Head Trip in Every Key is the thirteen-song album

Album

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 released by Superdrag

Superdrag

Superdrag is an alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band had a hit with its 1996 single "Sucked Out" off their album Regretfully Yours, for which a video clip was broadcast regularly on MTV...

 on Elektra Records

Elektra Records

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 in 1998. It is the follow-up to 1996's success, Regretfully Yours

Regretfully Yours

Regretfully Yours is the thirteen-song major-label debut album released by Superdrag on Elektra Records in 1996. The first single off Regretfully Yours was "Sucked Out", which ironically expressed disdain for the major-label music industry....

. Elektra did not expect the fully orchestrated "Beatlesque" sound the band conveyed on this album. Elektra then focused its attention and funding on other bands in its roster. Head Trip in Every Key received very little publicity, and therefore sold poorly, subsequently causing Elektra to drop Superdrag

Superdrag

Superdrag is an alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band had a hit with its 1996 single "Sucked Out" off their album Regretfully Yours, for which a video clip was broadcast regularly on MTV...

 from the label. Head Trip in Every Key is believed by many dedicated fans to be Superdrag

Superdrag

Superdrag is an alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band had a hit with its 1996 single "Sucked Out" off their album Regretfully Yours, for which a video clip was broadcast regularly on MTV...

's best album.

Track listing

All songs written by John Davis.

1. "I'm Expanding My Mind" - 4:34
2. "Hellbent" - 3:05
3. "Sold You an Alibi" - 3:14
4. "Do the Vampire" - 3:42
5. "Amphetamine" - 4:23
6. "Bankrupt Vibration" - 4:56
7. "Mr. Underground" - 2:43
8. "Annetichrist" - 3:26
9. "She is a Holy Grail" - 5:13
10. "Pine Away" - 2:51
11. "Shuck & Jive" - 2:52
12. "Wrong vs. Right Doesn't Matter" - 2:58
13. "The Art of Dying" - 6:15

Personnel

• John Davis: Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Organ, Mellotron
  Mellotron
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  , Sitar
  Sitar
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  , Theremin
  Theremin
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• Brandon Fisher: Guitars
• Tom Pappas: Bass
• Don Coffey, Jr.: Drums

Trivia

• On the inside of the CD case behind the CD is a list of 23 songs with various check-list columns showing progress for each song in the recording process (i.e. drums, electric bass, etc.). Thirteen of these songs appeared on Head Trip in Every Key, and five songs appeared on later releases: "Take Your Spectre Away" on Greetings from Tennessee; "My Day Will Come," "She Says," "Here We Come," on Changing Tires on the Road to Ruin; "Senorita" on Stereo 360 Sound.