Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Electric Picks
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2002-2007
- Theme: trav's favorite electric guitar moments
- Length: 134:35
- Tracks: 25
- Lyrics: 25
- MP3s: 25 play all locally
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Track List
- Information
- Key
- Infatuation
- Alone
- Slimy Clutchy
- Yesterway
- Have to Do
- Aversion
- She Shops
- Why the Guitar
- Warble Guitarble
- Limited Intelligence
- Closed Door Policy
- Kumbayuck
- Guinea Pigs to the Vet
- Next Corner
- AC
- Not Worth
- Wah Wah Wah Wah
- Nuke the Bug
- Chord Progression
- Little Bears
- Hey Cope
- Choo Choo
- Grampie
Notes
These songs have my favorite moments on electric guitar. They are ordered chronologically. I didn't bother to stick to a single CD length because no one in his/her right mind would bother to put these on CD!
Songs
Information
- Electric Picks track 1
- The Key of G track 2
- started: 2002-12-17
- recorded: 2002-12-17
- length: 7:50
- Travis Emmitt - Ibanez StageStar, vocals
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Garage rock in my living room! The music reminds me of Joy Division. The lyrics are about making decisions. They focus on relationships, but also make references to the music.
Lyrics to "Information":
INTRO: 1 2 3 4 CHORUS 1: you've got all the information you need to assess the situation you've got all the information you need to assess the situation so what are you going to do with it? CHORUS 2: you've got all the information you need to control the situation you've got all the information you need to control your situation so what are you going to do with it? and what are you gonna learn from this? BRIDGE: you've got all the information that you need right now time to strategize time to be wise so I couldn't sleep last night stayed up until 6 making a tape for you expressing my thoughts i was intending to drive over there and drop it off so you'd see this morning but then i remembered my day alone and how i just didn't want to talk i didn't want to be anywhere socially didn't even want to go for a walk of course, that day passed and the next day went pretty fast so here we're getting older the days are growing colder things are flying by i once wrote a lyric that i will stop the guitar to recite it's from the song "artificial life" "sun like a rocket through the sky, one less day before i die" CHORUS 3: you've got all the information you need to control the situation you've got all the information you need to control the situation you've got all the information you need to control the situation you've got all the information you need to control your situation VERSE: you can either wait forever or you can take a chance decisions come every day they define who we are you can be safe or you can be daring i don't think you can get everything by staying in your room by staying in the womb by staying in the womb by staying in the womb we're just little babies learning about life we're just little babies learning about life and about how to play guitar and about how to drive a car and how to walk far CHORUS 4: you've got all the information you need to control the situation you've got all the information you need to control the situation VERSE: what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? do what? CHORUS 5: this is the gift of information i don't want to put on any pressure this is a gift of information and some crappy music too this is this is a gift of information SPOKEN: i need to learn some new chords but to show you that i am not afraid of venturing from the safe to a two-chord sequence i'm just gonna wing it
(c) 2002 Trex
Key
- Electric Picks track 2
- The Key of G track 15
- started: 2002-12-17
- recorded: 2002-12-17
- length: 7:59
- Travis Emmitt - Ibanez StageStar, vocals
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This was an exercise in concentration. It also became a motivational song.
It starts off sloppy and silly, but once I stop talking and focus on the guitar, it settles into a nice groove. That groove, in fact, is my favorite moment on the album. The chanting, gospelly vocals at the end are pretty cool too.
Lyrics to "Key":
we take a walk and look at the trees look for the squirrels and the butterflies we look at moss we smell the fresh air and it is good and it is good we help our friends we give them time we have our patience we give them smiles we give them money when they're in need we give them food we give them bread we treat our friends good we treat our health good we treat everything good except we're not nice to people who are mean to other people because they deserve for us to be rude to them don't kill the guitarist he can't help playing bad don't kill the vocalist he can't help that he can't sing don't kill the travis he's just trying to be funny he's just trying to help trying to be trying to earn his money playing on an amp in a gold playing on an amp with an old guitar plugged into his pod pro which is just a silly name for a little red box that makes the guitar sound like different sounds somethings are boring but what really matters is how we find the good things there in the boring life in the boring life if we find good things and make them better if we improve things we can be smiling and happy the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep caring the key is keep caring the key is keep caring the key is keep caring the key is keep laughing the key is keep laughing the key is keep laughing the key is keep laughing the key is keep smiling the key is keep smiling the key is keep smiling the key is keep smiling the key is keep forgiving the key is keep forgiving the key is keep forgiving the key is keep forgiving the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is have faith the key is have faith the key is have faith the key is have faith and the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying the key is keep trying it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it's gonna get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better gotta have trust now it'll get better gotta have trust now it'll get better gotta get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better you'll get better it'll get better it'll get better it'll get better just gotta have faith you just gotta have faith you just gotta have faith that things will always work out in such a way that you end up smiling at the end of every day
(c) 2002 Trex
Infatuation
- Electric Picks track 3
- The Key of G track 16
- started: 2002-12-17
- recorded: 2002-12-17
- length: 3:35
- Travis Emmitt - Ibanez StageStar, vocals
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I felt on a roll after "Key" and came up with this pop-punk ditty. Yeah, I screwed up half way through, but I love the choruses. This is my favorite song on the album.
Lyrics to "Infatuation":
VERSE: in my room, in my room in my room, in my room in my room, in my room in my room, in my room i think about you, i think about you i think about you, i think about you i think about you, i think about you i think about you, i think about you CHORUS: you call it infatuation you call it infatuation VERSE: in my room, in my room in my room, in my room i think about you, i think about you i think about you, i think about you in my room, in my room in my room, in my room i think about you, i think about you i think about you CHORUS: you call it infatuation i call it a realistic situation you call it infatuation i call it a natural situation you call it infatuation i call it a blissful situation you call it infatuation i call it a wonderful position VERSE: in my room, in my room in my room, in my room i think of you, think of you think of you, think of you ahhh in my room, in my room in my room, in my room i think of you, think of you think of you, think of you in my room, in my room in my room, in my room i think of you, think of you think of you, think of you CHORUS: and you call it infatuation i call it a wonderful situation you call it infatuation i call it a blissful situation you call it infatuation i call it a natural situation you call it infatuation i call it naturalization VERSE: one last time in my room, in my room in my room, in my room your face is the glue, face is the glue face is the glue, face is the glue of my mood, of my mood of my mood, of my mood in my room, your face is the glue of my mood CHORUS: you call it infatuation i call it a natural relation you call it infatuation i call it a lucky situation you call it infatuation i call it a realistic situation you call it infatuation i say congratulations
(c) 2002 Trex
Alone
- Electric Picks track 4
- Post-Key track 19
- recorded: 2003-02-09
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:56
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is a nice little song about solitude. It has a happy ending.
Lyrics to "Alone":
go to school go to work go home dream alone go to school go to work go home dream alone go home dream alone go to school act a fool go home be alone draw something for yourself draw something for yourself make something for yourself no one will see and no one will hear no one will hear you here by yourself no one will hear no one will see no one will look at you by yourself go home go to school go to work you're by yourself at home at school in the park you're by yourself you think alone you do alone you eat alone you sleep alone you dream alone you are alone you will always be alone go to school go to work go to church and you're by yourself go home dream alone eat alone all by yourself go running up the hill wear yourself out got a smile exhausted hair looking dorky [scat] you can't sing you barely can play you barely can breathe the timing is astray can't breath lay panting lay sweating you hear voices suddenly a spark two eyes a ha looking at me curiosity a ha a ha and then i talk and then we talk and the we go for a walk we exchange contact information formally the weather is good and the ??? for me was it good for you like it was for me bye travis hope we meet again bye travis you're a nice friend bye travis i hope i hope we meet again you're a good friend go home be alone think of her think of her go home be alone sleep alone all by myself soon i'll see her and then i'll be completely happy she makes me so happy she makes me so happy
(c) 2003 Trex
Slimy Clutchy
- Electric Picks track 5
- Fatiguitar track 18
- recorded: 2003-02-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:12
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Finally some catchy moments! Seems like it took forever to stumble across a decent groove.
This starts off where the previous song ("Take Energy") left off, with percussive strumming and grumpy lyrics. Then it segues into an aggressive jam/chant. That's the cool bit.
Lyrics to "Slimy Clutchy":
let's just try this this is drumming this is drumming ??? drumming blaa blaa blaa blaa blaa i'm not playing very well today i'm not playing very well today and i'm not singing very well today and i'm not thinking very well today it might be fatigue it might novelty it might stress with her it might be any of the above will she recognize will she recognize that the stress is what is making us feel weird when we're together now feel weird when we're talking about the future feel weird when we have to make decisions that affect our lives forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever does she know that tomorrow and today are forever does she know that tomorrow and today mean forever does she know that today these decisions are forever do i know that today my my my own decisions my considerations my intellectual amusings my scribblings my ramblings my doodles my wonderings my doodlings like this one and this one, this one... serve to answer questions, questions.... and yes they soothe me, soothe me... soothe my emotions, emotions... stir me to action, action... i need to take, take, take, take some action, action, action when will she call me, call me... when will she call me, call me... when will she call me, call me... when will she call me, call me... and i feel like if i leave her alone everything about her is gonna make her doubtful i feel like if i leave her alone she'll slip back into she'll slip back into the slimy, crutchy creatures of poo the slimy, clutchy creatures of poo the slimy, clutchy creepers of poo the slimy, clutchy creatures of poo they're that they're that the slimy, clutchy creatures of poo the slimy, crutchy creatures of poo the slimy, crutchy creatures of poo the slimy, crutchy creatures of poo and if i stay away from her will she slip back slither back into the slimy clutchy oasis of poo the slimy clutchy oasis of poo the slimy clutchy oasis of poo the slimy clutchy harem of poo the slimy clutchy harem of poo
(c) 2003 Trex
Yesterway
- Electric Picks track 6
- Waiting track 12
- recorded: 2005-06-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 14:25
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Cool lyrical improv, all based on a slip of the tongue. The guitar is pretty cool too. The first few minutes are the best; after that, it sometimes feels like it's going on too long. Overall, I like this one.
Lyrics to "Yesterway":
today is june the 10th 2005 same day as yesterday i mean same day as the last song this is the same day as yesterday this is the same day as yesterday this is the same day as yesterday and i play it is the same way as yesterway it's the same way as yesterway i do it the same way as yesterday and i do it this way again i don't ??? anything this way never ??? anything this way i'm the same person this way again 'cause it's yesterway i do it the yesterway gotta have my yesterway to me it's the besterway some people might say that i never change some people might say that i'm always the same and some people might say that i'm slightly deranged 'cause i don't try to imitate 'cause i don't try to sing into the ??? it do it the way i want, which is yesterway in the army it'd be called the yessirway my tradition is called yesterway because it works that way for me for me for me for me i do it the yesterway playing the chords the same way don't practice anymore and the chords begin to bore but i still do it the yesterway yes i still do it the yesterway i know i'm being a pesterway but i don't know how to break this routine so i keep on doing it the yesterway keep playing the same 2 chords over and over again keep doing the same routine day after day keep singing about the westerway keep singing about the westerway keep talking about my westerway that's all i can see: the westerway and i keep improvising the same old way quality control doesn't enter the field today a little bit of editing doesn't happen this way no collaboration today 'cause i'm doing it travis' besterway the besterway it's my only way and i have 3.5 glasses of wine today 'cause that's my yesterway too i like to slurp a little, what's it called it's called the riesling and here i'm jangling the guitar momentum is not getting me very far inertia is the name of my car i think i'm going to have to stop playing because my neck hurts i watched the bird doing the yesterway speculating how it would be some other way yes my fingers bleed at the westerway and my thumbs get their callouses this way i get my callouses this way i do it my abilities this way i know it's so indulgent but that's ok 'cause yesterday i finished a song that i feel is ok it's not as bad as this one anyway its singing is much improved it has a speculative mood it's a good enough song and i have good enoug routines to carry one i have a good enough pattern it doesn't make me sadden it's called the yesterway it's the repeating things again it's what turns boys into men or at least turns them in their own own selves that was really dumb not every lyric can be a winner but only ??? are sinners i keep playing no matter how bad i sound because i feel internally proud eternally proud and it's all because of yesterway for me it's the only way gotta repeat and repeat and repeat it again eventually i'll get ??? something and the name of this routine is yesterway it is my besterway it's the only way that i know how to work and play it is the travis way it's called the yesterway [scat] so that's yesterday and it's called my yesterway it is the only way i know ??? to play repeat rerinse relather reshampoo your hair i say hair because it doesn't sound like hay and if you wash your hair 10 times a day then it will begin to feel like hay so i'm not that compulsive i'm not as bad as i could be is that consolation to me that i'm not soft like jodie that i'm not soft like jodie
(c) 2005 Trex
Have to Do
- Electric Picks track 7
- Stinky Room track 5
- recorded: 2005-07-09
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:18
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Catchy chorus, bad guitar. Lack of patience.
Lyrics to "Have to Do":
gotta get the phone now got to do what i'm supposed to do do what i have to do do what we all must to do to have successful friendships i'm doing what i have to do doing what i have to do doing what i have to do it isn't good for me doing what i have to do doing what i have to do i'm doing what i have to do but it isn't good for now we're doing what we have to do we're all always doing what we have do we're all doing what we have do it's not good for me i'm doing what i have to do i gotta do what i have to do i'm a little bit rusty
(c) 2005 Trex
Aversion
- Electric Picks track 8
- Stinky Room track 8
- recorded: 2005-07-??
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:00
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This muddy dirge starts horribly, but then somehow becomes pretty and catchy. The chords and harmonies are intriguing, in a shoegazing kind of way.
It was recorded between 2005-07-11 and 2005-07-23.
Lyrics to "Aversion":
1 2 3 4 that's a promising beginning that's a promising beginning that's a promising beginning not such a promising beginning not such a promising beginning not such a promising beginning not such a promising beginning [repeat] if you put flowers in a stinky room you get an aversion to flowers ??? if you put flowers in a stinky room you'll get an aversion to flowers if you put a flower in a stinky room you'll develop an aversion to flowers an aversion 1 2 3 4 if you put flowers in a stinky room i will tell you what happens if you put flowers in a stinky room you'll get an aversion to flowers you'll get an aversion you'll get an aversion you'll get an aversion ??? aversion if you put flowers in a stinky room you'll get an aversion to flowers if you put flowers in a stinky room you'll get an aversion to flowers if you put flowers in a stinky room you'll get an aversion to flowers if you put i think i can salvage this i'm pretty sure i can salvage this i can turn this into something witty if i concentrate and get a little lucky if i put effort into bad ideas it's like adding flowers to a stinky room if i put effort into bad ideas it's like adding flowers to a stinky room yet i persist adding flowers to my bad ideas i add my flowers and if i add flowers to my stinky ideas i get nowhere but i keep adding flowers to my bad ideas and i get nowhere i keep adding hours to my bad ideas and i get nowhere i am alive to my own bad ideas am i getting nowhere i keep spending my life on my bad ideas am i getting anywhere if you add flowers to a stinky room you get an aversion to flowers if you add flowers to a stinky room you get an aversion to flowers i add my hours to my bad ideas i ???
(c) 2005 Trex
She Shops
- Electric Picks track 9
- Stinky Room track 10
- recorded: 2005-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 6:41
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is based on a blues cliche. It starts off very sloppy, but gets better.
Lyrics to "She Shops":
she shops all day she shops all night it seems like or on the computer she shops all day she shops all night and when she's done shopping she's talking about shopping she buys all day she buys all night she bought me this bass line i think it's okay but i can't sing and i can't play no way no way i play all day i play all night but i don't get better i don't play right she shops all day she shops all night she doesn't get better she doesn't do right well i can play or i can sing but i don't think i can do both things at the same time unless i'm lucky she shops all day she shops all night who cares if i don't rhyme who cares if i don't [scat] i play all day i play all night i play all day i play all night i need a drink i will play better i need a drink i can't ??? i cannot play ??? i cannot sing and play at the same time i cannot do it i can't get better it doesn't matter how many hours i put into it but that's not true it's just not true 'cause i have learned that if you put hours into it you will get better remember the song the key is keep trying i'll be ok i'll be all right 'cause i'll keep playing all day and all night i'll keep practicing on the guitar i keep waiting for her car she shops all day she shops all night but that's ok but that's all right because it gives me time with the guitar and pretty soon i'll be ok i'll be ok i'll be all right i'll playing all day and all night go and while she shops i will play while she looks on ebay and while she shops i will play while she hunts and bids on ebay i prefer amazon i like the safety on i prefer amazon i like the safety on it's hard work repeating things that are stupid like that but it's ok 'cause i'll get better i'll keep on playing the guitar i will practice and you will see i will improve i will ??? she shops all day she shops all night that's ok that's all right 'cause i will play all day and all night and i'll get better you'll see i'm right you'll see i'm right you'll see i'm right you'll see i'm right [scat]
(c) 2005 Trex
Why the Guitar
- Electric Picks track 10
- Post-Ides track 9
- recorded: 2007-03-19
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:18
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Decent (though sloppy) guitar riff, but clumbsy lyrics.
Lyrics to "Why the Guitar":
i don't know anymore what the guitar is for tripecac don't use it and trex abuse it i don't know what the guitar is for i don't know why i bother practice while the tape is playing i don't know why i bother to make up stupid lyrics tripecac don't use it and trex just abuse it the guitar is an instrument of pain tripecac don't use it and trex just abuse it my voice is just about the same yes it hurts my wrist, i start to feel pissed at my inability to play the good chords i really wish i had practiced to more i guess i could have but i don't feel like it tripecac won't use this and trex will just abuse this oh this is a waste of tape tripecac overthinks and trex just stinks why am i putting this on the tape i don't know why i go why i go ahead these dumb ideas, improvising deas oh that makes no no no sense tripecac overthinks and trex just stinks so why do i keep on doing this oh tripecac overthinks and ipecac and anchovies just stunk oh that doesn't make any sense but nothing does amen
(c) 2007 Trex
Warble Guitarble
- Electric Picks track 11
- Warble track 2
- recorded: 2007-03-29
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:29
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is very warbly, but kinda catchy once it gets going. The lyrics are funny, if you know the characters involved!
Lyrics to "Warble Guitarble":
do you hear that warbliness? i hate it i think the tape recorder's dying today is the 29th of march 2 thousand and 70 77 which is a long time from today today is so far in the future that i can't even picture it warble i need a better tape recorder the name of this song is warbly guitar warble warble guitarble warble guitarble warble guitarble warble guitarble had a mess in the woods warble guitarble liked the sweep the sidewalks warble guitarble was dropped on the head as baby warble guitarble had a son named jodie and one day jodie said daddy warble, can i be a girl and warble guitarble just collapsed and fainted 'cause he always wanted to have a girl but the boy he had was just too boyish warble guitarble said ok jodie you can be a girl so jodie went to the doctor and snip snip snip she/he became a girl warble guitarble was so proud of his little girl unfortunately during jodie's operation she was dropped on her head just like her dad warble guitarble and jodie were quite a pair they had a combined iq of 32 warble guitarble died one day and jodie inherited the broom that's where she's now, in warble guitarble's room [scat] so one day you might see jodie guitarble sweepin' and one day you might see jodie guitarble glug-glug-glugging and one day you might see jodie guitarble missing the bus and one day you might see jodie talking to me jodie guitarble is my hero of the week jodie guitarble well she was a he but shen she got snipped and now she just sweeps i can't think of anything else to sing about her except jodie had another brother, that's true and the other brother is known to me and known to you the brother's name was downie turn that smile upside downy and you get a frowny that was a waste of time and i bet it's really warbly too!
(c) 2007 Trex
Limited Intelligence
- Electric Picks track 12
- Lunch Broken track 10
- recorded: 2007-04-24
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:09
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
The music is almost catchy, and the lyrics are kinda funny. Not too bad overall. For Trex.
Lyrics to "Limited Intelligence":
2 3 4 the pressure's on to say something witty but i don't if i can i can the pressure's on to say something genius but i don't if i can ??? 'cause i'm a limited intelligence kinda boy a limited intelligence kinda boy a limited intelligence kinda boy yeah i don't know how to sing or how the chords go i don't know what i played during the last verse 'cause i'm a limited intelligence boy limited intelligence boy limited intelligence boy yeah i take the dumb classes but that's ok 'cause all my friends are cool with me they all take dumb classes and wear baseball caps when we're not being seen by the evil teachers 'cause the teachers are the evil ones boy teachers are the evil ones boy teachers are the evil ones boy they're the enemy and we all agree 'cause limited intelligence boys think the teachers are the evils ones boy limited intelligence boys think the limited intelligence boys are so cool a limited intelligence solo a limited intelligence oh no limited intelligence can't solo because they have an iq below 100 gotta go now gotta shower
(c) 2007 Trex
Closed Door Policy
- Electric Picks track 13
- Lunch Broken track 22
- recorded: 2007-04-26
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:29
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Sloppy at the start, then catchy, then sloppy at the end.
Lyrics to "Closed Door Policy":
at any time i will be interrupted at any time i will be interrupted i want a closed door policy i wanna hole up with myself i want a closed door policy for the sake of efficiency i want a closed door policy ??? ??? closed door policy for the sake of efficiency i wanna note ??? i want ??? i like my closed door policy helps me optimize efficiency i like my closed door policy i can take lunch breaks where i play the guitar i like my closed door policy i like my lunch breaks i hope the floor doesn't cave in 'cause i hear it creakin' i like my closed door policy ??? for the sake of efficiency will you have a closed door policy with me you wanna call me to ??? efficiency you wanna share my closed door policy ee ee you wanna use your remote desktop with me i have a closed door policy for the sake of efficiency i have a closed door policy i like my lunch breaks i have a closed door policy for the sake of efficiency i like my closed door policy and my guitar-filled lunch breaks they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long they might sometimes run a little long i like the closed door policy for the sake of efficiency i like my closed door policy and my lunch breaks i like the closed door policy for the sake of efficiency will you join me in my closed door policy
(c) 2007 Trex
Kumbayuck
- Electric Picks track 14
- Mayo track 3
- recorded: 2007-05-01
- location: Bellingham
- length: 8:35
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
I guess the reverb made it sound like an epic guitar jam, so I started making up a story about lots of guitarists.
The improvised narration is actually kinda funny. Also, the main chorus is catchy, at least by Trex standards. So overall it's not too bad.
Wow, did I just say "Trex standards"?
Lyrics to "Kumbayuck":
in the back of the stage the guitarist is warming up it was a cacaphony 10,000 amateurish guitarists all converged on the stadium somebody's idea of a guiness world record was to collect all these aemateurish guitarists and perform the world's longest and loudest rendition of kumbaya on guitar the thing is nobody knew the chords they all the knew the words pretty soon the organizers decided instead of kumbaya they would have to play something a little bit more memorable in terms of the chords so they decided to play this song also written by the same dude who wrote kumbaya it's called kumbayuck it sounds a little something like this kumbayuck don't need no religion here kumbayblaablaa i don't need no religion dear when i die i'll turn into a puddle a puddle of bloody goo when i die i'll turn into a vapor like a pile of doggie poo kumbayuck don't believe in no reincarnation kumbayuck don't bother giving ??? a carnation i don't know what will happen when i die will i just decompose or go into a place in the sky kumbayuck this song sucks kumbayuck this song sucks so the guitarists they were supposed to learn those words but a lot of them didn't like the idea of doggie doodoo in the guiness book of world records next to their names so one of the guitarists, mind you one of about 11,000 that showed up shouted really loud to everybody "freebird" being sheeplike in their mentality and half-stoned the remaining 10,999 guitarists all yelled back "freebird" so that is what they ended up playing that day 11,000 guitarists for the guiness book of world records ended up playing "freebird" for 35 hours i know, you're wanting me to break into "freebird" i'm sorry; i wasn't one of those guitarists while they were all bleating away at their ridiculous cliche vocals strumming cacaphononically to the canafanafalacalacphony i was miles away on a sailboat heading down to the carribean island of santa travis and when i got there i was greeted by some natives who had their ukeleles out and they began to shout play us a song boy or we will eat you play us a song your white dude 'cause we are the cannibals so i had to think fast and i pulled out a verse but i thought it might be a little perverse but that's okay i proceeded to play didn't want to end up in a hearse so i played kumbayuck this song sucks kumbayuck kumbayuck kumbayuck this song sucks the natives like the ewoks in that 3rd star wars movie thought i was some sort of god they were so impressed with my guitar playing that they put me on a chair made of bamboo and coconut shells and carried me to their village, sat me next to the fire and asked me to play this glorious tune for the other people in their little tribe they gave me some coconut milk that had fermented it was just a matter of minutes before i felt demented unfortunately my playing had cemented i could play kumbayuck with my eyes closed so i began to play kumbayuck this song sucks kumbayuck don't wanna end up in the belly of some native schmucks kumbayuck i know this song sucks kumbayuck well, i'm in luck because at that point i saw an airplane in the sky he had pontoons on the bottom i pulled out my cell phone and i dialed the phone number for the airplane don't ask me how it's just a story let's just stay i happened to remember the phone number of the airplane falling through the sky falling did i say falling yes he was falling and that is the end of the airplane he fell into the water and the natives chased after him in their canoes meanwhile i decided to slip out of their village back towards my jet my private jet nevermind the fact that i arrived in my boat i wanted to go in my jet this was after all the island of saint travis and i can do what i want on my island and i can do what i want in my song 10,000 or 11,000 in the stadium they're the ones who have to play along so i say kumbayuck this song sucks kumbayuck ok i think i'm gonna end it soon kumbayuck my hand is getting tired kumbayuck i gotta go back to programming i don't know how to stop this song but i don't know how to stop this song but i don't know how to stop this song i hope i don't keep on hoping very long
(c) 2007 Trex
Guinea Pigs to the Vet
- Electric Picks track 15
- Mayon track 20
- recorded: 2007-05-10
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:52
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Kinda catchy once it gets going.
Lyrics to "Guinea Pigs to the Vet":
gotta take the guinea pigs to the vet today i gotta cut their nails gotta see how they like so much the hay guinea pigs to the vet today guinea pigs to the vet today gonna finish my work and try to do a good job today last night i spent all my time messing with computer configurations don't know what i'm gonna do with trex today don't know if i have time for tripecac today i am gonna take the guinea pigs i'm not looking forward to it one thing is sure and that's the value of these songs is not the guitar or the vocals it is just the gestalt oh i could say it's all just me and yet i just do not know how otherwise i ??? the fault gotta take the guinea pigs to the vet today gotta get the contact lenses from the vet today gonna put the contacts on the guinea pigs and it'll help them see the hay ha ha ha right now donovan wears glasses coffee's just as blind coffee refuses to wear anything that looks like it's tacky coffee is stylish, donovan is fat donovan doesn't ever care how he looks he always wakes up doesn't even bother to brush his hair gotta take the guinea pigs to the vet today gotta pick up my contacts too gonna check the mail if i have time and i'm gonna come home to you gotta take the guinea pigs to the vet today and that's just what i'll do and in the meantime i'll just play [scat] gotta take the guinea pigs to the vet today and that is what i'll do gonna give them contacts so they can see their hay and see and avoid walking on their poo
(c) 2007 Trex
Next Corner
- Electric Picks track 16
- Mayoff track 1
- recorded: 2007-05-16
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:45
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Decent playing, amusing vocals. It's nice to have a song about something positive like hiking!
Lyrics to "Next Corner":
may 16th it's a mystery where the road ??? feel like i ??? big hikes but we're a little afraid we'll be up here all night and then the cats come out and the cats come out and there's something to be scared about when the cats come out when the cougars come out better be prepared to shout i wish i knew where every animal was residing at any given instant i wish i knew what is around the next corner but to be honest i think maybe that would take some of the fun out of the hike i think it's uncertainty that we like never quite knowing what's around the next corner inviting a little bit of disorder get the adrenaline pumping grab your backpack and start humping and i don't mean that in a carnal sense sometimes i wish i had an internal compass and a potion of detect enemies i could tell where the cats where the bears are hiding and i would know just which trail to take but that defeats the fun and if you pardon my pun i'm feeling bushed i know that sounds so forced but i've tired my fingers out keeping up with the ideas in a way trex really is a trek through the underbrush there are all sorts of animals preparing an ambush
(c) 2007 Trex
AC
- Electric Picks track 17
- Mayoff track 12
- recorded: 2007-05-30
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:02
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
I guess it was hot that day. Too bad the playing wasn't. Relatively catchy idea though.
Lyrics to "AC":
uno do tres quatro today was the first day that i turned on the ac it got up to 82 ??? turn on the ac too i'm not ??? it's so hot my head is stuffy i'm not being excessive when i turn on the ac got guinea pigs to protect i'm not being pansy when i turn on the ac it's 82 degrees and that is just too much for me i'm not being a wimp when i turn on the ac i gotta have ac or i'm going to go crazy can you blame me if i turn on the ac i'm not being a pansy it's 82 degrees wouldn't you turn on the ac too the guinea pigs i just stand up for when i try to protect the little cavies from the 82 degrees it's too hot for me gotta have my ac i gotta have it i'm not a pansy 82 degrees is too hot for me so i turn on the ac on the top floor of the house trickle down theory works for me ??? my ac
(c) 2007 Trex
Not Worth
- Electric Picks track 18
- Juneon track 9
- recorded: 2007-06-11
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:56
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
My music making philosophy. Kinda catchy. Returns to the day's "Mud Hike" theme at the end.
Lyrics to "Not Worth":
last song for june 11th it's not worth my time to come up with a good rhyme it's not worth my attention to successfully relieve the tension it's not worth my time to try to sing in key it's not worth my attention to try to have a melody it's not worth my time not worth my time don't you agree i'd rather just create song after song after song after song after song it's about quantity everybody knows that quality rules everybody rules that the quality rules everybody knows that something else happens but i just forget right now everybody knows that it's a bad idea to get travis on an instrument and he will play with conviction and even with ordition and he will document everything as if his ideas are important as those of the king he will never admit that maybe some of his creations are disposable left to him everything would be documented for eternity he really is a pathetic guitar player and in the vocal department he's not very far behind but you should hear him on drums he's even worse on those sounds like an elephant ramming a fig tree up his nose with a crack crack crumble crumble crumble crumble crumble bang bang bang on the pots and pans go back to the basement days crack crack crumble crumble strum strum strum strum bleet everybody thinks travis thinks better when he's off of his feet how 'bout some editing they said to me one day i said it's okay it's okay but i think i prefer the spontaneous way so trex kept growing and growing and growing and growing and tripecac kept on slowing and trex just keeps on getting bigger but i figure if if i keep on playing maybe some day a gem will emerge from this primodial muck maybe some day something cool will emerge from this muck mud hike you know the kind you dislike it's a mud hike it's the kind you dislike i gotta go back to work now my lunch break is over i gotta go back to programming now my day job is calling me over this is a mud hike in a lunch break ??? just ??? it's a mud hike in my lunch break just kind that you dislike it's a mud hike in my lunch break it's like finding a bug in your sandwich it's a mud hike in the lunch break it's a waste of tape but we've heard that one before bye bye bye bye
(c) 2007 Trex
Wah Wah Wah Wah
- Electric Picks track 19
- Juneon track 20
- recorded: 2007-06-15
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:21
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
I had rigged up my old keyboard (Yamaha SY55) and a volume pedal to act as a poor-man's wah pedal. To make testing interested, I used the Pod Pro to create a loop. Not bad. Not good either, of course.
I'm not sure when I recorded this. For simplicity, I'll assume it was the same day as the previous song.
Lyrics to "Wah Wah Wah Wah":
hey ok i got the sy55 hey wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah get ready for some chaos it's gonna get really gross pretty soon here we go ok i think i should fade out it's dead fade out
(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
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
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
Chord Progression
- Electric Picks track 21
- Juneonandon track 12
- recorded: 2007-06-25
- location: Bellingham
- length: 6:39
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
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
Little Bears
- Electric Picks track 22
- Two Song Rule track 5
- recorded: 2007-06-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:08
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
About guinea pigs.
Lyrics to "Little Bears":
all right sticking to the 2 song a day rule second song for december 14th 2001 and downstairs there's 2 bears 2 bears 2 bears eating hay eating hay eating hay all day all day and downstairs downstairs there's 2 bears with lots of hair eating hay eating hay eating all day eating all day and downstairs downstairs there are 2 little bears eating hay hay hay hay all day day-ay can you guess me their names names names it's donovan and coffee i'm just barely scrambling by with the second song of the day it's a slight variation on a power chord i'm really bored it's not sounding very good today not playing very well today downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears their names are donovan and coffee how 'bout them they like to eat their hay they eat it every day they like to nibble their hay they like to eat it all day and downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears donovan and coffee are they names and eating pellets and hay are their many many many games and downstairs downstairs 2 little bears little bears they like to eat hay all day and they like to play in the hay and downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears their names are donovan and coffee and they like to poop and pee and downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears they like to eat and play in the big piles of hay they like to eat and play in the piles of poop and hay they like to eat and play and sleep in all day oh downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears their names are donovan and coffee they like to poop and pee and downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears they like to eat hay all day and i gotta clean up the mess they make and downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears their names are donovan and coffee and they like to poop and pee oh downstairs downstairs there's 2 little bears little bears one is brown and the other is black black whatever that was dumb and that ends today's session
(c) 2007 Trex
Hey Cope
- Electric Picks track 23
- Two Song Rule track 6
- recorded: 2007-06-28
- location: Bellingham
- other names: Yet Another Cope Dirge
- length: 4:11
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Ugh, the flange is really annoying. Catchy vocals at times.
Lyrics to "Hey Cope":
all right today is the 28th of june song number 1 this is called yet another cope dirge we all buy the old cds when the record label release and we buy the new cds when the record company release so what what what you gonna give us today cope what you gonna give us today is it gonna be brain donor again what what what you gonna give us today cope what you gonna give us today hey is it gonna have a melody or will it be muddy we pay our money for each copy cd i feel poor next to him we pay our work to get the cope work and that i do so hey cope what you gonna give me today cope what you gonna play for me today cope what you gonna give me on this here cd hey cope is it gonna be a return to form is it gonna be another metallic sludge storm hey cope what you gonna give me on this cd or are you gonna give it away for free why must i pay 30 bucks for a pile of poo poo hey cope where's your talent gone where's it now you know where's it go [scat] i like to sing about politics i like to sing about druids i like to sing about whatever i want on my cds oh i like to rant about politics i like to rant about crystal i like to rant about planetary alignments on my cd my name is cope and i can't cope with the poppy expectations of my fanbase nope nope i'm not gonna ??? my name's cope and i'm not gonna even try to please my fanbase i'm just gonna play whether i wanna so hey cope what you gonna give me on this cd why don't you give it away for free why must i pay 30 bucks for a pile of crap hey cope why must i import all your stupid ideas into my cd collection every time merchandiser updates its cope section
(c) 2007 Trex
Choo Choo
- Electric Picks track 24
- Infinity Daze track 4
- recorded: 2007-08-09
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:27
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Dumb lyrics, but nice driving beat once it gets going. Not bad overall.
Lyrics to "Choo Choo":
last song it's called choo choo choo choo toy choo choo toy choo choo toy choo choo toy choo choo toy choo choo toy for a good good boy choo choo choo ... on the track choo choo choo ... don't step on the track choo choo choo ... don't step on the track choo choo choo ... down the track choo choo choo ... take the train down the trail and enjoy the rail take the train take the train take the train to the station don't bother to change the chords the bunji chords don't bother to change the chords the bunji chords choo choo choo ... choo choo choo ... choo choo choo ... down the track choo choo choo ... down the rail choo choo choo ... don't step on the track choo choo choo ... pick up the pail this is a bad song to end the stupid tape but nothing else was working so this is ok i wish i could come up with better lyrics so i could digitize them and sell them for a piece a piece of a piece of a piece pizza pizza pizza ... i wanna buy lots of pizza i wanna eat lots of tacos i wanna contemplate nachos i wanna drown in nachos hey take the train down the track to the rio grande and back take a stop take a plop take a pop wanna drown in tequila wanna see how is feels to hey take the train to mexico why won't the train go it's on strike last time that's it take the train down to mexico gonan stay first class not coach take the train get the coach coach coach ... coach coach coach ... [nonsense spanish] no puedo espanol hoy no soy americana noi no quiero ir al bano no quiero oir al songo take the train down to mexico don't forget your guitar you know the pennies and the nickles will take you pretty far in the yucatan you can buy a man with a dollar all you need is norte american power hey ok coming back up to the station in the northwest so we come back and it's blue and green and the sea smeals it smeals it smeals s m e a l s s m e a l s s m e a l s s m e a l s s m e a l s s m e a l s s m e a l s s m e a l s you can make a meal out of the smells you can make a meal out of the smells that's where the hobo dwells making meals out of smells hey take the train down to mexico ho woah caught the train back from mexico ho cha cha cheese here to mexico you know know know know know it's time to go i gotta go gotta go gotta go ho gotta head down the road to yellowstone hope i come back to the tripecac that's it
(c) 2007 Trex
Grampie
- Electric Picks track 25
- False Tart track 5
- recorded: 2007-10-19
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:21
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
- mp3: download listen locally (flash player)(HTML5 player)
Heartfelt reflection on my grandfather's passing.
Lyrics to "Grampie":
today is the 19th of october 2007 dad's dad just passed away thie morning at 7:25am my time which means about 10:25am their time it's not a cheery thought but it's mine it's not a cheery thought but it's mine i just keep on introverting you might think that it's perverting to just keep on introverting every single day but i don't mind leaving a legacy my musical creations will live after me [scat] haven't been able to concentrate at work i'm not getting much done but at least i finished a trex cd it's one from kim that she gave me on jessica's wedding i call it kim 1 kim 1 the theme is all about death the theme is all about death the theme is all about death but what did i know about it then i was only 14 it was just dream death was just an abstraction to me but now i know people have to go and they'll go and sometimes it will be slow yes i know that someday i'll have to go here's my legacy if you care about me [scat] think about death it really makes one think woah about how one lives one's life gonna cry out the ways we swear every single time gonna get a second breath gonna cut to the chase with my life i want to accomplish so much before my own death it's the resolution that's what we tell ourselves when we see someone else passing away at least that is how i feel on this somewhat melancholy day october 19th 2007 dad's father has gone to heaven october 19th 2007 and some day i'll see him in heaven
(c) 2007 Trex