Your taste is going to pot, eh. Been listening to Afroman, have you? Or maybe Rick James, since your into older music.
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A sample of some of my favorite artists:
Prince
Shania Twain
The Beatles
Rush
The Beastie Boys
Journey
Bob Dylan
Chicago (including solo Peter Cetera)
The Stones
Tribe Called Quest
REM
Vince Gill
Destinys Child (and all solo recordings)
Mozart
Van Halen
Guns-n-Roses
Eminem
Stevie Wonder
Foo Fighters
Duran Duran
Collective Soul
Public Enemy
I am not ashamed of any of it. 
Play it loud, play it proud!
Hahaha.
HEY!
I thought you were talking about the Floyd…
HEY! I like the Bangles! I also like Bananarama and the Go-Go’s.
Along with them my musical collection includes Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Offenbach, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Flatt & Scruggs.
PLEASE-no Bangle bashing, or a Complicated Girl will Walk Like an Egyptian Into Your Room In a Different Light, and give you the Silent Treatment before making Some Dreams Come True in a Bell Jar, leaving you with Something to Believe in, and an Eternal Flame. All on a Manic Monday. 
I thought maybe he was a new Ben Harper fan.
On the other hand, I’m 17 and I listen to The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Bob Dylan; I have Warren Zevon in my CD drive right now, and Jefferson Airplane in the CD player downstairs. It just goes to show you that music styles have a larger fan base than their stereotypical audience and age group.
I say listen to what you like, Crusoe. Who cares if it makes you look old, young, insane or intellectual? The purpose it to derive enjoyment from it, not to make any vast personal statements about yourself to the world around you. So hell yeah, if that’s what you like, go revel in some Abba.
Yeah, I was kind of hoping it was, myself…
OK, OK, you got me, SkipMagic—I’ll bet that some of Neil Diamond’s stuff is likable. I’ll expand my horizons!
I’ve said this before, you know, but … Radio Three. Classics that have lasted for centuries, plus eclectic stuff from all over the world, and no need to worry about whether it’s cool or not. [Darth Vader voice]*Come over to the Dark Side of the Radio Dial …hhffhhh … join usssss … *[/Darth Vader voice]
(Of course, I’m watching I Love 1978 at the moment, and have just been singing along with “I Don’t Like Mondays” … but I’ve never claimed to be consistent.)
Old Elton John = good. Post-1985 Elton John = bad.
In my humble opinion, of course.
And Afroman claims to have gotten religion, and renounced his tokin’ ways.
What happening to the world, don’t rappers have standards any more?
I’ve embraced this new philosophy. My travelling-to-work iPod playlist is now loaded with a combination of the best and worst of my collections. From MC Solaar to REO Speedwagon (god bless the Vice City soundtrack box collection!), Lemon Jelly to Abba.
Pity my fellow bus passengers!
I realised a few years ago: I like music if it gives me pleasure. Don’t care about what genre it’s in. I’m 36 and I have the new Sugababes album.
I suggest that all that’s happening is you’re maturing and being less fashion-driven.
P.S. I love MC Solaar! You’re the only other person I know who’s ever mentioned him. Did you ever hear the track “Listen” that he did with Urban Species? Absolutely fantastic.
Are you starting to look like your Dad yet, Crusoe ?
Yep. I also find UK Gold strangely comforting, am starting to appreciate having a nice cup of tea and a McVitie’s Boaster, and have decided that the ties in Next are very reasonably priced.
I’m not even thirty.
If you still worry about what other people think of your taste in music after grammar school…you need an attitude adjustment, in my opinion.
I listen to everything from Christina Agilera to Frank Zappa. I listen to rock, rap, country, classical, and jazz.
As a note to Biggirl, if it’s not Afroman and Rich James (or Coolio, for that matter) it’s probably The Grateful Dead or Phish.
P.S…I spent most of 1980 thinking “Forever in Blue Jeans” was “Reverend Blue Jeans.” I thought he was saying he was a laid-back preacher.
There are literally dozens of Ramones songs that use the key change gag that web site dubbed “The Truck Driver’s Gear Change.” “I Wanna Be Sedated” for example. I have always called it “The Ramones Key Change.”
Ah-the melding of music and humor! Check out this site for other Mondegreens.
I was talking with my brother and his wife a few years ago on this subject, and she believed that Groovin’ really spoke of a menage a trois: Life would be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie. He and I nearly wet ourselves laughing.
Stone Roses fan? Just think of Waterfall when you have an annoying catchy tune in your head, and replace it with another, better, catchy tune 