Album · Built To Spill
Keep It Like a Secret by Built To Spill
Keep It Like a Secret is an album by Built To Spill, released in 1998. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 17 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Carry the Zero”, on 6 lists with a best position of #41.
Keep It Like a Secret, Built to Spill's fourth album and their second for Warner Bros., started taking shape in November 1997 at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, with Phil Ek recording, and picked up its overdubs at Avast! in Seattle in mid-1998.
Doug Martsch, the Boise band's one constant, had Brett Nelson and Scott Plouf with him by then, and the three sound locked tight. The songs are lean and punchy, with riffs knotting and unspooling around Martsch's reedy, boyish voice until the whole thing glows. "Carry the Zero" and "Center of the Universe" were the singles, and it became the first Built to Spill album to reach the Billboard 200.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Keep It Like a Secret on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carry the Zero | 6 | #41 | – | 2019–2026 | |
| 2 | The Plan | 2 | #85 | – | 2022–2024 | |
| 3 | You Were Right | 7 | #1685 | – | 2007–2014 | |
| 4 | Center of the Universe | 2 | #88 | – | 1999–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.