Rock, Rot or Rule, the ultimate rock snob argument

On Tom Scharpling‘s “The Best Show” on WFMU, Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster plays a character named “Ronald Thomas Clontle” promoting his book “Rock, Rot & Rule: The Ultimate Argument Settler” on Scharpling’s show. Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds breaks down the “scientific method” Clontle used to compile his 98 page “ultimate argument settler,” a list dividing popular music into three categories: “rock,” “rot,” and “rule”. That method: “simply to ask approximately 100 patrons of Java The Hut, the Lawrence, KS coffee shop (‘Home of the bottomless Wookie’) he worked at to rank musical acts according to the preposterous criteria he devised.” Read the rest: Great Moments in Trolling History.