It's been 2 weeks in these streets, so Caroline and Matthew are back with an episode for your feeds. This time out, Caroline and Matthew tackle hip-hop to move from anxious to content in 8 songs.  

Matthew’s list here   

Caroline + Matthew here  

Caroline’s list here

See you in 2 weeks for AC/DC!!!

Caroline and Matthew are back again with a full on dive into the career of the legendary Dolly Parton. The dice dished out depressed as a negative headspace and content as the positive headspace and the bridge between them will consist of 8 songs. A tricky proposition since neither Matthew or Caroline were super familiar with the work of Dolly Parton prior to this episode. Let's see what they come up with. 

Caroline's playlist can be found here.

Matthew's playlist can be found here.

As always, we hope you enjoy the show and have a wonderful day. 

We'll see you in two weeks.

This time out, Caroline and Matthew take a trip through Robyn's discography coming up with 8 songs taking them from anxious to content. Matthew goes into why he loves Robyn so much, Caroline enjoys listening to much of her discography for the first time and both express their happy difficulty making their lists.  Speaking of which... 

Caroline's list is here! 

Matthew's list is here! 

We'll see you back here in 2 weeks as we tackle the modern secular saint, Dolly Parton.

We're here for Episode 3 of Trivial Merit and, this time, we're traveling from anxious to relaxed in 8 songs from the all-powerful Whitney Houston. Along the way, we learn that Matthew will trip over his words, Caroline is a black belt in the art of punnery (which we really already knew) and that these 2 cohosts 100% deserve each other. In short, good times discussing one of the greatest vocalists in history. 

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As always, here are the playlists the hosts came up with on Spotify.

Caroline:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JXkzPkQhTb82Z2Vvm7haK?si=7066da773c894afc

Matthew:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4EzcaGEJpYoXtH3JX5l0JP?si=c8a736ff5e064c90

Have a wonderful day and be back in 2 weeks. Same time, same station.

Caroline and Matthew are back again and tackling the Smashing Pumpkins catalog with the goal of going from anxious to content in 8 songs. Caroline teaches Matthew about cosmetic dots, Matthew goes down several levels of memory lane, neither really care for frontman Billy Corgan due to his conduct regarding his bandmates, but fun was had by both with regards to making the playlists and even examining the exercise as performed in this and the previous episode.

Matthew's can be found here.

Caroline's can be found here. 

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We'll see you again in 2 weeks!

Welcome to Trivial Merit's first actual episode! Caroline and Matthew have chosen their first band, arguably the greatest band in pop music history, The Beatles. They're building an 8 song playlist with the goal of going from anxious to relaxed and talk a bit about their thoughts on both the band, their choices here and doing the exercise as a whole. 

Feel free to submit your ideas for how you'd get from anxious to relaxed via the catalog of The Beatles in 8 songs to @TrivialMerit on Twitter or [email protected] and we'll read it on the show.

Here's Caroline's: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/66pszFFtxOwE5HQtQgeItf?si=bdfecd4abeb9409e&nd=1

Here's Matthew's: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2c2Hn33GspuiDZLHeGxgNI?si=74fffc7a858e49f9

We hope to you come back in 2 weeks for The Smashing Pumpkins and choosing 8 songs to go from anxious to contented. 

Have a great day!

Hello and welcome to Trivial Merit!

This is a bi-weekly show where Caroline and Matthew join together to listen to music in an effort to feel better in this weird, wild and often bonkers world. Each episode, we'll pick a band and come up with 8-song playlists from them that bring us from a negative headspace to a positive one based on an exercise in music therapy. This is where we let you know that we are NOT mental health professionals and in no way are offering medical advice. In fact, we'll both advocate for seeking help when you need it. We're here to enjoy our own coping mechanism our way and hopefully share thoughts and experiences with music and maybe introduce each other and listeners to different things when possible.