Sub Titles Album List
Each episode, Matt presents two albums which are thematically similar to the original album on the 2015 Spin list; Tim chooses the Sub Titles Album List entry, working from #1 down.
Just because an album or movie replaces another at #1 (for example) doesn’t mean that it will ultimately be ranked as that number on the Sub Titles Album or Movie Lists. Right now, these lists stand as a quick record for you to see which piece has joined a Sub Titles list via which theme, which piece it replaced, and which piece was offered but not chosen.
GRUNGE FOREFATHERS
dirt
1992 | Alice in Chains
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #1
Nevermind
1991 | Nirvana
RUNNER UP
Batmotorfinger
1991 | Soundgarden
rap collectives
digital
underground
1990 | Sex Packets
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #2
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1993 | Wu-Tang Clan
RUNNER UP
D12
2001 | Devil's Night
no analogies
blackstar
2016 | David Bowie
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #3
Sign o’ the Times
1987 | Prince
RUNNER UP
Night Ride Home
1991 | Joni Mitchell
cosplay
time (the revelator)
2001 | Gillian Welch
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #4
Discovery
2001 | Daft Punk
RUNNER UP
Plastic Beach
2010 | Gorillaz
Reunion? No.
Little creatures
1985 | Talking Heads
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #5
The Queen is Dead
1986 | The Smiths
RUNNER UP
Monster
1994 | R.E.M.
all the world is f***ed
korn
1994 | Korn
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #6
Ok Computer
1997 | Radiohead
RUNNER UP
Toxicity
2001 | System of a Down
whip smart women
sometimes i sit and think…
2015 | Courtney Barnett
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #7
Exile in Guyville
1993 | Liz Phair
RUNNER UP
Jagged Little Pill
1995 | Alanis Morisette
maximalism
the fragile
1999 | Nine Inch Nails
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #8
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2010 | Kanye West
RUNNER UP
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2011 | M83
home recording
turn into
2016 | Jay Som
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #9
Endtroducing
1996 | DJ Shadow
RUNNER UP
The Creek Drank the Cradle
2002 | Iron & Wine
irony?
the mollusk
1997 | Ween
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #10
Slanted and Enchanted
1992 | Pavement
RUNNER UP
Bang Bang Rock & Roll
2005 | Art Brut
neo-soul albums
maxwell’s urban hang suite
1996 | Maxwell
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #11
Voodoo
2000 | D'Angelo
RUNNER UP
Baduizm
1997 | Erykah Badu
more distortion
bury me at makeout creek
2014 | Mitski
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #12
Daydream Nation
1988 | Sonic Youth
RUNNER UP
Carnavas
2006 | Silversun Pickups
growing old
stillmatic
2001 | Nas
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #13
The Blueprint
2001 | Jay-Z
RUNNER UP
Life After Death
1997 | Notorious B.I.G.
shoegaze
souvlaki
1993 | Slowdive
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #14
Loveless
1991 | My Bloody Valentine
RUNNER UP
Nowhere
1990 | Ride
black power
the miseducation of lauryn hill
1998 | Lauryn Hill
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #15
Fear of a Black Planet
1990 | Public Enemy
RUNNER UP
Things Fall Apart
1999 | The Roots
brian wilson effect
the idler wheel
2012 | Fiona Apple
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #16
69 Love Songs
1999 | The Magnetic Fields
RUNNER UP
Black Messiah
2014 | D'Angelo
dense
pale horses
2015 | mewithoutYou
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #17
Paul’s Boutique
1989 | Beastie Boys
RUNNER UP
Lateralus
2001 | Tool
björky mcbjörkface
Ágætis byrjun
1999 | Sigur Rós
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #18
Homogenic
1997 | Björk
RUNNER UP
Finally We Are No One
2002 | Múm
meet me in the bathroom
fever to tell
2003 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #19
Is This It
2001 | The Strokes
RUNNER UP
Bows + Arrows
2004 | The Walkmen
abrupt shifts
the lonesome crowded west
1997 | Modest Mouse
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #20
Doolittle
1989 | Pixies
RUNNER UP
De-Loused in the Comatorium
2003 | The Mars Volta
the south’s got something to say
400 degreez
1998 | Juvenile
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #21
Aquemini
1998 | OutKast
RUNNER UP
Ridin’ Dirty
1996 | UGK
pop-punk
enema of the state
1999 | Blink-182
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #22
Dookie
1994 | Green Day
RUNNER UP
Bleed American
2001 | Jimmy Eat World
east coast streets
the infamous
1995 | Mobb Deep
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #23
Illmatic
1994 | Nas
RUNNER UP
Reasonable Doubt
1996 | Jay-Z
drunk and full of tunes
almost killed me
2004 | The Hold Steady
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #24
Tim
1985 | The Replacements
RUNNER UP
Post-Nothing
2009 | Japandroids
f*** the patriarchy
elastica
1995 | Elastica
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #25
Live Through This
1994 | Hole
RUNNER UP
Coral Fang
2003 | The Distillers
mercurial young adults
i am the movie
2003 | Motion City Sountrack
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #26
Emergency & I
1999 | The Dismemberment Plan
RUNNER UP
No Blues
2013 | Los Campesinos!
started at the bottom
watch the throne
2011 | Jay-Z and Kanye West
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #27
Ready to Die
1994 | The Notorious B.I.G.
RUNNER UP
The Eminem Show
2002 | Eminem
teenage angst has paid off
danger days: the true lives of the fabulous killjoys
2010 | My Chemical Romance
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #28
In Utero
1993 | Nirvana
RUNNER UP
Nearer My God
2018 | Foxing
the great beyond
hospice
2009 | The Antlers
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #29
Automatic for the People
1992 | R.E.M.
RUNNER UP
Stage Four
2016 | Touché Amoré
deconstructionists
locust abortion technician
1987 | Butthole Surfers
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #30
Odelay
1996 | Beck
RUNNER UP
Bullhead
1991 | Melvins
opened for weezer in ‘94/’95
american thighs
1994 | Veruca Salt
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #31
Blue Album
1994 | Weezer
RUNNER UP
Icky Mettle
1993 | Archers of Loaf
native tongues
all hail the queen
1989 | Queen Latifah
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #32
The Low End Theory
1991 | A Tribe Called Quest
RUNNER UP
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
1991 | Black Sheep
the next radiohead
the man who
1999 | Travis
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #33
Kid A
2000 | Radiohead
RUNNER UP
Origin of Symmetry
2001 | Muse
metal to the people
leviathan
2004 | Mastodon
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #34
Master of Puppets
1986 | Metallica
RUNNER UP
The Blue Record
2009 | Baroness
the history of the world
battle of los angeles
1999 | Rage Against The Machine
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #35
Different Class
1995 | Pulp
RUNNER UP
F♯ A♯ ∞
1997 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Pazz and Jop ‘88
diesel and dust
1987 | Midnight Oil
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #36
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1988 | Public Enemy
RUNNER UP
Tracy Chapman
1988 | Tracy Chapman
berlin, hell of a place
your funeral…
my trial
1986 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #37
Achtung Baby
1991 | U2
RUNNER UP
Midnight to Midnight
1987 | The Psychedelic Furs
self-titled
paramore
2013 | Paramore
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #38
Beyoncé
2013 | Beyoncé
RUNNER UP
Bon Iver
2011 | Bon Iver
Intimate
transatlanticism
2003 | Death Cab for Cutie
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #39
Untrue
2007 | Burial
RUNNER UP
Turn Out the Lights
2017 | Julien Baker
2000 rap hits
back for the first time
2000 | Ludacris
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #40
Stankonia
2000 | OutKast
RUNNER UP
Country Grammar
2000 | Nelly
kierkegaard
midnight organ fight
2008 | Frightened Rabbit
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #41
Either/Or
1997 | Elliot Smith
RUNNER UP
High Violet
2010 | The National
movie placement
crash
1996 | Dave Matthews Band
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #42
Kala
2007 | M.I.A
RUNNER UP
Dizzy Up the Girl
1998 | Goo Goo Dolls
myth and history
hadestown
2016 | Anais Mitchell
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #43
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1998 | Neutral Milk Hotel
RUNNER UP
The Navigator
2017 | Hurray for the Riff Raff
pavement covers
major arcana
2013 | Speedy Ortiz
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #44
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
1994 | Pavement
RUNNER UP
LOSE
2014 | Cymbals Eat Guitars
concept rap
old
2013 | Danny Brown
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #45
good kid, m.A.A.d city
2012 | Kendrick Lamar
RUNNER UP
The Cool
2007 | Lupe Fiasco
cosmic indie
perfect from now on
1994 | Built to Spill
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #46
The Moon and Antarctica
2000 | Modest Mouse
RUNNER UP
You'd Prefer an Astronaut
1995 | Hum
indie dance
wolfgang amadeus phoenix
2009 | Phoenix
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #47
Sound of Silver
2007 | LCD Soundsystem
RUNNER UP
The Warning
2006 | Hot Chip
Breaking alt rock
angel dust
1992 | Faith No More
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #48
The Downward Spiral
1994 | Nine Inch Nails
RUNNER UP
Ritual de lo Habitual
1990 | Jane’s Addiction
impressionistic folk
i forget where we were
2014 | Ben Howard
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #49
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2001 | Wilco
RUNNER UP
Bonny Light Horseman
2020 | Bonny Light Horseman
check the technique
vaudeville villain
2003 | MF Doom (as Viktor Vaughn)
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #50
The Marshall Mathers LP
2000 | Eminem
RUNNER UP
Labor Days
2001 | Aesop Rock
“It aggravates and it pacifies”
A City by the Light Divided
2006 | Thursday
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #51
New Day Rising
1985 | Hüsker Dü
RUNNER UP
Domestica
2000 | Cursive
Assemblage
foley room
2007 | Amon Tobin
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #52
3 Feet High and Rising
1989 | De La Soul
RUNNER UP
Since I Left You
2000 | The Avalanches
canon fodder
are we there
2014 | Sharon Van Etten
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #53
Rid of Me
1993 | PJ Harvey
RUNNER UP
Strange Mercy
2011 | St. Vincent
New Jack Swing
poison
1990 | Bell Biv DeVoe
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #54
Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation
1989 | Janet Jackson
RUNNER UP
Karyn White
1988 | Karyn White
Gauzy Goodness
kill for love
2012 | Chromatics
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #55
Psychocandy
1985 | The Jesus and Mary Chain
RUNNER UP
Heaven or Las Vegas
1990 | Cocteau Twins
Best Album Nominees '09
in rainbows
2007 | Radiohead
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #56
Tha Carter III
2008 | Lil Wayne
RUNNER UP
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
2008 | Coldplay
when dinosaurs roamed
hysteria
1987 | Def Leppard
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #57
Appetite for Destruction
1987 | Guns N’ Roses
RUNNER UP
Electric
1987 | The Cult
Rock is Dead; Long Live Rock
songs for the deaf
2002 | Queens of the Stone Age
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #58
The Woods
2005 | Sleater-Kinney
RUNNER UP
Permission to Land
2003 | The Darkness
Make Hip Hop Fun Again
both sides of the brain
2000 | Del That Funky Homosapien
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #59
The College Dropout
2004 | Kanye West
RUNNER UP
Madvillainy
2004 | Madvillain
KINGS OF (21ST CENTURY) ROCK
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
2005 | Nickelback
ORIGINAL Spin TITLE #60
Modern Vampires of the City
2013 | Vampire Weekend
RUNNER UP
Sign No More
2009 | Mumford & Sons