18th
The Loud Family - Exponential Existential Horror Show
There are some great bands who get screwed over by history simply by ending up on the wrong record labels. Scott Miller has been in two of them. Game Theory was on Enigma in the ’80s, and to this day legal hassles prevent those records, seminal college radio hits at the time, from being reissued. His second band, the Loud Family, was on Alias Records and though things turned out a little better there, they never really had the promotional muscle that it would have taken to give the band a shot in the crowded indie market of the ’90s. As a result, both bands have become very obscure and a lot of people who would probably fall deeply in love with Miller’s tuneful songs with clever, highly cerebral lyrics are unaware of their existence. Well, here’s your shot. This mix collects the highlights from all five Loud Family albums from 1993 through 2000. If you like artists such as the New Pornographers, Ted Leo, Elvis Costello, Guided by Voices, Scritti Politti and the Dismemberment Plan, you should give this a listen.
Soul Drain / Sodium Laureth Sulfate / Deee-Pression / Such Little Nonbelievers / Inverness / Crypto-Sicko / 720 Times Happier Than the Unjust Man / North San Bruno Dishonor Trip / Don’t Respond, She Can Tell / Businessmen Are Okay / Rosy Overdrive / Screwed Over by Stylish Introverts / Good, There Are No Lions in the Street / Slit My Wrists / Backward Century / The Softest Tip of Her Baby Tongue / Sword Swallower (live) / Mozart Sonatas / I’m Not Really a Spring / Marcia & Etrusca
