Built to Spill
 

Perhaps get better with each album?

Poll.

They re-issued perfect from now on and i've been meaning to pick it up.

I didn't know they re-issued it.

Yeah last year apparently. Only hit stores recently.
Like how it took them 8 months to put Mirrored in the fucking stores.

great shit!
I like them all, even their so called "weaker" albums

I love the built to spill but the double LIVE one is the shznit

Modest Mouse > Built to Spill

I don't think I can answer this poll.

I love them all.

c'mon Feb 29th! wooo!

HA HA HA HA HAA~! YOU ARE RIDICULOUS!


on songwriting ability alone built to spill blows the mouse out the water!

LIVE, they blow the mouse out the water.

lyrically, the blow the mouse out the water.

modest mouse has been using the same songwriting "tricks" for a WHILE now, and it is boring!

There's Nothing Wrong With Love for me, it was my first so maybe thats why it sticks

Early Modest Mouse is a bit better, actually, but as a whole Built to Spill is a better band.

My favorite is Perfect From Now On.... but my favorite song (and actually one of my favorite songs ever) is "Car".

Anyone here dig Halo Benders? Good band...

I can stand Doug Martsch's vocals only some of the time.

the best modest mouse song is dirty fingernails.

my fav is fucking "breakthrough"!!

tnwwl

You read my mind

Wow, people actually like MM around here? I heard them on the radio the other day....no thanks. No thanks.

i like their first two albums.

No matter what, this band will always have one of the most annoying voices in rock music.

I listened to one Built to Spill record (I think it was Keep it like a secret) and didn't like it because I found it too "pop-rockish". Should I give a try to other records maybe ?

They are also the token "guitar solo" band for people who usually seem to like talking about how guitar solos are lame.

i love guitar solos

dinosaur!!!!

i find built to spill very boring.

i see them compared to modest mouse a lot, i don't see why, isaac brock is a much more inventive guitarist whether doug marsch (?) seems to be all about soloing mindlessly a la j mascis only j sounds like he means it. anyway, i file this band with superchunk, they are like green day except they didn't get played on the radio.

by the way, i love "hyper enough" by superchunk, one of my all time favorite songs, but other than that, they sound too much like the offspring for me.

I think that I started listening to Built to Spill about the same time I started listening to Modest Mouse.

I still listen to Built to Spill.

as I mentioned, next friday they will be in town.

I'm so excited, pee is running down my leg as I type this.

brb mop.

I've only heard too songs by them, but I'm thinking about going to see them in 3 weeks. Should I?

Odd that no one knows who halo benders is apparently.

Way better than BTS...

built to spill bore me to death.

I hate the dudes voice. Reminds me too much of Band of Horses and My Morning Jacket and all that. I like Modest Mouse, at least their older albums.

Way too much hating of a great band, for my likings.

You all need to go suck on a popsicle stick.

My guess from most of your tastes is you would love Perfect From Now On. I absolutely love that album, but thought Keep It Like a Secret was a huge let down as a follow up, for sound exactly like you describe it.

It's funny I play PFNO so much that one night I was listening to On the Beach by Neil Young and my wife said, "Is that Built to Spill?" That was highly amusing.

I think Keep It Like a Secret is a great record.

I like Halo Benders and find the juxtaposition of Cavlin and Doug's voices amusing and engaging. However, even at my most into them, I still can't shirk the "novelty" feeling of the group. I don't think it's a bad thing, but I don't think it stands up to the intensity of BTS at their best. But then, for me, that's one Perfect record.

We hate popsicle sticks, too.

You get the car
I'll get the night off
You'll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works
Don't let me know what you find out
I need a car
You need a guide
Who needs a map
If I don't die or worse I'm gonna need a nap
At best I'll be asleep when you get back
I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars, and moons are all about
I wanna see their faces turn to backs of heads and slowly get smaller
I wanna see it now
I wanna see it now

I want specifics on the general idea
I wanna think what I should know
Want you to do me what to show
I wanna see movies of my dreams
I wanna see movies of my dreams
I wanna see movies of my dreams
I wanna see movies of my dreams
I wanna see it when you get stoned on a cloudy breezy desert afternoon
I wanna see it untame itself and break its owner
I wanna see it now
I wanna see it now


"Car" is one of the best songs ever.

Oh man , I actually cringed and am actively forcing the thought out of my head . I cannot stand the texture of wood in my mouth (!!) , its horrible , like nails on a chalkboard but in the mouth . ohhhhhh ! :eek:

I cant wait til I see them this september. They're gonna be doing all of perfect from now on live. Plus meat puppets and dinosaur jr are playing on the bill as well. Its like a dream lineup.

Perfect From Now On is a very personal album to me.

Great, great band.

Wow, some BTS dissing. I can't agree with most of it. Doug is a way better guitar player than Isaac Brock. Isaac is a good noodler, but that's it. I just saw them live and they were better than the records. Some of the records have a lot of mediocre songs, but i could still pick out a killer set of BTS that is on par with just about anybody.

I like "There's Nothing Wrong with Love" and "Keep it like a Secret" best. But the poll is closed...?

There's Nothing Wrong With Love is my favourite.

built to spill fucking rule and are ten times better than modest mouse and their concertsb are fucking amazing and sometimes there is a wall of sound because of 5 guitars oin stage and doug is a fucking amazing songwriter in the george hjarrison/john lennon vein and fuck they are AWESOME!

boring awful band, like bruce springsteen with indie cred or something.