I take a pretty hands off approach to music with the boy. I generally blandly compliment anything he likes (which I usually don't) and rarely push any of my own stuff on him. I always figured if I pushed my own tastes on him, he'd make sure to purposefully go in his own direction and start listen to some really shitty stuff. That said, I certainly play lots of my music, though without comment. If he asks for more info, I'll give it to him, but I definitely take a more passive approach. His tastes are currently pretty different from mine, but sometimes I score one. For example, he's into Phoebe Bridgers now at least.
"But, Dad, why is she always wearing those skeleton clothes?"
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My son is 24 now. I also never really pushed my music on him and during high school he was so introverted that I never really had any clue regarding his musical tastes. Once he moved back home, he opened up quite a bit and I found that we have very similar tastes. So, our drive down to Phoenix and back recently was a treat. I think we both surprised each other with some of our favorite musicians. For example, I really liked Thompson Twins when I was in high school. I still do, but it's not really a band you throw out there in discussion as they are often the butt of 80's music jokes. During our drive, my son said he remembered I liked TT and he started checking out their music and he really likes them too. Huh. Our other shared favs include" Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Yes, Radiohead, Primus... yeah, we are pretty much all over the board.
Runner daughter and I don't have a huge overlap of musical favorites, but we do have enough curiosity to be able to have a cursory discussion of each other's musical tastes and bands.