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Submit Your Question, Topic, Or Song For The Special Hamilton Episode Of MinnTrax! (Patreon)

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2020-06-30 19:39:23
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MinnTrax is our new music podcast hosted by Matt Helgeson and produced by Jason Dafnis where a guest has Helgeson review one of their favorite albums and vice versa. You can subscribe to MinnTrax on your favorite podcast app, new episodes are released every other Friday.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minntrax/id1501267072

On this episode, the guest is Broadway actor Alex Boniello as well as Ben Hanson and we’ll be reviewing the official cast recording of Hamilton. You’re welcome to listen to the album ahead of time!

On every episode of MinnTrax, we want to involve the Patreon community as much as possible. So please leave a question or discussion topic below and we’ll read some of our favorites on the episode! Also, please leave a link to your current favorite song or a song you think is worth dissecting and we’ll include it in the community playlist on Spotify.

MinnTrax Community Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

We’ll be pulling questions on Wednesday afternoon. And just a reminder: MinnTrax won’t be on YouTube or in the Patreon exclusive feed, it’s a stand alone podcast feed that you’ll need to subscribe to. Thank you!

Comments

Infinite

TraxSuits: If you had the opportunity to write a universally beloved musical around your favorite historical figure, who would it be and what genre would it be?

Thom Blackburn

I think I need to experience this first as a musical before listening to the music so I'll come back to this after I see it on Disney plus

omanzo7

I love the representation in this musical. How it blends a cast full of people and color and Lin Manuel mixes hip hop into the typical broadway sound. As a person of color, I definitely have loved this play more than any other broadway show and has been on and off repeat since I first heard it 4 years ago. I am glad that I will able to watch this rendition of the original cast performance something I hope to one day be able to do. Personally my favorite tracks from this album are the two Cabinet Rap Battles. The mix of rap, comedy and history is just amazing.

Christopher Reardon

Hey ya'll. I know this is strictly about the cast recording, but have you listened to any of the Hamil-drops that Lin-Manuel has released? They're cut songs from the play performed by various artists. "Ben Franklin's Song" by the Decemberists is soooo effing good. I love Hamilton and The Decemberists are my favorite band- it's like that song was designed specifically for me. Anyway, thanks for talking about the greatest work of art of all time!

Tim Lorow

First of all, your welcome for the comment which yielded the first mention of Hamilton. I take check or PayPal. Why are OSTs (including musicals) so often ignored among the music media and enthusiasts? It’s disappointing since so many people start off listening to soundtracks as first exposure to music. Here’s your heavy paraphrase, Jason: What’s the deal with soundtracks?! Song: Sogno di Volare by Christopher Tin

FlaminQueso

Hey howdy hey music lovin' cohorts, After many episodes of both the Game Informer podcast and the MinnMax Show, it seemed to be the general consensus that Hamilton just may be the greatest work of art of all time. After today's in depth discussion on the soundtrack, are you all in agreement? Could this, indeed, be the greatest work of art of all time or does Hanson stand alone on this? Thanks, Queso

Brian Keese Jr

Hello Matt, Alex, and Ben! Just wondering if you have listened to the Hamilton Mix Tapes, and if you have a favorite re-imagining or dropped track from that album that didn't make it into the show. My personal favorite is the Dear Theodosia cover by Ben Folds and Regina Spektor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUw6zEZRrKE

CalebMurray

Whoa big cast this week hello everyone. So I have noticed an uptick in artists doing covers of other artists songs during quarantine. My question is who do you feel about covers? Can they outshine the original or are the always worse? What makes a good cover in your opinion? Speaking of covers my song for this week is Forming the Void - Kashmir https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgytgMTsvMc

Jake Z

I saw Hamilton and thought it was incredibly insipid. There wasn't nearly as much hip-hop as I thought there was going to be and the set was the same for the entire show. I get the feeling that it really appealed to theater nerds who want to be the kind of people that like hip-hop, but don't actually like it. Is Hamilton the most overrated art of all time?

Joshua Miles

Hello! Can we have a discussion about how the entire musical (the greatest work of all time) ends it’s final moment on a unison note? Do you think that the solidarity of all voices becoming one is symbolic?

Dylan Drazek

With the rising popularity of Hamilton and the continued relevance of its message, what musical definitely deserves a second look?

Brian Paradis

Thank you for doing a Hamilton episode, this will be my first episode of MinnTrax. I am a life-long musical theatre fan, and what I love about this show and soundtrack is how clearly it is both influenced by the legacy of musicals and contemporary music. There are references to the West Wing "I'm looking for a mind a work," Notorious BIG "If you don't know, now you know..." and The Pirates of Penzance "I am a model of a modern major general" just to name a few. What is so great about these references and nods to other works is that it isn't meant to be impressive, it just shows that Lin-Manuel Miranda has a love of a wide variety of art and music, and he lets it make his work even better.

Geoff Enright

Hey Traxxers, Hamilton, yes! I am not a fan of most musicals and hip-hop/rap are not my favorite music genre; but despite my interests and the fact that I've never seen Hamilton, I believe it may be in my second favorite musical of all time. The musical in my top spot is the magnificent and perfect Book of Mormon. Anyway, what are your favorite musical productions? - Geoff aka Groffles

cranberry

I just listened to the Hamilton soundtrack for the first time and I thought it was alright. I would argue against the GWOAT but that's not my goal here. I wanted to see if anyone is familiar with the film 1776 (also a Broadway musical). It's got William Daniels (who some may know as Mr Feeny) as an angry, sweaty John Adams belting out bangers like Piddle Twiddle. It's one of my Ma's favorites so we watched it a lot growing up XD

Ronny B

This question is for Mr. Boniello! Alex, if you got the chance to play a character in Hamilton (if that's something you would even want to do) which character would it be, and why is it Charles Lee? He's a General. WEEEEEEEEEEEEE. P.S. You were a great guest star on Giant Bomb and I very much enjoyed you putting Dan in his place.