Listen to the posters above...seriously, there is a lot of music out there. I guarantee you will not like some of it. A lot of it will make the stuff you are listening to now look like crap to you. You sound like you are just starting off in exploring music. Go peruse the "Albums Your Digging II" thread, or if you are looking to get into a specific genre check out the threads dedicated to those. Or check out some journal entries. I can't tell you how many great albums I've found by going through Anteater's journal.

Oh, and you and just about everyone else says "I like everything but country"...until they actually listen to it. At least you didn't throw rap in there...that's another one that gets that treatment.

Right, see, the mainstream representations of genres (Pop, rap, country) are very poor examples, and there are always artists doing creative and meaningful things in those genres that don't get a lot of popular attention.

In highschool I never would've accepted that I'd be listening to "country" as an adult, but there's so much diversity in genres like Alt-country, Americana, Gothic Country, etc. You just have to look for it, or ask the right people. ;)

Listen to Calexico if you think you don't like Country music. Good band to start off with.

This.
But you may not have been helping yourself putting "Nickelback" in your introduction topic. You sure have a lot of guts to do so :D

Still my favourite band, but there's nothing country-ish in Calexico if you ask me :).
I'm not sure what to start with when it comes to country. I'm more into bluegrass myself (try trampled by turtles, by the way :D).
Maybe Nick 13's album could be nice to get used to the sound of country and rockabilly in one go :)

Why was putting Nickelback a gutsy move? I genuinely like them, so I thought I would share it. I don't care if poeple want to shoot down what I think are good bands, and I will not do the same to others. And I truly don't like country music, the only style of country I can stand is old country, that's about it. Country music bores me, and I will not state all my opinions on it.

just wanted to say I quite like St. Anger as well

Anyone who stands by their principles and has conviction in what they listen to is fine by me. Having an open mind is what every music fan worth their salt is judged upon and even if you like artists that are not popular with the elitists or not popular with friends and relatives etc doesn't matter.

As long as you give most genres of music a decent listen and remain open minded then your tastes will never suck. Trust me, there are far more narrow minded people on here than yourself who claim to be otherwise. Knowing obscure bands or artists is not always an immediate free pass to musical enlightenment.

I say don't worry about it. When I first started posting, I thought I had terrible taste in music. Turns out, haters gonna hate and it doesn't really matter what other people think.

Try this one. Or Two.
 

See what you think.

^ That first song is fantastic, I downloaded that EP. Unfortunately I thought it was going to be an album, do they have any other releases I should check out.