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NORMAL YEARS is a compilation of songs from Built To Spill's 7-inch releases.
The Normal Years strings together Built to Spill's loose ends: outtakes from each of the band's first two albums, three independently released singles, and two tracks recorded for compilations. Given bandleader Doug Martsch's penchant for exquisite production and extensive arranging on his later albums, this mix-and-match release is certainly the least desirable full-length the band released. The sound is sparse, and Martsch is still learning the intricacies of his craft. But the innocence in songs like "Girl" and "Joyride" is an aural treat, and The Normal Years works as a good illustration of Built to Spill's humble beginnings. ~ Troy Carpenter
Personnel: Doug Martsch (vocals, guitar); Ned Evett (guitar); Todd Dunnigan (trombone); James Dillion, Andy Capps, Ralf, David Schneider (drums).
Recording information: Audio Lab, Boise, ID (1992-1995); Dub narcotic, Olympia, WA (1992-1995).
Photographer: Karena Youtz.
Unknown Contributor Role: Bear.Option (9-10/96, p.96) - "...[Doug Martsch has] got a knack for bouncy guitar pop and rarely forgets to insert a sing-along refrain in the chorus....He likes his guitar solos meaty and imprecise, but handles his songs like delicate babies that he wants to see grow up and love the world..."
NME (Magazine) (6/15/96, p.46) - 6 (out of 10) - "...we join chief Spillster Doug Martsch sitting on a bench, dreaming his day away....So not very different from the current Spill formula of melody, melancholia and beards, then..." Built To Spill Normal Years Songs Normal Years Music Review Purchase Normal Years CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Built To Spill Perfect From Now On CD (1997)
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Whereas on 1995's BUILT TO SPILL CAUSTIC RESIN EP, Built to Spill main-man Doug Martsch used a couple of silly premises and a Kicking Giant cover to get to the guitar flamethrowas, on PERFECT FROM NOW ON, Martsch and fellow axe-grinder Brett Netson duel on tunes that could've been some of the loveliest, most inventive, three-minute guitar-pop of the '90s. Could've been, that is, without those fantastic duels. Instead, PERFECT FROM NOW ON, the band's major-label debut, strikes a ...
| | Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret CD (1999)
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Principally recorded at Bear Creek, Woodinville, Washington in November 1997.
Having led Built to Spill down the road of majestic guitar duels on 1997's PERFECT FROM NOW ON, group mastermind Doug Martsch decided to downplay (but not shelve) his six-string heroics here. Instead, the focus of Built ...
| | Built To Spill There's Nothing Wrong With Love CD (1994)
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With THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH LOVE, Idaho native and former Treepeople singer-guitarist Doug Martsch (aka Built To Spill) brings the lush pop-rock of the Beatles and Beach Boys kicking and screaming into the Sonic Youth era. Built To Spill marries the timeless and the modern so naturally that even brilliant, like-minded contemporaries like Guided By Voices and the Flaming Lips ...
| | Modest Mouse This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About CD (1996)
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Expanding upon the themes of emotional and geographic isolation found in the band's previous work, This Is a Long Drive for Someone ...
| | Modest Mouse Lonesome Crowded West CD (1997)
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| | Drums Of Defiance: Maroon Music From The Earliest Free Black Communities Of Jamaica CD (1992)
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| | Parinaz Songs Of The Enchanted CD (1997)
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| | Deus Ex Machina Cinque CD (2002)
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After four critically acclaimed studio albums (including the influential 1995 De Republica) and two live recordings, it was about time the Italian avant-prog group Deus Ex Machina had its international break. Cinque was released in May 2002 by the American label Cuneiform, and is the group's first album to be widely available outside Italy. The growth of the music has been constant in the band's career, making it difficult to compare what have become stages in an evolving work. Cinque marks a return to slightly more simple structures than what the previous two albums featured. The music doesn't really get simpler; it just feels less oversaturated. The arrangements open up, some of the pomposity that made anti-prog critics sneer has receded, but no real concessions were made: ...
| | Dion I Put Away My Idols/Kingdom In The Street CD (2003)
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Ace continues its ambitious program of Dion reissues with this pair of mid-'80s recordings for Christian labels. First off, Ace deserves plaudits for even making these recordings available. Dion's catalog has been largely unavailable in the United States for a decade at least. The box set has tracks from all of his periods, but just whets the appetite. I Put Away My Idols was originally released on the Day Spring label in 1983. Full of power chord guitars, synthesizers, and drum machines, it is very much a product of its time, production-wise. But the songs are what endure. Many fans were/are uncomfortable with Dion's faith and its prominence in his work from the period, but it made him no less a street-corner poet who found a way in from the cold. Anchored in contemporary pop and rock, Dion's singing here was as deeply moving and soulful as it remains today: direct, inviting, full of simple personal revelation and Bronx soul. The title cut and Bob Smith's "Daddy," the two hinge-pieces on the set, are a testament to the timelessness of the singer whose gospel evangelizing (no matter how naïve it seems) is genuinely one of sharing -- what to him is good news, not fire-and-brimstone judgment. Kingdom in the Street is the stronger of the two albums, ...
| | Struttin' CD (2005)
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| | Street Dogs Back To The World CD (2006) (Import)
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| | Maria Zemantauski Mrs. Laughinghouse CD (1997)
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