A generation or two up from most of you youngsters, my long list of pleasures which I've never felt guilty about in the slightest includes a huge whack of late sixties/early seventies singer/songwriters and bands, particularly

Gentle Giant
The Who (I was their teaboy/gofer for a whole day in the 1972, but that's another story)
Early Yes and Genesis (up to and just after the departure of Peter Gabriel)
Joni Mitchell
David Ackles
Judee Sill
Chicago
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Zappa

Folk and ethnic (as opposed to "World") music, especially from Celtic countries and South Eastern Europe/Trans Caucasus, epecially

Ossian
Rustavi Ensemble

I'm fairly immune to musicals, having spent far too much of my life doing them, however (to a certain extent)

Sondheim (never done a complete one)
Stephen Schwartz  (ditto)

Frighteningly, that's not even the tip of the iceberg, but it's certainly enough to be going on with for now.

I wish they didn't rub it in with those soul-destroying reminders:

"You have been logged on for 2 days, 23 hours and 17 minutes. What does this say about your life?"

I dont feel guilty either, but,

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN !     

x Jan x

Ron, have you noticed that the ROH are doing a new production of INTO THE WOODS in the Linbury Studio this summer?  Details are on their website now...

Rei, Tommo, I hadn't; the ROH now seems as distant to me as the Met or La Scala, so I've tried not to frustrate myself by being aware of what they're doing. My feeling is that Into the Woods is one of the Sondheims where the book and lyrics are on a more exalted plane than the score, though it could be argued that the bathetic nursery rhyme nature of that oft-repeated tune is totally intentional on the composer's part.

The most I've done in a show was two and a half years; Singin' in the Rain at the Palladium: the score was wonderful, though towards the end of the run there were other reasons why it was looking increasingly likely that the Tour Jacket might need to be redesigned with very long sleeves which could go right round the back and be tied up again at the front. Managed over a year in Evita, Chess, and the Disney Beauty and the Beast, too; once again, they were all good scores: Chess in particular is wonderfully well written for voices, an absolutely fabulous sing (but then I guess that only to be expected from the Abba boys).

Much  of the music you mention here I never heard of. Well, that just proves the point that I know very little.
I like Czardas like Ollie. I like Liszt and folk versions.
Like Ollie, my secret pleasure is this board and listening to radio 3. 

There's quite a lot I've never heard of, too, or at least never heard - or heard once and thought "Never again.."

I go weak at the knees when I hear Midnight in Moscow, except for the version by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. I remember seeing Gorbachov dancing to it. I had realized it was popular in Moscow too.