What kind of music relaxes you?

I hear ya! Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald are two of my favorite singers as well. I like the sounds of the ocean and the rain since I grew up on an island and those are the sounds that put me to sleep every night. My brother Sandy Simpson's music combines a lot of ocean, rain, and seabird sounds which I really like. Of course I'm a bit partial, I suppose. :) My husband likes "cool jazz" also. I'm not much of a jazz person. I'm not sure why. I think certain types of jazz that go on and on and seem rather random-sounding have put me off. I realize it takes special talent to play and sing jazz, I just don't really enjoy it for some reason. What do you like about it? I completely agree with your comment about vulgar language. I can do without that completely! :)

What I like about jazz, is that it allows you a certain air of freedom, that releases a persons musical creativity, and I love that, because in my soul, I have a lot of creativity that I need to share!

I believe Keith Urban, as well as some rock bands that cross over into country like Alabama, have helped ease people who normally never listened to country music into it. I am one of those people. The screaming I can do without, as well. I am not much of a fan of hip hop, techno, and rap as I see them as rather substandard "musical forms." Anything that involves screaming gives me a headache, too! I hear ya!

Me too--the opera, I mean.