Me, I love disco and hi-nrg, two rather undervalued, even quite maligned genres. A lot of people assume that a fondess for disco would have to be at least partially ironic, or else a “guilty pleasure”, but nope - my love for it as about as sincere as it comes. To me, there is nothing quite like the thrill of getting hold of a hard-to-find 12" on CD or in mp3 format (I don’t own very many of the original vinyls, partly because I don’t have access to a turntable that works, and also because I just like having music I can easily transfer to my mp3 player, through which I do most of my listening anyway).
70s/80s dance may be my biggest musical passion, but I’ve got pretty diverse tastes, and there’s quite a lot of other stuff out there that I also like. These include, but aren’t by any means limited to, jazz (particularly jazz with a European or Latin American flavour), ragtime, new wave, pop (the synthier, the better), techno, electronica, chill-out, classical and easy listening.
I find “rock” a bit of a generic, uninspiring term (though you could say that about any genre, I suppose, since when you start to dig deeper, you find that they all have their own range of sub-genres), but the stuff I lean towards tends to be of the more psychedelic or experimental range.
On the whole, I’m not a huge fan of metal, rap (though I agree with thedriveintheatre that some of the more old-school hip-hop can be quite fun), or of most so-called alternative rock, and Christian rock has no appeal to me.
) Just don’t let rap get in my ears.
