Ok strange question this, but I am always asked what tastes I have in music, and it is a damn hard question to answer.

My musical taste is vast and wide ranging.
I have Beethoven and Wagner, all the way through to Metallica, Daft Punk, and everything inbetween.
Hell I even own some Britney bloody spears!
I was just wondering if anyone else has the same wide taste, or if they just tend to stick to one taste, then grow out of it, and start on something new.

Yeh, I have a really wide taste in music, prabably best described as 'eclectic'. Most people I meet have never heard of most of the music in my core collection, but find it of interest when introduced to it.

When I was a music journo, my specialist area was Australian rock, pop, punk and country and although I still have a passion for the Antipodean bands that no-one in the UK has heard of, I have everything you can imagine in my CD collection, from anything directed by Herbert Von Karajan (especially with the BPO), movie soundtracks (current favourite The Proposition), Celtic influenced punk (e.g. Dropkick Murphys) and German punk (e.g. Die Toten Hosen), and have developed a taste for foreign language rock, like Mexican band Mana, French Patricia Kaas. I also still get sent loads of CD's to review, so, anything and everything, genre doesn't matter, if I like it, I like it (if I don't, it gets put on the Shit CD of The Month page on my web site )

One way to 'discover' new music is to pick a member of a 'new' band that you really like and then look into their musical family tree. i.e. many years ago I started with an Aussie guy called Tex Perkins, and to this day still buy everything that he is invloved in - The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon, Tex Don & Charlie, Tex Perkins' Dark Horses and all the associated stuff that branches out from those projects - Dirty Three, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey.....the list goes on and on.

Lots of classical, punk, hip-hop, jazz and blues, occasional dance and electronic. I don't tend to enjoy a lot of the super-mainstream stuff you hear on Radio 1, but every now and again there's a good 'un. I've always thought that you can find good music in any genre, it's just that without knowing much about a specific genre, it can be difficult to find what you like within it.

I have a number of friends whose judgement I trust, and who seem to spend their lives scanning radio stations and reading music media in an attempt to pick up on good new music, and I tend to rely on them to introduce me to things I may not have heard but would like. Occasionally I get to return the favour, so it works out to the satisfaction of all.

My musical taste is very varied: Funk, soul, hip hop, trip hop, reggae (ska, rocksteady, root's, and a little bit of dancehall), rock, punk, jazz, a little bit of folk, a little classical,R'n'b(in the original sense, 50's, 60's), doo wop, rock n roll, world music (especially south American), instrumental stuff like David Axelrod, ambient, d'n'b (not really to listen to at home, but I love to dance to it, 60's pop (especially Phil spector production's, love those girl group's), a little country, blue's, and other thing's that dont really fit into a bracket.

My taste ranges from Fleetwood Mac all through the different types of rock/metal up to death.

a few other strays thrown in are:-
Savage garden
Elton John
Rod Stewart
Robbie Williams
Gary Barlow

mine range from some classical to trance with so much in between, only one thing I cannot stand is......country & western, really hate it.....sorry
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For me it's classical to Metal and pretty much everything in between.

Except for most rap/hip hop..but I WILL listen to some rap or hip hop depending on my mood.

I either like a song or I don't, doesn't matter which genre it is. *shrugs*

Well I've got an eclectic taste, but maybe a bit of a bias towards the heavy rock of the late 6y0s early 70s, however, I'm like LV inasmuch as I hate country music too and also jazz, unless it's bluesy.
I have all sorts in my music collection and will prob always be like that.

my collection ranges from new age to hip hop to trance to classical to african soukous to chinese folk music to arabian dance to carribean soca to aaah sod it.. lets just say mostly everything.. but what i cant stand is metal!

My tastes are very eclectic. Having studied music for many years we obviously have classical in there and then from there is goes all the way through to R&B and hip hop of today.

I can't get into the really heavy heavy stuff though, we're you can't pick out a tune and they shout and scream rather than sing.

I love stuff that you can sing along to, dance to, and means something. My fave has to be 70's and 80's stuff. But definitely not Elton John...i can't stand him!!

That middle sentence will be about Death Metal then.