Everybody has music that they proclaim in public, in bars, on forums, etc. We also have some stuff that we reserve for ourselves, because we wouldn't want to be caught listening to is because it's just too uncool, too retro, too something. This is music that you listen to in the dark with headphones. Anybody will to share?
I'll go...I was raised in a German family and caught a taste for churchy choral music, not that that's bad, but in the more contemporary world, the closest I can come is Brian Wilson, whose writing of vocal harmony seems close to Handel and Bach. His newest, That Lucky Old Sun, is an excellent example but a guy who likes loud jangly guitar bands shouldn't like this sweet, overproduced vocal harmony. Those spoken interludes really radiate cringes. Nevertheless, in the dark with headphones, over and over......