Well the problem is more just a dramatically different idea of what "weird" entails (in the eyes of these people) which can make, say, attempting to choose music for a long car ride a bit difficult. They'll happily crow, "I'm in the mood for something weird! What do you have?" (or something equally vague) and then you must gauge what precisely they mean by that.

Also Björk and Tool.
Although that answer might be from ten years ago, when I still used to talk to people about music and nowadays some indie crap is the go-to 'weird stuff' for wannabe noobs.

To be fair, Bjork is pretty weird. More the person though.

I've had someone bring up Primus before and that led to a fruitful education on The Residents and that particular friend ended up seeing them with me. So it's not always an exercise in futility.

Bjork is one of those gateway artists, I think. Just the right amount of kookiness for young people (especially if they were an angsty teen girl in the early 2000s) to tolerate and enjoy before they inevitably go on to more experimental and dissonant stuff.

Initially I thought you were talking about me. Then you said friend and I was like nope. Not me.

Me and you had a great time seeing The Residents play though, even if Chuck wasn't there.

Lol. I still need to listen to that album. I'll do one of my reviews/play by play in my journal for it later. Should be an interesting experience.

Gonna have to agree with this one.

I'm also growing very tired of the endless wave of Sabbath-clone Stoner Rock bands, similar to when I burnt myself out on the thrash revival of the late 2000s. There was a time when I ate it right up, but after beating it to death for a while it has become quite annoying having to sift through literally hundreds of these bands before finding a single band where the tag "Blues Rock" is actually accurate.

Nah, the worst is when you say metal and they make a godforsaken impression involving wild, uncoordinated hand motions that may or may not be air guitar/drumming, combined with with a "RAWR!" noise that no metal band besides Gwar would ever record for people to hear. I assume the person is half-remembering a Slipknot song they heard once at some point in the early 00's. This is one of the few times I ever want to punch someone who has in no way wronged me.