"Carry The Zero" by Built To Spill is one of my favorite songs. It's like a five-minute Almond Joy; crunchy, chewy, sweet. I can't find anything else like it by B2S. Help me, ye gods!
Well... I'm not so sure I'm a Built to Spill EXPERT. But you're right about that song being fairly unique for Built to Spill. Still, I think they're most recent album, You in Reverse has some tracks that come close. By far, the most similiar is "Conventional Wisdom."
I love Built to Spill, though. All of it. I recommend getting everything they've ever done.
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Well the girls would turn the color of the avocado when he would drive down their street in his El Dorado... Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole. Not like you.
I just downloaded a whole ton of Built to Spill from Ruckus.com
"Conventional Wisdom" at first hear, sounds weird (too unconventional for me, ironically) and doesn't have the balls-out self-sacrifing guitar bacchanalia of "Carry The Zero." Instead, there's this clever coffeehousey structured breakdown, and by comparison it's a little too much Weezer and not enough Allman Brothers.
...I'll let you know if their other stuff sucks, too. =^j
