Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret

I voted for "Else."

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.

you're right Perfect From Now On is much much better: Built To Spill poll

"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

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!)

"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)

else

I really hope I'm not the only vote for Temporarily Blind. That song is firmly in my top 5.

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.

i know what you mean but i never minded it

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 (14 hours ago) Permalink

i hear you

I always heard it as more of a stoner joke: "don't you ever think about it...man?"

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.

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.

Fuck why ain't this on spotify.

it is in the us

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.

^ good post

haha, i was just about to bust in with the "that was the worst story i've ever told" comment

i wasn't being sarcastic btw

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.

true story

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.

I dunno, the chord progression just feels so ~transcendent~.

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.

voted Else, glad to see it's got a real contingency here; Now And Then might be my favorite KILAS-era song.

"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"

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

*ponders*

If not for TB, it could have been any one of these for me.

i was afraid i'd be the only one to vote for "bad light"

but come on that ending

No track got zero votes, good showing.

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.

Could say the same about Perfect from Now On.

Double OTM.

i see they are touring this summer, going to try and catch their show.

wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah
wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah, VRROOOOOOOM
DUN der na ner - SCREEEEEECH
DUN der na ner - SCREEEEEEEEEEE
dwee, dwah dweedle-ah dweeeeeee....dwah dweedle
dwee dwah dwee dwah dwee dwah dwah dweedle

how's life otm

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.

and you're so occupied with what other persons are occupied with
and vice versa

a fraction

you guys haven't heard the new MIGUEL

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)

lol

wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah
wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah, VRROOOOOOOM
DUN der na ner - SCREEEEEECH
DUN der na ner - SCREEEEEEEEEEE
dwee, dwah dweedle-ah dweeeeeee....dwah dweedle
dwee dwah dwee dwah dwee dwah dwah dweedle

otm

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.

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.

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?

Carry the zero was the one for me...way into those maj7 chords

their best record. :-)

Center of the Universe is just ridiculous. 4 killer hooks, each better than the last. The melodies on this album are like nursery rhymes, especially COTU.

all the hooks on this album are really short and simple and each song has like 4 or 5 or 6

calstars otm about carry the zero, the outro is spectacular

happy 25th birthday to this amazing record

For me, Pop Rock BTS > Jam Band BTS

i need them both

pretty sure i voted 'carry the zero' in this, but 'broken chairs' is an incredible album closer

The one two punch of Carry the Zero and Sidewalks is so good.

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 Marquee Moon of 90s indie rock