Days for Days

Days for Days
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 19, 1998
Recorded1998
GenreRock, power pop
Length50:14
LabelAlias Records[1]
ProducerScott Miller
The Loud Family chronology
Interbabe Concern
(1996)
Days for Days
(1998)
Attractive Nuisance
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Days for Days is an album by the Loud Family, released in 1998.[3] The band's leader, Scott Miller, and the bass guitar player, Kenny Kessel, are the only members of the band remaining from the previous album. Gil Ray, who had been a member of Miller's 1980s band Game Theory, joined Miller for the album.

Odd-numbered tracks on this album are soundscapes without names, while even-numbered tracks are named songs. While the odd-numbered tracks had no listed titles on this release, subsequent live recordings of the songs (as on From Ritual to Romance) titled these tracks by number - so track 1 was "One", track 3 "Three", etc.

Critical reception

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Trouser Press wrote that "the band does rock more convincingly than before, with stomping guitars in 'Deee-Pression' and the dizzying opening melody of 'Crypto-Sicko' (a bit Big Star, a bit Talking Heads)."[4]

Track listing

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All tracks by The Loud Family

  1. Untitled - 1:04
  2. "Cortex The Killer" – 5:00
  3. Untitled – 1:01
  4. "Good, There Are No Lions in the Street" – 4:17
  5. Untitled – 1:20
  6. "Deee-Pression" – 3:37
  7. Untitled – :52
  8. "Way Too Helpful" - 4:47
  9. Untitled – 1:16
  10. "Mozart Sonatas" – 2:01
  11. Untitled – :15
  12. "Businessmen Are Okay" – 4:42
  13. Untitled – :47
  14. "Crypto-Sicko" – 3:24
  15. Untitled – 1:02
  16. "Why We Don't Live in Mauritania" – 4:52
  17. Untitled – 1:23
  18. "Sister Sleep" - 8:25

Personnel

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From the CD sleeve:

  • Kenny Kessel - bass guitar and vocals
  • Alison Faith Levy - I Can't Believe It's Not Flute and Gee Your Cello Smells Acoustic
  • Scott Miller - guitars and vocals
  • Gil Ray - drums, tambourine and maracas

with

  • Jonathan Segel - bouzouki, slide guitar and violin on "Sister Sleep" and "Mauritania"

References

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  1. ^ "The Loud Family - feature/interview". Perfect Sound Forever.
  2. ^ Days for Days at AllMusic
  3. ^ "Loud Family Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "Loud Family". Trouser Press. Retrieved 5 October 2021.