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― System, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for You Were Right
's like a punch in the gut
― j lol (surm), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
As a long-standing fan of this album, I don't quite get the Carry The Zero love. I like it a lot, but don't get why it's a fave.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for "Else."
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Still think this record pales in the mighty shadow of Perfect From Now On but I guess we have already had that debate on other threads. I think it comes down to if this was your first exposure to BTS it might likely be your favourite. Thats my theory anyway.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
you're right Perfect From Now On is much much better: Built To Spill poll
― Bee OK, Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
"carry the zero" love is all about the lyrics bridging into that massive crescendo. it is a major call to get off your ass, fuck the consequences. now we can't even touch it, afraid it'll fall apart
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
my first exposure to bts was the caustic resin ep, particularly 'when not being stupid is not enough'
it's tough, but i think i'll take 'keep it like a secret' over perfect, though i would trade out 'you were right' (blasphemy!)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
"stop the show" is awesome but i'd take 'keep it like a secret' any night of the week. (and "you were right" should've been a b-side -- i get the joke; once is enough)
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
else
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
I really hope I'm not the only vote for Temporarily Blind. That song is firmly in my top 5.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
i like most of you were right except the part that goes "don't youuuu ever think about it!" which always struck me as a little heavy handed.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
i know what you mean but i never minded it
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Thursday, 28 July 2011 00:09 (14 hours ago) Permalink
i hear you
― j lol (surm), Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
I always heard it as more of a stoner joke: "don't you ever think about it...man?"
― kkvgz, Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny, i saw BTS in the fall of 98 and they played you were right, but it didn't have that part! my friend taped it, so we compared/contrasted .... guess they thought it needed a little extra something.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Love the Time Trap intro so much, shame the rest doesn't quite live up to it. Voting Else since I'm a miserable bastard. Carry the Zero I pretty epic though.
― ledge, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck why ain't this on spotify.
― ledge, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
it is in the us
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
voted Else, although I love it all. I remember the first summer "on my own" (not in dorms, but still sharing a house with others) in college, and I didn't know the other roommates that well at all and was having trouble connecting in any sort of meaningful way. I was listening to some BTS and about halfway through Else one of the new roommates went "what IS this? it's awesome!" and it was the thing that allowed me to get to know them so much better and become friendz.
― future events are now current events (Z S), Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
^ good post
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha, i was just about to bust in with the "that was the worst story i've ever told" comment
― future events are now current events (Z S), Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i wasn't being sarcastic btw
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
i remember listening to perfect from now on in my dorm freshman year and a dude knocking on my door saying "this album is SO GREAT." and i thought, ok, here's a new friend. but i ended up not liking him very much.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
true story
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, the chord progression just feels so ~transcendent~.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Tbh, though, I've always been surprised that people like the song as much as I do. I know, e.g., that the major-7th chords are doing it for me, but presumably not everyone else is being taken in for that reason.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
voted Else, glad to see it's got a real contingency here; Now And Then might be my favorite KILAS-era song.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
"what IS this? it's awesome!"
played "carry the zero" one day at at my previous job and two coworkers rushed up to me and asked "what is THIS, this is awesome"
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
*ponders*
― markers, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
If not for TB, it could have been any one of these for me.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
i was afraid i'd be the only one to vote for "bad light"
but come on that ending
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Friday, 29 July 2011 06:23 (twelve years ago) link
No track got zero votes, good showing.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Don't drag this out as much add I used to, but whenever I do, I wonder why I still spend money on other music.
― how's life, Friday, 5 April 2013 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
Could say the same about Perfect from Now On.
― riverrun, past Steve and Adam's (ledge), Friday, 5 April 2013 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
Double OTM.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
i see they are touring this summer, going to try and catch their show.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 6 April 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wahwah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah, VRROOOOOOOMDUN der na ner - SCREEEEEECHDUN der na ner - SCREEEEEEEEEEEdwee, dwah dweedle-ah dweeeeeee....dwah dweedledwee dwah dwee dwah dwee dwah dwah dweedle
― underrated aerobies I have flung (how's life), Friday, 6 June 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link
how's life otm
― j., Friday, 6 June 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
missed this poll, obviously. one of my fave albums ever. would've voted else.
KILAS > PFNO but both are essentially perfect. for me, it's just that I prefer 5 minute songs to 8 minute songs.
― alpine static, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
and you're so occupied with what other persons are occupied with and vice versa
― calstars, Sunday, 7 December 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
a fraction
― mookieproof, Sunday, 7 December 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
you guys haven't heard the new MIGUEL
― if i had a million middle fingers (rip van wanko), Sunday, 7 December 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
I voted for Else. Probably my fave BtS song ever.― alpine static, Monday, July 25, 2011 3:21 PM (3 years ago)missed this poll, obviously. one of my fave albums ever. would've voted else.― alpine static, Friday, June 6, 2014 9:04 AM (6 months ago)
― alpine static, Monday, July 25, 2011 3:21 PM (3 years ago)
― alpine static, Friday, June 6, 2014 9:04 AM (6 months ago)
lol
― alpine static, Sunday, 7 December 2014 06:56 (nine years ago) link
otm
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Saturday, 14 February 2015 07:21 (nine years ago) link
i was a huge modest mouse fan when i was a young teenager and i'm really bummed i didn't hear this album until i was 22. when i was younger i got Perfect from Now On and couldn't get into it.
anyway i was at someone's apartment in ohio and they were playing this record and i was completely blown away, immediately wanted to hear 'Center of the Universe' over and over, all that.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
This album is great. Way back when a band I was in was playing Portland (I think), and we were talking to this girl about this album when she revealed she was the one on the cover!
She did not have wings, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 June 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
ha that's awesome!
not sure whether to post this in here or "unusual details in wikipedia articles," because this isn't necessarily an unusual detail it's just weird:
Many of the songs on the album originated from a week's worth of band jam sessions in Boise. During these marathon jam sessions, which could last up to five hours at a time, Martsch used a foot pedal that triggered a tape machine to begin recording.
..... marathon?
― flappy bird, Friday, 16 June 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
Carry the zero was the one for me...way into those maj7 chords
― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
their best record. :-)
― Ludo, Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dxc1h99oFo
― Indexed, Thursday, 1 February 2024 16:58 (four months ago) link
Awesome videos. Time Trap is my favorite and I definitely remember where I was the first time I heard it. I bought the CD at a record store on South Street in Philly the morning after celebrating passing the bar exam with a bunch of friends. I started playing immediately after I bought it and left Philly and Time Trap came on as I was driving on the Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike and I freaked out.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 1 February 2024 17:08 (four months ago) link
Aw, Reverb was the greatest. Filled me with the biggest concert envy when I was like 12-13, before I'd been to one. This is one of the episodes I remember best, along with the Pavement, Beck and Flaming Lips ones. Think I still have tapes of some of these...
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Thursday, 1 February 2024 22:43 (four months ago) link
happy 25th birthday to this amazing record
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:09 (four months ago) link
For me, Pop Rock BTS > Jam Band BTS
― Indexed, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:12 (four months ago) link
i need them both
pretty sure i voted 'carry the zero' in this, but 'broken chairs' is an incredible album closer
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:26 (four months ago) link
The one two punch of Carry the Zero and Sidewalks is so good.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:41 (four months ago) link
idk if there is a song on this record i wouldn't consider voting for on the right day
i think maybe "you were right," just because i don't love the "do you ever think about it" ending as much as the rest of the song
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:02 (four months ago) link
the Marquee Moon of 90s indie rock
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:17 (four months ago) link