- Title: Two Song Rule
- Artist: Trex
- Timespan: 2007
- Theme: starts the 2 songs a day rule
- Length: 78:59
- Tracks: 20
- Lyrics: 20
- MP3s: 20 play all locally
- Rating: ***½ [3.5] (1 rating) rate this album
Track List
Notes
Finally I came up with an idea designed to prevent the endless sessions of diminished returns: limit myself to 2 songs a day.
Whether this helped improve the quality or not you can be the judge! At least it helped speed up the progress through the months.
Songs
Two Song Intro
- Two Song Rule track 1
- recorded: 2007-06-26
- location: Bellingham
- length: 0:37
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, talking
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Here I state my plan to restrict Trex to no more than 2 songs a day.
Lyrics to "Two Song Intro":
all right today's the 26th of june gosh we're creeping through the tapes aren't we well i'm gonna say something i just listened last night to 2003 february 10 it was guitar and vocal and it was awful and i pushed myself for 90 minutes on the same ideas and it was awful there was no redeming value i'm gonna try to avoid that on trex how do i do that by limiting myself to how much i can play each day that's sort of a new little rule to myself so maybe no more than 2 songs a day or something like that i don't know
Whither 2
- Two Song Rule track 2
- recorded: 2007-06-26
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:34
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This is a "live" version of "Whither Walk and Wine". Messy.
Lyrics to "Whither 2":
this song is called whither i'm actually doing it for tripecac this is not a demo think of this as a prequel i actually did this for tripecac last night today's june 26 2007 whither walk and wine antipersonnel mine wither on the vine it's back to killing time whither walk and wine antipersonnel mine wither on the vine it's back to killing time gotta make up vocals now la la la la la la la la la la vocabulary fails me la la la la la la la la da da da that was a false start whither walk and wine antipersonnel mine wither on the vine it's back to killing time whither walk and wine antipersonnel mine hope withers on the vine it's back to killing time some say that grapes only blossum in the autumn i'm making these lyrics up some say that grapes ??? in the spring way to mess it up some say the smallest grapes are the most potent some say the grapes have to suffer when they're growing to taste really good when they're ready to pick wither on the vine hope on the hope on the antipersonnel mine ??? [scat] caca caca caca don't bother to inscribe the lyrics make no sense don't bother to as long as they kinda rhyme every once in a while some say that grapes are sweeter on the vine but i would rather have them in a box every time give me fermentation ??? inebriation of my mind whither walk and wine hope withers on the vine ??? antipersonnel mine oh it's back to killing time whither walk and wine ??? antipersonnel mine kaboom it's back to killing time yuck that was really messy that was called whither 2
Said
- Two Song Rule track 3
- recorded: 2007-06-26
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:01
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Decent playing and singing, but the lyrics don't go anywhere.
Lyrics to "Said":
said the president to his accomplice will you ever come to my aid said the mother to her daughter will you help me sell the rubbermaid said the pencil to the eraser why must you undo everything i made said the priest to the housekeeper i really gotta get me a better maid said the ux to the ox i hope i don't have to pull your plow say the eyeball to the hairline i feel we're separated by a brow said the mast to the oars what part of the ship is the bow said the actor to the audience don't forget to clap when i take a bow said the guitarist to his listeners don't forget to clap when i take a bow said the ??? to the priest do you prefer an oral or written vow said the dictionary to dictionary.com where do you have the word ??? said the pied piper to the woodpecker why aren't we in dictionary.com 2 times why are we only in there 1 and a half times why must we be the subject of a song song song song that's going on too long with no ideas worth having on tape all right so if i do a 2 song per day limit that means i'm done and that means i didn't accomplish squat today
New Phone
- Two Song Rule track 4
- recorded: 2007-06-27
- location: Bellingham
- length: 6:36
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Noisy, dark, but decent guitar sound. Kinda krautrocky towards the end.
Lyrics to "New Phone":
27 june 2007 still pathetic gotta new phone left it at home what's the point of a new phone if you always leave it at home gotta new phone can i take it to the other home gotta new phone actually i actually i only have 1 home gotta new chord gotta new chord why am i so bored gotta new progression [scat] why are my wrists falling asleep i hate the django ??? and he's django don't play a tango so last night we sat and watched 2005 tour de france it was ok they just played the most interesting bits and my favorite parts were the crashes i liked i liked i liked i liked the crashes i know that's not the pc thing to say i know you're not supposed to like ??? these people their hopes dashed these bikes they were crashed these teams with their hopes crushed everybody was in such a rush but you're not to like the crashes you're not to like the crashes road rashes road lashes everybody get up on one foot take your other foot and put it on your knee hold out one arm to the east and spin the other one to the south east can you do that can you do that for me nod your head back and forth now up and down smile and rapidly alter that with a frown hop a little bit on the one foot that is touching the ground now bend over and whistle out your nose wiggle your toes what's the point there is not point you're just an just an imaginary puppet the audience is an imaginary puppet there's no ideas in here there's no ideas in here there's no melodies here this is gonna be lost i fear [scat] that was really bad
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
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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
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
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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
Tucson Rule
- Two Song Rule track 7
- recorded: 2007-06-28
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:34
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Noisy jam about a touring band. Pretty dumb.
Lyrics to "Tucson Rule":
all right the 2nd and last song of the day following my 2 song rule we'll call this tucson rule un du te caca i got an unsteady hand and an unsteady band we drive a scooter across the great big land we're trying for gigs we barely have digs have to sleep in a tent watch out for the ??? the ??? eat meat from a can whose idea was it to tour man we play pathetic gigs on other people's back yards if we're lucky we get a living room to ourselves and when we're done playing we can sleep in the stage and if we're lucky we can eat the scraps that they throw away we're we're a band and we're musicians touring the land oh we're a pathetic band just a group of fans yes a group of fans maybe one time we had dreams of grandiosity that was when other people said we had to get out of the city oh but now we are faced with reality it's just me on guitar and and my buddy donovan on vocals coffee is crippled cannot play the drums today so he just kind of nods his head counts the tempo that way i wonder when he'll get back into thumping the sticks but until then it's just gonna be donovan and me where did our tour food go i think i know i think i know donovan you're looking kinda pudgy did you forget about coffee and me where's the food you are so rude to eat all the food to ??? you know i don't think i can turn this into a and then one day we get our big break over to macdonalds we find a piece of change donovan shares half of it with me for the last 2 days we haven't seen hide of hair of coffee oh no it's just not working is it not working not much time left for any more songs you know tomorrow's gonna have to be quick
One More Day
- Two Song Rule track 8
- recorded: 2007-07-03
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:40
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Can barely understand the vocals. Something about the next day being Independence Day. Cuts off at the end.
Lyrics to "One More Day":
all right today is july 3rd one more day one more day until the ??? whatever you can do today it's the end of ??? one more day until the independence one more day almost ??? one more day one more day until
Independence Eve
- Two Song Rule track 9
- recorded: 2007-07-03
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:48
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Darker version of the previous song. Much cooler and more intelligible.
Lyrics to "Independence Eve":
july 3rd everybody this is how july 3rd feels when you don't have any plans for the next day un du three caca there one more day until independence day got no plans just gonna wing it like i always do one more day until july 4th one more day i'm on the 2nd side of the tape one more day one more day one more day and i fill up this tape with this one more day one more day one more day or should i stop while i'm ahead one day one day one day i'll have plans for independence day one day one day one day i'll have myself a nice independence day one day one day one day i'll be smiling on independence day
The 70s Are Dead
- Two Song Rule track 10
- recorded: 2007-07-03
- location: Bellingham
- length: 4:58
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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The music is heavy and dumb. The lyrics are not far behind. A parody of 70s heavy metal, I guess.
Lyrics to "The 70s Are Dead":
some people think that we still live in the 70s some people think that retarded ??? some people insist i'm playing the same dumb riffs some people insist on doing up the hair with the hairspray we're not in the 70s we're not in the 70s oh we're not in the 70s oh we're not in the 70s oh we're not in the 70s oh we're not in the 70s we escaped the 70s ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha retro sucks some people insist that bell bottoms are the hit some people insist that heavy metal never went out of style some people insist that those heavy heavy heavy metal ??? mtv ??? have so much meaning but you know the 70s are so dead 70s are dead and i cannot keep up this simple riff because i don't have the patience for it i don't have the patience for all that retro crap oh the 70s are dead ??? out of your head but the 70s are dead just get them out of your head hey now the 70s are dead so get them out of your head put your bell bottoms back into the rag box come on 70s just die you don't deserve to be resurrected in the 2000s of course the 2000s need a cool name like the oughties who calls them the oughties anyway it's such a stupid name here it is 2007 and we still don't have for our decade i don't even know what the next decade will be called the teens oh just confusion man i can't wait until 2020 some people think heavy rock is all about stuffing your crotch with a sock some people think that mtv is ??? but i got a message for you i got a message for you 70s they ain't cool ooh i got a message for you the 70s are not cool neither is this song one more time yuck that was retarded we'll just call that a parody that's right a parody
Lukewarm Sun
- Two Song Rule track 11
- recorded: 2007-07-06
- location: Bellingham
- length: 7:44
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Mostly gabbing and monotonous thrashing. Not too bad once the main narration kicks in. Making fun of something I read about someone eating roadkill.
Lyrics to "Lukewarm Sun":
today is the 7th no the 6th of july 2007 i just was looking at some julian cope clips on youtube and stumbled into sun and their music sounds a little bit like this and it just keeps going and going and so i wanted to find a guitar sound that was reminiscent of that anyway i of course added the typical travis guitar rock gestures so here we have this is called um i don't know lukewarm sun ok ready [scat] if they can do this on stage where's my ??? or am i playing to fast there's a ??? little there's a little oh god need to think of some lyrics don't i so i was walking down the lane and i saw a squirrel who looked lame i said you little little aminal do you want me to lend you a hand but of course he did not respond i think it was too far gone it just quivered shook a little while and then i started to smile and i got out my barbecue pole and i rammed it into the squirrel 'cause everybody knows a dying squirrel makes a tasty bite the other day i was walking down the very same lane and i saw a raven who was looking lame i said hey birdie do you want to come home with me and the birdie just kinda lamely flapped his wings got out my barbecue kit and i roasted it roasted raven tastes nice break out the ice the next day i was pedaling my bike across the sea and who did i see i saw a little struggling baby i pulled the baby out of the waves i said hey baby why are you crying that way and the baby didn't say nothing that was my cue you can guess the rest can't you got out my barbecue kit and i roasted it 'cause i'm an expert at finding food roadkill econo econo econo econo econo econo mano econo econo econo i'm a proud econo mano the other day i was pedaling down the road i saw an older couple and i was hungry so you know what i did got out my barbecue kit i started roasted it the old couple tasted good they tasted good they tasted good econo mano econo mano enough of this songo it's going on too longo
Another Slug
- Two Song Rule track 12
- recorded: 2007-07-06
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:23
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Dumb music. The lyrics are about all the slugs around our house.
Lyrics to "Another Slug":
ok this song is called another slug another slug so i was doing some gardening and i got out the rake it was a slug on a stake another slug another slug came across my path while i was mowing the grass another slug came across my path while i was weeding the grass another slug found me in the ??? ew it was a disturbing ??? another slug it followed me home i wished to be left along another slug and i was talking a walk and i stepped on a mushy spot it was it was a banana slug it squished with hardly any blood a couple minutes later again i stepped on a slug again i didn't enjoy feeling the loss of traction another slug 1 2 3 another slug this one was from a gun this one was from a gun someone was having fun i ??? try ??? it's too hot in here it's just roasting it's probably 80-85 degrees in here and i'm dying i'm dying
Fry 13
- Two Song Rule track 13
- recorded: 2007-07-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:26
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Really dumb. By sheer coincidence it happened to be the 13th song on the album!
Lyrics to "Fry 13":
all right it's been a while since i touched the guitar today is the 13th or 14th of july it's a friday probably 13th maybe maybe 13th friday the 13th ok i don't i'm not actually sure that today is the 13th but i'm gonna call this one fri 1 3 fri 1 3 how about just fry f r y 13 fry 1 3 fry 1 3 fry 1 3 fry 1 3 fry 1 3 fry 1 3 [scat] i was hungry so i went to the restaurant that sat on the edge of the highway overlooking the glorious bay they served oysters that day they said what you what you want to eat i said i want 13 clams can you fry them fry 13 can you fry them fry 13 and as i waited and washed my hands a familiar odor wafted through the restaurant it smelled it smelled it smelled like my good friend frian his name was frian his actually name was brian but someone had spilled white out on his birth certificate so they called him frian i just called him fry for short today he turned 13 i said fry 13 fry 13 fry 13 oh how does it mean fry 13 fry 13 fry 13 oh this is really dumb i just noticed i don't have much stamina in my right hand that's enough of that
Eye Suck
- Two Song Rule track 14
- recorded: 2007-07-13
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:25
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This starts off pretty horrible, but is partially redemed by a melodic chorus.
Lyrics to "Eye Suck":
i haven't played any power chords in a while i haven't touched the guitar in about a week my fingers have lost their healthy callouses my brain is slow and feeling kinda weak i suck what is new i suck before i blew i suck well what's new i suck but not as much as you [scat] it's amazing what a week's worth of rust can do to any talent that i have managed to sum up for you i suck now that is indisputable i cannot play steady or hit the notes that i want to oh i suck but what's new i suck i suck i suck and before i blew i suck what's new with you with you i suck ok a solo and then i'm through oh what a solo i don't have any more fingers for a solo so i guess i'll just have to sing another verse for you i guess i have no idea what i'm gonna chant about next verse i have no idea i'm feeling a little bit behind the beat today and that's not saying much 'cause the beat is falling behind my expectations this is such a shame you know 'cause i suck what's new with you with you i suck before i just blew i blew i blew i suck yes i do i do i do i suck this sounds like poo like poo like poo that name of that one is e y e suck i suck
17 Up Down
- Two Song Rule track 15
- recorded: 2007-07-17
- location: Bellingham
- length: 1:48
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Dumb thrashing. Can't understand the lyrics.
Lyrics to "17 Up Down":
17 of 7 of 07 we got up and down we got up and a down we got up and a down we got up and a down can you stand 5 days can you stand 5 days can you stand 5 days can you count the ways you count the ways we got the up and a down we got the ups and the downs we got the up and a down we got the up and a down a different ??? a different ??? [scat] we got ups and a downs we got ups and a downs we got ups and a downs we got ups and a downs [scat] i don't have the stamina i used to let's call that one 17 up down
Magma Wing
- Two Song Rule track 16
- recorded: 2007-07-17
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:49
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Pointless noise based around a bad pun. Zero value.
Lyrics to "Magma Wing":
this next one we'll call wing across the magma or magma wing magma queen magma queen magma queen dream my dream magma queen magma queen magma queen you're in my dream lava you're in my dream lava you're my dream lava you're my dream lava magma queen magma queen magma queen you're in my dream dream lava you're my dream lava magma queen magma queen magma queen magma you're my dream lava my dream lava you're my magma queen magma queen magma queen oh you're my dream lava my dream lava magma queen magma queen magma queen magma my dream lava my dream lava you're my magma queen magma queen magma queen my dream lava my dream lava my dream lava my dream lava ok now we're about to leave the magma gonna go into the stark lighted bay are you ready for the starkness 2 3 4 here comes the s the starkness you're magma queen magma queen magma queen you're my dream lava you're my dream lava you're my magma queen magma queen magma queen you're my dream lava you're my dream lava you're full of heat you're full of fire you're full of heat my desire for lava you're my dream lava you're my magma queen magma queen magma queen magma queen lava you're my dream lava
Mashion Race
- Two Song Rule track 17
- recorded: 2007-07-18
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:27
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Um. I think this has something to do (roughly) with Project Runway.
Lyrics to "Mashion Race":
next day 18 july 2040 make yourself scarce make yourself fierce make yourself a race you get the first place make yourself scarce make your ears pierced make a like a base make up race everybody sing about the make up race everybody sing about the fashion disgrace everybody scream about the make up race everybody scream about the fashion race make yourself scarce make yourself fierce ah make yourself fierce you ears will be pierced make yourself fierce and make yourself scarce you color your peers like you color your hair everybody sing about the fashion race every every everybody's afraid of getting last place everybody sing about the fashion race we pick up our glamour in time to avoid last place make yourself fierce make yourself fierce make yourself make yourself scarce make yourself scarce ??? up in the air ??? make yourself scarce ??? ??? less fear ??? ??? mascara mascara mascara mass fear ??? everybody sing about the masking race everybody worry about last place last fears last fears mass fears mascara ??? ??? mascara ??? make yourself fierce make yourself scarce everybody gotta have these fears make yourself fierce make yourself scarce gotta get so thin you can fit through the there make yourself fierce mascara mass face mashion race mashion race mashion race mashion race mashion race
I Know
- Two Song Rule track 18
- recorded: 2007-07-18
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:23
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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Throbbing, mostly instrumental, with occasional half-lyrics.
Lyrics to "I Know":
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey you say [scat] i know i'm slow i know you gotta go i know i seem slow i know it's time to go [scat] i know i'm slow i know i gotta go i know it's time to go one more time [scat] i know i gotta go i know i know lunch is so slow i know i gotta go 2 songs is all i permit myself to know i know [scat]
Daydream Review
- Two Song Rule track 19
- recorded: 2007-07-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 3:03
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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This sung review of Sonic Youth's classic album "Daydream Nation" cuts off at the end of the tape.
Lyrics to "Daydream Review":
today's the 1st of july 2007 just got the new sonic youth deluxe edition of daydream nation all i can think about is daydream nation it excites me beyond my imagination i love the way the guitars sing that's the main thing i know it's a pop star cd and deluxe edition is perfect for me ah oh it's a true new york classic daydream nation my favorite american cd favorite american cd it's not punk or post-punk either but it couldn't be called grunge neither i don't know what it would have as a label but they're certainly able to get my money daydream nation they get my money daydream nation that's about ??? to get my
Sonic Hangover
- Two Song Rule track 20
- recorded: 2007-07-21
- location: Bellingham
- length: 5:24
- Travis Emmitt - electric guitar, vocals
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More noisy Sonic Youth inspired grunge mess.
Lyrics to "Sonic Hangover":
21st of july 2007 eat in dine out i have ??? ??? the same when i ??? sing and ??? not my thing no no go go head bang guitar thing sensitivity is fake as the smile begins to fade empathy is fake as the mood fades go go grab a beer the toilet's here puke here and the hangover grips what am i doing to my livers and kidneys oh it grips me this doesn't feel like disney oh no head bang come on do the guitar thing in the ring got a wet t-shirt attracting the perverts attracting the perverts the beer drinking perverts the grass smoking perverts sorry my guitar actually fell off my shoulder i was playing it on my shoulder using my little toes