The Simpsons' fantastic sense of humor and imagination did amazing things to the worlds of television and popular culture in a way that opened the gate for other animated, but different series like South Park and Chalk Zone.

Yeah, I was pretty weirded out by the Wilco comparison there, especially with the fact that they spoke about Being There in the same breath as "Exile On Main St" and The White Album.

On that last note…
Yeah, I've always felt it was silly when Exile got compared to The White Album. Exile's like London Calling, The White Album is more like Sandinista!

NBC had better set up a mock-up of woof.com. I could really use that.

I'll say that I don't listen to LCD Soundsystem because I can dance to it. Oh, it happens, but never with my favorites. I'm not going to get up and go crazy to "All My Friends" or "Someone Great."

It really does use the same exact blueprint as Sound Of Silver, doesn't it? I don't fault it for that, though. Sound Of Silver is the most structurally sound album of the past ten years.

I mean, I can't listen to "Everlasting Light" without thinking of "Mambo Sun" or "Howlin' For You" without thinking of "Rock And Roll Part Two." It's just absolutely impossible at this point, but that's not a slight. I love it.

I should also point out that I feel exactly the opposite regarding LCD Soundsystem. I look at the track length and think that I'd become really bored during each song, but my urge to start at the beginning at the end almost consumes me and prevents me from getting through an album occasionally. LCD Soundsystem…

Yeah, I'm sure. I was just giving my claim to calling it my favorite album of the year a bit of background. I'll try to not drop that list so much outside of the actual year-end list topic.

Sure, maybe you don't appreciate songs like "Drunk Girls," "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House," "North American Scum," or even "Losing My Edge," but I firmly believe that if you listen to songs like "Someone Great," "All My Friends," and "Home" and don't think that they're kind of cool, you need to give Murphy more of…

God. Not to mention the third, insanely-titled M.I.A. album.

Remember back when they promised an album in May? Seems so silly now.

Don't forget about Forgiveness Rock Record. All three of those blow me away.

Glam rock?
They seem to be listening to a lot of seventies glam rock. Dig the first and fourth songs sounding like T.Rex and Gary Glitter, respectively. I doubt it can end there. Are there any other songs that sort of fit that theme?

Sound Of Silver was my sixth or so favorite album of the last decade, and this doesn't beat it, but it's really close. Best of the year so far (others up there are Dessa, Titus Andronicus, Foxy Shazam, Broken Social Scene, The National).

Best one is "Still Likes Oasis."

I hate Brandon Flowers, but I really like Rilo Kiley.

Also, I associate John Mellencamp with lots of handclaps. So he's a watered-down eighties Springsteen who specializes in handclaps.

Kurt, Puck, and Artie are the characters in this show that I'm honestly most interested in. I wish they'd stop giving Puck random fucking flings, though. I mean, I guess it does help that it just sort of classifies him as a man-whore, but still. It's too erratic.

Also, I didn't grow up in the eighties, but I always saw Mellencamp as Springsteen's lame, unnecessary (Born In The USA is my favorite Springsteen album, so yeah) eighties counterpart. I mean, "Born In The USA" (the song) seems to take the blueprint that Glee accuses Mellencamp of reusing and then do it better than…