Self Help Radio 101220: Traps

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You see, I was caught in a trap.  I couldn't walk out.  Because I was doing a radio show, baby.  & here it is!

You're thinking, I never thought of radio as a trap!  You are correct to do so.  Whom would radio want to trap?  Radio is the opposite of a trap - it sets you free.  It sets music free.  It sets voices free.

Does this make a radio show about traps ironic?  Hardly.  Because radio often finds itself sending messages that are contradictory, ironic, moronic, etc.  That's often inadvertent - for example, this radio show can often be so incredibly dumb but also astonishingly un-self-aware.  Why would it broadcast dumb things?  Alas, not knowingly!

Am I done asking questions & answering them as if something actually cares about this nonsense?  I am!

You can listen to this week's Self Help Radio which is presented exactly as it aired Monday morning on Freeform Portland by visiting the Self Help Radio web site.  Please remember: username SHR, password selfhelp.  The show was just me & songs, so all you need to know is the songs that were played, & they are listed below.

Don't worry!  The show is entirely trap & release this week!

Self Help Radio Traps Show

"Trap" The Pop Group _We Are Time_

"Trap" Robert Fripp & The League Of Gentlemen _God Save The King_

"Trap" The Cure _Wild Mood Swings_

introduction & definitions

"Suspicious Minds" Mark James _You Heard It Here First!_

"Trapped In Amber" The Clean _Anthology_

"Siamese Trap" Opal _Happy Nightmare, Baby_

"Set A Little Trap" Phyllis Hyman _Forever With You_

"Keep Your Fly-Trap Closed" Jimmy McLain _Swingin' The Blues: 1931-1939_

another airbreak

"The Trapper & The Furrier" Regina Spektor _Remember Us To Life_

"Trapped By A Thing Called Love" Denise LaSalle _Trapped By A Thing Called Love_

"I Trap You" Kae Tempest _The Book Of Traps & Lessons_

"Trapped Love" The Cramps _Flamejob_

"Black Light Trap" Shriekback _Big Night Music_

yet another airbreak

"Trap Door" Stars _No One Is Lost_

"Bear In A Trap" Her Royal Harness _The Hunting Room_

"Party Trap" Tacocat _NVM_

"Mantrap" Thee Headcoats _Heavens To Murgatroyd, Even! It's Thee Headcoats! (Already)_

"Traps" New Musik _Anywhere_

really? another airbreak?

"Trapped" Chastity Belt _Time To Go Home_

"Trapped In A Love Affair" Brenda Holloway _A Cellarful Of Motown!_

"Trapped" Kenneth Williams & Roderick Cook _Share My Lettuce (A Nixa Original Cast Recording)_

"Trapped In Paradise" Bill Baird _Diamond Eyepatch_

"Trapped" Underworld & Iggy Pop _Teatime Dub Encounters_

conclusion & goodbye

"Love Is The Tender Trap" Frank Sinatra _The Capitol Years_

"The World Was A Trap" The Crooner _Sounds From The Valley Of Love_

"I'm Like A Ship Trapped Inside A Bottle" The Cavalcade _Many Moons_

"Still We Fall (Into The Same Trap)" Eggplant _Anorak Twat_