Deep Album Cuts Vol. 264: Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Ted Leo is one of my favorite living songwriters, and two years ago when he turned 50, I celebrated his entire body of work with a list of his best songs for Spin.
Ted Leo/Pharmacists deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Counting Down The Hours
Ted Leo/Pharmacists deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Counting Down The Hours
2. Parallel Or Together?
3. Hearts Of Oak
4. Some Beginner's Mind
5. Lonsdale Avenue
6. Mourning In America
7. Head In The Freezer
8. Timorous Me
9. The Ballad Of The Sin Eater
10. Abner Louima V. Gov. Pete Wilson
11. Little Dawn
12. The Sword In The Stone
13. La Costa Brava
14. Used To Believe
15. Where Was My Brain
16. Paranoia (Never Enough)
17. The One Who Got Us Out
18. Loyal To My Sorrowful Country
19. A Bottle Of Buckie
20. 2nd Ave, 11A.M.
21. Biomusicology
Track 7 from tej leo (?), Rx/pharmacists (1999)
Track 10 from the Treble In Trouble EP (2000)
Unlike the Spin piece, I only included Ted Leo's solo work and Pharmacists records in this playlist, so no Chisel or The Both or other projects. But I wanted to touch on a variety of albums and EPs and get a bit of his wide musical range in here. Ted Leo has released some music on Bandcamp over the past year, 5 originals and covers of Stereolab and Traffic songs, that haven't made it to streaming services, so his latest work isn't represented here. But I'm really happy that he's still putting out music here or there. It bums me out that he didn't quite make it to that indie-famous level where he can really live comfortably off music and have his pick of labels, he was writing and performing at such a consistent level of excellence in the 2000s and built up a sizable fanbase, but didn't quite get to that next tier.
Tracks 2, 8 and 21and from The Tyrrany Of Distance (2001)
Tracks 3, 9 and 20 from Hearts Of Oak (2003)
Track 12 from the Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead EP (2003)
Tracks 1, 11 and 17 from Shake The Sheets (2004)
Track 18 from the Sharkbite Sessions EP (2005)
Tracks 4, 13 and 19 from Living With The Living (2007)
Track 16 from the Rapid Response EP (2008)
Tracks 6 and 15 from The Brutalist Bricks (2010)
Tracks 5 and 14 from The Hanged Man (2017)
Unlike the Spin piece, I only included Ted Leo's solo work and Pharmacists records in this playlist, so no Chisel or The Both or other projects. But I wanted to touch on a variety of albums and EPs and get a bit of his wide musical range in here. Ted Leo has released some music on Bandcamp over the past year, 5 originals and covers of Stereolab and Traffic songs, that haven't made it to streaming services, so his latest work isn't represented here. But I'm really happy that he's still putting out music here or there. It bums me out that he didn't quite make it to that indie-famous level where he can really live comfortably off music and have his pick of labels, he was writing and performing at such a consistent level of excellence in the 2000s and built up a sizable fanbase, but didn't quite get to that next tier.
I have felt vindicated over the years that a lot of my favorite Ted Leo songs that weren't singles eventually became live staples and/or fan favorites, including "Timorous Me," "Little Dawn," and "La Costa Brava." But there are others that never caught on in the same way that I love a lot -- "Some Beginner's Mind" just kicks ass, it kind of lunges around in a tempo that could be sluggish but Leo and drummer Chris Wilson put so much life into it. And I still wasn't able to cram a lot of songs I love onto the playlist, although those still at least got into the Spin list.
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