Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Kim 5
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 1988
- Theme: tapes 9b,10a for Kim
- Length: 79:39
- Tracks: 12
- Lyrics: 10
- MP3s: 12 play all locally
- Rating: **½ [2.5] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
| # | title | lyrics | time | download | listen | started | recorded | rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coconuts | lyrics | 6:08 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-01-29 | **½ (1) |
| 2 | Sunset Intro | lyrics | 1:04 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-01-30 | * (1) |
| 3 | Sunset | - | 8:13 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-01-30 | ** (1) |
| 4 | Sunset Midtro | lyrics | 2:08 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-01-30 | * (1) |
| 5 | Sunset 2 | lyrics | 0:53 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-01-30 | *½ (1) |
| 6 | Sunset 3 | lyrics | 2:41 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-01-30 | *½ (1) |
| 7 | The Big Waste | lyrics | 25:36 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-02-03 | ** (1) |
| 8 | One Thing | lyrics | 6:58 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-02-24 | **½ (1) |
| 9 | Let Me Go Revive | lyrics | 4:47 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-02-24 | ** (1) |
| 10 | Confession | lyrics | 11:16 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-02-24 | ***½ (1) |
| 11 | Rusting | lyrics | 4:55 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-0?-?? | **½ (1) |
| 12 | Cemetary Flowers | - | 5:00 | download | listen locally | - | 1988-0?-?? | ** (1) |
| Total | 79:39 | play all locally | album rating: | **½ (1) | ||||
Notes
This next batch of songs for my cousin Kim is a real mess. It was recorded in January and February 1988.
The January songs are disappointingly sloppy and boring, with no writing or inspired moments. "The Big Waste" is a huge messy improv, but the rest of the February songs have some catchy and pretty moments.
Songs
Coconuts
- Kim 5 track 1
- recorded: 1988-01-29
- location: Charlottesville
- other names: Hooray Reggae
- length: 6:08
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals
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This is a very dumb reggae song about tropical fruit. It's sloppy and mindless.
Lyrics to "Coconuts":
hooray reggae, hooray reggae, hooray reggae hooray hooray hooray hooray coconuts pineapple tropical fruit we eat coconut pineapple tropical fruit that we eat coconut is good for us coconut is good coconut is good to drink cocogut is good pineapple is good for us pineapple is good pineapple is good for us good to drink coconut is good for us and so is pineapple tropical fruit the root is the tropical fruit the root is the tropical coconut pineapple tropical fruit at the root coconut mile and pineapple juice fruit coconut coconut coconut coconut coconut coconut coconut coconut it's fruit mon coconut coconut coconut coconut fruit it's at the root coconut fruit it's at the root coconut fruit at the root coconut fruit
(c) 1988 Trex
Sunset Intro
- Kim 5 track 2
- recorded: 1988-01-30
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 1:04
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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I was talking about my very first band, which was with Kush and Lav Batra. We ended up playing once or two, and recorded a reggae song which made fun of one of our teachers. Unfortunately, I don't have that recording. I think at that point the Batra brothers had a bass and a guitar; I guess drums were too expensive?
Lyrics to "Sunset Intro":
hello, are you there of course you are this is a song called sunset and i wrote this morning before playing basketball with my father today is january 30th 1988 i'm trying to get a job so that i can get money that's the main idea of getting a job and with that money i want to buy equipment that i can record better songs and so that i can buy different instruments and stuff and i'm also getting 2 of my friends who are born on the same day as me and we're gonna have a band called the triplets but they can't work until this summer and one of them, lav batra, he wants play drums and his brother kush wants to play bass and i'll play keyboard and i have no idea how it's gonna work out but it'll be in the summer when they get money and i'm trying to get a job right now so i want to have a head start and they don't have any musical talent right now so you can't expect all that much and they're gonna be starting from scratch so this song is called sunset but it's also called starting from scratch and here it is
(c) 1988 Trex
Sunset
- Kim 5 track 3
- recorded: 1988-01-30
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 8:13
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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This is a slow and boring piano song. The chords are very cheesy.
Sunset Midtro
- Kim 5 track 4
- recorded: 1988-01-30
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 2:08
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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More babbling about my plans for the band with Kush and Lav. And air.
Lyrics to "Sunset Midtro":
it's 9:14 and i hear air air, leave man, i hear air i'm sorry, air is driving me crazy can't you hear air and i hate air i hate it so much that was sunset and now you know how i can scre things up hello, hello my name is travis my name is travis and i live in a house wooh well, i gotta go i'm gonna pig out 'cause nobody else is here party time i recorded something on tv about how to play reggae and i'm gonna watch that i'm gonna try to teach kush and lav how to play it i dream about the day when my music actually is decent no, i'm kidding i never dream about that because i can't imagine that you're only dreaming about what you can imaine, right? well, anyways i will get a job anyways, i got a little anxious when your letters were a bit late but nothing against you, it was just against the world ha ha, god, cliche just my health teacher, full of cliches, eww i'm not full of cliches, am i? my tapes to you got mailed today the one with guy in the middle cannot solve this riddle so we so we so we... so we play in the rain and land of hunger and then the other one where i talk the whole last side god what a waste daffy get out daffy want to talk to daffy? say something daffy's very talkative i choked her that's why she can't say anything she can't breathe i'm so cruel i'm kidding oh god i have a headache because i messed up on the piano so much i'm so crazy about reggae that people think i'm crazy anyways if i say that once more i'm gonna choke myself like i do daffy i'm driving myself crazy, bye i just hope that when i get my band going that we will actually be a band and we will work together not competing against one another that's the worst thing well that's not the worst thing the worst thing is having a girl in the band psyche well actually girls probably cooperate a lot better than some of the friends i have the next song is gonna be sunset 2 and there's not gonna be enough time for it but i'll play it
(c) 1988 Trex
Sunset 2
- Kim 5 track 5
- recorded: 1988-01-30
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 0:53
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, talking
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This is a keyboard version of "Sunset", which was awful. For some reason, I thought it was too fast.
Lyrics to "Sunset 2":
this is the same song except on the keyboard god that sounds terrible let me slow it down, have a totally different rhythm
(c) 1988 Trex
Sunset 3
- Kim 5 track 6
- recorded: 1988-01-30
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 2:41
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals
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This is slower and more boring. The vocals are very accurate.
Lyrics to "Sunset 3":
yeah god how many times will i mess this song up i'll never get it perfect, never get even close how many times will i murder this song how many times will i forget the notes must i always screw up this song must i make it so long and so boring why oh why must i have such a bland voice why is my father snoring why is he asleep are my songs really that dull? don't answer that because i know i know god, yes they're dull
(c) 1988 Trex
The Big Waste
- Kim 5 track 7
- recorded: 1988-02-03
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 25:36
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, trumpet, french horn, acoustic guitar, kalimba, percussion, vocals
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This is a very long, slow, sloppy improv that consumed the entire second side of the tape (45 minutes). I've edited out around 20 minutes of it (most repetition), but kept all the main parts so that you can get an opportunity to hear my "powers" of improvisation at their rawest.
I think I played just about every instrument in my reach.
Lyrics to "The Big Waste":
[yelling] little frustration there travis on trumpet here we go travis on trumpet he's not even warmed up he's just gonna pick it up and play if i can find it where is it the trumpet barf hit it dance, come on everybody rock yeah ow, there goes my teeth wooh let's hear it for travis wooh more, encore, encore let's hit it wooh wooh wooh travis on french horn coming up my god, he's on a roll, hit it wooh wooh frustrated [scat] wooh travis emmitt on the french horn, how about that applause, applause, applause, wooh, wooh wow ??? travis emmitt on guitar [scat] let's just start with this let's just start let's just let's just listen to this and see if i got it oh my god, it's been a while since i've played guitar forget it, i'm hanging up the guitar right now yes, i am that bad well next we have travis emmitt on -- um on, on thingagmajig this is called the thingagmajig and that's exactly what it is, don't argue oh do i need like a penny or something forget it ok that was travis on the whatamajig, wooh now we have travis humming thanks for kneeling on the keyboard, travis you're welcome, travis travis on keyboard, that's a thought see, let me, let me see how well the drums sound with this forget it, forget it, just forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it come on, equipment, cooperate it will take a lot for me to call this a wrap especially if you keep up this cr-- [screaming] all right i'm bored out comes the mousse great, super now if that drops on the keyboard, i will kill it but i don't think it will mousse what else it's gonna drop, it's gonna drop, it's gonna drop let's see if i can catch it before it hits the keyboard ready great oh great, oh, sick man i got a mess to clean up here it's all over the on-off switch sick oh no my hands are sticking to the keyboard psyche oh 1 2 3 1 2 3 oh that's sad so in order to demonstrate our frustration i will wipe the mousse off the microphone what's left of it the rest is on the keyboard which i'm not gonna clean up because i don't oh great you know what i did i just flicked it and it's all over my dresser now great, sick, sick, disgusting i'm just blowing it off the mic god you want me to try to taste some of it? no way um what can i do? [scat] i bet you didn't expect that i didn't [scat] hello i like you to know that i am alone you can record over this tape if you want 'cause it sucks that's the gentlest i can put it it is almost 8; it's 7:46 what a way to waste the tape, don't complain, you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, record right over it what a way to waste the tape what a way what a way what a way to waste the tape, you can record over it what a way to waste the tape, you can record over it ow [scat] what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it ow what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, and you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it what a way to waste the tape, you can record right over it oh god what a way to waste the tape, what a way to waste the tape what a way to waste the tape, but you can get right oh wait a minute you'll get over it you'll get over it you'll get over it you'll get over it what a way to waste the tape, what, what a i screwed up so sue me what a way to waste the tape, you can record right over it if you want to, if you really want to if you need to, if that's what you want to do in life oh wow [scat] you can record right over it you can record right over it you can record [scat] funny it's not funny it's not funny it's not funny it's not funny it's not funny wooh, wooh, wooh god i have some energy what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it oh wait, not much time left pbbbt just had to do that something about mousse on a microphone just makes me crazy crazy what a way to waste the tape, but you can record right over it today is february 3rd 1988
(c) 1988 Trex
One Thing
- Kim 5 track 8
- recorded: 1988-02-24
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 6:58
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals
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Yet another stab at teen insecurity. Yawn. It's almost catchy in parts, but very repetitive and sloppy. At least the lyrics aren't about death. And the solo isn't too bad. However, overall, it beats a not-so-clever horse to death.
I won't win any hearts with this clunker.
Lyrics to "One Thing":
1 2 3 4 i feel i will never change i will always be the same i feel i will never change i will always be the same oh things will just not work i will remain a stupid jerk oh things will just not work i will remain a stupid jerk i feel i will never change i will always be the same i feel i will never change i will always be the same there will never be the connection between me and love i don't even believe that there's a heaven up above there will never be the connection between me and love i don't even believe that there's a heaven up above one thing that i don't know is there gonna be a friend that loves me so? one thing that i don't know is there gonna be a friend that loves me so? i feel i will never change i will always be the same oh things will just not work i will remain a stupid jerk i feel i will never change i will always be the same i feel i will never change what a shame there will never be the connection between me and love, me and love i don't even believe that there's a heaven above, a heaven above one thing that i don't know is there gonna be a friend that loves me so? one thing that i don't know is there gonna be a friend that loves me so? one thing that's will i change? will my life be turned around and rearranged? one thing how do i start? is my music what it takes to win your heart? one thing how do i start? is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to music what it takes to win your heart is my music what it takes to is my music what it takes to win your heart? oh i feel i will never change i will always be the same oh i feel i will never change i will always be the same oh things will just not work i will remain a stupid jerk oh things will just not work i will remain a stupid jerk one thing that i don't know is there gonna be a friend that loves me so? one thing that's will i change? will my life be turned around and rearranged? hey one thing, that is how do i start is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to is my music what it takes to win your heart? i feel i will never change i will always be the same oh things will just not work i will remain a stupid jerk oh one thing that i don't know is there gonna be a friend that loves me so? one thing that is will i change? will my life be turned around and rearranged? one thing, how do i start is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to win your heart? is my music what it takes to win your heart win your heart win your heart music what it takes to oh is my music what it takes to win your heart? music what it takes to is my music what it takes to win your heart?
(c) 1988 Trex
Let Me Go Revive
- Kim 5 track 9
- recorded: 1988-02-24
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 4:47
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals
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This is a dumb semi-religious song. Double yawn. It sounds suspiciously like the previous song ("One Thing").
I later reused some of these lyrics for "I Do Care".
Lyrics to "Let Me Go Revive":
wooh i'm not a messiah come and run with me and you'll find my flaw my life is in the hands of jah i trust to living with the higher one i tell you that i'm leaving and you start to cry but my mind is made up and the decision is mine i'm going on a journey before i die i'll be talking with jah, our god so high so let me go, let me go, let me go talk with jah oh let me go, let me go, let me go cleanse my soul it's my day of judgement and i've got to be true so please let me go; i don't mean to hurt you so let me go, let me go, let me go talk with jah oh let me go, let me go, let me go cleanse my soul [repeat bits of the above] oh let me go, here i go run and talk with jah so cleanse my soul let me go, let me go i will run and talk with jah so i can cleanse my soul let me go, here, here i go i will run and talk with jah so i can cleanse my soul let me go, here i, here i go i will run and talk with jah and cleanse my soul
(c) 1988 Trex
Confession
- Casio Picks track 10
- Kim 5 track 10
- recorded: 1988-02-24
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 11:16
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, vocals
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This is a long, slow, melodic song which starts as an instrumental. It sounds very cool coming after the monotony of the previous songs. It was recorded late at night (11:52pm according to my notes).
The lyrics again revisit the themes of teen angst and "Jah". I was listening to lots of reggae at the time. The funny (but not so ha ha) thing is that this song sounds nothing like reggae. It's more like semi-cheesy, jazzy slow rock. I really like the vibe, though.
Lyrics to "Confession":
with every loss, there is a gain when tears are falling like the falling rain when you find there is no way to ease the pain you've got to learn to play the game you've got to get yourself together just got to pull yourself together you've got to move yourself together you've got to force yourself together it's for the good of you, it's for the good of all it's to show your love, your love for jah confess your sins, tell me what you saw and he'll forgive your every flaw just get yourself together just pull yourself together you've got to move yourself together and you've got to force yourself together you've got to get yourself together just pull yourself together you've got to move yourself together you've got to force yourself together
(c) 1988 Trex
Rusting
- Kim 5 track 11
- recorded: 1988-0?-??
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 4:55
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310, talking
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This is a very cheesy instrumental. The most interesting thing about it is the moment of silence in the middle. That's my favorite part.
I don't know when I recorded it.
Lyrics to "Rusting":
what a monster
(c) 1988 Trex
Cemetary Flowers
- Kim 5 track 12
- recorded: 1988-0?-??
- location: Charlottesville
- length: 5:00
- Travis Emmitt - Casio CT-310
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The end of the tape cut this song in half. The first half is slower, but more soothing. The second had the chord changes in double-time, which was too fast for my clumbsy fingers (and brain). I stiched the two parts together, so you can't hear the break. But the song still feels a bit schitzo. And cheesy. Very, very cheesy.