“You Were Right” by Built To Spill

"You Were Right" lives on Keep It Like a Secret, Built to Spill's fourth album and their second for Warner Bros., with the writing credited to Doug Martsch, Brett Nelson and Scott Plouf. Martsch produced it with Phil Ek, who also engineered.

The record was Martsch pushing back against the long, winding songs of Perfect from Now On, which had left him burned out; this time he went after tighter, leaner tunes. Much of the material grew out of a week of marathon jams in Boise, some stretching as long as five hours, with Martsch stepping on a foot pedal to set a tape machine rolling and later mining the hours of tape for parts worth building into songs. Ek cut the first tracks at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, in November 1997, and the overdubs went down in Seattle at Avast! Recording Co.

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