The Loud Family (band)

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The Loud Family is an American band based in San Francisco that began in 1991, went on hiatus in 2000 and returned in 2006. The band is named after the real-life Loud family, stars of the 1971 TV show An American Family, the first reality TV show. [1] Singer/guitarist Scott Miller was previously in the bands Game Theory, Alternate Learning and Lobster Quadrille.

Although they were praised by critics and fellow musicians-- notably Aimee Mann and Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields-- and adored by a small, extremely savvy fan base, mainstream success eluded the band throughout the 1990s. Though this may have been connected, in part, to Game Theory's association with the no-longer-hip 1980s "college rock" scene, it was more likely due to the group's complex, unpredictable song structures, and to Miller's cryptic lyrics, which tended to place rock's standard lyrical concerns (love, heartbreak, alienation, nascent spirituality, etc.) within the much-wider contexts of modernist literature, politics, art history, semiotics, relativity and contemporary academic sociocultural theory.

In 2004/05, Sacramento pop musician Anton Barbeau collaborated with Scott Miller on the CD What If It Works?, which is credited to the Loud Family with Anton Barbeau.