Trailer is a punk

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 influenced mini album

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 by the band Ash

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Ash are an alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992. The band has sold 8 million albums worldwide.-Band beginning, Trailer and 1977 :...

 featuring their first three singles. An expanded edition also includes 4 b-sides. The album was released in October, 1994

1994 in music

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 through Infectious Records

Infectious Records

Infectious Records is a record label whose bands have included Ash, Local Natives, Symposium, My Vitriol, Seafood, The Paradise Motel, General Fiasco and The Subways. Infectious was established by Korda Marshall after leaving RCA, and became part of Marshall's Mushroom Records UK operation in the...

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

"Uncle Pat

Uncle Pat

"Uncle Pat" is a song by Ash, released as the third single from their album Trailer, released on 17 October 1994. It was released as a single CD and a 7" vinyl...

" was featured in a Heineken

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 advert

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

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 and Britain

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The name refers to movie trailers

Trailer (film)

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, so as a visual pun

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, the cover of the album shows a toppled truck trailer

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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

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 Sessions 7" with the tracks:

1. Silver Surfer
2. Jazz '59

On 6 June 1995 Trailer was released in the United States

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Track listing

1. "Season" (Wheeler
   Tim Wheeler
   Tim Wheeler is the Northern Irish guitarist, songwriter and vocalist for the rock band, Ash. He formed the band with Mark Hamilton and they were originally called Vietnam. Wheeler can be seen playing a Korina Gibson Flying V in almost all of Ash's music videos...
   
   ) – 3:00
2. "Jack Names the Planets" - (February 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:10
3. "Intense Thing" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 4:34
4. "Uncle Pat
   Uncle Pat
   "Uncle Pat" is a song by Ash, released as the third single from their album Trailer, released on 17 October 1994. It was released as a single CD and a 7" vinyl...
   
   " – (17 October 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:12
5. "Get Out" (Hamilton/Wheeler) – 1:29
6. "Petrol" - (5 August 1994) (Hamilton/Wheeler) – 4:24
7. "Obscure Thing" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 4:18

US and Japan bonus tracks

8. "Hulk Hogan Bubblebath" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 5:05


9. "Different Today" (Wheeler) – 2:50


10. "Punk Boy" (cover of a song by Helen Love
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    ) – 2:05


11. "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
  Jack Names the Planets
  "Jack Names the Planets" is a song by Ash. It was their first official single release in February 1994. It was originally released on vinyl only. The single version of the song is also entirely different from the album version that appears on their EP, Trailer...
  
  " was released in February, 1994 with "Don't Know".
• "Petrol" was released 15 August 1994 with "The Little Pond" and "Things".
• "Uncle Pat
  Uncle Pat
  "Uncle Pat" is a song by Ash, released as the third single from their album Trailer, released on 17 October 1994. It was released as a single CD and a 7" vinyl...
  
  " was released 17 October 1994 with "Different Today" and "Hulk Hogan Bubblebath".

Personnel

• Ash - Producer
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• Rob Cavallo - Mixing
• Mark Hamilton  - Bass
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• Louise McCormick - Engineer
• Rick "Rock" McMurray  - drums
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• Timothy Russell - Producer
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  , Mixing
• Smike - Photography
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• Marc Waterman - Producer
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• Tim Wheeler
  Tim Wheeler
  Tim Wheeler is the Northern Irish guitarist, songwriter and vocalist for the rock band, Ash. He formed the band with Mark Hamilton and they were originally called Vietnam. Wheeler can be seen playing a Korina Gibson Flying V in almost all of Ash's music videos...
  
    - Guitar
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  , Vocals
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• Oscar Wilde
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  - Dialogue