While I'm more or less a fan I always thought LZ would have been better off with a mezzo-soprano. I like her voice.
For those who think the violin can't kick ass:

My tastes tend toward contemporary Country music (Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum), contemporary Christian and rock/jazz like Maroon 5.  My earliest influences/roots were folk/rock.  I am also a song writer and musician (guitar player) myself so I end up performing or listening to my own creations as well.

Chess, music/song writing and sports have been life long interests for me.

My brother-in-law died recently and I inherited some of his excellent vinyl.  As a result I've been listening to a lot of 1960s rock that I never listened to properly the first time.  The Ventures particularly have become a new taste of mine.

My own collection has tended recently toward old, pre-1950 blues; you can get a lot of it re-mastered on good vinyl.  I have a good two-record set of Blind Willie McTell, for example.  That's the sort of stuff I like.  

I'm also big on fado.

I've mentioned before that I play guitar, and speaking of Jackson Brown, I absolutely LOVE this song.  It's very soothing to play on a nice acoustic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPk11AugG4c

Another guy I've been listening to a lot lately goes by the name "Tallest Man on Earth":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa3lyo_Eowc&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltV7dNxuYeY

I also like Feist lately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTmbwrGNK4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1w0vxCC2w

The CD that gets most time in my player right now is Rumer's debut album "Seasons Of My Soul" from 2010. Beautiful, soulful voice; it's almost like having Karen Carpenter back again! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvYUfwMBCrU&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z7Uxo625w

I also discovered Jackson Browne last year, an artist that is strangely underappreciated in Europe. Favorite album: His heaviest and most political; "Lives in the Balance".

In classical, I finally bought Josef Suk's Serenade for strings. I already prefer it to his teacher Dvorak's more famous one.

@Michael Ayton: Agree with a lot of your likes/dislikes, but what's wrong with Rachmaninov? I love his piano concertos (but then I love piano concertos in general, especially from the Vienna school, the Romantics and the National Romantics).

I'm a mainly 'Classical' music obsessive, with a full choral training (though I haven't actually sung outside the shower for 20+ years!) and a huge CD (and music books) collection. In general I love medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and C20/contemporary music and shy away from the later C19. Biggest favs = Purcell, Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Mahler, Wolf, Sibelius, Bartok, Ravel; big non-favs = Brahms, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and sugar on my porridge. Performers? -- too many to mention, though I can't help mentioning the wondrous Jordi Savall and his sadly missed wife Monserrat Figueras. I also love lots of other music even though I don't buy the discs so much -- Bill Evans, Coltrane, John Surman ...  Also I've been getting into Hindustani music quite a bit lately. Ravi Shankar and Amjad Ali Khan at last year's Edinburgh Festival were just head-rearranging!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYzoVoIG-_w
Capercaillie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joq8572jxAM
Idir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARBEBF94Yyg
Bardou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmJUtQeiQzA
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