Song · Built To Spill
“Goin' Against Your Mind” by Built To Spill
From the album You in Reverse (2006)
“Goin' Against Your Mind” by Built To Spill appears on 9 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 2006 on the album You in Reverse. Its best result is #70 on the KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,446 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Goin' Against Your Mind" led the way for You in Reverse, Built to Spill's sixth album, going out on Warner Bros. as its first single in 2006 after the band had road-tested it on stage the year before. It began life as a jam at half the speed, until Doug Martsch cranked the tempo with the Wipers in mind, and the result is a runaway tangle of riffs: four guitarists, Martsch, Brett Netson, Jim Roth and Steven Wray Lobdell, knotting lines over Brett Nelson's bass and Scott Plouf's drums.
Lobdell also chipped in piano, vibraphone and percussion, and mixed the track with Martsch. The band premiered the studio take as a MySpace stream, and the critics were won over: Pitchfork counted it among the best tracks of the year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 744 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2019 | 924 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 924 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 70 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2022 | 251 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2022 | 816 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2024 | 874 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 164 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
| 2024 | 779 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
Also listed as: Goin Against Your Mind; Going Against Your Mind; GOIN AGAINST YOUR MIND.
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