Album: Perfect From Now On Release Date: 1/28/1997 Length: 54:13 Label: WEA/Warner Bros. Rating: 8.0 |
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| Track Listing | |
1. Randy Describes Eternity (6:09)  |
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| 2. I Would Hurt a Fly (6:15) | |
| 3. Stop The Show (6:26) | |
| 4. Made-Up Dreams (4:52) | |
| 5. Velvet Waltz (8:33) |
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6. Out of Site (5:33)  |
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| 7. Kicked it in the Sun (7:32) |
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| 8. Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else) (8:53) | |
| Review | |
| So, I just finished reading Luke's newest review, that of the Hives' album, Veni Vidi Vicious. It is a good review, and you should all read it if you haven't already, but this is beside the point. In the tag line to read the review, on the main page of AoN, Luke mentions how much fun it is to trash a CD, as opposed to having to write about one that you liked. He has hit the nail right on the head, as far as I'm concerned. It is far more interesting to pick apart an album piece by piece, mentioning every miniscule flaw contained within, than it is to write about how much Built To Spill rocks. | |
| Here lies my dilemma. Perfect From Now On is probably one of my favorite rock albums of all time. It is not really groundbreaking, but it just has certain elements to it that make it extremely enjoyable to listen to for a person such as myself. | |
| Doug Martsch's Neil Young-esque vocals, combined with his complex guitar work is reason enough for me to own this album. However, when you combine Martsch with two excellent players like bassist Brett Nelson and drummer Scott Plouf, the results have the potential to be simply stunning, as they are on this particular record. | |
| You may notice the song lengths and be put off by the fact that the shortest song on Perfect manages to clock in at just less than five minutes. Perhaps you wonder how the songs can't seem to drag on for eternities. It is through the magic of Built To Spill that this happens. This album is really a lot less eight separate songs than a bunch of different chord changes separated by eight tracks. The sound generally doesn't differentiate that much from song to song, so that, in the end, the whole album is one cohesive piece of rock music. | |
| The album is especially fun for long-time BTS fans, as it sees the band evolve before their very eyes, going from a quirky pop band who sang sappy two-and-a-half minute love songs to a band who pondered the inter-workings of the universe and the human psyche, over the course of their first few studio albums. | |
| Again though, it comes back to having to describe this album to you, and I just can't. It has excellent guitar work -- incredibly complex guitar work, at that. Martsch loves to create rhythms and melodies that echo off of your skull and bounce around for hours. This is probably the ultimate headphones album, right next to the rest of the BTS collection. | |
| Perfect From Now On is really just a very good rock record. It didn't change the genre, by any means. But it did kind of reinvent the idea of a rock record with a single thought, rather than twelve random songs trapped onto an album together. If you like rock music, I strongly recommend it. | |
| All right, time to go sort through my collection and find a bad record to malign now. | |
| Rating: 8.0 | |
| - Dan Kricke |
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