Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.
I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.
I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.
I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles, of The Stones, and then later on The Who and Zeppelin. But at one point in the '70s, it just kind of became... mellow.
My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like The Fray, I'm a massive fan of them, and The Killers.
I have a fascination for well-produced '70s and '80s rock with a lot of harmonies. AOR bands like Journey, Jefferson Starship, Toto, Kansas, Boston.
As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
My taste is very '70s, like Garfunkel and James Taylor, so not too far from country, but not really the mainstream country that's on the radio.
Not only was it Def Leppard I was into when I was 15, but 'Watermark' by Enya. I loved it.
I like the Carpenters and Elvis.
I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.
I do sometimes like cheesy music like 'Africa' by Toto; naff songs and music.
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
I like Maroon 5, Cold Play. Snow Patrol from Ireland is very good. Adele is wonderful. I enjoy a new singer named Rumer. I don't care for rap or hip-hop.
Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.
The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.
My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.
Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.
I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.
Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.
