TRAPPO's Mail Bag #3!
This week, we're opening up TRAPPO's Mail Bag for another round of listener comments! We're addressing feedback from our Essential Albums podcast, Castle Freak and TRAPPO's Mail Bag #1 this time around, so sit back and give it a listen. We're available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Breaker, Anchor and Spotify, so choose your own adventure and let 'er rip!
You can join the conversation by leaving a comment below. Give us your suggestions for future topics, tell us what you think of the show, or just tell us all about what you had for lunch yesterday. We're all ears. You can also send us a killer email if you're feeling a bit more wordy and have to get something off your chest, and don't forget to check out the official TRAPPO Instagram feed for the complete experience. We would be glad to read your feedback in a future episode.
And before you go, did you know we're working on the ultimate B-52's mixtape? But we can't do it without your help! So just head on over to the discussion page and give us your suggestions! You, dear listener, are nominating the songs for inclusion in the final mixtape! And you only have until March 1st to get those suggestions in, so if you love The B-52's, there's still time for your voice to be heard!
Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next week, same TRAPPO time, same TRAPPO channel!
You guys are asking for recommendations from The B-52s, well there's another band from Athens Georgia that you should know about. Not REM, Tunabunny! They're a cool sorta indie pop grunge band that's been around since 2008. I'm not sure if they're still active since they haven't released any new music since 2017, but either way they still deserve some love. Especially since I seem to be the only person I know who loves them. But don't take that as a bad sign, like they're a weird band or anything. They're music is pretty straight forward stuff, really. Just really charming and good. I'd recommend Genius Fatigue. Listen to it. Tell me I'm wrong. It's cool.
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of cool, I'm glad you guys are going to handle Black Widow by In This Moment soon. Count me as another fan of that one. Great stuff.
How about a topic for a podcast instead of just an album? I would like, since I read the comments on the last mailbag, for a shoegaze debate. What the hell is shoegaze? What constitutes shoegaze? What counts? What doesn;'t? What are the best examples of the genre? That could be a whole episode right there. Trying something different, yyou know?
ReplyDeleteSomebody sounds pretty inebriated during this podcast. Maybe you should cut down on the drinking and you'll be able to make a more entertaining show. Just a thought.
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DeleteI'd like to recommend a movie called The Reckoning. It's only streaming on Shudder and AMC+ right now, but I think you can rent it if you don't have access to those. It's directed by Neil Marshall, who also made Dog Soldiers and The Descent, which are two modern horror classics. He also directed the last Hellboy movie, which wasn't very good, but if you've read any of the behind the scenes stories on that one, the movie was kind of screwed from the beginning, so I don't know how much of the blame for that anybody can rightly blame on Marshall.
ReplyDeleteBut The Reckoning feels like a return to form, at least for me. It's about a woman who loses her husband to the plague and is then accused of witchcraft, imprisoned and tortured for her imaginary crimes by sadistic witchfinders. I don't want to give too much away, because there are some twists and turns, and I also don't want to give you guys the wrong idea, because this isn't torture porn. There's an actual plot here, and the torture stuff isn't terribly graphic. It's more about the character's psychological state, as she endures these horrifying acts and what comes after. But the movie's title is The Reckoning, so you know something's going down eventually.
I just think the movie is well made and effective, and I would like to hear somebody other than myself talking about The Reckoning, because I think it deserves a little more love than it's received from the horror fandom community.
There's also a record I'd like to recommend while I'm at it. It's from a British alternative rock group from the mid-1990s called Strangelove, and the name of the record is "Love & Other Demons". There's some killer music on this record, and it's been cruising under everybody's radar for over 20 years. In a perfect world, people would be talking about Strangelove today the way they're talking about Radiohead.
Thanks for accepting suggestions and keep making the show.
It's funny, but when I actually think about it, I'm not sure you guys have really told us too much about yourselves. It's not necessarily a bad thing, especially if you're just private individuals, and if you are then I apologize for bringing this up. I'm just wondering, as I hope other listeners are, how you two really developed your personalities and your pop culture obsessions. How did you both come to love the things you love? And what are the things you love?
ReplyDeleteYour passion shines through in the episodes you post, but you've never really introduced yourselves to your audience, at least not that I've noticed, and I've kept up with the show. How did you meet? How did you get into the music and the movies and the books that helped make you who you are today? I'm just interested generally, so you don't have to get at all specific. You asked for suggestions for future episode topics, so this is mine. You don't have to bother with making an entire episode about the albums I suggested in my email. I just want to know more about the hosts of TRAPPO and why you started the show. What makes TRAPPO tick? Tell us why you talk about stuff on purpose. It might help make you more relatable to listeners. At the very least, it couldn't hurt.
Either way, keep making the show, and I'll keep listening.
I really like a lot of The Eagles music. My friends all seem to think those guys are some kind of joke or something because they were so damn popular, especially back in their heyday when everybody's parents were jamming to Hotel California every weekend, but I think their stuff became so ubiquitous because it was so damn good. Call it mainstream, like that's a four letter word, but there's nothing wrong with mass appeal. The Eagles deserve to be treated with more respect by modern listeners, and I'm saying this as a modern listner. I was born in 1997 and I think the Eagles are just all time greats.
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