Though I've been posting here off and on for like a year, I think, I guess I'm probably new, too!
I'd be lying if I said my tastes were the most diverse ever... Metal, prog rock, 80s hardcore, non gay rock bands (Primus, Mars Volta, Jerry Cantrell's solo stuff, etc), VERY limited amount of jazz due to ignorance of the genre (Miles Davis' Bitches Brew Sessions, Alex Skolnick Trio
, Jaco Pastorius), some Indian music (er, just Ravi Shankar actually), and I've just recently become familiar with classical (Mahler, Haydn, ol' Shosty, Dvorak, Sibelius, Gorecki, Ligeti).
I also want to get a bit of traditional Chinese and Japanese world music, but I have no idea where to start