Albums Overview
Trex albums are actually compilations of snippets from practice tapes. I edited many of the songs, but left most of them raw. Really raw. These are definitely not smooth listening.
For a starting point, check out Five Dollar Drummer. It has lots of energy, but features relatively carefully constructed songs. It's probably the closest thing I have an "official" album before I started Tripecac, which it predates by a year or two. The other albums tend to be more hit-and-miss (or miss-and-miss).
Childhood (1974-90)
Firsts (1974-1977)
cover listen locally- Theme: first recordings
- Songs: People Who Need People | Tiny Bubbles | First Organ | Babyland (1) | Rock-a-bye Baby (1) | Open Up Your Heart | Rock-a-bye Baby (2) | Rock-a-bye Baby (3) | ABC (1) | Count | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (1) | While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (1) | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (2) | Rock-a-bye Baby (4) | Humpty Dumpty | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (3) | Rudolph (1) | Rudolph (2) | Jingle Bells (1) | While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (2) | Silent Night | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (4) | Over the River (1) | Little Drummer Boy | Deck the Halls | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (5) | While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (3) | Jingle Bells (2) | Scary One | Scared Again | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (6) | Oh Christmas Tree (1) | Jingle Bells (3) | Oh Christmas Tree (2) | Jingle Bells (4) | Scale | Jingle Bells (5) | Jolly Old Saint Nicholas | Joy to the World | Jingle Bells (6) | Oh Come All Ye Faithful (7) | Oh How I Love Jesus | ABC (2) | Xylophone Improv | Punk Counting | Yes Jesus Loves Me | Cornet Intro | You Better Watch Out | Blame the Mute | ABC (3) | I'm in the Lord's Army | Praise Ye the Lord | Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be | Oh Jessica | All the Emmitts | Stage Fright | Bugs | More Bugs | Bagworms | Rosy Apple Aphids | Tortoise Beatles | Taps | We're on the Homeward Trail (1) | The Mailman Rides the Bike | Scatter in the World | Our Saturday Mornings | Daddy | Jessica | Mary Had a Little Lamb | We're on the Homeward Trail (2) | Dog Named Bill (1) | We're on the Homeward Trail (3) | Dog Named Bill (2) | Do Re Mi (1) | Over the River (2) | Dog Named Bill (3) | Do Re Mi (2) | Surrey with the Fringe on Top | German | Scatter's Flat (1) | Babyland (2) | Scatter's Flat (2) | Skitter's Flat | Jingle Bells (7) | Rudolph (3)
Seconds (1978)
cover listen locally- Theme: second recordings
- Songs: C | Mom's First Recital | Let Daddy Try | Exercises | Oh What a Beautiful | Jessica's Turn | Poems Stories Counting | Snaky | Grumple Pumpkins | 2 Fingers Too Many | I Want It Off | Mom's Plagued Practice | A Whole Tape of It | Jessmas Carols
Cacappella (1980-1985)
cover listen locally- Theme: earliest recordings
- Songs: Cacappella Intro | Start | Destiny | Darkening | Radio Mania | French Piano | French Pounding | Live Wire | Search for Twelve Songs | Please Please Me (radio) | Land of Hunger | Ants in Your Pants | Pass the Sugar | I'm a Little Midget | That's Disgusting | Airport Song | Jingle Jock (1) | Jingle Jock (2) | Jingle Jock (3) | No Good | Sister-eh | We Are Coming | Drumming | Awesome | Let's Dance (cover) | Safety Dance (cover) | End of Cora Saga | Here It Comes | Jess and Trav | Wizards and Warriors | Jerks | Guy Maxwell | Prank Calls | Adieu | Cacappella Outro
Eye Beater (1986)
cover listen locally- Theme: first keyboard recordings
- Songs: I Beat Her | Life of a Basketball Champ | Play the Game | Tequila | Fight Song | Latin Instrumental | Blast Your Ears Out | Loudness Test | Thank You | Warm Up | Long Demo | T's Reggae | ULS | T's Reggae 2 | Another Casio Improv
Guitarded (1987)
cover listen locally- Theme: new instruments and long jams
- Songs: Trav and Jess Singing | Guitar Filler 1 | Guitar Filler 2 | Guitarded 1 | Guitarded 2 | Guitarded 3 | Guitarded 4 | Guitarded 5 | Testing 1-4-3 | Warm Up 2 | Bossanova Bunch | First Dance Blues | Arpeggio Attack | Take One | Indian Piano | Christian Rap | Waiting for Ian to Call Back | Where's That Buzz | Take-off on a Simple Melody
Kim 1 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: first songs for cousin Kim
- Songs: Red Joy | Barricade | Doltish Sonnet | Listen Moses | Family Interlude | Bad Notes Are Bad | Last Minute Switch | Cat Jumping on a Piano | First Side Summary | Old Song Medley | Medley Summary | Poor Escape | ULS (2) | 12 Bar | Poetry Medley | Morbid Poetry for School | Carrot Tree Intro | Carrot Tree | Chompy Chatter | Just Stupid | Gutter Intro | Gutter Guitar | Sample Chatter | Drums Like Guns | Sunday Outro
Kim 2 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tapes 2,3,4a for kim
- Songs: Sewer Intro | Sewer Guitar | This Year | Super Intelligence | Warbly Chatter | Fishing by the Lake | Crater Intro | Crater Games | Facial | The Word | Trav's Motto | The Grudge | Chatter Medley | Mister Bossy | Life in New York | Education | Carrots Intro | Carrots | Clouds of Thought | Goodbye | Stand Up South Africa
Kim 3 (1987-1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tapes 4b, 5, 6 for Kim
- Songs: Pleasure Intro | Pleasure Trip | Spider | No Utopia | Old Scat-Trav Intro | Life is Precious | African Music | Rapid Reggae | Awful Old Stuff | Comet Tail | Comet Comment | Comet Tale | Kim 2 Outro | Hunger Intro | Land of Hunger (2) | Boastin' False Start | Guy in the Middle | Play in the Rain | Fan Chatter | Exam Dream | Will You Believe | Scat-Trav Chatter | The Math Exam | Mixer Chatter | The Math Exam (poem) | No Star Chatter
Kim 4 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tapes 7, 8, 9a for Kim
- Songs: Elanthis Intro | Excerpt from a Future Song | Disregard Me | Restless Raindrops Clatter | Mousse Mess | White Out | Don't Disregard Me | Bedtime Chatter | On and On | Waiting for an Intro | Waiting for a Call | Resolution | Full House | Share Peace and Love | False Stop Chatter
Kim 6 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tapes 10b,11,12 for Kim
- Songs: Bad Apple | Tempermental Chatter | Honey I'm Home | Soft Beginning | Confused | Confused Again | Confused Chatter | Paul's Secret | Blaming Chatter | Stupid Cherries | Scary | Solo Posse | Reiterating Chatter | Face | Swing Party | Cloudy Chatter | Little Caesar's Guitar
Kim 7 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tapes 13,14 for Kim
- Songs: Only Copies | Coup d'Etat | Living with Radon | Big Band Beat Box | Living with Radon 2 | Bad Ones Chatter | Dad Split | March 9 Letter | Reply | April 9 Chatter | Thingamajig | Write Back Chatter | Fake Horn | Midnight Funk | Thought So | Gross Cookin' | Radon Mouse | Mixerless | Remixerless | History Day Chatter | Dictaphone Demo | Swing Start | Dictajamming | Shout for More | Dull Roar
Kim 8 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tape 15 for Kim
- Songs: Scatty Chatter | London Bells | Percussion Chatter | Come and Dance the Tango | It's the Reggae | Percussion Encore | Something Tricky | Scattier Chatter | Waiting for a Call (2) | Settlement Chatter | Goulash | Smurf Intro | Smurf 2x | Smurf 4x | Smurf 6x
Kim 9 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tape 16 for Kim
- Songs: Mustard | The Brightest Smile | Lucky Three Chatter | Moop | African Poo 1 | African Poo 2 | Wet the Mic | Tell Me Sonny the Day | Messy Chatter | Zulu Dance | Sloppy Birthday | Number 5 | Konk Me on the Head | Lucky 7 | Adios Amiga | Short Slow and Semi-steady
Kim 10 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tapes 17-20 for Kim
- Songs: Unwanted Stuff | Purple Pup | Bugle Chatter | Rocking the Downstairs | Muffled Dumbness | Very Strange Key | Pbbt | Cadence Medley | Scratching the Cat the Wrong Way | Ivory Mirror | Today Is May First | Claustrophobic Chatter | Picture of You | Cleaner Picture | Number 4 | Deepest Emotions | French Horn Solo | Stuck Luck | Underwater Chatter | Mission from Mars | What Can I Say | Danceable Drumming | I Need Love
Kim 11 (1988)
cover listen locally- Theme: tape 21 for Kim
- Songs: Pencil Chatter | Naughty Messica | Casio Messica | Markus Teaser | Stuart Bobert | Markus Introduction | Markus Cartoons | My Hero | The Health Class | Grunt's Sonnet | Written by Markus | Markus Interview | Markus Jokes | Smash | Lies | Really Fast Paced | Blaa Blaa Blaa Poop | Seven Stars | Bye Bye | Hop Skip | B Flat Augmented Boogeronie | You Will Get a Vote | Last Guitar Song
Five Dollar Drummer (1988-1989)
cover listen locally- Theme: scat-trav
- Songs: Drumming Monkeys Sax | The Real Stuff | Caution | Fuel | Bad Song | Totally Drums | How Are You Feeling Inside | Done | Apostrophizing | Drum Intro | Five Dollar Drummer | We Are Cool | Cool Reprise | I Know About You | The Time Will Come | Go | Testing Testing | We're Heathen | Pretty Heavy Stuff | Settlement of Southern Africa
Wino Three Girls (1989)
cover listen locally- Theme: raps with josh and other weird stuff
- Songs: Take a Break | Song With No Lyrics | Bad Point | Spanish Talking | I Do Care | IV Filler | HN Filler | Tunes from the Bottle (demo) | Talking About Tunes | Sucking Helium | Schnell (demo) | Maybe (demo) | Are You Gonna | Pretty Piano | Introducing Josh | Josh's Rap | Josh's Blues | We Know Three Girls | Empty Funk Take 1 | Empty Funk Take 2 | Herbie Wake Up | Sarah Kemble Knight
A Caustic Gutter (1989-1990)
cover listen locally- Theme: acoustic noise
- Songs: Screwing Around | Moody Guitar | Moody Guitar False | Moody Guitar Long | Moody Guitar Double | Christmas in Cancun (original) | Christmas in Cancun (demo) | My Stupid Song | First Filler | Panorama Bridge | Schnell and Noodling | Drummed Down | Kiss the Devil Drums | Patient Piano Practice | You Run (demo)
1996-99
NoVaSoCa (1996)
cover listen locally- Theme: Northern Virginia and Southern California
- Songs: I've Got a Thing for You | Here's the Gist | No Room Jazz | Raquet | Drumb Machine | Moscowpie | Somellow | Amazombie | Upright Split | If at First (demo) | Halfalife | Makeup | Wise Over Live | Spoiled | Reviville | Middle Man | Winter Window | In My Brain | Better End | Unwiring | Here Come the Crickets | Alexandria Intro | Stringtro | Pretty Sad | First Chair | Winged Intro | Wing Wing Wing | Sdrumming | In a Box | Alexandria Chat | CSU Intro | Winston | Placentia | Mexercise | Cloudless | Nometronometronome | Dersu | Banging Tough | Didn't Work
Fullerton (1996)
cover listen locally- Theme: piano practices in fullerton
- Songs: I Can't Count | Caffeinighted | Counting Laps | Ramanoodling | No Added Value | Apple | Speed Limit | Easy Riter | Baby Ditty | War Paint | Aquaduct | Anahohum | Rootine | Cheesywood | City Driving | Country Driving | Nice Run | Creaks | I Got Monday | Pretty Eh | Mouth Guitar | I Don't Really Want It | I'll Be Okay | Left for Dead | Are You Blue | Drink Less Coffee | Brush | Hackish Rite | Smog Alert | Securidad | Snack Time | Lunch Time | Early in the Morning | That Stunk | Rise and Dine | Halfternoon | Lasso | Wrist Pads | Inspiration | Wrist Pads 2 | Last Intro | How Fun Is This | You Get the Point
Soundtracks (1997)
cover listen locally- Theme: emotional soundtrack
- Songs: Filmy Reggae | Driving Dark | Clutzwing | Baby House | Baby Trance | Wow | Heavy Rite | Classickal | Whatevah | Tuner | Family Values | Happy Trav | Drunk Crush | Wimp | Thrasher | George Jarret | Poor Hubie Intro | I Don't Know What to Do | Toothpaste | Instrumental Shame | Shame Knack Blues | A Million Hours | Fast End | Why Doesn't This Thing Work | Basstar Intro | Struggle Strum | Walk Around with You | Strum Wave | Strum Thump | That's It
Walk Around (1997)
cover listen locally- Theme: i like to walk
- Songs: Had a Friend | Other Idea | Other Idea Unveiled | Even More Mindless | Sicklick | Around the World | Lost Parrot | Throne | Thrown | Pondering | Worth Repeating | Dead Honda | Third Fret | Got a Buzz | Practice Reggae | Practice Rite | Dullaby | Suspect | Ghould | Woof | Dog Dreams | Chasing the Buscuit | Zippy | Banging | Bossanova Practice | Accelereggae | Bossanotsonova | I Want to Buy a Drumset | 12june1997 | Preparations | Unleashed | Can't Go Dirge | Blame the Deck
Riding the Greyhound (1997)
cover listen locally- Theme: right before and after Alaska
- Songs: Getting Ready | Monday Blitz | I Wanna Live It All | Riding the Greyhound | Smothered | Have You Seen the Dogs | Petstrumental | Peta and Woodie | My Singing Has Improved | Looking West | Itching to Go | Back from AK | Gentlemental | DIScoherent | Studicide | Number Six | Hanging Over | Dork Factor | Subpunk | Subrock | Original Histrionics | Save the Histrionics | Weird Anchovy Rock
I Mowed (1998-1999)
cover listen locally- Theme: grad school guitar
- Songs: Depths of Time | Struggle | Trying | I Do the Work | From the Heart | Negative One Chord Blues | I Go On | Very Few Things | Churn | Salmonilling | Bass Melody | April Fools Song | Same Day | Can't Undo the Weather | Six Ate | Beautiful Beautiful Man | Bass Riff | Arpeggio | Ruts | I Mowed (1) | I Mowed (2) | Hello Hello | Third of Feb | Don't Wanna Care | Stumbled Upon | Mystery Gone | Say It Again | Time Alone | Waste Another Tape | Total Improv | Have Some Tolerance | Spoiled Joke
Simulameous (1999)
cover listen locally- Theme: simultaneous lameness
- Songs: Cheapass | Low Budget Puke | Puke Beat 1 | Puke Beat 2 | Puke Punk | Puke Trek | Puke Garage | Puke Metal | Puke Reggae | Travis is Dead | Khazad Drum | Hopeless | Fourth Intro | Fourth Piano | Change of Pace | Fourth Metal | Fourth Blues | Fourth Punk | Fourth Dirge | Fourth Outro | Compare That
Piano Farte (1999)
cover listen locally- Theme: more piano practices
- Songs: My Name is Travis | Piano Cheese | Forte Cheese | Canned Cheese | Barks | Drizzle in Cancun | Thumbpeggio | Bug in My Taco | Redemption Improv | 20 Sept Intro | Too Much Coffee | Sept or Oct | Not Every One | Persisdance | Eptness | Lyricist | Can You Tell | Last Full Day | Tolling | This Will Make | This Next Song | You're a Head | The Gentle One | Autumn Train | Advent | All About Me | Pity
2000-present
Days Like These (2001)
cover listen locally- Theme: multitracking on the road
- Songs: Arps | Junek | Junke | Euthenasia | Sloppy Chimey Trance | Sloppy Tragic Trance | Ten Minute Trance | Totem Trance | Twinkle Trance | Days Like These
Alcan Back (2001)
cover listen locally- Theme: from Alaska to Washington
- Songs: Coming Down from Denali | Road Under You | Gotta Snippet | Caffeine | White Line Yellow Line | Tourists | Cruise Control | Verse Chorus Bridge | Just Kidding | Caffeine Pellets | Radio Scan | Talk Radio | Staple | Back to the Land | From Alaska | Elitism | Needapee | Smellow | Gas Station My Salvation | McMurray Arrival | McMurray Cancun | McMurray Routine | McMurray Fade | Zesty Jogging Tempo | Pick Up the Book | Process | Boxer Bad News | Bad Job Blues | I Know Me | Alberta Clouds | Broken Clouds | Make Your Own Music | Down the Road | Sitting at a Desk | Debt | Road Rage | Old Blue is Dying | Run Away | Looking Back | Crash
Sleepy Sloppy (2001)
cover listen locally- Theme: moving to Bellingham
- Songs: Tad on the Rusty Side | Little Rite | Bigger Rite | Yucky Tan | Yucky Beige | Gentle Waiters | Tragitease | Tragreprise | Vanillame | Different Mood Same Person | Semipeppy
Dad Day Jam (2001)
cover listen locally- Theme: piano practice on Dad's birthday
- Songs: Dad Day Noodle 1 | Dad Day Noodle 2 | Dad Day Rock 1 | Rockin Intro | Dad Day Rock 2 | Momotony | Cycle Intro | Boring Cycle | Sophisticated Talking | More Boredemo | Another Yawner | Moving | Slow Nap 1 | Try Again Chatter | Slow Nap 2 | Choppy Chatter | Yet Another Hmm | Yet Another Oops | Theme Music Dud | Slow Hum | Snoozerama | Stupid Polka Time | Chopped Sewage | Conviction | Exercise in F | Dad Bday 1 | Dad Bday 2 | Crying Out | Dad Bday 3 | This Needs Polish | Dad Bday 4 | Dad Bday 5
Daffy Day (2003)
cover listen locally- Theme: piano practice on Daffy's birthday
- Songs: The Huntress Awakes | Tour de Yard | Twitching Tail | Treed | Waiting for the Pinnacle | Little Bit at Least | Certain Baby | Storm Ducking | Introde | Ode to Daffy | Sleepmeter | Catnap | That Was Cheesy | Rainbow Glimpse | Pinky Intro | Pinky Jam | Catnip | Painful Intro | Painful Numbness | Painful Analysis | Just Noodle | Vanilla Chat | All Black Keys | This is Bad | Side Analysis | Frisky to the Max | Not Much Brilliance | Goodbye Outside
Post-Key (2003)
cover listen locally- Theme: guitar jams after Key of G
- Songs: Quick Start | I Miss You | Guitar Fear | Metronome | Spaghetti Cables | Bandaid | Dog Sheet | F the Audience | Rollin | I Hate F Wires | Together | Effects Spin | Lost Touch | Party Animal | Do Do Do | Overestimation | Imagine Stuarts | Commiseration | Alone | Going My Way | Apologize | Neoteny
Fatiguitar (2003)
cover listen locally- Theme: really grumpy guitar jams
- Songs: Anxiety | Skilltair | Zappa Break | Mister Mirror | Bad Days | Cardbored | Sometimes I Notice | Yes She Could | Deposit | One Interesting Thing | Turning Down | Really Keeper | One Bad Night | About a Minute | Didn't Mean | One Minute After | Take Energy | Slimy Clutchy | Now I See | Cold Snap | Annoying All Right | Wondering | Leave Old Life | Minutes to Kill | Hungover | We Get Situated | Whatever That Was | Amplacebo | Pick Help | Off the Phone | Travis Wins Again | Moosh
Sun Strike (2005)
cover listen locally- Theme: piano jams during cbc strike
- Songs: Earplug Intro | August Rays | Recovery | Boulevard Sun | The Earplug | Admit It | One Chord Pony | Up to Luck | Pick a Key | I Liked Something | Used To | Completely Fresh | Rabbit Club | True Music | Piza Poo Poo | Gimme Rock | Disliked Stuff
Stinky Room (2005-2006)
cover listen locally- Theme: jamming near a stinky room
- Songs: Lost | Clean That Stuff | Stinky Complaining | Stinky Interruption | Have to Do | Stinky Door | Same Stinky | Aversion | Shop Too Fast | She Shops | Slinging Differently | Nod Your Foot | Another Trex Outtake | Squandered | Buy Buy Headphones | Clickity Click | Nice Humor Travis | Luke Atlanta | Hygiene | Go Bye | Always Waiting | One Minute Minute
Schtupid (2002-2006)
cover listen locally- Theme: silly vocals ideas
- Songs: As You Were Sir | Singing to Other Music | Yearbook | Monitor Stands | Brilliant Intro | Brilliant Basement Days | Gollum Voice | Ent Voice | Gollum vs Ent | Autointerview | Puppy Pee | Schtupid | Urinate | Germies | Gerebil | But It's Normal | Looks Humor Accents | Installation Advisory | Common | Meridian Sucks
Coy Pun (2007)
cover listen locally- Theme: multi-instrumental new year
- Songs: Introducing 2007 | Coy Pun | Lost Druid | Stick E Intro | Bad Chomping | Rusty Wondering | Boing | Persistent Enough | Bad Chopping | In the Buff | Glassnore | Do Not Play | Causing Pain | Supercheesy | Hard to Like | Slog | Safesurfer | Shut Off the Tape | Tardation
Post-Ides (2007)
cover listen locally- Theme: right after ides of march
- Songs: We Walking Around | Pickless | Would Have Been Nice | Upgrade Intro | Upgrade Blues | Preset Handicap | 14 Year Old Travis | Found the Pick | Why the Guitar | Buzzing Torture | I Don't Have the Talent | Worn Welcome | 73 Year Old Travis
Post-Ideas (2007)
cover listen locally- Theme: after or future ideas
- Songs: Scent of Success | 122 Year Old Travis | No Stinking Feedback | Stupid Half Chord Blues | Same Day False Start | Same Day Blues | Between Now and 01 | Bad Idea to Start | Go Take a Hike | Primus Tinnitus | CP Nay
Post-Ideals (2007)
cover listen locally- Theme: yet more guitar improvs
- Songs: When I Grow Up | Dirty Vegibles | More Dirty Vegibles | I'm from Farmville | Negative 69 | Lonely Seagull | Yellow Blues | Technology Blues | How Many Times | Pinata | My Sibling | Motherbored | Buy a Computer | Here's E | Short and Sweet | Short and Not Sweet | Talent | Burrito | Mister Dude Intro | Like He Said | Doesn't Stop Me
Warble (2007)
cover listen locally- Theme: more jams, on a warbly tape
- Songs: Buyer's Remorse | Warble Guitarble | Going for a Bike Ride | Going to the UPS | Anglofetish | I Was Punk | Gotta Go Soon | Facilitate | Incoherent Coolness | Handsome Creatures | Wore Out Your Welcome | Boxes | Power Chords | Preacher Bob | Another Chord | Muse Addiction | Our Goal | Monkey Maven | Faramir Is Here | Sound Cardorific | Quiet Coda
Another Same Day (2007)
cover listen locally- Theme: switching to 4-track
- Songs: I Don't Know | Pun Crocker | Scandanavian Blood | Scandanavian Blood 2 | Scare the Old Ladies | Battery | Warble Marble | All the Nuances | Where is the Beat | Another Minute | Consumable Advantage | Only Testing | My New Setup | Long Lunch Break | Point | Spontaneity Test | Fidelity Test | E and Eighth Notes | Field Imagination | Losing