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Angeles to form the band Permanent Green Light. With Jozef Becker remaining as drummer, Miller recruited three new members to join Game Theory in 1991. This new line-up had rehearsed several times as Game Theory before Miller decided that
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announced their commitment to reissue Game Theory's recordings, remastered from the original tapes. Noting that Miller's work with Game Theory had been out of print and "missing for decades," Omnivore stated that they were "pleased to right that audio wrong" with a series of expanded reissues of the
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Good — even great — pop songs are Scott Miller's specialty ... creating essential
California rock 'n' roll for the 80s – tense, bristling energy, ingenious hooks and haunting melodies that ought to spell commercial potential. But the albums have remained stuck in the cultist-critic-college DJ loop.
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cited it as "some of the gutsiest, most distinctive rock 'n' roll heard in 1987," with "sumptuous melodic hooks ... played with startling intensity and precision," while simultaneously noting that the band "elected to shinny way out on an aesthetic limb" with "a thoroughly perplexing conglomeration
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wrote that the band had improved with each successive EP, both featuring "some stellar material." Notable songs included "The Red Baron", cited as "heartbreaking ... an anguished acoustic lost-love song leavened by keyboardist Nancy Becker's mocking 'fifty or more' backing vocal," as well as "Shark
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described it as "true to the wordy awkwardness ... of the nerd stereotype, and yet true to the visceral power, the sexual charge, in guitar-based Anglo-American pop. The songs, and the people depicted in the songs, attempted to have fun, to act on instinct, but they knew they were too cerebral to
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Alternate Learning's Carolyn O'Rourke, and on "Life in July" with Nancy
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that Miller had left behind in various stages of completion, "including fully-formed songs and many other ideas, sketches, lyrics, even musical gestures and snippets of found sound." A preliminary decision to release the album under Scott Miller's name, using the title
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Northwestern United States, Ray was a victim of random street violence in San Francisco, resulting in a serious eye injury. Ray ultimately left the group in 1990, and the group briefly continued as a trio.
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Francisco, co-produced by Miller and Dan Vallor, with four songs that included "Inverness" and "Idiot Son" (both later to be performed by
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LP, released on
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859:(bass, drums, backing vocals), Jozef Becker (drums, bass), and Gil Ray, who was shifted by Miller from drums to playing guitar and keyboards. Jozef Becker had been a member of Miller's previous band
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music for simply reaffirming everything that's right about pop. It's one of the most important reasons for liking Game Theory, because any band with good taste is worth saving from obscurity."
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ambitious as pop fare goes nowadays, with difficult time signatures, criss-cross rhythms, off-beat chordings, and surreal, vertiginous lyrics."
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had been the lead singer and songwriter of Alternate Learning, which issued an EP in 1979 and an LP in 1981. Alternate Learning was based in
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albums of all time." The reviewer noted, "Nowhere are Miller's eccentricities more consistently tuneful and genius-like than on
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wrote of "Miller's indelible output" and "Game Theory's transcendent tunes" as a "legacy ... ready and waiting for discovery."
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was life after college, which Miller paired with the intuition that "freedom had a strong aspect of being bad news." The song "
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by calling both albums "a rare commodity ... a pop record that can actually make you laugh and cry and squirm all at once."
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you, and you had to organize what his moves could be, and what your moves should be, to give yourself the minimum amount of
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2610:"Crowdfunded Final Game Theory Album Features Members of the Posies, R.E.M., The Both"
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make it so, except with like-minded small circles of puzzle-solvers."
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922:Transition to the Loud Family (1991)
385:The first Game Theory album was the
3131:Pointed Accounts of People You Know
2850:Omnivore Game Theory launch trailer
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2502:Gottlieb, Jed (November 10, 2015).
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422:Pointed Accounts of People You Know
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246:been out of print until 2014, when
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2742:from the original on 2014-07-15.
2730:Davidson, Eric (July 15, 2014).
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2702:Hann, Michael (April 18, 2013).
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2438:Blistein, Jon (April 18, 2013).
2413:"Loud Family (official website)"
2367:from the original on 2017-09-11.
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2324:from the original on 2013-12-05.
2140:Hill, Christopher (April 1989).
2072:. Canongate Books. p. 345.
1942:from the original on 2013-11-02.
1904:Toren, Robert (August 5, 2013).
1861:from the original on 2013-11-01.
1721:(38). London, UK. Archived from
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1281:(1984), reissued on vinyl only.
693:Decades later, in the 2007 book
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2039:Bliss, Jeff (August 27, 1986).
1580:Guzman, Rafer (March 6, 1996).
357:, ... someone who was thinking
325:Prior to founding Game Theory,
3106:Two Steps from the Middle Ages
2560:"Campaign: About this project"
2469:"Scott Miller: I Love You All"
2335:Yudt, Dennis (July 18, 2013).
2312:Durkin, Thomas (May 7, 2008).
1956:Cosper, Alex (July 26, 2013).
1930:Cosper, Alex (July 22, 2013).
1617:Woelke, Tina (December 1988).
1394:Two Steps from the Middle Ages
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1200:Two Steps from the Middle Ages
1154:Reissues of Game Theory albums
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951:Game Theory after Scott Miller
807:Two Steps from the Middle Ages
797:Two Steps from the Middle Ages
762:In a review of the double set
718:Two Steps from the Middle Ages
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2775:Mills, Fred (July 15, 2014).
2244:"About Permanent Green Light"
1435:Allen, Jim (April 18, 2013).
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956:Reunion of Game Theory (2013)
2342:Sacramento News & Review
1202:(1988), and the compilation
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2585:West, B.J. (June 1, 2016).
2528:Gibbs, Ryan (May 5, 2016).
2165:Lurie, Robert Dean (2012).
2069:The Great Indie Discography
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2066:Strong, Martin C. (2003).
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1713:"Scott Miller Interview"
1350:Scott Miller discography
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653:The Big Shot Chronicles'
345:Meaning of "Game Theory"
294:references ranging from
3092:The Big Shot Chronicles
2587:"Update #5: Half Time!"
2267:"Permanent Green Light"
2018:The Big Shot Chronicles
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1711:Cost, Jay (Fall 1990).
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2634:"Gil Ray: 1956–2017"
2363:(official website).
2228:Bucketfull of Brains
2198:The Pitchfork Review
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2829:Slicing Up Eyeballs
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1992:Not Lame Recordings
1798:on November 8, 2013
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