''Live'' is an album of live recordings made by

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band Built to Spill on the band's '' Keep It Like a Secret'' tour in 1999. At the time the album was recorded, the band consisted of singer/guitarist

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, guitarists

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, Jim Roth, bassist

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, and drummer Scott Plouf. ''Live'' was released on the

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label on April 18, 2000. The model featured on the cover is Jeremy Atkins, a musician and an executive with

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Track listing

# "The Plan" – 4:54 # "Randy Described Eternity" – 3:55 # "Stop the Show" – 4:15 # "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" (

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) – 7:00 # " Cortez the Killer" (written by

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) – 20:30 # "Car" – 3:07 # "Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords" (

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) – 3:33 # "I Would Hurt a Fly" – 5:24 # "Broken Chairs" – 19:05

Double-LP version

As a part of Built to Spill's contract with Warner Bros. Records, all of their Warner Bros. releases were released on vinyl LP by the band's former label,

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. Two studio tracks, "Forget Remember When" and "Now and Then," are included as bonus tracks on the Up double-LP version. These tracks had been previously released as part of the ''Carry the Zero'' CD single/EP. The track listing for this version is: Side One: # "The Plan" – 4:54 # "Randy Described Eternity" – 3:55 # "Stop the Show" – 4:15 # "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" – 7:00 Side Two: # "Cortez the Killer" – 20:30 Side Three: # "Car" – 3:07 # "Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords" – 3:33 # "I Would Hurt a Fly" – 5:24 # "Forget Remember When" – 4:23 # "Now and Then" – 5:24 Side Four: # "Broken Chairs" – 19:05

References

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