Built To Spill 
The best album credited to Built To Spill is Perfect From Now On which is ranked number 295 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 6,359.
Built To Spill is ranked number 166 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 14,423.
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Built To Spill best albums
The following albums by Built To Spill are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
This may not be a complete discography for Built To Spill.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!
Built To Spill bestography composition
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Built To Spill best tracks
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80/100 ![]() | 02/25/2023 08:09 | Johnnyo | ![]() | 73/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 09/10/2022 15:38 | pago82 | ![]() | 67/100 |
85/100 ![]() | 02/12/2022 17:40 | Errol | ![]() | 78/100 |
90/100 ![]() | 01/17/2022 16:56 | MoonageDaydream | ![]() | 85/100 |
95/100 ![]() | 12/20/2021 14:02 | bonnequestion | ![]() | 72/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 83.9/100, a mean average of 82.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.9/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 16.6.
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An artist that for me, everything makes sense on paper: sounds like Dinosaur Jr & Modest Mouse, philosophical lyrics, complex & creative music, exceptional playing, etc... However, for some reason it doesn't all add up for me. Something is missing. Is it his voice? It is the lack of accessibility? I really don't know...

Along with Modest Mouse, this band became an indie rock favourite of mine, releasing a trilogy of classic records from mid to late 90s. It’s too bad that they couldn’t maintain their quality streak after the turn of the century, though.

They're like the Modest Mouse that never grew up, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Underrated hidden gem

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Perfect from now on is perfect, a truly underrated album deserving any and all accolades thrown upon it. People often talk of the guitar work but what Built To Spill master above all else is to create perfect songs - everything aspect of song craft is honed to perfection, and nowhere is this more present than on their opus 'perfect from now on', it's probably more present than anywhere else in indie rock. Martsch is a composer

The greatest indie band ever, bar none. The guitar work on their albums is absolutely breathtaking.

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great 90s band
So tragically underrated...recently saw them play to a crowd of 300, was one of my favourite music experiences
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