Im more for Irish Folk (Loreena McKennitt, Chris Moore, The Dubliners, Micheal Flatley (that man is not only a tapdancer but plays a devilishly beautiful tune on his flute as wel !!), Planxty...) and classical music (Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Grieg to name just a few), but my favourite modern band is Rammstein.
Other interests: Era, Enya, polyphonic music (Renaissance), Gregorian music, good old Rock & Roll, student songs (I been a cantor for 3 years at university)...

I cannot say that I like modern music very much since the onset of house and techno. I can appreciate death and black metal and some rap groups (to my great horror I like Eminem more and more but that is because of his cadence and lyrics).

Generally I buy and collect songs or pieces of music that I like, not really bothering about what genre they belong to or who performs. My cd and LP/singles library is therefore rather eccentric and diverse. Being half-deaf I have a more intense appreciation for music.