TRAPPO's Mail Bag #12!
Welcome back, dear listener! It's time for another episode of the show that talks about you on purpose! That's right, it's time for TRAPPO's Mail Bag! But before we get to the new business, it's time to share the results of last week's poll! Don't you remember? We presented our first ever TRAPPO Debate, taking a closer look at 2014's Black Widow from In This Moment and we asked you if this seminal nu-metal record belonged in the illustrious TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on. And by a margin of 55.2% to 44.8%, you have chosen to induct Black Widow into the Can(n)on after all. So congratulations to In This Moment, I'm sure they're all very proud of this latest achievement. Although I'm honestly surprised the vote was that close, but that's neither here nor there.
As for this week's episode, we're talking about Lyra Pramuk's Fascinating 2020 album Fountain, exploring the tantalizing connection between delicious French Silk pies and Chrystabell's transcendent masterpiece Midnight Star, lamenting the void in our popular culture with the loss of legendary composer Jim Steinman, and the many, many problems with 2020's remake of Castle Freak. That topic basically takes up the entire back half of the episode. It's a whole thing. You can listen below, or find us on Apple, Google, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify and Anchor, so choose your own adventure and let's have some clouds for breakfast...
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Thanks for listening!
Have you ever considered covering the music of Aimee Mann? I think her best work is “Bachelor no. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo”, but her catalogue is pretty solid overall. I just think she’s a fantastically talented artist who has never gotten a lot of radio play.
ReplyDeleteIn This Moment won the poll? That sucks. Black Widow sucks. The band sucks. Post a poll for music that doesn’t suck next time. Talking Heads don’t suck. More Songs About Buildings And Food is the tits. Fear Of Music is better. Let’s fucking get into this music. Let’s fucking TRAP!!!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Jim Steinman, why don’t you talk about Billy Squier’s 1984 record Signs Of Life? It was produced front to back by Steinman and despite selling very well at the time it’s been credited with almost destroying Squier’s career since it was such a departure from his previous work. It’s a very interesting work that defies rock music expectations of the era, and I don’t even know if it’s been seriously reconsidered by modern critics, which is a bit surprising to me. I figured people would be trying to bring all of Steinman’s work back into the spotlight since his death, but this record’s always been a bit of a bastard in the man’s catalogue.
ReplyDeleteSigns Of Life deserves a reappraisal. It’s TRAPPO’s time to shine!
I listened to the Castle Freak episode of your show, and I can’t imagine wanting to actually watch an entire movie of that. It sounds exhausting and stupid. I’m all for watching the occasional bad movie, but I need to be entertained otherwise I’m just wasting my time. The original movie was pretty good though. That’s a movie that actually works right there. Stewart Gordon also made one more Lovecraft adaptation with Dagon not too long ago which I thought was great. Some lame cgi effects though, but otherwise solid. Nobody ever talks about Dagon. It’s like people just forgot it existed.
ReplyDeleteI’ve always had a great affection for The Outfield, a British power pop group from back in the 1980’s. Not a lot of people seem to remember them all that well aside from their big single “Your Love”, which is from their first and best album, 1985’s Play Deep. Somebody’s asking you to dip into the 80’s and jam out to Billy Squier, so perhaps you can stick around for a while and spare some time for those boys in The Outfield.
ReplyDeleteI went back and listened to the episode of your show that discussed Midnight Star after hearing this show, and I have to say I think the host who introduced the record is really reaching with that interpretation of his. There’s a line between deconstruction and just making things up where they don’t exist, and you crossed it here. I think the music’s decent enough, but all that stuff about the multiverse and Buddhism and whatever else is probably just projection. There’s something to the music, but it’s telling the science fiction story of rebel lovers in a dystopian future. It’s a concept album, but the concept isn’t transcendence and the collective unconscious. Next time your brain starts connecting a bunch of dots that aren’t supposed to be connected, just say no.
ReplyDeleteThere's a new Hellraiser movie coming to HULU in October, so maybe you TRAPS could talk about that for Halloween. That would be timely and cool. The director David Bruckner has a solid track record, co-writing and directing 2007's clever "The Signal" and 2017's "The Ritual" which is on Netflix right now. I'm really looking forward to this one, and if it performs well it would be cool if we got a yearly fix of well-made Hellraiser goodness on HULU. A brand new, fucked up phoenix of a horror franchise born out of the ashes of nearly thirty years of mediocrity.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a miracle.
I thought I was sick of hearing about Castle Freak after the last two times you jokers talked about it. Can this finally be the end of it? There’s so much more to talk about. Like Fright Night. The original movie, I mean. Not the remake. Or the sequel to the remake, which is really just another remake. Halloween is coming up. Perfect opportunity to discuss a classic horror film. Give Fright Night the patented TRAPPO treatment.
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