Click on the thumbnail to view a printable cd sleeve.- Title: Sleepy Sloppy
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2001
- Theme: moving to Bellingham
- Length: 79:40
- Tracks: 11
- Lyrics: 3
- MP3s: 11 play all locally
- Rating: *** [3] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
| # | title | lyrics | time | download | listen | started | recorded | rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tad on the Rusty Side | lyrics | 0:05 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | * (1) |
| 2 | Little Rite | lyrics | 9:29 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | **½ (1) |
| 3 | Bigger Rite | - | 12:03 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | *** (1) |
| 4 | Yucky Tan | - | 2:41 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | **½ (1) |
| 5 | Yucky Beige | - | 4:45 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | **½ (1) |
| 6 | Gentle Waiters | - | 6:36 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | ** (1) |
| 7 | Tragitease | - | 5:45 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | *** (1) |
| 8 | Tragreprise | - | 1:52 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | ** (1) |
| 9 | Vanillame | - | 19:32 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | **½ (1) |
| 10 | Different Mood Same Person | lyrics | 7:49 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | *** (1) |
| 11 | Semipeppy | - | 9:03 | download | listen locally | - | 2001-07-23 | **½ (1) |
| Total | 79:40 | play all locally | album rating: | *** (1) | ||||
Notes
After my third tour through the Pacific Northwest, I returned to Bellingham, this time for good. I arranged a flight back to Charlottesville and a van rental so that I could move.
While awaiting my flight, I frequented the nearby college's piano practice rooms. On one of those occasions, I recorded this long "jam session".
The music tends to be slow and/or sloppy; hence the title. None of the songs has vocals. I guess I was tired from talking and singing in the car.
Songs
Tad on the Rusty Side
- Sleepy Sloppy track 1
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:05
- Travis Emmitt - talking
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It sounds like I had a cold.
Lyrics to "Tad on the Rusty Side":
yes, you can see that i'm a tad on the rusty side
Little Rite
- Sleepy Sloppy track 2
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 9:29
- Travis Emmitt - piano, talking
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This is a long, slow, semi-melodic exercise. It's pretty trancy. Not too bad.
The talking near the start is too faint and muffled for me to understand.
Lyrics to "Little Rite":
???
Bigger Rite
- Sleepy Sloppy track 3
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 12:03
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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This has a decent melody, but is very sloppy. There are lots of bad notes. Lots and lots.
A few minutes in, it changes to a really trancy pattern, which is kinda cool.
Yucky Tan
- Sleepy Sloppy track 4
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 2:41
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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The title is a pun on "Yucatan"; I thought the song sounded Mexican when I named it. In retrospect, well, umm...
The music's okay. A little blurry and clumbsy. It seems more a stamina test than anything else. On the plus side, it's short.
Yucky Beige
- Sleepy Sloppy track 5
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:45
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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This is slow, sloppy, and heavy-handed. Very clunky. Boo.
The ending is jarring. Horridly jarring. Jarringly horrid.
Gentle Waiters
- Sleepy Sloppy track 6
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 6:36
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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This is slow and gentle. The title is a pun on "gentle waters", which is an inside joke. "Inside" as in so dumb it's not worth explaining. Really.
Tragitease
- Sleepy Sloppy track 7
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:45
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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I thought this sounded "tragic". It feels a lot longer than it is. Like most tragedies.
Tragreprise
- Sleepy Sloppy track 8
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:52
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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This is a reprise of "Tragitease". Boring, but short. Hooray for short!
Vanillame
- Sleepy Sloppy track 9
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 19:32
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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Vanilla plus lame plus attention surplus disorder equals this song. It's very, very long. And very, very boring.
Different Mood Same Person
- Piano Picks track 15
- Sleepy Sloppy track 10
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:49
- Travis Emmitt - piano, talking
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The chords are C and Cm. I later expanded this into "C Cm F Fm". I like the latter song much better.
Lyrics to "Different Mood Same Person":
this is called: different mood same person
Semipeppy
- Sleepy Sloppy track 11
- recorded: 2001-07-23
- location: Bellingham
- length: 9:03
- Travis Emmitt - piano
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Lots of banging. Pretty much an endurance test.