Living with the Living

Living with the Living is the fifth album by the Washington, D.C. rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, released in 2007 by Touch and Go Records. It was the band's first album for the Touch and Go label and debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 109, selling about 8,000 copies in its first week.^[6]. Music videos were filmed for the singles "Bomb. Repeat. Bomb." and "Colleen". The iTunes download version of the album included a bonus track entitled "The Vain Parade", while first-run copies of the CD version included the bonus Mo' Living EP.

Track listing

All songs written by Ted Leo.

1. "Fourth World War" – 0:35
2. "The Sons of Cain" – 3:59
3. "Army Bound" – 3:11
4. "Who Do You Love?" – 4:14
5. "Colleen" – 3:05
6. "A Bottle of Buckie" – 3:11
7. "Bomb.Repeat.Bomb." – 3:18
8. "La Costa Brava" – 5:56
9. "Annunciation Day/Born on Christmas Day" – 1:33
10. "The Unwanted Things" – 4:33
11. "The Lost Brigade" – 7:28
12. "The World Stops Turning" – 3:26
13. "Some Beginner's Mind" – 3:50
14. "The Toro and the Toreador" – 6:09
15. "C.I.A." – 6:33
16. "The Vain Parade" (iTunes bonus track) – 6:28

Personnel

• Ted Leo – guitar, vocals, other instrumentation
• Dave Lerner – bass
• Chris Wilson – drums

Album information

• Record label: Touch and Go Records
• Recorded September 24, 2006 – October 5, 2006 at Longview Farms in North Brookfield, Massachusetts with engineering by Ian Neill, and October 8, 2006 – October 14, 2006 at Blind Spot Studios in Washington, D.C. with engineering by Brendan Canty
• Mixed October 15, 2006 – October 22, 2006 at Blind Spot Studios in Washington, D.C. by Ted Leo and Brendan Canty
• Mastered November 28, 2006 at SAE Studios in Phoenix, Arizona by Roger Seibel
• Design by Jodi V.B. and Ida Pearle
• Photography by Shawn Brackbill

References