Type a link to a song that is totally different from the kind if music you usually play on your guitar and the type of music you usually listen to. This is something that shows people there are more sides to your musical taste than they thought.
I play heavy metal and hard rock. My favorites are early Judas Priest, Dio, Queensryche, Fates Warnng (with John Arch) and Savatage. So this song I’ve provided a link to will probably surprise you. Try to guess why I like it so much!
I love Radiohead and Massive Attack. Are they surprising enough? 
Further away from the guitar I can also think of Royksoop, Zero 7 and Portishead
My favourite artists are Norah Jones and Chopin, I don’t think I can surprise anyone any more! Haha!
Most of the things that spring to mind for me are popular songs from earlier decades that are well known and popular, but people I know might merely be surprised that I like that song.
Like this:
I really like 90s trip hop (Portishead, Massive Attack)
As far as modern pop music I really like Taylor Swift (barring the dumpster fire that is her most recent album), Lana Del Rey, and Florence + The Machine
Glory Box is a great song! It took me forever to find out who performed it because I saw it on a Tv movie trailer and so I spent $12 buying the soundtrack to the movie. Glory Box wasn’t on it! Then I heard it on a TV show one day few years later but at the end of the show, no credit was given. I don’t remember how I finally did figure out it was Portishead (whom I had never heard of). I’ll bet they played the hell out of that song at strip clubs, heh, heh.
I saw the video for “Sour Times” in the mid-90s, and it took a long time for me to figure out who the artist was. I think once online song lyrics and search engines became a thing, I was able to look it up by the chorus.
There are tons of top 40 that I can really appreciate. I think some Katy Perry songs are really well constructed, like Firework and Teenage Dream (both of which I’ve done instrumental covers of 
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Personally I just like anything that has something cool going on, especially harmonically. Ravel, Debussy, Animals as Leaders, Beatles, Tom Petty, Wayne Shorter, Tears for Fears, Gillian Welch, I dunno.
Maybe for me people would be more surprised at what I don’t like: I don’t listen to a lot of guitar-player music - I love watching the YT vids and seeing the technique but even somebody as amazing as Julian Lage, or on another end of the spectrum, Rick Graham, I don’t necessarily want to listen to an album of it. (But admittedly would much rather listen to the former than the latter.)
I listen to all types of music, and out of all the music i listen to, i enjoy listening to artists including. Faith hill, Kate bush, steely dan, Olivia newton-john, don McLean, eric clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, lulu, Pink Floyd, and Judah’s priest. And out of all the artists I’ve mentioned, i have listened to eric clapton, b.b. King steely dan, faith hill, and Taylor swift in concert.
Kate Bush is great. I really like female singer-songwriters like Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Chelsea Wolfe, Hope Sandoval, and Marissa Nadler.
Not today, but back in the late 80’s and early 90’s when I was long-haired and in a thrash band Friday Night in San Francisco was in heavy rotation for our band’s listening pleasure. I think the average person would have been surprised we would bother wish such sophisticated music, as it would have likely been sandwiched between an Exodus and Crumbsuckers CD.
I’ll confess, I’ve always loved the guitar performance on Sarah McLachlan’s “Witness”:
Really, a lot about the overall vibe, I guess… but the guitar is awesome - this weird textural stuff, and the main lead break is basically just a collection of guitar noise… yet it works.
In general, there’s a bunch of great songwriting all over Sarah McLachlan’s albums.
I feel like people only dislike her because of those sad SPCA commercials.
I like the song “Angel” by Sara McLachlan. This is a very interesting cover of that song by former Crimson Glory vocalist Midnight. I really feel the pain he was feeling in this performance recorded shortly before he died…
I actually do like all of Surfacing - great mood to the recording, some pretty cool subtle guitar moments here and there, great writing, and a great voice. I can’t listen to metal ALL the time, you know?
Same general vein, I like all of his albums, but Gregory Alan Isakov’s “That Sea, the Gambler” is a spectacular disc. The title track, “The Stable Song,” and “Raising Cain” are all awesome tunes.
Also, since we’re on the subject of guilty pleasures, I reallly like Ryan Adams’ cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989. It’s kind of Springsteen-esq, and given Adams’ darker delivery and troubled history, a lyric like “Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you, welcome to New York…” comes across as a lot more sinister.
Ok here’s mine. I’m a classic rock/80s metal guy, but I love funk because you can use metal type soloing with funk. I’m a huge Nile Rogers fan!
I love Crimson Glory bro, They are a Florida band. Midnight lived in Sarasota, FL. The other guitar player Rick that I played with in Rob Rock is now in a band with Wade Black. Wade was the first replacement singer for Midnight. I know Jon Drenning, One of the guitarists. There will never be another Midnight.
Love me some Jim Croce. It’s a shame that Maury Muehleisen doesn’t get more attention for the work he did with Croce.
Great focken band. I’m wearing my “Transcendence” shirt right now, in fact.