Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret

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.

i had a similar experience with this record, also trail of dead/sonic youth. is there a thread for "bands who directly influenced the bands you love that you didn't hear until much later?"

I can think of very few albums that feature so many fleeting but huge hooks and anthemic bits I love so much, let alone in service of great songs. An indie-rock (as genre) apex.

Good news - they're on Spotify! I listened to them last night.

not in my locale!

the nursery rhyme thing reminds me of Nevermind. the hooks are all ear candy. they're simple and supercharged.

I'm glad this thread popped to life again, because it flashed me back to the last time I saw the band, September 2001. They played several songs from "Perfect from Now On," but a whopping *one* from "Keep It Like a Secret," yet found space to play some Halo Benders and a Caustic Resin track, plus three epic classic rock covers: Cheap Trick's "Dream Police," George Harrison's "What is Life" (he died the next month or so, iirc) and yes, "Freebird" - all in their elaborate entirety.

Ancient Melodies Of the Future destroyed this band. All momentum vanished.

The 'plays perfect from now on in its entirety' show I saw several years ago hung together wonderfully

Ancient Melodies Of the Future destroyed this band. All momentum vanished.

I disagree. That album had a number of highlights and There Is No Enemy was a very good album - they've just never quite reached their mid-period peak again.

I haven't listened to ancient melodies in a very long time but it was one of most anticipated albums and I remember being very disappointed. I thought that the even the worst songs of perfect and secret were better then the best songs off of ancient melodies. But it's been a long time.

When it first came out, Ancient Melodies turned me off of the band for a while. But revisiting it a few years later I wound up really loving it. Untethered Moon is really the only one I don't rate.

this album is just ridiculously great

every time i put it on i can't believe i didn't find it earlier, especially when i was a young teenager & super into modest mouse

i mean, fuck. "Else"

god

music is magic

you've become what you thought was dumb -- a fraction of the sum -- the middle and the fun
now it's coming back -- hasn't it come too far?
i was trying to help -- but i guess i pushed too hard?
now we can't even touch it -- afraid it'll fall apart?

Flawless album.

turn your back on their hating

\m/

Your body breaks
Your needs consume you forever
And with this lies
the need to be here together

this is the best guitar album on earth

fbird otm

yes to all these posts

the girl i was dating when this came out was super into it the the point where i was totally turned off about the album and band. but i have gone back to it in subsequent years and my feeling about it took a 180 . great album

this is the best guitar album on earth

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:13 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you were right is the one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDUEeu1ocUA

that's the shit

First heard of BTS when my a friend of my brother's gave this album a 10/10 review in a student newspaper. Then I think I tuned into some US 'indie' internet radio station and without them announcing 'You Were Right', I thought to myself "I bet this is Built To Spill", despite never having knowingly heard them. Went out and got the album the next time I saw it in a shop.

they are good on late nite talk shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLENvg4_oZA

this is cool, a slightly different arrangement of Else from 2001. DM arpeggiates the chords and there are these great rests from the whole band in between every lyric. changes the feel of the song. outro is a lot longer, slower, and spacier - so fucking good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7yBNxnH-fU

oh thats rad

20th anniversary tour!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6Sv9CgQsl/

Going to see'em next month. So excited

Going to the Webster Hall show

i've found them amazing live and quite dull in equal measure. i'll still probably hit one of these up tho

never seen them but have heard the same. then again, how can you go wrong playing Keep It Like a Secret front to back?

I've had a few chances to see them before and never have, and wouldn't if they weren't doing a KILAS tour.

they were very dull on their tour with the Whigs. any idea if they're more than a three-piece on this one?

probably can't

though the only time i saw them was the You in Reverse era and was i so disappointed. they seemed so tired, even way back then, just very slow and boring, even though they were playing a bunch of my waves. weird show

xp to "how can you go wrong playing Keep It Like a Secret front to back?"

*faves

sigh

Yeah, Whigs tour they were a snooze.

esp in contrast to the Whigs, who were incredible

xxpost Ignoring the typo correction and choosing to believe you saw them cover "My Wave" slowly, over and over again.

Lol

touring Keep It Like a Secret without a second guitarist seems insane

just listened to it and can't imagine they'd try

They did songs from it on that Whigs tour, and yeah, it was missing a lot.

They played as a four-piece tonight in Glasgow. Saved Carry The Zero for the last song of the album's set. I get it now.

WOO! that's a relief. I can't imagine them doing all of KILAS as a trio

how long did they stretch out Carry the Zero

this album is so amazing, the marquee moon of the 90s, what a towering achievement of guitar

i like marquee moon of the 90s (although for me that's Perfect From Now On). Perfect + Keep It is the marquee moon of the 90s, for me, on an equal level. godlike

perfect from now on rules too, it's tough choice and they feel of a piece as you said

Great driving record.