Trailer (album)
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| Studio album by Ash | ||||
| Released |
18 October 1994 (UK) 6 June 1995 (USA) | |||
| Recorded | March–June 1994 | |||
| Genre | Britpop, pop punk, punk rock[1] | |||
| Length | 24:15 | |||
| Label | Infectious | |||
| Producer | Ash, Tim Russell and Marc Waterman | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Trailer is a mini album by the band Ash featuring their first three singles. An expanded edition also includes 4 b-sides. The album was released in October, 1994 through Infectious Records. The band considered it a "trailer" for their future debut album proper, and named it accordingly.
"Uncle Pat" was featured in a Heineken advert, which helped to raise the profile of the band, both in Ireland and Britain.
The name refers to movie trailers, so as a visual pun, the cover of the album shows a toppled truck trailer.
The 'noise' at the end of the track "Get Out", when reversed, slowed down and the pitch altered, is a low quality demo version of the song "Intense Thing". This track wasn't discovered until June 2006 by 2 fans experimenting around with running different effects through Ash songs.
An early rare version of this album was released with a bonus John Peel Sessions 7" with the tracks:
- Silver Surfer - 2:24
- Jazz '59 - 2:06
On 6 June 1995 Trailer was released in the United States.
Track listing
- "Season" (Wheeler) – 3:00
- "Jack Names the Planets" - (February 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:10
- "Intense Thing" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 4:34
- "Uncle Pat" – (17 October 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:12
- "Get Out" (Hamilton/Wheeler) – 1:29
- "Petrol" - (5 August 1994) (Hamilton/Wheeler) – 4:24
- "Obscure Thing" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 4:18
- US and Japan bonus tracks
- "Hulk Hogan Bubblebath" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 5:05
- "Different Today" (Wheeler) – 2:50
- "Punk Boy" (cover of a song by Helen Love) – 2:05
- "Day of the Triffids" (Wheeler) – 3:33
Tracks 8-11 only appear on the US and Japan versions of the album. "Different Today" and "Hulk Hogan Bubblebath" appeared on the b-side of "Uncle Pat". "Day of the Triffids" originally appeared as a b-side of "Kung Fu" – (20 March 1995).
Singles
- "Jack Names the Planets" was released in February, 1994 with "Don't Know".
- "Petrol" was released 15 August 1994 with "The Little Pond" and "Things".
- "Uncle Pat" was released 17 October 1994 with "Different Today" and "Hulk Hogan Bubblebath".
Personnel
- Ash - Producer, Sleeve art
- Rob Cavallo - Mixing
- Mark Hamilton - Bass
- Louise McCormick - Engineer
- Rick "Rock" McMurray - drums
- Tim Russell - Producer, Mixing
- Smike - Photography
- Marc Waterman - Producer
- Tim Wheeler - Guitar, Vocals
- Oscar Wilde - Dialogue