Well...I seem to have a much bigger problem.

What happens when people get dumbfounded of the kind of music you listen because they don't know an ardent jack about it?

I tend to go more for power metal and thrash metal, though I can also go a bit on symphonic metal and even folk metal. I also like my Latin rock, given that I'm from a Spanish-speaking place, but I tend to find that most Latin rock isn't so surprising aside from a few legendary bands and when I like to just chill out.

However...when you hear someone claim that he or she likes rock because "I like to listen to Maná" (mostly Mexican alternative) and...well, not much else, I just feel like headbanging...on a wall, a pretty solid concrete wall. It gets worse when you hear such lovely words as "I'm eclectic on my choice of music" (news flash: I don't, and I couldn't possibly care if I'm not eclectic; I like my VG music and metal and random bits of other music, but I don't claim I'm eclectic on my tastes!), since it sounds like trying to get well with everybody. At least hearing the "oh, so you like the hissing and screaming and shouting music-y!" sounds less...disturbing than that.

So I'm pretty uncommon on tastes, and not eclectic or purist or even listening to the right kind of music. I get far more guilty pleasures than allowed to a human being (so yeah, I listen to Metallica, a bit of Limp Bizkit, a bit of Slipknot, a bit of Linkin Park and the occasional Evanescence. Your point?) and some odd bands that really aren't as popular (Equilibrium? OOMPH!? Turmion Katilot?) and bands that are legendary but on Latin areas (such as Los Fabulosos Cadillacs), even if it's just for a song. Whether that disqualifies me or solidifies me as a rocker or geek gets me to care not; I listen to what I want, when I want it. But darn, at least I try not to claim I'm of a label I'm not (or at least explain why I think I am even when others may say I'm not, to counter the purist claims), or claim I listen to "various types of music", with all those kinds of music being different variants of a same genre. Not to offend those that really do (I reckon there's people that are truly eclectic in tastes, and enjoy just as much a bit of rock as they enjoy salsa, pop, country, band music, all classical genres and even a bit of the ill-conceived "World Music" compilations which are a catch-all for the real names of the genres), but it's a critique on those few (locals) that claim to listen to all kinds of music but really love listening to one. Or that think that are "rockers" just because they love one song from one album from one band from one itty-bitty corner of the world, just because it sounds hilariously alike to their preferred genre (oh, and because it makes them seem "cool")