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Matthew Burchanoski

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

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01:01:38

Episode 47 Part 2: M*A*S*H*

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2022/01/01

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 in his analysis of M*A*S*H* as a movie about terrible people maybe sorta learning to be not as terrible before talking Ferris, where no one learns a damn thing, and Five Came Back, where a lot of people learn some hard things they’d really rather not. Listen to hear which is the worst of them all in some productive

01:10:44

Episode 47 Part 1: Sound of Silver

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2022/01/01

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 Sound of Silver. Matt looks at the legacy, longevity, and punchiness, or lack thereof, of Murphy’s totem of an album. Up as replacements are Phoenix’s gargantuanly popular Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and Hot Chip’s prickly, but no less beloved, The Warning where both are judged by their handling of emotional

01:12:28

Episode 46 Part 2: North by Northwest

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2021/12/13

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 concept. Tim returns that thought experiment here with three movies that are the Most their respective directors. North by Northwest has all the Hitchcock you know and expect, while Moby Dick and My Darling Clementine distill John Huston and John Ford, respectively, as much as they tell actual stories. But which

01:15:21

Episode 46 Part 1: The Moon and Antarctica

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2021/12/13

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 entirely of Modest Mouse’s design. Built to Spill, MM’s Pacific Northwest counterparts, and Hum, of Shoegaze Decile fame, have similarly searching and vast 90s albums in Perfect From Now On and You’d Prefer and Astronaut, respectively. One is more metaphysical and the other more astrological, both, however, investigate

01:09:59

Episode 45 Part 2: Jaws

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2021/12/06

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, good film - lands number 2nd on that list. The Exorcist is 3rd, which is the first Sub option since Tim can actually watch it now. And while Tim can’t use the movie in 1st, Psycho, he looks to another Hitchcock film, Notorious, in this battle of thrills, both the spectacular and the horrifying.

01:10:00

Episode 45 Part 1: Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City

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2021/12/06

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 capital letter. Matt doesn’t wade into that, rather he considers GK, MC for the autobiographical origin story that it is, Kendrick’s concept album about the creation of Kendrick Lamar. Danny Brown’s Old and Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool go toe-to-toe in this episode about Concept Rap albums with a bent towards

01:03:28

Episode 44 Part 2: Rocky

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2021/12/01

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 talks about The Cincinnati Kid and Make Way for Tomorrow, two movies where loss looms large and some everyday folks are working hard to survive. Everyone loses, but who loses most meaningfully?

01:03:14

Episode 44 Part 1: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

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2021/12/01

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 about Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (we like it more! I think! Kinda!). Then Matt introduces Tim to two bands that draw on Pavement’s style. Speedy Ortiz’s Major Arcana and Cymbal’s Eat Guitars’ LOSE vie for indie rock supremacy while, crucially, not being mistaken for Pavement’s sound.

01:18:36

Episode 43 Part 2: The Gold Rush

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2021/11/15

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 bread to two antagonists realizing a secret, anonymous letter writing love, to dinosaurs and the sins of science. In each Tim finds moments of beauty and wonder. Tune in to see how he pitches all this to Matt, grumpy skeptic of most things happy.

01:37:38

Episode 43 Part 1: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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2021/11/15

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 beloved, hated on, called overrated, and beloved again in regular cycles. Anais Mitchell and Hurray for the Riff Raff aren’t as, well, batshit as NMH, but their albums Hadestown and The Navigator, respectively, are historical and mythological records much like In the Aeroplane. Listen to see which allegories Tim likes

01:31:48

Episode 42 Part 2: Nashville

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2021/10/27

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 Nashville as well as the origins of our then world famous band Musie and the Beef. It’s all business as usual, I guess I’m saying, to the point that here comes the lit crit terminology too as Tim discusses Diegetic Musicals. The Faustian insanity of Brian de Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise runs into the muted

01:37:42

Episode 42 Part 1: Kala

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2021/10/27

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 Kala, how it holds up almost 15 years later, and the inescapability of “Paper Planes,” Matt moves to talk about two bands with some equally pervasive hits with famous movie connections. That’s right, it’s time for Dave Matthews Band and Goo Goo Dolls.

01:22:17

Episode 41 Part 2: Duck Soup

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2021/10/12

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, thorough discussion of favorite gags ensues). Tim introduces two romance screwballs in The Palm Beach Story and What’s Up, Doc?, both of which pay homage to and, fittingly, muck up the typical genre formula with some heady filmmaking.

01:46:21

Episode 41 Part 1: Either/Or

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2021/10/12

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 giving a quick foundation for Kierkegaardian analysis - out of care for your intro to philosophy course as well - Matt traces the legacy of Smith and the presence of Kierkegaard’s existentialism through two (massive) personal favorites: The National’s High Violet and Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight

01:14:51

Episode 40 Part 2: Sullivan's Travels

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2021/10/05

We’re all about pivotal years in this set. After Matt covered 2000 and hip-hop, Tim looked to 1941 and some of that year’s pivotal, most accomplished films. 1941 is a precipice year historically and cinematically, and Tim talks us through Sullivan’s Travels before considering the historical, cultural, and technical significance of The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Little Foxes.

01:11:03

Episode 40 Part 1: Stankonia

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2021/10/05

We’re back to sing the praises of Outkast. After the smooth perfection of Aquemini, Andre and Big Boi dropped the at once massively accessible and obtusely futuristic Stankonia. You know “Ms. Jackson,” “B.O.B.,” and “So Fresh, So Clean,” all of which her major hits in 2000 (and far beyond). You know who else was huge in 2000? Ludacris and Nelly. Like, absurdly so. Matt talks those three artists and what their 2000 releases say about the present and future of hip-hop, then Tim decides which one is

01:39:11

Deci's Midnight Runners 4

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2021/07/26

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 through a bracket of some choice 80s metal tunes, as inspired by the Master of Puppets episode. And over in movies, Tim is imagining how things could have gone differently for George Lucas after American Graffiti, which, depending on how the die rolls, may or may not include dalliances with Star Wars, the

01:14:51

Episode 40 Part 2: Sullivan's Travels

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2021/07/13

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. It's a movie, to some degree, about breaking type, as are The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Little Foxes. Tim takes us through matters of pie stealing, Bette Davis, murderous intent, and old Mr. Scratch in our journey to determine which movie most reflects the momentous year that was 1941.

01:11:03

Episode 40 Part 1: Stankonia

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2021/07/13

"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 start humming Nelly's "Country Grammar" and/or Ludacris' "Southern Hospitality" when I write those. What binds all of those together? The year 2000, an absolute monster year for hip-hop crossover hits and artists. Eminem has the monolith of the year, but we'll get to him in a later episode. For know Matt and Tim talk

01:46:36

Episode 39 Part 2: American Graffiti

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2021/07/01

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 good vibes and directors looking back on when they were younger and maybe less sad. Tim talks a couple big shots in Raoul Walsh and Orson Welles with The Roaring Twenties and The Magnificent Ambersons, respectively. See if the past is all it’s cracked up to be for either director.

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