For me, I cut my music-teeth on much of the mid-60's music on the radio. very little from Elvis but lots of CCR, Dooby Bros., Bobby Gentry, Beach Boys, Neil Diamond, Jefferson Airplane (Starship), Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, Steppenwolf, Mamas and Papas, Crosby Stills and Nash (some with Young), Monkeys, Tommy James and the Shondells, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison!, Animals, Doors, Buffalo Springfield, The WHO [oh hell yes!], Marvin Gaye, and on and on.

Classics like Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Beethovan, etc., I can listen to once or twice a year. Christmas carols make me want to smash the radio that's playing it.

All that music is very familiar to me, both in your first paragraph and in your second paragraph too.

But, as I said to Desire (an oldtimer) at some other site, I cannot listen to music I liked when I was young. It simply sounds old-fashioned, I cannot help it.

And like you, I listen to the classical music only sometimes, not very often.

On the other hand, I don't listen to today's music -- no wonder, I am (getting) old and today's singers are young.

So what is left? I don't know.

Maybe this is comparable with another thing: at VoA some people say that they still listen to Cleopatra Stratan, but I simply cannot listen to her, because she is "old" -- her prime time has gone.