The Tyranny of Distance (album) 1427162 224857579 2008-07-10T18:52:09Z J Milburn Bot 7423137 All Music Guide has now been rebranded to Allmusic {{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = The Tyranny of Distance | Type = [[Album]] | Artist = [[Ted Leo and the Pharmacists]] | Cover = tyranny of distance.jpg | Released = [[June 19]], [[2001]] | Recorded = | Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]] | Length = 48:51 | Label = [[Lookout! Records]] | Producer = [[Brendan Canty]] | Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:25320rjai48v link] *[[Pitchfork Media]] {{rating-10|8.5}} [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19350-the-tyranny-of-distance-with-pharmacists link] | Last album = ''[[tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists]]''<br />(1999) | This album = '''''The Tyranny of Distance'''''<br />(2001) | Next album = ''[[Hearts of Oak (album)|Hearts of Oak]]''<br />(2003) |}} '''''The Tyranny of Distance''''' is the second album by the [[Washington, D.C.]] [[rock (music)|rock]] band [[Ted Leo and the Pharmacists]], released in [[2001]] by [[Lookout! Records]]. It was the group's first album as a full band, as their previous album ''[[tej leo(?), Rx / pharmacists]]'' had been a solo effort by singer/guitarist Ted Leo. The album's title comes from a lyric in the [[Split Enz]] song "Six Months in a Leaky Boat," which the band later covered twice: first as a Leo solo on the [[EP]] ''[[Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead]]'' in [[2003]], and again as a full band on [[2005]]'s ''[[Sharkbite Sessions]]''. ==Track listing== #"Biomusicology" – 4:18 #"Parallel or Together?" – 4:56 #"Under the Hedge" – 3:20 #"Dial Up" – 4:04 #"Timorous Me" – 4:34 #"Stove by a Whale" – 7:59 #"The Great Communicator" – 3:16 #"Squeaky Fingers" – 3:37 #"M¥ Vien iLin" – 2:43 #"The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree" – 1:54 #"St. John the Divine" – 6:39 #"You Could Die (Or This Might End)" – 1:30 {{DEFAULTSORT:Tyranny of Distance, The}} [[Category:Ted Leo and the Pharmacists albums]] [[Category:2001 albums]] {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub}}