Upside Down.' I was bummed that 'Living For the City,' among many others, wasn't one of the choices.

Undersea Community by The Avalanches. Granted, I'm imagining an octopus that looks like this:

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Also: Star Fruits Surf Rider by Cornelius. Now I want to go splash in my bathtub and pretend to be happy little octopus.

I think octopuses might like Underwater Love.

I think Underwater Love is their sexytime get-in-the-mood music. You know, when the boy detaches his arm, and the female uses it to spread sperm all over her thousands of eggs. Hawt.

I'm imagining an octopus listening to a symphony, and conducting it using several batons in his tentacles.

Fats Waller pipe organ music.

Hey, I posted in here... where the hell did my comment go?

I suggested some songs from Pearl Jam's Ten album, since some of them have a blurred sound. Also, for the fun of it, "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles.

I could kinda see Octopodes digging some Flaming Lips, I think.

anything by the following artists: Boards of Canada, Tycho, Bibio, Boxcutter, Twilight Dub Sound System, and OTT.

I don't know, but I think an octopus would make one hell of a DJ.

"Where it's at? I got eight turntables and a microphone..."

Having actually been scuba diving, and paid attention to sound while there, everything sounds much more intense. As a human under water, I have to get past the mechanical sounds of breathing, but when I do, I can hear all the little pieces of coral and rock that are moving around in the waves. Music wouldn't be blurred, but would be obscured by the natural sounds under water. If you're talking pacific northwest octopi, then the crashing of waves would definitely be in the background. I'd think on calm days, the octopus would play stuff that was more subtle, on wild stormy days, music that's more simple but driving. Sound definitely isn't blurred under water. I can see an octopus listening to "Superstition" by an early Stevie Wonder. I think humans under water would be into the more ethereal stuff. Octopi probably wouldn't be much different that people on dry land.

Brian Eno's Apollo sountrack
Boards of Canada
The Sesame Street Sing-A-Long album