''Trailer'' is a

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by the band

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featuring their first three singles. An expanded edition also includes four B-sides. The album was released in October 1994 through

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. The band considered it a " trailer" for their future debut album proper, and named it accordingly. "

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" was featured in a

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, which helped to raise the profile of the band, both in

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and

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. The name refers to

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, so as a

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, 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

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Track listing

#"Season" (

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) – 3:00 #" Jack Names the Planets" - (February 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:10 #"Intense Thing" (Hamilton, McMurray, Wheeler) – 4:34 #"

" – (17 October 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:12 #"Get Out" (Hamilton, Wheeler) – 1:29 #"

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" - (5 August 1994) (Hamilton, Wheeler) – 4:24 #"Obscure Thing" (Hamilton, McMurray, Wheeler) – 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 "

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" – (20 March 1995).

Singles

*" Jack Names the Planets" was released in February, 1994 with "Don't Know". *"

" was released 15 August 1994 with "The Little Pond" and "Things". *"

" 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 -

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* Rick "Rock" McMurray - drums *Tim Russell - producer, mixing *Smike -

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*Marc Waterman - producer *

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* Oscar Wilde - dialogue

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trailer (Album) Ash (band) albums Infectious Records albums 1994 debut albums