Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Another Same Day
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2007
- Theme: switching to 4-track
- Length: 79:27
- Tracks: 21
- Lyrics: 20
- MP3s: 21 play all locally
- Rating: ** [2] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
- 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
- Uncool Edit
- Spontaneity Test
- Fidelity Test
- E and Eighth Notes
- Field Imagination
- Losing
Notes
I'd say "one more for today" while continuing to play, long past the point of diminished returns. Meanwhile, my dictaphone was breaking down, so I switched to 4-track.
Most of the songs are about the gear; the rest are silly or crude. No gems here.
Songs
I Don't Know
- Another Same Day track 1
- recorded: 2007-04-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 8:22
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Soft noodling, experimenting with different chords. Kinda cool, in a mellow, repetitive, background sort of way.
Lyrics to "I Don't Know":
today is april 10th it's 12:17, something like that not much talent in these fingers, eh? [scat] i don't know ??? i don't, i don't know where i'm gonna go i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know no i don't know where i'm gonna go i know the music is slow it really blows getting vertigo my fingers are getting sore can't do this for much more bet you want to show me the door or put me on the floor i'm a bore hard to adore blaa blaa bore blaa blaa bore blaa blaa bore
(c) 2007 Trex
Pun Crocker
- Another Same Day track 2
- recorded: 2007-04-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:49
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This repetitive, sloppy, and effects-dependent jam doesn't really offer anything new. The sporatic, obligatory-feeling vocal outbursts don't add anything either.
Lyrics to "Pun Crocker":
1 2 3 4 ha ha ha ha punk rocker betty crocker that was horrible
(c) 2007 Trex
Scandanavian Blood
- Another Same Day track 3
- recorded: 2007-04-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:49
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This starts as more aimless noodling, but then gets kinda funny. The guitar work isn't too bad.
Lyrics to "Scandanavian Blood":
that's what i get for trying to combine the tremolo with a tempo that i don't know waiting for the laundry to finish i am 1/8 german and 1/8 finnish waiting for the laundry, 1/8 finnish waiting for the laundry, 1/8 finnish waiting for the laundry, 1/8 finnish are you proud of your heritage do you know your heritage until a couple months ago i didn't even know that i had some close scandanavian blood i like to drink scandanavian blood i like to drink scandanavian blood i like to be scandanavian brood i like to be scandanavian rude i like to be scandanavian blood i like to lick up my scandanavian blood i like to be scandanavian blood 1/8 finnish 100% ??? 1/8 finnish just like linus i like scandanavian ??? i like my scandanavian blood i like scandanavian blood i like my scandanavian blood who cares that scandanavians cannot play guitar who cares that they don't know how to colonize places from afar i like my scandanavian blood
(c) 2007 Trex
Scandanavian Blood 2
- Another Same Day track 4
- recorded: 2007-04-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:11
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Wow, when I say bass I mean bass! You'll have to listen to the song to know what I'm talking about. I couldn't sustain the idea.
Lyrics to "Scandanavian Blood 2":
this is called scandanavian blood part 2 it sounds eerily like the first rendition eerily i say somewhere across the see there lives an island named asian and on this island called asia there lives a people named the scandanavian blood the scandanavian blood i got no bass; where's the bass? my band sucks
(c) 2007 Trex
Scare the Old Ladies
- Another Same Day track 5
- recorded: 2007-04-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:30
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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The guitar part was evidently difficult enough to use up all my brain cells, because the language part of my brain certainly wasn't working!
Lyrics to "Scare the Old Ladies":
scare the old ladies scare the old ladies scare the little old ??? make them run away scare the old ladies and scare the children make them run away make them run away scare the old ladies scare the old ladies scare the old ladies make them run away scare the old ladies scare the old ladies scare the old ladies make them walk away scare the old ladies scare the old ladies they're nosy anyway scare the old ladies they just scare the old ladies they're nosy anyway scare the old ladies they just get in the way scare the little children they just scare the little children they just get in the way scare the little children oh scare the old ladies they're nosy anyway scare the old ladies they just get in the way scare the little children scare the old ladies they just are in the way scare the little children scare the old ladies scare the old ladies they just get in the way scare the little children and then pretend it is a play scare the old ladies they just ??? scare the old ladies that is so hard on my wrist
(c) 2007 Trex
Battery
- Another Same Day track 6
- recorded: 2007-04-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 11:27
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Wow, what a epic! It's kinda funny ode to a battery that I was using to strum. For me, the most impressive part is that after the long spoken-word part in the middle, I actually managed to return to the orginal idea! I soon blew it after that, but it's neat to hear that recovery.
Lyrics to "Battery":
one more song 'cause i'm running out of tape and i actually don't have any tapes left after this one i'm gonna play with the battery battery running out battery battery running out what are we battery running out what are we ??? battery running out why are you mad at me why do you pout, why do you pout battery why do you pout battery why do i shout battery battery bad bad bad bad 12:40 why am i not working 12:43 why am i playing guitar 12:43 why am i alone in here 12:43 why am i not playing with the new computer you think it would fascinate me for days why am i forsaking it? 'cause i have creativity running out my mouth creativity overflowing creativity or at least energy battery why won't you run out battery why are you still here with me my battery battery, what happened to reverb we all wonder god this is this has really fallen, this song what happened to it i'm gonna put the battery down 'cause i think it sucks battery you're gone now i can do just fine with no battery, my fingers can play better in time than battery you were dragging me now i am okay now i'm okay now i just don't feel like playing i'm okay now i'm okay now i'm okay now with my battery my fingers are doing fine battery, i don't need you all the time battery, you were option battery, battery, battery, battery frankly i don't need you battery i don't need no stinking juice i don't need no energy augmentation battery, laying there innocently battery, i wonder what you're thinking i'm starting to get a little fatigued of all this thinking i do i'm starting to feel that maybe my sking is beginning to peel where's that battery? you protected me from my own excess energy battery, where are you while my fingers start to bleed where's the battery inside me? where's the what do you call it the thing on the bus that makes it go a certain speed or less oh i remember, it's the governor here we go governor, battery governor schwartzenegger governor, will we i'm starting to get tired i'm starting to get tired i'm starting to get tired i'm starting to get and then everything is quiet for a while the muse is worn out laying against some stones in the dust worn out, dripping headband ??? ruffled up shorts, socks exhausted muse in the hot california dust schwarzenegger looks over at the muse and says get up you lazy bum, get off your lazy bum don't you like my accent? somewhere a siren goes off and then even the siren begins to lose juice 'cause it's so hot and dusty that nothing wants to move today like a ticking of a clock winding down everything's battery is slowing down battery slowing down now the earth twitches in unison with the slowing hands of the clock the artsy-fartsy muse farts in her sleep that wasn't very appropriate i know, i'm getting tired i can't think of anything else to say, can you? no, let's just go to sleep and think about it let's sleep on it let's sleep on it finally one note heralds a new beginning as from the ashes of the phoenix in california arnold schwarzenegger's spawn of guitar robbing lightbulb sings out to all the world hey i found a new battery, that is right i thought that you would never come back to me after than night battery, it turns out i missed you you helped me more than i ever knew when i was by myself i tried to convince myself that i was ok sure i had a little surge of manic energy but you know after a while it went away and now battery, i'm glad that you're back i can't sustain this all day battery, i'm glad you're here with me we both like this this way we both like it this way this is the best thing fade out before you get to that point obviously obviously
(c) 2007 Trex
Warble Marble
- Another Same Day track 7
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:54
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This next day started with more dull chatter and more dull guitar noodling.
Lyrics to "Warble Marble":
i'm noticing the tape has lots of warble i need to buy cassettes, buy them in bulk you know today's the 11th of april buy bulk cassettes so that i can record about 1 a week, ha ha imagine 52 trex per year i shouldn't even be recording to the tape i should be recording directly into the computer if you think about it warble marble warble marble warble warble marble warble marble warble marble warble terrible
(c) 2007 Trex
All the Nuances
- Another Same Day track 8
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:06
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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More awful noodle-jamming with dumb lyrics. I guess I was getting tired of the problems with the dictaphone. Soon after, I started recording with 4-track instead.
Lyrics to "All the Nuances":
all right, 1 more and then i really got to go back to work i always say that, don't i? that's my mantra or womantra shoot i just lost a tack, how tacky the dictaphone doesn't pick up all the nuances all the nuances the dictaphone doesn't pick up all the nuances the dictaphone doesn't pick up the dictaphone doesn't pick up the dictaphone doesn't pick up all the nuances the dictaphone doesn't pick up the dictaphone doesn't pick up all the nuances the dictaphone doesn't pick up all the nuances
(c) 2007 Trex
Where is the Beat
- Another Same Day track 9
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:39
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This picks up right where the last one ("All the Nuances") left off. Same sound effects, same key.
Lyrics to "Where is the Beat":
all the ??? are there we do this sort of stuff all the time 'cause i've heard some do not like this time of music there's no rhythm, no beat where's the beat, where's the beat, where's the beat, where's the beat where's the beat, where's the beat, where's the beat, where's the where's the beat, where's the beat, where's the beat, where's the beat where's the beat [scat] this ain't no feat without a beat don't tap my feet 'cause this ain't got a beat i never tap my feet if it ain't got a beat this ain't no feat 'cause it ain't got a beat where is the beat where is the beat where is the beat where is the beat only a little bit of time left and i'll save that for another day or at least another minute
(c) 2007 Trex
Another Minute
- Another Same Day track 10
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:04
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, talking
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I couldn't resist recording yet again that day. And this is the result. It's very warbly. And very dumb. But at least it's an instrumental.
Lyrics to "Another Minute":
same day yikes
(c) 2007 Trex
Consumable Advantage
- Another Same Day track 11
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:37
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Finally done with the tape!
Lyrics to "Consumable Advantage":
i think that's it that's the end of the side and i don't have another tape after this i need to order another one i always forget to order them i almost would prefer to have something digital although that would encourage me to just record more and more and more... there's an advantage to having consumable tapes well, theoretically there is
(c) 2007 Trex
Only Testing
- Another Same Day track 12
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:49
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Since the dictaphone was breaking down, I switched to 4-track. This is the first of many, many songs I recorded for the rest of the year on 4-track. It's not very good, more of a test than anything.
Lyrics to "Only Testing":
i am only testing i am only testing yes i am only testing my recording setup i'm only testing i am only testing i am only testing my recording setup
(c) 2007 Trex
My New Setup
- Another Same Day track 13
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:17
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is kinda mindless jamming.
Lyrics to "My New Setup":
all right, this is on 4 track i don't know why trex needs to be on 4-track but my dictaphone is warbly so warbly yes it's driving me crazy today is the april 11th of 2007 i'm i'm using my new setup i i'm messing up i'm using my setup i that's awful
(c) 2007 Trex
Long Lunch Break
- Another Same Day track 14
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:57
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is a simple instrumental, repetitive and dumb. The lyrics are continuation of those in the last song ("My New Setup").
Lyrics to "Long Lunch Break":
i'm abusing my new setup i'm back to wasting tape i'm taking a long lunch break and my my fingers hurt
(c) 2007 Trex
Point
- Another Same Day track 15
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 10:16
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This epic starts off slow and quiet, but gets interesting when the vocals kick in. It collapses after a few minutes, and then rebuilds itself into a completely different pattern which doesn't sound too bad. But not too good either.
Lyrics to "Point":
just because you have a 4-track doesn't mean your talent's coming back just because you put up the dictaphone doesn't mean your talent's coming home case in point just because you have 2 microphones doesn't mean your writer's block will leave you alone just because you have 4 tracks to play with doesn't mean you'll be any better at improvising case in point case in point case in point just because you have two and half studios and tons of musical gear just because you're getting a little bit more talented at organizing your routine doesn't mean that you will create anything that is worth hearing oh case in point i have no point case in point i do annoint myself the man with no case in point somethings start to crumble if you stare at them long enough and other things begin to grow if you give them a wee touch i had no idea what my muse needs does she need attention or does she need space i don't know where the muse is gonna go if i always chase her all over the place i was about to say where's my muse but there's another better song with that title i'd rather not pollute it the fact is all words are just reorganizations of letters and all sentences are just organizations of words i've probably said that before and i've probably said this before so the question is why do i persist in keeping the tape recorder on that's a good question i really don't know the answer 'cause my hand's getting tired i think i'll go back to the original idea but that that's a bad idea if i go back to the other ??? song i might feel compelled to treat this as a bridge i think it's better to just let this peter out 'cause frankly i don't think it ain't got no peter it ain't got no peter this is a peterless song this is a peterless song it won't go on very long 'cause it's a peterless song and it's a meterless song and it's a meterless song i know it's 4/4 time but i don't care 'cause it's a peterless song oh it's a peterless song i don't know if it's got a peter or a haakon oh it's a peterless song oh it's a peterless song it's a peterless song it's a peterless song transcribing these lyrics into words on a computer screen will it be any fun i think i will just say i will parse this someday and call it a day writing all these words down just seems such a waste of time especially since they get so little studio time transcribing all these words just seems such a waste of energy especially 'cause they come from me what's the point what's the point what's the point of playing on what's the point what's the point what's the point that's the question 'cause it's a peterless song oh it's a peterless song oh where is the haakon oh it's a peterless song oh it's a peterless song it's a peterless song yes that's right it doesn't make any sense any more the pod pro does all the work my hands just begin to work and this is really pathetic that's right it is 'cause it's a peterless song feel free to file this under pending deletion i know it sounded really wordy and awkward you see, i was trying to rhyme i'll try to say it more cleverly peterless song this is a peterless song this is a peterless song peterless song see it's hard to say all those words less song it's a peterless song feel free to file this under pending dis shoot see i messed up peterless song this is peterless song feel free to file this under pending deletion
(c) 2007 Trex
Uncool Edit
- Another Same Day track 16
- recorded: 2007-04-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:58
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar
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I recorded this directly on my computer. It's full of digital distortion, which is pretty unpleasant.
Spontaneity Test
- Another Same Day track 17
- recorded: 2007-04-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:01
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is cheesy, noisy, and very dull.
Lyrics to "Spontaneity Test":
all right, this is a test to see if i can record to the 4-track just as spontaneously as i record used to record to the little dictaphone before it went bananas so this is spontaneity test ah of course with 4-track it's in stereo so i feel a little bit compelled to uh so i am testing sponteneity is this as fun as it was on the dictaphone this is just as relaxing or there is pressure to make it sound good to make it sound good and that makes me wonder is the pressure such a bad thing remember key of g? it wasn't so bad maybe the pressure made me play a little bit tighter tighter tighter tighter tighter tighter make it all trex is about taking risks and if i don't take risks this just isn't trex of course key of g wasn't trex either techicac technically techically ... key of g wasn't techilaly techilaly techilaly techilaly techilaly key of g wasn't techicaly [scat]
(c) 2007 Trex
Fidelity Test
- Another Same Day track 18
- recorded: 2007-04-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:34
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is silly and kinda pointless.
Lyrics to "Fidelity Test":
um the last song was and this song i recorded today's the um 13th of april 2007 the ??? sponteneity test the same day this is called the sound quality test let me give it a better name fidelity test it's a fidelity test it's it's a fidel try it again it it's a fidelity test it's a it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test i like this one the best i failed the fidelity test it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test am i allowed to look at another woman's breasts ok i failed the fidelity test if i talk to them can i all right it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test can i uh will i fail if i look at some woman's breasts it's a fidelity test ok i gotta turn up the bass because what i am trying to do is test test the depth of the low notes 1 2 3 4 ok i also need to point the microphone it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test i like to fidel a woman's breasts fidelity test it's a ha ha i can't sing woman's breasts and i don't know about the rest ??? test it's a fidelity it's a fidelity come on everyone say it's a woman's breasts fidelity test can you hear the bass notes are we getting a good response does it sound any better than the little dictaphone is there a point to this so much oh god i ??? and that's saying a lot 'cause i can't play guitar it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test i just like to say about the woman's breasts fidelity test woman's breasts fidelity test ok for you women out there this is your verse fidelity test a fidelity test it's fidelity test we women like to look at the men's breasts fidelity test and all the rest fidelity test it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test it's a fidelity test all the lyrics are so so so so dumb and so was the playing and my hand is getting tired i bet i'm developing callouses
(c) 2007 Trex
E and Eighth Notes
- Another Same Day track 19
- recorded: 2007-04-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:57
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Not much here. You can tell I was getting tired of the same old same old.
Lyrics to "E and Eighth Notes":
all right same day oh god i can't believe i filled up half this tape with nothing everything is in e everything is in e everything is in e everything is in e everything is in e everything is eighth notes everything is eighth notes everything is eighth notes everything is in e everything is in e everything is in e everything is in e everything is eighth notes everything is eighth notes eighth notes eighth notes everything is in e everything is in e everything is in e everything is eighth notes 1 4 5 eighth notes 1 4 5 eighth notes 1 4 5 eighth notes
(c) 2007 Trex
Field Imagination
- Another Same Day track 20
- recorded: 2007-04-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:54
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is kinda offensive, in an naughty puppy sort of way. The music's not bad.
Lyrics to "Field Imagination":
1 2 ready go across the field there was a stage and on that field crept a little dog behind the doggie came a little kid and behind the kid came the priest the priest said hey little kid whatcha doing to that doggie and the kid said hey little priest whatcha doing to my butt and the dog said woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof and the dog said woof woof woof so the priest took the kid by the butt butt butt butt butt ok i gotta make a clean version of this 1 2 3 there was a field and on the field was a stage there was a tree and under the tree there was a table there was a family eating their lunch under the tree on the table with the ants all crawling around them it was hot, it was hot and they didn't have enough water they did not, they they did not and they started to get dehydrated so one of the family members said hey let's jump in the river today and the other family members said hooray hooray hooray hooray so the family left the table the family left the tree the family went to the river took off their clothes and went swimming [scat] across the field there was a stage and onto the stage there hopped a puppy behind the puppy there came a kid behind the kid there came a priest [scat] while the family went swimming the priest embraced the kid while the priest embraced the kid the kid embraced the puppy the puppy embraced his shadow and then his tail and then a little bit of fluff that had floated by everyone was happy and the family went swimming while the priest embraced the kid i'm not gonna say what kind of embrace it was i'll let it to your imagination imagination innocent imagination that's up to you and the priest embraced the kid the kid embraced the puppy the puppy embraced his t------s leave it to your imagination [laugh] sorry
(c) 2007 Trex
Losing
- Another Same Day track 21
- recorded: 2007-04-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 6:16
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This starts with a long, almost delicate instrumental bit. Then it gets repetitive and boring. At least the lyrics are almost clever.
Lyrics to "Losing":
losing losing losing every game i play i'm losing losing losing a little bit of my hair each day i'm losing losing losing my will to be improving i'm losing losing losing the worries about myself worries worries are for other people i'm losing losing losing my bank accounts i'm losing losing losing all the people that i care about but the worries are for other people i'm losing and worries oh worries are for other people losing every game i play i'm losing my cell phone and my keys on almost every day worries are for the plebians worries are for retarded people 'cause i'm brilliant i'm losing i'm brilliant but i'm losing i'm brilliant but i do not know how that L got on my forehand can't change it to a W w is for worry and worry is not me i'm losing i do not have time for worrying when i've got so much tv i'm losing i'm losing every game i play losing my will to thrive every day i wish i were losing a little bit of this extra weight but i think i'd rather just fill my plate i'm losing every day and worrying that just ain't the way worrying is something the other south-side people do north bellingham is the losing zoo and we're losing losing losing losing every game we play driving on meridian and sunset every day worrying that is something those ugly fairhaven people do while they hike in the woods, bicycle, and hop in a kayak too and we're losing the will to continue and we're losing the will to continue and we're losing the beat losing
(c) 2007 Trex