Nice
A genre that I think is due for a comeback. Now that people realize how cool Springsteen is, it's about time to move on to pub rock. This is a pretty solid list, particular Eddie & the Hot Rods, the only thing missing is this.

I happened to get into them through Brighter Than A Creation's Dark, so I think that's a pretty great way to go, but The Dirty South and Southern Rock Opera are also pretty can't-miss.

Nice! I was at that show, it was a ceiling-pounding good time. I'll never forget when they announced that they were going to play "the greatest rock 'n roll song of all time" and then launched into a singalong version of Roadrunner - perfection.

Yeah there could be a hundred different Simpsons episodes because they're all so spot-on. I just rewatched the episode with the anti-immigrant movement, which is so relevant today, it's scary. Not just the immigration fever, but the way that Homer manages to rile up people in the laziest most self-interested way,…

22 Short Films is always gonna be right up there, but for my money, I'll take the Scoprio episode as my fave.

Titus and Billy & Bruce
So after reading a number of reviews of this album, I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard of Billy Bragg. Besides the obvious Richard II homage, how about, I don't want to change the world / I'm just looking for a new New Jersey. I know there's a Springsteen reference after that people, but…

Ditto, all I have is Six Months in a Leaky Boat (guess why).

Now that I think about it, I would have to say that my favorite TLRx albums go in chronological order, starting with Tyranny at #1 going down. Just as I can't see the POV of the Living haters, what's with the dissing of Sheets? That album will always have a special place in my heart, as it was the first Ted Leo album…

Yeah, I've never understood Leo fans who didn't like any of his Pharmacists LPs, but that's just me. I agree that Living was a little top heavy and The Lost Brigade might have been a bit overlong, but still a fantastic record. Personally, I think that Who Do You Love? is perhaps one of the best songs he's done. It's…

B-Sides is an incredible records store. I went to school at Beloit and everytime I went up to Madison, I would have to force myself not to drop more than $20-$30 there, because it was a treasure trove of "I can't believe they have…"s and "I've been trying to find this forever!"s. I plan on hitting it up before seeing…

Ted
Ted Leo is like the Drive-By Truckers, so consistent that their albums often get met with mild enthusiasm mixed cap-tipping platitudes. Although this one doesn't reinvent the wheel the way that Tyranny and Hearts did, it's still good to remember how lucky we are to have someone who can churn out songs such as…

Yeah, he was one of the first interesting bands I got into in high school besides Beatles/Beach Boys stuff my parents played, so Ted was kinda like an indie/punk crash course. Hell, I'm still hearing about folks like Cock Sparrar from man, so I can't complain.

Covers
My rule is that whenever I stumble across a cover either of or by a band I even somewhat like, I will download that bitch. This is especially true if it is a cover of a fairly newly released song, because I miss the 60's when everyone was covering each other (and the Beatles). A paradoxical exception to this is…

Hello?
How about Shoot the Lights Out by Richard and Linda Thompson, besides this and rumors when do you get both people writing about the same break up from different sides on the same album?

Fuck It - Here's A List of Great Point-Counterpoints
Perhaps the most consistently funny recurring article type, the Point-Counterpoint.
P: The Should Be Peace in the Middle East
CP: There Should Be War in the Middle East
P: US Out of My Uterus!
CP: We Must Deploy Troops to Jessica Lindon's Uterus
Immediately After 9/11
P:…

I don't know if anyone besides myself ever actually watched Andy Richter Controls the Universe, but during its inspired run, it had Andy talk to a hallucinated ghost of his company's first owner named Mr. Pickering. Because the show was set in Chicago, I always assumed there was more than coincidental resemblance…

or 588-2-300… Empire! Today.

And help me out here, I can't find it on the site. Was "Area Man Not Technically Pathetic, In That He Fails To Inspire Pathos" an Onion article or just a wonderful dream I had?

http://www.theonion.com/con…

Alesekal: Good call, for me that's second only to the picture under the Tianneman Square guy - "Stirring Symbol of Human Spirit Difficult To Clean Out of Tank Treads" or after Jerry Garcia's death "Head Deadhead Dead".