“Randy Described Eternity” by Built To Spill

"Randy Described Eternity" comes from Perfect From Now On, Built to Spill's third studio album and their first for a major label, Warner Bros. Doug Martsch wrote and sang it and plays guitar and Moog, with Brett Netson on guitar and Scott Plouf on drums and percussion. Phil Ek produced and recorded it, and he and Martsch mixed it.

The album around it stretched songs well past the usual shape and wrestled with existential angst, mortality and the folly of chasing perfection, and getting it on tape was an ordeal. Cut at the Avast! Recording Company in Seattle, it was recorded three times: Martsch first tried to play everything but the drums himself, then the band redid it, only for those tapes to be wrecked by heat on Ek's drive from Seattle to Boise, so they rehearsed some more and started over.

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