[tweetmeme]Omnivore Recordings continues its Game Theory reissue campaign with the release in March of an expanded 30th anniversary edition of the Scott Miller-fronted college-rock favorites’ 1985 sophomore album Real Nighttime, supplementing the original record with 13 bonus tracks, 10 of which have never before been released.
The 25-track expanded edition of the Mitch Easter-produced album is out on CD and digitally on March 17; a vinyl reissue of the album will be pressed on translucent red vinyl and will include a download card for all of the bonus material. The first 300 orders for the LP at omnivorerecordings.com also will include an original copy of a never-issued “Dead Center” flexidisc from 1983.
The Real Nighttime reissue follows last September’s first release of the band’s debut
Blaze of Glory
in its original form since the album’s first issue in 1982, a reissue that added 15 bonus tracks to that album — including 11 previously unreleased recordings from the late
Scott Miller’spersonal archive.
Miller, who fronted Game Theory, known for a sound somewhere between power pop and jangle pop, and, later, through much of the ’90s, The Loud Family, died in April 2013. With Game Theory, Miller released a string of well-received — by critics and adoring fans, if not the wider public — throughout the ’80s, peaking with 1986 single “Erica’s Word” and Lolita Nation.
Check out the tracklist below, and a video trailer, for the Real Nighttime reissue.
Tracklist: Game Theory, Real Nighttime
Original album:
1. “Here Comes Everybody”
2. “24″
3. “Waltz the Halls Always”
4. “I Mean It This Time”
5. “Friend Of The Family”
6. “If And When It Falls Apart”
7. “Curse Of The Frontier Land”
8. “Rayon Drive”
9. “She’ll Be A Verb”
10. “Real Nighttime”
11. “You Can’t Have Me”
12. “I Turned Her Away”
Bonus tracks:
13. “Girl W/ A Guitar”
14. “Any Other Hand”
15. “Faithless”
16. “Baker Street” (Live)
17. “The Red Baron” (Live)
18. “If And When It Falls Apart” (Live)
19. “Beach State Rocking” (Live)
20. “She’ll Be A Verb” (Live)
21. “Curse Of The Frontier Land” (Live)
22. “Metal And Glass Exact” (Live)
23. “Girl W/ A Guitar” (Complete) (Live)
24. “I Turned Her Away” (Live)
25. “Lily Of The Valley”
