Days for Days explained

Days for Days
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Loud Family
Cover:	Days_for_Days.jpg
Released:	May 19, 1998
Recorded:	1998
Genre:	Rock, power pop
Length:	50:14
Label:	Alias Records^[1]
Producer:	Scott Miller
Prev Title:	Interbabe Concern
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	Attractive Nuisance
Next Year:	2000

Days for Days is an album by the Loud Family, released in 1998.^[2] 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

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)."^[3]

Track listing

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

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"

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Loud Family - feature/interview. Perfect Sound Forever.
2. Web site: Loud Family Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
3. Web site: Loud Family . Trouser Press . 5 October 2021.