Davis's "Kind of Blue" and Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" and "Empyrean Isle" are my big loves right now. Oh, and "Suspended Night" by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet

The Ozzy version of Black Sabbath.
Judas Priest.
Cream
The Yardbirds.
New music seems to be either about going on drugs, recovering from drugs, and going back on the drugs. Or it is some new metal stuff that is just lacking a certain element or two.

Recently I've been listening to a lot of Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, two great artists who I've pretty much ignored until now.
I've owned it for less than two weeks, but the Tom Waits album 'Alice' is already in my top ten albums of all time, and his album 'Bone Machine' (which I've owned for slightly longer) is in the top twenty.

You have to dig a little to find good stuff. You might like Robert Randolph and the Family Band. They've played at the Crossroads festival and Eric Clapton played a song with them on their newest album. Since you like Cream and the Yardbirds, I thought you might like them. Plus they're one of the most talented bands out there right now (they've only been around for a few years, but Robert Randolph made Rolling Stone's cut of the top 100 guitarists).

As long as the music moves me, I could care less about the credentials :-). Thanks I might try them out. I have a very eclectic,IMO, taste in music that has a wide range but some music just grates on me.....like country and rap and emo-ish metal.

Daniel Amos (band leader Terry Scott Taylor did the music for The Neverhood, Skullmonkeys, and BoomBots), Talking Heads, and Vigilantes of Love/Bill Mallonee are three constants.
Lately I've been listening also to:
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today / by David Byrne and Brian Eno
Moving Pictures / Rush
Obsession / Bob James
and hornist Dennis Brain's early 1950s EMI recordings of Richard Strauss's two horn concertos and Hindemith's horn concerto.
snarfbucket, are you a bass player (Rush, Sting, Patitucci)?
phanboy4, you listed 3 of my four favorite jazz albums that don't say "John Coltrane" on the front.

I think they're everybody's favorite jazz albums, but I've just discovered them, so it's been quite a treat. And yes, after hearing him on KOB, Coltrane has moved to my "check out now list." I'm a sucker for the sax.

Err sabbath went on about drugs every so often. Post-Ozzy Sabbath also had a number of good songs but isn't as consistent as it could be.

Yeah but it was more about the effects not some sad shit whining about his addiction and whining that he can't get off it. Besides, Sabbath damn near invented the genre XD.

There's not any music I listen to for long periods, rather, I just dump everything in a playlist after the first round and let random go from there. As with a few others here, check last.fm, I don't get a high compatibility with a lot of people, so there should be something 'new'.
Electronica/Ambinet/Minimalism/Jazz and classic rock from decades ago.
I find, most mainstream/commercial music is overproduced rubbish, and it takes too long to shift through for anything good. Similar for the indie bands, but with different production reasons.

Damn near? They did!
Odd as it sounds, you should have a listen to Grand Funk Railroad's album Closer To Home, it has an unusually sabbath feel in places

Much like gaming really, unless you're the type who are entertained by anything with pretty colours & flashing lights, you have to pan for gold in a river of diarrhea and quite regularly I wonder if its worth all the effort. Especially when the smell never comes out of the boots

Needs moar metal heads.
Just listened to some Candlemass for the first time. Was pretty cool. Haven't heard much Doom Metal though, so it might be a bit interesting to see how that goes...
I usually listen to Death Metal, Deathcore, Black Metal and some other arbitrary metal sub-genres.
Otherwise it's a bit of classical/academic (as some likes to call it), like Mozart, Bach and Samuel Barber, and some folk music, consisting of Egyptian/Sumerian/Middle Eastern stuff, and music inspired by it, like Karl Sanders and random stuff I find on Youtube that is absolutely impossible to find anywhere else, or even spell with this lousy Latin alphabet..

Don't be dissin' my alphabet if you know whats good for you!
I'd list all the metal bands I listen to but I'd probably need a few posts.
Metal: A Headbangers Journey is well worth a watch for metal lovers. Really interesting look at the history & development of metal as a genre.

I'm an 80's music fan. Listen to the 80's channel often on sky.fm.
Depending on my mood, though, I might also listen to Classic rock, metal, or oldies :)

Me too... I wrote what I consider to be a small list at another website though:
Empyrean Eclipse, Cephalic Carnage, Winds of Plague, Job for a Cowboy, Anaal Nathrakh, Abysmal Dawn, Nile, Neuraxis, Kamelot, Pagan's Mind, Kataklysm, As Blood Runs Black, Deathspell Omega, Knights of the Abyss, Drown My Day, Heaven Shall Burn, System Shock, Mors Principum Est, All Shall Perish, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Breathing Process, Quo Vadis, Arsis, Behemoth, Whitechapel, Burzum, Immortal, Origin, The Faceless, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Death, Rhapsody (of Fire), Luca Turilli, Luca Turilli's Dream Quest, Necrophagist, Sideblast, Omega Red, Theory in Practice, From the Shallows, Bathory, Prostitute Disfigurment, iwrestledabearonce, Blind Guardian, Born of Osiris, Beneath the Massacre, Sons of Azrael, Dark Tranquility, Kalmah, Salt the Wound, Veil of Maya, Amon Amarth, Between the Buried and Me, Wintersun, Crimson Moonlight, Karl Sanders, Revocation, Iron Maiden, Belay my Last, The Scourger, Despised Icon, Decrepit Birth, Childern of Bodom, Hour of Penance, Skinny Puppy, Iced Earth, Dark Fortress, Furze, The Funeral Pyre, Anorexia Nervosa, I Declare War, Dethklok, Sleep Terror, Chimaira, Vader, The Wake, Psycroptic, Naplam Death, Sylosis, Taake, Omnium Gatherum, The Partisan Turbine, The Shattering, Hyems, Sickening Horror, Cryptopsy, Melecesh, Windir, Visceral Bleeding, Unreal Overflows, Paths of Possession, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Beheaded, Aborym, Dimmu Borgir, The Analyst, Graveworm, Gallhammer, My Son My Executioner, Battlelore, From Graves of Valor, The Last Felony, Cholera, Zyklon, As Hope Dies, Carnifex, Celtic Frost, Therion, Interlock, Old Man's Child, Astrofaes, The Acacia Stran, Thorns, Here Comes the Kraken, Materia Prima, Graven Images, Moonsorrow, Divine Heresy etc.