I have pretty ecletic tastes. I generally like my music to be competent, have a good rhythm and harmony. I hate music that tends to repeat enless themes - except for Phillip Glass. I have a certain weakness for "novelty" records - such as Spike Jones, Weird Al, and P.D.Q. Bach.
Most Classical and Baroque music sounds the same to me - except Beethoven, but he straddles two different epochs of music and was of rare genius. I prefer earlier (Medieval) or later (Nationistic) orchestra music. Give me Carmina Burana with Michael Praetorius on one end with Holst and Stravinsky at the other.
Jazz is a large beast with many styles. I prefer "stait-edge" jazz with complicated rythems (Dave Brubeck), rag-time (Scott Joplin), and a lot of the thirties (early Duke Ellington). I have never cared much for the Billie Holiday style blues singers.
Counry and Western - I have never cared for this genre of music, except for some earlier Gene Autrey singing cowboy type stuff. I can not stand any C&W with the Tammy Waynette "twang". So-called Modern Country sounds like pop music to me.
Rock and Roll. I like real Rock-and-Roll era guys (Bill Haley), the some sixties stuff (Yes, Led Zeppelin, Dick Dale), very little of the seventies (Supertramp, Moterhead, a bit of Styx), a lot of the eighties expecially New Wave, but most the ninties left me cold. The sudden "discovery" of rap artists did little - I appreciate work and composition, not improvision with a drum machine.
Rap - not much here I care for; it's just not my kind of music. Still, a did get a kick out of
Techno/Industrial - I liked Moby once he got off the soap box, I still like Front Line Assembly but not Skinny Puppy. I really like
Insane Clown Posse
Adam Ant
Philip Glass
The Prodigy
Primus
Pink Floyd
P.D.Q. Bach
Kevin Manthei
My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult
Bauhaus
Blue Man Group
Weird Al Yankovic
The Crystal Method
Verve/Remixed2
Linkin Park
Wes Borland - Big Dumb Face
Frontline Assembly
The Original Ink Spots