From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #292 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, May 10 2017 Volume 10 : Number 292 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Mention of Scott and GT in NP album review ["Joseph M. Ma] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 15:07:03 -0700 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Mention of Scott and GT in NP album review Jonathan appeared on Days For Days. On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Tom Galczynski wrote: > A mention of Game Theory/Scott Miller in a review of Whiteout Conditions > I came across recently: > > https://jsegel.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/the-new-pornographers-whiteout- > conditions-and-my-interpretation-thereof/ > > "And many people say they donb t even listen to the lyrics. Personally, > lyrics are extremely important to me, to the point where they can make or > break a song for me. I remember being really into the Smashing Pumpkins > b Siamese Dreamb when hearing it on the jukebox at the bar I worked > at, and then one day reading the lyrics. On the other hand, I have always > lovedB Scott Millerb s lyrics/melodies/music throughB Game TheoryB and > into Loud Family, and his way of manufacturing lyric was, similar to > Newmanb s, ornate yet oblique, playing with words and sounds and > language until it could say several things at once, lyrical depth which > combines the art and the craftsmanship of poetry with a hooky melody. > (A.C. Newman also wrote about being a fan of Scottb s after his > (Scottb s) death a few years back.) Cagey lyrics are of course also a > way to hide, where you donb t have to reveal everything about your trip > in some obvious verbal way. You can be humorous and deceptive about, say, > depression or other mental illness, or develop your own code for things > that are meaningful but potentially embarrassing for yourself. I mean, I > write that way, always have. I tried for a while (starting maybe withB Jack > & Jill) to be purposefully more direct, but Ib ve crept sideways from > there. like a crab, right." > > Tom Galczynski > - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@gmail.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #292 ********************************