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Matthew Burchanoski

Substituting each entry on Spin and AFI "Best of" lists.

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01:28:46

Episode 57 Part 1: Appetite for Destruction

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2022/06/20

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. "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," and "Sweet Child of Mine" are pretty close to unkillable. They're also reflective of a different time in the pop landscape, a bigger and louder and more leathery time. A time When Dinosaurs Roamed, as is the theme for this episode considering the innovation and success of, along

01:24:15

Episode 56 Part 2: Shane

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2022/05/24

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 surrounding the protagonists of Shane, Bringing Out the Dead, and Maria Full of Grace. A mysterious gunman, an ambulance driver, a drug mule all fighting to hold back the pain of the past and future. Plus one is Nicolas Cage.

01:39:56

Episode 56 Part 1: Tha Carter III

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2022/05/24

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, and Ne-Yo was there too. But Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III gets the Spin nod here and man is he as odd as ever. After Weezy discussion, Matt goes fully in his bag and gets to talk about Radiohead’s In Rainbows and, finally, Coldplay and Viva La Vida. He’s got an uphill battle with Tim, tune in to see if he can

01:09:44

Episode 55 Part 2: It Happened One Night

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2022/05/16

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 masculinity and gender performativity. Gaze upon the beefy males of It Happened One Night, The Swimmer, and The Vikings and question your own gendered expectations and the deep sadness of them all.

01:16:34

Episode 55 Part 1: Psychocandy

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2022/05/16

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 Blood Valentine and Shoegaze Decile episodes. Scottish alt-rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain debuted with Psychocandy in 1985 to massive and continued acclaim. All shiny melodies drenched in feedback, Psychocandy casts a long shadow of influence. Matt offers the similarly foundational Cocteau Twins and their 1990

01:26:23

Episode 54 Part 2: A Streetcar Named Desire

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2022/05/04

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 ship out of Pulitzer Prize adaptations this time. Transforming the intimacy of the playhouse into the spectacle of the cinema is no easy feat, and a dying one at that. A Streetcar Named Desire remains the gold standard, by critical consensus anyway, yet remains an uncomfortable movie. Tim brings back Norman

01:17:39

Episode 54 Part 1: Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

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2022/05/04

“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 define and kick off New Jack Swing. Teddy Riley, who was instrumental to the New Jack Swing sound, describes the genre as “a new kid on the block who’s swinging it,” which Matt takes as a guiding star for how Karyn White’s self-titled album and Bell Biv DeVoe’s Poison come out swinging in more ways than one. We talk the actual

01:27:25

Episode 53 Part 2: Rear Window

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2022/04/12

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 out of a kind of silly concept. After Matt and Tim investigate and learn some interesting Manhattan geography, Tim outlines Scopophilia, or the love of looking, and how it operates in Tod Browning’s Freaks and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Good psychological concept and three movies interested in the horror of the

01:28:35

Episode 53 Part 1: Rid of Me

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2022/04/12

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 shadow of influence, which sets up the somewhat cheeky theme of Canon Fodder. Matt looks at two other artists he thinks have a great shot at being canonized in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (a fun if sort of functionally unimportant honor) and what styles and influences they filter through their own artistry: St

01:21:16

Episode 52 Part 2: Intolerance

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2022/04/01

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 a Nation is more trouble than it’s worth at this point. As it’s poster says, Intolerance is “colossal spectacle,” and Tim guides us through the ways in which it’s a Film School standout. He excites Matt a whole lot too with two genre movies in Forbidden Planet and Night of the Living Dead, both of which are technical

01:15:31

Episode 52 Part 1: 3 Feet High and Rising

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2022/04/01

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 samples. Matt’s fully in his bag here talking the construction of music and interrogating what music entails. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings of Assemblage as a concept and process, then talk the legacy and impact of 3 Feet High and Rising, the joyous muchness of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You, and the radical

01:31:41

Episode 51 Part 2: Fellowship of the Ring

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2022/03/23

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, then Tim makes the big case for Fellowship, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. (This is Malick’s final appearance in what has been a wonderful running bit.) Tune in to see where we plant our GOAT flags!

01:04:40

Episode 51 Part 1: New Day Rising

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2022/03/23

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 Your Life of it all (i.e. 80s punk and early hardcore) and their sonic take on the line “it aggravates and it pacifies.” Matt brings two post-hardcore darlings to the table in Cursive and Thursday and talks abrasive music and catharsis.

01:28:08

Deci's Midnight Runners #5: 9/11 Albums and Remakes

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2022/03/14

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 significance from it’s proximity to 9/11. Rather than looking at the “most” 9/11 albums, though, he instead ranks the actual releases on 9/11, which was banger of an album day including the likes of Jay-Z, Bob Dylan, Mariah Carey, and Nickelback. Tim, meanwhile, looks at the art of the Remake, which includes discussion of The

01:13:21

Episode 50 Part 2: West Side Story

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2022/02/21

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 Matt both, Tim clamors down the fire escape away from the usual West Side Story talking points to talk love in weird places and doomed circumstances with Desert Hearts and They Live by Night.

01:37:02

Episode 50 Part 1: The Marshall Mathers LP

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2022/02/21

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 and love. He traipses through how hard it is to like Eminem, why he probably shouldn’t, and then gushes about Em’s craft as well as the mind-bending work of Aesop Rock and MF DOOM.

01:16:53

Episode 49 Part 2: Taxi Driver

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2022/02/14

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 October and Niagra show us a different way from the dull, brown, arid cinematography of modern blockbusters.

01:39:53

Episode 49 Part 1: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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2022/02/14

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 tempted by the 9/11 significance of it all, but stay tuned for more on that!) Bonny Light Horseman’s updated folk standards go toe-to-toe with Ben Howard’s moody and destabilizing landscapes in this battle of deeply felt and Impressionistic albums.

01:19:41

Episode 48 Part 2: The Deer Hunter

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2022/01/31

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 Birdcage. Second, I’m not sure there’s been a bigger tonal shift between entry and Sub Title options before. The violence and despair of The Deer Hunter gives way to the hilarity of Steve Martin, Martin Short, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Hank Azaria in shoes.

01:25:04

Episode 48 Part 1: The Downward Spiral

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2022/01/31

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 90s, an era of experimentation, forceful expansion, and quite a bit of weirdness. The Chili Peppers aren’t in this episode, but Matt appreciates the violent ache of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral before considering how Jane’s Addiction and Faith No More broke the alt rock mold(s) in their own unique

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