From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #293 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 Thursday, May 11 2017 Volume 10 : Number 293 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Mention of Scott and GT in NP album review [Tom Galczynski Subject: [loud-fans] Mention of Scott and GT in NP album review 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 donbt 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 bSiamese 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 Millerbs lyrics/melodies/music throughB Game TheoryB and into Loud Family, and his way of manufacturing lyric was, similar to Newmanbs, 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 Scottbs after his (Scottbs) death a few years back.) Cagey lyrics are of course also a way to hide, where you donbt 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 Ibve crept sideways from there. like a crab, right." Tom Galczynski ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #293 ********************************