Song · Built To Spill
“Car” by Built To Spill
From the album There’s Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
“Car” by Built To Spill appears on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 1994 on the album There’s Nothing Wrong With Love. Its best result is #254 on the KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,629 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Car" was one of the two singles Built to Spill pulled from There's Nothing Wrong with Love, their second album, which Up Records put out on September 13, 1994. Doug Martsch wrote it on his own, and Phil Ek produced the record, cut over May and June of that year with Andy Capps on drums for his only album with the band and Brett Nelson on bass for his first.
Gretchen Yanover sits in on cello, and it lends Martsch's wide-eyed daydream of a song an ache that hangs around after it ends. The album has been read as a loose concept record about growing up, and Martsch later said it was the last one he made before he started picturing a big audience on the other end. It sounds like it: small, private and unguarded.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 870 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2019 | 254 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2022 | 765 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 421 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2025 | 293 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
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