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The teeny boppers organized and modern pop won. I wear an mp3 player with wireless headphones.
I play old R&B, 70s Funk (P-Funk, War, EWF, Bootsey, Dazz Band,etc), Jazz-Funk (The Urban Knights, Herbie Hancock), Jazz (Ramsey Lewis, the Crusaders, George Duke, Stanley Clark), Latin (Santana, Santamaria, etc) some Broadway, some R&B (Anita Baker is a good cooldown). I mix one player for running and one for lifting. For running, I have tempos for warmup, tempo runs, speedplay, etc and cool down on a few playlists. On the lifting one, I have moderate tempos. Lift heavy on P-Funk! Rick James, Curis Blow, etc all motivate me. Marvin Gaye is good for pilates. Stevie Wonder is good for anything (yeah, I worn out my copy of Innervisions.
My husband has metal and funk (he just spent boucou bucks on collected Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, the Who, Led Zepplin-people ask for copies of his playlists). We have friends with everything from rock to country (that Earl song seems to fire some people up).
I think the tempos are more important than the genre. I like all genres, as long as it is good. So much music seems created assembly line by corporate bean counters.
