From Ritual to Romance (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = From Ritual to Romance


Type = Live Album
Artist = The Loud Family
Released = Sept 24, 2002
Recorded = Oct 5, 1996; Aug 8, 1998
Genre = Rock
Length = 54:11
Label = 125 Records
Producer = Scott Miller
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:369sa9rgw23d link]
Last album = "Attractive Nuisance"
(2000)
This album = "From Ritual to Romance"
(2002)
Next album = "What if it Works?"
(2006)

The Loud Family's sixth full length album was a live album released after the band's breakup (which proved to be temporary: the band reconvened in 2006, albeit with different personnel), featuring live recordings of two performances at different points in the band's history. The first performance, featured on tracks 1-7 and 14-19, is from a Hotel Utah show on October 5, 1996. The second performance, featured on tracks 8-13 and 20-21, is from a show at The Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco on August 8, 1998.

The album features covers of "Debaser" by The Pixies, "When You Sleep" by My Bloody Valentine and "Here Come The Warm Jets" by Brian Eno. "Not Because You Can," "Go Ahead You're Dying To" and "Curse of the Frontier Land" are The Loud Family's versions of songs from Loud Family leader Scott Miller's earlier band, Game Theory. "Nine," "Five" and "Eleven" are three of the unnamed soundscapes from The Loud Family's "Days for Days" album.

Track listing

#"Where the Flood Waters Soak Their Belongings" - 1:52
#"Here Come The Warm Jets" – 0:42
#"Spot the Setup" – 2:38
#"Such Little Nonbelievers" – 3:25
#"Aerodeleria" - 2:59
#"Don't Respond, She Can Tell" – 3:54
#"Sword Swallower" – 4:11
#"Nine" - 0:49
#"Not Because You Can" - 3:12
#"Good, There Are No Lions in The Street" – 4:07
#"Five" – 1:16
#"Eleven" - 0:15
#"Deee-pression" - 3:33
#"Debaser" - 2:44
#"Sodium Laureth Sulfate" - 2:50
#"Baby Hard-To-Be-Around" - 3:11
#"Go Ahead, You're Dying To" - 2:45
#"Asleep and Awake on the Man's Freeway" - 2:47
#"Curse of the Frontier Land" - 3:59
#"When You Sleep" - 4:21
# untitled - 0:55

Personnel

Hotel Utah, SF - October 5, 1996

*Kenny Kessel - bass and vocal
* Scott Miller - guitar and vocal
*Mike Tittel - drums
*Paul Weineke - keyboards, guitar and vocal

Bottom of the Hill, SF - August 8, 1998

*Kenny Kessel - bass and vocal
*Alison Faith Levy - keyboards and vocal
* Scott Miller - guitar and vocal
*Gil Ray - drums

Trivia

The title is the same as that of a work mentioned in the notes to T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land".