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Track Played – Kyuss – Freedom Run (Blues for the Red Sun, 1992)
Orange Goblin – A Eulogy for the Damned (Rate Your Music Link)
Adam – 3/5
Simon – 2/5
Track Played – Orange Goblin – Acid Trial
Shame
Adam – 9/10
Simon – 9/10
Track Played – Wu-Tang Clan – Shame on a Nigga (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), 1993)
Top 5 Songs About Drugs
Adam –
5. Neil Young – The Needle and the Damage Done (Harvest, 1972)
4. Rodriguez – Sugar Man (Cold Fact, 1970)
3. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (Maggot Brain, 1971)
2. The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Revolver, 1966)
1. The Velvet Underground – Heroin (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
Simon –
5. Madvillain – America’s Most Blunted (Madvillainy, 2004)
4. A Perfect Circle – Gravity (Thirteenth Step, 2003)
3. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb (The Wall, 1979)
2. The Velvet Underground – Heroin (The Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967)
1. The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Revolver, 1966)
The Artist
Adam – 9/10
Simon – 6.5/10
Track Played – dredg – The Canyon Behind Her (El Cielo, 2002)
Air – Le Voyage dans la Lune
Adam – 3/5
Simon – 3.5/5
Track Played – Air – Seven Stars
Catch Up 2012 Edition: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Adam – 8.5/10
Simon – 8.5/10
The Muppets
Adam – 8/10
Simon – 8/10
Track Played – Kermit the Frog – Rainbow Connection (Written by Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher, 1979)
Hugo
Adam – 10/10
Simon – 10/10
Episode 37:
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Episode 36:
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Adam – 7.5/10
Simon – 6/10
Track Played – Secret Chiefs 3 – The Owl in Daylight (Book of Horizons, 2004)
Common – The Dreamer/The Believer
Adam – 3/5
Simon – 3.5/5
Track Played – Common – Sweet
Catch Up 2011 Edition: Senna
Adam – 9/10
Simon – 9/10
Track Played – The Guess Who – Undun (Canned Wheat, 1969)
The Roots – undun
Adam – 3/5
Simon – 4.5/5
Track Played – The Roots – Make My
Melancholia
Adam – 9.5/10
Simon – 9/10
Track Played – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Bring Back the Apocalypse (Of Natural History, 2004)
Catch Up 2011 Edition: The Weeknd – House of Balloons
Adam – 2.5/5
Simon – 3.5/5
The Yellow Sea
Adam – 8/10
Simon – 8.5/10
Track Played – Shpongle – Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness (Tales of the Inexpressible, 2001)
The Black Keys – El Camino
Adam – 3.5/5
Simon – 2.5/5
Track Played – The Black Keys – Run Right Back
Catch Up 2011 Edition: Bridesmaids
Adam – 7.5/10
Simon – 7/10
Track Played – Meshuggah – Rational Gaze (Nothing, 2002)
Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound – The Iron Soul of Nothing (RateYourMusic link)
Adam – 3.5/5
Simon – 2.5/5
Track Played – Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound – Dysnystaxis (…A Chance Meeting with Somnus)
Attack the Block
Adam – 5/10
Simon – 6.5/10
Track Played – Guitar Wolf – Fujiyama Attack (Jet Generation, 1999)
Catch Up 2011 Edition: Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
Adam – 4/5
Simon – 4.5/5
The Ides of March
Adam – 7.5/10
Simon – 7.5/10
Track Played – NoMeansNo – My Politics (The Worldliness of the World (As Such), 1995)
Doomtree – No Kings
Adam – 4/5
Simon – 4/5
Track Played – Doomtree – Bolt Cutter
Top 5 Films About American Politics
Adam –
5. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
4. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
3. Bulworth (Warren Beatty, 1998)
2. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Paluka, 1976)
1. Dr Strangelove: or, how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Simon –
5. 3 Days of the Condor (Syndey Pollack, 1975)
4. Good Night, and Good Luck (Geroge Clooney, 2005)
3. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
2. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Paluka, 1976)
1. Dr Strangelove: or, how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Track Played – Nick Drake – Place to Be (Pink Moon, 1972)
Drake – Take Care
Adam – 3/5
Simon – 2.5/5
Track Played – Drake – Crew Love
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Adam – 7.5/10
Simon – 7.5/10
Track Played – John Lennon – Mother (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 1970)
Top 5 Break Up Songs
Adam –
5. Neil Young – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (After the Gold Rush, 1970)
4. Bob Dylan – If You See Her, Say Hello (Blood on the Tracks, 1975)
3. Beck – Lost Cause (Sea Change, 2002)
2. The Beatles – For No One (Revolver, 1966)
1. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Single, 1980)
Simon –
5. Kanye West – Blame Game (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, 2010)
4. The Smashing Pumpkins – Fuck You (An Ode to No One) (Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness, 1995)
3. Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul, 1965)
2. The Cure – Pictures of You (Disintegration, 1989)
1. The Beatles – For No One (Revolver, 1966)
Track Played – Roy Orbison – In Dreams (In Dreams, 1963)
David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
Adam – 3/5
Simon – 3/5
Track Played – David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
Moneyball
Adam – 7/10
Simon – 8/10
Track Played – Pink Floyd – Money (Dark Side of the Moon, 1973)
Film School 101: Film Noir
Fatsos & Finales – Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Anonymous
Adam – 5/10
Simon – 4.5/10
Track Played – Lou Reed – Romeo Had Juliette (New York, 1989)
Metallica & Lou Reed – Lulu
Adam – 0/5
Simon – 1/5
Track Played – Metallica & Lou Reed – Lulu
Film School 101: Film Noir
Fast, Cheap & Fatal – Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
Chuck Klosterman on Lou Reed & Metallica: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7146312/lou-reed-metallica-album
Track Played – Tom Waits – Fish in the Jailhouse (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006)
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
Adam – 4/5
Simon – 4.5/5
Track Played – Tom Waits – Hell Broke Luce
Drive
Adam – 9/10
Simon – 9/10
Track Played – Kavinsky (feat. Lovefoxxx) – Nightcall (Nightcall EP, 2010)
Film School 101: Film Noir
Magnums & Memories – The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Midnight in Paris
Adam – 9/10
Simon – 9.5/10
Track Played – Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)? (1969)
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Adam – 3.5/5
Simon – 3.5/5
Track Played – M83 – Midnight City
Film School 101: Film Noir
Dames & Trains – Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
Track Played – Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan (Paranoid, 1970)
Björk – Biophilia
Adam – 4/5
Simon – 4/5
Track Played – Björk – Mutual Core
The Thing
Adam – 4/10
Simon – 5/10
Track Played – Metallica – The Thing That Should Not Be (Master of Puppets, 1986)
Film School 101: Film Noir
Shadow & Seamus – Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
The Hunter
Adam – 7/10
Simon – 8/10
Track Played – Curtis Mayfield – Wild and Free (Curtis, 1970)
La Dispute – Wildlife
Adam – 4/5
Simon – 3.5/5
Track Played – La Dispute – King Park
Film School 101: Film Noir
Trenchcoats & Typewriters – The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
Track Played – Melt-Banana – A Hunter in the Rain to Cut the Neck up in the Present Stage (Cell-Scape, 2003)
Mastodon – The Hunter
Adam – 4.5/5
Simon – 4.5/5
Track Played – Mastodon – All the Heavy Lifting
Crazy Stupid Love
Adam – 7.5/10
Simon – 7.5/10
Track Played – Prince – Let’s Get Crazy (Purple Rain, 1984)
Top 5 Nonsensical Song Titles (Of Songs we Enjoy)
Adam –
5. Minus the Bear – Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse (Highly Refined Pirates, 2002)
4. Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! (Illinois, 2005)
3. The Smiths – Vicar in a Tutu (The Queen is Dead, 1986)
2. The Beatles – Glass Onion (The White Album, 1968)
1. Maximum the Hormone – Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Purin Purin Boron Nurururerorero (Bu-ikikaesu, 2007)
Simon –
5. Minus the Bear – Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo (Highly Refined Pirates, 2002)
4. maudlin of the Well – Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, Or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost (Part the Second, 2009)
3. Mr. Bungle – None of Them Knew They Were Robots (California, 1999)
2. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (Windowlicker EP, 1999)
1. Tool – Hooker with a Penis (Ænima, 1996)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Adam – 9/10
Simon – 9/10
Track Played – Cave In – Lost in the Air (Antenna, 2003)
Opeth – Heritage
Adam – 2.5/5
Simon – 3/5
Track Played – Opeth – Folklore
Top 5 Documentaries
Adam –
5. Into Eternity (Michael Madsen, 2010)
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
3. Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, 2011)
2. Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 2010)
1. Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Simon –
5. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
4. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)
3. For All Mankind (Al Reinhart, 1989)
2. Gimme Shelter (Albert and David Maysles, 1970)
1. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Track Played – TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain, 2006)
Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
Adam – 4/5
Simon – 4/5
Track Played – Wolves in the Throne Room – Astral Blood
Fright Night
Adam – 5/10
Simon – 7/10
Track Played – The Devin Townsend Band – Vampira (Synchestra, 2006)
Top 5 Black Metal Albums
Adam –
5. Deathspell Omega – Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (2004)
4. Ulver – Nattens Madrigal – Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden (1997)
3. Windir – Arntor (1998)
2. Dissection – Storm of the Light’s Bane (1995)
1. Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1995)
Simon –
5. Weakling – Dead as Dreams (2000)
4. Immortal – At the Heart of Winter (1999)
3. Dissection – Storm of the Light’s Bane (1995)
2. Ulver – Nattens Madrigal – Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden (1997)
1. Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1995)
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