I bought the new issue of The Big Takeover over the weekend. (REM's on the cover... am I the only one that thinks Peter Buck kind of looks like Bea Arthur these days?) I'm always anxious to tear into it -- it's always good and one of the few music magazines these days that takes longer than an afternoon to read -- but I was specifically looking forward to this one to read the second half of editor Jack Rabid's interview with New Pornographers' AC Newman . The first half, in the last [...]
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON Ada Jones 1910 Edison Blue Amberol 421 BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON Jackie Wilson 1957 Avaialble on : Mr. Excitement Rhino : 1992 [Buy It] MOON IN JUNE Soft Machine Third Sony BMG : 1970 [Buy It] CRASH INTO JUNE Game Theory Big Shot Chronicles Alias : 1986 [Buy It] [...]
"If I walk outside, it's like a museum of rednecks, but we don't have a museum of cigarettes." -- Andy from Knoxville, filling Tom in on the local tourist attractions "I hate men, and if I am President ..." -- Hillary Clinton, addressing primary voters last week outside a Wawa in Roxboro, PA "Someone might want to check the books. Hoboken might be bankrupt." -- Tom, blowing the whistle on the city's corrupt comptroller after Mickey Dolenz was announced as the headler for the Arts & Music Festival "You [...]
For the next x number of Mondays I'll be posting one or more cherished songs I've rescued from vinyl or cassette and converted to mp3s. I'm not one of those who celebrate the "warm" sound of vinyl, yada yada, and loathe the persistent sucky Sir Hissish sibilance of cassettes. Personally I did not enjoy the sound of frying bacon underlying the softer passages of a song, nor did I thrill to the
Absence must make the heart grow fonder ... and the wallet thinner. How else does one explain the wads of cash needed to purchase used Game Theory CDs? One seller on Amazon put a $235 pricetag on a CD version of the Sacramento group's 1987 album, Lolita Nation, and from what I've seen in recent years, that's pretty much the going rate. So how did it come to this? During their 1982-90 lifespan, Game Theory were a second-division college band whose jangly, psych-tinged pop albums were ignored by the mainstream and inexplicably under-appreciated by the campus-radio [...]
Some people like to get their holiday shopping done early. I decided to get my holiday blogging done early. So this year I'm posting a bunch of holiday songs all at once--call it a compilation if you like, or think of it as me stopping by to D.J. your Christmas party without having to deal with me drinking up all your eggnog, insulting your guests and throwing up on your sectional. Individual tracks are available for download by right clicking on the links, or you can just download a zip file of the whole thing. 1. [...]
by David Klein Know this to be true: making sense of the breadth of songs titled "Twenty Four Hours" and "24 Hours a Day" is not something to be taken lightly. Athlete, 10cc, Betty Boo, Kiki Dee, Canned Heat, Sundays, Swans, Ace, and Champion Jack Dupree are but a few of the musical masters I had to unceremoniously weed out just so I could narrow it down to a half dozen or so worthy contenders and a few oddballs to kick sand at. Muddy Waters [...]
Sacramento's Game Theory were a band I once obsessed over during the last half of the Eighties when indie-rock was more a mission than a marketing concept and college radio actually had some relevance. Led by guitarist, singer & songwriter Scott Miller, Game Theory owed a big debt to Big Star . And of the quirky post-REM-like janglists and borderline Paisley Undergrounders like The dB's , Let's Active , Dream [...]
My dear readers, what I am about to admit to you will be shocking and perhaps too painful to bear. Sometimes, in my most personal moments, I pull out Lolita Nation by Game Theory and tap my toes to The Real Sheila , The Waist And The Knees and One More For Saint Michael . Can you ever forgive me? Did Simon ever forgive Garfunkel ? Garfunkel, [...]
My dear readers, what I am about to admit to you will be shocking and perhaps too painful to bear. Sometimes, in my most personal moments, I pull out Lolita Nation by Game Theory and tap my toes to The Real Sheila , The Waist And The Knees and One More For Saint Michael . Can you ever forgive me? Did Simon ever forgive Garfunkel ? Garfunkel, [...]
Here are the bonus tracks for TBSC . Oh yeah, I never told you the story of how The Loud Family came to stay at my house. Chris and I were living in Iowa City and LF came to play at Gabe's Oasis. I was thrilled since GT/LF is one of my all-time favorites. (I saw GT in the late '80s in Boston.) They played their show and asked if anyone could take them in for the night. So of course I said "yes" - only time I've ever hosted a band. Chris was [...]
I'll do just enough to keep you coming back. All 54 of you - thanks! 10. Game Theory - Too closely 11. Game Theory - Never mind 12. Game Theory - Like a girl Jesus
07. Game Theory - Crash into June 08. Game Theory - Book of millionaires 09. Game Theory - The only lesson learned
Greetings to you Buffistas visiting tonight . Enjoy the show. 04. Game Theory - Erica's word 05. Game Theory - Make Any Vows 06. Game Theory - Regenisraen
For a change of pace from fucked-up work stuff, here's some more Game Theory from the follow-up to Real nightime , The big shot chronicles . ( Going for $55 minimum on Amazon. ) 01. Game Theory - Here it is tomorrow 02. Game Theory - Where you going Northern 03. Game Theory - I've tried subtlety
12. Game Theory - I turned her away 13. Game Theory - Any other hand 14. Game Theory - I want to hold your hand 15. Game Theory - Couldn't I just tell you And that wraps up Real nighttime .
Welcome back. Sorry about the delay. 08. Game Theory - Rayon Drive 09. Game Theory - She'll be a verb 10. Game Theory - Real nighttime 11. Game Theory - You can't have me
06. Game Theory - If and when it falls apart 07. Game Theory - Curse of the frontierland
Game Theory - I mean it this time Game Theory - Friend of the family
The classic album from the spring of 1985. I discovered GT just as I was leaving college. After a steady diet of new wave at WRPI , Game Theory was the first indie rock band that I really liked. Scott Miller became one of my favorite songwriters of all time, all the way until The Loud Family 's Days for days . Scott made a comeback this year with the new CD, What if it works? Real nighttime is the first [...]
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