ALBUM EXCHANGE: Jimi Hendrix V Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Greetings! It's that time again, friends! Time for a brand-spanking-new episode of that podcast sensation that's sweeping the nation! That's right, ladies and gentlemen. It's TRAPPO. time. The following episode is our very first album exchange, by the by, which is pretty exciting stuff. Now what is an album exchange, you might be asking? Well, it's pretty self-explanatory, I think. Ky introduces an album, and we discuss its merits for a little while, then I introduce an album, and we discuss its merits for a little while. It's... an exchange... of albums... A.K.A. an "album exchange". And for our very first album exchange, Ky is introducing 1968's classic rock masterpiece Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and your truly is submitting 2003's seminal art punk revelation Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Will either of these albums find a new home in the legendary TRAPPO. Essentials Can(n)on? My friends, you'll just have to tune in and find out!
That's how it works, after all. This is a podcast. I can't just tell you everything before you listen to the show, which I think is very much worth your time. Now I know I'm biased here, having made the damned thing, but I'm pretty proud of TRAPPO. It's almost like a real podcast, like all those podcasts that millions of folks listen to every single day all around the world. I may be completely out of my mind, but I think TRAPPO. is an okay show. We're not the most erudite or electric personalities out there, but dammit, we've got passion, and I think that counts for something. So go ahead and listen to two schmucks yammer on about a pair of albums they appreciate very much for a little while, and maybe you'll even learn something in the process. What have you got to lose? You can listen below, or find our podcast on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Stitcher, so choose your own adventure and immerse yourself in the majesty that is TRAPPO.
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I've never heard anything from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but the clips in your show have peaked my interest, so I'll give them a shot someday soon. I have heard all of Jimi Hendrix's music I think, and Axis bold As Love is probably my favorite album of his. Electric Lady Land is good for sure, but it meanders too much to really be essential for me. And Little Miss Strange is so bad. I remember the first time I listened to the album and that song came up, I thought I was losing my mind, like a song from another band had wound up on my CD somehow. I have a few suggestions for you since you asked: Nick Cave's Murder Ballads and In This Moment's Black Widow. Both truly essential albums for me. YOu can throw in Born To Run by Bruce Springstein while you're at it. Everybody's essential music collection needs The Boss in it, otherwise it's far from truly essential.
ReplyDeleteI can't endorse putting the Yeah YEah Yeha's in any kind of hall of fame or anything like that. They don't deserve it!I listened to the whole show and I guess i appreciate your enthusiasm for the band, but it doesn't make any sense to somebody with a brain that actually works the way a human brain is supposed to work. The amazing melodies you're losing your mind over are just noise, like feedback, and Karen O's voice is shrill and weak. She screams like a harpy and you're swooining? If you just wanna fuck this girl, that's your business, but you don't have to go on and on about her amazing talents like she's the second coming. One of my friends started playing FEVER TO TELL in the car when we were on a road trip, and I told him to shut that shit off three minutes in, because I could feel my teeth grinding in my jaw. But maybe it's just not for me. I do like the Jimi album, though. That's a good pick. I like MUSE, I guess. Some of their stuff is pretty damn good. Black Holes And Revelations is probably their best work. Maybe you guys should talk about that.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't even know how to spell a band's name then maybe you shouldn't talk any shit about them. You throw all these insults around like a common internet troll and there's no reason to be such an asshole on this blog. You're lucky your comment hasn't been deleted. But the guys who make this podcast are nicer than me, since they addressed your comment in a civil manner on their newest episode. Civil discourse is a real thing, and maybe you should give it a try sometime. And why does the guy who likes Yeah Yeah Yeahs have to want to fuck Karen O? That's such a tired and stupid insult. Maybe she's just an amazing singer, and he appreciates her talent. That's definitely a possibility. Based on your own comments, I genuinely wonder if you've even ever heard more than one of the band's songs, since you apparently ordered your friend to stop listening to music they liked in their own car after three minutes because you can't help but be a melodramatic prick. Did you ever listen to any of their other songs beyond the first one on their first album? Maybe you should give them another try, you might change your tune. You don't deserve Jimi Hendrix.
DeleteFor your information, the friend who was playing Fever To Tell on the car stereo wasn't the driver but he was sitting shotgun. And yeah, I told him to get that shit out of the CD player because it sounded terrible and we were all trying to have a conversation and he was playing it too loud. I listened to parts of the new episode, and we are still friends to this day. That moment in the car almost 20 years ago wasn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, no matter what any of you strangers might think. I have listened to the entire album, and I've heard one or two other songs from the band, and I just don't like them. The melodies don't grab me and the lead singer's voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I can't help the way I feel about this band, and maybe I was a little over the line with a few of my comments, but the 'discourse' with the hosts responding to my comment didn't feel all that civil to me, not all the time. They tell me to go fuck myself over a situation they don't even understand and they're the ones being civil? I think I have presented myself in a very reasonable manner, and I don't appreciate being insulted, especially by you, "CJ". You know, maybe I'm being too heated. In the response to my comment, they weren't completely dismissive, and they didn't insult me for sharing my opinions. I don't know what a MUSE mixtape means exactly in terms of your show, but I would be glad to nominate some songs for that. So I'm not angry with the podcast, but you, CJ, can go to hell.
DeleteNobody wants your input on some Muse mixtape they're never gonna make, man. You sound like a clown.
DeleteThe show's ok. I like both the albums you're throwing out, even tho I wasn't too familiar with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs before I heard the show, but I'm listening to some of their stuff now and then in my off time and I'm digging it. I know you just talked about Jimi Hendrix but keep it up and put some more color in your hall of fame. How about some Miles Davis? You can't go wrong with Bitches Brew, fellas. It's probably his best known album at this point, certainly the one that has the most mainstream recognition. Everybody who matters has heard Bitches Brew. Put it up on one of your episodes. Put it in your hall of fame! You know Miles Davis deserves it! He should be in every hall of fame! Even the baseball hall of fame! Fuck it, why not? The title track from Bitches Brew should be our national anthem, and I would definitely stand in respect if they played that in the stadium before the Yankees took the field. Kepp making episodes and I might keep listening, but ignore Miles Davis at your peril.
ReplyDeleteWith Bitches Brew, I think the cocaine caught up to Miles. Most will disagree, but that album sounds really dated to me. I've always preferred Kind of Blue and much of his earlier stuff. Miles Davis and Iggy Pop were friends and they would snort mountains of coke together. Not sure what that has to do with anything, but there you have it.
DeleteYEAH YEAH YEAHS is al records should be inside your cannon and blowed them up! Who needs them! Merry Christmas!
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