Game Theory / The Loud Family

The brilliant use of assonance in "Sodium Laureth Sulfate"! "Wave equation, beta radiation beam" is like a damn wave with the long a's in every other syllable.

Have you guys seen Scott's weekly "Music- What Happened?" series on 125 Records' Loud Family website?

from at http://www.125records.com/loudfamily/index.html

> ...a new feature as a one-year replacement for Ask Scott: you pick a year
> from the fifty-year span of 1957 to 2006, Scott selects and describes
> recordings from that year that would constitute his time-capsule CD.
> One per week in the order requested. Request a year by writing to
> scottmiller (at) 125records.com!

They also just recently posted an mp3 of Scott's cover of Chris Stamey's "Cara Lee" as a free download.

Scott Miller is out there

“I’m utterly serious about music. I just respect the buying public’s judgment that it’s not what I should do for a living.”

ouch.

I loved Music What Happened? project where he made a playlist based on each year. The dude is clearly mega smart.

Really like Loud Family (esp the first and final releases - stuff in between was hit or miss for me) - but Game Theory is in my all time fave bin - Real Nighttime, Two Steps, Lolita, etc. - Scott Miller is a genius --

I got a super clean and cheap Lolita Nation in Memphis a couple of years ago. Pretty outstanding.

Finding a blog with all the Game Theory albums just reminds me how crappy it is that Enigma's demise scuppered the availability of so many great things. (Also regretting that I didn't see this thread when the YSI links above were still available...anyone still have the files for a repost?)

Yup. Hang on a minute.

Lolita Nation demos, part 1
http://www.sendspace.com/file/c105xf

Lolita Nation demos, part 2
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9zo9qp

Big Shot Chronicles demos
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jp9vfz

"Penny, Things Won't," live in 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pboi0vY-15Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTu46oCdSHg

In case anyone needs it, Alternate Learning LP appears to still be available here: http://lix.in/-2f6e04. It's really very good.

Awesome! Thanks, ctrl-s!

Seems I'm a year too late to the party. Please tell me someone still has the Game Theory Lolita Nation demos as well as The Big Shot Chronicles... Send me a message or post a link for a re-up. I'll love you forever! p.s. Have music to trade, including Alternate Learning's ALRN 7" or lots of other bands.

Yes! I would love forever anyone who (re)posted those Lolita Nation demos!

Big Shot Chronicles demos:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6wt4q8

Lolita Nation demos, part 1:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/x02fom

Lolita Nation demos, part 2:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3zjkf8

Much thanks. I'm in Scott Miller heaven right now.

Many thanks again. These is too sweet!

Uhhh... This is... damn typo!

I've been informed that Scott Miller has died. I don't have other more in depth details at the moment.

I went to the Loud Family website for confirmation and found none, but apparently he or someone else uploaded the Game Theory catalogue to Dropbox just hours ago? That's eerie.

I don't think it's public knowledge or news yet.

Holy shit (if true).

http://www.loudfamily.com/index.html

Very, very sad.

Dang, what sad news.

Well, I just feel like I've had the wind knocked out of me.

Scott Miller was one of my Gods during my late teens/early 20s. The Loud-fans mailing list was my first online music-related hangout. He was extraordinarily kind to me when I introduced myself to him at a Loud Family show despite my tongue-tied kid-meeting-his-hero incoherence. Hell, my handle here is taken from one of his songs.

If I recall correctly, he had a couple of youngish children. This is sad, shocking news.

Incredible. What horrible news.

Man, very sad. I still think Lolita Nation deserves way more nods than it gets. It was the Forever Changes of the late '80s. R.I.P.

God DAMN it.

In a few minutes I'll re-upload the Lolita Nation and Big Shot Chronicles demos to share. What's the best free/fast service nowadays? Haven't done this in a while.

Never mind -- I'm putting 'em all on Sendspace. Takes about half an hour to upload 'em all.

Big Shot Chronicles demos:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7muauw

Lolita Nation demos, part 1:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8a3c5g

Lolita Nation demos, part 2:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bkmlp8

Thank you, Scott. Rest in peace.

Thanks so much for posting those. Lolita Nation was huge for me when I was 15, and I don't think I've listened to it in over 20 years. This'll be a sad revisiting.

You're very welcome. I learned of Game Theory in 1983, shortly before The Big Shot Chronicles IIRC, and was lucky enough to see them a few times and the Loud Family once. Wonderful stuff. My life, especially my 20's, would've been much poorer without them.

been listening to 'tinker to evers to chance' in tribute all night. "shark pretty" is such a jam. RIP

I didn't learn of Scott til 1997 or so. While it is kind of a shock to learn that that much awesomeness had existed in the world for so long without my knowing about it, the existence of there already being THAT MUCH Scott Miller music for me to delve into more than made up for it.

Shit.

Was looking forward to whatever the GT reunion was going to turn out.

Didn't know about the reunion until tonight, though I had never really given up on the possibility of new Scott Miller music even post-"retirement" (he had already released one album--What If It Works? (2006), a collaboration with Anton Barbeau--after officially calling it quits in 2000, after all).

Very sad news. Met him at an in-store in the late '90s on one of the last LF tours -- a very friendly, humble, approachable guy. _Music: What Happened?_ (detailed above) is a must-read for music hounds; it made me think about and revisit a lot of stuff that had fallen through the cracks.

this is awful news!

RIP, Scott. What a shitty week.

otm^^

I found out about Game Theory and Loud Family mostly from glenn mcdonald's blog, and I emailed him a few times, for both the Ask Scott feature and the Music: What Happened project. Big Shot Chronicles is such a rad album, and Lolita Nation and Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things were v good too. Such a bummer...

thanks Ctrl-Z for the downloads, Scott had such a fascinating approach to music. I am looking forward to listening to them

My fave Loud Family song, because I need to hear it right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpXA6Hu6HJw

been giving Interbabe Concern a loooooooooooong overdue listen on Spotify. it's. fucking. amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XnP7C44DXA

He never ran out when the spirits were low
A nice guy as minor celebrities go

RIP Scott. This is horrible news.

I found out about Game Theory and Loud Family mostly from glenn mcdonald's blog

Likewise; one of the first CDs I ordered from the internet was Plants And Birds And Rocks And Things. Always wondered if Scott Miller would have been better served by some sort of Flying Nun-esque profile (always thought him & Bill Direen/Graeme Downes would have gotten along). Rest in peace.

RIP.
underrated genius. i'm a huge fan.

what's the cause of death?

Very sad.

"what's the cause of death?"

there was some speculation but if you want to go digging, the cause is stated on the gametheory/loud family group page on fb. I won't repost it here.

Is it a common sentiment among fans that Game Theory were great and Loud Family greater btw? Or is that just my own particular splitting of small differences?

With an album called "Didactic Debt Collectors", guess I shouldn't be surprised this reminds me of the Loud Family:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCueXPlpBJk

Full album here: https://finalhouse.bandcamp.com/album/didactic-debt-collectors