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- Artist: Game Theory
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- Release Date: 1987
- Total Time: 74:06
- Genre: Rock
Review
Game Theory leader Scott Miller has never made much of a secret of his fondness for Big Star, but while Real Nighttime favored the sound of #1 Record and The Big Shot Chronicles suggested the harder-edged tone of Radio City, Lolita Nation sounded like Game Theory's variation on the themes of Big Star's masterfully damaged swan song, Third/Sister Lovers. Certainly Game Theory's most ambitious album, Lolita Nation was a two-LP set that combined some of Miller's most user-friendly power pop with dark, moody ruminations on betrayal, failed love, and mortality, bursts of avant-garde noise, and fragments of unclassifiable studio doodling, all thrown into a sonic Cuisinart through Miller's aggressive use of aural montage. Lolita Nation is more than a bit disorienting on first listen, though it finds the band playing at the top of their form on challenging material (new guitarist Donnete Thayer makes an impressive debut), and there are more than a few flat-out brilliant tracks (such as "Chardonnay," "The Waist and the Knees," and "The Real Shelia") alongside such head-scratchers as "Turn Me on Dead Man," "Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth," and the 22nd track (which stubbornly defies titling). Taken as a whole and given time to fully absorb, Lolita Nation is probably Game Theory's finest and most impressive album, though it's also the worst place for a beginner to start examining their work. ~ Mark Deming, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Kenneth, What's the Frequency? | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (0:46) |
| Not Because You Can | Scott Miller, |
Game Theory | (3:04) |
| Shard | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (0:22) |
| Go Ahead, You're Dying To | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (0:37) |
| Dripping With Looks | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (4:00) |
| Exactly What We Don't Want to Hear | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (1:01) |
| We Love You, Carol and Alison | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (3:27) |
| The Waist and the Knees | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (6:08) |
| Nothing New | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (4:21) |
| The World's Easiest Job | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (1:38) |
| Look Away | Game Theory | (3:20) | |
| Slip | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (3:35) |
| The Real Sheila | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (3:35) |
| Andy in Ten Years | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (4:39) |
| Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth/Pretty Green ... | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (0:18) |
| Where They Have to Let You In | Game Theory | (2:27) | |
| Turn Me on Dead Man | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (0:28) |
| Mammoth Gardens | Scott Miller, |
Game Theory | (4:02) |
| Little Ivory | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (3:17) |
| Museum of Hopelessness | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (0:10) |
| Toby Ornette | Game Theory | (2:29) | |
| All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal a Dull Humbert/In ... | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (1:54) |
| One More for Saint Michael | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (3:50) |
| Choose Between Two Sons | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (1:32) |
| Chardonnay | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (4:28) |
| Last Day That We're Young | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (5:07) |
| Together Now, Very Minor | Scott Miller | Game Theory | (3:29) |
