Tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists
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| Name = tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists
| Type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[Ted Leo and the Pharmacists]]
| Cover = Ted_Leo_-_tej_leo.jpg
| Released = [[September 21]], [[1999]]
| Recorded = [[1997]]–[[1998]]
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length = 50:19
| Label = [[Gern Blandsten Records]]
| Producer =
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]]'' {{rating-5|3}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8t63mpch9fco link]
| Last album =
| This album = '''''tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists'''''<br />(1999)
| Next album = ''[[The Tyranny of Distance (album)|The Tyranny of Distance]]''<br />(2001)
|}}
'''''tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists''''' is the debut album by the [[Washington, D.C.]] [[rock (music)|rock]] band [[Ted Leo and the Pharmacists]], released in [[1999]] by [[Gern Blandsten Records]]. Though considered the band's first album, it is actually a solo effort by [[Ted Leo]] with some contributions by Jodi V.B. of [[The Secret Stars]]. The following year Leo would assemble a backing band including V.B., which he named The Pharmacists. The album is largely experimental and blends rock music with elements of [[dub music|dub reggae]], with many instrumental tracks, samples, and audio experimentation. This is exemplified in the various tracks entitled "(version:)," which are versions and remixes of "Release Form," a song originally written by V.B. for The Secret Stars. The track "(version: to decline to take a shower)," for example, consists of Leo singing the song while showering. In other instances Leo samples himself, such as "Walking Through," which contains a sample of "Congressional Dubcision," and "Out of Step '88!," which samples a radio interview that Leo did for campus radio station [[WFVI]] at the [[University of Notre Dame]].
==Track listing==
#"Call Off the Invasion/Flydocious Invasion"
#*<small>Contains samples of "On Warmer Music" and "All My Kin" by [[Chisel (band)|Chisel]] and "Nightingale" by [[The Secret Stars]]</small>
#"The Pharmacist v. The Secret Stars (version: to decline)"
#"Walking Through"
#*<small>Contains samples of "Zealots" by [[The Fugees]] and "Roxanne Roxanne" by [[UTFO]]</small>
#"The 'Nice People' Argument"
#*<small>Contains samples of "Major General Despair" by [[Crass]] and "Never Do What You Are Told" by [[Chumbawumba]]</small>
#"Mr. Annoyatron Brown"
#"The King of Time"
#"(version: to decline to make some tea)"
#"Soon Dubward"
#*<small>Contains samples of "Soon Forward" by [[Gregory Isaacs]]</small>
#"Set You Free"
#"The Northeast Corridor"
#"Lui Prima Mobile"
#"Friends and Bands"
#"Head in the Freezer"
#"(version: to decline to take a shower)"
#*<small>Contains samples of "New Martini" by [[Karate (band)|Karate]]</small>
#"Congressional Dubcision"
#"(version: whisper: courage)"
#*<small>Contains samples of "Roxane Roxane" by [[UTFO]]</small>
#"Sm 11:11/The Trumpet of the Martians"
#"'(none)'"
#*<small>Contains samples of "Orpheus and Eurydice/Nexus of the Echoplexus" by [[Piss Karaoke]]/[[Silent Emcee]]</small>
#"Out of Step '88!"
==Performers==
*[[Ted Leo]] - [[vocals]], [[guitar]], [[bass guitar|bass]], [[drums]], mixing, engineering, sampling, other instrumentation
*Jodi V.B. - backing vocals
==Album information==
*Record label: [[Gern Blandsten Records]]
*Tracks 1, 2, 7, 11, 16, & 19 recorded January 1997 at Radium City Studios in [[Washington, D.C.]]
*Tracks 3–5, 8, 9, 15, 17, & 18 recorded January 1998 at Radium City Studios in [[Bloomfield, New Jersey]]
*Tracks 6, 10, & 13 recorded February 1998 at Radium City Studios in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]
*Tracks 12 & 14 recorded January 1997 at Radium City Studios in Washington, D.C.
*Design concept by Ted Leo
*Layout by Deanna Pineda and Furnace Mfg.
[[Category:1999 albums]]
[[Category:Debut albums]]
[[Category:Ted Leo and the Pharmacists albums]]