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Perfect From Now On by Built To Spill
Perfect From Now On is an album by Built To Spill, released in 1996. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Randy Described Eternity”, on 1 list with a best position of #118.
Perfect from Now On is Built to Spill's third album and their first for a major label, Warner Bros., and it finds Boise's Doug Martsch stretching his songs out until they have room to wander, brood and bloom. The lyrics chew on the big stuff, from existential dread and the folly of chasing perfection to the fear of death, religious guilt and the hunt for meaning in an indifferent universe, all carried on guitar lines that spiral and climb through "Randy Described Eternity" and "I Would Hurt a Fly".
It took three tries to get it down. Martsch first cut it with Phil Ek at Avast! in Seattle, handling everything but the drums himself; unhappy with that, he brought in bassist Brett Nelson and drummer Scott Plouf and started over, only for those tapes to be ruined by heat on Ek's drive from Seattle to Boise. Third time was the charm. Pitchfork later placed it in the top 50 of its '90s albums list.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Perfect From Now On on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Randy Described Eternity | 1 | #118 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Kicked it in the Sun | 1 | #484 | – | 2019 | |
| 3 | I Would Hurt A Fly | 1 | #697 | – | 2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.