The Panini Press Pop Culture Podcast

Andrew, Trevor, and Tristan attempt to emotionally cope with the loss of everybody's favorite French robots by discussing every major release of Daft Punk’s career.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Trevor’s home-buying fuck up

01:35 - How We’re Feeling Now

04:41 - Tristan doesn’t know what an Epilogue is

10:18 - Our histories with Daft Punk

17:32 - Homework

20:31 - Meant to be heard live

30:13 - Alive 1997

34:53 - "Does anyone know where the fuck we are?”

36:38 - Deadmau5 detour

41:57 - Trying to explain Daft Punk to Stevie Wonder

43:48 - Discovery

46:44 - A classic from the very first note

55:01 - Making Barry Manilow into a banger

56:15 - Lets get “Superheroes” into a Marvel movie

59:01 - Who could ever dislike Daft Punk?

1:03:24 - The achilles heel…according to Trevor

1:10:11 - From heroes to icons

1:20:18 - Human After All

1:23:16 - Why does it literally ALWAYS sound like it’s about to clip?

1:30:39 - Alive 2007

1:34:17 - Andrew’s regret

1:43:30 - Boomer doesn’t understand the art of live electronic music

1:47:37 - The best live album ever?

1:48:47 - Random Access Memories

1:58:22 - Giving life back to music

2:02:43 - Da features

2:04:54 - The song EVERYONE knows

2:08:54 - Hipsters at Home Depot with their dads

2:14:37 - The food of the future

2:18:59 - Our Rankings

2:20:58 - Nobody knows what the future holds

Andrew and Trevor take a sad, emotionally-isolated jaunt through the brief discography of one of the most British bands ever: The Smiths.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Lil Nas X fucks pants-shitting gun girl's dad

02:03 - Trevor’s vaccine experience (he tested positive anyway a week before this was released)

06:29 - Speculating what Allison’s favorite Smiths song would be

09:47 - The Smiths

10:51 - Our histories with The Smiths

15:48 - Morrissey on Nyquil

18:37 - The Cure vs. The Smiths

20:36 - Andrew goes vegan in spite of Morrissey

26:38 - Morrissey with an AR-15

30:00 - Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now and How Soon Is Now?

37:23 - The Smiths in America // The art and the artist

43:51 - Meat Is Murder

50:38 - Charli XCX Brown

56:05 - The Queen Is Dead

1:13:09 - Panic and Shoplifters of the World Unite

1:16:02 - The music they play in Nashville, it says nothing to me about my life

1:20:49 - Why everyone focuses on Morrissey so much

1:22:37 - The Smith-shank Redemption

1:24:38 - Strangeways, Here We Come

1:34:01 - In Conclusion

1:38:19 - An update on the status of the pod

we get high and talk about shapes i mean colors

Andrew, Allison, Trevor, and Zang talk for THREE.FUCKING.HOURS. about the films of the savior of cinema and probably humanity as a whole, if we're being real, Sir Damien Chazelle.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Butt Aldrin

00:43 - Trevor doesn’t deserve total control of the soundboard

02:37 - The Eddy (which isn’t a movie and only Trevor has seen)

03:10 - Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

08:43 - Can you tell we’re eager to get to La La Land?

11:33 - An artist with potential

13:20 - Whiplash

15:34 - This movie influenced Andrew’s college decision

19:59 - The script should be considered porn it’s so good

23:18 - JK Simmons: Sex God

33:07 - No mommy for you

39:22 - A visual symphony

43:08 - The unhappy happy ending

52:43 - Avant Garde Soundboard (feat. Toad and Frankie Valli)

56:51 - The Best Picture Debacle

59:31 - La La Land

1:13:07 - You can’t get everything you want // the missing piece

1:17:24 - The Virgin Mia's Husband vs The Chad Sebastian

1:27:50 - Zack Snyder wishes his movies were as dark as La La Land

1:29:15 - The visuals should be considered porn they’re so good

1:36:27 - The battle over Emma and Ryan’s singing ability

1:53:31 - INTERMISSION: 4 Dipshits and a Soundboard

1:56:39 - The feeling of falling in love // Trevor’s son

2:01:21 - Favorite songs

2:07:47 - Fuck Keith

2:10:10 - Jon’s favorite song

2:13:46 - Damien Albarn

2:15:51 - First Man // "the *noun* fucking dies"

2:24:16 - That documentary feel

2:26:45 - sorry, too busy getting to the moon to pay attention to my family

2:32:35 - The visceral nature of going to the moon with a calculator

2:36:42 - The stupid fucking flag controversy

2:40:25 - The score should be considered porn it’s so good

2:42:13 - The sound of silence

2:45:33 - Shot on film, like JFK

2:53:35 - Final rankings

3:02:16 - Perfection in art

Andrew, Allison, Trevor, and Zang expose their obvious preference for music (over movies and books) even more in a lengthy discussion about the music they loved in 2020.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - all hail the new soundboard

01:39 - akira knightley

05:04 - talking about what we’re talking about

08:58 - pitchforks for Pitchfork

09:54 - Andrew’s Non-2020 Favorites

12:54 - Trevor’s Non-2020 Favorites

14:58 - Trevor’s Favorite 2020 Songs

16:45 - Zang’s Non-2020 Favorites

19:03 - Radiohead Extravaganza Part 3

21:22 - Allison’s Non-2020 Favorites

25:44 - Andrew’s 2020 Honorable Mentions (ranked from 10 to 4)

30:24 - Trevor’s 2020 Honorable Mentions (ranked from 10 to 4, with some unranked extras)

35:53 - Zang’s 2020 Honorable Mentions (not ranked)

40:50 - Allison’s Honorable Mentions (not ranked)

44:24 - Stuff We Missed in 2020

47:28 - Andrew’s #3

53:45 - Trevor’s #3

59:28 - Zang’s #3

1:05:56 - Allison’s #3

1:12:25 - Andrew’s #2

1:20:08 - Trevor’s #2

1:28:16 - Zang’s #2

1:38:10 - Allison’s #2

1:46:11 - Andrew’s #1

1:57:49 - Trevor’s #1

2:14:24 - Zang’s #1

2:23:33 - Allison’s #1

Andrew, Wedge, Trevor, and Zang dream up the most hype Gorillaz setlist they can imagine...because they aren't British enough to do a Blur setlist.

Listen to the final setlist we ended up with...

...on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/01HAEJXYOn5dt1OOtjAur3?si=tqeCx14IRmC0aWWb_87Z1Q

...and on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/dream-gorillaz-setlist/pl.u-YGBPuBR9Gp

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Depressed kids and Kurt Cobain Fish

02:06 - Our dream Fall Out Boy setlist

02:33 - PSYCH!

03:27 - Listener Challenge: Count how many times Wedge says “like”

04:23 - Our history with Gorillaz

12:25 - Kong Studios will burn if they don’t play these songs

13:38 - Clarifying the rules and guidelines

15:06 - RIP MF DOOM (also, how can we resurrect him for this show?)

18:10 - Kong Studios will burn if they DO play these songs

SELECTING THE SONGS FOR CONSIDERATION FROM EACH ALBUM

22:15 - Gorillaz

25:17 - Demon Days

28:46 - D-Sides (but it’s only “Hong Kong”)

30:19 - The Fall (which Trevor’s dumb ass hasn’t heard)

31:40 - Plastic Beach (Spotify, can you please put this in its proper chronological spot)

35:55 - Humanz

39:31 - The Now Now (or Christmas 2)

43:03 - Song Machine, Season 1: Strange Timez

51:34 - The Chopping Block: Cut for Not Being Good Enough

1:01:45 - The battle for Orchestral Intro

1:12:30 - Steve Martin joins Earthgang

1:15:51 - The Chopping Block 2: Cut for Time

1:24:20 - Let’s put this bitch in order

1:38:30 - Shaun Ryder and the Feature Cage

1:54:10 - The final set

1:56:21 - Which song in the set gets you the hardest

2:01:19 - Damon Albarn: Career Reviver

2:04:25 - Commiserating over South Park

2:05:45 - EPILOGUE: DOYATHING

MERRY CHRISTMAS, FRIENDS! Your unsolicited, but very much deserved present is...

Andrew, Allison, Trevor, and Zang crush on Anya Taylor-Joy for an hour-and-a-half

MOVIE: Emma by Autumn De Wilde

ALBUM: Aretha Now by Aretha Franklin

BOOK: Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore (Artwork by Brian Bolland)

00:00 - Yes I DIIID

00:19 - Gwen Stefani and Saint Akon

02:26 - So no head?

03:36 - EMMA

04:37 - Andrew and the n-word

05:42 - EMMA again

24:35 - Autumn de Wilde’s origin story

31:08 - ARETHA NOW

31:48 - Trevor doesn’t know when the Civil Rights Act was passed (it was 1964), but that’s not as bad as Andrew disliking the Civil Rights Act

33:45 - Aretha Franklin was a good singer

40:02 - Motown’s concerning addiction to fadeouts

40:55 - Zang and Allison get nerdy for old school production

53:03 - Goddammit we REALLY fucking hate fadeouts

54:56 - BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE

1:02:36 - Intentional ambiguity

1:04:51 - Trevor is sick of the Joker

1:12:09 - Joker (2019) and the Danger of Taking Yrself Too Seriously

1:18:02 - Reflecting on The Auteur: President’s Day

1:22:15 - Suggestions for next time

1:25:51 - Les Mis detour that I’m too lazy to cut out

1:27:06 - Andrew gives us one for the road

allisno, anrewsd, trevor, and znagne die

BRACKKET: Shapers

Andrew, Allison, Trevor, and Zang love The Social Network but hate Facebook, love And Then There Were None but hate murder, and love Since I Left You but hate feeling immensely lonely at parties and raves.

MOVIE: The Social Network by David Fincher

BOOK: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

ALBUM: Since I Left You by The Avalanches

00:00 - Fleetwood Crac

00:41 - Allison vs. Her Mic Stand

01:35 - PUHHHH

02:03 - That 70’s Show

03:27 - Zang’s elbow boo-boo

04:49 - Kamala and the Lizard People

05:43 - THE SOCIAL NETWORK

15:00 - The time David Fincher saw the future

28:18 - Trevor defends Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor…kinda

29:34 - You can’t run from your feelings anymore

36:12 - "FUCK ACCURACY - Aaron Sorkin

40:49 - oh fuck we forgot about the score

41:24 - AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (w/ spoilers, sorry)

52:37 - How to not drown

56:21 - A brief Knives Out detour

1:03:12 - SINCE I LEFT YOU

1:13:57 - That boy needs therapy

1:21:22 - Is this songwriting? No…no, it’s not.

1:25:03 - Since I Left You: The Movie

1:35:02 - The listening process

1:37:38 - Recommendations for next time

Andrew, Trevor, Zang, and Wedge continue their sad-white-male-hipster pilgrimage through the discography of their prophets: Radiohead.

This episode contains discussion about their final 5 albums (Amnesiac through A Moon Shaped Pool). For discussion on Pablo Honey through Kid A, check out Part 1.

00:15 - Amnesiac (we might be pronouncing this one wrong)

13:36 - Hail to the Thief

15:02 - Andrew is a hater and a loser and wrong

19:14 - The expectation bias

21:52 - Shooting Andrew with a paintball gun

29:38 - In Rainbows...and the Wonders of Abstinence (Note from Trevor: Bonnaroo 2006, not 2005... I messed up... I'm sorry.)

34:20 - Andrew is a hater and a loser and wrong (Part 2)

48:28 - Real fans have large Let Down tattoos

51:33 - The King of Limbs

55:35 - Zang’s Toyota Celica analogy

1:00:00 - A Moon Shaped Pool

1:09:37 - Obligatory Coldplay detour

1:24:14 - The final (rather unoriginal) ranking