Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks 3/9/10

[Dan in Chicago]

My guess is "too loud". 

Dynamics get squashed in favor of "loudness".

There are articles written about this topic.  I feel sure.

This is Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, not the Foo Fighters. I do not believe Ted is a dynamics-squasher.

This man is the savior of Rock&Roll, if he is turning it up it's probably for a pretty good reason.

[Steeley Chris]

Playing on the Jimmy Fallon Show tonight. This might be one of the few instances where I wish my TV got broadcast.

[bmills]

Liking this more than his last one. I think it sounds way tighter.

Weeks old argument too but I'm kind of into loud Ted. "Woke Up Near Chelsea" is a scorcher.

[Reeleyes]

Last week the dude at my local record shop said he heard a promo copy and thought it was weak. Today I go in to get Brutalist Bricks and the Titus Andronicus and the same dude holds up the Ted Leo and says "This is really good"... he was right the second time.

[Reeleyes]

Oh, and this is cool.

http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2010/03/08/the-ted-leorx-covers-archive-55-covers-and-counting/

[Jouster]

Dusted Magazine (a personal favorite) gave this a rave review: "Leo was impressive even when he was an unmitigated idealist but now, older and less sure of things, he is even better."

[Stupornaut]

Speaking as Junior Best Show Shovel.com Liaison (not sure what Matthew Fluxblog's two cents are), 7.9* is pretty conservative. Thompson makes some great cases for the record, but the cases against -- mostly in the lyrics department -- I don't agree with at all. The directness is what makes a lot of it hit hard, if you ask me.

*even though it's a hair away from the equivalent of four stars -- I dunno, focusing on the number ratings without actually reading the article is moron stuff anyways.

[Martin]

I thought the shovel review was pretty cranky. The writer talked about the last record - which he didn't like at all - almost more than TBB.

[Chris L]

I thought the shovel review was pretty cranky. The writer talked about the last record - which he didn't like at all - almost more than TBB.

I stopped reading after he wrote that LWTL is the kind of thing you rarely listen to.  Meanwhile, it's one of the only rock albums of the last four years I've listened to regularly ever since it was released.

[Steeley Chris]

I thought the shovel review was pretty cranky. The writer talked about the last record - which he didn't like at all - almost more than TBB.

Man, they love to talk about how much they LOVE Ted over at that site (basically every article about him that isn't a review), but when it comes to reviewing his albums, where's that good will? Better than 7.9, better than Hearts Of Oak's 8.3.

[Steeley Chris]

iTunes has a 14th track, "Everything Gets Interrupted".

[The Brighamist]

I just got the album this morning! I'm on Mourning in America, right now, and heartily enjoying it.

Anybody going to the Seattle show?

I had a feeling this would happen. My sister-in-law is getting married that weekend and I will be out of town.

[Bernard]

iTunes has a 14th track, "Everything Gets Interrupted".

amazon has "every dream deferred" listed as their 14th, exclusive track. you can buy it individually as well.

[samir]

Live performance from James Fallon's television programme yesterday evening: skip to the end: http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/episodes/?vid=1207477

[Dan B]

got the LP today. "Bottled In Cork" best song, no doubt. My friend claims that he witnessed Ted writing the lyrics to "Woke Up Near Chelsea" on a matchbook on the T in Boston the morning after the Pharmacists opened for Pearl Jam in Chelsea, Mass. I'll buy it.