Well, I must disagree. I do indeed love some of the music I heard in my "formative" years, which was a weird mixture of stuff on my grandparents' gramophone records, the radio and, in later years, rock'n roll.

But, much later in life, I discovered different styles of jazz, French caf-conc and musette songs and tunes, Cape Breton fiddling, modern Swedish polskas and other tunes by groups like Vasen, funk, American old-time fiddle tunes, South African township music, stuff from Senegal and the Gambia and - throughout all of this - classical music from De Visee to Messiaen.

It's a never-ending journey, sometimes with dissonance, but always fascinating.