galt54

I think I understand my own taste in music. I go for music with simple, up-tempo and in-your-face melodies. The kind of melodies which attach themselves to your mind after just hearing the song once.

My first major love in music, when I was nine years old, was The Dave Clark Five and the Beatles. Later I became fond of the Beach Boys, Herman´s Hermits (only when I was a kid, I grew out of it), the Kinks, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream. And still later I developed a deep love of Blue Öyster Cult. During the 1970 I also dug Steely Dan, Yes, Deep Purple, Budgie, Led Zeppelin, Kiss and the Village People. During the 1980s I liked Madonna and the Pet Shop Boys. Artists from the 1990s which I have become fond of were Army of Lovers, Aqua, the Queers and
E-rotic.

As you can see I have dug a lot of crassly "commercialistic" artists. I suppose that is because the artists with simple, easy-to-comprehend melodies tend to be the most successful, commercially. My taste in music tends to align with that of "the crowd".