Slouching Towards Liverpool is an EP that includes live performances of songs from The Loud Family's first album, ''

Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things ''Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things'' was the 1993 debut album by The Loud Family, a band formed by singer, songwriter and guitarist Scott Miller after the dissolution of his 1980s band Game Theory. It was Miller's fifth album to be produced ...

'', as well as some live studio tracks recorded at

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in Evanston, Illinois. "Back of a Car" is a cover version of a song by Big Star, while " Erica's Word" is a cover version of a song by the Loud Family leader Scott Miller's earlier band,

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. Michael Quercio, leader of The Three O'Clock and a member of Game Theory in 1989 and 1990, plays bass guitar on "The Come On". The EP's title alludes to William Butler Yeats's poem

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, which ends with the lines "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" The Loud Family's use is a nod to both Scott Miller's literary interests and to the hometown of The Beatles.

Track listing

#"Take Me Down" – 3:09 #"The Come On" – 3:23 #"Back of a Car" – 2:27 #"Slit My Wrists" (Live at WNUR-FM) – 2:52 #"Aerodeliria" (Live at WNUR-FM) – 3:05 #" Erica's Word" (Live in studio) – 4:04

Personnel

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- drums and percussion * Scott Miller - vocals and rhythm guitar * R. Dunbar Poor - bass guitar * Zachary Smith - lead guitar *

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- keyboards and backing vocals

References

{{Authority control 1993 EPs The Loud Family albums 1993 live albums Albums produced by Mitch Easter Live EPs Jangle pop EPs