- - -

  home

albums and lyrics meet the band mp3s ask scott news faq misc reviews and interviews merchandise game theory photos

 


Game Theory

Discography

Thanks to Andy Ruppenstein for his assistance in compiling this discography.

Note: Alternate Learning was Scott Miller's pre-Game Theory band.

I) Alternate Learning

1) Painted Windows

Format: 12"
Label: Rational
Issued: 1981
Cat no.: ATI00

1/ Another Wasted Afternoon {S. Miller}
2/ Sex War {S. Miller}
3/ The New You {S. Miller}
4/ Dark Days {S. Miller}
5/ Occupation: Unknown {S. Miller}
6/ Dresden {S. Miller}
7/ Beach State Rocking {S. Miller}
8/ Ulysses {S. Miller}
9/ Painted Windows {S. Miller}
10/ Let's Not Wait {S. Miller}

2) ALRN

Format: 7"
Label: Rational
Issued: 1979
Cat no.: RAT001

1/ Green Card {S. Miller} [2:49]
2/ What's the Matter {S. Miller} [3:44]
3/ Gumby's in a Coma {Kern Scott Gallawa} [2:16]
4/ When She's Alone {S. Miller} [3:30]

II) Game Theory

1) Blaze of Glory

Format: 12"
Label: Rational
Issued: 1981
Cat no.: ION003

1/ Something to Show {S. Miller}
2/ The Scarecrow {S. Miller}
3/ White Blues {S. Miller}
4/ Date With An Angel {S. Miller}
5/ Mary Magdalene {S. Miller}
6/ The Young Drug {S. Miller, C. O'Rourke}
7/ Bad Year at UCLA {S. Miller}
8/ All I Want is Everything {S. Miller}
9/ Stupid Heart {S. Miller}
10/ Sleeping Through Heaven {S. Miller}
11/ It Gives Me Chills {S. Miller}
12/ T.G.A.R.T.G. {S. Miller}

2) Pointed Accounts of People You Know

Format: 12"
Label: Rational
Issued: 1983
Cat no.: ONA-004

1/ Penny, Things Won't {S. Miller} [5:16]
2/ Metal and Glass Exact {S. Miller} [3:33]
3/ Selfish Again {S. Miller} [4:08]
4/ I Wanna Get Hit By A Car {F. Juhos} [3:28]
5/ Life in July {S. Miller, N. Becker}[2:38]
6/ 37th Day {F. Juhos} [3:49]

3) Distortion

Format: 12"
Label: Rational
Issued: 1984
Cat no.: RGP 8405

1/ Shark Pretty {S. Miller} [3:55]
2/ Nine Lives to Rigel Five {S. Miller} [2:42]
3/ The Red Baron {S. Miller} [3:42]
4/ Kid Convenience {F. Juhos} [3:08]
5/ Too Late for Tears {S. Miller} [3:42]

4) Dead Center

Format: 12"
Label: Lolita
Issued: 1984
Cat no.: 5031B

1/ Nine Lives to Rigel Five {S. Miller} [2:42]
2/ Penny, Things Won't {S. Miller} [5:16]
3/ Dead Center {S. Miller} [3:55]
4/ The Red Baron { S. Miller} [3:34]
5/ The Letter {A. Chilton} [2:02]
6/ Shark Pretty {S. Miller} [3:56]
7/ Metal and Glass Exact {S. Miller} [3:33]
8/ Selfish Again {S. Miller} [4:08]
9/ Too Late for Tears {S. Miller} [3:42]
10/ 37th Day {F. Juhos} [3:49]

4) Real Nighttime

Format: 12"
Label: Rational
Issued: 1985
Cat no.:
Reissued on CD by Restless, cat. no. 7 72022
Reissued on CD by Alias, 1993, A047D

1/ Here Comes Everybody {S. Miller} [0:08]
2/ 24 {S. Miller} [2:54]
3/ Waltz the Halls Always {S. Miller} [2:38]
4/ I Mean It This Time {S. Miller} [3:12]
5/ Friend of the Family {S. Miller} [6:18]
6/ If and When It Falls Apart {S. Miller} [3:46]
7/ Curse of the Frontier Land {S. Miller} [3:32]
8/ Rayon Drive {S. Miller} [1:52]
9/ She'll Be a Verb {S. Miller} [3:36]
10/ Real Nighttime {S. Miller} [3:50]
11/ You Can't Have Me {A. Chilton} [2:19]
12/ I Turned Her Away {S. Miller} [2:58]
13/ Any Other Hand (bonus cut) {S. Miller} [3:02]
14/ I Want to Hold Your Hand (bonus cut) {J. Lennon, P. McCartney} [2:14]
15/ Couldn't I Just Tell You (bonus cut){T. Rundgren} [2:56]

5) The Big Shot Chronicles

Format: 12"/cassette
Label: Rational
Issued: 1986
Cat no.: ST-73210/4XT-73210
Reissued on CD by Alias, 1993, A046D

1/ Here It Is Tomorrow {S. Miller} [2:15]
2/ Where You Going Northern {S. Miller} [2:59]
3/ I've Tried Subtlety {S. Miller} [4:29]
4/ Erica's Word {S. Miller} [3:52]
5/ Make Any Vow {S. Miller} [2:17]
6/ Regenisraen {S. Miller} [3:27]
7/ Crash Into June {S. Miller} [2:55]
8/ Book of Millionaires {S. Miller} [2:20]
9/ The Only Lesson Learned {S. Miller} [2:15]
10/ Too Closely {S. Miller} [3:17]
11/ Never Mind {S. Miller} [2:50]
12/ Like A Girl Jesus {S. Miller} [2:34]
13/ Girl w/a Guitar (bonus) {S. Miller} [2:15]
14/ Come Home With Me (bonus) {S. Miller} [2:41]
15/ Seattle (bonus) {J. Keller, E. Sheldon, H. Montenegro} [2:22]
16/ Linus and Lucy (bonus) {V. Guaraldi} [1:46]
17/ Faithless (bonus) {F. Juhos} [3:31]

Note: not sure if writing credit is right for Seattle. Liner notes incorrectly attribute it to Vince Guaraldi, who actually wrote Linus and Lucy.

6) Lolita Nation

Format: 12"/cassette/CD
Label: Rational
Issued: 1987
Cat no.: STB-73288/?/CDE-73280

1/ Kenneth-What's the Frequency? {S. Miller} [0:43]
2/ Not Because You Can {S. Miller, D. Thayer} [3:05]
3/ Shard {S. Miller} [0:21]
4/ Go Ahead, You're Dying To {S. Miller} [0:37]
5/ Dripping With Looks {S. Miller} [4:00]
6/ Exactly What We Don't Want To Hear {S. Miller} [0:58]
7/ We Love You Carol And Alison {S. Miller} [3:25]
8/ The Waist And The Knees {S. Miller} [6:02]
9/ Nothing New {S. Miller} [4:27]
10/ The World's Easiest Job {S. Miller} [1:33]
11/ Look Away {D. Thayer} [3:21]
12/ Slip {S. Miller} [3:42]
13/ The Real Sheila {S. Miller} [3:34]
14/ Andy In Ten Years {S. Miller} [4:40]
15/ Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth Pretty Green Card Shark {S. Miller} [0:19]
16/ Where They Have To Let You In {G. Ray} [2:29]
17/ Turn Me On Dead Man {S. Miller} [0:30]
18/ Mammoth Gardens {D. Thayer, S. Miller} [4:05]
19/ Little Ivory {S. Miller} [3:17]
20/ Museum of Hopelessness {S. Miller} [0:11]
21/ Toby Ornette {S. LaFreniere} [2:28]
22/ All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids... {S. Miller} [1:56]
23/ One More For St. Michael {S. Miller} [3:49]
24/ Choose Between Two Sons {S. Miller} [1:30]
25/ Chardonnay {S. Miller} [4:26]
26/ Last Day That We're Young {S. Miller} [5:13]
27/Together Now, Very Minor {S. Miller} [3:25]

7) Two Steps From The Middle Ages

Format: 12"/cassette/CD
Label: Rational
Issued: 1988
Cat no.: 7 73350-1/4/2

1/ Room for One More, Honey {S. Miller} [3:03]
2/ What the Whole World Wants {S. Miller} [4:27]
3/ The Picture of Agreeability {S. Miller} [0:53]
4/ Amelia, Have You Lost {S. Miller} [3:21]
5/ Rolling With the Moody Girls {S. Miller} [3:29]
6/ Wyoming {S. Miller} [3:22]
7/ In a Delorean {S. Miller} [3:11]
8/ You Drive {S. Miller} [4:05]
9/ Leilani {S. Miller} [3:00]
10/ Wish I Could Stand or Have {S. Miller} [1:58]
11/ Don't Entertain Me Twice {S. Miller} [3:56]
12/ Throwing the Election {S. Miller} [4:11]
13/ Initiation Week {S. Miller} [2:29]

8) Tinker to Evers to Chance

Format: 12"/cassette/CD
Label: Enigma
Issued: 1989
Cat no.: 7 75351 1/4/2

1/ Beach State Rocking (re-record) {S. Miller} [2:55]
2/ Bad Year at U.C.L.A. (re-record) {S. Miller} [2:56]
3/ Sleeping Through Heaven (re-record) {S. Miller} [4:04]
4/ Something to Show {S. Miller} [2:38]
5/ Penny, Things Won't (re-mix) {S. Miller} [5:17]
6/ Metal and Glass Exact (re-mix?) {S. Miller} [3:35]
7/ Shark Pretty {S. Miller} [3:57]
8/ Nine Lives to Rigel Five {S. Miller} [2:42]
9/ The Red Baron {S. Miller} [3:42]
10/ 24 {S. Miller} [2:37]
11/ Curse of the Frontier Land {S. Miller} [3:31]
12/ I Turned Her Away {S. Miller} [2:58]
13/ Regenisraen {S. Miller} [3:28]
14/ Erica's Word {S. Miller} [3:53]
15/ Crash Into June {S. Miller} [2:55]
16/ Like a Girl Jesus {S. Miller} [2:36]
17/ We Love You, Carol and Alison {S. Miller} [3:24]
18/ The Real Sheila {S. Miller} [3:34]
19/ Together Now, Very Minor {S. Miller} [3:25]
20/ Room For One More, Honey {S. Miller} [3:03]
21/ Leilani {S. Miller} [3:00]
22/ Throwing the Election {S. Miller} [4:11]

9) Distortion of Glory

Format: CD
Label: Alias
Issued: 1993
Cat no.: A048D

1/ Something to Show (remix) {S. Miller} [2:38]
2/ Tin Scarecrow (remix) {S. Miller} [2:07]
3/ White Blues (remix) {S. Miller} [3:24]
4/ Date With An Angel (remix) {S. Miller} [3:20]
5/ Mary Magdalene (remix) {S. Miller} [3:08]
6/ The Young Drug {S. Miller} [3:20]
7/ Bad Year at UCLA (remix) {S. Miller} [2:51]
8/ All I Want is Everything (remix) {S. Miller} [1:13]
9/ Stupid Heart {S. Miller} [2:27]
10/ Sleeping Through Heaven (remix) {S. Miller} [4:04]
11/ It Gives Me Chills (remix) {S. Miller} [2:28]
12/ T.G.A.R.T.G. (remix) {S. Miller} [3:54]
13/ Dead Center {S. Miller} [6:04]
14/ Penny, Things Won't (remix) {S. Miller} [5:16]
15/ Metal and Glass Exact (remix) {S. Miller} [3:34]
16/ Selfish Again (remix) {S. Miller} [4:06]
17/ Life In July (remix) {N. Becker, S. Miller} [2:39]
18/ Shark Pretty {S. Miller} [3:57]
19/ Nine Lives To Rigel Five {S. Miller} [2:43]
20/ The Red Baron {S. Miller} [3:40]
21/ Kid Convenience {F. Juhos} [3:10]
22/ Too Late For Tears {S. Miller} [3:45]

  - - -