longbough

Let's turn this question around.
What do your musical tastes say about yourself?

I'll start:
I like vocals. From unpolished voices full of angst (Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Billy Bragg, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Billie Holiday, Maria McKee, Chuck Berry...), to polished and sexy (Kathleen Battle, Cecilia Bartoli, Ella and early Billie...) and others (Luz Casal, los Panchos, Maria Dolores Pradera, Ofra Haza, John Fogarty, Ray Davies, Sade, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg, Bob Dorough, Jolie Holland, George Jones...).
I'm a straight male who likes Broadway (especially Soundheim - Len Cariou's "Sweeney Todd" is incomparable.) Frank Loesser is great. Frank Wildhorn ("Jeckyl and Hyde"). I think A. L. Weber is overrated fluff.
I like some classical and opera- Mahler (at the right moment), Beethoven (Von Karajan & Berlin Philharmonic's take on the symphonies are my favorite (hardly an original opinion but they speak to me nonetheless. The piano concertos have been done to death), Strauss (Richard and Johan), Prokoviev, Puccini...) I'm not crazy about Mozart...
I'm definitely into Jazz - Monk is wonderful (even though his improvs can be hit/miss - his "hits" can get you from unexpected directions), Fats Waller, Duke, Oscar Peterson... I never got as much into Miles or Bird - maybe some day they'll speak to me. Most (but not all) "Jazz Fusion" plays like rock without balls IMHO. I think George Winston is annoying (play the keyboard real slow then change the chord every 5 minutes... then you've got an LP).
Motown - that's a whole big category itself - There's a lot of derivative junk in the milieu, but also some incredible gems in the bunch (Blue Magic, Delfonics..).
Yeah, I like Sinatra, Bobby Short and Tony Bennett - what of it?
Then there's Tom Petty, Ricky Lee Jones, Joan Jett, Donald Fagen, Camper Van Beethoven, Van Halen, ZZ Top, Talking Heads, CCR, Brooks and Dunn, Diamond Rio, Alanis Morissette (before she started selling out), Azucar Moreno, Juan Gabriel's lyrics, Garbage, Parlaiment, Funkadelic, Gap Band, Prince, Randy Crawford, Heat Wave, Pointer Sisters, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, EW&F, Bally Sagoo (early stuff)....(I'm leaving a whole bunch of stuff out)
I don't just listen to old stuff, but MTV definitely killed a lot of music for me - there's some good stuff still out there but there's a shitload of overproduced garbage out there to wade through.
I never got into rap.
I'm embarassed to admit I listen to these: Go Gos, Bangles, Yoko Minamino, Oasis... (come on, doesn't everybody have some "guilty pleasure" with some song or band you know is shallow, overproduced and/or just bad?)
I'm even going to stick my neck waaaaay out and admit that I cried when I listened to that damned theme song to "Titanic." But you won't catch me dead in the Celine Dion section of my local music store. I don't think that makes me "shallow"

I don't mind if you want to ridicule my tastes - at least I get laid.
I think the only thing you can tell about me is that I'm in my late 30s and that I've dated some latinas. I generally date younger women - many of them learned how to listen to jazz with me.

But a final word about tastes: Since I'm into women I guess I wouldn't mind if my GF was into them, too - (kidding...no I'm not)