Ted Leo - Which album do you consider his best?

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I love them all. If I had to chose one (today), I still think it would be Tyranny >>Hearts of oak.
Shake the sheets is still great also.

― meister, Monday, 16 May 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Tyranny of Distance > Shake the Sheets > Hearts of Oak* > Set You Free > 8 A.M. All Day

* I could probably be kinder to Hearts for the songs but I think the productions/performances are pretty lacking

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Hearts Of Oak > Tyranny > Shake The Sheets

Hearts Of Oak has the best songs, and I love the production. His most diverse album.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, it's hard to pick a best albums b/c (even though I love Ted for many personal reasons and have seen him many times) I find his albums HUGELY hit and miss.

Songs:

Timorous Me > Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? > Little Dawn > Under the Hedge > Walking To Do > Hearts of Oak > Angel's Share > Vien > Bridges & Squares > The High Party

― PB, Monday, 16 May 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hearts of Oak = Shake the Sheets > Tyranny of Distance

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The first half of Tyranny of Distance is unimpeachable for me, so I'll go with that.

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Monday, 16 May 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Shake Da Sheetz

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Monday, 16 May 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I will rep for the "experimental" first solo album, because someone has to. Also, because I'm XTREME and ICONOCLASTIC and shiz. Also, because I like its fuckedupedness.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 16 May 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never quite understood the appeal for this guy but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. I have a copy of an album with a really good intro song that goes "Laying on the table for to welcome you back home/Calling on the angels for to lighten up your load", but the rest of the songs remind me of the Manics. What album and song is this?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 May 2005 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the "Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead" mini-album, I think.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 16 May 2005 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

And the song you're referring to is the title track.

Oh, and Hearts of Oak = Tyranny of Distance = Shake the Sheets (sorry).

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 16 May 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

8 AM All Day

The solo stuff is pretty dreadful IMO.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 16 May 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotta go with Shake the Sheets, although I think all of his stuff is fantastic.

― cdwill, Monday, 16 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Tyranny of Distance>Shake The Sheets>Hearts Of Oak.

Tyranny is way above the others too.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Leo is great, but I can rarely find the energy to sit trough an entire album, that's why my vote goes to the "Treble In Trouble" EP, it's just the right amount of punch in a reasonable amount of time.

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tyranny" for "Under Your Hedge," which is about beating up on Robert Pollard.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone post the lyrics for "Under Your Hedge"? I like it when indie dudes get all pissy with each other.

― darin (darin), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard the Pollard story fairly recently and I still can't really figure out how the lyrics are about that. I mean it sounds like kind of a sweet love song for the most part.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

when i heard chisel for the first time in high school it was like a bomb dropping, clearing everything in its path. i still love 8 AM All Day and found his solo career pretty disappointing, though Hearts of Oak had some moments.

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted was interviewed by my college radio station (where he DJed when he was an undergrad there back in the early 90s) a few years back, and he confirmed the story. I think he had mantioned in a previous interview that the song was about an altercation at Oberlin w/ another band, and somebody put 2 and 2 together.

― PB, Monday, 16 May 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

really, I'm just making my "requisite appearance on Ted Leo thread" post

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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