Distortion

Game Theory's 1984 Distortion EP is also front loaded with all the good stuff on side one. The top side has three of Scott Miller's best songs: "Shark Pretty","Nine Lives To Rigel Five", and "The Red Baron". The back side has the lesser Scott song "Too Late For Tears" and another Fred Juhos's "Kid Convenience".

If someone were to glue the second side of Pointed Accounts to the second side of Distortion, the resulting album would be one of Game Theory's best. If you did that and added a couple of extra songs, you'd have the Dead Center compilation, which is probably the collection of Game Theory's pre-Real Nighttime material. The Distortion Of Glory cd also has most of the good stuff in a single place, and is probably easier to find.

Here's a performance of "Nine Lives" from the same 1984 Berkeley Square show. This song was later covered by the band Gaze on their 1999 album Shake The Pounce.



"After this one was done, I checked the distance to Rigel and it turned out to be very close to nine human lifetimes if you go at the speed of light. To this day, science foolishly ignores my psychic gifts."
-- Scott Miller, from the liner notes of Tinker To Evers To Chance