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And GbV’s “Back to Saturn X Radio Report” from Propeller? Check out the too-long-of-a-title-to-list-here track 22 on this newly remastered Lolita Nation (disc one) and compare. There are similarities between the guitar tones between the two albums, and, hell, a song such as “Metal Mothers” vaguely borrows from Game Theory’s “Dripping with Looks”.

Basically, I listen to this album and wonder if Robert Pollard and company had heard the record when Guided by Voices was putting together what was supposed to be its final bow: 1992’s Propeller. song of similar name, based on an attack on journalist Dan Rather in 1986, by seven years). It’s incredibly forward-thinking (for one, its “Kenneth - What’s the Frequency?”, the opening salvo of tape loopiness, presages the R.E.M. So what can I say about Lolita Nation? It’s a masterpiece. This reissue is an embarrassment of riches. And if the thought of hearing the full double album - it’ll be released on green translucent vinyl along with CD and digital versions - is excitement enough, consider that the set comes with a full extra disc of outtakes and radio sessions and the ilk. The source of hearing this album is a re-issue: Los Angeles archival label Omnivore Recordings is re-releasing the album in early February. Sixteen years is a lot of waiting, folks! But, you know what? The wait has been more than worth it. No wonder I had no luck! Anyhow, to make a long story short, it is only now - some 16 years later - that I’ve had a chance to listen to the album. I’m starting to wonder if the thing ever got a vinyl release in the first place, but, according the always reliable Wikipedia, the CD version of the album has been out of print for the better part of 25 years now, making it a highly sought-after collector’s item. Shards of random noise? I’m in! Catchy jangly numbers? I’m in! So I started hunting pretty high and low for the album. Despite the jail-baiting title, something about the discs’ description that I’d read somewhere online had suckered me in. Now, I love the concept of a double album, and I had heard that this band had one: 1987’s Lolita Nation. I had nabbed the Dream Syndicate’s Medicine Show on vinyl (even if that record isn’t really one that emulates the scene very well) and one band that I was trying to hunt down was Game Theory. In the year 2000, I started collecting vinyl records, and, coincidentally, started going after groups that were part of the Paisley Underground, or remotely connected to it. Allow me the indulgence of a personal navel gaze.

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