Ted Leo/Pharmacists albums poll

I was annoying

excuse me, I was annoyed, I'm just starting to get annoying about this

I got love for all of em but I have to go w/ Tyranny.

Are you insane? Hearts of Oak is the best of all of them!

Shake The Sheets

man i never listen to this dude anymore what happened...

tyranny is the best as far as i can remember though the first 3 are all pretty close in quality

Hearts Oak has "Rude Boys" and a couple other great songs, but a terrible bass sound, sloppy performances, and some of the most forgettable songs in his catalog. Both the albums since then have stuck with me a lot more overall.

I mean I understand that it was the album that kind of made the biggest impact and has probably his best known song, but as an album it's subpar.

No way, Hearts of Oak is great. I'd rank 'em like this:

Hearts of Oak
Shake the Sheets
Tyranny
Living

I dunno, man..."The Anointed One," "Dead Voices," "Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead," I almost never have a desire to listen to a lot of those songs

Maybe I need to go back and listen again, its been awhile, but I think the sloppiness was part of the charm for me.

It's totally Hearts of Oak for me. "The Annointed One" and "Dead Voices" are actually kind of weak, but every other song is pure gold.

I love all these albums though. I guess the more poppy sound of Hearts is just more to my taste.

"Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead" is amazing!

his voice is pretty shot on that record, though.

I may like the Trouble in Treble EP more than any of these though

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Hearts of Oak was like, the last good album I bought because Pitchfork told me to.

Tangent: TS—Chisel or solo/Pharm Leo?

oh chisel all the way

i may be the only person who feels that way though

i gave Chisel a try but it's just not nearly as good to me

hmmmm i would put set you free on par w/any of his best pharmacists stuff, maybe above it. killer album. as far as this one goes, either tyranny or hearts of oak (i don't really see what yr talkin about w/the whole "lack of memorable songs" thing, i haven't listened to that record in maybe three years and i can still hum 70% of it)

i really love 8 am all day and would rather listen to it than anything else ted leo has done but i realize that it's like 50% nostalgia and the production is really muddy and so i don't expect anyone else to agree

yeah i'm more iffy on that one. love parts of it, though, and "your star is killing me" is my fav thing of his ever

I didn't say Hearts has a lack of memorable songs per se, just that the 30% that you probably can't still hum is imo the worst stuff on any of these 4 albums.

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i only know hearts of oak and tyranny of distance and they were tied

y'all so wrong

Shake the Sheets 2

*bites lower lip, rolls eyes*

i don't know if that means you like that record or you don't like it. i think it's really good and underrated, though! nice to have that one especially tight, cleanly produced and relentlessly uptempo album in his catalog, kinda stands out from the rest and fills a different niche.

i like it very much and its the only one of these (i own all of them, somehow) that i ever listen to. just tired and unsurprised

me and mia ftw