What "aspect" of music do you like the most?

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Well, it also easily depends on the type of music. For example i like some very intense heavy metal for the sheer force and energy of it sometimes. While on the other hand i mainly listen to jazz for the improvisational skills and interactions between the instruments. Although overall, a good song is a good song with a catchy melody and rhythms and all. Personally, i also like it when many different types of sounds and instruments are used in a song as opposed to a few. The more a song is screwed up the more likely i'll be interested in it, but that doesn't mean it can be just a mess. When trying to be different a song needs to still connect somehow.

Oh and on the point of people generally being narrow minded, i've noticed that this is often due partly at least to all the musical cliques around. Sometimes with some types of music, the actual music itself becomes part of a subculture and to be part of that you stick with it and defend it. This is a largely detrimental ideological attitude to music, really there's no argument against a certain specific genre of music that works at all.

I think the greatest treat for me is when music really reaches for the sublime - ie. goes beyond the world that we know, transcends, reaches for some deeper truth that words can't express. Many different ways that this is arrived at, whether its the deeper sounds where there seems to be almost a universe unto itself behind each kick or snare, where the emotional immersiveness of a track gets so thick and heavy that it seems like something almost inhuman is seductively playing with your mind, trying to pull at you as it intoxicates and mystifies.

As far as bands and the lyrical side of things go, I tend to like the stuff that's emotionally immersive in either a very transcendental way (ie. strong altruistic lyrics) or in the Training Day sense (stuff that rattles you pretty good).