Game Theory - Lolita Nation

Title: Lolita Nation Artist: Game Theory Release Date: 1987 Re-Released On: 10/25/1990 Label: Enigma Duration: 74:06 UPCs: 018777328029, 018777328043 Genre: Rock Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Power Pop, Paisley Underground, Jangle Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, College Rock, American Underground Moods: Angst-Ridden, Bittersweet, Cerebral, Confident, Energetic, Intimate, Literate, Passionate, Playful, Poignant, Quirky, Rollicking, Self-Conscious, Sophisticated, Tense/Anxious, Wistful, Witty Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 10 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Kenneth, What's the Frequency?
2. Not Because You Can
3. Shard
4. Go Ahead, You're Dying To
5. Dripping With Looks
6. Exactly What We Don't Want to Hear
7. We Love You, Carol and Alison
8. The Waist and the Knees
9. Nothing New
10. The World's Easiest Job
11. Look Away
12. Slip
13. The Real Sheila
14. Andy in Ten Years
15. Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth/Pretty Green ...
16. Where They Have to Let You In
17. Turn Me on Dead Man
18. Mammoth Gardens
19. Little Ivory
20. Museum of Hopelessness
21. Toby Ornette
22. All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal a Dull Humbert/In ...
23. One More for Saint Michael
24. Choose Between Two Sons
25. Chardonnay
26. Last Day That We're Young
27. Together Now, Very Minor

Year Type Label Catalog # 1990 CD Enigma 73280

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Game Theory leader Scott Miller has never made much of a secret of his fondness for Big Star, but while Real Nighttime favored the sound of #1 Record and The Big Shot Chronicles suggested the harder-edged tone of Radio City, Lolita Nation sounded like Game Theory's variation on the themes of Big Star's masterfully damaged swan song, Third/Sister Lovers. Certainly Game Theory's most ambitious album, Lolita Nation was a two-LP set that combined some of Miller's most user-friendly power pop with dark, moody ruminations on betrayal, failed love, and mortality, bursts of avant-garde noise, and fragments of unclassifiable studio doodling, all thrown into a sonic Cuisinart through Miller's aggressive use of aural montage. Lolita Nation is more than a bit disorienting on first listen, though it finds the band playing at the top of their form on challenging material (new guitarist Donnete Thayer makes an impressive debut), and there are more than a few flat-out brilliant tracks (such as "Chardonnay," "The Waist and the Knees," and "The Real Shelia") alongside such head-scratchers as "Turn Me on Dead Man," "Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth," and the 22nd track (which stubbornly defies titling). Taken as a whole and given time to fully absorb, Lolita Nation is probably Game Theory's finest and most impressive album, though it's also the worst place for a beginner to start examining their work. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Name Credits Angie Carlson Vocals (Background), Piano Dan Vallor Vocals (Background) Donnette Thayer Guitar, Vocals Eddy Schreyer Mastering Eric Marshall Drums (Electric), Drums (Bass) Gil Ray Vocals (Background), Guitar, Drums Guillaume Gassuan Vocals (Background), Bass Jeff Layton Vocals (Background) Jozef Becker Voice Sample Lindsay Watson Voice Sample Lori Bauer Vocals (Background) Lynda Burdick Photography Michael Quercio Vocals (Background), Synthesizer Mitch Easter Engineer, Guitar, Piano, Producer Robert Toren Guitar (Bass) Scott Miller Guitar, Vocals Shelley LaFreniere Vocals (Background), Synthesizer Zachary Smith Sampled Guitar Zack Smith Guitar