Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Post-Ideals
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2007
- Theme: yet more guitar improvs
- Length: 76:57
- Tracks: 21
- Lyrics: 21
- MP3s: 21 play all locally
- Rating: *½ [1.5] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
Notes
These guitar and vocal improvs were all recorded in one day, and with not much planning or practice.
The title is really more about adding another letter to "Post-Ideas" than anything else. However, you could interpret it as meaning that this CD compromises some previously held ideals, such as not featuring actual Tripecac music (see "CP nay"). Yeah, I know, that's a stretch, but stretching is a requirement when it comes to all these 2007 recordings! They are anything but tight.
Songs
When I Grow Up
- Post-Ideals track 1
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:56
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Laborious playing, shallow lyrics. Sigh.
When I grow up, I wanna make better songs than this!
Lyrics to "When I Grow Up":
hola today is 27 of march 2000 and ninety ninety nine nine 2000 and fourty fourty four four 2000 and 2000 and 2000 and 2000 we gonna play a song for you today it's called when i grow up when i grow up when i grow up i wanna be when i grow up i wanna be the person on tv when i grow up i wanna be [scat] the person that i wanna see on tv on tv on tv i wanna be on tv i can't tolerate anonimity i wanna be on tv i wanna see me on tv shallow me
(c) 2007 Trex
Dirty Vegibles
- Post-Ideals track 2
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:49
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Hmm. Not really a song-song, more like a quick, sloppy attempt to sound cute.
Lyrics to "Dirty Vegibles":
all right and then i'll give a nice quick segue into the biggest yuckiest song that a guinea pig would write if the guinea pig were given dirty vegibles it's called: don't feed me those dirty vegibles those dirty vegibles is not for me don't feed me those dirty vegibles those dirty vegibles are not clean don't feed me those dirty vegibles those dirty vegibles are not for me don't feed me those dirty vegibles those vegibles better not be for me don't feed me those dirty vegibles don't feed me those dirty vegibles don't feed me those dirty vegibles don't feed me those dirty vegibles don't feed me those dirty vegibles don't feed heh heh
(c) 2007 Trex
More Dirty Vegibles
- Post-Ideals track 3
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:23
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This repetitive noodling, didn't really work. The lyrics are a continuation of "Dirty Vegibles".
Lyrics to "More Dirty Vegibles":
i've got so little ability you might wonder what's the matter with me don't give me those vegibles come on, come on, i say don't give me those vegibles ??? gimme the vegibles please don't oh yeah nice don't give me those dirty vegetables oh gosh, you know i wish i could sing but i can't really sing or play the guitar this is horrible don't give me no more dirty vegetables i saw it land on the floor don't give me that dirty piece of lettuce i saw it land on the floor you thought you didn't see me see you but i saw you and i saw you see me see you yeah don't give me no stinkin' dirty vegetables 'cause i won't eat anything you put in my cage and if you give me dirty stinky vegetables ??? go into a rage so pick up that vegible from the floor throw it in the recycling bin by the door don't feed it to me take that dirty vegible and throw it away don't pretend it didn't fall because i saw it fall don't give it to me i don't want no stinking dirty vegibles i don't want my tummy feeling sore i saw you drop that piece of vegible onto the dirty stinky floor don't give your stupid stinky dirty vegible if you loved me you would get back to the firdge and get me a nice clean piece of clean vegible if you loved me you wouldn't even think about feeding me soiled food never mind the fact that i eat my own feces because it's my feces and i have sparkling, clean feces ok, coffee, it's your turn to sing don't feed me the dirty vegetables either because i know they're not good for me little donovan, or i should say, big donovan will eat anything you give him but me i just get disgusted and i'd go on a hunger strike and that's why donovan weighs more than me so just give us nice clean vegetables so we don't end up with this, this weight problem with donovan bigger than me and he's always mounting me and i don't like it give us clean vegibles so we can eat not just donovan, the piggie who's flatulant all the time 'cause his tummy's in a rage 'cause of all the little soiled, the soiled, soiled vegibles so please don't give us any more stinky soiled vegetables just got back to the refrigerator and pull out some nice fresh mixed vegibles for us feed us like you would feed yourselves except don't give us chocolate or carrots or apples or anything that gives us diarrhea don't give us alcohol, don't give us salt don't give us bread, don't give us chee-- ok don't feed us like you feed yourselves just give us vegibles and make sure they're clean all right, take it donovan that was donovan's guitar solo unfortunately his hands are too small to actually do a good job of hitting strings
(c) 2007 Trex
I'm from Farmville
- Post-Ideals track 4
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:47
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Lyrics to "I'm from Farmville":
so the recycling bin is getting full so the recycling bin is getting full what should we do? should we get a compost pile? what should we do? should we just throw the trash in the gutter like all the other rednecks? well i didn't mean to imply that i am a redneck although i play guitar like a stupid folk this doesn't sound anything like post-punk it sounds like retard junk so i'm from farmville and i'm playing the guitar for my pigs i'm from farmville and i'm playing the guitar for my pigs so we are all dancing to my pickup truck speakers blasting the willie nelson blasting the waylon jennings, yeehaw blasting the... whatever is popular on country radio today but i wouldn't know it actually not being from farmville myself and i'm not meaning just farmville virginia i'm meaning any hickityickityickity town i don't mean those farmers although 2% of the population they supply like 150% of the food we need in america i shouldn't knock the farmers 'cause we all need the farmers in fact i bet a bunch of those african countries need the u.s. farmers so let's not knock farmville ah, heck with it, let's knock farmville i'm from farmville i'm married to my sister i'm from farmville i mated with my dog i'm from farmville i cannot play the guitar i'm from farmville i mated with a log i'm from farmville i did not go to college i'm from farmville i mated with my guitar that's why my guitar is having trouble concentrating it's one of those automatic guitars i just push a button and tell it to go but the guitar seems a little frazzled our last romantic encounter i'm from farmville i mate with sheep i'm from farmville i drink bud lite by accident most of the time i drink just straight bud lukewarm straight bud i go to football games i drink straight bud bud from a can i'm from farmville got a farmer's tan i'm from farmville did not go to school past the 2nd grade i'm from farmville my first dog is where i got laid i'm from farmville i tell bad jokes i'm from farmville i mated with all my folks i'm from farmville my sister is my dad i'm from farmville i know my humor's bad i'm from farmville i'm from farmville i get tired easily 'cause i smoked too much when i was just a wee baby i'm from farmville i mated with the baby too i'm from farmville i'm getting so sleepy now i have a buzz off of bud i have a buzz off of bud i have a buzz off of bud bud is my brother bud and i mated with bud i mated with my bud my bud brother bud i mated with my brother bud i'm from farmville and i mated with my brother bud i'm from farmville and i'm married to my brother bud i'm from farmville and i'm married to my sister bud my bud bud is an one of transexual thingies yes he plays the banjo [scat] i'm from farmville and i gotta go now i'm from farmville i gotta go mate with the cow i'm from farmville got a harem of farm animals i'm from farmville i mated with all my relatives i'm from farmville i mated with all the citizen i'm from farmville i love farmville i love all of farmville the doggies and the kitties too i love all of farmville i love farmville i love farmville i love farmville i love charlottesville i love charlottesville oh look out charlottesville bud's coming to town bud and his siamese brother slash sister slash father slash dog slash tree slash log slash book slash guitar bud
(c) 2007 Trex
Negative 69
- Post-Ideals track 5
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:18
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Silly lyrics, horrible music; par for Trex. The warble is coincidental.
Lyrics to "Negative 69":
same day, 27 march 1904 aren't these year jokes getting old? well so am i i'm negative 69 years old today oh i'm gonna be born in 69 years i'm gonna be born in 69 years i'm negative 69 and i feel fine i'm negative 69 oh and i feel fine i'm negative 69 and i feel fine negative 69 i feel fine i'm negative 69 ha ha ha this actually really sounds cool on the amp it's got a nice pretty sound, pretty sound [scat] i'm like a tree that's growing underground and my parents and grandparents they cannot be found because they don't exist yet i'm negative 69 and i feel fine i'm negative 69 and i feel fine and i feel fine and i feel fine yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah negative 69 and my sister's negative 66 and she still picks on me and she's negative 66 and actually i did my math wrong oh my god my sister's negative 72 and/or negative 71 and i forget my math 'cause i'm so young but i'm 69 in negative years and i cry negative tears [scat] yeah nice climax there
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Lonely Seagull
- Post-Ideals track 6
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:00
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Short, weird improv that has trouble getting momentum. Kinda like a lame seagull trying to take off.
Lyrics to "Lonely Seagull":
this is my sensitive song it's called: why oh why must i always cry when i see a lonely seagull in the sky why does it make me feel sad to think the seagull has no living dad why must i feel sorry for that glowing bird the glowing bird of sadness so sad it drives me to madness yeah you know, there's nothing that a little 18th note repetition can't cure gosh, you gotta stop doing that too much reverb
(c) 2007 Trex
Yellow Blues
- Post-Ideals track 7
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:29
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Funny title, dumb lyrics, worse playing, all over a cheesy chord pattern which turns into a Sonic Youth inspired mess. I think I had recently purchased reissues.
Lyrics to "Yellow Blues":
these are called my yellow blues so i woke up this morning and my i woke up this morning and my teeth were yellow and my tummy felt like jello and my breath really smellow but other than that i'm a really fine fellow yes, this is my sonic youth brilliant moment eh this is what sonic youth did and i'm not gonna say does because i think they actually strum their guitar now i really think they just did this percussive stuff or something lots of something, just gotta have lots of non-chord notes sonic youth were pretty good i, on the other hand, am not i dropped the guitar pick by the way enough of that it's too loud i want emotionally gripping without being ear splitting no i don't even want emotionally gripping i just want something that makes me sound good
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Technology Blues
- Post-Ideals track 8
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:40
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Back to the "funny" age motif of "Negative 69". Lame music. Fortunately, it's pretty short.
Lyrics to "Technology Blues":
you know, i can't play because i gotta rely on technology this song is called technology blues i'm negative 69 cryogenics been good to me i'm negative 69 i'm a really sexy baby i'm negative 69 i'm the ultimate hippie negative 69 that's me oh oh oh i was there for both world wars i liked the second one better i'm thinking i was a bit too young to remember the first one, oh yeah negative 69 yeah that was stupid
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How Many Times
- Post-Ideals track 9
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:15
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This effort to sound different doesn't really work, mostly because I couldn't sustain the fast playing. Hence the conservativeness of most Trex.
Lyrics to "How Many Times":
what a waste of tape but i've said that many times before yeah it's not like trex is full of uh novelty, you know what i mean how many times have i said "waste of tape" on these trex recordings? and how many times have i played notes at this tempo i mean many many times it's just like the only tempo i know for guitar [scat] and i just then hit the notes that i think will sound something i mean, eh invariable it ends up being stupid blues chords either that or just something really bad ok i will try something different frankly i think the fake reverb gets a little bit annoying frankly i think the guitar playing gets a little annoying frankly i think the talking gets a little annoying
(c) 2007 Trex
Pinata
- Post-Ideals track 10
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- other names: Sibling Rivalry
- length: 2:49
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Kinda funny. The music's not too bad either.
This was inspired by a scene I witnessed during a Christmas celebration in Mexico. A bunch of kids were hitting pinatas, and some of the pinatas looked like children!
Lyrics to "Pinata":
grab your stick hit the pinata grab your stick hit the pinata grab your stick and hit the pinata grab your stick and hit the pinata grab your stick and hit the pinata grab your stick and hit the pinata grab your stick and hit the pinata grab the candy within grab your stick and hit the little girl see if there is candy within grab your stick and hit the pinata hit the little girl see if there's candy within grab your stick and hit the pinata club the little girl and see if there's candy within when she cries just pretend it's a pinata with a noise cracker inside or a little kitten 'cause everyone knows little kittens are the best things to club if you wanna have a good time grab your stick and hit the pinata or the little girl whichever pleases you grab your stick and hit the pinata swat the little girl see if she elicits candy for you or just tears and maybe a scream but grab your stick and give her another smack watch her head pop open and look for a sweet snack grab your stick and swat the pinata or the little girl you can have a good time with either that was my song called sibling rivalry i get along really good with my sibiling
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My Sibling
- Post-Ideals track 11
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:16
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is dumb, and turns into a reprise of "Pinata".
Lyrics to "My Sibling":
i get along really good with my sibling my sibling she often beats me at all sorts of games so i beat her brain when my sibling dares to beat me at a game i beat her brain and that keeps me sane 'cause it, it would be absurd if the sibiling beat the nerd oh yeah, it would be nuts if the little sibling emerged victorious so the sibling walked to the bathroom across the hall and i grabbed my stick and i hit the pinata and my sibling she cried a little bit but i grabbed my stick and i hit her harder she collapses in agony i was enjoying it i grabbed my stick and i hit the pinata or my sibling oh it really didn't matter i grabbed my stick and i hit the candy bar or my sibling no it really doesn't matter 'cause i've got to go work now
(c) 2007 Trex
Motherbored
- Post-Ideals track 12
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:04
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Boring talk about upgrading a computer, over a barely-there guitar line. At the end, I realized how dumb it was.
Lyrics to "Motherbored":
the specifics of which particular piece of hardware you order dwindle the minute you hit that order now button i'm agonizing over which motherboard to select now again it's 27 march 2007 and i'm getting poised to buy a computer that will replace strider strider is the computer that i ordered in 2002 it's the first computer that i got when i came to bellingham i used it for work uh, that computer is about 5 years old now and uh it's not very stable; it has had video card crashes i had to send its video card back; maybe i'll get a replacement soon i don't know um but it also has things where it will lose the uh network connection anyway, so i'm going through this process of selecting the motherboard and other components for the replacement computer i have to learn about things like sata which is serial, serial ata and also pci-e, which is pci express and then of the motherboards, i definitely want to go intel for the processor but there are 2 chipsets; one is the intel 975 and one's nvidia 680i and those are ones that are, seem to be the 2 top of the line for intel and nvidia chipsets and honestly, you know i read reviews and to some people it's so important which one you get but i'm just thinking: i don't even know what motherboards i have in bombadil which is my music computer, or my laptop i don't know what you know, the only motherboard that i know at this point, right now is the motherboard in the computer that i'm gonna replace i don't, i don't really honestly know the model numbers of any of the other computers it's only when a computer goes unstable that i pay attention to the motherboard which is why i'm saying like the instant i hit that order now button it doesn't matter which motherboard i selected; i'm not gonna know but you know these days leading up to the purchase are agonizing because there's this feeling of always gonna you know, the the risk of making a mistake but i guess it's good that i feel the fear now rather than feel the regret i wish i had spent more time researching you know this current computer's you know, the one that's buggy so i'm gonna sing a song on the next side and it's gonna be about upgrading a computer i know that sounds really horribly, horribly boring well, i mean, that's what trex is either i'm talking about myself or my technology not that it's my technology i should say that i'm talking about my posessions i'm talking about my or i'm just making stuff up you know, silly stuff this song is really dumb
(c) 2007 Trex
Buy a Computer
- Post-Ideals track 13
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:51
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is a very warbly attempt at punk. Energetic, but too fast to sustain.
Lyrics to "Buy a Computer":
i gotta buy a computer some day i hope my motherboard's good i gotta buy a computer some day and it put me in a bad mood to do all this research, i hate doing research yeah to do all this research, i hate doing research yeah today's the 27th of march familiar chord familiar chord gonna buy computer some day and i hope it's good that's nice as long as it's an expensive piece of equipment that's vibrating like a dog gonna buy computer some day and i hope it's good gonna get a computer that can put me in a better mood gonna gonna get a computer that doesn't crash every week gonna get a computer that doesn't suffer from heat but there's so many choices, there's so many choices it's a little bit overwhelming there's so many choices, there's so many choices gotta pick up the magazines now i really wish i knew more chords, you know my knowledge of chords is about as sparse as my knowledge of computer components gonna buy a chord and i hope that it's something good gonna buy a chord and i hope that it's something good but everybody knows that chords are expensive everybody knows it's hard to shop for chords gonna buy a chord and i hope that i get one good i'm shopping for a chord and it puts me in a bad mood everybody knows that chords are expensive everybody knows that they do not come cheap and if somebody tries to sell you a chord or only 6 dollars you have a right to be suspicious of the creep gonna buy a chord and i hope that it's doing gonna buy a chord that's gonna be obsolete in a day 'cause everybody knows that chords come and go 'cause everybody knows that the chords are not meant to be slow because when the chords are slow if they just do not want to go
(c) 2007 Trex
Here's E
- Post-Ideals track 14
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:02
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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The silliness continues. Kinda catchy in parts, though.
Lyrics to "Here's E":
all right this is the, hopefully, last song that i inflict on you today unless otherwise stated, if there's a consecutive bunch of songs, assume they were recorded in the same day because i've learned that it's a pain to look back to the old trex and try to guess which day they are and here's my song yes i know it sounds like all the other trex songs, but who cares this is my song hey travis, please put a date on it hey travis, please put a date on it date the song 'cause it takes too long to make a guess as to the year and then of course i can never get the day and month to adhere so unless otherwise specified each trex song from now on will coincide with the day of the first song in which i stated the day before the next song in which i stated the day there is there is there is like an ??? get it what i'm basically saying is that unless otherwise stated, the date of a tripecac song will be the date of the previous day except i said that wrong oh well, let's pretend i said it right every song is in e every song is in e other chords i can consider the enemy every song is in e everything else is complexity every song that i play has e and a here's e and here's a here's e and here's a and here's a b but my favorite is e oh here's e and here's a and here's e and here's a and here's a b but my favorite is e one more time for the retards out there who just have to hear something sung 3 times here's e and here's a here's e and here's a and here's b but my favorite is e oh here's e and here's a here's e and here's a and here's b a really bad b ??? gosh, man, if i had to give that song a grade, i would give it an f ha ha ha, aren't i witty
(c) 2007 Trex
Short and Sweet
- Post-Ideals track 15
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:04
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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I stumbled across a decent riff, but couldn't sustain it, as you can tell by my flailing.
Lyrics to "Short and Sweet":
short and sweet
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Short and Not Sweet
- Post-Ideals track 16
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:21
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Yuck. Disposable. However, it kinda sets up the next song ("Talent").
Lyrics to "Short and Not Sweet":
this song is called short and not sweet at some time we're gonna run out of stupid titles almost as quickly as i ran out of chords, you know as you know, i only have 1 tempo well maybe i can try to have
(c) 2007 Trex
Talent
- Post-Ideals track 17
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:07
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is a relatively cool idea, but is very rough, butchered by flubbed vocals and false starts.
Lyrics to "Talent":
you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had honestly, this is what i had most of all i wish i had the talent to know that i don't have talent ok let's try that again you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent oh you gotta say this with a redneck voice all right you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent [scat] you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent you know, it's the thought that counts unfortunately, i'm not thinking you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had i wish i had the talent oh god you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent 'cause everybody's ears are ??? you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had you know what i wish i had i wish i had the talent to notice that i haven't any talent you know what i wish i had i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent i wish i had the ability to stop playing once that recognition comes on me i wish i had the talent to recognize that it's not working to recognize it's just not working to recognize it's just not working i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent let's turn off the recorder to save use of ??? i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent [scat] i wish i had the talent to learn to just shut up and stop playing things that i cannot play to have the talent to just exercise some quality control today i wish i had the talent to to find somebody to tell me honestly that i don't have any talent i wish i had the talent to recognize that i don't have any talent but unfortunately ??? i don't have the talent to see that i don't have any talent so i stubbornly persist with this ruckus noise on the guitar 'cause i don't have the talent that it takes to recognize that playing the guitar ain't wise if you lack as much talent as i do i don't have the talent to know when to stop i don't have the talent to ever do anything more than what you're hearing now [scat] wow you know this is like sub-garage rock except i'm actually above the garage, you see for those of you who aren't actually living here i'm in a bonus room above my garage so when i say this is sub-garage, that's actually a misnomer this is actually super-garage rock, get it so where was i? i was admitting, very sadly, tragically that i just don't have the talent to admit that i lack talent to admit that i don't have it and i keep on playing 'cause i don't have the talent to see that i don't have it to see that i don't do ??? i lack the talent to recognize that i lack the talent to recognize that i lack the talent to recognize that i lack the talent i lack the talent to recognize that i lack the talent or maybe i'm just saying that as an excuse for persisting that's because id on't have the talent to hear that i don't have the talent but actually i do have the talent to hear that i don't have the talent 'cause i am not deaf i know that this music is bad i know that no one is listening to it more than half a time i have the talent to see that i do not have the talent but you know i lack the talent to admit that i do not have the talent that was horrible
(c) 2007 Trex
Burrito
- Post-Ideals track 18
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:45
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Yes, this kinda-catchy improv definitely has an unnecessary reprise.
Lyrics to "Burrito":
see i'm not an idiot; i know that was bad my idiocy comes in the persistence of keeping the tape recording as i mess up again and again and again we were walking down the street i said let's go find a magazine it started to drizzle i put on my yellow backpack cover and then we got a burrito we got a burrito and a little bit of salsa or in your case a whole lot of salsa that's exhausting; i just don't have the stamina for it 'cause i don't have the stamina to keep on admitting that i don't have the stamina i don't have the stamina that's called unnecessary reprise actually all of trex can be considered unnecessary reprise
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Mister Dude Intro
- Post-Ideals track 19
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:12
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Yeah, that's right... Blame someone else for the guitar playing!
Lyrics to "Mister Dude Intro":
i'm hiring a new guitar playing this particular dude's name is mister dude he's actually really horrible but i figure we need a break from travis the only thing about mister dude that i don't, i don't feel comfortable about is he has the tendency to idolize travis and he plays the same chords travis does over and over again you know, there was a time when mister dude had his own thing going but it like now he's like in "travis is god" mode or something so we don't get a whole lot of variety if we switch over to mister dude's guitar playing in fact it's awfully reminiscent of travis' own inept strumming but that's better than travis' drumming all right this is mister dude's first song under the pseudonym missus dude he's changing his name from mister dude to missus dude for this song because he feels like people, if they know that it's mister dude recording they're not gonna buy it so he's missus dude for this recording; it's his big marketing plan quite clever i must say, because i've considered often of changing my name to missus travis you know, misses tripecac, missus, missus trex; i've thought about but i'm sorry, i have to admit that mister dude beat me to the punch so here's his debut recording under the pseudonym of missus dude this is his slash her, should i say her, because we're trying to be stealthy well this is comrade dude's famous famous song entitled i like to play exactly like travis plays on guitar the short version because i know trex is not gonna be happy about having a really long title is: like he said
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Like He Said
- Post-Ideals track 20
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 11:22
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This long, predictable riff really exhausted me.
Lyrics to "Like He Said":
you know i'm missus dude now i'm not mister dude i'm not mister dude not i'm not mister dude i'm not mister dude i am clever too just like mister dude but i'm not mister dude forgive me if i seem rude if i ignore you when you call me mister dude 'cause i'm not mister dude no, i'm not mister dude i go by missus dude yes that is my name oh wow what's happening now eek that doesn't sound very good you know if i were mister dude i think i could have salvaged this 'cause this sounds like poopoo it sounds like something that mister dude pooed it sounds like something that mister dude pooed sounds like something and i know that may seem rude it sounds like something that mister dude pooed mister dude pooed mister dude pooed and i'm not mister dude i'm not, what is that chord mister dude, are you getting bored? i'm not mister dude you can call me missus dude oh god oh god oh god i think we're gonna need a little help here missus dude is struggling i thought she would last the entire song but her stamina is waning i think we need some help so missus dude, why don't you call up your special guest 'cause it think he knows the best about salvaging horrible songs 'cause he learned from the master i think it's time for mister dude yes, it's time for mister dude no, i'm not being rude when i say: go home missus dude you're messing up everything you can barely play one string and you're messing up all this tape with the noises that you make we would rather have mister dude so go home, missus dude we're not trying to be rude but you suck, missus dude oh that is the truth oh you sound like something that mister dude pooed oh so goodbye missus dude, goodbye missus dude, goodbye mister dude everybody just leave the room time to put on the master see missus dude can't hack it and neither can mister dude 'cause their talents do not lie very far apart remember, mister dude is only emulator of the master of salvaging horrible songs and by master i mean one of the very few people who bothers to record it and put it on the internet there is absolutely no value to exposing the world to stuff like this this is like horrible i mean, if i were 8 years old, this would be excusable, possibly and like if i were 8 years old and later became famous this might have some value as novelty but the fact is, i'm 34 and i haven't ever learned to play any better than this the only thing i have going for me is persistence 'cause if i keep playing every once in a while i get lucky oh what was that that was really bad ok it's time to wind this us it's been way too long so mister dude go home we don't want to hear you play you are so lousy at guitar we need another playing today go home missus dude we know just who you are you can't fool us very far so drive home with mister dud in y'all car ok travis your turn save this song from chaos save this song from awfulness save this song from your touch touch yuck yuck yuck come on trav, you can do it salvage this song, i dare ya say something witty, travis ok i'll give it a shot but one shot i've got ok i'll give it a try but if i fail please don't cry ok i'll give it a whirl goodbye mister dude and your lovely lovely girl ok i'll give it a go sorry if my playing is starting to slow but i don't have much talent i sang about that in the last song but i just have persistence and that's ok, it's ok oh i just keep going i never give up, that's my secret just keep playing, no matter what you just gotta, gotta keep playing gotta keep playing and some day you'll get lucky and play something someone wants to hear oh some day you'll get fortunate and something will emerge that pleases your ear you just can't give up, never give up just keep strumming and just keep drumming just never give up, never give up just keep going and keep on humming never give up, keep on playing keep on playing for all your days never give up, never give up up up that's the way don't give up, never give up that's what i will tell you now never give up, just keep on playing cutting your losses is not my style you just keep playing quite a while cutting your losses, never heard of that you know the other talent travis has travis has the ability to edit and he better use that ability, damn it
(c) 2007 Trex
Doesn't Stop Me
- Post-Ideals track 21
- recorded: 2007-03-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:27
- Travis Emmitt - shaker, clapping, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Dumb a cappella idea. End of the day, end of the energy.
Lyrics to "Doesn't Stop Me":
[scat] don't bother to edit the space between these little things come on now [scat] 'cause it's the space in between that makes it interesting [scat] this is a shaker [scat] yeah it would be nice if could shake with syncopation this shaker sucks end of shaker [scat] that's awful [scat] while we all know that i really cannot play the guitar but that doesn't stop me from making lots of recordings and we all know that i'm not any good at the keyboards but that doesn't stop me from making lots of recordings and we all know that i'm really rotten at the a cappella but that doesn't stop me from making lots of recordings [scat] and we all know that i'm really bad at clapping my own 2 hands but that doesn't stop me from making my stupid recordings and we all know that i'm really bad at humming hmm hmm but that doesn't stop me from making all the recordings so you ask yourself what will stop him from making the recordings but i don't know; i think i need to run out of tape [scat]
(c) 2007 Trex