Like indie music. I just happen to know there was a time when "the dream of the '90s were alive in Portland" (yes, I know that's from the show, but what-fuckin-ever). And it was the coffee shop scene, poet-guitarists coming and singing about shit to hipster-y teens who want to save the whales, etc.
No offense, it's purely my taste and my taste alone, but I can't think of a playlist I'd rather not listen to more than that.
Well that's what I'm going into this to find out: whether I enjoy it or not. And, like I said, regardless of whether I enjoy it or not, I do also see this as an educational opportunity.
And you have no idea how much I respect that. I've had this conversation with my 15-year-old daughter. I think there is value and merit in knowing music you don't like. I was never a huge Hendrix fan at all, I can't usually get past the vocals and I'm not a "noise" guy, but I had the "Essential Jimi Hendrix" for "Little Wing". About three years ago, I decided to give it a serious listen, and then I had an opportunity to get the three original studio albums in bulk, and I went through them with some detail. I was blown away, not in how good they were (though they were) but how INFLUENTIAL they were. Almost every track I heard something that came later. "Oh, that's Steve Vai!", "Oh, that's Judas Priest!", "Oh, that's Uli Roth!" I would never even consider Hendrix in my top 15 guitarists before, then I heard that and again, even though he's not my favorite, he is UNDENIABLY in the top five, if not top three, just because of how many people he has directly influenced.
I made a CD of 20 songs each from Zeppelin, Beatles, Floyd, Elton John, and Genesis for my daughter just to listen to once, so she had a basis to evaluate bands like One Direction, Taylor Swift, etc.