Today I find myself looking back fondly on the paisley underground of the 80's, and one of the movement's very earliest exemplars, Sacramento's own--Game Theory.I love the tranquil calm a thickly distorted electric guitar can create if you let it, and the kernel of bitter rage you can find within that calm if you look. This song is the perfect illustration. Notice also the two intertwined voc...
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Again, I usually like to have some grand design for posting music here, but my only impetus for putting this song up today is that Spring hath sprung. I first heard Game Theory in my sophomore year of college, wherein a gaggle of significantly hipper friends of mine strove to pull me out of my none-more-black phase of listening exclusively to vitriolic hardcore, vintage punk, slack-jawed metal ...
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So I drunkenly promised dachmo this weekend I'd post a couple of good boy/girl harmony songs to repay his post here. As I try to be a man of my gin-soaked word, here they are.The first is from the pop band Game Theory. Vocal harmonies, either with bandmates or overdubs, were always an important part of their sound, but the chorus of this song has always stood out to me for the way the harmony s...
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Dale has a post up about the compilation album "Nineteen Eighty Seven" in which he asks which song you would have liked to see covered on the album.My choice:Game Theory's "The Real Sheila" from their Lolita Nation album.
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I tried ebay for the first time last night and discovered the meaning of "snipping." In the last 30 minutes before the bidding ended I got distracted with something else and when I looked up, I had lost the bid for this record. I am desperate for this record. I've got pretty much everything else Scott Miller has done with his two primary groups. This is worse than my "Smile" and "Black Album" ...
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Still no mp3 of this great band, but there are some videos on YouTube of them that are worth checking out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XSmLXRUdkWord. Later.
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Just picked up a vinyl copy of LOLITA NATION by Game Theory off of ebay, and it's killer. Good 80's power pop. Any Game Theory fans out there? I know, it's an obscure one even for mog.com, I have a feeling. Buzz me if you have something to say about Game Theory.
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