Me, personally, I'm just all over the place. I listen a lot in the car on my XM Satellite Radio (I bought the lifetime single price subscription before they stopped doing that, so I've basically been listening for free for the past six years). I listen to the 40's channel, the 50's channel, the easy listening channel, the Contemporary Christian channel, the 60's channel, the 70's channel, the Bridge (mainly soft rock from 60's and 70's), deep tracks (classic rock album tracks), classic vinyl (60's/70's), classic rewind (70's/80's), the classical station, and several others. It just depends on my mood or who's riding in the car with me (I'm not going to subject my son to "easy listening" and have to get the "da-a-a-a-d!!!" from him). smile

There is very little I don't like (my wife says I'm not discerning enough), but that's just me. I love novelty (Weird Al or Spike Jones), rock, country, classical, easy listening, orchestral, musicals, broadway, some heavy metal, instrumentals (Bert Kaempfert), jazz (especially screaming trumpet like Maynard Ferguson or Bill Chase) and big band, and, well, I could go on.

I don't get much into the 80's and 90's channel (and that's not really music I grew up with), but do occasionally pop over there to listen to the songs that came out in my early adulthood.

I'll listen to rap and hip hop in small doses, but to me it gets repetitive musically. Some of it I view more as poetry (please, no flaming, just my opinion) with a repetitive musical backtrack.

And I love listening to the original music posted here on the forum, even if the vocals aren't perfect or a chord or note here and there is missed. I always stop and listen when I see someone performing live on the street, even when it's not the best. Because they're trying and the music still has something to say.

I'm open to anything new. Some of it I like; some of it I don't; some of it bores me; some of it excites me. But I also realized that most of it will resonate with someone, which is what makes music great.

I do listen to music for which I don't necessarily agree with the lyrics, but I do try to understand the context of the song, and so can still enjoy it. I will listen to both Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young, even though they both basically told each other to go f--- themselves.

But that's just my own weird self.

John

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