Tom the Dog's You Know What I Like?
Oh man, I guess I can tell why you're not a music critic. 
I can tell why I could be a music critic. I adore about 98% of this list. But I'm not here to go on and on about albums everybody else has gone on about. I'm here to educate you.
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless is one of the most beautiful works of art I have ever heard. Imagine all the Rubber Souls/Revovler Beatles song filtered through a vivid dream. The guitars have this "wash" sounds and the vocals are very ephemral. I love, love, love the album (you might not).
Raekwon- a Wu Tang off-shoot. A great hip-hop album from a very exciting time for hip-hop.
Stereolab- A French band that has electronic elements but also very poppy. I can take or leave them.
Big Black- Steve Albini's band. Had a lot of cool songs in the industrial mode but nothing I would want to lsiten to for a very long time
Slint- For a time people used the term "math rock" seriously. These guys have complciated arrangmenets and the sort but unlike a lot of progressive rock bands, they don't get boring (at least not to me). Spiderland I do really like.
Neutral Milk Hotel- Jeff Mangum did two albums as part of the Elephant 6 collective and was never heard rom again. Fantastic stuff, too. It's got that '60s pop base but then goes wackier and wackier. "Holland 1945" informs us what Bob Dylan would be like if he was a Looney Toon.
NMH is the shizznit. Listen. Listen.
This list is a big flaming pile of crap. It has no Tom Waits. Or Bob Dylan. Sorry, but Time Out of Mind and / or Love And Theft are both more inportant and better albums than anything SLAYER will ever do. Slayer??!??! Come on.
No Negativland? No "Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors" by Jello Biafra and D.O.A.? Feh, I say.
Tim, I don't like a lot, but what I like, I LOVE.
Ian, as always I must bow to your superior musical knowledge. I don't think I would like as many of them as you suspect I would (though I might be surprised -- you were right about Ted Leo, after all).
Mike -- you always say Feh! It's almost lost its meaning, at this point.
It means "I have a kitten in my trousers!" I have chided (chid?) you on your lack of Latin before, but this is just ...
Tom, Feh, I say to you.
You don't like the Afghan Whigs? I feel they're underappreciated!! Oh well, different strokes for different folks. Oh, and Nuetral Milk Hotel is real, I have a friend who is really into them. Spin does indeed suck though.
These lists make me realize how out of touch I probably am, or close minded with my music tastes as I only really like about an 1/8 of the list and actively hate a lot of the other stuff on the list.
I like Neutral Milk Hotel a lot, but I don't know if you would. Do you like the Decemberists? If you do, you'd probably like NMH.
As someone who likes old Blur but also thinks they're best served in a "Best Of" collection, I feel the need to step in and note that while "Song 2" is probably one of the band's least typical numbers, they have plenty of great Kinks-ish pop-rock moments ("Parklife," "Country House") to go alongside the Seth Cohen-esque whiney stuff.
Oh, and Oasis' Definitely Maybe precedes (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, from whence came "Wonderwall." (Do I listen too much British guit-pop?)
hey tom.
I guess since you referenced me ("Really, probably 90% of the music Matt likes, I don't, and vice-versa."), it's as good a time as any to get in on this blogopshere or whatever it's called action. And you pretty much knew it wasn't going to happen on the comic books.
Now then:
-I'll continue to go to bat for Radiohead up to/including OK Computer. After that, have to admit they've gotten a bit, um, ponderous. Still like the radical politics, however.
-Cornershop and At-the-Drive-in I liked for about five minutes in the late nineties. I could now do without either. At the Drive in turned into a band called Sparta I saw at Coachella last year--they were mediocre at best.
-Pavement was brilliant in a "hey look we just learned to play instruments" sort of way. I can see how they could be annoying, but "Summer Babe" is a great tune.
-The Pixies are mutants from outer space who, whatever you think of them, changed music for real and spawned legions of imitators from good (Nirvana--try listening to Doolittle's "Tame" followed by Nevermind's "Lithium") to okay (Modest Mouse).
-I agree XTC is terrific. Probably the best pure pop craftpeople on the Spin list. Their recent "Apple Venus Volume 1" sounds, dare I say it, Beatlesesque.
-We do have more than 10% in common--for instance I've been listening to the Johnny Cash recordings--brilliant--his "Bridge Over Troubled Water" rips my heart to shreds and takes melancholy to new heights. And believe it or not, I've become quite obsessed with the Lemonheads. Got their best of, it's blowin' up my iPod: A ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder's like a ship without a rudder...
-On the other hand, I think you overrate acts like: Greenday, Alanis, Indigo Girls and even TMBG who are so catchy and clever, but in small doses, thank you.
-And hey: no Aimee Mann on your list?
-Ian is right, My Bloody Valentine makes beautiful music, but I fear you would react violently against it. Same for Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Air, Zero 7, Royksopp, etc...
-What I'm listening to now that you might like but then probably not: The New Pornographers' "Electric Version"--they're catchy, and they have an element to them that's a little like Cheap Trick: The Next Generation. They're better than that sounds.
-Hey, have I mentioned how much I like your TV writing on here? Well, I'm mentioning it.
-Also: there is no way in hell I could be 8000 times hipper than anybody.
-Also: your zombie blog frightens and confuses, yet also, amuses, me.
-Finally: I think you owe me a phone call, bitch.
That's a list made by music critics for music critics.
Ick.
I own a grand total of two of those albums. (REM and Weezer)
There's a lot of noise on that list. And don't even get me started on Nirvana.
Ick.
Ah, but Misty's ass...
And, wait -- no THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS album? Bah! Even critics liked them, I thought. You'd think "Lincoln" might make it, or "Flood." Or even "Apollo 18."
MATTY C!!! Awesome. And YOU owe ME a call! I think. I know I called you recently, but whether I was returning a call from you or not, I can't remember. Also, since my call didn't get through (I either got a busy signal, or I got the machine and hung up), I guess that doesn't count. Fine, I owe you a call. Tonight, if I can before my poker game -- if not, then soon.
I love Apple Venus, by the way, though I've only downloaded various songs off it, and haven't actually bought the album. "Green Man," "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love," "Your Dictionary"... all stellar. I also got Partridge's TV theme song "I Wonder Why the Wonderfalls," because I just got the DVD set of Wonderfalls, which was a great show... I'm getting off track.
I definitely should have Aimee Mann on my list. I almost put "I'm With Stupid" on there, but then I didn't and I don't know why. And I think you need to give American Idiot a fair listen. It's tremendous, even (maybe) for a non Green Day fan like yourself.
I'm glad you like the blog (or at least the TV part), even the zombie blog! But that just goes to show how damn hip you are. When I mentioned the Afghan Whigs, I wanted to tell about how they were opening for Aerosmith, and I tried to talk you into going, and you said you'd only go if we could leave before Aerosmith came out.
And you notice how I used your "Seize the Day" joke? Hip! You're a very hip man, C.
Personally, I don't trust Spin's taste, which has always been slightly "mall-ternative".
I'm probably in the minority, but I am one of the few Husker Du fans who think Warehouse: Songs & Stories is a much stronger album than Zen Arcade
Tom, God knows I love ya, but you have maybe the worst taste in music of anybody ever.
Mr. Collins, I must reluctantly express the same opinion right back atcha. You are a hipster, music-wise, and I, proudly, happily, I am not. I just like that old time rock & roll.
Not that it really matters, but Sean is right, you seem to have just about the worst taste in music of all time. At least in terms of what you don't like; it's hard to tell from this list what you might enjoy. Billy Joel?
On the other hand, your taste in asses (um, maybe not the best way to phrase it) is impeccable.
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