Album · Tim Armstrong
A Poet’s Life by Tim Armstrong
A Poet’s Life is an album by Tim Armstrong, released in 2007. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Into Action”, on 7 lists with a best position of #53.
A Poet's Life, Tim Armstrong's first solo album, arrived on May 22, 2007 through Hellcat Records, the label the Rancid frontman had co-founded with Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz a decade earlier. He cut it in Los Angeles with the Aggrolites as his backing band, and it plays like a homecoming for a guy who got his start in the ska-punk of Operation Ivy.
This is straight-up ska with an easy, sunny lilt, that distinctive voice of his riding loping grooves instead of punk blasts, and "Into Action" is the pick of the bunch. The release was as loose and generous as the music: it first went out free as internet downloads before it turned into a physical product, and it came with a DVD that put a video to every song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Poet’s Life on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into Action | 7 | #53 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.