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.

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!!