Last night I dug out an old tape I had of Rock, Rot, and Rule, a comedy album by the drummer of Superchunk, Jon Wurster. The whole thing is a sketch where Wurster plays Ronald Thomas Clontle, a writer calling into a Tom Scharpling's WFMU (Jersey City, NJ) radio show to talk about his book, Rock, Rot, and Rule; the book divides every band into one of those three categories. People will love this or not understand it at all; the album is like "Blue Collar TV" for music nerds.

Interviewer: What makes Bowie rot?
Ronald Thomas Clontle: Too many changes.

What's great? Clontle defending his idea that Madness invented ska against a bunch of callers, telling one that if the she would ask Gwen from No Doubt, Gwen would agree with Clontle. A lot of the humor is surprisingly subtle, and how much you like it depends on some equation involving your bullshit meter, taste for pranks, and if you are way too into music. If you've ever read Wurster's tour diary on the Superchunk site, you know he's a funny guy, but here, he pulls off a great joke for more than half an hour and gets people to call in to argue with him.

Anyway, he's got his own site. Check it out.