What music genres does everyone like?

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whatever tangerine dream and klaus schulze were doing in the 70s and 80s...that.

I mostly listen to metal and rock. I also like some jazz and folk from time to time.

Those awesome late 1960s through the 1970s and, the early 1980s Pop, and Rock seems to be in categories not covered in the poll on music genre preferences!

Pop
Disco
EMO
70s
80s
90s
Soft/light rock
Glam rock
Punk
Ska
Alternative rock
Grunge
Classic rock
Celtic
Comedy
Country

Pop and Rock each have a checkbox to choose.

I know, there may be a few missing but I couldn't put every single specific genre otherwise the poll options would go on forever.

Blues, Jazz, Motown, and both modern and traditional Irish music.

Mostly rock, specifically 70s and 80s arena rock. I also enjoy some more recent rock like Linkin Park, Evanescence, The Goo Goo Dolls, pre-Ghost Stories Coldplay. And I have a soft spot for folk music as well, and Simon & Garfunkel.

Punk and psychobilly and not much else.

Personally, I wouldn't have lumped metal and rock together. There's plenty of rock fans who don't like metal and there's certainly metal fans who don't care for most rock. Besides the very earliest days of metal there really isn't much overlap between the genres and that's been the case since the 80s at least.

I have always thought of heavy metal as a subgenre of rock. It is all subjective of course.

What genres do I like?
New Wave/Post Punk/Synthpop
Alternative Rock
A lot of 60s and 70s Classic Rock
A lot of 60s Pop

How familiar with it are you? I'd say most metal uses longer riffs in longer, generally more 'progressive' or 'sophisticated' arrangements. Or, maybe somewhat more accurately, metal tends to have more variability in terms of how long riffs are. Metal is more likely to have riffs that are longer (like 32 or 64 notes long) or very short (2 or 4 notes long), more likely to have tempo or time signature shifts, more likely to be composed in 8-note scales instead of 5 or 6 note scales (pentatonic or blues scales). Most of these traits emerged before progressive rock developed as a distinct genre within rock. Not all 'extreme music' is metal, lots of crust punk, hardcore punk and hard rock subgenres produce stuff that's just as heavy as metal of the same era, but metal has always had elements that set it apart from rock even dating back to the era when more bands straddled those worlds. Basically by the time bands that played exclusively metal existed a set of traits had already emerged that defined the genre. Some subgenres reject some parts of that set of traits, but they've been pretty consistent.

I confess that ten of those genres contain music I like though a significant lump of the huge youtube link collection I have amassed in the last nine years or so is electronic. There are quite a few retro tracks in there from my youth but the vast majority are wholly new likes.

Other genres like steampunk are mixed in there, game music, film scores, famous tracks and small artists all randomly played as and when I want to listen to them. Some are just a single track while others there are quite a few from the same artist.

Youtube has opened my ears to just how many artists are out there.

I guess I'm the only one so far that likes R&B.

Edit: Oops, I accidentally picked more than six options (I checked almost all the boxes) so idk if it saved my answers. Oh well.

I checked:
Symphonic Metal (Within Temptation, Nightwish, Delain)
Pop (some 60s, 70s, most 80s, some 90s, only very little from later on)
some Country

Other:
Celtic Folk (especially Clannad, Julie Fowlis, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Orla Fallon)
Musicals (especially those from before the 1990s)
Soundtracks (Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Howard Shore, John Williams, and similar styles)

Heavy metal saved my life.