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Trailer is a punk influenced 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.
The band recorded this album while still teenagers, and the sleeve art features the legend "Guaranteed Real Teenagers", taken from a porn magazine, to promote this. "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".
An early rare version of this album was released with a bonus John Peel Sessions 7" with the tracks:
1. Silver Surfer
2. Jazz '59
Track listing
- "Season" (Wheeler) – 3:00
- "Jack Names the Planets" - (February 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:10
- "Intense Thing" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 4:34
- "Uncle Pat" – (October 17 1994) (Wheeler) – 3:12
- "Get Out" (Hamilton/Wheeler) – 1:29
- "Petrol" - (August 5 1994) (Hamilton/Wheeler) – 4:24
- "Obscure Thing" (Hamilton/McMurray/Wheeler) – 4:18
- "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 version 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" – (March 20 1995).
Singles
- "Jack Names the Planets" was released in February, 1994 with "Don't Know".
- "Petrol" was released August 15, 1994 with "The Little Pond" and "Things".
- "Uncle Pat" was released October 17, 1994 with "Different Today" and "Hulk Hogan Bubblebath".
Personnel
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