Built To Spill Nothing Wrong With Love Zipper
At the climax of “Car,” a twee power ballad from Built To Spill’s 1994 album There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, Doug Martsch passionately whined, “I wanna see movies of my dreams!” Three. There is no doubt in my mind that there might not be a Modest Mouse, a Death Cab for Cutie or Rogue Wave without Built to Spill. This Idaho band so indelibly left its mark on the Northwest that no other band subsequently could escape it.
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13 Songs, 46 Minutes
EDITORS’ NOTES
Doug Martsch sure can write a love song, and on There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, Idaho indie rockers Built to Spill dig deep into the genre, including the wistful delicacy of “Twin Falls” and the overtly sexual orchestral folk of “Fling.” The shadowy, aching melancholy of “Car” is easily one of Martsch’s finest moments, breaking away from a dirgey middle to a rousing finale. And on “Stab,” he howls into the void about suicide, taking the song’s last crescendo to thrashy, anxious extremes.
EDITORS’ NOTES
Doug Martsch sure can write a love song, and on There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, Idaho indie rockers Built to Spill dig deep into the genre, including the wistful delicacy of “Twin Falls” and the overtly sexual orchestral folk of “Fling.” The shadowy, aching melancholy of “Car” is easily one of Martsch’s finest moments, breaking away from a dirgey middle to a rousing finale. And on “Stab,” he howls into the void about suicide, taking the song’s last crescendo to thrashy, anxious extremes.
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- 13 Songs, 46 Minutes
- Released: Sep 13, 1994
- ℗ 1994 Up Records
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There's Nothing Wrong with Love | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 13, 1994 | |||
Recorded | May 1994–June 1994 | |||
Genre | Indie rock[1] | |||
Length | 46:48 | |||
Label | Up | |||
Producer | Phil Ek | |||
Built to Spill chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | A−[3] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Melody Maker | [5] |
NME | 7/10[6] |
Pitchfork | 9.3/10[7] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
Spectrum Culture | [9] |
There's Nothing Wrong with Love is the second full-length album released by indie rock band Built to Spill. The line-up for the album was guitarist and vocalist Doug Martsch, bassist Brett Nelson, and drummer Andy Capps. There's Nothing Wrong with Love was recorded in May and June 1994, and released September 13, 1994, on the Up Records label. It was produced by Phil Ek. The songs 'Car' and 'Distopian Dream Girl' were released as singles. The video for 'In the Morning' was featured on Beavis and Butt-head. Pitchfork ranked There's Nothing Wrong with Love No. 24 on its Top 100 Albums of the 90s list.[10] An unlisted final track is a satirical preview of the next Built to Spill album. None of the clips on the track are real Built to Spill songs. Sub Pop reissued the album on vinyl in 2015.[11]
Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Built to Spill.
- 'In the Morning' – 2:37
- 'Reasons' – 3:46
- 'Big Dipper' – 4:09
- 'Car' – 2:59
- 'Fling' – 2:33
- 'Cleo' – 4:35
- 'The Source' – 3:20
- 'Twin Falls' – 1:49
- 'Some' – 5:57
- 'Distopian Dream Girl' – 4:24
- 'Israel's Song' – 3:47
- 'Stab' – 5:29
- 'Preview' (unlisted track) – 1:23
Additional musicians[edit]
- Wayne Rhino Flower – guitar on 'Big Dipper' and bass guitar on 'Cleo'
- John McMahon – cello on 'Fling' and 'Stab'
- Gretchen Yanover – cello on 'Car'
- Eric Akre – percussion on 'Source' and 'Twin Falls'
- Chad Shaver – guitar on 'Midnite Star' (one of the songs in the unlisted preview track)
- Phil Ek – speaking voice on 'Preview'
- Luke W. Midkiff – piano and keyboards
References[edit]
- ^'The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest'. Pitchfork. September 6, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
- ^Bush, John. 'There's Nothing Wrong with Love – Built to Spill'. AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- ^Christgau, Robert (2000). 'Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong With Love'. Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN0-312-24560-2. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- ^Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN9780857125958.
- ^'Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong with Love'. Melody Maker: 47. May 16, 2000.
- ^'Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong with Love'. NME: 53. October 28, 1995.
- ^Richardson, Mark (October 23, 2015). 'Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong With Love'. Pitchfork. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- ^Randall, Mac (2004). 'Built to Spill'. In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 118–19. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
- ^Korber, Kevin (November 5, 2015). 'Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong with Love (Reissue)'. Spectrum Culture. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
- ^'Staff Lists: Top 100 Albums of the 1990s'. Pitchfork. November 17, 2003. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
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- ^>'Up Records Announces Built to Spill's Classic 'There's Nothing Wrong With Love' Vinyl Reissue'. Sub Pop Records. Retrieved 2016-02-04.