Over the years, I've recorded several dozen animal-related songs, including an entire Tripecac album called "Aminals" (2005). This page contains the most listenable and/or pet-relevant examples.
| Artist | Song | Length | MP3 | Recorded | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s and 1980s | |||||
| Trex | Scatter's Flat | 0:50 | listen mp3 | 1977-11-15 | One of the first songs I made up was about our pet cat. |
| Trex | Jingle Jock | 0:46 | listen mp3 | 1983-12-?? | "Jingle Bells" meets my dog Jock. |
| Trex | Cat Jumping on a Piano | 0:46 | listen mp3 | 1988-01-03 | Silly guitar-based song. |
| Trex | Purple Pup | 1:05 | listen mp3 | 1988-04-2? | Pretty horrid a cappella song about a puppy. |
| Trex | Scratching the Cat the Wrong Way |
3:36 | listen mp3 | 1988-04-2? | Horrible mess of keyboard, fake percussion, trumpet, and vocals. |
| IPECAC | My Familiar | 3:19 | listen mp3 | 1988-12-23 | Silly but energetic instrumental from my high-school band. |
| 1990s | |||||
| Tripecac | Intro to Louis II | 1:43 | listen mp3 | 1991-??-?? | Intro to a song (since lost) about a girlfriend's pet hermit crab. |
| Tripecac | SPCA | 3:42 | listen mp3 | 1994-03-21 | What happens to animals at the SPCA when no one wants them? |
| Trex | Had a Friend | 0:50 | listen mp3 | 1997-0?-?? | Piano improvs (mostly instrumentals) about dogs. |
| Trex | Dog Dreams | 6:50 | listen mp3 | 1997-06-?? | |
| Trex | Zippy | 0:41 | listen mp3 | 1997-06-?? | |
| Trex | Have You Seen the Dogs | 3:09 | listen mp3 | 1997-06-?? | |
| Trex | Petstrumental | 2:41 | listen mp3 | 1997-06-?? | |
| Trex | Peta and Woodie | 3:49 | listen mp3 | 1997-06-?? | |
| 2000s | |||||
| Trex | The Huntress Awakes | 2:14 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | Piano instrumentals about our cat Daffy. |
| Trex | Tour de Yard | 9:35 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Trex | Twitching Tail | 3:10 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Trex | Treed | 1:40 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Trex | Ode to Daffy | 7:23 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Trex | Catnap | 6:54 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Trex | Catnip | 6:15 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Trex | Frisky to the Max | 3:02 | listen mp3 | 2003-01-04 | |
| Tripecac | Woodied | 7:34 | listen mp3 | 2004-09-09 | Instrumental recorded when my dog Woodie was put to sleep. |
| Tripecac | Westy | 6:27 | listen mp3 | 2004-08-03 | Instrumentals named after a cat and dog that we liked. |
| Tripecac | Sadie | 4:21 | listen mp3 | 2005-03-30 | |
| Tripecac | Chick | 4:10 | listen mp3 | 2005-08-16 | These are the more pet-related songs from Aminals. |
| Tripecac | Pup | 5:08 | listen mp3 | 2005-08-20 | |
| Tripecac | Kitty | 4:38 | listen mp3 | 2005-08-25 | |
| Tripecac | Hodgepog Plan | 4:06 | listen mp3 | 2006-01-23 | My sister got a pet hedgehog a few years after I recorded this. |
| Tripecac | Guinea Lying Pig | 6:16 | listen mp3 | 2006-03-22 | Silly songs and instrumentals about our guinea pigs (Donovan and Coffee). |
| Tripecac | Caving Cavies | 4:36 | listen mp3 | 2006-03-28 | |
| Tripecac | Hay Student | 5:26 | listen mp3 | 2006-03-30 | |
| Tripecac | Hay Day | 5:47 | listen mp3 | 2006-04-05 | |
| Tripecac | Spilled Coffee | 5:37 | listen mp3 | 2006-04-06 | |
| Tripecac | Mitey Mouse | 4:28 | listen mp3 | 2006-04-11 | |
| Tripecac | Donofan | 5:53 | listen mp3 | 2006-04-20 | |
| Tripecac | Command Ohm | 5:05 | listen mp3 | 2006-06-19 | |
| Trex | Cavies | 2:00 | listen mp3 | 2007-05-03 | |
| Tripecac | Coffee Corn | 4:12 | listen mp3 | 2007-05-07 | |
| Tripecac | Donut Van | 6:02 | listen mp3 | 2007-05-08 | |
| Trex | Fake Cavy Druid | 1:31 | listen mp3 | 2007-05-08 | |
| Trex | Cavy Druid | 4:43 | listen mp3 | 2007-05-08 | |
| Trex | Guinea Pigs to the Vet | 2:52 | listen mp3 | 2007-05-10 | |
| Trex | Little Bears | 4:08 | listen mp3 | 2007-06-27 | |
| Trex | Cavy Attack 1 | 4:23 | listen mp3 | 2007-07-23 | |
| Trex | Cavy Attack 2 | 3:49 | listen mp3 | 2007-07-23 | |
| Trex | Dog Choice | 4:22 | listen mp3 | 2007-07-28 | Trying to find the ideal dog breed. |
| Trex | Coffee and Donovan | 2:53 | listen mp3 | 2008-03-04 | Two final songs about guinea pigs. |
| Tripecac | Coffee | 6:44 | listen mp3 | 2009-08-12 | |
| 2010s | |||||
| Tripecac | Vet | 5:35 | listen mp3 | 2011-05-13 | Instrumental inspired by the show "All Creatures Great and Small". |