Tinker to Evers to Chance (album)

Infobox Album | Tinker to Evers to Chance


Type=Compilation album
Artist=Game Theory
Released=March 1990
Recorded=
Genre=Rock
Length=
Label=Enigma Records
Producer=Mitch Easter and Scott Miller
Reviews=* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:76dsa9lgb23f link]
Last album ='Two Steps From The Middle Ages"
(1988)
This album="Tinker to Evers to Chance"
(1990)
Next album=-

"Tinker to Evers to Chance" is a compilation album of songs by Game Theory, released in 1989. The liner notes describe the included tracks as songs which "reached national obscurity, as opposed to local obscurity." Band leader Scott Miller went on to form The Loud Family.

The album's title refers to the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", though it also suggests the band's penchant for tinkering and allowing seemingly random elements into their work Fact|date=July 2007.

Track listing

#"Beach State Rocking" – 2:56
#"Bad Year at U.C.L.A." – 2:58
#"Sleeping Through Heaven" – 4:06
#"Something to Show" – 2:39
#"Penny, Things Won't" – 5:18
#"Metal and Glass Exact" – 3:37
#"Shark Pretty" – 4:00
#"Nine Lives to Rigel Five" – 2:49
#"The Red Baron" – 3:42
#"24" – 2:49
#"Curse of the Frontier Land" – 3:33
#"I Turned Her Away" - 3:00
#"Regenisraen" - 3:29
#"Erica's Word" - 3:56
#"Crash Into June" - 2:58
#"Like a Girl Jesus" - 2:40
#"We Love You, Carol and Alison" - 3:26
#"The Real Sheila" - 3:35
#"Together Now, Very Minor" - 3:32
#"Room For One More, Honey" - 3:02
#"Leilani" - 3:02
#"Throwing the Election" - 4:11

Personnel

*Jozef Becker - Drums, Knee Slaps
*Nancy Becker - Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
*Guillaume Gassuan - Bass
* Dave Gill - Drums, Engineer
*Fred Juhos - Bass
* Scott Miller - vocals and guitar
*Michael Quercio - Bass, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Reverb
*Gil Ray - Guitar, Drums
*Donnette Thayer - Vocals, Guitar Arrangements
*Suzi Ziegler - Vocals

References