Why In The Name Of All That Is Holy Does Anyone Like Built to Spill?

Wow. Whatta setlist

Was hoping tylerw has a soundboard recording...

wow i really hated on them up above. I kind of stand by what I said, but I do like keep it like a secret more now. perfect is still a good album. not sure they needed to ever do anything else. I would still never go see them live again.

I only saw them once about 1999ish not having heard anything by them before, and yeah they were pretty boring live although I really liked one of the songs, which turned out to be Car.

For me they've always been a band I like some songs by but in general not really into. I bought Keep It Like A Secret around the time I saw them live because it was getting rave reviews, which I found pretty baffling and tbh still do because I think it's probably my least favourite of the albums I've heard (hah reading upthread it may have actually been our stevie's review I was reading?)

i saw them live a few months ago and they were wonderful??? idk what y'all are on about

never seen them but would like to, tho i'm really only familiar with KILAS and PFNO. Martsch is a seriously underrated guitarist. like this video from last year of them playing "Else" just floors me. i know dude can shred but he's just really well rounded, i really dig this three-piece arrangement of the song, that we-ooh-we-ooh-we-ooh-we-ooh-we-ooh-oh lead sounds so much better when he's doing it. song needs that space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JxIYuVwKw

everybody knows build to spill rules and are great live, seen them twice, would love to see them again

I saw them live in 2016 and they were trying out a power trio, which I didn't think worked so well. but some of the jams were indeed epic (goin' against your mind, holy crap)

my sister just shared this story with me:

so my good friend, _______, her and her husband’s family are HUGE bts fans. anyway, _______'s sister-in-law was dying of cancer, and the band was on tour but she was too sick to go to the concert. the family contacted doug and he came TO HER HOUSE and performed a private concert for her and the family. they said he was just the nicest guy. she passed soon after.

this has got to be the worst thread name on ilm

oh shit doug martsch is the best

did old school ilx hate absolutely everything or what

i think so. it's crazy there's like 20 bts threads. i chose poorly, but i think this had the most recent updates idk.

I think it's nice to reclaim these threads with praise and love of music

I also think Doug Martsch seems like a great guy

and BTS rocks

she told me that this morning and now im going through their whole discography, been a while

Annoying vocals, unremarkable melodies, self-consciously clever lyrics, capable of rending the world's most annoying sounds out of a guitar...
― Melissa W, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink

lol radiohead much?

BTS is the Nicholson Baker of indie

They blame “both sides” for WWII?

Oh God

Melissa W. got it right 22 years ago

fuck no

the only indie rock band worth a damn

question doesn't make sense, all that is holy *is* Built to Spill