Frank Turner - FTHC (February 11, 2022) Album • Page 9

He performed a bunch of new ones last night in his European tour—they sounded excellent. Particularly Punches

 

Punches is the song I’m most excited to hear when he tours in the US this summer

 

I have 2 tickets for his show in Portland tonight if anyone wants them, let me know!

 

This is his best work and best album. It honestly reminds me of Against Me! and I'm in love.

 

Unfortunately I would say it’s his 6th best, but I’m happy you’re enjoying it!

 

I really enjoy the energy, guitar tones, and riffs.

 

I definitely agree! His last 2 albums were desperately missing literally all of that, mostly the energy.

 

Yeah, I absolutely love this album too. I listen to it constantly. I wouldn't flat out say it's his best album at this point - I've never actually ranked Frank Turner albums - but this is certainly right up there with his best stuff for me. Definitely a return to form after two back-to-back stumbles.

 

Tape Deck Heart
England Keep My Bones
Love Ire and Song
Positive Songs for Negative People
FTHC
Poetry of the Deed
Be More Kind
No Mans Land

i dont think i've ever listened to Sleep is for the Week

 

gasp

 

I think my two favorite albums from him are England Keep My Bones & Tape Deck Heart.

FTHC, PSFNP, PotD & L,I&S are all a slight step below those two but still phenomenal.

It's embarrassing to admit but I can't remember ever listening to Sleep Is For The Week, but I'm sure I must have at some point.

Be More Kind & No Man's Land are both bad albums, although there are a few songs from each one that I genuinely like a lot.

 

If we’re doing this, here goes:

Tape Deck Heart
England Keep My Bones
Love Ire and Song
FTHC
Positive Songs For Negative People
Sleep Is For the Week
Poetry of the Deed
Be More Kind
No Man’s Land

The top 3 rotate depending on my mood, and I feel like FTHC over PS4NP could just be recency bias, but I’ve thought it would settle in that range for me when I first listened. I’ve never found NML as awful as most people, but I also don’t find it particularly good. There’s only 2-3 songs I ever return to on it. I could probably say the same for BMK, but the highs on that one are significantly higher than anything on NML.

 

@JimmyIymmiJ Nice, identical to mine aside from the slight swap of FTHC and Positive.

 

I spent a long time and many listens trying to get Be More Kind to click with me and work as an album. I ended up cutting it down to 10 tracks, but honestly there's probably 7 really good songs for me on that album and no more.

No Man's Land only has a couple of songs that I like, but Graveyard Of The Outcast Dead is just straight up a fucking great song and an awesome Frank Turner song. It's probably the only song on the album that doesn't feel kinda forced and feels like he could've written it for any album and wasn't trying to hit a specific subject.

 

Love, Ire & Song
England Keep My Bones
Tape Deck Heart
Positive Songs for Negative People
Sleep Is for the Week
Poetry of the Deed
FTHC
No Man’s Land/Be More Kind

Pretty easy ranking for me. Tape Deck Heart, Positive Songs and Sleep are all pretty close though.

 

Listened to this again for the first time since Feb and man it's great, excited to see these songs next week

 

Tape Deck Heart
England Keep My Bones
Love Ire and Song
Sleep is For The Week
FTHC
Positive Songs For Negative People
Poetry of the Deed
Be More Kind
No Man’s Land

 

Seeing him tonight for the first time since September 2017!

 

Doesnt matter how much i dislike an album from him, he is one of the *best* to see live.

 

Only took a few photos, man, what a show. Have no idea how this dude plays for an hour & 45 minutes every night. Maybe he just doesn’t speak the other 22 hours of the day? Only negative is that he didn’t play Punches.

The supporting bands (especially The Bronx) were great too.

 

I love this fucking album.

 

Lost Evenings comes back to the US

Anaheim, Sept 2023

 

Man, Tape Deck Heart turns ten next year. I think it's still my favorite of his.

 

Positive Songs for me

 

I think England Keep my Bones is still my favorite, but I recognize TDH as, very easily, his best.