Trailer Park

Released

October 1996
March 10, 2009 (Legacy Edition)

Recorded

at Wessex, Maison Rouge and Matrix

Genre

Folktronica, trip hop

Length

59:33

Label

Heavenly (UK) - HVNLP 17
, Dedicated (U.S.)

Producer

Victor Van Vugt and Andrew Weatherall

Beth Orton chronology

Superpinkymandy
(1993)

Trailer Park
(1996)

Best Bit
(1997)

Central Reservation
(1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A−^[2]
Pitchfork Media	(8.0/10)^[3]
Q	^[2]
Rolling Stone (1996)	^[2]
Rolling Stone (2004)	^[4]
Pitchfork Media Legacy Edition review	^[5]
Rolling Stone Legacy Edition review	^[6]

Trailer Park is the solo debut of British singer Beth Orton. Combining folk, electronica, and trip hop elements, it earned Orton two BRIT Award nominations. The only single from the album was the opening track, "She Cries Your Name", which previously appeared in a different form on William Orbit's album Strange Cargo Hinterland. All songs were co-written by Orton except for a haunting, sparse take on the Phil Spector composition, "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine." The album was among the first to fuse elements of 60s and 70s folk with modern electronica and trip-hop.

An expanded two-disc Legacy Edition was released internationally on March 10, 2009.

Critical reception [link]

Chris Jones of the BBC called Trailer Park "...a very English record", and "Only on the poppier Don't Need A Reason or Someone's Daughter does she go badly wrong.".^[7]

Track listing [link]

All songs written by Ted Barnes, Ali Friend, and Orton except where otherwise noted.

"She Cries Your Name" (William Orbit, Orton) – 4:47
"Tangent" – 7:29
"Don't Need a Reason" (Ted Barnes, Orton) – 5:04
"Live as You Dream" – 2:59
"Sugar Boy" – 4:21
"Touch Me With Your Love" – 7:27
"Whenever" – 3:53
"How Far" – 4:27
"Someone's Daughter" – 4:16
"I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector) – 4:43
"Galaxy of Emptiness" – 10:07

2009 Legacy Edition [link]

CD One as above

CD Two

"Safety"
"It's Not The Spotlight"
"Galaxy Of Emptiness (live at Shepherds Bush Empire, 26 November 1996)
"Pedestal"
"Touch Me With Your Love (instrumental)"
"It's This I Am Find"
"Bullet"
"Best Bit (early version)"
"Best Bit"
"Skimming Stone"
"Dolphins (feat. Terry Callier)"
"Lean On Me (feat. Terry Callier)"
"I Love How You Love Me"

Tracks 1-2 from B-side "She Cries Your Name" single, 1996.
Tracks 3-4 from B-side "Touch Me With Your Love" single, January 1997.
Track 5 from B-side "Touch Me With Your Love" vinyl 10-inch, 1997.
Track 6 from B-side "Someone's Daughter," March 1997.
Tracks 7-8 from B-side "She Cries Your Name" (re-release), June 1997.
Tracks 9-12 from "Best Bit" EP, December 1997.
Track 13 from "Mojo" soundtrack album, July 1998.

References [link]

v t e Beth Orton

Studio albums	Superpinkymandy Trailer Park Central Reservation Daybreaker Comfort of Strangers

Compilations	Pass in Time The Other Side of Daybreak

EPs	Best Bit

Singles	"Don't Wanna Know 'Bout Evil" "I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine" "She Cries Your Name" "Touch Me with Your Love" "Someone's Daughter" "She Cries Your Name" (re-issue) "Stolen Car" "Central Reservation" "Anywhere" "Concrete Sky" "Thinking About Tomorrow" "Conceived" "Shopping Trolley"

Collaborations	"Sing"

Videos	"Stolen Car" "Central Reservation"

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Trailer park

A trailer park is a semi-permanent or permanent area for mobile homes or travel trailers. Advantages include low cost compared to other housing, and quick and easy moving to a new area, for example when taking a job in a distant place while keeping the same home.

Trailer parks, especially in American culture, are stereotypically viewed as lower income housing whose occupants live at or below the poverty line, have low social status and lead a desultory and deleterious lifestyle. Despite the advances in trailer home technology, the trailer park image survives, as evoked by a statement from Presidential adviser James Carville who, in the course of one of the Bill Clinton White House political scandals, suggested "Drag $100 bills through trailer parks, there's no telling what you'll find"," in reference to Paula Jones. It is also seen in the Canadian mockumentary Trailer Park Boys.

Tornadoes and hurricanes often inflict serious damage on trailer parks, usually because the structures are not secured to the ground and their construction is significantly less able to withstand high wind forces than regular houses. However, most modern manufactured homes are built to withstand high winds, using hurricane straps and proper foundations.

CNX

CNX (or sometimes known as Cartoon Network Extreme) was a channel operated by Turner Broadcasting System Europe in the UK and Ireland between 2002 and 2003. It was aimed at a male audience, with daytime programming aimed at older children and teenagers (predominantly 12–18 years of age), and evening programming aimed at older teenagers and young adults (the 17-34 demographic). The channel was carried in the 'Entertainment' section of the Sky programme guide, and was also available on cable (through the firms which are now Virgin Media).

History

Initially, the CNX branding was used throughout the channel's airtime, but shortly prior to the channel's closure the station switched to branding younger daytime output as Toonami, returning the brand to the UK following the removal of the Toonami branding from Cartoon Network UK at CNX's launch, with CNX remaining as the brand for adult-aimed evening output.

Some daytime programming on the channel had previously screened within the Toonami block on Cartoon Network, and to tie in with this CNX daytime programmes were promoted on Cartoon Network, which remained in the Kids section of the programme guide; however, as the evening/night output was aimed at an older audience, it was not promoted on the kids' channel (though it was promoted on other Turner properties, such as TCM).

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