Do you tend to like pop-culture music?

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I like The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers, as well as some Eminem. They're popular but I don't really mind if they are or not. I just like something with a good beat/tune that I can exercise with.

No. I like a lot of quirky moody folksy-rock avant-garde music that never gets played on the radio. Check out Patrick Watson on Youtube for an example of what I like.

Just yesterday my mom told me that my current tastes in music would be very good at picking up 80 year old women. I guess most of the music I like was popular at one time but I seem to be about 20 years behind on current pop music.

I like the Beatles, who are the most popular band in the world (best selling album in America in the 2000s? The Beatles' 1), but I don't like "what's hot" because most pop music is unbelievably awful.

Absolutely not. I find very few pop songs fun to listen to. Most of them are annoying or boring to me.

I tend to like unusual music that rather few other people listen to. I don't know anyone who has a similar taste in music as I do.

Well, I agree most of today's pop (popular) music is completely awful and unbearable, but there are a handful of exceptions which are actually quite decent (don't throw stones at me, Bruno Mars). Maybe I'm just aging...

I liked the pop music of the 80s, and during the 90s and late 80s I gradually moved away from pop music towards progressive rock (Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield), space rock (Koto, Laserdance), synthesizer (J. M. Jarre), classical music (Mozart, Impressionists being my favorites), jazz, folk music, baroque and like.

It's interesting that the music I encountered first time in my life, the music of the early 70s, has an inextinguishable effect on me. There was lots of excellent music from different genres that were very popular at the time, yet they mark an era and a level pop music has never reached since then. I like to return to it from time to time nostalgically, and I like to explore music from this era (the 70s) previously unknown to me. Besides, I like some music of the 60s too, eg. Beatles, Led Zeppelin, CSN&Y.

Sometimes I associate certain songs or music with persons or scenes, eras of my life. If I listen to them (even if it's only in my head), I recall a memory, a picture and a feeling associated with them.

I was born in 1944. In the fifties I liked Elvis, Pat Boone, The Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, Show Tunes. There wasn't much I particularly disliked. In the sixties I liked the Beatles, the Mamas and the Papas, and practically every folk song that I heard. In the seventies I liked Pink Floyd, but really disliked the noisier ones like the Stones and the Dead. After that I mostly quit listening to the radio, or eating in noisy places with juke boxes. I don't like Rap or Hip-Hop. The older I get, the more I appreciate the Sound of Silence.

Oh, and I always liked other genres than the particular pop era I was living through.