Trailer (album)


Trailer is a mini album by the band Ash featuring their first three singles. An expanded edition also includes four 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:
  1. "Silver Surfer" - 2:24
  2. "Jazz '59" - 2:06
On 6 June 1995, Trailer was released in the United States.

Track listing

  1. "Season" – 3:00
  2. "Jack Names the Planets" - – 3:10
  3. "Intense Thing" – 4:34
  4. "Uncle Pat" – – 3:12
  5. "Get Out" – 1:29
  6. "Petrol" - – 4:24
  7. "Obscure Thing" – 4:18
;US and Japan bonus tracks
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" –.

Singles