Trailer Trash

"Trailer Trash" is track eight of The Lonesome Crowded West, 5:49, credited to the band, with Dann Gallucci playing guitar. It was recorded during the May and June 1997 sessions; no per-song date is published. Mike Engstrom of The Pitch called it a painfully autobiographical portrait in 2001, quoting Brock: there's not much pride in saying that you grew up eating government cheese. Stereogum's Hockley-Smith says a blunt lyric in it once seemed embarrassing but its awkwardness now grounds the album. We found no explanation from Brock about the song itself.

Pitchfork ranked it number 63 on its list of the top 200 tracks of the 1990s, per Wikipedia. Paste's Samantha Lopez put it second on her ranking of the ten best Modest Mouse songs in 2017, finding in it a heaviness unlike most of the catalog, and PopMatters grouped it with "Doin' the Cockroach" and "Cowboy Dan" as fan favorites and live staples in 2021.

Setlist.fm counts 474 performances, and it appeared in the encore of a 2026 Charleston show. MusicBrainz lists many live recordings, among them one at the Goat House in Sammamish, Washington in 1995, Gabe's Oasis in Iowa City on October 23, 1997 and the 2005 Sasquatch festival, and it is also on the Crime + Punishment in Suburbia soundtrack. We found no video or verified covers or samples, and we could not tell which version our upload is.