Yeah, things started alright; he went through the cast and talked about the actor's non-Simpsons roles, but once he got around to talking about the show, the whole basically devolved into Lipton directing them to answer questions in character, at which point Julie Kavner produced a Marge Simpson mask on a stick, which…

On the other other hand I kind of feel like sometimes actors who are kind of just known for one thing get really precious about this sort of interview, like, "Another interview about Buffy? Does nobody want to talk about my webseries??" Let's be real, Buffy is why we know who Tom Lenk is, and there does exist a…

I can understand the impulse to ask an actor to do that sort of thing, but to keep pushing when someone's obviously uncomfortable is profoundly tactless.

I feel two ways about this interview. On one hand, yeah, it's a little ridiculous to ask Tom Lenk inane questions like what he thought about Dawn. Sure, he could have played along, but whatever opinions he may or may not have had on the subject have probably stopped being relevant in the almost 14 years since Buffy…

I think Monster is a fantastic record. What I think really hurt it is that it followed two very quiet, restrained albums; people who started listening to R.E.M. with 'Losing My Religion' or 'Everybody Hurts' and expected more acoustic balladry and John Paul Jones orchestral arrangements were no doubt startled when…

Yeah, Meat is Murder is unfairly maligned as being catastrophically bad when most of the issue, excepting the didactic title track, is just that it didn't sound exactly like their debut album. The rockabilly influences were creeping in.

I can see it being a skippable album track on The Great Escape. Radiohead just seemed to always take themselves so seriously that it's hard for me to slot that song into their discography, let alone as a single. But I'm gathering that there's a lot of support for Pablo Honey around here…

I feel like a lot more people were alienated by Monster than Automatic or Out of Time. I base this lamost solely off of all the copies of Monster that clutter up the Used CD bins of the nation's record stores.

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned the Pixies ceased to exist in 1993 and everything else is a Frank Black solo project.

I get what you're saying, even though I disagree. But if you're going to pick an early Radiohead album, why not The Bends? It's still recognizably the work of a guitar rock band, but it doesn't have, you know, 'Anyone Can Play Guitar' on it.

YES.

Oh no, now we're going to have to fight.

I mean, I have no problem with disco whatsoever. Nile Rodgers is great, and jammed out to my pink 12" of Chic's I Want Your Love this past weekend with abandon. I just didn't think the album was that good. Especially 'Get Lucky.'

Technically she lost me with Scarlet's Walk but I worked my ass off to like that album. It never really fully took, so by the time The Beekeeper came out I was done.

Huge New Order fan here and I actually think Music Complete is where they got things back on track. Most of Siren's Call and Get Ready leave me pretty cold. There's this strange argument that Peter Hook being gone somehow negates 75% of the original lineup still being in the band.

I'm one of those people who only recognizes three Daft Punk albums and kind of wishes RAM never happened.

For me The Walkmen fell off sharply right after their debut, which was amazing. Sure, Bows + Arrows has 'The Rat' and the rest of it is still pretty decent, but everything that came after that just leaves me totally cold, save for 'The Blue Route' from You & Me. I couldn't even name a song off Lisbon or Heaven.

Yeah, whenever people start talking about how an actor "is due to win" I always get annoyed. Like Leonardo DiCaprio "finally" winning last year for The Revenant.

Probably the most egregious example of this was Al Pacino winning for Scent of Woman, which is really pretty horrible, when he should have won for Godfather Part II. But no, he got his consolation Oscar for that "Hoo Ha" atrocity.

Ledger's Joker was fantastic, but there was definitely a sense that the Academy had squandered their opportunity to give him Best Actor for Brokeback Mountain, and that it realized that giving him Supporting Actor for his work in The Dark Knight was the only other chance they'd get. You know, barring a slew of…