I believe my music collection really started way back when I realized there was something going on with these "Beatles" CDs Dad was often playing. :) The Beatles and other classic-rock legends remain a core part of my collection. (Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd are the most heavily represented, but there are many more.) However, it just keeps growing both in terms of styles and timeframes. My collection is especially wide-ranging now I think I started assembling my own media library in fall 2006, around the time Weird Al's Straight Outta Lynwood (read: White and Nerdy) was released. Al, you and your Dr. Demento allies bring a much appreciated vein of humor to my music collection.
While my library recently reached four thousand tracks, more importantly, the active interest has become much stronger lately. MC Lars and associates rocked the Water Street Music Hall on December 5th, 2009. That catalyzed and accelerated the process. Then, late December and early January, I caught Gaga fever. Notably, in both cases, it spilled out from the particular artists involved to my music as a whole.
Music is music - I listen to many things, often rather different. Sometimes, I take the stylistic difference between any two particular musicians as a point of humor. An example of this, is illustrated in this graphic
Some people use posters relating to their favorite band(s) as room decoration. I figured I'd one-up that idea, with a self-built rendering of the Led Zeppelin symbols in LEGO. Here's my Excel-based materials list and set of blueprints. I decided awhile later to follow up on this project. I have already built one for K. Flay; its picture is located here. In her own words, "that's awesome". (And they're even affixed to the wall with a large quantity of the gray stuff.) The blueprints for Flay, Lars and Gaga are available here: here. For those who do not care for Gaga, click here (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Denny/Flaherty/Nielsen)
Pictures of the completed LEGO mosaics are located here. For the first three only, go here.
I put higher-resolution versions here.
Gaga has said some surprisingly deep things; I present a collection of them as evidence of, and as a reminder of, the fact that there's something more than synthpop bombast here. Word document here.