otm except really the 8 minute two sectioned multiple false endinged Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else) is some kind of epic... ok all the tracks on here are epic but they are epic songs, Untrustable is an epic epic.
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
i love this album so, hard to choose...
― so come right back, we have count dracula and we have adam rich (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think ive ever skipped around on this album
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
"Velvet Waltz" for me
― Euler, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
one of the first videos i ever watched on The You Tube and one of the funniest, as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABZPinjaFY
― del griffith, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone know the story of why there is a period at the end of the name of this record?
― Bee OK, Friday, 27 May 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 28 May 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Out of Site.
― akm, Sunday, 29 May 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
Kicked
― I have access to a gift card (rip van wanko), Sunday, 29 May 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'd say that's a long time
― ciderpress, Sunday, 29 May 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 29 May 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Stop the Show Made-Up DreamsUntrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else) Out of Site Kicked It in the Sun Velvet Waltz Randy Described Eternity I Would Hurt a Fly
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 2 August 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Huh. So as I explained on another thread the other day, I never listened to this album until very recently. Was trying to pick a standout track to put on a 1997 playlist, and, despite a friend's recommendation of "Out of Site," I went with "I Would Hurt a Fly." I dunno, I like the cello and the way it picks up at the end.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Thursday, 2 August 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
"I Would Hurt a Fly" is my favorite Built to Spill song. Musically it is pretty much perfect.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Was a grave mistake, but how could you have knownThe temperature and distance of the su-uh-UH-uh-UH-uh-UH uh! uh! uh! uh! uh! uh!
― how's life, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
It's weird how disappointed/frustrated I was with this record when it came out; it's now my favorite of their albums my a mile.
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 9 June 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
great, great album. going to dig this out and play it as it has been awhile.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
used to be able to basically hum this whole album start to finish.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
i admit that i ctrl+f'd my old username on this thread, expecting to find a really drunk 4 paragraph ramble about the brilliance of velvet waltz. the lyrics don't really make a ton of sense but i couldn't imagine anything different or better for it
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
i'd really like to hear what a louderized remaster could do for this, maybe push the drums to the front. it's such a flat-sounding sound space.
― j., Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
This is still a really tremendous record, and it's always made me mega confused as to how death cab ever got so big when they're basically a more emo, less interesting, less dynamic BTS tribute band
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
Out Of Site should have got more votes!
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
DCFC being a more emo, less jammy BTS is exactly why they got so big, right?
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
always assumed it was combined The OC / Postal Service effects
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I mean those were the sparks the got people into their music (though it's worth noting that they were still selling years after the peak of the Postal Service/OC). I just mean that it's not that baffling that a more accessible version of a BTS was able to ride that sound to greater success.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Like, why would being "more emo" in 2003 be a hindrance to DCFC's popularity?
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
DCFC are more poppy than this which is why they got so big; also, while Perfect and SEcret are great, everything after is boring a dumb, and DC stayed relatively interesting through Narrow Stairs then became dull as dirt.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Literally off the money in every possible way
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 28 May 2015 11:43 (eight years ago) link
Good podcast w/Martsch talking about the recording of Perfect From Now On:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1T0zYDE39sryomThLYP4gt?si=7d09fa7eed2c4cea
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
Is this CD currently out of print? Went looking for it on a nostalgia kick recently and couldn't find a decent copy for under $25. Weird
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 10:55 (one year ago) link
I had a chance to see Built to Spill in this last year but didn't make it. Looking over these songs now makes me mad I decided not to go.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 18 August 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
One of you folks recommended the "Life of the Record" podcast, which is basically just an artist going track by track through one of their best known records, telling stories, revealing some of the process. I listened to the "Perfect from Now On" one, and boy, did I just jibe with Doug's ... ethos, I guess. He wanted long songs to keep them off the radio. He didn't want anything that sounded like what was going on in the Pacific Northwest. He resisted having a steady band line-up until he realized how much it would help him achieve his vision, and for that matter, at first resisted making the album sound too "good" until he recognized that all his favorite albums used all the tricks and tools (even basic stuff, like reverb or mic placement) he was too punk rock to enlist. He more or less through-composed all these tracks, or at least cobbled them together from various ideas, whereas the more concise "Keep It Like a Secret," *that* is the album that came out of jamming, ironically. He cites the Beatles as the biggest influence on the album, and I hear it, but the songs are so weird and epic that it doesn't always *sound* like the Beatles. And so on.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 March 2024 13:12 (four weeks ago) link