Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Juneonandon
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2007
- Theme: yet more June 2007
- Length: 69:12
- Tracks: 18
- Lyrics: 18
- MP3s: 18 play all locally
- Rating: *** [3] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
Notes
The album names get less and less creative as the hours pile up. So does the music.
Fortunately, this is the last album with the endless recording sessions; after this, I started imposing a 2 song a day rule, which hopefully improved the quality.
Songs
Longest Day
- Juneonandon track 1
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:50
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Opening up summer, and a new CD, with a mindless garage rock mess.
Lyrics to "Longest Day":
[gibberish] 21 june first day of summer 21 june the longest day 21 of june how long am i gonna play 21 of june i gotta play alone in my room i gotta play my fingers cannot play my fingers cannot play 21 of june first day of summer what a bummer all alone in my room what a bummer 21's a nice number that was mindless and my arm is tired
(c) 2007 Trex
Cheese
- Juneonandon track 2
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:51
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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More noise. In the middle I broke a guitar strap.
Lyrics to "Cheese":
i like cheese i like cheese esepcially gourmet the cheese i like cheese but not every day i like cheese i like cheese but not the calories i like cheese ??? every day you know that cheese will make you fat you know that cheese isn't all that you know that cheese will make you fat you [thud] all right i gotta incorporate that into the song you wanna know what happened i'll tell you what happened un du caca caca you know i just broke a guitar strap it's a kmart guitar but not really it's a kmart guitar but not really
(c) 2007 Trex
Quick Pick
- Juneonandon track 3
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:25
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Fast and sloppy, this time using a pick.
Lyrics to "Quick Pick":
got the pick it makes me sound quick but it's all fake 'cause i can't really play it's all just fake
(c) 2007 Trex
Fake Delay Blues 5
- Juneonandon track 4
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:36
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Truly awful.
Lyrics to "Fake Delay Blues 5":
throw in a little bit of fake delay and you get this the fake delay blues number 5 it's the fake delay blues number 5 it's barely alive it's the fake blues number 5 it's barely alive oh this is awful this is awful side 2 should be better i mean anything can be better than this right
(c) 2007 Trex
Awful Filler
- Juneonandon track 5
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:55
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Just filling up the end of the side of the tape.
Lyrics to "Awful Filler":
ain't got no sense of rhythm ain't got no sense of time ain't got the ability to please anybody cannot read what's in your mind i suck i suck i suck i say that the pass the buck
(c) 2007 Trex
False Summer Start
- Juneonandon track 6
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:18
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Dumb.
Lyrics to "False Summer Start":
all right, today is still the 21st day of june uno day of summer proxima day of summer proxima day of summer proxima day proxima day proxima day proxima day oh that just collapsed that's called false summer start
(c) 2007 Trex
Proxima Piranhas
- Juneonandon track 7
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:34
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Another dumb one. I like the joke at the end, though.
Lyrics to "Proxima Piranhas":
and this is proxima 1 no this is proxima 2 the proxima day of summer is upon us upon us upon us the hot rays of summer are falling on us on us on us the melting rays of summer are on us are on us on us on us and on us the hot rays of summer are on us are on us are on us are on us are on us they're piranhas that's mindless proxima piranhas that's the name of that one
(c) 2007 Trex
Ballad of Shovel Man
- Juneonandon track 8
- recorded: 2007-06-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 17:03
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Switching gears. No pun intended.
This is an epic medley-esque improv, a la Sonic Youth. Minus the quality. The humor at the end runs a little thin. There are, however, several funny spots, and decent guitar playing. Mine away!
Lyrics to "Ballad of Shovel Man":
i was driving in a pickup truck one day saw a hitchhiker by the road with a spade asked him hey whatcha going with that spade he says a shovel you fool no one calls them spades any way i said it's not a shovel it's a spade it's a card you silly card he said ??? heatstroke i said well if you wanna ride you better be a nice friendly bloke and he said no no i don't think so i'm just gonna kill you and i said no no i'm just gonna see you and i peeled off and he chased after me with the shovel in his hand and the spade in his mouth he chased after me i headed north and he followed me until i was heading back south to mexico the heat got to me i cried silently it was melting my fingers to the bone i kept driving in circles hoping to shake the mad man i didn't want to lead him to my home and the sun the sun beat down on me and he kept on following and the sun melted into me and the guy kept following persistent little bugger persistent little bugger i thought he was a mugger but he really was a crazy fool persistent little bugger persistent little bugger i thought he was a mugger wouldn't you you know the guitar pick makes you sacrifice accuracy for speed sacrifice accuracy for flaws sacrifice accuracy for speed just in hope that it it awes but you know accuracy sounds better when you listen tomorrow speed is just a temporary illusion like putting a bandaid on a cat's head or sticking a piece of hay up a guinea pig's butt or taking a shovel across the little elderly polish woman's head why must you get so crude why must you sound so rude why must you spoil what was otherwise a pretty bland song because i say without humor my interest wanders away without saying something mnemonic i just cannot stick to the tonic but if i'm saying witty lyrics i have the patience of a s yeah i said witty lyrics i didn't say utter the cliches if i have the patience of a s-word if i have the patience of a doctor but there we go if i have the patience of a doctor if i have the patience of a nurse i don't need the accuracy i don't need the quality i just need need to be me i can't think of much worse if i have witty lyrics i don't need solos that's the punk ethics or is it called ethos power chord so the man eventually caught up to me and he said i was just trying to scare ye and i say nobody uses the word ye anymore but he said maybe i am not from this world i'm from the other side i said i don't think so and he said i am the spawn of the jodie and the and then downie and the i am the spawn of the the jodie and the downie i am the spawn of the the jodie and the downie i am the spawn of the the jodie and the downie and he picked up his shovel and he wielded it like a broom and proceded to shovel all the dust from the corners of the room 'cause you see he had trapped me in a little hotel with an acoustic booth i couldn't hear what the guitarist was playing because the acoustic isolation was so effective the guitarist was in his own room and i was with the guy who thought his shovel was a broom and he kept coming at me and i kept hiding behind the microphone stand 'cause i was really skinny back then i was really skinny back then i was really skinny back then i was a really skinny man here comes the madman with the shovel that he thinks is a broom i can barely hear the guitarist cranking out his tunes from the other room and the engineer is gesturing for me to come up with a melody i said i'm not a singer and my guitarist is just another part of my personality and the guy with the broom i mean the shovel is just a crazy loon and the guy with the broom and the shovel is just about done with his role in this tune tune tune tune tune i'm the spawn of jodie and downie i'm the spawn of jodie and downie nobody likes the guitar jam without a beat nobody will ever feel compelled to leave their seat if there's no beat i won't leave my seat it's no mean feat to add a little beat no excuse to omit the beat no reason to omit the beat we want the beat yeah we do i speak for me and you and you and you and you i have no idea what's gonna come of this i'll just say this is the ballad of shovel man shoveling shoveling in the snow shoveling shoveling and here we go shoveling shoveling in the snow shovel man shovel thinks he has a broom so he trapped me in the little engineering room and i was trying to sing but the guitarist was in the other room doing his thing i don't think this is going anywhere i said i don't think this song is going anywhere mister engineer i think we better cut our losses and shut off the tape i think this is just an awful awful tape after the last few this is a really big disappointment it's a disappointment yes that's what i meant it's a it's a it's a disappointment it's a it's a it's a disappointment i got an appointment with i got an appointment with anything but you that is true i want anything but you chasing me with that fake broom i want anything but you chasing me around the room i want anything but you corrupting my tune and messing up my tune stinking up the room cluttering up the room you and your fake broom get out get out of my room you and your shovel broom get out get out of my room shovel your own tune or shovel your own tomb shovel your own tune just get out of my room get out get out of my room i'm flatulant and so are you the gases mixes and create a toxic stew we're flatulant and we say p u this is flatulant i think i've had it i think this song's through we're flatulant making a stew we're flatulants how about you we're flatulant making a stew p u we said stinky poo stinky poo stinky poo the song ain't worthy of anything else that it could be put next to i know what i will do i gotta rhyme with oo say my favorite word is poo flatulatuance in the room flatulatuance stinky poo flatulatuance in the room flatulatuance i gotta poo stinky poo flatulatuance in the room flatulatuance stinky poo flatulatuance in the room flatulatuance stinky poo [scat] that stunk
(c) 2007 Trex
Options
- Juneonandon track 9
- recorded: 2007-06-22
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:36
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Kinda tight for Trex. Boring lyrics, though.
Lyrics to "Options":
all right i flicked a bug i don't know where it went here's the idea i had before i came in here today is the 22nd of june 1 2 3 4 everybody's got a choice between hanging and banging everybody's got a choice between opera and head banging everybody's got a choice between hanging and banging everybody's got a choice between tofu and bacon but me i ain't got no choice i've got a banging in my blood i get bored by delicacy violence doesn't phase me as long as it's on tv hey everybody's got a choice between vietnamese and japanese and chinese everybody's got a choice between pizza lasagna and all the other raviolis everybody's got a choice between reading fiction and non fiction and dictionaries everybody's got a choice between believing in buddha or jesus and mary but me i just can't believe just anything i just cannot taste everything i cannot be enthustiastic about everything i didn't like titanic but everyone else did everybody else did everybody's got a choice between verse 1 and verse 2 everybody can decide which one they like better than you everybody can pick between lyrics and the chords everybody can choose to stick around listen or head for the door i don't know why i'm belaboring this point i have options it's my own fault if i don't exercise them i have options abounded i have vocabulary well rounded [scat] that collapsed
(c) 2007 Trex
Nuke the Bug
- Electric Picks track 20
- Juneonandon track 10
- recorded: 2007-06-22
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:57
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This starts off sounding like heavy cheese, but then turns funny before collapses into another type of cheese.
Lyrics to "Nuke the Bug":
i don't know where i flicked the bug that was on my leg it's somewhere in here and i hope it doesn't lay and egg or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 eggs or 11 or 12 13 14 15 16 eggs 17 18 19 20 21 22 eggs 23 eggs 24 eggs 25 26 27 28 29 30 eggs 31 eggs 32 33 34 35 36 eggs and 37 eggs 37 37 37 37 eggs hatching 37 babies in my studio that is yucky yucky i hate bugs i hate bugs so i think i'll get a can of insect killing spray well maybe not today how long does it take a little bug to lay 37 eggs should i get the spray and kill the bug today should i spray the air or is that not fair give the bug a fighting chance yuck i hate the bugs yuck i hate the bugs yuck i hate the bugs i wish all the bugs would die i don't mind the bumblebees when i'm outside i wish all the bugs would go away i see the body of a yellow jacket stuck to a piece of tape so what should i do should i kill the bug through and through with chemicals or should i stomp around should i vaccuum or should i just move furniture around and pretend i crushed it with the leg of a chair or a table pretend that i stomped it when i wasn't really looking is that killing is that killing is it sufficient exermination should i convince myself that i've rid myself of the pest or should i perhaps be more thorough and remove every single piece of furniture from this room and the house while i am at it call the fumigator call the insect squad come and spray my house drown it in chemicals i'll move out if you just kill this bug oh i hate this bug please please kill my bug oh it's a little bitty bug on the other hand i'm not convinced it really was a bug it may have just have been a piece of tape i see lots of pieces of tape all around the floor little black things plastic or something pieces of headphone i think i think a little bit of headphones all over the floor and table i think it's headphones why was it wriggling on my leg of it's headphone material i think it was a bug so call the fumigators the exterminators just nuke the bug and nuke the bug and nuke the bug and nuke the bug just nuke the bug nuke the bug nuke the bug nuke the bug you gotta nuke the bug nuke the bug nuke the bug nuke nuke nuke you've got to nuke the bug
(c) 2007 Trex
Bug Heaven
- Juneonandon track 11
- recorded: 2007-06-22
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:32
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Another song about bugs. It gets interrupted by my vibrating phone half way through,
Lyrics to "Bug Heaven":
somewhere in the depths of the earth there is a bug bug heaven somewhere in the bowels or the earth there is a bug bug heaven don't want to go there don't want to see it don't want to go there don't want to go to bug heaven don't want to visit all the brethren don't want to go to where the termites are chronic grave diggers in bug heaven there's no 7-11 just a quick stop and they don't see raid there and i bet there's a mouse heaven full of birdseed for them to put into pyrimidical shapes i don't want to see mouse heaven it can rot in hell for all i care i don't want to see mouse tutankankamen its pyrimid is just a couple inches in the end and bird heaven still stinks of rotten worms no early bird will be allowed there that is the end of the silly story i hope i didn't bore your i just needed some lyrics quick sorry they were a little sick sorry i feel like i played a trick sorry raving of a lunatic
(c) 2007 Trex
Chord Progression
- Electric Picks track 21
- Juneonandon track 12
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 6:39
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Simple. Predicatable. Just like the chord progression.
Lyrics to "Chord Progression":
25th of june 2007 can't get sued over this chord progression won't win any medals with this chord progression won't win any fans with this chord progression won't win any notoriety with this chord progression won't win any thing with this chord progression oh it's a predictable chord progression it's a bit of a chord progression won't win any accolades with this chord progression won't get on any compilations with this chord progression won't achieve anything with this chord progression won't even earn my own enthusiasm with this chord progression this chord progression is just a cliche and it's not ok to keep on playing this lame lame lame lame chord progression it is not permissible to sing with any decible on this chord chord progression this chord progression suffers from retardation this is a down syndrome chord progression no offense to all the down syndrome tripecac fans i bet you can play better than i can i know you can bicycle and go to the bank maybe tie your own shoe maybe play better than you that makes no sense but that's ok 'cause this is a pathetic chord progression it's a bad chord progression it's it's 1 4 5 it's just a 1 4 5 progression it's a really bad progression so why must i keep playing this really clicheic chord progression why must i keep on insisting on repeating the same old stupid chord progression come on travis shake yourself out of the rut come on move your butt put down your foot this is a pathetic chord progression this is a really bad chord progression nobody would pay to hear this chord progression some things don't belong on cd and this is one chord progression it's a 1 4 5 progression it's a really pathetic chord progression it's a downie downie syndrome chord progression it's a stupid chord progression come on let's face it nothing can save this chord progression it's a pathetic one i can't argue against nuking it rebuking it feel like puking it [cough] i coughed out the vapors that were choking me i get choked up when i think how pathetic this can be the fact that some bands never get farther than this some bands drink beer that tastes like piss some bands grow up on budweiser and stairway to heaven and this pathetic chord progression pathetic chord progression oh how i'm almost done yeah yeah i'm almost done with this downie progression with this downie progression with the downie progression with the downie progression with the downie progression with the downie progression with this downie progression with this downie progression it's just 1 4 5 and a power chord some one please pull the chord that's a really bad rhyme but you know what it sounds ok next to this chord progression it's a power chord proression a pathetic chord progression it's a downie chord progression 1 4 5 progression it's a downie progression it's a i think i'm done [scat] that was really bad
(c) 2007 Trex
Insignificance
- Juneonandon track 13
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:07
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Muddy, yucky. Dumb. Cuts off at the end.
Lyrics to "Insignificance":
same day 25th it's the same day as it was today this morning it was the same day as it is now it's still the same day june 25th not that anyone cares but me there's no significance in june 25th there's no significance in this riff there's no significance in my life that's not true that's stupid there's no significance in a digit there's no significance in a digit i don't know where my guitar playing skills have gone i think i've lost it i am so sloppy now is it because i haven't been practicing every single day or maybe i'm just too hot 'cause the temperature is soaring in an 80 degree way that is so sloppy i wish i were floppy i wish i could play something that sounded pretty cool at last why must i struggle through the endless practices looking for a gem this isn't significant oh no it sounds like i am blowing the guitar's nose it's not significant oh no mucus on the strings makes me play slow and my fingers are slippery with boogers well at least that's how it sounds they're slippery with bodily juices ok that's pretty disgusting oh so are these chords they make me recoil in disgust at my own inability to yank something tuneful out of the guitar and the pod and the 4-track oh and of course my voice gotta blame that too it's the same old thing it's the same complaint it's a lack of ability and restraint it's the same old insignificant effort insignificance results from my effort insignificance doomed to insignificance insignificance doomed to insignificance
(c) 2007 Trex
I Have No
- Juneonandon track 14
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:53
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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New tape, same stuff.
Lyrics to "I Have No":
25th of june 2057 in the all familiar key of e i have no patients said the doctor to the nurse i have no doctor said the patient to the nurse i have no nurse said the baby to the rock i wanna rock said the child to the tree won't you dance with me won't you dance with me come on now dance with me i have no talent said the travis to the crowd i have no travis said the crowd to cloud all these lyrics don't make much sense to me said the doggie to the piece of tree all these lyrics make no sense to me said the kitty to the bug on the leaf i have no talent said the travis to his diary p.s. you know i've got no ideas or any patience or any
(c) 2007 Trex
Rely on Luck
- Juneonandon track 15
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:50
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Dumb. No lucky breaks here.
Lyrics to "Rely on Luck":
i am not the ??? i am not gifted i am not organized in my musical ideas right now gotta rely on luck you see gotta hope that i hit a note that sounds ok once every once in a while and say something that resembles something else that is witty gotta rely on luck something that is witty 'cause in truth i kinda suck i have got no skill i'm playing still barely moving my hand it cramping that means i got no stamina that means i got no stamina that means i got no stamina
(c) 2007 Trex
No Stamina
- Juneonandon track 16
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:55
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Continues the previous idea.
Lyrics to "No Stamina":
all right i'm gonna try this again i've got no stamina i've got no quality control i've got no stamina why are you going now 'cause i'm stammering stammering ??? stammering it's not working this music this isn't working i've got no stamina i've got no self control i've got no stamina got no idea but that never stopped me ew that never stopped me ew that never stopped me that never stopped me i've got no stamina i've got no idea i've got no stamina but it never stopped me no it never stopped me i've got no stamina i've got no idea i've got no stamina but that never stopped me no it never stopped me no it never stopped me no it never stopped me i've got no stamina i've got no idea i've got no stamina but that never stopped me i've got no stamina i've got no idea i've got no stamina but that never stopped me no no don't let it stop me not gonna let it stop me but my ear is buzzing there's a stranger in the driveway and i'm playing real loud there's a stranger looking at me or at least i suspect i've got no stamina i've got no idea i've got no stamina i've got no idea i've got no stamina not gonna let it stop me
(c) 2007 Trex
Driveway Punk
- Juneonandon track 17
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:53
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Really dumb improv. I think I was just trying to play loud to see if I could get the attention of the people in the driveway. Too bad I didn't pick a better [power] chord progression.
Lyrics to "Driveway Punk":
this is for all those people in the driveway who are just happening to be passing by you know don't know how to punk rock punk rock is just too hard for me don't know how to punk rock ???
(c) 2007 Trex
Not Tonight
- Juneonandon track 18
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:18
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Another gripy one.
Lyrics to "Not Tonight":
all right well i go from good mood to not so bad and i find that there's no walk tonight i go from good mood to crap mood and i find we're not alone tonight you might call me selfish 'cause i want you to myself you may call me antisocial 'cause i want to keep you up on my shelf i want to be alone tonight but i can't get that wanna wanna be alone tonight no i can't get that i guess that i have to accept that we have to share our lives with other people uh huh i guess i have to accept that i gotta share you with other people wanna be alone tonight but that's not gonna happen wanna be alone tonight no it's not gonna happen we got the bad news well at least for me it's a pity pity that i can't have you for myself i want to be your only focal point but that's not gonna be at least not tonight i've got to share you with the monsters i gotta to share you with the leeches i gotta to share you with people who'd rather just lie on beaches i wanna ??? i wanna be alone with you but it's not gonna happen not tonight if i had my way it's only be me and you but it's not gonna happen not tonight no it's not gonna happen not tonight no it's not gonna happen tonight and to be honest it kinda pissed me off that i have to give up my sanctuary and to be honest i bet it pisses you off to be trapped in my sanctuary maybe you don't want to be alone with me maybe you want to have other people in your life maybe you wanna have other people around you to give you a sense of perspective maybe you don't want everything that i say to sound right but that is irrelevant in the context of this song fade out
(c) 2007 Trex