Do you admit that you ever enjoyed listening to:

In short; Yes. Whether you’re drawn to the genre or not, all the groups you first listed produced/wrote great melodies and in my view that's what it's all about ... that and the arrangement. Sadly, much of the !@#$%*! produced today and for perhaps that past two decades, is a pathetic and sad attempt to pass noise off as "music" .... but, the millennials & X generations lap it up to the tune of billions of dollars annually. There is very little or no variety … one, two, maybe 3 chords repeated over and over with a backdrop of syntho-babble …. a mindless bunch of flats and sharps and an arrangement that are agonizingly unimaginable and unmusical. There are a very few, what I call good bands out there ….. but the greater majority is just processed crap. I’ll step off my soap box now.

I agree with exactly what Vindanpar said about the Carpenter's.  Wouldn't give them the time of day, back in the day.  Now I listen to them and am bowled over by the quality of Karen's voice and the professional and artful production of the songs.  "We've only just begun" sounds particularly amazing on my system, as well as, the other songs mentioned above.  I must be over the hill.  And far away.

Never owned a Bee Gee CD, but I have listen to Barry Manilow, from time to time....is that any better? And I find the Carpenter's to be timeless with Karen ' s wonderful vocals.  

I first heard Dan Fogelberg in the mid-1970s, back when I was in high school, and most recently listened to him last week. I thought he was great back then, and still feel that way now. Saw him live once in the good ol' days, and he was really good live, too.
-- Howard

@pokey77  You hit the nail on the head. My identity was also defined by what I listened to. I missed out on so much, due to my un willingness to acknowledge any music that was not "cool" A pivotal moment in my life occurred around 25 years ago when I saw a Cyndi Lauper live video. She was singing Time After Time. I noticed immediately the beautifully played arpeggios with none other than Rick Derringer on guitar. I was shocked at first, I mean, this was Rick Derringer.With Cyndi Lauper?? What's going on here?? Then I started to pay attention to the quality of Cyndi's voice. At that moment I new that I had, due to my own stubbornness, missed out on a wealth of music because it was "un cool". I vowed to never again dismiss any music before I gave it a chance, be that a specific artist or genre. I now own and enjoy so many different varieties of music, and I have successfully passed this philosophy on to my son, who is a music lover, and still in his teens.