Where to start...
King Crimson is high on my list this week, as is Evanescence (I hate trying to spell that one)
The Moody Blues are hovering in their usual place, deserving favour.
Saga continues to continue being good.
Always a little hungry for the Blue Oyster Cult
Moby has fallen into the bit bucket.
I enjoy opening The Doors CDs (and then playing them)
Despite the name, Led Zeppelin floats high above many others.
And I suppose I should stop being too smart aleck about it before I get my Aphex Twin bits blown off.
Seriously, everything from classical to classic rock to 80s rock to electronica, omitting most country and most rap.
Piano music by Chopin and Rachmaninov, especially Sviatoslav Richter's recordings, most especially Rachmaninov's Prelude Op 23 #5 in G minor. Of every piano piece I have heard, this is the proverbial IT!
Bach is wonderful, but I really appreciate him more from an academic standpoint than a listening one. Beethoven to Rachmaninov is the era that really does it for me.