Podcasts by Sub Titles
Substituting each entry on Spin and AFI "Best of" lists.
Further podcasts by Matthew Burchanoski
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Episode 63 Part 2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from 2023-10-14T22:26:29
At their cores, the guys (particularly Tim) exude Dad Energy. That's surely been evident this entire podcast, but it's heightened here when they get to talk about early 19th century Amer...
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Episode 63 Part 1: Take Care from 2023-10-14T22:16:34
Actually okay timing here with Drake having just released a new album. Matt won't "get" that one just like he doesn't "get" Take Care...or Lana Del Ray's...
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Episode 62 Part 2: Dr. Strangelove from 2023-06-15T18:53:33
Dr. Strangelove is as much a movie of incredible sight gags and one-liners as it is profound political commentary. Tim and Matt share their favorites, naturally, before Tim frames the f...
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Episode 62 Part 1: Paid in Full from 2023-06-15T18:45:16
A whole host of albums on the docket in this one! Matt gives Tim the choice of two sets to be considered alongside Eric B. and Rakim’s stone-cold classic Paid in Full. (If you haven’t h...
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Episode 61 Part 2: The Sound of Music from 2023-05-26T17:26:50
The famous addition to the movie version of Sound of Music, "Something Good" speaks to that (realized) hope of doing something, anything helpful for others. Tim tracks that th...
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Episode 61 Part 1: Dummy from 2023-05-26T17:18:12
We love a good genre episode and here’s a big one from the 90s, which has influenced everything from Bjork to the theme song of House. Portishead’s Dummy sets the stage for the...
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Deci's Midnight Runners #6: Butt Rock and the MGM Story from 2023-05-26T17:11
Tim is here doing serious things and giving some love to the old studio model of movie making along with the peak and power of MGM. Meanwhile, Matt is being a nudnik and subjecting Tim and every...
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Episode 60 Part 2: King Kong from 2023-05-08T19:22:54
“It was beauty killed the beast.” So ends King Kong (1933), whom Matt and Tim love very much. A memorable last line goes a long way in establishing a film’s legacy, especially ...
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Episode 60 Part 1: Modern Vampires of the City from 2023-05-08T19:06:23
Matt is feeling his oats in this one and ready to confront you all with the legacies of Mumford and Sons and Nickelback. Vampire Weekend feel like a Matt band, but they aren't. What they und...
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Episode 59 Part 2: Bonnie and Clyde from 2023-05-08T18:53:06
Though I would have appreciated the bit of running La La Land into this for no reason, Tim has standards. He's looking at the classic crime film as a Three Decade Period Piece. In o...
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Episode 59 Part 1: College Dropout from 2023-05-08T18:42:59
We're back after a long but necessary hiatus. And what better way to return than with....oh no. Welp, Kanye is back on the podcast, and even more treacherous than last we talked about him. W...
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Episode 58 Part 2: Midnight Cowboy from 2022-06-29T20:13:29
Tim loves a good chance to slag the AFI for choosing not actually American movies but we have a bit of nuance on that theme this episode. Tim looks at John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy Listen
Episode 58 Part 1: The Woods from 2022-06-29T20:05:26
Matt keeps the rock theme going and checks in on life after the extinction (read: reunion tours) of the dinosaurs. Sleater-Kinney lambast and reinvigorate rock all at once in The Woods,...
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Episode 57 Part 2: The Philadelphia Story from 2022-06-20T20:29:13
The Philadelphia Story, in addition to being an interesting early rom-com, reflects well on one of the great mid-century movie titans, MGM. Tim tracks the story - the rise and fall, the...
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Episode 57 Part 1: Appetite for Destruction from 2022-06-20T20:10:36
I don't know that grunge killed Guns N' Roses so much as Guns N' Roses killed Guns N' Roses but, regardless, Appetite for Destruction lives on in radio waves and arenas everywhere. "Wel...
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Episode 56 Part 2: Shane from 2022-05-24T17:25
We’re all trying to hold back the darkness these days, but the folks in these movies especially so. Tim takes quick stock of the most annoying child actors, then talks the dark circumstances sur...
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Episode 56 Part 1: Tha Carter III from 2022-05-24T17:15:21
The 2009 Grammys were weird as hell. Matt and Tim cover that weirdness in great depth before digging into the especially weird Best Album category. Robert Plant and Allison Krauss won that year,...
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Episode 55 Part 2: It Happened One Night from 2022-05-16T20:42:59
Anything that gets Tim and Matt close to Beefsquatch is dangerous, and Tim’s just not even trying to avert it here. Come for the Beefcake chants, stay for the measured and considered analysis of...
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Episode 55 Part 1: Psychocandy from 2022-05-16T20:36:40
For all the Shoegaze lovers out there - and apparently you’re a sizeable contingency of our audience - here are three albums that are, at most, a stone’s throw from stuff featured in the My Bloo...
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Episode 54 Part 2: A Streetcar Named Desire from 2022-05-04T16:33:48
A regular concern for Tim and Matt is the art of translating the stage into film, which so often goes awry. We’ve talked other instances of this in previous episodes, but Tim builds the whole sh...
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Episode 54 Part 1: Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 from 2022-05-04T16:22:03
“Get the point? Good, let’s dance.” Such is the ethos of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, a massive and eminently funky album which, along with Jackson’s Control, helped def...
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Episode 53 Part 2: Rear Window from 2022-04-12T16:36:36
We joke about how when the Podcat looks out the window he’s watching TV and, well, that’s more or less what’s happening in Rear Window! Hitchcock really knew how to wrestle profundity o...
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Episode 53 Part 1: Rid of Me from 2022-04-12T16:19:30
After a good conversation about P.J. Harvey and her cattle experience, Matt and Tim talk the blunt force marvel that is Rid of Me. 30 years in, Harvey remains a titan with an immense sh...
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Episode 52 Part 2: Intolerance from 2022-04-01T18:29:39
Part 1 is an album to illegal to stream. Part 2 has a movie with a director too tarnished to love. Intolerance serves as the D.W. Griffith cut-out on the AFI list given The Birth of...
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Episode 52 Part 1: 3 Feet High and Rising from 2022-04-01T18:16:11
Welcome to the episode with the hardest album to find! De La Soul’s seminal 3 Feet High and Rising is, notoriously, not streaming given the legal mess of its remarkable amount of sample...
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Episode 51 Part 2: Fellowship of the Ring from 2022-03-23T18:54:56
It’s a good question! The AFI will have to deal with the 21st century more at some point; Fellowship of the Ring certainly has a case, though. Tim and Matt talk the trilogy in general, ...
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Episode 51 Part 1: New Day Rising from 2022-03-23T18:48:24
One of the earliest albums on the Spin list (January 1985), Husker Du’s New Day Rising proves a fun favorite for both Matt and Tim. We talk the band’s place in the Our Band Could Be...
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Deci's Midnight Runners #5: 9/11 Albums and Remakes from 2022-03-14T17:05:38
Been 10 episodes, which means it’s time for another bonus pod. In this decile, Matt takes inspiration from the discussion of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as an album given particular significan...
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Episode 50 Part 2: West Side Story from 2022-02-21T17:26:33
Topical! Recorded before Spielberg dropped his but nonetheless weary of the impending discourse. After necessary, and sadly topical, love for Stephen Sondheim and quick rankings from Tim and Mat...
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Episode 50 Part 1: The Marshall Mathers LP from 2022-02-21T17:13:16
You know him, you could just as easily love or hate him, and you have to respect his technique. (Technique I say! Not content.) As a bonafide Suburban White Boy Matt has a lot of Eminem thoughts...
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Episode 49 Part 2: Taxi Driver from 2022-02-14T17:40:38
Tim is getting technical today, looking at vibrant (and lurid) weaponizations of Color Cinematography. Taxi Driver might be gritty in general, but it along with The Hunt for Red Oct...
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Episode 49 Part 1: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot from 2022-02-14T17:34:19
After awhile of hand-wringing about the importance of Wilco’s magnum opus, Matt settles in on the deconstructive and experimental bent of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. (He’s also sorely t...
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Episode 48 Part 2: The Deer Hunter from 2022-01-31T19:56:50
Two things of note here. First, our (somehow) first ever play-in Sub Title! Tim pits two versions of Father of the Bride against one another and Matt decides which gets to face The ...
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Episode 48 Part 1: The Downward Spiral from 2022-01-31T19:48:37
Korn famously (notoriously) insisted that their musical lineage starts with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More. More generally, their history begins in alt rock of the late 80s and early 90...
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Episode 47 Part 2: M*A*S*H* from 2022-01-01T19:42:01
A disproportionate amount of this episode is Matt railing on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which features one of the worst people in his estimation. Tim keeps things fair and moving though ...
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Episode 47 Part 1: Sound of Silver from 2022-01-01T19:32:43
Remember the aughts when most indie music was dance-y? Good times? Good times. Innocuous times, if we believe the worry of one James Murphy who warns as much on the opening of LCD Soundsystem’s ...
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Episode 46 Part 2: North by Northwest from 2021-12-13T23:09:40
Tim and Matt have shown previous interest in naming the “Most” of various things - most 00’s, 90’s, and 80’s songs, for example. The things that best embody and symbolize an era or genre or conc...
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Episode 46 Part 1: The Moon and Antarctica from 2021-12-13T23:01:05
Last week was Myth and History; this week is the Cosmos. The Moon and Antarctica, an album near and dear to Matt’s heart, tries to speak (with) God with layers of guitar in a Cosmos ent...
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Episode 45 Part 2: Jaws from 2021-12-06T18:38:34
Tim, as is his wont, is working with another AFI list here in 100 Years…100 Thrills, a list that he and Matt decide is truly bonkers but in a charming way. Jaws - which, hey, g...
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Episode 45 Part 1: Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City from 2021-12-06T18:29:51
Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City is probably the most widely beloved and respected debut from 2010s hip-hop, and which Kendrick album is his best is a Discourse deserving of the...
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Episode 44 Part 2: Rocky from 2021-12-01T20:56:10
Y’all remember Rocky loses in the first one, right? Well Tim and Matt are here to remind you - and remind you why that’s a good thing - and Tim is being the depressing one this week when he talk...
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Episode 44 Part 1: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain from 2021-12-01T20:48:58
This is the first recorded episode after that summer break we took, so forgive any ring rust. No better way to get revved back up than with our favorite band to hate: Pavement. We say things abo...
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Episode 43 Part 2: The Gold Rush from 2021-11-15T21:24:10
The sweetness of Chaplin making dinner rolls dance shines in The Gold Rush, and gives Tim his jumping off point for this episode. Things escalate quite a bit as we move from dancing bre...
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Episode 43 Part 1: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea from 2021-11-15T21:02:16
Few things get Matt more excited than concept records and jarring indie music. Put the two together and you have In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel’s classic that’s belov...
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Episode 42 Part 2: Nashville from 2021-10-27T02:57:26
Years from now, when historians and cultural anthropologists analyze the vital impact of Sub Titles, they’ll look to this episode for the self-evident truth of Tim’s proselytizing for Nashvi...
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Episode 42b: Nashville from 2021-10-27T02:57:26
Years from now, when historians and cultural anthropologists analyze the vital impact of Sub Titles, they’ll look to this episode for the self-evident truth of Tim’s proselytizing for Nashvi...
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Episode 42 Part 1: Kala from 2021-10-27T02:42:32
Have you, too, been wondering why Matt isn’t talking about more 90s Grocery Store Rock canon bands? Lucky for you he’s got just the stuff you need this episode! After talking M.I.A.’s <...
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Episode 41 Part 2: Duck Soup from 2021-10-12T18:36:51
Part 1 of this episode is sad and heavy. Part 2 is funny and, ahem, zany. Matt and Tim talk the brilliant irreverence of the Marx Bros and Duck Soup (as with all screwballs, thoro...
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Episode 41 Part 1: Either/Or from 2021-10-12T18:25:16
Matt has teased with the philosophy before but this episode is all-in with a somehow not too literal reading of the title of Elliott Smith’s heartbreaking 1997 album, Either/Or. After g...
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Deci's Midnight Runners 4 from 2021-07-26T16:15:55
Matt and Tim are up to their old shenanigans with a bracket and a alternate history choose your own adventure game in this bonus episode of Sub Titles. On the music side, Matt is running his way...
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Episode 40 Part 2: Sullivan's Travels from 2021-07-13T16:01:22
After looking at 2000 in Part 1, Tim shoots us back to 1941 for Part 2. We begin with Sullivan's Travels, a satire of trying to make it in Hollywood and trying to be socially relevant. ...
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Episode 40 Part 1: Stankonia from 2021-07-13T15:41:56
"Ms. Jackson," "So Fresh, So Clean," "B.O.B." You know Stankonia. There's a great chance you started humming one of those songs upon reading the title. There's also a great chance you s...
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Episode 39 Part 2: American Graffiti from 2021-07-01T23:52:36
You might think that if Tim and Matt, those cynics, are talking about Nostalgia then you’re in for a pretty negative episode. But we really like American Graffiti! So no hate here, just...
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Episode 39 Part 1: Untrue from 2021-07-01T23:42:46
Burial’s Untrue (which, amazingly, we only reverse once in this podcast) is a seminal electronic album but Matt is rude and still not really digging into electronic music. Instead, he’s...
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Episode 38 Part 2: Cabaret from 2021-06-22T01:51:12
Cabaret is a movie of many wonderful moments funny and somber. Standing tall among them is when everyone realizes they can’t control or stop the rise of the Nazis. Tim guides us through...
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Episode 38 Part 1: Beyoncé from 2021-06-22T00:13:30
You, dear listener, may well have staunch Beyoncé, and/or Beyoncé, opinions. Matt does not. Still he ventures on, chatting with Tim about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Qu...
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Episode 37 Part 2: Network from 2021-06-14T21:25:41
We recorded this episode before the passing of Ned Beatty, and now an eerily prescient movie is even more sadly topical. Tim and Matt talk just how prescient Network, a movie regularly ...
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Episode 37 Part 1: Achtung Baby from 2021-06-14T20:46:14
An album with more fun emphasis points in the title than fun songs! More seriously, Achtung Baby was a big reset moment for U2 in the midst of their global domination and did signal som...
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Episode 36 Part 2: The African Queen from 2021-05-31T19:34:37
The real story here is how well can Tim and Matt resist doing the Toto bit. One of them fares better than the other. Also they discuss The African Queen, its precipitous fall between AF...
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Episode 36 Part 1: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back from 2021-05-31T19:18:42
Matt and Tim looked at the significance of Public Enemy back in the Fear of a Black Planet episode and they re-up that discussion here in the context of the predecessor, 1988's It T...
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Episode 35 Part 2: Raiders of the Lost Ark from 2021-05-26T18:34:20
After Tim and Matt discuss the sheer joy of Raiders of the Lost Ark and how to basically hush and have fun, Tim starts to target Matt and call out his graduate exploits. Really he’s loo...
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Episode 35 Part 1: Different Class from 2021-05-26T18:21:09
If you’ve been pining for Matt to explain more philosophy here’s the episode you’ve been waiting for! Pulp’s Brit Pop staple, Different Class, regales with withering and genuinely funny...
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Episode 34 Part 2: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from 2021-05-19T21:04:55
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (I am, George) features one of the most compellingly uncomfortable arcs of any movie as we watch George and Martha destroy their entire imagined world. O...
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Episode 34 Part 1: Master of Puppets from 2021-05-19T20:45:41
I’m not sure a metal band will again reach the heights that Metallica has. Their finest statement is Master of Puppets, a pummeling and tight 55 minutes of metal at its most populist. M...
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Episode 33 Part 2: Unforgiven from 2021-05-12T16:21:30
A lot going on in this episode. Tim gets to talk Westerns for a minute, so you know he’s excited, then he and Matt fuss about Unforgiven and talk about the nature of legends and who get...
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Episode 33 Part 1: Kid A from 2021-05-12T16:07:48
As fond as music critics are of praising Radiohead - more than deservedly so for the monumental Kid A - they’re almost more fond of identifying the next Radiohead. Matt assesses why tha...
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Episode 32 Part 2: Tootsie from 2021-05-03T16:52:44
If you live for Tim’s impressions, here’s an episode for you. Dustin Hoffman realizes misogyny is a thing in Tootsie and Tim guides us through two other movies where maybe, hopeful a re...
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Episode 32 Part 1: The Low End Theory from 2021-05-03T16:43:06
The Low End Theory is a high-point in hip-hop generally, and has a strong claim to being the pinnacle of the Native Tongues movement, a collective of early 90s artists with special love...
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Episode 31b: A Clockwork Orange from 2021-04-27T01:01:06
Violence comes in many shades. Tim and Matt talk all of ‘em here before settling on The Old Ultraviolence for which A Clockwork Orange is notorious. We got great evil performances all a...
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Episode 31 Part 1: Blue Album from 2021-04-27T00:36:39
I don’t know how much explaining the theme on this one needs but this has to be the silliest episode we’ve recorded thus far. Partially that’s because Weezer is a silly band who ruined Tim’s son...
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Deci's Midnight Runners 3 from 2021-04-19T16:34:26
Who doesn’t love a good episode driven by angst and trauma? Tim and Matt indulge a couple of their pet passions as Tim, inspired by the historicism of our Saving Private Ryan episode, t...
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Episode 30b: Saving Private Ryan from 2021-04-12T18:12:15
Not since [checks notes] one episodes ago have Matt and Tim been so confused by the popularity of a film! Maybe five episodes ago if you want the Forrest Gump Hate Parade of 20...
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Episode 30 Part 1: Odelay from 2021-04-12T18:04:17
Beck and his music are difficult to parse in 2021, largely because what he was/is so good at is the norm now rather than progressive like in 1996 when Odelay delighted and confused list...
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Episode 29 Part 2: The Shawshank Redemption from 2021-04-07T18:17:20
After dutifully attending to the “Why is this movie number 1 on IMDB?” conversation, Tim and Matt consider how communities are established in terrible situations. Prison obviously falls into tha...
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Episode 29 Part 1: Automatic for the People from 2021-04-07T18:10:10
Automatic for the People is sort of notoriously R.E.M.’s death album, the one in the throes of existential wonder. While death does appear throughout the album, it’s more an extended co...
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Episode 28 Part 2: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from 2021-03-30T01:31:35
We got paid in Part 1, and now we owe. Tim and Matt consider the importance of Butch and Sundance before Tim offers two other movies with exacting forces looking for recompense. Terrenc...
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Episode 28 Part 1: In Utero from 2021-03-30T01:21:22
Teenage angst hasn’t paid Matt well in any literal way, but he does maintain a soft spot for many of the rock bands it has. Cobain made that the first line on the prickly follow-up to Neverm...
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Episode 27 Part 2: The Silence of the Lambs from 2021-03-22T19:10:13
The Silence of the Lambs seemingly gets only more popular and influential with time, which is genuinely impressive for what could easily be seen as a (good) genre film. We talk about ge...
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Episode 27 Part 1: Ready to Die from 2021-03-22T19:04:47
“Juicy” is one of the greatest rags-to-riches songs ever put to tape. A humorous and detailed story of coming from “sardines for dinner” to “Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.” The sensation of “m...
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Episode 26 Part 2: In the Heat of the Night from 2021-03-09T01:23:51
Everyone’s favorite region of the U.S., as Matt teases in part 1. Maybe not, but it could be the most mythologized (though not represented). Beyond being the origin of a Lion King joke ...
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Episode 26 Part 1: Emergency & I from 2021-03-09T00:52:04
Our theme this week comes from Robert Christgau, who can turn a phrase better than any other music critic. (The) Dismemberment Plan’s Emergency & I is all nervy energy, jittery mood...
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Episode 25 Part 2: Forrest Gump from 2021-03-03T17:30:53
Matt and especially Tim are never far from railing on Forrest Gump, that famed jaunt through the 20th century with terrible disability politics and Tom Hanks doing a funny voice. We’re ...
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Episode 25 Part 1: Live Through This from 2021-03-03T17:22:37
Courtney Love’s acerbic lyricism breathed precious fresh air into a male-dominated genre. In the spirit of Hole’s Live Through This, Matt looks to two groups fronted and run by women wi...
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Episode 24 Part 2: All the President's Men from 2021-02-23T00:33:02
Journalism has long been a pressurized and risky endeavor, not just in the era of Fake News. All the President’s Men stands as a look into a profession and the unique ideological challe...
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Episode 24 Part 1: Tim from 2021-02-23T00:15:33
The Replacements brand of heart-on-sleeve heartland punk is well established and adored. Also well established is their legendary drinking and raucous behavior (banned for life from SNL!). Matt ...
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Episode 23 Part 2: Modern Times from 2021-02-16T20:56:55
Chaplin’s riotous Modern Times has several incredible sight gags, including two scenes of characters traversing the “guts” of machines. Of course, Modern Times is also a film a...
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Episode 23 Part 1: Illmatic from 2021-02-16T20:45:05
East Coast Hip Hop in the mid 90s doesn’t need me to make its importance evident; the names made themselves important. Illmatic gets the shaft on the Spin list but it’s due respect in t...
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Episode 22 Part 2: The Wild Bunch from 2021-02-08T23:19:55
The Wild Bunch’s famous, and visceral, opening becomes the theme this episode as Tim offers movies that make clear the power of many ants over just a few scorpions. The Ox-Bow Incid...
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Episode 22 Part 1: Dookie from 2021-02-08T22:52:42
An episode Matt has been eyeing up since the beginning, full of music he can remember listening to as long as he has listened to music. Listen to Matt and Tim giggle like children at Dookie ...
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Episode 21 Part 2: The Apartment from 2021-02-03T22:25:15
Jack Lemmon plays an all-time sad sack in The Apartment, someone with little to look positively on even when it’s Christmas. Tim offers two other movies that have similarly Blue Christm...
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Episode 21 Part 1: Aquemini from 2021-02-03T22:12:26
Outkast’s magnum opus ends with audio of their infamous Source Awards acceptance speech, Andre barking at a booing crowd “The South’s got something to say.” And with that, the theme of our A...
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Deci's Midnight Runners 2 from 2021-02-03T16:48:50
We’re 20 episodes in! Which is exciting, and also means it’s time for another bonus episode. Our cups runneth over with takes and Deci’s Midnight Runners is our chance to dig further into someth...
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Episode 20 Part 2: Spartacus from 2021-01-26T21:01
It’s hard for Kubrick to not make a movie feel like him but he was working Out of Type with the swords-and-sandals epic Spartacus. Tim guides us through two replacement titles by other ...
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Episode 20 Part 1: Doolittle from 2021-01-26T20:11:26
Really exciting episode for Matt who gets to dissect The Pixies’ vibrant, enduring classic Doolittle, an album as influential as it was weird in 1989. The Pixies’ now basically patented...
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Episode 19 Part 2: Sunrise from 2021-01-19T22:26:16
Tim takes Sunrise, the AFI movie this week, as a unique journey narrative, a Journey to Tilsit, that pushes couples to the brink. Dodsworth faces an uphill battle against Sub T...
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Episode 19 Part 1: Is This It from 2021-01-19T22:08:39
Meet Me in the Bathroom, Lizzie Goodman’s essential oral history of the early 2000s NYC rock revival, chronicles the rise and coked out denouement of bands like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Y...
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Episode 18 Part 2: Titanic from 2021-01-14T02:21:42
You might be thinking that this episode will be nothing but silly. Shame on you! It’s not only silly. Tim finds much pathos as he guides us through the relationship between vessel and c...
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Episode 18 Part 1: Homogenic from 2021-01-14T02:14:37
Björk is a genre unto herself and Homogenic one of her earliest masterpieces. Apparently Iceland has fertile ground for growing experimental acts in general and we take some time to dig...
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Episode 17 Part 2: Easy Rider from 2020-12-01T04:46:43
True to form, Tim and Matt end up hating on Gen X more than Boomers here. Listen to find out how! And to hear more about a few significant and ideologically loaded films that speak directly abou...
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Episode 17 Part 1: Paul's Boutique from 2020-12-01T04:36
Paul’s Boutique remains as thrilling and befuddling as ever, a deeply fun listen that somehow, someway remains on streaming platforms despite it’s impressively liberal usage of samples ...
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Episode 16 Part 2: A Night at the Opera from 2020-11-23T20:31:44
Tim slowly encroaches on Matt’s music territory with another week of musical theming, in the form of full interludes this week. With the Marx Bros’ romp A Night at the Opera as his insp...
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Episode 16 Part 1: 69 Love Songs from 2020-11-23T20:28:23
Brian Wilson, he of Beach Boys fame and writer of such brilliance as “Good Vibrations” and “God Only Knows,” is notoriously shy and reclusive. His genius, however, is indisputable. In this episo...
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Episode 15 Part 2: Platoon from 2020-11-11T01:29:45
When Oliver Stone hits he hits hard. When he misses he whiffs entirely. Platoon has some of both. While Tim and Matt spend some time talking about the film’s war bonafides, and lack the...
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Episode 15 Part 1: Fear of a Black Planet from 2020-11-11T01:18:34
Public Enemy’s incendiary and essential Fear of a Black Planet prompts Matt to think about and present different ways of presenting and embodying black power in music. Still to his and ...
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Episode 14 Part 2: 12 Angry Men from 2020-11-11T01:02:41
In which Tim and Matt do a really good job of not just quoting Tevye and heaping praise on Topol. AFI gives Tim 12 Angry Men to work with, which he turns into the afore-referen...
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Episode 14 Part 1: Loveless from 2020-11-11T00:50:23
In this episode Matt explains a subgenre you might have heard of but remains mysterious, much like the swells and swirls of the music it produces. We talk Shoegaze in all its gauzy and aqueous g...
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Episode 13 Part 2: Bringing Up Baby from 2020-10-27T21:10:22
The 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby is the AFI entry for this episode, and man is the leopard cute. Tim talks through the zany...everything of the film before casting it as an e...
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Episode 13 Part 1: The Blueprint from 2020-10-27T20:51:08
A battle of hip-hop heavyweights this week. Jay Z's The Blueprint is the Spin entry, an album that functions as both a statement of success and as a model for how to Grow Old in hip-hop...
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Episode 12 Part 2: The Sixth Sense from 2020-10-20T19:53:35
With the Philadelphia of it all as his guide, Tim remarks on the importance of Pennsylvania to The Sixth Sense and then to The Irishman and Witness. We talk about the ...
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Episode 12 Part 1: Daydream Nation from 2020-10-20T19:42:35
Sonic Youth were part of a vanguard of bands in the late 80s redefining what guitar music and American rock could sound like. In this episode, we look at more recent artists that wield Distortio...
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Episode 11 Part 2: Swing Time from 2020-10-13T02:54:41
Swing Time is really a showcase for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in all their grace and beauty. In this episode, Tim brings for consideration two other films that are showcases of tal...
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Episode 11 Part 1: Voodoo from 2020-10-13T02:30:51
D’Angelo’s simply incredible Voodoo kick-started a truly impressive year for albums in 2000 with its concoctions of soul, R&B, hip-hop, funk, blues, and damn near everything else. H...
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Deci's Midnight Runners 1 from 2020-10-10T14:54:22
Full as they are with Content, Sub Titles episodes don't always allow Tim and Matt to slow down on niche topics, as is their wont. We'll be doing just that after every tenth episode, dedicating ...
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Episode 10 Part 2: Sophie's Choice from 2020-10-06T02:50:32
Meryl Streep acts the hell out of Sophie’s Choice in a way few could. See if that’s enough to warrant kind words from Tim who discusses two other movies driven by women making choices i...
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Episode 10 Part 1: Slanted and Enchanted from 2020-10-06T02:33:33
Do you like Pavement? Do you even remember Pavement? If you’re of a certain age you might. Otherwise, join Matt in slagging and dragging Pavement for their grating aloofness. While Pavement does...
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Episode 9 Part 2: Goodfellas from 2020-09-30T03:06:39
Goodfellas (somehow only 91 for AFI!) ends with Henry Hill eating egg noodles with ketchup like a schnook. While it's hard to sympathize with a Henry Hill, the moment probably feels rea...
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Episode 9 Part 1: Endtroducing from 2020-09-30T01:53:08
Endtroducing….. remains a masterclass in hip-hop production and sampling, and is an ode to DJ Shadow’s record store and collection. An album recorded on a simple four-track, Endtrod...
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Episode 8 Part 2: The French Connection from 2020-09-23T02:31:02
I have but one thing to say: suicide condors. Okay fine, I’ll say more. Join us to hear Tim discuss the Eye-Popping and shocking nature of The French Connection while I make jokes about...
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Episode 8 Part 1: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy from 2020-09-23T02:20:53
It seems impossible at this point to talk about a Kanye West album without first reckoning with Kanye West the person. This is particularly true of the deeply personal, often immensely self-awar...
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Episode 7 Part 2: Pulp Fiction from 2020-09-14T18:05:26
Tim and Matt discuss the eternal allure and rot of Los Angeles as Tim guides us through two movies that share absolutely nothing besides presenting L.A. in all it’s toxic glory: Speed a...
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Episode 7 Part 1: Exile in Guyville from 2020-09-14T17:29:06
The highest entry on the Spin list from a woman! Perhaps surprising but well-deserved for Liz Phair's sexually evocative and uncompromising Exile in Guyville. Matt discusses Exile's...
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Episode 6 Part 2: The Last Picture Show from 2020-09-08T23:33:50
Tim takes us through rampant contagion and people wearing masks, people too afraid to live in the world, a "great" man only concerned with himself, and questions of legacy. Movies from the 1952,...
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Episode 6 Part 1: OK Computer from 2020-09-08T23:18:52
The episode Matt has been preparing for for years, really. The one where he discusses the beautifully apocalyptic tones of OK Computer and Radiohead's prescience and then talks about, a...
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Episode 5 Part 2: Do the Right Thing from 2020-08-31T16:21:55
This episode has everything: high school chemistry lessons, an appearance by the Podcat, the moon. Tim guides us through that famous, and brilliant, Spike Lee Joint Do the Right Thing a...
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Episode 5 Part 1: The Queen is Dead from 2020-08-31T16:12:28
Everyone knows The Smiths are great and that The Queen is Dead is probably their most important work so Matt and Tim try to revel in the smaller things - the genre digressions, the misp...
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Episode 4 Part 2: Blade Runner from 2020-08-25T00:03:36
In our continuation of episode 4, Tim talks through the brilliance and beauty of Blade Runner and the category of Becoming Human Again. He and Matt discuss the casual charm of Beaut...
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Episode 4 Part 1: Discovery from 2020-08-24T23:53:33
Join us in part one of episode 4 wherein Matt takes us through his odd relationship with Daft Punk and their Cosplay on Discovery (2001) before introducing the animated front and pop ha...
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Bonus Episode 1: Library Blues from 2020-08-17T23:24:21
For various reasons, Tim and Matt need to wait a week before posting the next full episodes. We didn't want to leave listeners hanging, so we've whipped up an episode about a few titles we're sa...
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Episode 3: Sign O' the Times and Yankee Doodle Dandy from 2020-08-11T18:58:23
Matt begins with talk of Prince's inimitable Sign O' the Times and other artists who shouldn't be made analogies in David Bowie and Joni Mitchell, offering Blackstar and Ni...
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Episode 2: Toy Story and Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) from 2020-08-11T17:48:58
Tim takes us through Play Time as he makes the cases for Greta Gerwig's wonderful retelling of Little Women (2019) and Stand By Me (part of the glorious Rob Reiner Run) Listen
Sub Titles Episode 1: Nevermind and Ben-Hur from 2020-08-04T02:05:54
First, Matt offers up Alice in Chains' Dirt and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger as potential replacements for Nirvana's game-changing album, Nevermind, in the category of...
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Sub Titles Introduction from 2020-08-04T00:52
In this intro episode, Matt and Tim explain the concept of Sub Titles. We talk about how each episode will work, why we chose lists from Spin and AFI, respectively, discuss special consideration...
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