Long time ago I used to listen to stuff like:
Bauhaus, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (up to the Mercy Seat), Butthole Surfers, Pixies so mostly what's now called indie bands but used to be labelled 'noise' (as in "Turn down that noise")
& more regular bands like Guns & Roses, The Cure, Beasty Boys &cetera.
Then at university I discovered the decennia before with the Doors, Rolling Stones, The Stooges (Raw Power !), Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin (anyone of you know Dread Zeppelin ? - one of the most amazingly silly concerts I EVER been witness to ....), . Most of this stuff I can't listen to anymore without developing a headache.
I also started going to the opera rather heavily (I'm a big fan of Callas).
Had an episode that I was heavily into dance music: I discovered The Prodigy and a whole new world opened with house music and Techno, my favourite DJs were Gene Farris and Derrick May. I never before and since been at better parties
No music to just listen to though.
Following a visit to Cuba I started my trip in Latin dance music (Son, Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia, ...). The "Buena Vista Social Club" is still one of my favorite CDs of all times. And since I started taking tango lessons I've been absolutely obsessed with tango music (primarily the Golden Age stuff although some of the neotango stuff is ok)
Add to this a dash of 'general' pop music, some early jazz and bossanova, some Sinatra, Jaques Brel, Waits (Rain Dogs), Randy Newman, The Cure, Prince, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, James Brown, The Orb ("little fluffy clouds"), Ween
... oh, and last but not least the soundtracks of
"The Sound of Music" (which I more or less know by heart) to the chagrin of my beloved, and "Mary Poppins".