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Perfect from Now On [Import]

~ Built To Spill
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (3 Nov 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Warners
  • ASIN: B000002NC4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,717 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Randy Described Eternity
2. I Would Hurt A Fly
3. Stop The Show
4. Made Up Dreams
5. Velvet Waltz
6. Out Of Site
7. Kicked It In The Sun
8. Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Built To Spill's third album, Perfect From Now On, was the one that broke the back of Doug Martsch--to all intents and purposes, the man that is Built To Spill--over the knee of the music industry. After an ill-fated tour with the Foo Fighters, which proved that the pierced hordes of the post-grunge generation don't take easily to the subtleties of warm psychedelia, sun-flecked harmony and songs with 'cellos, he gave up on the spirit-crushing world tours, the bland press interviews and the brainless meet and greet merry-go-round. Martsch is alt-rock's Brian Wilson--and that's no fatuous comparison, in the face of the incandescent six-minute rock & roll ceremony of opener "Randy Describes Eternity", or the tirelessly inventive lo-fi psychedelic garage-rock of "Made Up Dreams". Perfect From Now On is an obvious precursor to the modern-day Great American Psychedelic Rock records: the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump or Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs. --Louis Pattison

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Built to Spill's three previous indie releases (on C/Z, Up, and K) established a new pop standard, born from lo-fi experimentation, carefully crafted hooks, plaintive vocals, and brilliant, snaky guitar lines. For their major label debut, Perfect from Now On, frontman Doug Martsch, who leads a revolving cast of musicians, has created his most ambitious album to date. Gone are the compact, simple ditties that characterized the band's recent recordings, replaced by the kind of longer epics that typified its C/Z debut, Ultimate Alternative Wavers. The songs--some clocking in at eight or nine minutes in length--combine the laidback intensity of Pink Floyd and Neil Young with a Beatles-meet-Pavement modern, pop aesthetic. It's at once dreamy, spooky, and spine-tingling and if there's any truly unexplored territory in rock music, you can be sure Built to Spill are in the vanguard. --Adem Tepedelen

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Built To Spills finest moment, 5 Jun 2001
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This review is from: Perfect from Now On (Audio CD)
When you consider the trauma that surrounded the making of this album, it's a miracle it came out at all - line up changes, best friends falling out, writers block, recording hassles. However, Doug n the boys came through and produced their finest album ever. This album sounds massive, each song a mini masterpiece falling somewhere between the smashing pumpkins, pavement and neil young. Whilst perhaps not as easily accessible as other bts lps, once you've got in to it you'll want to tell the world about the day Built to Spill entered your life...
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3.0 out of 5 stars James Joyce references in your pop music., 25 Oct 2005
By N. Fawcett - See all my reviews
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The album does rock, there's no denying that the guys can put together a catchy tune. If you like their other albums then this should rate highly with you. I certainly wouldn't call it a terrible album, however...
The opening track to this album is Randy Describes Eternity; the lyrics from this track are reminiscent of the images used by a priest to illustrate eternity in the book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I think that sums up the lyrics on this album for me. I love Joyce, but I don't want references to him in the music I listen to. I think that too often Built to Spill have a cultured and well thought out point to make and unfortunately this makes the album seem pretentious. This is the problem I have with Built to Spill in general though. The name itself (I assume) is a kind of existential point: Man is built to spill, we are never satisfied or we are never 'nothing more than' the situation we are in. So we always overcome it or over flow from it. That's all very clever, but do you really want to listen to a band that's got an existential point to make?
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the essential albums of the '90s, 25 May 2009
By el sufrimiento de la vida (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
Built to Spill did a rare thing in using the opportunity of a major label début to make their most interesting album. Early promise for catchy melodies was shown on their previous work, but Perfect From Now On was beautiful in its ability to be epic without attempting to be overly anthemic, repetitive and clichéd.

Of the eight tracks, all are generous in melodic variation and although most clock in at well over 6 minutes, only the very longest track, 'Velvet Waltz', strains towards the end. Possibly the highlight within the album is 'I Would Hurt a Fly' although immediately following it is 'Stop the Show', which builts beautifully for a few minutes before vocals - almost certainly Doug Marsch's vocals are the weakest point of Built to Spill - kick in. It's climax is a short and dramatic riff towards the end which is repeated only a couple of times, but the brilliance of the guitar melody on offer here is exemplified by the fact that, personally speaking, I would happily listen to this for much, much longer. But Marsch knows, he has plenty more fantastic guitar riffs to offer.

Inevitably, Built to Spill's later albums didn't match this, even though the subsequent 'Keep It Like a Secret' is excellent, and perhaps 'Perfect From Now On' only rang true from the beginning to the end of this album. Still, that was accomplishment enough.
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