think i might vote for "bad light" for how when it finally builds to an actual chorus, the song is over.
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Monday, 25 July 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
version of "carry the zero" here is kinda nuts http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=3881
― tylerw, Monday, 25 July 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
I've written about this elsewhere, but the new Toby Keith single sounds remarkably like "Else":
http://tasteofcountry.com/toby-keith-made-in-america/
Right down to the kinda spaced-out twang at the end.
― Evan R, Monday, 25 July 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
dialed this up on the ipod and now have been all "damn i should have voted for this one instead" on every successive song. fucking masterpiece.
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 July 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
yep
― j lol (surm), Monday, 25 July 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of great songs on this one, but yeah, 'Sidewalk'.
― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 25 July 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
everyone otm about carry the zero
― iatee, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
i like how, for all the amazing guitar overdubs, it's really tightly arranged and controlled for the entire album until the end of broken chairs, the very last song which jams out into the cosmos
― amada thuggindiss (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 July 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Else
― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Monday, 25 July 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
i really like this album, and pretty much nothing by this band besides this album. voted for "Else."
― yelling "free dom passy" til you know i'm aspie (some dude), Monday, 25 July 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
Damn near a perfect album. Carry the Zero is unfuckwithable.
however, I voted for Else. Probably my fave BtS song ever.
― alpine static, Monday, 25 July 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Carry the Zero," based on the outro alone.
― Punned Sheerest, Monday, 25 July 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
'You Were Right'. Heard it on some American radio station via RealPlayer, shortly after recieveing a dial-up connection. I guessed it was Built To Spill, who I'd never heard a note of. Every impulse purchase of 1999 was a classic, insane as it now seems.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
"carry the zero" is awesome. one of the best songs of a great music year
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Double OTM.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
for me, core bts is definitely tnwwt, pfno, and kilas
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
*tnwwl
TNWWL is great, but it feels like a different band than what came after. Perfect From Now On was a giant leap forward.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
my friends and i were ravenously awaiting what would follow tnwwl and i remember there being murmurings that he had recorded and scrapped an entire followup but decided he wanted it to be 'more of a band concept'. i assume that was just noise, there's no lost material between the 2nd and 3rd albums is there?
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
The first time, frontman Doug Martsch attempted to play all the instruments except drums. He and Ek were dissatisfied with the results, so Martsch brought in bassist Brett Nelson and drummer Scott Plouf and recorded the album again. However, these tapes were destroyed by heat when Ek was driving from Seattle to Boise to record additional overdubs. The band rehearsed some more, then recorded the album a third time.
I knew about the melted tapes - iirc that led them to add the mellotrons & moogs & stuff - didn't know about the all Doug Martsch all the time attempt.
― ledge, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
I go to Keep It Like a Secret because it makes me happy, just the sheer joy of how great a hook can be like in "Sidewalk" how the guitar parts are hooks in and of themselves, Perfect is also great but I don't listen to them often anymore and I tend to want to feel how Keep it makes me feel
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
TNWWL does feel like a different band in a lot of ways, but it is a classic too — i do like that Martsch's lyrics on that one are actually kind of funny.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
That record just has such stunning pop sense, at least on its front half
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
Twin Falls, Idaho ❤️❤️❤️❤️
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
once.WHEN I WAS LIT TULL SOME ONE POIN TAD OUT TO ME
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
witha sing-GULL FETH-yur
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
TNWWL does feel like a different band in a lot of ways, but it is a classic too — i do like that Martsch's lyrics on that one are actually kind of funny.Yeah, that album was a really cool concept. I’ve always kind of been on the lookout for an album or a band that does with they did on that one—split the difference between jam band and indie rock, with a loose, lighthearted approach—but I’ve ever really found anything that quite feels like it. (BTS themselves certainly went in a different direction…)
― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Friday, 4 March 2022 05:58 (two years ago) link
I had some hot take but realized I was completely dismissing "Ultimate Alternative Wavers" because I've never heard it. Like the first Halfnelson record.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 4 March 2022 06:26 (two years ago) link
I remember exactly where I was the first time "The Plan" hit my headphones. 10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2nRdIrM2Oo
― Indexed, Thursday, 1 February 2024 16:56 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dxc1h99oFo
― Indexed, Thursday, 1 February 2024 16:58 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
happy 25th birthday to this amazing record
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
For me, Pop Rock BTS > Jam Band BTS
― Indexed, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:12 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link