Ricky Martin has inspired me

[A Black Falcon]

At first it might seem that you have a point here, but it's tentative at best. Rock isn't just a genre--it's a super-genre. Rock encompasses a VAST BULK of music produced in the past fifty years. There are countless subgenres of rock which you may or may not like, but to say you don't like rock leaves very few contemporary options outside of rap/hip hop, techno or country.

So there's a lot of it... so? It's still one genre really, with a lot of subgenres under it. But the main genre is the main genre.

I dislike country and rap/hip-hop even more than I do rock. Didn't I say that I don't like most popular music very much, and aren't a music fan? :)

I mean, as I know I've said before, the idea of just listening to music while not doing anything else is just utterly foreign to me. It makes absolutely no sense, it'd be far too boring. I never just listen to music... I listen to it in a game I'm playing, or in a movie, or sometimes I play something while I'm surfing the web... but never just on its own. Music doesn't interest me enough to stand on its own.

Soooo much of rock isn't electric guitars. I'm trying to imagine that you have a negative impression of rock as... what, Ozzie Osbourne? Rock is everything from Buddy Holly to Led Zeppelin to Elvis to the Clash to Pink Floyd to the Beatles to Kings of Leon to Coldplay to Yes to Elton John... well shit it's almost everything produced since the 60's.

Some of those I've heard, some I haven't. The best of them (the Beatles for instance) I would describe as "tolerable for a while". Almost nothing beyond that, certainly. I would not say "like" very often for rock music, no matter what kind of rock music you're talking about...

Oh, and the electric guitar is rock's signature instrument... you really can't say otherwise! Sure some other ones are used, but that's the central one. That and vocals. And I don't really like either a lot of the time. :)

I like and have my share of videogame and movie soundtracks. To date my most-listened to CD of all time is The Empire Strikes Back... BUT HOW CAN YOU HEAR THIS AND NOT WANT TO BURST OUT DANCING?

Favorite piece of music? Beethoven's 9th symphony would be my choice.

As for that song (Elton John), it's alright I guess. It's not my favorite kind of music and isn't what I'd think of as being that "rocklike", but it's okay... it doesn't make me want to listen to more stuff like it though.