Well, I was really into the Romantic Era as a kid -- Tchaikovsky, Chopin, etc. Decades later, with a bit more training in music history & theory, I became more appreciative of the Baroque & Classical Era. In the meanwhile, I kept trying with atonal music or with contemporary music, with relatively little success. I won't bother with that again. But I never stopped loving bel canto.

After meeting enough jazz musicians and seeing them in live performance, I also started to admire jazz. But it really is the product of a particular context. Listening to jazz from a recording kinda misses out something crucial. One can say the same about certain kinds of Latin dance music that I listen to -- without responding to the mood of the dancers in the room, the music just seems a bit... lonely as a recording.

Recently I've been renewing my acquaintanceship with folksongs from around the world -- Scottish, Italian, Kazakh, American...